| GNU Libtasn1 NEWS -*- outline -*- |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.10 (????-??-??) [stable] |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.9 (2010-12-06) [stable] |
| - tests: Link to gnulib to avoid build error related to 'rpl_ftello' on Solaris. |
| Reported by Dagobert Michelsen. |
| - doc: Fix bug reporting address to point at help-libtasn1@gnu.org. |
| - doc: Fix Returns: documentation in Texinfo. Reported by Jeffrey Walton. |
| - build: Update gnulib files. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.8 (2010-09-25) [stable] |
| - Update gnulib files. |
| - Use Libtool 2.2.10 to ease MinGW64 builds. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.7 (2010-05-20) [stable] |
| - Doc: Build a PDF manual using GTK-DOC. |
| - Doc: Fix of asn1_check_version, documentation was missing from last release. |
| - Build: Avoid warnings about ignored visibility attributes on Windows. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2010-04-20) [stable] |
| - Fix build failure on platforms without support for GNU LD version scripts. |
| - libtasn1: Simplified implementation of asn1_check_version. |
| - tests: Improved self-checks. |
| - Update gnulib files, fix many syntax-check nits, indent code, |
| fix license templates. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.5 (2010-03-15) [stable] |
| - doc: Improve GTK-DOC comments. |
| - misc: Updated gnulib files. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.4 (2010-01-18) [stable] |
| - Doc fixes. |
| - Updated gnulib files. |
| - Clean up copyright notices. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.3 (2009-07-29) [stable] |
| - Libtasn1 is now an official GNU project. |
| - Solve build problem on Tru64 related to TRUE/FALSE. |
| - More careful decoding of OIDs. |
| - Fixed warning in ASN1.y. |
| - Use "Software libraries" info dircategory. |
| - Drop GPL/LGPL copies from the manual (not needed there). |
| - New configure parameters to set packaging specific information. |
| The parameters are --with-packager, --with-packager-version, and |
| --with-packager-bug-reports. See |
| <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/17791> for more |
| details. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.2 (2009-05-20) [stable] |
| - Change how the ASN1_API decorator is used in libtasn1.h, for GTK-DOC. |
| - Changed license of libtasn1.pc from GPLv3+ to LGPLv2.1+. |
| Reported by Jeff Cai <Jeff.Cai@Sun.COM>. |
| - Building with many warning flags now requires --enable-gcc-warnings. |
| - Some warnings fixed. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.1 (2009-04-17) [stable] |
| - Fix compilation failure on platforms that can't generate empty archives, |
| e.g., Mac OS X. Reported by David Reiser <dbreiser@gmail.com>. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 2.0 (2009-04-13) [stable] |
| - Optimized tree generation. |
| - ASN1 parser code re-generated using Bison 2.4.1. |
| - Build with more warning flags. Many compiler warnings fixed. |
| - Compiled with -fvisibility=hidden by default if supported. |
| See http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility |
| - The libtasn1-config tool has been removed. |
| For application developers, please stop using libtasn1-config for |
| finding libtasn1, use proper autoconf checks or pkg-config instead. |
| For users that need a libtasn1 that provides a libtasn1-config |
| script (for use with older applications), use libtasn1 v1.x instead. |
| Version 1.x is still supported. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.8 (2009-01-16) [stable] |
| - Fix crlf self-test under Mingw+Wine. |
| - Fix build problems on platforms that lack stdint.h. |
| Reported by Dagobert Michelsen <dam@opencsw.org> in |
| <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3377>. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.7 (2008-11-17) [stable] |
| - Add libtasn1-config for compatibility. |
| Please stop use it as it will disappear in v2.0! |
| Use standard AC_CHECK_FUNCS autoconf tests or pkg-config instead. |
| - Read PKCS#12 blob as binary file, fixes self-tests under Mingw. |
| - Fix use of __attribute__ ((deprecated)) to work on non-GCC (#106548). |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.6 (2008-11-10) [stable] |
| - Fixed namespace violation for MAX_NAME_SIZE and MAX_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_SIZE. |
| The new names are ASN1_MAX_NAME_SIZE and ASN1_MAX_ERROR_DESCRIPTION_SIZE. |
| - Fixed namespace violation for libtasn1_perror and libtasn1_strerror. |
| The new names are asn1_perror and asn1_strerror. |
| - Fix namespace violation for LIBASN1_VERSION. |
| The new name is ASN1_VERSION. |
| - Decoder can now decode BER encoded octet strings. |
| - doc: Change license on the manual to GFDLv1.3+. |
| - doc: Sync gdoc script with GnuTLS, changes license on man-pages to GAP. |
| - doc: Improve gtk-doc manual. |
| - Assumes system has strdup and string.h. |
| - Remove libtasn1-config and libtasn1.m4, |
| use standard AC_CHECK_FUNCS autoconf tests or pkg-config instead. |
| - Change detection of when to use a linker version script, |
| use --enable-ld-version-script or --disable-ld-version-script to |
| override auto-detection logic. |
| - API and ABI changes since last version: |
| asn1_get_length_ber: New function. |
| ASN1_VERSION: New symbol, replaces LIBTASN1_VERSION. |
| asn1_strerror: New function, replaces libtasn1_strerror. |
| asn1_perror: New function, replaces libtasn1_perror. |
| libtasn1_strerror: Marked as deprecated. |
| libtasn1_perror: Marked as deprecated. |
| LIBTASN1_VERSION: Deprecated. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.5 (2008-07-29) [stable] |
| - Update gnulib files. |
| - Fix memory leaks, from Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.4 (2008-04-21) [stable] |
| - Update gnulib files. |
| - Replace uses of alloca with malloc. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.3 (2008-02-01) [stable] |
| - Handle 'INTEGER { ... } (a..b)' regression. |
| Revert parts of earlier fix. asn1Parser can now again parse src/pkix.asn1. |
| The ASN1.c file was generated using Bison 2.3. |
| - Move examples from src/ to new directory examples/. |
| - Duplicate copy of divergated pkix.asn removed. |
| - Merge unnecessary lib/defines.h into lib/int.h. |
| - Configure no longer tries to use gcc -pipe. |
| - Update gnulib files. |
| - Fix mem leak in self-test. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.2 (2007-12-10) [stable] |
| - Update gnulib files. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.1 (2007-08-31) [stable] |
| - Fix bug that made asn1_check_version believe that 1.0 is older than 0.3.10. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.0 (2007-08-31) [stable] |
| - The self-tests, command line tools and build infrastructure have |
| been re-licensed from GPLv2 to GPLv3. |
| - Doc fixes. |
| - Update gnulib files. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.10 (2007-05-25) |
| - Update gnulib files. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.9 (2007-03-02) |
| - In generated code, config.h is pulled in if HAVE_CONFIG_H. |
| - Development changes: changed from CVS to GIT as an experiment. |
| I push my changes to <http://repo.or.cz/w/libtasn1.git>. |
| - Autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10 is required. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.8 (2006-11-16) |
| - Fix reading of binary files in asn1Decoding, for Windows. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.7 (2006-10-19) |
| - When asn1_der_coding encoded a TYPE_NULL and the output buffer is |
| NULL, it would not increment the counter properly, so the size of |
| the required buffer would be off by one. Fixed. Reported by |
| Stephen Wrobleski <steve@localtoast.org>. |
| - Fix configure to respect user-definable flags. Reported by "Diego |
| 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>. |
| - The --help and --version outputs from the tools have been improved. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.6 (2006-08-13) |
| - Fix man pages to use \- instead of - for negative signs (as in "-1"). |
| - Add -I's when building in src/, so that unistd.h etc is found on |
| systems that doesn't have them. |
| - Valgrind isn't used for cross-compilation by default, and there is |
| also --disable-valgrind-tests to unconditionally disable it. |
| - Valgrind is invoked without parameters, put things you like into |
| ~/.valgrindrc instead. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.5 (2006-06-27) |
| - Fix asn1_octet_der to handle writes of zero-length buffers, before |
| it did not write the ASN.1 length for a zero-length buffer. This caused |
| ASN.1 encodings to be incorrect on 64-bit platforms. |
| - Add self test that attempt to trigger the above bug. |
| - Fix test of -Wno-pointer-sign. |
| - Improve cross-compilation to MinGW by using AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.4 (2006-05-10) |
| - Really fix encodings. |
| - Add new self test, tests/Test_encoding.c. |
| - Self tests are ran under valgrind, if it is available. |
| - We test for the -Wno-pointer-sign parameter before using it. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.3 (2006-05-07) |
| - Add some 'const' to prototypes. |
| - Remove some 'unsigned' keywords. |
| - Corrected asn1_der_coding() bug introduced when it became reentrant. |
| Now it produces correct encodings. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.2 |
| - Corrected bug in asn1_der_coding() which overwrited some |
| data in the original structure. |
| - The asn1Parser, asn1Coding and asn1Decoding programs are now installed. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.1 |
| - Support constant size bit strings, as in 'BIT STRING (SIZE(42))'. |
| Reported by Cyril Holweck <cyril.holweck@q-free.com>. |
| - Add two more APIs required by GnuTLS. |
| - New public APIs: |
| asn1_find_node function |
| asn1_copy_node |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.3.0 |
| - Export DER utility functions, mostly so that GnuTLS can avoid using |
| libtasn1 internals. |
| - The _asn1* symbols are not exported in the shared library file (when |
| using GNU ld). |
| - The library can now be built using Visual Studio, and the project |
| files are included in windows/. |
| - New public APIs: |
| asn1_get_tag_der |
| asn1_octet_der |
| asn1_get_octet_der |
| asn1_bit_der |
| asn1_get_bit_der |
| asn1_get_length_der |
| asn1_length_der |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.18 |
| - Fix out-of-bounds access in DER decoding, reported by Evgeny Legerov. |
| - Add 'const' keyword to some prototypes, thanks to Frediano ZIGLIO. |
| - Fixed typo in src/Makefile.am to make it build with objdir != srcdir, |
| thanks to Bernard Leak. |
| - Update of gnulib files. |
| - Typo fixes in comments, e.g. finish libasn1 to libtasn1 renaming, |
| use LGPL boiler plate on some files in lib/. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.17 |
| - Fixed typo to make it build. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.16 |
| - * Noteworthy changes in release script added again. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.15 |
| - Gnulib is used to implement memmove if your system does not have it. |
| - Simplified assert/error handling slightly. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.14 |
| - Some build fixes. |
| - Pkg-config script 'libtasn1.pc' added. |
| - Postal address to FSF in license updated. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.13 |
| - * Noteworthy changes in release number in libtasn1.h updated properly. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.12 |
| - Manual converted to Texinfo format. |
| - Manual in GTK-DOC and DevHelp formats added. |
| - Man pages for all functions added. |
| - Various internal cleanups. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.11 |
| - Added the self test with "make check" target |
| - Added management of ANY type with null length |
| - Corrected some writes to invalid data. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.10 |
| - Added scripts to assist in libtasn1 version detection |
| from configure scripts. |
| - Corrected a DER decoding bug which was reported |
| by Max Vozeler <max@hinterhof.net>. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.9 |
| - Accept negative numbers as range in INTEGER declarations |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.8 |
| - Add asn1_delete_element function |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.7 |
| - Added versioned symbols. |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.6 |
| - ASN.1 parser accepts these kinds of integer definitions: |
| "INTEGER (5 | 10)" and |
| "INTEGER (5)" |
| - Comments start at "--" and finish at the "end of line" or |
| with another "--". |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.5 |
| - Bug fix in ordering procedure for SET OF and SEQUENCE OF |
| types coding. |
| - Manage structured format (BER encoding) in |
| asn1_der_decoding, asn1_decoding_element and |
| asn1_der_decoding_startEnd for OCTET STRING type. |
| - Manage SEQUENCE and SET empty structure. |
| - Manage "indefinite length method" in asn1_der_decoding, |
| asn1_decoding_element and asn1_der_decoding_startEnd |
| for the following types: |
| SEQUENCE, SEQUENCE OF, SET, and SET OF. |
| - Bug fix in asn1_read_value with NULL parameter in case |
| of BIT STRING |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.4 |
| - Bug fix in asn1_der_coding with NULL parameter |
| - Manage DEFAULT option with OBJECT IDENTIFIER |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.3 |
| - Chenge asn1_find_structure_from_oid prototype |
| - Chenge asn1_find_structure_from_oid prototype |
| - Add ASN1_MEM_ALLOC_ERROR return value |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.2 |
| - Add vector length check in asn1_der_coding function |
| - Add vector length check in asn1_der_coding function |
| - Add vector length check in asn1_read_value function |
| - Add asn1_check_version function |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.1 |
| - Add asn1_find_structure_from_oid function |
| - Add asn1_read_tag function |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.2.0 |
| - Support for other platforms |
| - Change asn1_create_element function interface (dest_name not needed any more) |
| - Change OBJECT IDENTIFIER syntax: numbers must be separated by dot in |
| asn1_write_element and asn1_read_element functions (e.g. "1.2.3.4") |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.1.2 |
| - Added GeneralString type |
| - Fixed a DER encoding bug when nested tags are used |
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.1.1 |
| - Renamed to libtasn1 |
| - Functions which return a string for error description |
| now accept a NULL argument. |
| - License is now GNU Lesser GPL |
| |
| * Noteworthy changes in release 0.1.0 |
| - Initial release |
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