| NEWS | |
| ==== | |
| This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL | |
| release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. | |
| Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: | |
| o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism | |
| o RSA OEAP related fixes | |
| o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate | |
| o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs | |
| o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files | |
| o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points | |
| extension support | |
| o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support | |
| o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString | |
| o Full integration of PKCS#12 code | |
| o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions | |
| o Option to disable selected ciphers | |
| Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: | |
| o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption | |
| o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case | |
| o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" | |
| o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher | |
| o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA | |
| o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers | |
| o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) | |
| o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. | |
| o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) | |
| o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions | |
| o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
| o Overhauled Win32 builds | |
| o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library | |
| o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime | |
| o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs | |
| o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences | |
| o Overhauled Perl interface | |
| o Lots of source tree cleanups. | |
| o Lots of memory leak fixes. | |
| o Lots of bug fixes. | |
| Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: | |
| o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches | |
| o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
| o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality | |
| o Extended Big Number (BN) library | |
| o Added RIPE MD160 message digest | |
| o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher | |
| o Extended ASN.1 parser routines | |
| o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS | |
| o Support for various new platforms | |