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2 NEWS
3 ====
4
5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
7
Matt Caswellf6c024c2018-03-27 10:58:34 +01008 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [in pre-release]
Richard Levitte156e34f2016-08-25 19:07:17 +02009
Matt Caswellf518cef2018-02-06 17:27:25 +000010 o Support for TLSv1.3 added
Richard Levitte917a1b22018-01-29 18:19:36 +010011 o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm.
Richard Levitte3c0c6b92018-01-27 16:53:07 +010012 o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
Richard Levittef95c4392017-05-26 18:36:26 +020013 o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
Richard Levitte4b2799c2017-06-27 13:34:17 +020014 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
Matt Caswell1c5b57b2018-02-12 15:16:01 +000015 o Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support
16 o Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
17 o Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
18 o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
19 o Add ARIA support
20 o Add SHA3
21 o Rewrite of devcrypto engine
22 o Add support for SipHash
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre53010ea2018-02-13 02:02:22 +010023 o Grand redesign of the OpenSSL random generator
Richard Levitte156e34f2016-08-25 19:07:17 +020024
Matt Caswellf47270e2017-12-06 14:09:11 +000025 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
26
Matt Caswellf6c024c2018-03-27 10:58:34 +010027 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the
28 stack (CVE-2018-0739)
29 o Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC (CVE-2018-0733)
Matt Caswellf47270e2017-12-06 14:09:11 +000030 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
31
Matt Caswellde8c19c2017-11-02 11:23:17 +000032 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
33
34 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
35 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
36
Matt Caswell867a9172017-05-25 11:00:29 +010037 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
38
39 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
40
Matt Caswelld4da1bb2017-02-16 09:51:56 +000041 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
42
43 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
44
Matt Caswell536454e2017-01-24 16:44:30 +000045 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
46
47 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
48 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
49 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
50
51 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
Matt Caswell3133c2d2016-09-26 09:43:45 +010052
Matt Caswell6a69e862016-11-10 11:49:06 +000053 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
54 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
55 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
Matt Caswell536454e2017-01-24 16:44:30 +000056
57 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
58
Matt Caswell3133c2d2016-09-26 09:43:45 +010059 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
60
Matt Caswell39c136c2016-09-21 21:59:49 +010061 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
62
63 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
64 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
65 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
66 (CVE-2016-6307)
67 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
68 (CVE-2016-6308)
69
Richard Levitte156e34f2016-08-25 19:07:17 +020070 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +000071
Rich Salzb6cff312016-05-17 17:38:18 -040072 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
Matt Caswellce942192016-04-14 14:16:52 +010073 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
Matt Caswell9b13e272016-03-09 13:00:37 +000074 o Added support for "pipelining"
75 o Added the AFALG engine
Matt Caswell4a4e2502016-03-09 12:33:26 +000076 o New threading API implemented
Matt Caswell7c314192015-12-10 13:04:39 +000077 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
Dr. Stephen Hensond05775d2015-12-08 16:49:12 +000078 o Support for extended master secret
79 o CCM ciphersuites
Richard Levitte6f9a3c32015-12-08 23:36:18 +010080 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
Richard Levitte5105ba52016-08-25 10:06:55 +020081 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
82 including:
83 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
84 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
85 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
86 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
87 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
88 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
Richard Levitte6f9a3c32015-12-08 23:36:18 +010089 o libssl internal structures made opaque
90 o SSLv2 support removed
91 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
Richard Levitte23fe34b2015-12-09 00:09:47 +010092 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
93 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
Richard Levitte6f9a3c32015-12-08 23:36:18 +010094 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
Matt Caswell7c314192015-12-10 13:04:39 +000095 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
Dr. Stephen Henson5e030522015-12-09 13:41:44 +000096 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
Matt Caswell7c314192015-12-10 13:04:39 +000097 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
98 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
Viktor Dukhovni98186eb2016-01-04 23:00:33 -050099 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
Viktor Dukhovni46e64f62016-01-14 11:54:39 -0500100 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
Viktor Dukhovni98186eb2016-01-04 23:00:33 -0500101 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
102 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
Viktor Dukhovni46e64f62016-01-14 11:54:39 -0500103 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
Viktor Dukhovni59fd40d2016-01-07 22:00:14 -0500104 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
Richard Levitted74dfaf2016-01-20 18:11:51 +0100105 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
106 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
107 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
Richard Levitte0f45c262016-02-03 01:04:44 +0100108 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
Richard Levitte907d2c22016-01-30 07:17:01 +0100109 o New "unified" build system
Dr. Stephen Hensonbb8d14d2016-03-03 13:35:02 +0000110 o New security levels
111 o Support for scrypt algorithm
112 o Support for X25519
113 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
114 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
Rob Percivaleb64a6c2016-03-03 14:07:28 +0000115 o Support for Certificate Transparency
Emilia Kasper8a0333c2016-03-16 15:06:01 +0100116 o HKDF support.
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +0000117
Matt Caswell6ac83772016-05-03 09:49:13 +0100118 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
119
120 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
121 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
122 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
123 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
124 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
125 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
126 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
127 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
128 the default.
129 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
130
Matt Caswell09375d12016-03-01 11:12:47 +0000131 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
132
133 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
134 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
135 (CVE-2016-0800)
136 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
137 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
138 (CVE-2016-0798)
139 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
140 (CVE-2016-0797)
141 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
142 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
143
Matt Caswell502bed22016-01-27 13:41:16 +0000144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
145
146 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
147 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
148
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +0000149 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
150
151 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
152 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
153 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
154 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
155 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
156 return an error
157
158 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
Matt Caswell6f47ced2015-07-02 15:38:32 +0100159
160 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +0000161 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
Matt Caswell6f47ced2015-07-02 15:38:32 +0100162
163 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
164
165 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
166
167 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
Matt Caswell063dccd2015-06-10 11:49:31 +0100168
169 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
170 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
171 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
172 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
173 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
174
175 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
Matt Caswell367eab22015-03-18 10:10:01 +0000176
177 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
178 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
179 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
180 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
181 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
182 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
183 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
184 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
185 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
186 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
187 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
188 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
189 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
190
191 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonf0170eb2014-01-07 15:44:35 +0000192
193 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
194 o Support for DTLS 1.2
195 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
196 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
197 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
198 o TLS Brainpool support.
199 o ALPN support.
200 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
201
Matt Caswell367eab22015-03-18 10:10:01 +0000202 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
203
204 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
205
206 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
207
208 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
209 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
211 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
212 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
213 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
214 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
216
Matt Caswelled132702014-10-15 12:22:20 +0100217 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
218
219 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
221 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
222 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
223
224 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
225
226 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
227 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
228 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
229 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
230 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
231 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
232 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
233 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
234 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
235
Dr. Stephen Henson7178c712014-06-06 14:33:24 +0100236 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
237
238 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
239 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
Matt Caswell367eab22015-03-18 10:10:01 +0000240 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
Dr. Stephen Henson7178c712014-06-06 14:33:24 +0100241 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
242 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
243 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
244
Dr. Stephen Henson86f6e862014-04-06 00:51:06 +0100245 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
246
247 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
248 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
249 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
250
Dr. Stephen Henson9bd1e2b2014-01-06 21:55:15 +0000251 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
252
253 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
254 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
255 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
256 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
257
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000258 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200259
260 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
261
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000262 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +0000263
264 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
265 o Include the fips configuration module.
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200266 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
267 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
268 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +0000269
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000270 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +0000271
272 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
273 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
274
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000275 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Hensona9e6c092012-04-26 11:13:30 +0000276
277 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
278 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
279 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
280
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000281 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson579d5532012-04-23 21:56:33 +0000282
283 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
284 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
285 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
286
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000287 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson61ad8262012-03-14 13:44:57 +0000288
289 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
290 o SCTP support.
291 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
292 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
293 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
294 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
295 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
296 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
297 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
298 o SRP support.
299
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000300 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000301
302 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
303 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
304 o Various DTLS fixes.
305
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000306 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000307
308 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
309
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000310 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000311
312 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
313 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
314 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
315 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
316 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
317
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000318 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000319
320 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
321 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
322 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
323 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
324 o Various DTLS fixes.
325
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000326 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
Bodo Möller97709242011-02-08 17:48:57 +0000327
328 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
329
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000330 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
Bodo Möller88f2a4c2011-02-03 10:43:00 +0000331
332 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
333 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
334 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
335 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
336 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
337
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000338 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson732d31b2010-11-16 14:18:51 +0000339
340 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
341 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
342 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
343
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000344 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000345
Dr. Stephen Henson3cbb15e2010-06-01 14:39:01 +0000346 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000347 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
348
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000349 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000350
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000351 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
352 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
353 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
Dr. Stephen Hensonef236ec2009-04-23 16:32:42 +0000354 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000355 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
356 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
357 o ASN1 printing support.
358 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
359 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
360 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
361 o New generalised public key API utilities.
362 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
363 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
364 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
365 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
366 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
367 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
368 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
369 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
Dr. Stephen Henson14023fe2009-04-03 11:45:19 +0000370 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000371
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000372 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000373
374 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
375 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
376
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000377 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000378
379 o Cipher definition fixes.
380 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
381 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
382 o SPKAC handling fixes.
383 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
384 o Compression memory leak fixed.
385 o Compression session resumption fixed.
386 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre87411f02018-02-13 02:04:50 +0100387 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000388
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000389 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000390
391 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
392
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000393 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000394
395 o Fix various build issues.
396 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
397
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000398 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000399
400 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
401 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
402
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000403 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000404
405 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
406 o Various precautionary measures.
407 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
408 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
409
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000410 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
Lutz Jänicke11d01d32007-10-19 08:26:03 +0000411
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000412 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
Lutz Jänicke11d01d32007-10-19 08:26:03 +0000413 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
414
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000415 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
Ben Laurie1948c7e2007-10-12 10:56:10 +0000416
417 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
FdaSilvaYYdf7421c2016-01-17 17:02:02 +0100418 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
Ben Laurie1948c7e2007-10-12 10:56:10 +0000419 for VC++ build.
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre87411f02018-02-13 02:04:50 +0100420 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
Ben Laurie1948c7e2007-10-12 10:56:10 +0000421 selected at compile time.
422 o DTLS improvements.
423 o RFC4507bis support.
424 o TLS Extensions support.
425
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000426 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonac63b832007-02-23 13:16:38 +0000427
428 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
429 o RFC3779 support.
430
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000431 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller61118ca2006-09-28 13:35:01 +0000432
433 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
434 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
435 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
436
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000437 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000438
439 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
440 o New cipher Camellia
441
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000442 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000443
444 o Cipher string fixes.
445 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
446 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
447 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
448 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
449 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
450 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
451
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000452 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller72dce762005-10-26 19:40:45 +0000453
Mark J. Coxb79aa052006-09-05 08:58:03 +0000454 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
Bodo Möller72dce762005-10-26 19:40:45 +0000455 o Extended Windows CE support
456
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000457 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000458
459 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
460 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
461 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
462 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
463 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
464 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
465 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
466 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
467 configuration file.
468 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
469 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
470 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
471 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
472 Makefile.shared.
Richard Levittec8310122005-07-05 18:36:42 +0000473 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000474 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
475 automatically from specifically given directories.
476 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
477 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
478 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
479 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
480 function and an argument.
481 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
482 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
483 Nehemiah processors.
484 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
485 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
486 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
487 constraints and name constraints.
488 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
489 configuration file.
490 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
491 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
492 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
493 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
494 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
495 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
496 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
497 o New BUF functions.
498 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
499 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
500 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
FdaSilvaYYf430ba32016-06-19 19:39:01 +0200501 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
502 OpenSSL.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000503 o New control functions for the error stack.
504 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
505 processing.
506 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
507 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
508 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
509 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
510 affected functions.
511 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
512 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
Josh Soref46f4e1b2017-11-11 19:03:10 -0500513 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000514 of X.509 path validation.
515 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
516 AMD64.
517 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
FdaSilvaYYf430ba32016-06-19 19:39:01 +0200518 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000519 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
520 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
521 SHA-1.
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000522 o Added support for DTLS.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000523 o New BIGNUM blinding.
524 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
525 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
Richard Levittec8310122005-07-05 18:36:42 +0000526 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
527 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
528 o Added initial support for Win64.
529 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000530
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonac63b832007-02-23 13:16:38 +0000532
533 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
534 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
535
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000536 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller61118ca2006-09-28 13:35:01 +0000537
538 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
539 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
540
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000542
543 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
544
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000545 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000546
547 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
548 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
549
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000550 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000551
552 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
553
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000554 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000555
556 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
557 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
558 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
559
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000560 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
Richard Levitte36521f02005-04-11 15:05:45 +0000561
562 o More compilation issues fixed.
563 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
564 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
565 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
566 o More constification.
567 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
568
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000569 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
Richard Levitte36521f02005-04-11 15:05:45 +0000570
571 o Several compilation issues fixed.
572 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
573 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
574 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
575 o Performance improvements.
576
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000577 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
Dr. Stephen Henson03386672004-10-25 17:11:19 +0000578
579 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
580 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
581
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000582 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
Dr. Stephen Henson03386672004-10-25 17:11:19 +0000583
584 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
585 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
586 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
587 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
588 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
589
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000590 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000591
592 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
593 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
594 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
595 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
596
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000597 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
Richard Levitte1774e222003-04-10 19:33:09 +0000598
599 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre87411f02018-02-13 02:04:50 +0100600 Bleichbacher's attack
Richard Levitte1774e222003-04-10 19:33:09 +0000601 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
602 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
603 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
604 o Build: shared library support fixes.
605 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
606 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
607
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000608 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
Richard Levitted8cbc932003-02-19 14:02:37 +0000609
610 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
611 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
612 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
613 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
614 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
615 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
616 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
617 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
618
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000619 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
Richard Levitte83f25712000-11-19 14:10:07 +0000620
621 o New library section OCSP.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000622 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
623 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
624 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
625 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
626 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000627 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
628 a separate distribution.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000629 o New elliptic curve library section.
630 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
Richard Levitte1fc73fe2002-12-06 00:39:03 +0000631 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000632 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000633 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
634 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000635 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000636 o Support for pkg-config.
637 o Lots of new manuals.
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000638 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
639 functions.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000640 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
641 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
642 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
643 future).
Bodo Möllerece0bdf2002-06-17 13:59:12 +0000644 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
645 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000646 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
647 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
648 and help optimizers.
649 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
650 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
651 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
652 Processing, IBM 4758.
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000653 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
Lutz Jänickee1f7ea22002-06-12 20:46:38 +0000654 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000655 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
656 EGD style random sources at several locations.
657 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
658 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
659 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre87411f02018-02-13 02:04:50 +0100660 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000661 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
662 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
Bodo Möllerea4f1092002-07-04 08:51:09 +0000663 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000664
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000665 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000666
667 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
668 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
669
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000670 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
Richard Levitte138f9702003-04-10 20:38:24 +0000671
672 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre87411f02018-02-13 02:04:50 +0100673 Bleichbacher's attack
Richard Levitte138f9702003-04-10 20:38:24 +0000674 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
675 o Build: shared library support fixes.
676
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
Richard Levitted8cbc932003-02-19 14:02:37 +0000678
679 o Important security related bugfixes.
680
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000682
683 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
684 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
685 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
686 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
687 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
688 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
689 o Fixes for length problems.
690 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
691 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
692 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
693 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
694
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000695 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
Richard Levitte36969082002-08-12 06:54:54 +0000696
697 o Important building fixes on Unix.
698
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000699 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
Richard Levittefbe792f2002-08-08 22:55:28 +0000700
701 o Various important bugfixes.
702
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000703 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
Lutz Jänickeb218af22002-07-30 11:32:47 +0000704
705 o Important security related bugfixes.
706 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
707
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000708 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000709
710 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
711 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000712
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000713 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
Bodo Möllerae52ec92001-11-12 11:28:15 +0000714
715 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
716 o BIGNUM library fixes.
Richard Levitteef5f6a02001-12-20 16:58:26 +0000717 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
718 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
719 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
720 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
721 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
Mark J. Coxa3790c02001-11-12 20:30:01 +0000722 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
Richard Levitteef5f6a02001-12-20 16:58:26 +0000723 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
724 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
Bodo Möllerae52ec92001-11-12 11:28:15 +0000725
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000726 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000727
728 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
729 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
730 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
731 attack.
732 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
733 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
734 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
735 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
736 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
737 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
738 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
739 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
740 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
741 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
Richard Levitte83f25712000-11-19 14:10:07 +0000742
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000743 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000744
745 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
746 environment variables when running as root.
747 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
748 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
749 calculated signature.
750 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
751 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
752 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
Bodo Möller4fea8142001-03-30 10:46:15 +0000753 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
Richard Levitte307bf4d2001-03-29 15:15:10 +0000754 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
755 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000756 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
757 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
758 memory checking routines.
Lutz Jänicke50121582002-07-10 17:34:54 +0000759 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000760 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
761 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
762 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
763 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
764 o More documentation.
Bodo Möller4fea8142001-03-30 10:46:15 +0000765 o New function BN_rand_range().
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000766 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
767
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000768 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
Dr. Stephen Henson4e87e052000-09-20 00:50:25 +0000769
770 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
771 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
772 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
773 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
774 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
Bodo Möllerb38d84d2000-09-20 15:22:02 +0000775 o MD4 now included.
776 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000777 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
Ulf Möllerfda05b22000-09-23 19:08:16 +0000778 o Enhanced EVP interface.
Richard Levitteb22bda22000-09-20 15:52:26 +0000779
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000780 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
781 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
782
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000783 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000784
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre87411f02018-02-13 02:04:50 +0100785 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000786 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
787 o Support of Linux/IA64
Ulf Möllerb7a81df2000-03-20 12:17:20 +0000788 o Assembler support for Mingw32
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000789 o New 'rand' application
790 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
791
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000792 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000793
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000794 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000795 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000796 o Automation of 'req' application
797 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
798 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
Josh Soref46f4e1b2017-11-11 19:03:10 -0500799 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
Dr. Stephen Hensonae1bb4e2000-02-19 00:46:02 +0000800 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000801 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
802 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
803 o Usable certificate chain verification
804 o Certificate purpose checking
805 o Certificate trust settings
806 o Support of authority information access extension
807 o Extensions in certificate requests
808 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
Dr. Stephen Hensonae1bb4e2000-02-19 00:46:02 +0000809 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000810 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
811 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
Bodo Möller8bd5b792000-02-21 10:40:36 +0000812 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
813 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
814 data
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000815 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
Bodo Möller8bd5b792000-02-21 10:40:36 +0000816 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000817 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
818 RSA functionality
Bodo Möller07e6dbd2000-01-28 21:26:30 +0000819 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
820 via a per-thread stack
821 o PRNG robustness improved
Ulf Möller4d524e12000-02-24 11:55:57 +0000822 o EGD support
Ulf Möller6d9ca502000-02-06 16:35:59 +0000823 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
Ulf Möller4d524e12000-02-24 11:55:57 +0000824 o Faster DSA parameter generation
Ulf Möller74235cc2000-01-30 22:16:47 +0000825 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
826 o Experimental MacOS support
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000827
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000828 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
Dr. Stephen Hensoned7f60f1999-08-06 21:47:09 +0000829
830 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
Bodo Möllerc97cbcb1999-08-07 02:46:49 +0000831 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
832 form
833 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
834 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
835 o Avoid various memory leaks
836 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
837 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
Dr. Stephen Hensoned7f60f1999-08-06 21:47:09 +0000838
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000839 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
Ulf Möller9de649f1999-05-04 11:17:11 +0000840 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
841 o RSA OEAP related fixes
Ralf S. Engelschall8e8a8a51999-05-01 14:47:08 +0000842 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
843 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
844 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
Dr. Stephen Henson703126f1999-05-17 20:05:36 +0000845 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
Bodo Möllera03dd7a1999-05-17 20:36:08 +0000846 extension support
Dr. Stephen Henson703126f1999-05-17 20:05:36 +0000847 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
848 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
849 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
Ulf Möller2cf9fcd1999-05-17 15:03:43 +0000850 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
Ulf Möllerb0759f81999-05-18 16:40:40 +0000851 o Option to disable selected ciphers
Ralf S. Engelschall8e8a8a51999-05-01 14:47:08 +0000852
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000853 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
Ralf S. Engelschall738769f1999-03-22 15:38:12 +0000854 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
855 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
856 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000857 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
858 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
859 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
860 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
861 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
Ralf S. Engelschall03e20a11999-03-06 14:41:24 +0000862 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000863 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
864 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
865 o Overhauled Win32 builds
866 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
867 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
868 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
869 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
870 o Overhauled Perl interface
871 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
872 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
873 o Lots of bug fixes.
874
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000875 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000876 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
877 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
878 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
879 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
880 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
Josh Soref46f4e1b2017-11-11 19:03:10 -0500881 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000882 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
Josh Soref46f4e1b2017-11-11 19:03:10 -0500883 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000884 o Support for various new platforms