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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 Caswelld4da1bb2017-02-16 09:51:56 +00008 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
Richard Levitte156e34f2016-08-25 19:07:17 +02009
10 o
11
Matt Caswelld4da1bb2017-02-16 09:51:56 +000012 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
13
14 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
15
Matt Caswell536454e2017-01-24 16:44:30 +000016 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
17
18 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
19 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
20 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
21
22 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
Matt Caswell3133c2d2016-09-26 09:43:45 +010023
Matt Caswell6a69e862016-11-10 11:49:06 +000024 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
25 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
26 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
Matt Caswell536454e2017-01-24 16:44:30 +000027
28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
29
Matt Caswell3133c2d2016-09-26 09:43:45 +010030 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
31
Matt Caswell39c136c2016-09-21 21:59:49 +010032 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
33
34 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
35 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
36 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
37 (CVE-2016-6307)
38 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
39 (CVE-2016-6308)
40
Richard Levitte156e34f2016-08-25 19:07:17 +020041 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +000042
Rich Salzb6cff312016-05-17 17:38:18 -040043 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
Matt Caswellce942192016-04-14 14:16:52 +010044 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
Matt Caswell9b13e272016-03-09 13:00:37 +000045 o Added support for "pipelining"
46 o Added the AFALG engine
Matt Caswell4a4e2502016-03-09 12:33:26 +000047 o New threading API implemented
Matt Caswell7c314192015-12-10 13:04:39 +000048 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
Dr. Stephen Hensond05775d2015-12-08 16:49:12 +000049 o Support for extended master secret
50 o CCM ciphersuites
Richard Levitte6f9a3c32015-12-08 23:36:18 +010051 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
Richard Levitte5105ba52016-08-25 10:06:55 +020052 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
53 including:
54 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
55 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
56 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
57 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
58 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
59 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
Richard Levitte6f9a3c32015-12-08 23:36:18 +010060 o libssl internal structures made opaque
61 o SSLv2 support removed
62 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
Richard Levitte23fe34b2015-12-09 00:09:47 +010063 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
64 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
Richard Levitte6f9a3c32015-12-08 23:36:18 +010065 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
Matt Caswell7c314192015-12-10 13:04:39 +000066 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
Dr. Stephen Henson5e030522015-12-09 13:41:44 +000067 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
Matt Caswell7c314192015-12-10 13:04:39 +000068 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
69 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
Viktor Dukhovni98186eb2016-01-04 23:00:33 -050070 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
Viktor Dukhovni46e64f62016-01-14 11:54:39 -050071 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
Viktor Dukhovni98186eb2016-01-04 23:00:33 -050072 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
73 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
Viktor Dukhovni46e64f62016-01-14 11:54:39 -050074 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
Viktor Dukhovni59fd40d2016-01-07 22:00:14 -050075 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
Richard Levitted74dfaf2016-01-20 18:11:51 +010076 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
77 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
78 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
Richard Levitte0f45c262016-02-03 01:04:44 +010079 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
Richard Levitte907d2c22016-01-30 07:17:01 +010080 o New "unified" build system
Dr. Stephen Hensonbb8d14d2016-03-03 13:35:02 +000081 o New security levels
82 o Support for scrypt algorithm
83 o Support for X25519
84 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
85 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
Rob Percivaleb64a6c2016-03-03 14:07:28 +000086 o Support for Certificate Transparency
Emilia Kasper8a0333c2016-03-16 15:06:01 +010087 o HKDF support.
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +000088
Matt Caswell6ac83772016-05-03 09:49:13 +010089 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
90
91 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
92 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
93 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
94 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
95 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
96 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
97 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
98 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
99 the default.
100 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
101
Matt Caswell09375d12016-03-01 11:12:47 +0000102 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
103
104 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
105 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
106 (CVE-2016-0800)
107 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
108 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
109 (CVE-2016-0798)
110 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
111 (CVE-2016-0797)
112 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
113 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
114
Matt Caswell502bed22016-01-27 13:41:16 +0000115 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
116
117 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
118 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
119
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +0000120 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
121
122 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
123 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
124 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
125 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
126 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
127 return an error
128
129 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
Matt Caswell6f47ced2015-07-02 15:38:32 +0100130
131 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
Dr. Stephen Henson5fa30722015-12-03 22:57:25 +0000132 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
Matt Caswell6f47ced2015-07-02 15:38:32 +0100133
134 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
135
136 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
137
138 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
Matt Caswell063dccd2015-06-10 11:49:31 +0100139
140 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
141 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
142 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
143 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
144 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
145
146 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
Matt Caswell367eab22015-03-18 10:10:01 +0000147
148 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
149 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
150 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
151 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
152 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
153 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
154 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
155 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
156 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
157 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
158 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
159 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
160 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
161
162 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonf0170eb2014-01-07 15:44:35 +0000163
164 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
165 o Support for DTLS 1.2
166 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
167 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
168 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
169 o TLS Brainpool support.
170 o ALPN support.
171 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
172
Matt Caswell367eab22015-03-18 10:10:01 +0000173 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
174
175 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
176
177 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
178
179 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
180 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
181 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
182 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
183 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
184 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
185 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
186 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
187
Matt Caswelled132702014-10-15 12:22:20 +0100188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
189
190 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
191 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
192 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
193 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
194
195 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
196
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
198 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
199 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
200 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
202 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
203 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
204 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
205 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
206
Dr. Stephen Henson7178c712014-06-06 14:33:24 +0100207 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
208
209 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
Matt Caswell367eab22015-03-18 10:10:01 +0000211 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
Dr. Stephen Henson7178c712014-06-06 14:33:24 +0100212 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
214 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
215
Dr. Stephen Henson86f6e862014-04-06 00:51:06 +0100216 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
217
218 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
219 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
221
Dr. Stephen Henson9bd1e2b2014-01-06 21:55:15 +0000222 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
223
224 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
225 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
226 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
227 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
228
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000229 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200230
231 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
232
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000233 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +0000234
235 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
236 o Include the fips configuration module.
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200237 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
238 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
239 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +0000240
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000241 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +0000242
243 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
244 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
245
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000246 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Hensona9e6c092012-04-26 11:13:30 +0000247
248 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
249 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
250 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
251
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000252 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson579d5532012-04-23 21:56:33 +0000253
254 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
255 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
256 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
257
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000258 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson61ad8262012-03-14 13:44:57 +0000259
260 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
261 o SCTP support.
262 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
263 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
264 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
265 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
266 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
267 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
268 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
269 o SRP support.
270
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000271 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000272
273 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
274 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
275 o Various DTLS fixes.
276
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000277 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000278
279 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
280
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000281 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000282
283 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
284 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
285 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
286 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
287 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
288
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000289 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000290
291 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
292 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
293 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
294 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
295 o Various DTLS fixes.
296
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000297 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
Bodo Möller97709242011-02-08 17:48:57 +0000298
299 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
300
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000301 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
Bodo Möller88f2a4c2011-02-03 10:43:00 +0000302
303 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
304 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
305 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
306 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
307 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
308
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000309 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson732d31b2010-11-16 14:18:51 +0000310
311 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
312 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
313 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
314
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000315 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000316
Dr. Stephen Henson3cbb15e2010-06-01 14:39:01 +0000317 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000318 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
319
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000320 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000321
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000322 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
323 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
324 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
Dr. Stephen Hensonef236ec2009-04-23 16:32:42 +0000325 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000326 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
327 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
328 o ASN1 printing support.
329 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
330 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
331 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
332 o New generalised public key API utilities.
333 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
334 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
335 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
336 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
337 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
338 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
339 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
340 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
Dr. Stephen Henson14023fe2009-04-03 11:45:19 +0000341 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000342
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000343 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000344
345 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
346 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
347
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000348 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000349
350 o Cipher definition fixes.
351 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
352 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
353 o SPKAC handling fixes.
354 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
355 o Compression memory leak fixed.
356 o Compression session resumption fixed.
357 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
358 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
359
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000360 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000361
362 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
363
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000364 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000365
366 o Fix various build issues.
367 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
368
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000369 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000370
371 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
372 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
373
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000374 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000375
376 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
377 o Various precautionary measures.
378 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
379 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
380
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000381 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
Lutz Jänicke11d01d32007-10-19 08:26:03 +0000382
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000383 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
Lutz Jänicke11d01d32007-10-19 08:26:03 +0000384 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
385
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000386 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
Ben Laurie1948c7e2007-10-12 10:56:10 +0000387
388 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
FdaSilvaYYdf7421c2016-01-17 17:02:02 +0100389 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
Ben Laurie1948c7e2007-10-12 10:56:10 +0000390 for VC++ build.
391 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
392 selected at compile time.
393 o DTLS improvements.
394 o RFC4507bis support.
395 o TLS Extensions support.
396
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000397 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonac63b832007-02-23 13:16:38 +0000398
399 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
400 o RFC3779 support.
401
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000402 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller61118ca2006-09-28 13:35:01 +0000403
404 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
405 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
406 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
407
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000408 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000409
410 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
411 o New cipher Camellia
412
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000413 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000414
415 o Cipher string fixes.
416 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
417 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
418 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
419 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
420 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
421 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
422
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000423 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller72dce762005-10-26 19:40:45 +0000424
Mark J. Coxb79aa052006-09-05 08:58:03 +0000425 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
Bodo Möller72dce762005-10-26 19:40:45 +0000426 o Extended Windows CE support
427
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000428 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000429
430 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
431 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
432 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
433 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
434 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
435 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
436 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
437 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
438 configuration file.
439 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
440 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
441 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
442 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
443 Makefile.shared.
Richard Levittec8310122005-07-05 18:36:42 +0000444 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000445 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
446 automatically from specifically given directories.
447 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
448 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
449 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
450 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
451 function and an argument.
452 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
453 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
454 Nehemiah processors.
455 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
456 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
457 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
458 constraints and name constraints.
459 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
460 configuration file.
461 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
462 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
463 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
464 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
465 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
466 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
467 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
468 o New BUF functions.
469 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
470 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
471 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
FdaSilvaYYf430ba32016-06-19 19:39:01 +0200472 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
473 OpenSSL.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000474 o New control functions for the error stack.
475 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
476 processing.
477 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
478 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
479 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
480 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
481 affected functions.
482 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
483 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
484 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
485 of X.509 path validation.
486 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
487 AMD64.
488 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
FdaSilvaYYf430ba32016-06-19 19:39:01 +0200489 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000490 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
491 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
492 SHA-1.
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000493 o Added support for DTLS.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000494 o New BIGNUM blinding.
495 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
496 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
Richard Levittec8310122005-07-05 18:36:42 +0000497 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
498 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
499 o Added initial support for Win64.
500 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000501
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000502 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonac63b832007-02-23 13:16:38 +0000503
504 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
505 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
506
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000507 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller61118ca2006-09-28 13:35:01 +0000508
509 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
510 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
511
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000512 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000513
514 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
515
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000516 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000517
518 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
519 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
520
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000521 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000522
523 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
524
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000525 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000526
527 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
528 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
529 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
530
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
Richard Levitte36521f02005-04-11 15:05:45 +0000532
533 o More compilation issues fixed.
534 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
535 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
536 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
537 o More constification.
538 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
539
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000540 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
Richard Levitte36521f02005-04-11 15:05:45 +0000541
542 o Several compilation issues fixed.
543 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
544 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
545 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
546 o Performance improvements.
547
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000548 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
Dr. Stephen Henson03386672004-10-25 17:11:19 +0000549
550 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
551 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
552
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000553 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
Dr. Stephen Henson03386672004-10-25 17:11:19 +0000554
555 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
556 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
557 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
558 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
559 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
560
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000561 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000562
563 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
564 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
565 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
566 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
567
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000568 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
Richard Levitte1774e222003-04-10 19:33:09 +0000569
570 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
571 Bleichbacher's attack
572 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
573 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
574 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
575 o Build: shared library support fixes.
576 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
577 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
578
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
Richard Levitted8cbc932003-02-19 14:02:37 +0000580
581 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
582 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
583 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
584 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
585 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
586 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
587 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
588 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
589
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000590 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
Richard Levitte83f25712000-11-19 14:10:07 +0000591
592 o New library section OCSP.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000593 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
594 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
595 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
596 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
597 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000598 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
599 a separate distribution.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000600 o New elliptic curve library section.
601 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
Richard Levitte1fc73fe2002-12-06 00:39:03 +0000602 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000603 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000604 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
605 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000606 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000607 o Support for pkg-config.
608 o Lots of new manuals.
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000609 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
610 functions.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000611 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
612 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
613 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
614 future).
Bodo Möllerece0bdf2002-06-17 13:59:12 +0000615 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
616 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000617 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
618 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
619 and help optimizers.
620 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
621 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
622 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
623 Processing, IBM 4758.
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000624 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
Lutz Jänickee1f7ea22002-06-12 20:46:38 +0000625 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000626 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
627 EGD style random sources at several locations.
628 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
629 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
630 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
Richard Levitte1fc73fe2002-12-06 00:39:03 +0000631 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000632 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
633 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
Bodo Möllerea4f1092002-07-04 08:51:09 +0000634 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000635
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000636 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000637
638 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
639 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
640
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000641 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
Richard Levitte138f9702003-04-10 20:38:24 +0000642
643 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
644 Bleichbacher's attack
645 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
646 o Build: shared library support fixes.
647
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000648 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
Richard Levitted8cbc932003-02-19 14:02:37 +0000649
650 o Important security related bugfixes.
651
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000653
654 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
655 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
656 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
657 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
658 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
659 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
660 o Fixes for length problems.
661 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
662 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
663 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
664 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
665
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000666 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
Richard Levitte36969082002-08-12 06:54:54 +0000667
668 o Important building fixes on Unix.
669
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000670 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
Richard Levittefbe792f2002-08-08 22:55:28 +0000671
672 o Various important bugfixes.
673
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000674 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
Lutz Jänickeb218af22002-07-30 11:32:47 +0000675
676 o Important security related bugfixes.
677 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
678
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000679 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000680
681 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
682 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000683
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000684 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
Bodo Möllerae52ec92001-11-12 11:28:15 +0000685
686 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
687 o BIGNUM library fixes.
Richard Levitteef5f6a02001-12-20 16:58:26 +0000688 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
689 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
690 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
691 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
692 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
Mark J. Coxa3790c02001-11-12 20:30:01 +0000693 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
Richard Levitteef5f6a02001-12-20 16:58:26 +0000694 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
695 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
Bodo Möllerae52ec92001-11-12 11:28:15 +0000696
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000697 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000698
699 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
700 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
701 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
702 attack.
703 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
704 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
705 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
706 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
707 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
708 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
709 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
710 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
711 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
712 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
Richard Levitte83f25712000-11-19 14:10:07 +0000713
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000714 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000715
716 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
717 environment variables when running as root.
718 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
719 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
720 calculated signature.
721 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
722 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
723 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
Bodo Möller4fea8142001-03-30 10:46:15 +0000724 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
Richard Levitte307bf4d2001-03-29 15:15:10 +0000725 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
726 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000727 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
728 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
729 memory checking routines.
Lutz Jänicke50121582002-07-10 17:34:54 +0000730 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000731 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
732 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
733 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
734 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
735 o More documentation.
Bodo Möller4fea8142001-03-30 10:46:15 +0000736 o New function BN_rand_range().
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000737 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
738
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000739 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
Dr. Stephen Henson4e87e052000-09-20 00:50:25 +0000740
741 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
742 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
743 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
744 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
745 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
Bodo Möllerb38d84d2000-09-20 15:22:02 +0000746 o MD4 now included.
747 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000748 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
Ulf Möllerfda05b22000-09-23 19:08:16 +0000749 o Enhanced EVP interface.
Richard Levitteb22bda22000-09-20 15:52:26 +0000750
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000751 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
752 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
753
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000754 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000755
Ulf Möllerb7a81df2000-03-20 12:17:20 +0000756 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000757 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
758 o Support of Linux/IA64
Ulf Möllerb7a81df2000-03-20 12:17:20 +0000759 o Assembler support for Mingw32
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000760 o New 'rand' application
761 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
762
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000763 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000764
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000765 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000766 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000767 o Automation of 'req' application
768 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
769 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
770 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
Dr. Stephen Hensonae1bb4e2000-02-19 00:46:02 +0000771 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000772 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
773 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
774 o Usable certificate chain verification
775 o Certificate purpose checking
776 o Certificate trust settings
777 o Support of authority information access extension
778 o Extensions in certificate requests
779 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
Dr. Stephen Hensonae1bb4e2000-02-19 00:46:02 +0000780 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000781 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
782 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
Bodo Möller8bd5b792000-02-21 10:40:36 +0000783 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
784 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
785 data
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000786 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
Bodo Möller8bd5b792000-02-21 10:40:36 +0000787 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000788 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
789 RSA functionality
Bodo Möller07e6dbd2000-01-28 21:26:30 +0000790 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
791 via a per-thread stack
792 o PRNG robustness improved
Ulf Möller4d524e12000-02-24 11:55:57 +0000793 o EGD support
Ulf Möller6d9ca502000-02-06 16:35:59 +0000794 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
Ulf Möller4d524e12000-02-24 11:55:57 +0000795 o Faster DSA parameter generation
Ulf Möller74235cc2000-01-30 22:16:47 +0000796 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
797 o Experimental MacOS support
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000798
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000799 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
Dr. Stephen Hensoned7f60f1999-08-06 21:47:09 +0000800
801 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
Bodo Möllerc97cbcb1999-08-07 02:46:49 +0000802 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
803 form
804 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
805 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
806 o Avoid various memory leaks
807 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
808 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
Dr. Stephen Hensoned7f60f1999-08-06 21:47:09 +0000809
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000810 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
Ulf Möller9de649f1999-05-04 11:17:11 +0000811 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
812 o RSA OEAP related fixes
Ralf S. Engelschall8e8a8a51999-05-01 14:47:08 +0000813 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
814 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
815 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
Dr. Stephen Henson703126f1999-05-17 20:05:36 +0000816 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
Bodo Möllera03dd7a1999-05-17 20:36:08 +0000817 extension support
Dr. Stephen Henson703126f1999-05-17 20:05:36 +0000818 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
819 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
820 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
Ulf Möller2cf9fcd1999-05-17 15:03:43 +0000821 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
Ulf Möllerb0759f81999-05-18 16:40:40 +0000822 o Option to disable selected ciphers
Ralf S. Engelschall8e8a8a51999-05-01 14:47:08 +0000823
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000824 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
Ralf S. Engelschall738769f1999-03-22 15:38:12 +0000825 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
826 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
827 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000828 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
829 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
830 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
831 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
832 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
Ralf S. Engelschall03e20a11999-03-06 14:41:24 +0000833 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000834 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
835 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
836 o Overhauled Win32 builds
837 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
838 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
839 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
840 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
841 o Overhauled Perl interface
842 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
843 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
844 o Lots of bug fixes.
845
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000846 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000847 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
848 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
849 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
850 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
851 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
852 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
853 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
854 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
855 o Support for various new platforms
856