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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 Caswelled132702014-10-15 12:22:20 +01008 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [in beta]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonf0170eb2014-01-07 15:44:35 +00009
10 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
11 o Support for DTLS 1.2
12 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
13 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
14 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
15 o TLS Brainpool support.
16 o ALPN support.
17 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
18
Matt Caswelled132702014-10-15 12:22:20 +010019 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
20
21 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
22 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
23 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
24 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
25
26 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
27
28 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
29 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
30 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
31 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
32 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
33 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
34 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
35 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
36 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
37
Dr. Stephen Henson7178c712014-06-06 14:33:24 +010038 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
39
40 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
41 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
42 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
43 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
44 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
45
Dr. Stephen Henson86f6e862014-04-06 00:51:06 +010046 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
47
48 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
49 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
50 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
51
Dr. Stephen Henson9bd1e2b2014-01-06 21:55:15 +000052 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
53
54 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
55 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
56 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
57 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
58
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +000059 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +020060
61 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
62
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +000063 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +000064
65 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
66 o Include the fips configuration module.
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +020067 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
68 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
69 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +000070
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +000071 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5818a072012-07-20 15:24:06 +000072
73 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
74 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
75
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +000076 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Hensona9e6c092012-04-26 11:13:30 +000077
78 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
79 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
80 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
81
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +000082 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson579d5532012-04-23 21:56:33 +000083
84 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
85 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
86 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
87
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +000088 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson61ad8262012-03-14 13:44:57 +000089
90 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
91 o SCTP support.
92 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
93 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
94 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
95 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
96 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
97 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
98 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
99 o SRP support.
100
Dr. Stephen Henson9bd1e2b2014-01-06 21:55:15 +0000101 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0k and OpenSSL 1.0.0l [6 Jan 2014]
102
103 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
104
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000105 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0j and OpenSSL 1.0.0k [5 Feb 2013]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200106
107 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
108 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
109
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000110 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0i and OpenSSL 1.0.0j [10 May 2012]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200111
112 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
113
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000114 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.0i [19 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson579d5532012-04-23 21:56:33 +0000115
116 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
117
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000118 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000119
120 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
121 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
122 o Various DTLS fixes.
123
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000124 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000125
126 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
127
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000128 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000129
130 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
131 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
132 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
133 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
134 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
135
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000136 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000137
138 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
139 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
140 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
141 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
142 o Various DTLS fixes.
143
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
Bodo Möller97709242011-02-08 17:48:57 +0000145
146 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
147
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000148 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
Bodo Möller88f2a4c2011-02-03 10:43:00 +0000149
150 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
151 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
152 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
153 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
154 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
155
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000156 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson732d31b2010-11-16 14:18:51 +0000157
158 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
159 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
160 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
161
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000162 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000163
Dr. Stephen Henson3cbb15e2010-06-01 14:39:01 +0000164 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000165 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
166
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000167 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000168
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000169 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
170 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
171 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
Dr. Stephen Hensonef236ec2009-04-23 16:32:42 +0000172 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000173 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
174 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
175 o ASN1 printing support.
176 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
177 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
178 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
179 o New generalised public key API utilities.
180 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
181 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
182 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
183 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
184 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
185 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
186 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
187 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
Dr. Stephen Henson14023fe2009-04-03 11:45:19 +0000188 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
Dr. Stephen Henson4e74239d2009-03-30 11:33:03 +0000189
Dr. Stephen Henson7178c712014-06-06 14:33:24 +0100190 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8y and OpenSSL 0.9.8za [5 Jun 2014]:
191
192 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
193 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
194 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
195 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
196 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
197 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
198 o Fix to TLS alert handling.
199
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000200 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200201
202 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
203 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
204
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000205 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]:
Bodo Moeller4dc83672013-09-16 14:55:03 +0200206
207 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
208
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000209 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson579d5532012-04-23 21:56:33 +0000210
211 o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110)
212
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000213 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson579d5532012-04-23 21:56:33 +0000214
215 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
216
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000217 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000218
219 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
220 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
221 o Various DTLS fixes.
222
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000223 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000224
225 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
226
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000227 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]:
Dr. Stephen Henson13747c62012-03-12 16:23:00 +0000228
229 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
230 o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109
231 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
232 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
233 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
234
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000235 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]:
Bodo Möller97709242011-02-08 17:48:57 +0000236
237 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
238
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000239 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]:
Bodo Möllercea73f92011-02-08 08:48:51 +0000240
241 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
242 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
243
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000244 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]:
Bodo Möllercea73f92011-02-08 08:48:51 +0000245
246 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
247
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000248 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000249
Dr. Stephen Henson3cbb15e2010-06-01 14:39:01 +0000250 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742.
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000251 o Various DTLS fixes.
252 o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added.
253 o Fix for no-rc4 compilation.
254 o Chil ENGINE unload workaround.
255
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000256 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson417a24d2010-05-27 15:05:30 +0000257
258 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
259 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
260
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000261 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000262
263 o Cipher definition fixes.
264 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
265 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
266 o SPKAC handling fixes.
267 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
268 o Compression memory leak fixed.
269 o Compression session resumption fixed.
270 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
271 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
272
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000273 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson5814d822010-02-25 18:20:30 +0000274
275 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
276
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000277 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000278
279 o Fix various build issues.
280 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
281
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000282 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000283
284 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
285 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
286
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000287 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000288
289 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
290 o Various precautionary measures.
291 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
292 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
293
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000294 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
Lutz Jänicke11d01d32007-10-19 08:26:03 +0000295
Dr. Stephen Henson7f1c0862009-03-28 16:21:44 +0000296 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
Lutz Jänicke11d01d32007-10-19 08:26:03 +0000297 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
298
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000299 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
Ben Laurie1948c7e2007-10-12 10:56:10 +0000300
301 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
302 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
303 for VC++ build.
304 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
305 selected at compile time.
306 o DTLS improvements.
307 o RFC4507bis support.
308 o TLS Extensions support.
309
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000310 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonac63b832007-02-23 13:16:38 +0000311
312 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
313 o RFC3779 support.
314
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000315 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller61118ca2006-09-28 13:35:01 +0000316
317 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
318 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
319 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
320
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000321 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000322
323 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
324 o New cipher Camellia
325
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000326 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000327
328 o Cipher string fixes.
329 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
330 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
331 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
332 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
333 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
334 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
335
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000336 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller72dce762005-10-26 19:40:45 +0000337
Mark J. Coxb79aa052006-09-05 08:58:03 +0000338 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
Bodo Möller72dce762005-10-26 19:40:45 +0000339 o Extended Windows CE support
340
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000341 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000342
343 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
344 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
345 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
346 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
347 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
348 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
349 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
350 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
351 configuration file.
352 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
353 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
354 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
355 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
356 Makefile.shared.
Richard Levittec8310122005-07-05 18:36:42 +0000357 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000358 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
359 automatically from specifically given directories.
360 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
361 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
362 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
363 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
364 function and an argument.
365 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
366 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
367 Nehemiah processors.
368 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
369 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
370 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
371 constraints and name constraints.
372 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
373 configuration file.
374 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
375 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
376 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
377 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
378 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
379 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
380 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
381 o New BUF functions.
382 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
383 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
384 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
385 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
386 OpenSSL.
387 o New control functions for the error stack.
388 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
389 processing.
390 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
391 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
392 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
393 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
394 affected functions.
395 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
396 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
397 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
398 of X.509 path validation.
399 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
400 AMD64.
401 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
402 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
403 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
404 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
405 SHA-1.
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000406 o Added support for DTLS.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000407 o New BIGNUM blinding.
408 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
409 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
Richard Levittec8310122005-07-05 18:36:42 +0000410 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
411 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
412 o Added initial support for Win64.
413 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
Richard Levitte70176052005-05-30 22:51:28 +0000414
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000415 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
Dr. Stephen Hensonac63b832007-02-23 13:16:38 +0000416
417 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
418 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
419
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000420 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller61118ca2006-09-28 13:35:01 +0000421
422 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
423 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
424
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000425 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000426
427 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
428
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000429 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000430
431 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
432 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
433
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000434 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000435
436 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
437
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000438 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
Bodo Möller613e7d22006-09-06 06:42:11 +0000439
440 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
441 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
442 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
443
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000444 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
Richard Levitte36521f02005-04-11 15:05:45 +0000445
446 o More compilation issues fixed.
447 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
448 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
449 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
450 o More constification.
451 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
452
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000453 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
Richard Levitte36521f02005-04-11 15:05:45 +0000454
455 o Several compilation issues fixed.
456 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
457 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
458 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
459 o Performance improvements.
460
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000461 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
Dr. Stephen Henson03386672004-10-25 17:11:19 +0000462
463 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
464 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
465
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000466 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
Dr. Stephen Henson03386672004-10-25 17:11:19 +0000467
468 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
469 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
470 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
471 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
472 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
473
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000474 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000475
476 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
477 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
478 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
479 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
480
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000481 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
Richard Levitte1774e222003-04-10 19:33:09 +0000482
483 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
484 Bleichbacher's attack
485 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
486 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
487 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
488 o Build: shared library support fixes.
489 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
490 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
491
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000492 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
Richard Levitted8cbc932003-02-19 14:02:37 +0000493
494 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
495 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
496 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
497 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
498 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
499 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
500 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
501 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
502
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000503 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
Richard Levitte83f25712000-11-19 14:10:07 +0000504
505 o New library section OCSP.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000506 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
507 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
508 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
509 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
510 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000511 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
512 a separate distribution.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000513 o New elliptic curve library section.
514 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
Richard Levitte1fc73fe2002-12-06 00:39:03 +0000515 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000516 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000517 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
518 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000519 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000520 o Support for pkg-config.
521 o Lots of new manuals.
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000522 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
523 functions.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000524 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
525 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
526 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
527 future).
Bodo Möllerece0bdf2002-06-17 13:59:12 +0000528 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
529 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000530 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
531 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
532 and help optimizers.
533 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
534 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
535 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
536 Processing, IBM 4758.
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000537 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
Lutz Jänickee1f7ea22002-06-12 20:46:38 +0000538 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000539 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
540 EGD style random sources at several locations.
541 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
542 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
543 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
Richard Levitte1fc73fe2002-12-06 00:39:03 +0000544 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000545 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
546 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
Bodo Möllerea4f1092002-07-04 08:51:09 +0000547 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000548
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000549 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
Dr. Stephen Henson29902442003-09-30 16:47:33 +0000550
551 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
552 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
553
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000554 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
Richard Levitte138f9702003-04-10 20:38:24 +0000555
556 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
557 Bleichbacher's attack
558 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
559 o Build: shared library support fixes.
560
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000561 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
Richard Levitted8cbc932003-02-19 14:02:37 +0000562
563 o Important security related bugfixes.
564
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000565 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
Richard Levitte9801fb62002-11-18 23:58:24 +0000566
567 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
568 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
569 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
570 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
571 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
572 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
573 o Fixes for length problems.
574 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
575 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
576 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
577 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
578
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
Richard Levitte36969082002-08-12 06:54:54 +0000580
581 o Important building fixes on Unix.
582
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000583 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
Richard Levittefbe792f2002-08-08 22:55:28 +0000584
585 o Various important bugfixes.
586
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000587 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
Lutz Jänickeb218af22002-07-30 11:32:47 +0000588
589 o Important security related bugfixes.
590 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
591
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000592 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
Lutz Jänickee4fb4972002-04-11 18:43:52 +0000593
594 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
595 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000596
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000597 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
Bodo Möllerae52ec92001-11-12 11:28:15 +0000598
599 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
600 o BIGNUM library fixes.
Richard Levitteef5f6a02001-12-20 16:58:26 +0000601 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
602 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
603 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
604 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
605 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
Mark J. Coxa3790c02001-11-12 20:30:01 +0000606 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
Richard Levitteef5f6a02001-12-20 16:58:26 +0000607 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
608 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
Bodo Möllerae52ec92001-11-12 11:28:15 +0000609
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000610 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000611
612 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
613 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
614 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
615 attack.
616 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
617 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
618 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
619 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
620 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
621 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
622 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
623 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
624 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
625 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
Richard Levitte83f25712000-11-19 14:10:07 +0000626
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000627 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000628
629 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
630 environment variables when running as root.
631 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
632 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
633 calculated signature.
634 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
635 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
636 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
Bodo Möller4fea8142001-03-30 10:46:15 +0000637 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
Richard Levitte307bf4d2001-03-29 15:15:10 +0000638 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
639 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000640 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
641 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
642 memory checking routines.
Lutz Jänicke50121582002-07-10 17:34:54 +0000643 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000644 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
645 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
646 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
647 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
648 o More documentation.
Bodo Möller4fea8142001-03-30 10:46:15 +0000649 o New function BN_rand_range().
Richard Levitte7cdd2aa2001-03-28 13:36:13 +0000650 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
651
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
Dr. Stephen Henson4e87e052000-09-20 00:50:25 +0000653
654 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
655 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
656 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
657 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
658 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
Bodo Möllerb38d84d2000-09-20 15:22:02 +0000659 o MD4 now included.
660 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000661 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
Ulf Möllerfda05b22000-09-23 19:08:16 +0000662 o Enhanced EVP interface.
Richard Levitteb22bda22000-09-20 15:52:26 +0000663
Bodo Möller4dec4f62001-09-11 12:26:56 +0000664 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
665 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
666
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000667 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000668
Ulf Möllerb7a81df2000-03-20 12:17:20 +0000669 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000670 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
671 o Support of Linux/IA64
Ulf Möllerb7a81df2000-03-20 12:17:20 +0000672 o Assembler support for Mingw32
Richard Levitte35a79ec2000-03-20 09:23:05 +0000673 o New 'rand' application
674 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
675
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000676 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000677
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000678 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000679 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000680 o Automation of 'req' application
681 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
682 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
683 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
Dr. Stephen Hensonae1bb4e2000-02-19 00:46:02 +0000684 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000685 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
686 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
687 o Usable certificate chain verification
688 o Certificate purpose checking
689 o Certificate trust settings
690 o Support of authority information access extension
691 o Extensions in certificate requests
692 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
Dr. Stephen Hensonae1bb4e2000-02-19 00:46:02 +0000693 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000694 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
695 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
Bodo Möller8bd5b792000-02-21 10:40:36 +0000696 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
697 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
698 data
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000699 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
Bodo Möller8bd5b792000-02-21 10:40:36 +0000700 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
Dr. Stephen Henson90644dd2000-01-28 01:35:31 +0000701 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
702 RSA functionality
Bodo Möller07e6dbd2000-01-28 21:26:30 +0000703 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
704 via a per-thread stack
705 o PRNG robustness improved
Ulf Möller4d524e12000-02-24 11:55:57 +0000706 o EGD support
Ulf Möller6d9ca502000-02-06 16:35:59 +0000707 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
Ulf Möller4d524e12000-02-24 11:55:57 +0000708 o Faster DSA parameter generation
Ulf Möller74235cc2000-01-30 22:16:47 +0000709 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
710 o Experimental MacOS support
Ulf Möller0c235242000-01-27 19:29:23 +0000711
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000712 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
Dr. Stephen Hensoned7f60f1999-08-06 21:47:09 +0000713
714 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
Bodo Möllerc97cbcb1999-08-07 02:46:49 +0000715 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
716 form
717 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
718 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
719 o Avoid various memory leaks
720 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
721 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
Dr. Stephen Hensoned7f60f1999-08-06 21:47:09 +0000722
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000723 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
Ulf Möller9de649f1999-05-04 11:17:11 +0000724 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
725 o RSA OEAP related fixes
Ralf S. Engelschall8e8a8a51999-05-01 14:47:08 +0000726 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
727 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
728 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
Dr. Stephen Henson703126f1999-05-17 20:05:36 +0000729 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
Bodo Möllera03dd7a1999-05-17 20:36:08 +0000730 extension support
Dr. Stephen Henson703126f1999-05-17 20:05:36 +0000731 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
732 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
733 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
Ulf Möller2cf9fcd1999-05-17 15:03:43 +0000734 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
Ulf Möllerb0759f81999-05-18 16:40:40 +0000735 o Option to disable selected ciphers
Ralf S. Engelschall8e8a8a51999-05-01 14:47:08 +0000736
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000737 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
Ralf S. Engelschall738769f1999-03-22 15:38:12 +0000738 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
739 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
740 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000741 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
742 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
743 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
744 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
745 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
Ralf S. Engelschall03e20a11999-03-06 14:41:24 +0000746 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000747 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
748 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
749 o Overhauled Win32 builds
750 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
751 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
752 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
753 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
754 o Overhauled Perl interface
755 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
756 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
757 o Lots of bug fixes.
758
Dr. Stephen Henson57d7ee32013-12-10 00:02:04 +0000759 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
Ralf S. Engelschall3b52c2e1999-03-06 13:53:17 +0000760 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
761 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
762 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
763 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
764 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
765 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
766 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
767 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
768 o Support for various new platforms
769