Add missing OSSL_DECODER entry in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md

The text in CHANGES.md got fleshed out a bit more as well.

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16522)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index a24b30e651443a46b0bc1754d362518171ad6bbc..bc6d9516ff5a34e6b73219266e1cd8dc17382d5b 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -805,8 +805,19 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions.
 
    *Rich Salz*
 
- * Introduced a new method type and API, OSSL_ENCODER, to
-   represent generic encoders.
+ * Introduced a new method type and API, OSSL_ENCODER, to represent
+   generic encoders.  These do the same sort of job that PEM writers
+   and d2i functions do, but with support for methods supplied by
+   providers, and the possibility for providers to support other
+   formats as well.
+
+   *Richard Levitte*
+
+ * Introduced a new method type and API, OSSL_DECODER, to represent
+   generic decoders.  These do the same sort of job that PEM readers
+   and i2d functions do, but with support for methods supplied by
+   providers, and the possibility for providers to support other
+   formats as well.
 
    *Richard Levitte*
 

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c269e370e088e446624cafea72c088bab99d38c0..af0dbff9908320fd86b3251913bb3b5d87167d7b 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ OpenSSL 3.0
     BIOs (allowing implicit connections), and timeout checks.
   * Added util/check-format.pl for checking adherence to the coding guidelines.
   * Added OSSL_ENCODER, a generic encoder API.
+  * Added OSSL_DECODER, a generic decoder API.
   * Added OSSL_PARAM_BLD, an easier to use API to OSSL_PARAM.
   * Added error raising macros, ERR_raise() and ERR_raise_data().
   * Deprecated ERR_put_error(), ERR_get_error_line(), ERR_get_error_line_data(),