5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
8 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4:
10 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
11 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard form.
12 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation.
14 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
15 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
16 o RSA OEAP related fixes
17 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
18 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
19 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
20 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
22 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
23 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
24 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
25 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
26 o Option to disable selected ciphers
28 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
29 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
30 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
31 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
32 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
33 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
34 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
35 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
36 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
37 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
38 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
39 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
40 o Overhauled Win32 builds
41 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
42 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
43 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
44 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
45 o Overhauled Perl interface
46 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
47 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
50 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
51 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
52 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
53 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
54 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
55 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
56 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
57 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
58 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
59 o Support for various new platforms