ENGINEs can now perform structural cleanup.

[openssl.git] / CHANGES

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@@ -12,6 +12,51 @@
          *) applies to 0.9.6a/0.9.6b/0.9.6c and 0.9.7
          +) applies to 0.9.7 only
 
+  *) Add a "destroy" handler to ENGINEs that allows structural cleanup to
+     be done prior to destruction. Use this to unload error strings from
+     ENGINEs that load their own error strings. NB: This adds two new API
+     functions to "get" and "set" this destroy handler in an ENGINE.
+     [Geoff]
+
+  *) Change the various "***_up()" functions, that increment reference
+     counts on the various structure types, to "***_up_ref()". The naming
+     is more consistent with existing code and generally a better choice.
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) Alter all existing ENGINE implementations (except "openssl" and
+     "openbsd") to dynamically instantiate their own error strings. This
+     makes them more flexible to be built both as statically-linked ENGINEs
+     and self-contained shared-libraries loadable via the "dynamic" ENGINE.
+     Also, add stub code to each that makes building them as self-contained
+     shared-libraries easier (see README.ENGINE).
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) Add a "dynamic" ENGINE that provides a mechanism for binding ENGINE
+     implementations into applications that are completely implemented in
+     self-contained shared-libraries. The "dynamic" ENGINE exposes control
+     commands that can be used to configure what shared-library to load and
+     to control aspects of the way it is handled. Also, made an update to
+     the README.ENGINE file that brings its information up-to-date and
+     provides some information and instructions on the "dynamic" ENGINE
+     (ie. how to use it, how to build "dynamic"-loadable ENGINEs, etc).
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) BN_sqr() bug fix.
+     [Ulf Möller, reported by Jim Ellis <jim.ellis@cavium.com>]
+
+  *) Make it possible to unload ranges of ERR strings with a new
+     "ERR_unload_strings" function.
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) Rabin-Miller test analyses assume uniformly distributed witnesses,
+     so use BN_pseudo_rand_range() instead of using BN_pseudo_rand()
+     followed by modular reduction.
+     [Bodo Moeller; pointed out by Adam Young <AYoung1@NCSUS.JNJ.COM>]
+
+  *) Add BN_pseudo_rand_range() with obvious functionality: BN_rand_range()
+     requivalent based on BN_pseudo_rand() instead of BN_rand().
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
   +) Add a copy() function to EVP_MD.
      [Ben Laurie]
 
@@ -42,6 +87,10 @@
      to it. Application code that doesn't use this new function will still
      leak as before, but their memory debugging output will announce it now
      rather than letting it slide.
+
+     Besides the addition of CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(), another API change
+     induced by the "ex_data" overhaul is that X509_STORE_CTX_init() now
+     has a return value to indicate success or failure.
      [Geoff Thorpe]
 
   +) Make it possible to replace the underlying "ERR" functions such that the