add 'release showstopper' entry

[openssl.git] / STATUS

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@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 
   OpenSSL STATUS                           Last modified at
-  ______________                           $Date: 2001/06/04 16:23:15 $
+  ______________                           $Date: 2001/09/11 12:46:50 $
 
   DEVELOPMENT STATE
 
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.7:  Under development...
+    o  OpenSSL 0.9.6b: Released on July       9th, 2001
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6a: Released on April      5th, 2001
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.6:  Released on September 24th, 2000
     o  OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Released on April      1st, 2000
@@ -17,8 +18,15 @@
 
   RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS
 
+    o BIGNUM library failures on 64-bit platforms (0.9.7-dev)
+
   AVAILABLE PATCHES
 
+    o IA-64 (a.k.a. Intel Itanium) public-key operation performance 
+      patch for Linux is available for download at
+      http://www.openssl.org/~appro/096b.linux-ia64.diff. As URL
+      suggests the patch is relative to OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
+
   IN PROGRESS
 
     o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
@@ -32,12 +40,13 @@
     o Geoff and Richard are currently working on:
        ENGINE (the new code that gives hardware support among others).
     o Richard is currently working on:
+       UI (User Interface)
        UTIL (a new set of library functions to support some higher level
              functionality that is currently missing).
        Shared library support for VMS.
-       OCSP
        Kerberos 5 authentication
        Constification
+       OCSP
 
   NEEDS PATCH
 
@@ -50,13 +59,9 @@
     o  Whenever strncpy is used, make sure the resulting string is NULL-terminated
        or an error is reported
 
-  OPEN ISSUES
+    o  "OpenSSL STATUS" is never up-to-date.
 
-    o  crypto/ex_data.c is not really thread-safe and so must be used
-       with care (e.g., extra locking where necessary, or don't call
-       CRYPTO_get_ex_new_index once multiple threads exist).
-       The current API is not suitable for everything that it pretends
-       to offer.
+  OPEN ISSUES
 
     o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing: