X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1cd2d92630a46b1e4c42a3ee5478dc22bbb4f9ae;hp=537cee624a979fbbc7e55d9d352446b50e5ca8c1;hb=d02408ad8a2c277feee1d43d34b8d140abc71263;hpb=8bd5b7944e87b55f22f8277072331cb333bcbefc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 537cee624a..1cd2d92630 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,57 @@ This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: + + o New library section OCSP. + o Complete haul-over of the ASN.1 library section. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: + + o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using + environment variables when running as root. + o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the + possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly + calculated signature. + o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. + o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the + master secret in DH ciphersuites. + o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. + o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to + des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. + o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. + o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and + memory checking routines. + o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded enviroments. + o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. + o Remove a few potential memory leaks. + o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. + o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. + o More documentation. + o New function BN_rand_range(). + o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: + + o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. + o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. + o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. + o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. + o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. + o MD4 now included. + o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. + o Support for external crypto devices. + o Enhanced EVP interface. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: + + o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 + o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc + o Support of Linux/IA64 + o Assembler support for Mingw32 + o New 'rand' application + o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command @@ -35,8 +86,9 @@ o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information via a per-thread stack o PRNG robustness improved + o EGD support o BIGNUM library bug fixes - o faster DSA parameter generation + o Faster DSA parameter generation o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux o Experimental MacOS support