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 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
10 o Support for TLSv1.3 added
11 o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm.
12 o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
13 o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
14 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
15 o Add multi-prime RSA (RFC 8017) support
16 o Add SM3 implemented according to GB/T 32905-2016
17 o Add SM4 implemented according to GB/T 32907-2016.
18 o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
21 o Rewrite of devcrypto engine
22 o Add support for SipHash
24 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
26 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
30 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
31 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
33 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
35 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
37 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
39 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
41 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
43 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
44 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
45 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
49 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
50 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
51 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
53 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
55 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
57 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
59 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
60 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
61 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
63 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
66 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
68 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
69 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
70 o Added support for "pipelining"
71 o Added the AFALG engine
72 o New threading API implemented
73 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
74 o Support for extended master secret
76 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
77 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
79 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
80 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
81 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
82 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
83 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
84 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
85 o libssl internal structures made opaque
86 o SSLv2 support removed
87 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
88 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
89 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
90 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
91 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
92 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
93 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
94 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
95 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
96 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
97 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
98 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
99 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
100 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
101 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
102 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
103 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
104 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
105 o New "unified" build system
106 o New security levels
107 o Support for scrypt algorithm
109 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
110 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
111 o Support for Certificate Transparency
114 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
116 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
117 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
118 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
119 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
120 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
121 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
122 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
123 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
125 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
127 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
129 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
130 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
132 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
133 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
135 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
137 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
138 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
140 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
142 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
143 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
145 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
147 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
148 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
149 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
150 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
151 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
154 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
156 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
157 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
159 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
161 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
163 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
165 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
166 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
167 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
168 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
169 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
171 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
173 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
174 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
175 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
176 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
177 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
178 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
179 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
180 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
181 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
182 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
183 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
184 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
185 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
187 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
189 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
190 o Support for DTLS 1.2
191 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
192 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
193 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
194 o TLS Brainpool support.
196 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
198 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
200 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
202 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
204 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
205 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
206 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
207 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
208 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
209 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
211 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
217 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
218 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
220 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
222 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
223 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
224 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
225 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
226 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
227 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
228 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
229 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
230 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
232 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
234 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
235 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
236 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
237 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
238 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
239 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
241 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
243 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
244 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
245 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
247 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
249 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
250 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
251 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
252 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
254 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
256 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
258 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
260 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
261 o Include the fips configuration module.
262 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
263 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
264 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
266 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
268 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
269 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
271 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
273 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
274 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
275 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
277 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
279 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
280 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
281 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
283 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
285 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
287 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
288 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
289 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
290 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
291 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
292 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
293 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
296 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
298 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
299 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
300 o Various DTLS fixes.
302 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
304 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
306 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
308 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
309 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
310 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
311 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
312 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
314 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
316 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
317 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
318 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
319 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
320 o Various DTLS fixes.
322 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
324 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
326 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
328 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
329 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
330 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
331 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
332 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
334 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
336 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
337 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
338 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
340 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
342 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
343 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
345 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
347 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
348 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
349 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
350 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
351 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
352 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
353 o ASN1 printing support.
354 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
355 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
356 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
357 o New generalised public key API utilities.
358 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
359 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
360 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
361 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
362 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
363 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
364 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
365 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
366 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
368 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
370 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
371 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
373 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
375 o Cipher definition fixes.
376 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
377 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
378 o SPKAC handling fixes.
379 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
380 o Compression memory leak fixed.
381 o Compression session resumption fixed.
382 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
383 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
387 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
389 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
391 o Fix various build issues.
392 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
394 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
396 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
397 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
399 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
401 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
402 o Various precautionary measures.
403 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
404 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
406 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
408 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
409 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
411 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
413 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
414 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
416 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
417 selected at compile time.
419 o RFC4507bis support.
420 o TLS Extensions support.
422 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
424 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
427 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
429 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
430 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
431 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
433 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
435 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
436 o New cipher Camellia
438 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
440 o Cipher string fixes.
441 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
442 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
443 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
444 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
445 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
446 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
448 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
450 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
451 o Extended Windows CE support
453 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
455 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
456 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
457 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
458 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
459 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
460 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
461 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
462 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
464 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
465 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
466 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
467 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
469 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
470 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
471 automatically from specifically given directories.
472 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
473 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
474 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
475 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
476 function and an argument.
477 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
478 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
480 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
481 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
482 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
483 constraints and name constraints.
484 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
486 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
487 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
488 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
489 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
490 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
491 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
492 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
494 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
495 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
496 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
497 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
499 o New control functions for the error stack.
500 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
502 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
503 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
504 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
505 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
507 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
508 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
509 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
510 of X.509 path validation.
511 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
513 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
514 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
515 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
516 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
518 o Added support for DTLS.
519 o New BIGNUM blinding.
520 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
521 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
522 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
523 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
524 o Added initial support for Win64.
525 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
527 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
529 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
530 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
532 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
534 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
535 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
537 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
539 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
543 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
544 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
546 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
548 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
550 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
552 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
553 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
554 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
556 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
558 o More compilation issues fixed.
559 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
560 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
561 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
562 o More constification.
563 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
565 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
567 o Several compilation issues fixed.
568 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
569 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
570 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
571 o Performance improvements.
573 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
575 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
576 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
578 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
580 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
581 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
582 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
583 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
584 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
586 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
588 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
589 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
590 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
591 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
593 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
595 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
596 Bleichbacher's attack
597 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
598 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
599 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
600 o Build: shared library support fixes.
601 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
602 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
604 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
606 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
607 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
608 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
609 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
610 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
611 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
612 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
613 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
615 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
617 o New library section OCSP.
618 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
619 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
620 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
621 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
622 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
623 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
624 a separate distribution.
625 o New elliptic curve library section.
626 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
627 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
628 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
629 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
630 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
631 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
632 o Support for pkg-config.
633 o Lots of new manuals.
634 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
636 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
637 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
638 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
640 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
641 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
642 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
643 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
645 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
646 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
647 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
648 Processing, IBM 4758.
649 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
650 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
651 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
652 EGD style random sources at several locations.
653 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
654 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
655 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
656 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
657 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
658 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
659 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
661 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
663 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
664 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
666 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
668 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
669 Bleichbacher's attack
670 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
671 o Build: shared library support fixes.
673 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
675 o Important security related bugfixes.
677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
679 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
680 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
681 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
682 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
683 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
684 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
685 o Fixes for length problems.
686 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
687 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
688 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
689 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
691 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
693 o Important building fixes on Unix.
695 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
697 o Various important bugfixes.
699 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
701 o Important security related bugfixes.
702 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
704 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
706 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
707 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
709 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
711 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
712 o BIGNUM library fixes.
713 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
714 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
715 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
716 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
717 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
718 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
719 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
720 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
722 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
724 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
725 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
726 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
728 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
729 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
730 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
731 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
732 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
733 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
734 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
735 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
736 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
737 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
739 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
741 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
742 environment variables when running as root.
743 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
744 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
745 calculated signature.
746 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
747 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
748 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
749 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
750 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
751 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
752 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
753 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
754 memory checking routines.
755 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
756 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
757 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
758 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
759 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
760 o More documentation.
761 o New function BN_rand_range().
762 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
764 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
766 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
767 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
768 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
769 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
770 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
772 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
773 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
774 o Enhanced EVP interface.
776 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
777 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
779 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
781 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
782 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
783 o Support of Linux/IA64
784 o Assembler support for Mingw32
785 o New 'rand' application
786 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
788 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
790 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
791 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
792 o Automation of 'req' application
793 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
794 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
795 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
796 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
797 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
798 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
799 o Usable certificate chain verification
800 o Certificate purpose checking
801 o Certificate trust settings
802 o Support of authority information access extension
803 o Extensions in certificate requests
804 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
805 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
806 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
807 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
808 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
809 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
811 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
812 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
813 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
815 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
816 via a per-thread stack
817 o PRNG robustness improved
819 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
820 o Faster DSA parameter generation
821 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
822 o Experimental MacOS support
824 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
826 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
827 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
829 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
830 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
831 o Avoid various memory leaks
832 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
833 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
835 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
836 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
837 o RSA OEAP related fixes
838 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
839 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
840 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
841 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
843 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
844 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
845 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
846 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
847 o Option to disable selected ciphers
849 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
850 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
851 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
852 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
853 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
854 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
855 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
856 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
857 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
858 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
859 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
860 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
861 o Overhauled Win32 builds
862 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
863 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
864 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
865 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
866 o Overhauled Perl interface
867 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
868 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
871 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
872 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
873 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
874 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
875 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
876 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
877 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
878 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
879 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
880 o Support for various new platforms