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  Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.1.0  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines
+     without having to build shared libraries and vice versa.  This
+     only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/
+     will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static").
+
+     Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use
+     the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine".
+
+     The only requirements for building dynamic engines is the
+     presence of the DSO module and building with position independent
+     code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring
+     with "disable-dso" or "disable pic".
+
+     The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE
+     are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are
+     irrelevant.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Configuration change; if there is a known flag to compile
+     position independent code, it will always be applied on the
+     libcrypto and libssl object files, and never on the application
+     object files.  This means other libraries that use routines from
+     libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless
+     of how OpenSSL was configured.
+
+     If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic"
+     or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC.  This will
+     also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Removed JPAKE code.  It was experimental and has no wide use.
+     [Rich Salz]
+
+  *) The INSTALL_PREFIX Makefile variable has been renamed to
+     DESTDIR.  That makes for less confusion on what this variable
+     is for.  Also, the configuration option --install_prefix is
+     removed.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Heartbeat for TLS has been removed and is disabled by default
+     for DTLS; configure with enable-heartbeats.  Code that uses the
+     old #define's might need to be updated.
+     [Emilia Käsper, Rich Salz]
+
+  *) Rename REF_CHECK to REF_DEBUG.
+     [Rich Salz]
+
+  *) New "unified" build system
+
+     The "unified" build system is aimed to be a common system for all
+     platforms we support.  With it comes new support for VMS.
+
+     This system builds supports building in a differnt directory tree
+     than the source tree.  It produces one Makefile (for unix family
+     or lookalikes), or one descrip.mms (for VMS).
+
+     The source of information to make the Makefile / descrip.mms is
+     small files called 'build.info', holding the necessary
+     information for each directory with source to compile, and a
+     template in Configurations, like unix-Makefile.tmpl or
+     descrip.mms.tmpl.
+
+     We rely heavily on the perl module Text::Template.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Added support for auto-initialisation and de-initialisation of the library.
+     OpenSSL no longer requires explicit init or deinit routines to be called,
+     except in certain circumstances. See the OPENSSL_init_crypto() and
+     OPENSSL_init_ssl() man pages for further information.
+     [Matt Caswell]
+
   *) The arguments to the DTLSv1_listen function have changed. Specifically the
      "peer" argument is now expected to be a BIO_ADDR object.