Note my bignum hijinx in case app maintainers are using CHANGES for their

[openssl.git] / CHANGES

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@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.7c and 0.9.8  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) bn_dup_expand() has been deprecated, it was introduced in 0.9.7 and
+     remained unused and not that useful. A variety of other little bignum
+     tweaks and fixes have also been made continuing on from the audit (see
+     below).
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) Constify all or almost all d2i, c2i, s2i and r2i functions, along with
+     associated ASN1, EVP and SSL functions and old ASN1 macros.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) BN_zero() only needs to set 'top' and 'neg' to zero for correct results,
+     and this should never fail. So the return value from the use of
+     BN_set_word() (which can fail due to needless expansion) is now deprecated;
+     if OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined, BN_zero() is a void macro.
+     [Geoff Thorpe]
+
+  *) BN_CTX_get() should return zero-valued bignums, providing the same
+     initialised value as BN_new().
+     [Geoff Thorpe, suggested by Ulf Möller]
+
   *) Support for inhibitAnyPolicy certificate extension.
      [Steve Henson]
 
@@ -21,7 +41,7 @@
      some point, these tighter rules will become openssl's default to improve
      maintainability, though the assert()s and other overheads will remain only
      in debugging configurations. See bn.h for more details.
-     [Geoff Thorpe]
+     [Geoff Thorpe, Nils Larsch, Ulf Möller]
 
   *) BN_CTX_init() has been deprecated, as BN_CTX is an opaque structure
      that can only be obtained through BN_CTX_new() (which implicitly