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  Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5  [xx XXX 1999]
 
-  *) Support for the authority information access extension. Not
-     very well tested yet.
+  *) Fixes and enhancements to the 'x509' utility. It allowed a message
+     digest to be passed on the command line but it only used this
+     parameter when signing a certificate. Modified so all relevant
+     operations are affected by the digest parameter including the
+     -fingerprint and -x509toreq options. Also -x509toreq choked if a
+     DSA key was used because it didn't fix the digest.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Initial certificate chain verify code. Currently tests the untrusted
+     certificates for consistency with the verify purpose (which is set
+     when the X509_STORE_CTX structure is set up) and checks the pathlength.
+
+     There is a NO_CHAIN_VERIFY compilation option to keep the old behaviour:
+     this is because it will reject chains with invalid extensions whereas
+     every previous version of OpenSSL and SSLeay made no checks at all.
+
+     Trust code: checks the root CA for the relevant trust settings. Trust
+     settings have an initial value consistent with the verify purpose: e.g.
+     if the verify purpose is for SSL client use it expects the CA to be
+     trusted for SSL client use. However the default value can be changed to
+     permit custom trust settings: one example of this would be to only trust
+     certificates from a specific "secure" set of CAs.
+
+     Also added X509_STORE_CTX_new() and X509_STORE_CTX_free() functions
+     which should be used for version portability: especially since the
+     verify structure is likely to change more often now.
+
+     SSL integration. Add purpose and trust to SSL_CTX and SSL and functions
+     to set them. If not set then assume SSL clients will verify SSL servers
+     and vice versa.
+
+     Two new options to the verify program: -untrusted allows a set of
+     untrusted certificates to be passed in and -purpose which sets the
+     intended purpose of the certificate. If a purpose is set then the
+     new chain verify code is used to check extension consistency.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Support for the authority information access extension.
      [Steve Henson]
 
   *) Modify RSA and DSA PEM read routines to transparently handle