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  Changes between 0.9.5a and 0.9.6  [xx XXX 2000]
 
+  *) Various fixes to use ASN1_TIME instead of ASN1_UTCTIME.
+     Also change the functions X509_cmp_current_time() and
+     X509_gmtime_adj() work with an ASN1_TIME structure,
+     this will enable certificates using GeneralizedTime in validity
+     dates to be checked.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Make the NEG_PUBKEY_BUG code (which tolerates invalid
+     negative public key encodings) on by default,
+     NO_NEG_PUBKEY_BUG can be set to disable it.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) New function c2i_ASN1_OBJECT() which acts on ASN1_OBJECT
+     content octets. An i2c_ASN1_OBJECT is unnecessary because
+     the encoding can be trivially obtained from the structure.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) crypto/err.c locking bugfix: Use write locks (CRYPTO_w_[un]lock),
+     not read locks (CRYPTO_r_[un]lock).
+     [Bodo Moeller]
+
+  *) A first attempt at creating official support for shared
+     libraries through configuration.  I've kept it so the
+     default is static libraries only, and the OpenSSL programs
+     are always statically linked for now, but there are
+     preparations for dynamic linking in place.
+     This has been tested on Linux and True64.
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
+  *) Randomness polling function for Win9x, as described in:
+     Peter Gutmann, Software Generation of Practically Strong
+     Random Numbers.
+     [Ulf Möller]
+
+  *) Fix so PRNG is seeded in req if using an already existing
+     DSA key.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) New options to smime application. -inform and -outform
+     allow alternative formats for the S/MIME message including
+     PEM and DER. The -content option allows the content to be
+     specified separately. This should allow things like Netscape
+     form signing output easier to verify.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Fix the ASN1 encoding of tags using the 'long form'.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) New ASN1 functions, i2c_* and c2i_* for INTEGER and BIT
+     STRING types. These convert content octets to and from the
+     underlying type. The actual tag and length octets are
+     already assumed to have been read in and checked. These
+     are needed because all other string types have virtually
+     identical handling apart from the tag. By having versions
+     of the ASN1 functions that just operate on content octets
+     IMPLICIT tagging can be handled properly. It also allows
+     the ASN1_ENUMERATED code to be cut down because ASN1_ENUMERATED
+     and ASN1_INTEGER are identical apart from the tag.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Change the handling of OID objects as follows:
+
+     - New object identifiers are inserted in objects.txt, following
+       the syntax given in objects.README.
+     - objects.pl is used to process obj_mac.num and create a new
+       obj_mac.h.
+     - obj_dat.pl is used to create a new obj_dat.h, using the data in
+       obj_mac.h.
+
+     This is currently kind of a hack, and the perl code in objects.pl
+     isn't very elegant, but it works as I intended.  The simplest way
+     to check that it worked correctly is to look in obj_dat.h and
+     check the array nid_objs and make sure the objects haven't moved
+     around (this is important!).  Additions are OK, as well as
+     consistent name changes. 
+     [Richard Levitte]
+
   *) Add BSD-style MD5-based passwords to 'openssl passwd' (option '-1').
      [Bodo Moeller]