This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
- Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [under development]
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
+
+ o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
+ o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
+ o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
+
+ o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
+
+ o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
+ o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
+
+ o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
+
+ o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
+
+ o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
+ o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
+ o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
+
+ o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
+ o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
+ o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
+
+ o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
+
+ o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
+ o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
+ o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
+ (CVE-2016-6307)
+ o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
+ (CVE-2016-6308)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
+
+ o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
+ o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
+ o Added support for "pipelining"
+ o Added the AFALG engine
+ o New threading API implemented
+ o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
+ o Support for extended master secret
+ o CCM ciphersuites
+ o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
+ o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
+ including:
+ BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
+ DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
+ BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
+ EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
+ X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
+ X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
+ o libssl internal structures made opaque
+ o SSLv2 support removed
+ o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
+ o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
+ o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
+ o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
+ o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
+ o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
+ o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
+ o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
+ o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
+ relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
+ argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
+ o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
+ to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
+ o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
+ o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
+ directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
+ the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
+ o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
+ o New "unified" build system
+ o New security levels
+ o Support for scrypt algorithm
+ o Support for X25519
+ o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
+ o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
+ o Support for Certificate Transparency
+ o HKDF support.
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
+
+ o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
+ o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
+ o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
+ o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
+ o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
+ o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
+ callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
+ o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
+ the default.
+ o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
+
+ o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
+ o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
+ (CVE-2016-0800)
+ o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
+ o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
+ (CVE-2016-0798)
+ o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
+ (CVE-2016-0797)
+ o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
+ o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
+
+ o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
+ o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
+
+ o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
+ o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
+ o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
+ o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
+ o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
+ return an error
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
+
+ o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
+ o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
+
+ o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
+
+ o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
+ o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
+ o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
+ o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
+ o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
o Add gcc 4.2 support.
- o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
+ o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
for VC++ build.
o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
selected at compile time.
o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
- This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
- OpenSSL.
+ This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
+ OpenSSL.
o New control functions for the error stack.
o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
processing.
affected functions.
o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
- o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
+ o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
of X.509 path validation.
o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
AMD64.
o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
- by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
+ by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
argument form 'enable-xxx'.
o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
SHA-1.
o Automation of 'req' application
o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
- o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
+ o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
o Extended Big Number (BN) library
o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
- o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
+ o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
- o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
+ o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
o Support for various new platforms
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