X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1cd2d92630a46b1e4c42a3ee5478dc22bbb4f9ae;hp=4687ffa9532dc7e583f5dba9cb734a8b9f157e35;hb=197322455d61829572d1792da03e4d0750d5638a;hpb=738769ff4330a35192a05bd81808d428ba2b9d8e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4687ffa953..1cd2d92630 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,7 +5,119 @@ 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 SSLeay 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: + + o New library section OCSP. + o Complete haul-over of the ASN.1 library section. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: + + o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using + environment variables when running as root. + o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the + possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly + calculated signature. + o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. + o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the + master secret in DH ciphersuites. + o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. + o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to + des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. + o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. + o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and + memory checking routines. + o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded enviroments. + o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. + o Remove a few potential memory leaks. + o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. + o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. + o More documentation. + o New function BN_rand_range(). + o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: + + o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. + o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. + o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. + o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. + o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. + o MD4 now included. + o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. + o Support for external crypto devices. + o Enhanced EVP interface. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: + + o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 + o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc + o Support of Linux/IA64 + o Assembler support for Mingw32 + o New 'rand' application + o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: + + o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command + o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application + 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 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 Usable certificate chain verification + o Certificate purpose checking + o Certificate trust settings + o Support of authority information access extension + o Extensions in certificate requests + o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines + o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets + o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD + o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function + o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 + record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other + data + o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC + o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug + o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other + RSA functionality + o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information + via a per-thread stack + o PRNG robustness improved + o EGD support + o BIGNUM library bug fixes + o Faster DSA parameter generation + o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux + o Experimental MacOS support + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: + + o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used + by several software packages and are more secure than the standard + form + o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation + o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data + o Avoid various memory leaks + o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O + must be handled by the application (BIO pair) + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: + o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism + o RSA OEAP related fixes + o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate + o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs + o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files + o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points + extension support + o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support + o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString + o Full integration of PKCS#12 code + o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions + o Option to disable selected ciphers + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"