X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=343eea600fefdd14bf2dadf04350844136180a95;hp=24c853b49265120dc978bf5206f070a9a15fd975;hb=d5492d9b47d4d55052f24c8a04c70a0516ac934d;hpb=ed7f60fbf91915df618bddff59ec86a3466e79ac diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 24c853b492..343eea600f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,11 +5,172 @@ 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 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: + + o New library section OCSP. + o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. + o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. + o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. + o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. + o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. + o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer + a separate distribution. + o New elliptic curve library section. + o New AES (Rijndael) library section. + o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also + against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). + Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the + future). + o Unifiy handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and + engine) to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and + symmetric ciphers. + o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. + o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking + and help optimizers. + o Finally remove references to RSAref. + o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. + o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption + Processing, IBM 4758. + o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. + o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for + EGD style random sources at several locations. + o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. + o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. + o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). + o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. + o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. + o SSL/TLS: add draft AES ciphersuites (disabled unless explicitly requested). + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: + + o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. + o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: + + o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. + o BIGNUM library fixes. + o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. + o Object identifiers corrected and added. + o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. + o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, + MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. + o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, + Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver + [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. + + Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: + + o Security fix: PRNG improvements. + o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. + o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's + attack. + o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. + o Bug fix in "openssl enc". + o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. + o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. + o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. + o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). + o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. + o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. + o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. + o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. + + 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 [1]. + o Enhanced EVP interface. + + [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate + distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. + + 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. + 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