X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7c30b76124aac2e4af9df6976396d53d1f4e22df;hp=24c853b49265120dc978bf5206f070a9a15fd975;hb=0cb957a6846dde0bee52f69c538aae5e7062ac73;hpb=ed7f60fbf91915df618bddff59ec86a3466e79ac diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 24c853b492..7c30b76124 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,11 +5,61 @@ 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 0.9.5 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