1 2 NEWS 3 ==== 4 5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL 6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. 7 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: 9 10 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 11 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 12 13 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: 14 15 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 16 o BIGNUM library fixes. 17 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 18 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 19 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 20 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 21 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 22 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 23 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 24 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 25 26 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: 27 28 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 29 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 30 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 31 attack. 32 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 33 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 34 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 35 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 36 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 37 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 38 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 39 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 40 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 41 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 42 43 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: 44 45 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 46 environment variables when running as root. 47 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 48 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 49 calculated signature. 50 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 51 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 52 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 53 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 54 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 55 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 56 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 57 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 58 memory checking routines.
| 1 2 NEWS 3 ==== 4 5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL 6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. 7 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: 9 10 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 11 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 12 13 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: 14 15 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 16 o BIGNUM library fixes. 17 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 18 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 19 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 20 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 21 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 22 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 23 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 24 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 25 26 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: 27 28 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 29 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 30 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 31 attack. 32 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 33 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 34 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 35 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 36 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 37 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 38 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 39 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 40 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 41 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 42 43 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: 44 45 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 46 environment variables when running as root. 47 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 48 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 49 calculated signature. 50 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 51 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 52 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 53 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 54 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 55 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 56 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 57 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 58 memory checking routines.
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60 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 61 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 62 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 63 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 64 o More documentation. 65 o New function BN_rand_range(). 66 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 67 68 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: 69 70 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 71 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 72 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 73 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 74 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 75 o MD4 now included. 76 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 77 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 78 o Enhanced EVP interface. 79 80 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 81 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 82 83 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: 84 85 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 86 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 87 o Support of Linux/IA64 88 o Assembler support for Mingw32 89 o New 'rand' application 90 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 91 92 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: 93 94 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 95 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 96 o Automation of 'req' application 97 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 98 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 99 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 100 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 101 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 102 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 103 o Usable certificate chain verification 104 o Certificate purpose checking 105 o Certificate trust settings 106 o Support of authority information access extension 107 o Extensions in certificate requests 108 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 109 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 110 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 111 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 112 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 113 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 114 data 115 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 116 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 117 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 118 RSA functionality 119 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 120 via a per-thread stack 121 o PRNG robustness improved 122 o EGD support 123 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 124 o Faster DSA parameter generation 125 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 126 o Experimental MacOS support 127 128 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: 129 130 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 131 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 132 form 133 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 134 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 135 o Avoid various memory leaks 136 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 137 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 138 139 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: 140 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 141 o RSA OEAP related fixes 142 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 143 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 144 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 145 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 146 extension support 147 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 148 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 149 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 150 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 151 o Option to disable selected ciphers 152 153 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: 154 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 155 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 156 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 157 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 158 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 159 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 160 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 161 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 162 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 163 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 164 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 165 o Overhauled Win32 builds 166 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 167 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 168 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 169 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 170 o Overhauled Perl interface 171 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 172 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 173 o Lots of bug fixes. 174 175 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: 176 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 177 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 178 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 179 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 180 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 181 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 182 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 183 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 184 o Support for various new platforms 185
| 60 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 61 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 62 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 63 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 64 o More documentation. 65 o New function BN_rand_range(). 66 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 67 68 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: 69 70 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 71 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 72 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 73 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 74 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 75 o MD4 now included. 76 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 77 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 78 o Enhanced EVP interface. 79 80 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 81 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 82 83 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: 84 85 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 86 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 87 o Support of Linux/IA64 88 o Assembler support for Mingw32 89 o New 'rand' application 90 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 91 92 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: 93 94 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 95 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 96 o Automation of 'req' application 97 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 98 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 99 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 100 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 101 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 102 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 103 o Usable certificate chain verification 104 o Certificate purpose checking 105 o Certificate trust settings 106 o Support of authority information access extension 107 o Extensions in certificate requests 108 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 109 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 110 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 111 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 112 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 113 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 114 data 115 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 116 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 117 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 118 RSA functionality 119 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 120 via a per-thread stack 121 o PRNG robustness improved 122 o EGD support 123 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 124 o Faster DSA parameter generation 125 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 126 o Experimental MacOS support 127 128 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: 129 130 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 131 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 132 form 133 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 134 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 135 o Avoid various memory leaks 136 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 137 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 138 139 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: 140 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 141 o RSA OEAP related fixes 142 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 143 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 144 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 145 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 146 extension support 147 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 148 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 149 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 150 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 151 o Option to disable selected ciphers 152 153 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: 154 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 155 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 156 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 157 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 158 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 159 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 160 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 161 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 162 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 163 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 164 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 165 o Overhauled Win32 builds 166 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 167 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 168 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 169 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 170 o Overhauled Perl interface 171 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 172 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 173 o Lots of bug fixes. 174 175 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: 176 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 177 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 178 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 179 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 180 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 181 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 182 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 183 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 184 o Support for various new platforms 185
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