NEWS revision 205128
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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 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m:
9
10      o Cipher definition fixes.
11      o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
12      o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
13      o SPKAC handling fixes.
14      o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
15      o Compression memory leak fixed.
16      o Compression session resumption fixed.
17      o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
18      o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 
19
20  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l:
21
22      o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
23
24  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k:
25
26      o Fix various build issues.
27      o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
28
29  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j:
30
31      o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
32      o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
33
34  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h:
35
36      o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
37      o Various precautionary measures.
38      o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
39      o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
40
41  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g:
42
43      o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
44      o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
45
46  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f:
47
48      o Add gcc 4.2 support.
49      o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
50        for VC++ build.
51      o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 
52        selected at compile time.
53      o DTLS improvements.
54      o RFC4507bis support.
55      o TLS Extensions support.
56
57  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e:
58
59      o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
60      o RFC3779 support.
61
62  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d:
63
64      o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
65      o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
66      o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
67
68  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c:
69
70      o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
71      o New cipher Camellia
72
73  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b:
74
75      o Cipher string fixes.
76      o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
77      o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
78      o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
79      o Zlib compression usage fixes.
80      o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
81      o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
82
83  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a:
84
85      o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
86      o Extended Windows CE support
87
88  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8:
89
90      o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
91        make operations more streamlined and less contradictory.  This
92        is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
93      o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
94        curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
95      o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
96        the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
97      o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
98        configuration file.
99      o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
100      o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
101      o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
102        programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
103        Makefile.shared.
104      o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
105      o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
106        automatically from specifically given directories.
107      o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
108      o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
109      o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
110        mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
111        function and an argument.
112      o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
113      o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
114        Nehemiah processors.
115      o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
116        See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
117      o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
118        constraints and name constraints.
119      o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
120        configuration file.
121      o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
122        in the 'openssl ca' index file.
123      o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
124        'openssl ca -selfsign'.
125      o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
126        'openssl ca -create_serial'.
127      o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
128      o New BUF functions.
129      o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
130        sorts of data repositories.  Supports storage of public and
131        private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
132	This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
133	OpenSSL.
134      o New control functions for the error stack.
135      o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
136        processing.
137      o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
138        functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
139        'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
140      o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
141        affected functions.
142      o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
143      o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
144      o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
145        of X.509 path validation.
146      o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
147        AMD64.
148      o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
149        by default.  Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
150        argument form 'enable-xxx'.
151      o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
152        SHA-1.
153      o Added support for DTLS.
154      o New BIGNUM blinding.
155      o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
156      o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
157      o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
158      o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
159      o Added initial support for Win64.
160      o Added alternate pkg-config files.
161
162  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l:
163
164      o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
165      o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
166
167  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k:
168
169      o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
170
171  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j:
172
173      o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
174      o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
175
176  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i:
177
178      o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
179
180  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h:
181
182      o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
183      o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
184      o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
185
186  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g:
187
188      o More compilation issues fixed.
189      o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
190      o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
191      o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
192      o More constification.
193      o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
194
195  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f:
196
197      o Several compilation issues fixed.
198      o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
199      o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
200      o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
201      o Performance improvements.
202
203  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e:
204
205      o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
206      o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
207
208  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d:
209
210      o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
211      o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
212      o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
213      o Multiple X509 verification fixes
214      o Speed up HMAC and other operations
215
216  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c:
217
218      o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
219      o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
220      o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
221      o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
222
223  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b:
224
225      o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
226        Bleichbacher's attack 
227      o Security: make RSA blinding default.
228      o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
229      o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
230      o Build: shared library support fixes.
231      o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
232      o Documentation: fixes and additions.
233
234  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a:
235
236      o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
237      o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
238      o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
239      o IA32 assembler enhancements.
240      o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
241      o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
242      o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
243      o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
244
245  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7:
246
247      o New library section OCSP.
248      o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
249      o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
250      o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
251      o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
252      o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
253      o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
254        a separate distribution.
255      o New elliptic curve library section.
256      o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
257      o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
258        Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
259      o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
260      o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
261      o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
262      o Support for pkg-config.
263      o Lots of new manuals.
264      o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
265        functions.
266      o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
267        against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
268        Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
269        future).
270      o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
271        to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
272      o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
273      o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
274        and help optimizers.
275      o Finally remove references to RSAref.
276      o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
277      o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
278        Processing, IBM 4758.
279      o A few new engines added in the demos area.
280      o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
281      o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
282        EGD style random sources at several locations.
283      o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
284      o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
285      o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
286	Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
287      o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
288      o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
289      o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
290
291  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k:
292
293      o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
294      o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
295
296  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j:
297
298      o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
299        Bleichbacher's attack 
300      o Security: make RSA blinding default.
301      o Build: shared library support fixes.
302
303  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i:
304
305      o Important security related bugfixes.
306
307  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h:
308
309      o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
310      o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
311      o Better handling of SSL session caching.
312      o Better comparison of distinguished names.
313      o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
314      o Support assembler code with Borland C.
315      o Fixes for length problems.
316      o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
317      o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
318      o Fixes for smaller building problems.
319      o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
320
321  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g:
322
323      o Important building fixes on Unix.
324
325  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f:
326
327      o Various important bugfixes.
328
329  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e:
330
331      o Important security related bugfixes.
332      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
333
334  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d:
335
336      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
337      o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
338
339  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c:
340
341      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
342      o BIGNUM library fixes.
343      o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
344      o Object identifiers corrected and added.
345      o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
346      o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
347        MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
348      o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
349        Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
350        [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
351
352  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b:
353
354      o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
355      o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
356      o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
357        attack.
358      o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
359      o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
360      o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
361      o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
362      o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
363      o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
364      o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
365      o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
366      o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
367      o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
368
369  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a:
370
371      o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
372        environment variables when running as root.
373      o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
374        possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
375        calculated signature.
376      o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
377      o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
378        master secret in DH ciphersuites.
379      o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
380      o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
381        des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
382      o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
383      o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
384        memory checking routines.
385      o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
386      o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
387      o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
388      o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
389      o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
390      o More documentation.
391      o New function BN_rand_range().
392      o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
393
394  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6:
395
396      o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
397      o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
398      o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
399      o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
400      o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
401      o MD4 now included.
402      o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
403      o Support for external crypto devices [1].
404      o Enhanced EVP interface.
405
406    [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
407        distribution.  See the file README.ENGINE.
408
409  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a:
410
411      o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 
412      o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
413      o Support of Linux/IA64
414      o Assembler support for Mingw32
415      o New 'rand' application
416      o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
417
418  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5:
419
420      o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
421      o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
422      o Automation of 'req' application
423      o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
424      o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
425      o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
426      o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
427      o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
428      o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
429      o Usable certificate chain verification
430      o Certificate purpose checking
431      o Certificate trust settings
432      o Support of authority information access extension
433      o Extensions in certificate requests
434      o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
435      o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
436      o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
437      o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
438      o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
439        record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
440        data
441      o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
442      o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
443      o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
444        RSA functionality
445      o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
446        via a per-thread stack
447      o PRNG robustness improved
448      o EGD support
449      o BIGNUM library bug fixes
450      o Faster DSA parameter generation
451      o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
452      o Experimental MacOS support
453
454  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4:
455
456      o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
457        by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
458        form
459      o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
460      o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
461      o Avoid various memory leaks
462      o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
463        must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
464
465  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
466      o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
467      o RSA OEAP related fixes
468      o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
469      o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
470      o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
471      o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
472        extension support
473      o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
474      o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
475      o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
476      o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
477      o Option to disable selected ciphers
478
479  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
480      o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
481      o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
482      o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
483      o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
484      o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
485      o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
486      o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
487      o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
488      o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
489      o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
490      o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
491      o Overhauled Win32 builds
492      o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
493      o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
494      o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
495      o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
496      o Overhauled Perl interface
497      o Lots of source tree cleanups.
498      o Lots of memory leak fixes.
499      o Lots of bug fixes.
500
501  Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
502      o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
503      o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
504      o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
505      o Extended Big Number (BN) library
506      o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
507      o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
508      o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
509      o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
510      o Support for various new platforms
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512