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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 0.9.8y and OpenSSL 0.9.8za [5 Jun 2014]:
9
10      o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
11      o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
12      o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
13      o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
14      o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
15      o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
16      o Fix to TLS alert handling.
17
18  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]:
19
20      o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
21      o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
22
23  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]:
24
25      o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
26
27  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]:
28
29      o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110)
30
31  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]:
32
33      o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
34
35  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]:
36
37      o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
38      o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
39      o Various DTLS fixes.
40
41  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]:
42
43      o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
44
45  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]:
46
47      o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
48      o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109
49      o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
50      o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
51      o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
52
53  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]:
54
55      o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
56
57  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]:
58
59      o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
60      o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
61
62  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]:
63
64      o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
65
66  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]:
67
68      o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742.
69      o Various DTLS fixes.
70      o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added.
71      o Fix for no-rc4 compilation.
72      o Chil ENGINE unload workaround.
73
74  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
75
76      o CFB cipher definition fixes.
77      o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
78
79  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
80
81      o Cipher definition fixes.
82      o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
83      o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
84      o SPKAC handling fixes.
85      o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
86      o Compression memory leak fixed.
87      o Compression session resumption fixed.
88      o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
89      o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 
90
91  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
92
93      o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
94
95  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
96
97      o Fix various build issues.
98      o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
99
100  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
101
102      o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
103      o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
104
105  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
106
107      o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
108      o Various precautionary measures.
109      o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
110      o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
111
112  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
113
114      o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
115      o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
116
117  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
118
119      o Add gcc 4.2 support.
120      o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
121        for VC++ build.
122      o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 
123        selected at compile time.
124      o DTLS improvements.
125      o RFC4507bis support.
126      o TLS Extensions support.
127
128  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
129
130      o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
131      o RFC3779 support.
132
133  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
134
135      o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
136      o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
137      o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
138
139  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
140
141      o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
142      o New cipher Camellia
143
144  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
145
146      o Cipher string fixes.
147      o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
148      o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
149      o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
150      o Zlib compression usage fixes.
151      o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
152      o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
153
154  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
155
156      o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
157      o Extended Windows CE support
158
159  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
160
161      o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
162        make operations more streamlined and less contradictory.  This
163        is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
164      o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
165        curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
166      o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
167        the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
168      o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
169        configuration file.
170      o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
171      o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
172      o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
173        programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
174        Makefile.shared.
175      o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
176      o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
177        automatically from specifically given directories.
178      o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
179      o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
180      o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
181        mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
182        function and an argument.
183      o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
184      o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
185        Nehemiah processors.
186      o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
187        See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
188      o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
189        constraints and name constraints.
190      o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
191        configuration file.
192      o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
193        in the 'openssl ca' index file.
194      o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
195        'openssl ca -selfsign'.
196      o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
197        'openssl ca -create_serial'.
198      o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
199      o New BUF functions.
200      o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
201        sorts of data repositories.  Supports storage of public and
202        private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
203	This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
204	OpenSSL.
205      o New control functions for the error stack.
206      o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
207        processing.
208      o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
209        functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
210        'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
211      o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
212        affected functions.
213      o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
214      o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
215      o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
216        of X.509 path validation.
217      o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
218        AMD64.
219      o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
220        by default.  Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
221        argument form 'enable-xxx'.
222      o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
223        SHA-1.
224      o Added support for DTLS.
225      o New BIGNUM blinding.
226      o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
227      o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
228      o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
229      o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
230      o Added initial support for Win64.
231      o Added alternate pkg-config files.
232
233  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
234
235      o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
236      o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
237
238  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
239
240      o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS  (CVE-2006-2940)
241      o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
242
243  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
244
245      o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
246
247  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
248
249      o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
250      o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
251
252  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
253
254      o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
255
256  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
257
258      o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
259      o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
260      o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
261
262  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
263
264      o More compilation issues fixed.
265      o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
266      o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
267      o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
268      o More constification.
269      o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
270
271  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
272
273      o Several compilation issues fixed.
274      o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
275      o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
276      o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
277      o Performance improvements.
278
279  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
280
281      o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
282      o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
283
284  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
285
286      o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
287      o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
288      o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
289      o Multiple X509 verification fixes
290      o Speed up HMAC and other operations
291
292  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
293
294      o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
295      o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
296      o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
297      o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
298
299  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
300
301      o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
302        Bleichbacher's attack 
303      o Security: make RSA blinding default.
304      o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
305      o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
306      o Build: shared library support fixes.
307      o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
308      o Documentation: fixes and additions.
309
310  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
311
312      o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
313      o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
314      o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
315      o IA32 assembler enhancements.
316      o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
317      o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
318      o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
319      o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
320
321  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
322
323      o New library section OCSP.
324      o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
325      o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
326      o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
327      o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
328      o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
329      o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
330        a separate distribution.
331      o New elliptic curve library section.
332      o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
333      o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
334        Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
335      o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
336      o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
337      o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
338      o Support for pkg-config.
339      o Lots of new manuals.
340      o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
341        functions.
342      o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
343        against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
344        Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
345        future).
346      o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
347        to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
348      o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
349      o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
350        and help optimizers.
351      o Finally remove references to RSAref.
352      o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
353      o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
354        Processing, IBM 4758.
355      o A few new engines added in the demos area.
356      o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
357      o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
358        EGD style random sources at several locations.
359      o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
360      o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
361      o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
362	Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
363      o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
364      o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
365      o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
366
367  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
368
369      o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
370      o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
371
372  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
373
374      o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
375        Bleichbacher's attack 
376      o Security: make RSA blinding default.
377      o Build: shared library support fixes.
378
379  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
380
381      o Important security related bugfixes.
382
383  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
384
385      o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
386      o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
387      o Better handling of SSL session caching.
388      o Better comparison of distinguished names.
389      o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
390      o Support assembler code with Borland C.
391      o Fixes for length problems.
392      o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
393      o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
394      o Fixes for smaller building problems.
395      o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
396
397  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
398
399      o Important building fixes on Unix.
400
401  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
402
403      o Various important bugfixes.
404
405  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
406
407      o Important security related bugfixes.
408      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
409
410  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
411
412      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
413      o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
414
415  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
416
417      o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
418      o BIGNUM library fixes.
419      o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
420      o Object identifiers corrected and added.
421      o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
422      o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
423        MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
424      o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
425        Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
426        [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
427
428  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
429
430      o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
431      o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
432      o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
433        attack.
434      o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
435      o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
436      o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
437      o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
438      o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
439      o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
440      o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
441      o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
442      o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
443      o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
444
445  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
446
447      o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
448        environment variables when running as root.
449      o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
450        possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
451        calculated signature.
452      o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
453      o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
454        master secret in DH ciphersuites.
455      o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
456      o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
457        des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
458      o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
459      o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
460        memory checking routines.
461      o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
462      o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
463      o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
464      o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
465      o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
466      o More documentation.
467      o New function BN_rand_range().
468      o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
469
470  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
471
472      o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
473      o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
474      o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
475      o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
476      o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
477      o MD4 now included.
478      o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
479      o Support for external crypto devices [1].
480      o Enhanced EVP interface.
481
482    [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
483        distribution.  See the file README.ENGINE.
484
485  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
486
487      o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 
488      o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
489      o Support of Linux/IA64
490      o Assembler support for Mingw32
491      o New 'rand' application
492      o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
493
494  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
495
496      o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
497      o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
498      o Automation of 'req' application
499      o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
500      o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
501      o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
502      o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
503      o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
504      o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
505      o Usable certificate chain verification
506      o Certificate purpose checking
507      o Certificate trust settings
508      o Support of authority information access extension
509      o Extensions in certificate requests
510      o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
511      o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
512      o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
513      o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
514      o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
515        record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
516        data
517      o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
518      o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
519      o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
520        RSA functionality
521      o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
522        via a per-thread stack
523      o PRNG robustness improved
524      o EGD support
525      o BIGNUM library bug fixes
526      o Faster DSA parameter generation
527      o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
528      o Experimental MacOS support
529
530  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
531
532      o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
533        by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
534        form
535      o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
536      o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
537      o Avoid various memory leaks
538      o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
539        must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
540
541  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
542      o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
543      o RSA OEAP related fixes
544      o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
545      o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
546      o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
547      o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
548        extension support
549      o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
550      o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
551      o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
552      o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
553      o Option to disable selected ciphers
554
555  Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
556      o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
557      o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
558      o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
559      o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
560      o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
561      o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
562      o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
563      o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
564      o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
565      o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
566      o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
567      o Overhauled Win32 builds
568      o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
569      o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
570      o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
571      o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
572      o Overhauled Perl interface
573      o Lots of source tree cleanups.
574      o Lots of memory leak fixes.
575      o Lots of bug fixes.
576
577  Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
578      o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
579      o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
580      o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
581      o Extended Big Number (BN) library
582      o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
583      o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
584      o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
585      o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
586      o Support for various new platforms
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