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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 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015] 9 10 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571 11 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206 12 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569 13 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572 14 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204 15 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205 16 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275 17 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570 18 19 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014] 20 21 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 22 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 23 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) 24 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 25 26 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014] 27 28 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512 29 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511 30 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 31 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 32 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 33 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 34 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509 35 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139 36 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 37 38 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014] 39 40 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 41 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 42 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198 43 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 44 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 45 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 46 47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014] 48 49 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160 50 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers. 51 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 52 53 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014] 54 55 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values 56 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353 57 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449 58 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450 59 60 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]: 61 62 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169 63 64 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]: 65 66 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. 67 o Include the fips configuration module. 68 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 69 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 70 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686 71 72 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]: 73 74 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 75 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. 76 77 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]: 78 79 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. 80 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. 81 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 82 83 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]: 84 85 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 86 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. 87 o Fix SEGV in AES code. 88 89 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]: 90 91 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. 92 o SCTP support. 93 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. 94 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. 95 o Next Protocol Negotiation. 96 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. 97 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. 98 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. 99 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. 100 o SRP support. 101 102 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0j and OpenSSL 1.0.0k [5 Feb 2013]: 103 104 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 105 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 106 107 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0i and OpenSSL 1.0.0j [10 May 2012]: 108 109 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 110 111 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.0i [19 Apr 2012]: 112 113 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 114 115 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]: 116 117 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 118 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 119 o Various DTLS fixes. 120 121 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]: 122 123 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 124 125 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]: 126 127 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 128 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 129 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 130 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 131 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 132 133 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]: 134 135 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 136 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 137 o Protection against EC timing attacks. 138 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. 139 o Various DTLS fixes. 140 141 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]: 142 143 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 144 145 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]: 146 147 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 148 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 149 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. 150 o Fix various platform compilation issues. 151 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 152 153 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]: 154 155 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 156 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 157 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. 158 159 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]: 160 161 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. 162 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. 163 164 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]: 165 166 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. 167 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. 168 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. 169 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 170 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 171 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. 172 o ASN1 printing support. 173 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. 174 o RFC3161 time stamp support. 175 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. 176 o New generalised public key API utilities. 177 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. 178 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. 179 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. 180 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. 181 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. 182 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. 183 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. 184 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. 185 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. 186 187 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]: 188 189 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 190 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 191 192 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]: 193 194 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 195 196 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]: 197 198 o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110) 199 200 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]: 201 202 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 203 204 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]: 205 206 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 207 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 208 o Various DTLS fixes. 209 210 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]: 211 212 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 213 214 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]: 215 216 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 217 o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109 218 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 219 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 220 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 221 222 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]: 223 224 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 225 226 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]: 227 228 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 229 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 230 231 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]: 232 233 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. 234 235 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]: 236 237 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742. 238 o Various DTLS fixes. 239 o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added. 240 o Fix for no-rc4 compilation. 241 o Chil ENGINE unload workaround. 242 243 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: 244 245 o CFB cipher definition fixes. 246 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. 247 248 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: 249 250 o Cipher definition fixes. 251 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. 252 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. 253 o SPKAC handling fixes. 254 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. 255 o Compression memory leak fixed. 256 o Compression session resumption fixed. 257 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. 258 o Many fixes to DTLS handling. 259 260 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: 261 262 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. 263 264 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: 265 266 o Fix various build issues. 267 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) 268 269 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: 270 271 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) 272 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. 273 274 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: 275 276 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. 277 o Various precautionary measures. 278 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. 279 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. 280 281 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: 282 283 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. 284 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. 285 286 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: 287 288 o Add gcc 4.2 support. 289 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization 290 for VC++ build. 291 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly 292 selected at compile time. 293 o DTLS improvements. 294 o RFC4507bis support. 295 o TLS Extensions support. 296 297 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: 298 299 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 300 o RFC3779 support. 301 302 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: 303 304 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 305 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 306 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm 307 308 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: 309 310 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 311 o New cipher Camellia 312 313 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: 314 315 o Cipher string fixes. 316 o Fixes for VC++ 2005. 317 o Updated ECC cipher suite support. 318 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). 319 o Zlib compression usage fixes. 320 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. 321 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. 322 323 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: 324 325 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 326 o Extended Windows CE support 327 328 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: 329 330 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to 331 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This 332 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. 333 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST 334 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. 335 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including 336 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. 337 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL 338 configuration file. 339 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. 340 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. 341 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking 342 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate 343 Makefile.shared. 344 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. 345 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules 346 automatically from specifically given directories. 347 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. 348 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. 349 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" 350 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker 351 function and an argument. 352 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). 353 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 354 Nehemiah processors. 355 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. 356 See RFC 1884, section 2.2. 357 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy 358 constraints and name constraints. 359 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL 360 configuration file. 361 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject 362 in the 'openssl ca' index file. 363 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using 364 'openssl ca -selfsign'. 365 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with 366 'openssl ca -create_serial'. 367 o New binary search functions with extended functionality. 368 o New BUF functions. 369 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all 370 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and 371 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. 372 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing 373 OpenSSL. 374 o New control functions for the error stack. 375 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME 376 processing. 377 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated 378 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the 379 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. 380 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other 381 affected functions. 382 o Improved platform support for PowerPC. 383 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). 384 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation 385 of X.509 path validation. 386 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and 387 AMD64. 388 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled 389 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new 390 argument form 'enable-xxx'. 391 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to 392 SHA-1. 393 o Added support for DTLS. 394 o New BIGNUM blinding. 395 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme 396 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. 397 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. 398 o Added support for files larger than 2GB. 399 o Added initial support for Win64. 400 o Added alternate pkg-config files. 401 402 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: 403 404 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. 405 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. 406 407 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: 408 409 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) 410 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) 411 412 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: 413 414 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 415 416 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: 417 418 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. 419 o Update Windows build system for FIPS. 420 421 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: 422 423 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. 424 425 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: 426 427 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 428 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing 429 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations 430 431 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: 432 433 o More compilation issues fixed. 434 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. 435 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. 436 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. 437 o More constification. 438 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). 439 440 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: 441 442 o Several compilation issues fixed. 443 o Many memory allocation failure checks added. 444 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. 445 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. 446 o Performance improvements. 447 448 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: 449 450 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. 451 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. 452 453 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: 454 455 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 456 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 457 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 458 o Multiple X509 verification fixes 459 o Speed up HMAC and other operations 460 461 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: 462 463 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 464 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 465 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 466 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 467 468 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: 469 470 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 471 Bleichbacher's attack 472 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 473 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 474 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 475 o Build: shared library support fixes. 476 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 477 o Documentation: fixes and additions. 478 479 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: 480 481 o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 482 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 483 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 484 o IA32 assembler enhancements. 485 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 486 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 487 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 488 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 489 490 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: 491 492 o New library section OCSP. 493 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 494 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 495 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 496 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 497 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 498 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 499 a separate distribution. 500 o New elliptic curve library section. 501 o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 502 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 503 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 504 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 505 o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 506 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 507 o Support for pkg-config. 508 o Lots of new manuals. 509 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 510 functions. 511 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 512 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 513 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 514 future). 515 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 516 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 517 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 518 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 519 and help optimizers. 520 o Finally remove references to RSAref. 521 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 522 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 523 Processing, IBM 4758. 524 o A few new engines added in the demos area. 525 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 526 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 527 EGD style random sources at several locations. 528 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 529 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 530 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 531 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 532 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 533 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 534 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 535 536 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: 537 538 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 539 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 540 541 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: 542 543 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 544 Bleichbacher's attack 545 o Security: make RSA blinding default. 546 o Build: shared library support fixes. 547 548 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: 549 550 o Important security related bugfixes. 551 552 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: 553 554 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 555 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 556 o Better handling of SSL session caching. 557 o Better comparison of distinguished names. 558 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 559 o Support assembler code with Borland C. 560 o Fixes for length problems. 561 o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 562 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 563 o Fixes for smaller building problems. 564 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 565 566 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: 567 568 o Important building fixes on Unix. 569 570 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: 571 572 o Various important bugfixes. 573 574 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: 575 576 o Important security related bugfixes. 577 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 578 579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: 580 581 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 582 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 583 584 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: 585 586 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 587 o BIGNUM library fixes. 588 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 589 o Object identifiers corrected and added. 590 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 591 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 592 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 593 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 594 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 595 [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 596 597 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: 598 599 o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 600 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 601 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 602 attack. 603 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 604 o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 605 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 606 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 607 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 608 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 609 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 610 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 611 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 612 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 613 614 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: 615 616 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 617 environment variables when running as root. 618 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 619 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 620 calculated signature. 621 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 622 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 623 master secret in DH ciphersuites. 624 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 625 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 626 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 627 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 628 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 629 memory checking routines. 630 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 631 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 632 o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 633 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 634 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 635 o More documentation. 636 o New function BN_rand_range(). 637 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 638 639 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: 640 641 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 642 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 643 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 644 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 645 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 646 o MD4 now included. 647 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 648 o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 649 o Enhanced EVP interface. 650 651 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 652 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 653 654 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: 655 656 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 657 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 658 o Support of Linux/IA64 659 o Assembler support for Mingw32 660 o New 'rand' application 661 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 662 663 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: 664 665 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 666 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 667 o Automation of 'req' application 668 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 669 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 670 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 671 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 672 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 673 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 674 o Usable certificate chain verification 675 o Certificate purpose checking 676 o Certificate trust settings 677 o Support of authority information access extension 678 o Extensions in certificate requests 679 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 680 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 681 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 682 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 683 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 684 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 685 data 686 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 687 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 688 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 689 RSA functionality 690 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 691 via a per-thread stack 692 o PRNG robustness improved 693 o EGD support 694 o BIGNUM library bug fixes 695 o Faster DSA parameter generation 696 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 697 o Experimental MacOS support 698 699 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: 700 701 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 702 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 703 form 704 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 705 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 706 o Avoid various memory leaks 707 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 708 must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 709 710 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: 711 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 712 o RSA OEAP related fixes 713 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 714 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 715 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 716 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 717 extension support 718 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 719 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 720 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 721 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 722 o Option to disable selected ciphers 723 724 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: 725 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 726 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 727 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 728 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 729 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 730 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 731 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 732 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 733 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 734 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 735 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 736 o Overhauled Win32 builds 737 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 738 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 739 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 740 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 741 o Overhauled Perl interface 742 o Lots of source tree cleanups. 743 o Lots of memory leak fixes. 744 o Lots of bug fixes. 745 746 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: 747 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 748 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 749 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 750 o Extended Big Number (BN) library 751 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 752 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 753 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 754 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 755 o Support for various new platforms 756 757