1*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 2*0Sstevel@tonic-gate NEWS 3*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ==== 4*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 5*0Sstevel@tonic-gate This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL 6*0Sstevel@tonic-gate release. For more details please read the CHANGES file. 7*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 8*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d: 9*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 10*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug 11*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() 12*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index 13*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Multiple X590 verification fixes 14*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Speed up HMAC and other operations 15*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 16*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c: 17*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 18*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 19*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. 20*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. 21*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 22*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 23*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b: 24*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 25*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 26*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Bleichbacher's attack 27*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: make RSA blinding default. 28*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. 29*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. 30*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Build: shared library support fixes. 31*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. 32*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Documentation: fixes and additions. 33*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 34*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a: 35*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 36*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: Important security related bugfixes. 37*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. 38*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. 39*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o IA32 assembler enhancements. 40*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. 41*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. 42*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. 43*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. 44*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 45*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: 46*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 47*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New library section OCSP. 48*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. 49*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. 50*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. 51*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. 52*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. 53*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer 54*0Sstevel@tonic-gate a separate distribution. 55*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New elliptic curve library section. 56*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New AES (Rijndael) library section. 57*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, 58*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 59*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks 60*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Enhanced support for shared libraries. 61*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. 62*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for pkg-config. 63*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Lots of new manuals. 64*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described 65*0Sstevel@tonic-gate functions. 66*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also 67*0Sstevel@tonic-gate against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). 68*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the 69*0Sstevel@tonic-gate future). 70*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) 71*0Sstevel@tonic-gate to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. 72*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. 73*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking 74*0Sstevel@tonic-gate and help optimizers. 75*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Finally remove references to RSAref. 76*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. 77*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption 78*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Processing, IBM 4758. 79*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o A few new engines added in the demos area. 80*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. 81*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for 82*0Sstevel@tonic-gate EGD style random sources at several locations. 83*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. 84*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. 85*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). 86*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. 87*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. 88*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. 89*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). 90*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 91*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k: 92*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 93*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. 94*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. 95*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 96*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j: 97*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 98*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of 99*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Bleichbacher's attack 100*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security: make RSA blinding default. 101*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Build: shared library support fixes. 102*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 103*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i: 104*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 105*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Important security related bugfixes. 106*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 107*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h: 108*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 109*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. 110*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. 111*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Better handling of SSL session caching. 112*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Better comparison of distinguished names. 113*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. 114*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support assembler code with Borland C. 115*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixes for length problems. 116*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixes for uninitialised variables. 117*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. 118*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixes for smaller building problems. 119*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. 120*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 121*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g: 122*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 123*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Important building fixes on Unix. 124*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 125*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f: 126*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 127*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Various important bugfixes. 128*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 129*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e: 130*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 131*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Important security related bugfixes. 132*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 133*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 134*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: 135*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 136*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 137*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. 138*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 139*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: 140*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 141*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. 142*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o BIGNUM library fixes. 143*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. 144*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Object identifiers corrected and added. 145*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. 146*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, 147*0Sstevel@tonic-gate MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. 148*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, 149*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver 150*0Sstevel@tonic-gate [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. 151*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 152*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: 153*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 154*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: PRNG improvements. 155*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. 156*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's 157*0Sstevel@tonic-gate attack. 158*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. 159*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix in "openssl enc". 160*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. 161*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. 162*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. 163*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). 164*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. 165*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. 166*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. 167*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. 168*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 169*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: 170*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 171*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using 172*0Sstevel@tonic-gate environment variables when running as root. 173*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the 174*0Sstevel@tonic-gate possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly 175*0Sstevel@tonic-gate calculated signature. 176*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. 177*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the 178*0Sstevel@tonic-gate master secret in DH ciphersuites. 179*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. 180*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to 181*0Sstevel@tonic-gate des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. 182*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. 183*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and 184*0Sstevel@tonic-gate memory checking routines. 185*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. 186*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. 187*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Remove a few potential memory leaks. 188*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. 189*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. 190*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o More documentation. 191*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New function BN_rand_range(). 192*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. 193*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 194*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: 195*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 196*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. 197*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. 198*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. 199*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. 200*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. 201*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o MD4 now included. 202*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. 203*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for external crypto devices [1]. 204*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Enhanced EVP interface. 205*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 206*0Sstevel@tonic-gate [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate 207*0Sstevel@tonic-gate distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. 208*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 209*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: 210*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 211*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 212*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc 213*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support of Linux/IA64 214*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Assembler support for Mingw32 215*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New 'rand' application 216*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts 217*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 218*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: 219*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 220*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command 221*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application 222*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Automation of 'req' application 223*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows 224*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs 225*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions 226*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources 227*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New public key PEM format and options to handle it 228*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities 229*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Usable certificate chain verification 230*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Certificate purpose checking 231*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Certificate trust settings 232*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support of authority information access extension 233*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extensions in certificate requests 234*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines 235*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets 236*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD 237*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function 238*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 239*0Sstevel@tonic-gate record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other 240*0Sstevel@tonic-gate data 241*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC 242*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug 243*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other 244*0Sstevel@tonic-gate RSA functionality 245*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information 246*0Sstevel@tonic-gate via a per-thread stack 247*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o PRNG robustness improved 248*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o EGD support 249*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o BIGNUM library bug fixes 250*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Faster DSA parameter generation 251*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux 252*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Experimental MacOS support 253*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 254*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: 255*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 256*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used 257*0Sstevel@tonic-gate by several software packages and are more secure than the standard 258*0Sstevel@tonic-gate form 259*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation 260*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data 261*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Avoid various memory leaks 262*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O 263*0Sstevel@tonic-gate must be handled by the application (BIO pair) 264*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 265*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: 266*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism 267*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o RSA OEAP related fixes 268*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate 269*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs 270*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files 271*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points 272*0Sstevel@tonic-gate extension support 273*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support 274*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString 275*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Full integration of PKCS#12 code 276*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions 277*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Option to disable selected ciphers 278*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 279*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: 280*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption 281*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case 282*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" 283*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher 284*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA 285*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers 286*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) 287*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. 288*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) 289*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions 290*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer 291*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Overhauled Win32 builds 292*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library 293*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime 294*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs 295*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences 296*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Overhauled Perl interface 297*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Lots of source tree cleanups. 298*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Lots of memory leak fixes. 299*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Lots of bug fixes. 300*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 301*0Sstevel@tonic-gate Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: 302*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches 303*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer 304*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality 305*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended Big Number (BN) library 306*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Added RIPE MD160 message digest 307*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher 308*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Extended ASN.1 parser routines 309*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS 310*0Sstevel@tonic-gate o Support for various new platforms 311*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 312