5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
8 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
9 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
10 o RSA OEAP related fixes
11 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
12 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
13 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
14 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
16 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
17 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
18 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
19 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
20 o Option to disable selected ciphers
22 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
23 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
24 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
25 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
26 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
27 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
28 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
29 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
30 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
31 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
32 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
33 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
34 o Overhauled Win32 builds
35 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
36 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
37 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
38 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
39 o Overhauled Perl interface
40 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
41 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
44 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
45 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
46 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
47 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
48 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
49 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
50 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
51 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
52 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
53 o Support for various new platforms