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 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f:
10 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
11 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
13 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
14 selected at compile time.
17 o TLS Extensions support.
19 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e:
21 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
24 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d:
26 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
27 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
28 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
30 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c:
32 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
35 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b:
37 o Cipher string fixes.
38 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
39 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
40 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
41 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
42 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
43 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
45 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a:
47 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
48 o Extended Windows CE support
50 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8:
52 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
53 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
54 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
55 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
56 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
57 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
58 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
59 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
61 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
62 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
63 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
64 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
66 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
67 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
68 automatically from specifically given directories.
69 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
70 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
71 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
72 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
73 function and an argument.
74 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
75 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
77 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
78 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
79 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
80 constraints and name constraints.
81 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
83 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
84 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
85 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
86 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
87 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
88 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
89 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
91 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
92 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
93 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
94 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
96 o New control functions for the error stack.
97 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
99 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
100 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
101 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
102 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
104 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
105 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
106 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
107 of X.509 path validation.
108 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
110 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
111 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
112 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
113 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
115 o Added support for DTLS.
116 o New BIGNUM blinding.
117 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
118 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
119 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
120 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
121 o Added initial support for Win64.
122 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
124 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m:
126 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
127 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
129 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l:
131 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
132 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
134 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k:
136 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
138 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j:
140 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
141 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
143 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i:
145 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
147 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h:
149 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
150 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
151 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
153 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g:
155 o More compilation issues fixed.
156 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
157 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
158 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
159 o More constification.
160 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
162 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f:
164 o Several compilation issues fixed.
165 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
166 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
167 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
168 o Performance improvements.
170 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e:
172 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
173 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
175 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d:
177 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
178 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
179 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
180 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
181 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
183 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c:
185 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
186 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
187 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
188 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
190 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b:
192 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
193 Bleichbacher's attack
194 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
195 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
196 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
197 o Build: shared library support fixes.
198 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
199 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
201 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a:
203 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
204 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
205 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
206 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
207 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
208 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
209 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
210 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
212 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7:
214 o New library section OCSP.
215 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
216 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
217 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
218 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
219 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
220 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
221 a separate distribution.
222 o New elliptic curve library section.
223 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
224 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
225 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
226 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
227 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
228 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
229 o Support for pkg-config.
230 o Lots of new manuals.
231 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
233 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
234 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
235 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
237 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
238 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
239 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
240 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
242 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
243 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
244 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
245 Processing, IBM 4758.
246 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
247 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
248 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
249 EGD style random sources at several locations.
250 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
251 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
252 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
253 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
254 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
255 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
256 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
258 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k:
260 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
261 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
263 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j:
265 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
266 Bleichbacher's attack
267 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
268 o Build: shared library support fixes.
270 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i:
272 o Important security related bugfixes.
274 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h:
276 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
277 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
278 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
279 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
280 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
281 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
282 o Fixes for length problems.
283 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
284 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
285 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
286 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
288 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g:
290 o Important building fixes on Unix.
292 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f:
294 o Various important bugfixes.
296 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e:
298 o Important security related bugfixes.
299 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
301 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d:
303 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
304 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
306 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c:
308 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
309 o BIGNUM library fixes.
310 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
311 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
312 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
313 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
314 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
315 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
316 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
317 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
319 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b:
321 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
322 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
323 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
325 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
326 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
327 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
328 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
329 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
330 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
331 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
332 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
333 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
334 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
336 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a:
338 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
339 environment variables when running as root.
340 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
341 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
342 calculated signature.
343 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
344 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
345 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
346 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
347 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
348 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
349 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
350 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
351 memory checking routines.
352 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
353 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
354 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
355 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
356 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
357 o More documentation.
358 o New function BN_rand_range().
359 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
361 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6:
363 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
364 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
365 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
366 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
367 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
369 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
370 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
371 o Enhanced EVP interface.
373 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
374 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
376 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a:
378 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
379 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
380 o Support of Linux/IA64
381 o Assembler support for Mingw32
382 o New 'rand' application
383 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5:
387 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
388 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
389 o Automation of 'req' application
390 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
391 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
392 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
393 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
394 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
395 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
396 o Usable certificate chain verification
397 o Certificate purpose checking
398 o Certificate trust settings
399 o Support of authority information access extension
400 o Extensions in certificate requests
401 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
402 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
403 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
404 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
405 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
406 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
408 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
409 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
410 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
412 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
413 via a per-thread stack
414 o PRNG robustness improved
416 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
417 o Faster DSA parameter generation
418 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
419 o Experimental MacOS support
421 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4:
423 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
424 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
426 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
427 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
428 o Avoid various memory leaks
429 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
430 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
432 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
433 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
434 o RSA OEAP related fixes
435 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
436 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
437 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
438 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
440 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
441 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
442 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
443 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
444 o Option to disable selected ciphers
446 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
447 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
448 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
449 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
450 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
451 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
452 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
453 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
454 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
455 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
456 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
457 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
458 o Overhauled Win32 builds
459 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
460 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
461 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
462 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
463 o Overhauled Perl interface
464 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
465 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
468 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
469 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
470 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
471 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
472 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
473 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
474 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
475 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
476 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
477 o Support for various new platforms