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 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
11 o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
12 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
14 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
16 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
18 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
20 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
21 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
25 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
29 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
31 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
33 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
34 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
35 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
37 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
39 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
40 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
41 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
43 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
45 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
47 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
49 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
50 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
51 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
53 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
56 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
58 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
59 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
60 o Added support for "pipelining"
61 o Added the AFALG engine
62 o New threading API implemented
63 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
64 o Support for extended master secret
66 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
67 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
69 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
70 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
71 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
72 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
73 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
74 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
75 o libssl internal structures made opaque
76 o SSLv2 support removed
77 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
78 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
79 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
80 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
81 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
82 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
83 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
84 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
85 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
86 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
87 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
88 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
89 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
90 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
91 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
92 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
93 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
94 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
95 o New "unified" build system
97 o Support for scrypt algorithm
99 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
100 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
101 o Support for Certificate Transparency
104 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
106 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
107 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
108 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
109 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
110 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
111 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
112 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
113 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
115 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
117 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
119 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
120 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
122 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
123 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
125 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
127 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
128 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
130 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
132 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
133 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
135 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
137 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
138 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
139 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
140 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
141 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
144 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
146 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
147 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
149 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
151 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
153 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
155 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
156 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
157 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
158 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
159 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
161 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
163 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
164 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
165 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
166 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
167 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
168 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
169 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
170 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
171 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
172 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
173 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
174 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
175 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
177 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
179 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
180 o Support for DTLS 1.2
181 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
182 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
183 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
184 o TLS Brainpool support.
186 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
190 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
192 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
194 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
195 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
196 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
198 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
199 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
200 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
203 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
205 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
206 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
207 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
208 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
210 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
212 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
214 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
217 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
218 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
219 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
222 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
224 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
225 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
226 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
227 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
228 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
229 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
231 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
233 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
234 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
235 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
237 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
239 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
240 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
241 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
242 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
244 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
246 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
248 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
250 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
251 o Include the fips configuration module.
252 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
253 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
254 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
256 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
258 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
259 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
261 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
263 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
264 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
265 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
267 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
269 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
270 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
271 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
273 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
275 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
277 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
278 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
279 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
280 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
281 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
282 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
283 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
286 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
288 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
289 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
290 o Various DTLS fixes.
292 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
294 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
296 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
298 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
299 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
300 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
301 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
302 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
304 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
306 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
307 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
308 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
309 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
310 o Various DTLS fixes.
312 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
314 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
316 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
318 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
319 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
320 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
321 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
322 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
324 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
326 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
327 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
328 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
330 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
332 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
333 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
335 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
337 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
338 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
339 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
340 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
341 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
342 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
343 o ASN1 printing support.
344 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
345 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
346 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
347 o New generalised public key API utilities.
348 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
349 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
350 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
351 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
352 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
353 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
354 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
355 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
356 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
358 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
360 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
361 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
363 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
365 o Cipher definition fixes.
366 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
367 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
368 o SPKAC handling fixes.
369 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
370 o Compression memory leak fixed.
371 o Compression session resumption fixed.
372 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
373 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
377 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
379 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
381 o Fix various build issues.
382 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
384 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
386 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
387 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
389 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
391 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
392 o Various precautionary measures.
393 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
394 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
396 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
398 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
399 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
401 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
403 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
404 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
406 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
407 selected at compile time.
409 o RFC4507bis support.
410 o TLS Extensions support.
412 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
414 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
417 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
419 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
420 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
421 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
423 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
425 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
426 o New cipher Camellia
428 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
430 o Cipher string fixes.
431 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
432 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
433 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
434 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
435 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
436 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
438 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
440 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
441 o Extended Windows CE support
443 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
445 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
446 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
447 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
448 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
449 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
450 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
451 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
452 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
454 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
455 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
456 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
457 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
459 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
460 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
461 automatically from specifically given directories.
462 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
463 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
464 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
465 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
466 function and an argument.
467 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
468 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
470 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
471 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
472 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
473 constraints and name constraints.
474 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
476 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
477 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
478 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
479 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
480 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
481 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
482 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
484 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
485 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
486 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
487 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
489 o New control functions for the error stack.
490 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
492 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
493 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
494 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
495 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
497 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
498 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
499 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
500 of X.509 path validation.
501 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
503 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
504 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
505 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
506 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
508 o Added support for DTLS.
509 o New BIGNUM blinding.
510 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
511 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
512 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
513 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
514 o Added initial support for Win64.
515 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
517 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
519 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
520 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
522 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
524 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
525 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
527 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
529 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
533 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
534 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
536 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
538 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
540 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
542 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
543 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
544 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
546 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
548 o More compilation issues fixed.
549 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
550 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
551 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
552 o More constification.
553 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
555 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
557 o Several compilation issues fixed.
558 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
559 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
560 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
561 o Performance improvements.
563 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
565 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
566 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
568 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
570 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
571 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
572 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
573 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
574 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
576 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
578 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
579 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
580 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
581 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
583 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
585 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
586 Bleichbacher's attack
587 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
588 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
589 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
590 o Build: shared library support fixes.
591 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
592 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
594 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
596 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
597 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
598 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
599 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
600 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
601 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
602 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
603 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
605 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
607 o New library section OCSP.
608 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
609 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
610 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
611 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
612 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
613 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
614 a separate distribution.
615 o New elliptic curve library section.
616 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
617 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
618 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
619 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
620 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
621 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
622 o Support for pkg-config.
623 o Lots of new manuals.
624 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
626 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
627 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
628 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
630 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
631 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
632 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
633 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
635 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
636 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
637 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
638 Processing, IBM 4758.
639 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
640 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
641 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
642 EGD style random sources at several locations.
643 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
644 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
645 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
646 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
647 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
648 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
649 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
651 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
653 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
654 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
656 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
658 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
659 Bleichbacher's attack
660 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
661 o Build: shared library support fixes.
663 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
665 o Important security related bugfixes.
667 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
669 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
670 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
671 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
672 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
673 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
674 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
675 o Fixes for length problems.
676 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
677 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
678 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
679 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
683 o Important building fixes on Unix.
685 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
687 o Various important bugfixes.
689 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
691 o Important security related bugfixes.
692 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
694 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
696 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
697 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
699 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
701 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
702 o BIGNUM library fixes.
703 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
704 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
705 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
706 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
707 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
708 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
709 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
710 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
712 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
714 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
715 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
716 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
718 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
719 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
720 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
721 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
722 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
723 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
724 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
725 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
726 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
727 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
729 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
731 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
732 environment variables when running as root.
733 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
734 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
735 calculated signature.
736 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
737 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
738 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
739 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
740 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
741 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
742 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
743 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
744 memory checking routines.
745 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
746 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
747 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
748 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
749 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
750 o More documentation.
751 o New function BN_rand_range().
752 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
754 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
756 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
757 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
758 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
759 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
760 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
762 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
763 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
764 o Enhanced EVP interface.
766 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
767 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
769 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
771 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
772 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
773 o Support of Linux/IA64
774 o Assembler support for Mingw32
775 o New 'rand' application
776 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
778 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
780 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
781 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
782 o Automation of 'req' application
783 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
784 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
785 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
786 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
787 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
788 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
789 o Usable certificate chain verification
790 o Certificate purpose checking
791 o Certificate trust settings
792 o Support of authority information access extension
793 o Extensions in certificate requests
794 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
795 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
796 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
797 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
798 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
799 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
801 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
802 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
803 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
805 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
806 via a per-thread stack
807 o PRNG robustness improved
809 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
810 o Faster DSA parameter generation
811 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
812 o Experimental MacOS support
814 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
816 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
817 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
819 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
820 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
821 o Avoid various memory leaks
822 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
823 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
825 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
826 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
827 o RSA OEAP related fixes
828 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
829 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
830 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
831 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
833 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
834 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
835 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
836 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
837 o Option to disable selected ciphers
839 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
840 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
841 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
842 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
843 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
844 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
845 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
846 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
847 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
848 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
849 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
850 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
851 o Overhauled Win32 builds
852 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
853 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
854 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
855 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
856 o Overhauled Perl interface
857 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
858 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
861 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
862 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
863 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
864 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
865 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
866 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
867 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
868 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
869 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
870 o Support for various new platforms