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 1.1.1c and OpenSSL 1.1.1d [under development]
10 o Fixed a fork protection issue (CVE-2019-1549)
11 o Fixed a padding oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey
13 o For built-in EC curves, ensure an EC_GROUP built from the curve name is
14 used even when parsing explicit parameters
15 o Compute ECC cofactors if not provided during EC_GROUP construction
17 o Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been
18 improved for older Linux systems
19 o Correct the extended master secret constant on EBCDIC systems
20 o Use Windows installation paths in the mingw builds (CVE-2019-1552)
21 o Changed DH_check to accept parameters with order q and 2q subgroups
22 o Significantly reduce secure memory usage by the randomness pools
23 o Revert the DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
25 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1b and OpenSSL 1.1.1c [28 May 2019]
27 o Prevent over long nonces in ChaCha20-Poly1305 (CVE-2019-1543)
29 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1a and OpenSSL 1.1.1b [26 Feb 2019]
31 o Change the info callback signals for the start and end of a post-handshake
32 message exchange in TLSv1.3.
33 o Fix a bug in DTLS over SCTP. This breaks interoperability with older versions
34 of OpenSSL like OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.2.
36 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.1 and OpenSSL 1.1.1a [20 Nov 2018]
38 o Timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0734)
39 o Timing vulnerability in ECDSA signature generation (CVE-2018-0735)
41 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0i and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [11 Sep 2018]
43 o Support for TLSv1.3 added (see https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
44 for further important information). The TLSv1.3 implementation includes:
45 o Fully compliant implementation of RFC8446 (TLSv1.3) on by default
47 o Post-handshake authentication and key update
48 o Middlebox Compatibility Mode
50 o Support for all five RFC8446 ciphersuites
51 o RSA-PSS signature algorithms (backported to TLSv1.2)
52 o Configurable session ticket support
53 o Stateless server support
54 o Rewrite of the packet construction code for "safer" packet handling
55 o Rewrite of the extension handling code
56 o Complete rewrite of the OpenSSL random number generator to introduce the
57 following capabilities
58 o The default RAND method now utilizes an AES-CTR DRBG according to
59 NIST standard SP 800-90Ar1.
60 o Support for multiple DRBG instances with seed chaining.
61 o There is a public and private DRBG instance.
62 o The DRBG instances are fork-safe.
63 o Keep all global DRBG instances on the secure heap if it is enabled.
64 o The public and private DRBG instance are per thread for lock free
66 o Support for various new cryptographic algorithms including:
68 o SHA512/224 and SHA512/256
69 o EdDSA (both Ed25519 and Ed448) including X509 and TLS support
70 o X448 (adding to the existing X25519 support in 1.1.0)
76 o ARIA (including TLS support)
77 o Significant Side-Channel attack security improvements
78 o Add a new ClientHello callback to provide the ability to adjust the SSL
79 object at an early stage.
80 o Add 'Maximum Fragment Length' TLS extension negotiation and support
81 o A new STORE module, which implements a uniform and URI based reader of
82 stores that can contain keys, certificates, CRLs and numerous other
84 o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm.
85 o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure.
86 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
87 o Rewrite of devcrypto engine
89 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0h and OpenSSL 1.1.0i [under development]
91 o Client DoS due to large DH parameter (CVE-2018-0732)
92 o Cache timing vulnerability in RSA Key Generation (CVE-2018-0737)
94 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0g and OpenSSL 1.1.0h [under development]
96 o Constructed ASN.1 types with a recursive definition could exceed the
98 o Incorrect CRYPTO_memcmp on HP-UX PA-RISC (CVE-2018-0733)
99 o rsaz_1024_mul_avx2 overflow bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3738)
101 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
103 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
104 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
106 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
108 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
110 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
112 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
114 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
116 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
117 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
118 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
120 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
122 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
123 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
124 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
126 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
128 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
130 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
132 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
133 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
134 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
136 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
139 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
141 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
142 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
143 o Added support for "pipelining"
144 o Added the AFALG engine
145 o New threading API implemented
146 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
147 o Support for extended master secret
149 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
150 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
152 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
153 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
154 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
155 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
156 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
157 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
158 o libssl internal structures made opaque
159 o SSLv2 support removed
160 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
161 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
162 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
163 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
164 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
165 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
166 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
167 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
168 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
169 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
170 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
171 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
172 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
173 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
174 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
175 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
176 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
177 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
178 o New "unified" build system
179 o New security levels
180 o Support for scrypt algorithm
182 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
183 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
184 o Support for Certificate Transparency
187 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
189 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
190 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
191 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
192 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
193 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
194 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
195 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
196 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
198 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
200 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
202 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
203 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
205 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
206 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
208 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
210 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
211 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
213 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
215 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
216 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
218 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
220 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
221 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
222 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
223 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
224 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
227 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
229 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
230 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
232 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
234 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
236 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
238 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
239 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
240 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
241 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
242 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
244 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
246 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
247 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
248 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
249 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
250 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
251 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
252 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
253 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
254 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
255 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
256 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
257 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
258 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
260 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
262 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
263 o Support for DTLS 1.2
264 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
265 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
266 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
267 o TLS Brainpool support.
269 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
271 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
273 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
275 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
277 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
278 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
279 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
280 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
281 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
282 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
283 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
284 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
286 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
288 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
289 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
290 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
291 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
293 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
295 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
296 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
297 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
298 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
299 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
300 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
301 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
302 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
303 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
305 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
307 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
308 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
309 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
310 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
311 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
312 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
314 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
316 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
317 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
318 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
320 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
322 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
323 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
324 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
325 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
327 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
329 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
331 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
333 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
334 o Include the fips configuration module.
335 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
336 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
337 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
339 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
341 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
342 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
344 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
346 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
347 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
348 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
350 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
352 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
353 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
354 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
356 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
358 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
360 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
361 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
362 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
363 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
364 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
365 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
366 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
369 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
371 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
372 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
373 o Various DTLS fixes.
375 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
377 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
379 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
381 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
382 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
383 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
384 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
385 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
387 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
389 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
390 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
391 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
392 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
393 o Various DTLS fixes.
395 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
397 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
399 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
401 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
402 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
403 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
404 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
405 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
407 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
409 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
410 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
411 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
413 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
415 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
416 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
418 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
420 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
421 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
422 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
423 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
424 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
425 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
426 o ASN1 printing support.
427 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
428 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
429 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
430 o New generalised public key API utilities.
431 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
432 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
433 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
434 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
435 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
436 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
437 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
438 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
439 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
441 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
443 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
444 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
446 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
448 o Cipher definition fixes.
449 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
450 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
451 o SPKAC handling fixes.
452 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
453 o Compression memory leak fixed.
454 o Compression session resumption fixed.
455 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
456 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
458 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
460 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
462 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
464 o Fix various build issues.
465 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
467 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
469 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
470 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
472 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
474 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
475 o Various precautionary measures.
476 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
477 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
479 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
481 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
482 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
484 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
486 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
487 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
489 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
490 selected at compile time.
492 o RFC4507bis support.
493 o TLS Extensions support.
495 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
497 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
500 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
502 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
503 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
504 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
506 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
508 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
509 o New cipher Camellia
511 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
513 o Cipher string fixes.
514 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
515 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
516 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
517 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
518 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
519 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
521 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
523 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
524 o Extended Windows CE support
526 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
528 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
529 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
530 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
531 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
532 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
533 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
534 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
535 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
537 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
538 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
539 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
540 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
542 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
543 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
544 automatically from specifically given directories.
545 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
546 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
547 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
548 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
549 function and an argument.
550 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
551 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
553 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
554 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
555 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
556 constraints and name constraints.
557 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
559 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
560 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
561 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
562 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
563 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
564 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
565 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
567 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
568 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
569 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
570 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
572 o New control functions for the error stack.
573 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
575 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
576 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
577 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
578 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
580 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
581 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
582 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
583 of X.509 path validation.
584 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
586 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
587 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
588 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
589 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
591 o Added support for DTLS.
592 o New BIGNUM blinding.
593 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
594 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
595 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
596 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
597 o Added initial support for Win64.
598 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
600 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
602 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
603 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
605 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
607 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
608 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
610 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
612 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
614 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
616 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
617 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
619 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
621 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE its old value, except for a FIPS build.
623 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
625 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
626 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
627 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
629 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
631 o More compilation issues fixed.
632 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
633 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
634 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
635 o More constification.
636 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
638 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
640 o Several compilation issues fixed.
641 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
642 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
643 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
644 o Performance improvements.
646 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
648 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
649 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
651 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
653 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
654 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
655 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
656 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
657 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
659 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
661 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
662 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
663 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
664 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
666 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
668 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
669 Bleichbacher's attack
670 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
671 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
672 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
673 o Build: shared library support fixes.
674 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
675 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
679 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
680 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
681 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
682 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
683 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
684 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
685 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
686 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
688 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
690 o New library section OCSP.
691 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
692 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
693 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
694 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
695 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
696 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
697 a separate distribution.
698 o New elliptic curve library section.
699 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
700 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
701 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
702 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
703 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
704 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
705 o Support for pkg-config.
706 o Lots of new manuals.
707 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
709 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
710 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
711 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
713 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
714 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
715 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
716 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
718 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
719 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
720 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
721 Processing, IBM 4758.
722 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
723 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
724 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
725 EGD style random sources at several locations.
726 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
727 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
728 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
729 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
730 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
731 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
732 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
734 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
736 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
737 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
739 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
741 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
742 Bleichbacher's attack
743 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
744 o Build: shared library support fixes.
746 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
748 o Important security related bugfixes.
750 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
752 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
753 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
754 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
755 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
756 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
757 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
758 o Fixes for length problems.
759 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
760 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
761 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
762 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
764 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
766 o Important building fixes on Unix.
768 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
770 o Various important bugfixes.
772 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
774 o Important security related bugfixes.
775 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
777 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
779 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
780 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
782 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
784 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
785 o BIGNUM library fixes.
786 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
787 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
788 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
789 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
790 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
791 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
792 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
793 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
795 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
797 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
798 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
799 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
801 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
802 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
803 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
804 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
805 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
806 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
807 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
808 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
809 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
810 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
812 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
814 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
815 environment variables when running as root.
816 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
817 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
818 calculated signature.
819 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
820 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
821 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
822 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
823 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
824 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
825 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
826 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
827 memory checking routines.
828 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
829 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
830 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
831 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
832 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
833 o More documentation.
834 o New function BN_rand_range().
835 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
837 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
839 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
840 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
841 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
842 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
843 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
845 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
846 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
847 o Enhanced EVP interface.
849 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
850 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
852 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
854 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
855 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
856 o Support of Linux/IA64
857 o Assembler support for Mingw32
858 o New 'rand' application
859 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
861 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
863 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
864 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
865 o Automation of 'req' application
866 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
867 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
868 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
869 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
870 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
871 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
872 o Usable certificate chain verification
873 o Certificate purpose checking
874 o Certificate trust settings
875 o Support of authority information access extension
876 o Extensions in certificate requests
877 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
878 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
879 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
880 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
881 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
882 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
884 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
885 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
886 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
888 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
889 via a per-thread stack
890 o PRNG robustness improved
892 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
893 o Faster DSA parameter generation
894 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
895 o Experimental MacOS support
897 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
899 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
900 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
902 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
903 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
904 o Avoid various memory leaks
905 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
906 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
908 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
909 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
910 o RSA OEAP related fixes
911 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
912 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
913 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
914 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
916 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
917 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
918 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
919 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
920 o Option to disable selected ciphers
922 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
923 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
924 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
925 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
926 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
927 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
928 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
929 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
930 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
931 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
932 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
933 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
934 o Overhauled Win32 builds
935 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
936 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
937 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
938 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
939 o Overhauled Perl interface
940 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
941 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
944 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
945 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
946 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
947 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
948 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
949 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
950 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
951 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
952 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
953 o Support for various new platforms