This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a:
+
+ o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
+ o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
+ o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
+ o IA32 assembler enhancements.
+ o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
+ o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
+ o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
+ o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
+
Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7:
o New library section OCSP.
o New elliptic curve library section.
o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
- Linux x86_64
+ Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
+ o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
o Support for pkg-config.
o Lots of new manuals.
+ o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
+ functions.
o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i:
+
+ o Important security related bugfixes.
+
Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h:
o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.