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 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [in pre-release]
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [under development]
+
+ o
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
+
+ o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
+
+ o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
+ o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
+ o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
+ (CVE-2016-6307)
+ o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
+ (CVE-2016-6308)
+
+ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
o Support for extended master secret
o CCM ciphersuites
o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
- o *Most* libcrypto and libssl structures were made opaque including:
- <TBA>
+ o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
+ including:
+ BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
+ DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
+ BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
+ EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
+ X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
+ X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
o libssl internal structures made opaque
o SSLv2 support removed
o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
- This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
- OpenSSL.
+ This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
+ OpenSSL.
o New control functions for the error stack.
o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
processing.
o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
AMD64.
o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
- by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
+ by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
argument form 'enable-xxx'.
o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
SHA-1.