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 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a:
+
+ o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
+ environment variables when running as root.
+ o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
+ possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
+ calculated signature.
+ o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
+ o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
+ master secret in DH ciphersuites.
+ o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
+ o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
+ memory checking routines.
+ o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded enviroments.
+ o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
+ o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
+ o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
+ o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
+ o More documentation.
+ o New function BN_rand_range()
+ o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
+
Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6:
o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.