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Noteworthy changes in version 1.7.0 (unreleased) [C__/A__/R_]
------------------------------------------------
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7174
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.7 (2024-06-21) [C22/A14/R7]
------------------------------------------------
* Allow for an empty Subject in certs. [T7171]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7173
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.6 (2024-02-23) [C22/A14/R6]
------------------------------------------------
* Fix a possible wrong error return from the DER builder. [T6992]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7009
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.5 (2023-11-16) [C22/A14/R5]
------------------------------------------------
* Add Brainpool curve detection using parameters with compressed base
point. [rKeb23f853f178]
* New configure option --with-libtool-modification. [T6619]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6822
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.4 (2023-06-19) [C22/A14/R4]
------------------------------------------------
* Correctly detect CMS write errors. [rK9ced7706f2]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6543
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.3 (2022-12-06) [C22/A14/R3]
------------------------------------------------
* Fix another integer overflow in the CRL parser. [T6284]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6304
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.2 (2022-10-07) [C22/A14/R2]
------------------------------------------------
* Fix integer overflow in the CRL parser. [rK4b7d9cd4a0]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6230
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.1 (2022-09-16) [C22/A14/R1]
------------------------------------------------
* Allow an OCSP server not to return the sent nonce. [rK24992a4a7a]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6210
Noteworthy changes in version 1.6.0 (2021-06-10) [C22/A14/R0]
------------------------------------------------
* Limited support for the Authenticated-Enveloped-Data content type.
[81fdcd680c12]
* Support password based decryption. [cb7f2484a09c]
* Fix build problem on macOS. (#5440)
* Silence warnings from static analyzers. (#5395)
* Interface changes relative to the 1.5.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
KSBA_CT_AUTHENVELOPED_DATA NEW.
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5479
Noteworthy changes in version 1.5.1 (2021-04-06) [C21/A13/R1]
------------------------------------------------
* Support Brainpool curves specified by ECDomainParameters.
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5379
Noteworthy changes in version 1.5.0 (2020-11-18) [C21/A13/R0]
------------------------------------------------
* ksba_cms_identify now identifies OpenPGP keyblock content.
* Supports TR-03111 plain format ECDSA signature verification.
* Fixes a CMS signed data parser bug exhibited by a somewhat strange
CMS message. [b6438e768c]
* Interface changes relative to the 1.4.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
KSBA_CT_OPENPGP_KEYBLOCK NEW.
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5146
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.0 (2020-05-19) [C20/A12/R0]
------------------------------------------------
* Supports ECDSA and EdDSA certificate creation and parsing. [#4896]
* Supports ECDH enveloped data. [#4920]
* Supports ECDSA and EdDSA signed data. [#4920]
* Supports rsaPSS signature verification. [#4538]
* Supports standard file descriptors in ksba_reader_read. [#3072]
* New configure flag --disable-doc.
* Improves supports for reproducible builds. [#4801]
* Allows for optional elements in keyinfo objects. [#4892]
* Updates the config and M4 scripts to the latest version.
* Fixes error detection in the CMS parser. [#4207]
* Fixes memory leak in ksba_cms_identify.
* Fixes build warnings on macOS. [#2910]
* Uses --disable-new-dtags if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is defined. [#4298]
* New constants KSBA_VERSION and KSBA_VERSION_NUMBER.
* New API to make creation of DER objects easy.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.3.5 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
KSBA_VERSION NEW.
KSBA_VERSION_NUMBER NEW.
KSBA_CT_SPC_IND_DATA_CTX NEW.
KSBA_CLASS_* NEW.
KSBA_TYPE_* NEW.
ksba_der_t NEW.
ksba_der_release NEW.
ksba_der_builder_new NEW.
ksba_der_builder_reset NEW.
ksba_der_add_ptr NEW.
ksba_der_add_val NEW.
ksba_der_add_int NEW.
ksba_der_add_oid NEW.
ksba_der_add_bts NEW.
ksba_der_add_der NEW.
ksba_der_add_tag NEW.
ksba_der_add_end NEW.
ksba_der_builder_get NEW.
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4943
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.5 (2016-08-22) [C19/A11/R6]
------------------------------------------------
* Limit the allowed size of complex ASN.1 objects (e.g. certificates)
to 16MiB.
* Avoid read access to unitialized memory.
* Improve detection of invalid RDNs.
* Encode the OCSP nonce value as an octet string as described by
RFC-6960.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.4 (2016-05-03) [C19/A11/R5]
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed two OOB read access bugs which could be used to force a DoS.
* Fixed a crash due to faulty curve OID lookup code.
* Synced the list of supported curves with those of Libgcrypt.
* New configure option --enable-build-timestamp; a build timestamp is
not anymore used by default.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.3 (2015-04-10) [C19/A11/R4]
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed an integer overflow in the DN decoder.
* Now returns an error instead of terminating the process for certain
bad BER encodings.
* Improved the parsing of utf-8 strings in DNs.
* Allow building with newer versions of Bison.
* Improvement building on Windows with newer versions of Mingw.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.2 (2014-11-25) [C19/A11/R3]
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a buffer overflow in ksba_oid_to_str. [CVE-2014-9087]
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.1 (2014-09-18)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed memory leak in CRL parsing.
* Build fixes for Windows, Android, and ppc64el.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.0 (2012-09-27)
------------------------------------------------
* Changed the license of the library from GPLv3 to LGPLv3/GPLv2; see
the file AUTHORS for details.
* Minor bug fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.2.0 (2011-03-01)
------------------------------------------------
* New functions to allow the creation of X.509 certificates.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.1.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_certreq_set_serial NEW.
ksba_certreq_set_issuer NEW.
ksba_certreq_set_validity NEW.
ksba_certreq_set_siginfo NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.0 (2010-10-26)
------------------------------------------------
* New functions to fix a leak in dirmngr.
* Interface changes relative to the 1.0.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_reader_set_release_notify NEW
ksba_writer_set_release_notify NEW
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.8 (2010-07-15)
------------------------------------------------
* Support for WindowsCE.
* Builds cleanly from SVN even when cross-compiling.
* Fixed a CMS parsing bug exhibited by Lotus Notes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.7 (2009-07-03)
------------------------------------------------
* Detect overflow while parsing OIDs. Map BER encoded OIDs to well
known names.
* Allow mixed case names in DNs.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.6 (2009-06-05)
------------------------------------------------
* Support SHA-{384,512} based signature generation.
* The RSA algorithmIdentifier ASN.1 sequence is now emitted with an
explicit NULL parameter. Despite the interop testing we did in the
past, some software still requires this and thus we better follow
the best current practise.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.5 (2009-01-09)
------------------------------------------------
* Minor bug fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.4 (2008-09-22)
------------------------------------------------
* Write smimeCapabilities according to RFC3851 to help Mozilla.
* Support DSA.
* The visibility attribute is now used if supported by the toolchain.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.3 (2008-02-12)
------------------------------------------------
* Minor bug fixes.
* Include the used hash algorithm in sig-val structures.
* Fix for unknown tags in issuerAltName and subjectAltName.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.2 (2007-07-04)
------------------------------------------------
* Support for SHA-2.
* Fixed a couple of memory leaks.
* Experimental support for ECDSA.
* Minor portability fixes.
* Switched to GPLv3.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.1 (2006-11-29)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixes for certificates lacking certain objects.
* Fixes to allow building on systems with a broken ar.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0 (2006-08-31)
------------------------------------------------
* OCSP nonces are now checked to detect replay attacks.
* OCSP extensions may no be retrieved.
* Implemented ksba_ocsp_get_responder_id which used to always return
an error code not_implemented. Thus we can assume that the
function has never been used and we don't need to see this as an
API break.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.16 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_ocsp_get_extension NEW
ksba_ocsp_get_responder_id CHANGED: No ABI break.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.16 (2006-08-01)
-------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a character set conversion bug in BMPStrings.
* New function for better error reporting of DNs.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.13 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_dn_teststr NEW
ksba_dn_str2der NEW
ksba_dn_der2str NEW
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.15 (2006-06-20)
-------------------------------------------------
* Fixed BER parser which was broken in the last release.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.14 (2006-05-16)
-------------------------------------------------
* Fixed broken OCSP requests.
* Ignore invalid bytes appended to a certificate.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.13 (2005-11-24)
-------------------------------------------------
* New functions to associate user data with a certificate object.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.12 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_cert_set_user_data NEW
ksba_cert_get_user_data NEW
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.12 (2005-08-01)
-------------------------------------------------
* GeneralNames types dNSName and Uri are now supported.
* Minor changes to some function declarations. This should not
affect any compilation.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.7 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_certreq_add_extension CHANGED: Argument DER is now a void*.
ksba_cms_set_content_enc_algo CHANGED: Argument IV is now void*.
ksba_cms_get_content_enc_iv CHANGED: Argument IV is now void*.
ksba_cms_set_message_digest CHANGED: Argument DIGEST is now
unsigned char*.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.11 (2005-04-20)
-------------------------------------------------
* New convenience API function for the subjectKeyIdentifier.
* Implemented the keyIdentifier part for authorityKeyIdentifier of
CRLs and certificates.
* Reason codes for CRL items are now returned.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.7 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_cert_get_subj_key_id NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.10 (2004-12-03)
-------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a CMS parsing bug.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.9 (2004-09-27)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a couple of bugs which caused parsing errors with some
certificates.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.8 (2004-07-22)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a bug in the OCSP request generation.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.7 (2004-06-08)
------------------------------------------------
* New API function to add arbitrary extensions to pkcs#10 requests.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.6 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_certreq_add_extension NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.6 (2004-04-29)
------------------------------------------------
* New API functions to support v2 CRLs.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.5 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_crl_get_extension NEW.
ksba_crl_get_auth_key_id NEW.
ksba_crl_get_crl_number NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.5 (2004-04-06)
------------------------------------------------
* New APIs to get hands on some more information.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.4 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_ocsp_get_responder_id NEW.
ksba_ocsp_get_cert NEW.
ksba_cert_get_authority_info_access NEW.
ksba_cert_get_subject_info_access NEW.
ksba_cms_add_smime_capability NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.4 (2004-02-20)
------------------------------------------------
* Support for Extended Key Usage.
* ksba_cms_identify may no return a pseudo content type for pkcs#12
files.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.3 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_reader_clear NEW.
ksba_cert_get_ext_key_usages NEW.
KSBA_CT_PKCS12 NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.3 (2004-01-30)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed a serious bug shortly after the last release :-(.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.2 (2004-01-29)
------------------------------------------------
* Cleaned up the DN label table.
* Fixed a bug in creating CMS signed data.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.1 (2003-12-19)
------------------------------------------------
* Support for OCSP (rfc2560).
* The new function ksba_set_hash_buffer_function may be used during
intialization to register a simple hash fucntion for internal use
by libksba.
* Changed the license of the manual to GPL.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.9.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_status_t NEW.
ksba_ocsp_t NEW.
ksba_ocsp_response_status_t NEW.
ksba_ocsp_new NEW.
void ksba_ocsp_release NEW.
ksba_ocsp_set_digest_algo NEW.
ksba_ocsp_set_requestor NEW.
ksba_ocsp_add_target NEW.
ksba_ocsp_set_nonce NEW.
ksba_ocsp_prepare_request NEW.
ksba_ocsp_hash_request NEW.
ksba_ocsp_set_sig_val NEW.
ksba_ocsp_add_cert NEW.
ksba_ocsp_build_request NEW.
ksba_ocsp_parse_response NEW.
ksba_ocsp_get_digest_algo NEW.
ksba_ocsp_hash_respons NEW.
ksba_ocsp_get_sig_val NEW.
ksba_ocsp_get_status NEW.
ksba_set_hash_buffer_function NEW.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.0 (2003-11-17)
------------------------------------------------
* The time is not any longer described by time_t but through the new
type ksba_isotime_t which is string of excactly 15 characters in
ISO 8601 format (e.g. "19611107T152010") and always stored as
UTC. This is to allow representation of dates beyond the year 2038.
Comparing is a mere strcmp.
* All type names are nom conforming to the GNU coding standards, the
old names are still available as aliases but flagged as deprecated.
* All error codes have been replaced by libgpg-error ones. Libksba
now depends on this package. Remember to use the gpg_err_code
function when testing for error values other than success.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.4.7 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_cert_get_validity CHANGED: Uses ksba_isotime_t instead of time_t.
ksba_crl_get_update_times CHANGED: Uses ksba_isotime_t instead of time_t.
ksba_crl_get_item CHANGED: Uses ksba_isotime_t instead of time_t.
ksba_cms_get_signing_time CHANGED: Uses ksba_isotime_t instead of time_t.
ksba_cms_set_signing_time CHANGED: Uses ksba_isotime_t instead of time_t.
ksba_cert_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_cms_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_name_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_writer_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_reader_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_certreq_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_crl_new CHANGED: Returns an error code now.
ksba_isotime_t NEW.
ksba_error_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaError.
ksba_cert_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaCert.
ksba_certreq_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaCertreq.
ksba_cms_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaCMS.
ksba_crl_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaCRL.
ksba_name_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaName.
ksba_sexp_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaSexp.
ksba_reader_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaReader.
ksba_writer_t NEW: Should be used instead of KsbaWriter.
ksba_strerror REMOVED: use gpg_strerror instead.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.7 (2003-03-17)
------------------------------------------------
* Fixed type detection in creating DNs.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.6 (2002-12-04)
------------------------------------------------
* DNs in pkcs#10 request are now created in reversed order as
specified by rfc2253.
* The content-type signed attribute is created.
* Fixed a parser bug with a id-aa-encrypKeyPref attribute.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.4.3 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_cms_get_sigattr_oids NEW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.5 (2002-08-23)
------------------------------------------------
* Removed some debugging output.
* Added an autoconf macro.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.4 (2002-08-09)
------------------------------------------------
* Multiple signatures can now be created and parsed.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.3 (2002-06-25)
------------------------------------------------
* More bug fixes.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.4.2 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_writer_write_octet_string NEW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.2 (2002-06-04)
------------------------------------------------
* Some bug fixes and a new function.
* Interface changes relative to the 0.4.1 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ksba_cms_identify NEW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.1 (2002-05-03)
------------------------------------------------
* Minor fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.0 (2002-04-15)
------------------------------------------------
* Nearly all stuff needed for the Aegypten project is now in place.
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009 g10 Code GmbH
This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.