ANNOUNCE: OpenSSL 0.9.6 beta 3 (Final beta)
Richard Levitte
levitte at openssl.org
Thu Sep 21 03:22:33 PDT 2000
OpenSSL version 0.9.6 Beta 3 (Final beta)
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OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
http://www.openssl.org/
OpenSSL is currently in a release cycle. The second beta is now released.
This beta is in fact two releases, one for the current mainstream
OpenSSL, and one with an "engine" branch incorporated. The "engine"
branch contains an interface to external crypto libraries, which is
currently used to support the hardware devices CryptoSwift (by CryptoSwift
Inc), Atalla (by Compaq) and CHIL (previously called HWCryptoHook, by
nCipher) as well as the internal OpenSSL routines.
The two beta releases are available for download via HTTP and FTP from the
following master locations (the various FTP mirrors you can find under
http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html):
o http://www.openssl.org/source/
o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/
The file names of the two betas are:
o openssl-0.9.6-beta2.tar.gz
o openssl-engine-0.9.6-beta2.tar.gz
Please download and test them as soon as possible. This new OpenSSL
version incorporates 84 changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a
complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES).
Changes that have been made since last beta are a lot in the
documentation, in Win32-specific code and in VMS-specific code,
and there has also been small changes that may affect everyone
(for the better). Tests on Win32 and VMS need to be made very
soon. Tests on other platforms should be made very soon as well,
to verify that we haven't messed up since last beta.
Also, new (non-default) targets for HP-UX have been added. Since
they are non-default, they won't get chosen implicitely, so they
are non-critical in nature, but it would be nice if they got tested
as well, for future reference.
Reports and patches should be sent to openssl-bugs at openssl.org.
Discussions around the development of OpenSSL should be sent to
openssl-dev at openssl.org. Anything else should go to
openssl-users at openssl.org.
The best way, at least on Unix, to create a report is to do the
following after configuration:
make report
That will do a few basic checks of the compiler and bc, then build
and run the tests. The result will appear on screen and in the file
"testlog". Please read the report before sending it to us. There
may be problems that we can't solve for you, like missing programs.
Yours,
The OpenSSL Project Team...
Mark J. Cox Richard Levitte Andy Polyakov
Ralf S. Engelschall Bodo Mvller Holger Reif
Dr. Stephen Henson Ulf Mvller Geoff Thorpe
Ben Laurie
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Richard Levitte levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
Software Engineer, Celo Communications: http://www.celocom.com/
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