GnuTLS 2.3.5

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Mon Apr 14 15:26:34 CEST 2008


The GnuTLS 2.3.x branch is NOT what you want for your stable system.  It
is intended for developers and experienced users.

My next step is to release a minicdk, then make a gnutls 2.3.x release
that use it, then branch off gnutls_2_4_x and go for a new stable GnuTLS
release in a few weeks.

I tried to make sure there are no ABI/ABI modifications/deletions in
this compared to v2.2.x, but as the changes have been quite large, I may
have missed something.  Note that we don't guarantee ABI compatibility
during development releases, so if there are ABI breaks in this release,
we'll consider those bugs and revert them, rather than bumping the ABI.

The goals for the 2.3.x branch are tracked at:

http://trac.gnutls.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/milestone/gnutls-2.4

More ideas are welcome, just create a new ticket.

Here are the compressed sources:
  http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.3.5.tar.bz2
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.3.5.tar.bz2

Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help!  We are looking for
organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back.
You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate
money or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance.  Simon Josefsson Datakonsult, a
Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GnuTLS
maintenance.  We are always looking for interesting development
projects.  See http://josefsson.org/ for more details.

News in this release:

* Version 2.3.5 (released 2008-04-14)

** Build fix for MinGW and --disable-shared.
Reported by Massimo Gaspari <massimo.gaspari at alice.it> in
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/1145>.

** Document how to generate CRLs.
Suggested by "Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards at gmail.com>.

** Documented the --priority option to gnutls-cli and gnutls-serv.

** Several minor fixes in the OpenPGP interface.
Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor.

** Fix fopen file descriptor leak in PSK server code.
Thanks to Laurence Withers <l at lwithers.me.uk>, see
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-04/msg00002.html>.

** Translations files not stored directly in git to avoid merge conflicts.

** New APIs to let applications replace the RNG used.
Update all RNG callers in the code to use the new interface.

** Guile code now built with -fgnu89-inline to fix inline semantic problem.

** Update gnulib files.

** API and ABI modifications:
gnutls_crypto_rnd_register: ADDED
gnutls_rnd_level_t: ADDED
GNUTLS_RND_KEY: ADDED, gnutls_rnd_level_t member
GNUTLS_RND_RANDOM: ADDED, gnutls_rnd_level_t member
GNUTLS_RND_NONCE: ADDED, gnutls_rnd_level_t member
gnutls_crypto_rnd_st: ADDED
GNUTLS_DIG_SHA224: ADDED
GNUTLS_SIGN_RSA_SHA224: ADDED
gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_auth_subkey: MODIFIED

/Simon





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