Draft of GnuTLS 2.4.0 release notes

[Simon Josefsson]

If you have any comments on what we should say in the 2.4.0 release
notes, now is the time to speak.  Here is how they look right now.  I
have only gone through *.so ABI function changes and NEWS entries during
2.3.x so I may have missed somethings...  will compare the *.h's soon.

/Simon

What's New
==========

Major end-user visible changes compared to the v2.2 branch:

* The certtool --inder and --outder has been replaced by --inraw and --outraw.

  This aligns terminology with OpenPGP, which doesn't use DER
  encoding.  The old parameters will continue to work for some time.

* Certtool now confirm passwords and changes permissions of private key files.

* The default handshake size limit has been increased to 48kb.

  It appears as if some valid handshakes are large due to sending many
  CA certificates.  (The earlier limit was 16kb.)

* LZO compression is now disabled by default.

  The main reason is that LZO compression in TLS is not standardized,
  but license compatiblity issues with minilzo triggered us to make
  this decision now.

* Improvements for cross-compilation to Windows and OpenWRT.

* The look of the GTK-DOC manual has been improved.

Major developer visible changes compared to the v2.2 branch:

* Full OpenPGP support is part of libgnutls, licensed under the LGPL.

* New APIs to access the raw X.509 Subject and Issuer DN's and
  elements from the certificate credentials structure, thanks to Joe
  Orton.

* Names of constants to affect certificate printing changed.

  The constants are used for OpenPGP too, which the names didn't
  reflect, so the following change has been made:

            Old name                         New name
     GNUTLS_X509_CRT_FULL            GNUTLS_CRT_PRINT_FULL
     GNUTLS_X509_CRT_ONELINE         GNUTLS_CRT_PRINT_ONELINE
     GNUTLS_X509_CRT_UNSIGNED_FULL   GNUTLS_CRT_PRINT_UNSIGNED_FULL

  The old names will be mapped to the new names for some time.

* The function gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_id has been renamed to
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_key_id.

* Replaced all uses of alloca with malloc and free.

* We no longer build with -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE.

  We have been unable to find a documented rationale for this
  practice.

Of course, many smaller fixes have been made, see the ChangeLog file.

API/ABI changes in GnuTLS 2.4
=============================

All OpenPGP functions have been moved from libgnutls-extra to
libgnutls, and several new functions have been added to support
OpenPGP subkeys (see below).  Even though all programs that link to
libgnutls-extra for the OpenPGP symbols also links to libgnutls, we
felt that strictly speaking we have removed some symbols from the
libgnutls-extra library.  Removing a function from a shared library
requires you to increment the shared library version.  We are thus
increasing the shared library version of GnuTLS.  You need to
recompile all your programs linked with GnuTLS to make them work with
this GnuTLS release.

(We considered to bump the shared library version only for
libgnutls-extra, since again strictly speaking we have not removed any
functions from libgnutls, but that may lead to problems when a
libgnutls-extra from 2.2.x pulls in libgnutls from 2.4.x.  By
incrementing the version of both libraries, it is guaranteed that they
will only be linked with each other.)

This release adds a small set of new API functions:

  gnutls_x509_dn_deinit
  gnutls_x509_dn_export
  gnutls_x509_dn_import
  gnutls_x509_dn_init

    Used to handle X.509 Certificate DN's directly.

  gnutls_hex2bin

    Converts a data buffer to hex.  Useful for handling PSK/SRP shared
    secrets.

  gnutls_certificate_get_x509_cas
  gnutls_certificate_get_x509_crls
  gnutls_certificate_get_openpgp_keyring

    Direct access to credential elements.

  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_auth_subkey
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_key_id
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_pk_dsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_pk_rsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_preferred_key_id
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_revoked_status
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_count
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_creation_time
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_expiration_time
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_id
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_idx
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_pk_algorithm
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_pk_dsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_pk_rsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_revoked_status
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_subkey_usage
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_print
  gnutls_openpgp_crt_set_preferred_key_id
  gnutls_openpgp_keyring_get_crt
  gnutls_openpgp_keyring_get_crt_count
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_export
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_export_dsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_export_rsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_export_subkey_dsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_export_subkey_rsa_raw
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_fingerprint
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_key_id
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_pk_algorithm
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_preferred_key_id
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_revoked_status
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_count
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_creation_time
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_expiration_time
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_id
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_idx
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_pk_algorithm
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_get_subkey_revoked_status
  gnutls_openpgp_privkey_set_preferred_key_id

    New OpenPGP related functions.

    The function gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_key_id is the same as the old
    from gnutls_openpgp_crt_get_id, see above.

The release also adds a new header file 'gnutls/crypto.h', however it
is currently not used.  During the next development branch, it will be
used to provide functions for applications to replace parts of the
default libgcrypt low-level crypto implementation.  (For example,
applications could provide its own random-number generator.)