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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2021-09-07 09:33:16 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2021-09-07 11:01:17 +0200
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Add missing OSSL_DECODER entry in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md
The text in CHANGES.md got fleshed out a bit more as well. Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16522) (cherry picked from commit d1a786e99b162793a8f4a70fe12d2c4e6f5ee608)
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@@ -813,8 +813,19 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions.
*Rich Salz*
- * Introduced a new method type and API, OSSL_ENCODER, to
- represent generic encoders.
+ * Introduced a new method type and API, OSSL_ENCODER, to represent
+ generic encoders. These do the same sort of job that PEM writers
+ and d2i functions do, but with support for methods supplied by
+ providers, and the possibility for providers to support other
+ formats as well.
+
+ *Richard Levitte*
+
+ * Introduced a new method type and API, OSSL_DECODER, to represent
+ generic decoders. These do the same sort of job that PEM readers
+ and i2d functions do, but with support for methods supplied by
+ providers, and the possibility for providers to support other
+ formats as well.
*Richard Levitte*