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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2021-09-07 11:28:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2021-09-07 13:16:09 +0200 |
| commit | 8e7d941ade3a86e352d9c3d601f61c033dc6788b (patch) | |
| tree | 0f3620f51977cd35321e728c086757db3451102a /CHANGES.md | |
| parent | 6d55d27b2da7a84c9f4b872060be979b5f64af2c (diff) | |
Mention the concept of providers in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16528)
(cherry picked from commit 4c4ab4d7efdf8c9b49c9838742a0fcd7321d88ff)
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diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index 0b3004d1a8..5ed84e657a 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -1397,6 +1397,23 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions. *Raja Ashok* + * Added a new concept for OpenSSL plugability: providers. This + functionality is designed to replace the ENGINE API and ENGINE + implementations, and to be much more dynamic, allowing provider + authors to introduce new algorithms among other things, as long as + there's an API that supports the algorithm type. + + With this concept comes a new core API for interaction between + libcrypto and provider implementations. Public libcrypto functions + that want to use providers do so through this core API. + + The main documentation for this core API is found in + doc/man7/provider.pod, doc/man7/provider-base.pod, and they in turn + refer to other manuals describing the API specific for supported + algorithm types (also called operations). + + *The OpenSSL team* + OpenSSL 1.1.1 ------------- |