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diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index d9fa56f4d6..4114ce96cf 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ OpenSSL 3.0 *Rich Salz and Richard Levitte* - * Added a library context that applications as well as other - libraries can use to form a separate context within which libcrypto - operations are performed. + * Added a library context `OSSL_LIB_CTX` that applications as well as + other libraries can use to form a separate context within which + libcrypto operations are performed. There are two ways this can be used: @@ -122,16 +122,19 @@ OpenSSL 3.0 such an argument, such as `EVP_CIPHER_fetch` and similar algorithm fetching functions. - Indirectly, by creating a new library context and then assigning - it as the new default, with `OPENSSL_CTX_set0_default`. + it as the new default, with `OSSL_LIB_CTX_set0_default`. - All public OpenSSL functions that take an `OPENSSL_CTX` pointer, - apart from the functions directly related to `OPENSSL_CTX`, accept + All public OpenSSL functions that take an `OSSL_LIB_CTX` pointer, + apart from the functions directly related to `OSSL_LIB_CTX`, accept NULL to indicate that the default library context should be used. Library code that changes the default library context using - `OPENSSL_CTX_set0_default` should take care to restore it with a + `OSSL_LIB_CTX_set0_default` should take care to restore it with a second call before returning to the caller. + _(Note: the library context was initially called `OPENSSL_CTX` and + renamed to `OSSL_LIB_CTX` in version 3.0.0 alpha7.)_ + *Richard Levitte* * Handshake now fails if Extended Master Secret extension is dropped |