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diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index bc6d9516ff..5578b0e7e5 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -1389,6 +1389,23 @@ 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 ------------- |