From 4c4ab4d7efdf8c9b49c9838742a0fcd7321d88ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:28:12 +0200 Subject: Mention the concept of providers in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16528) --- CHANGES.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ NEWS.md | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) 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 ------------- diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 9d198fca8d..f2097f1dd4 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ OpenSSL 3.0 * All of the low-level DH, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA and RSA public key functions have been deprecated. * SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0. + * Added providers, a new pluggability concept that will replace the + ENGINE API and ENGINE implementations. OpenSSL 1.1.1 ------------- -- cgit v1.2.3