Download OpenSSL 0.9.8 beta 1

The OpenSSL development team performed a feature freeze on the development of version 0.9.8 and released the first beta version shortly after. OpenSSL is a well-known security program that offers encryption functions that can be used on web servers, among other things. The long changelog is up this place to read and the release notes look like this:

OpenSSL version 0.9.8 Beta 1

OpenSSL is currently in a release cycle. The first beta is now released. The beta release is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (the various FTP mirrors you can find under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html†

• http://www.openssl.org/source/
• ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/

Please download and test them as soon as possible. This new OpenSSL version incorporates 103 documented changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES†

Some changes aren’t quite complete at this time. Most notably, the use of BN_ULLONG in crypto/pqueue and the DTLS files doesn’t work on some platforms, for example some 64-bit systems (those using the SIXTY_FOUR_BIT BIGNUM macro).

Reports and patches should be sent to [email protected]. Discussions around the development of OpenSSL should be sent to [email protected]. Anything else should go to [email protected].

yours,
The OpenSSL Project Team…