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Update the CHANGES and NEWS files with information about the recently added
AFALG engine and pipelining.

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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Matt Caswell
2016-03-09 13:00:37 +00:00
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Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx]
*) Added support for "pipelining". Ciphers that have the
EVP_CIPH_FLAG_PIPELINE flag set have a capability to process multiple
encryptions/decryptions simultaneously. There are currently no built-in
ciphers with this property but the expectation is that engines will be able
to offer it to significantly improve throughput. Support has been extended
into libssl so that multiple records for a single connection can be
processed in one go (for >=TLS 1.1).
[Matt Caswell]
*) Added the AFALG engine. This is an async capable engine which is able to
offload work to the Linux kernel. In this initial version it only supports
AES128-CBC. The kernel must be version 4.1.0 or greater.
[Catriona Lucey]
*) OpenSSL now uses a new threading API. It is no longer necessary to
set locking callbacks to use OpenSSL in a multi-threaded environment. There
are two supported threading models: pthreads and windows threads. It is

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Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [in pre-release]
o Added support for "pipelining"
o Added the AFALG engine
o New threading API implemented
o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
o Support for extended master secret