- New upstream release 1.11.0
- Adds support for encrypt-then-mac (ETM) MACs
- Adds support for AES-GCM crypto protocols
- Adds support for sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 and sk-ssh-ed25519 keys
- Adds support for RSA certificate authentication
- Adds FIDO support with *_sk() functions
- Adds RSA-SHA2 key upgrading to OpenSSL, WinCNG, mbedTLS, OS400 backends
- Adds Agent Forwarding and libssh2_agent_sign()
- Adds support for Channel Signal message libssh2_channel_signal_ex()
- Adds support to get the user auth banner message libssh2_userauth_banner()
- Adds LIBSSH2_NO_{MD5, HMAC_RIPEMD, DSA, RSA, RSA_SHA1, ECDSA, ED25519,
AES_CBC, AES_CTR, BLOWFISH, RC4, CAST, 3DES} options
- Adds direct stream UNIX sockets with libssh2_channel_direct_streamlocal_ex()
- Adds wolfSSL support to CMake file
- Adds mbedTLS 3.x support
- Adds LibreSSL 3.5 support
- Adds support for CMake "unity" builds
- Adds CMake support for building shared and static libs in a single pass
- Adds symbol hiding support to CMake
- Adds support for libssh2.rc for all build tools
- Adds .zip, .tar.xz and .tar.bz2 release tarballs
- Enables ed25519 key support for LibreSSL 3.7.0 or higher
- Improves OpenSSL 1.1 and 3 compatibility
- Now requires OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer
- Now requires CMake 3.1 or newer
- SFTP: Adds libssh2_sftp_open_ex_r() and libssh2_sftp_open_r() extended APIs
- SFTP: No longer has a packet limit when reading a directory
- SFTP: Now parses attribute extensions if they exist
- SFTP: No longer will busy loop if SFTP fails to initialize
- SFTP: Now clear various errors as expected
- SFTP: No longer skips files if the line buffer is too small
- SCP: Add option to not quote paths
- SCP: Enables 64-bit offset support unconditionally
- Now skips leading \r and \n characters in banner_receive()
- Enables secure memory zeroing with all build tools on all platforms
- No longer logs SSH_MSG_REQUEST_FAILURE packets from keepalive
- Speed up base64 encoding by 7x
Assert if there is an attempt to write a value that is too large
- WinCNG: fix memory leak in _libssh2_dh_secret()
- Added protection against possible null pointer dereferences
- Agent now handles overly large comment lengths
- Now ensure KEX replies don't include extra bytes
- Fixed possible buffer overflow when receiving SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_BANNER
- Fixed possible buffer overflow in keyboard interactive code path
- Fixed overlapping memcpy()
- Fixed Windows UWP builds
- Fixed DLL import name
- Renamed local RANDOM_PADDING macro to avoid unexpected define on Windows
- Support for building with gcc versions older than 8
- Improvements to CMake, Makefile, NMakefile, GNUmakefile, autoreconf files
- Restores ANSI C89 compliance
- Enabled new compiler warnings and fixed/silenced them
- Improved error messages
- Now uses CIFuzz
- Numerous minor code improvements
- Improvements to CI builds
- Improvements to unit tests
- Improvements to doc files
- Improvements to example files
- Removed "old gex" build option
- Removed no-encryption/no-mac builds
- Removed support for NetWare and Watcom wmake build files
- Avoid use of deprecated patch syntax
- Build static library but don't package it since it's required for the
test suite (https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/1056)
- Remove redundant references to %{_libdir} from pkgconfig file
- Add patch to work around strict permissions issues for sshd tests
In 8.8 OpenSSH disabled sha1 rsa-sha keys out of the box,
so we need to re-enable them as a workaround for the test
suite until upstream updates the tests.
See: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/630
Drop other test workarounds, none of them being needed any longer.
- New upstream release 1.10.0
- Adds agent forwarding support
- Adds OpenSSH Agent support on Windows
- Adds ECDSA key support using the Mbed TLS backend
- Adds ECDSA cert authentication
- Adds diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,
diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 key exchanges
- Adds support for PKIX key reading when using ed25519 with OpenSSL
- Adds support for EWOULDBLOCK on VMS systems
- Adds support for building with OpenSSL 3
- Adds support for using FIPS mode in OpenSSL
- Adds debug symbols when building with MSVC
- Adds support for building on the 3DS
- Adds unicode build support on Windows
- Restores os400 building
- Increases min, max and opt Diffie Hellman group values
- Improves portability of the make file
- Improves timeout behaviour with 2FA keyboard auth
- Various improvements to the Wincng backend
- Fixes reading partial packet replies when using an agent
- Fixes Diffie Hellman key exchange on Windows 1903+ builds
- Fixes building tests with older versions of OpenSSL
- Fixes possible multiple definition warnings
- Fixes potential cast issues _libssh2_ecdsa_key_get_curve_type()
- Fixes potential use after free if libssh2_init() is called twice
- Improved linking when using Mbed TLS
- Fixes call to libssh2_crypto_exit() if crypto hasn't been initialized
- Fixes crash when loading public keys with no id
- Fixes possible out of bounds read when exchanging keys
- Fixes possible out of bounds read when reading packets
- Fixes possible out of bounds read when opening an X11 connection
- Fixes possible out of bounds read when ecdh host keys
- Fixes possible hang when trying to read a disconnected socket
- Fixes a crash when using the delayed compression option
- Fixes read error with large known host entries
- Fixes various warnings
- Fixes various small memory leaks
- Improved error handling, various detailed errors will now be reported
- Builds are now using OSS-Fuzz
- Builds now use autoreconf instead of a custom build script
- cmake now respects install directory
- Improved CI backend
- Updated HACKING-CRYPTO documentation
- Use markdown file extensions
- Improved unit tests
- New upstream release 1.9.0
- Adds ECDSA keys and host key support when using OpenSSL
- Adds ED25519 key and host key support when using OpenSSL 1.1.1
- Adds OpenSSH style key file reading
- Adds AES CTR mode support when using WinCNG
- Adds PEM passphrase protected file support for libgcrypt and WinCNG
- Adds SHA256 hostkey fingerprint
- Adds libssh2_agent_get_identity_path() and libssh2_agent_set_identity_path()
- Adds explicit zeroing of sensitive data in memory
- Adds additional bounds checks to network buffer reads
- Adds the ability to use the server default permissions when creating sftp directories
- Adds support for building with OpenSSL no engine flag
- Adds support for building with LibreSSL
- Increased sftp packet size to 256k
- Fixed oversized packet handling in sftp
- Fixed building with OpenSSL 1.1
- Fixed a possible crash if sftp stat gets an unexpected response
- Fixed incorrect parsing of the KEX preference string value
- Fixed conditional RSA and AES-CTR support
- Fixed a small memory leak during the key exchange process
- Fixed a possible memory leak of the ssh banner string
- Fixed various small memory leaks in the backends
- Fixed possible out of bounds read when parsing public keys from the server
- Fixed possible out of bounds read when parsing invalid PEM files
- No longer null terminates the scp remote exec command
- Now handle errors when Diffie Hellman key pair generation fails
- Fixed compiling on Windows with the flag STDCALL=ON
- Improved building instructions
- Improved unit tests
- Needs OpenSSL ≥ 1.0.1 now as ECC support is assumed
- Modernize spec somewhat as EL-6 can no longer be supported
- New upstream release 1.8.1
- Fixed possible integer overflow when reading a specially crafted packet
(CVE-2019-3855)
- Fixed possible integer overflow in userauth_keyboard_interactive with a
number of extremely long prompt strings (CVE-2019-3863)
- Fixed possible integer overflow if the server sent an extremely large
number of keyboard prompts (CVE-2019-3856)
- Fixed possible out of bounds read when processing a specially crafted
packet (CVE-2019-3861)
- Fixed possible integer overflow when receiving a specially crafted exit
signal message channel packet (CVE-2019-3857)
- Fixed possible out of bounds read when receiving a specially crafted exit
status message channel packet (CVE-2019-3862)
- Fixed possible zero byte allocation when reading a specially crafted SFTP
packet (CVE-2019-3858)
- Fixed possible out of bounds reads when processing specially crafted SFTP
packets (CVE-2019-3860)
- Fixed possible out of bounds reads in _libssh2_packet_require(v)
(CVE-2019-3859)
- Fix mis-applied patch in the fix of CVE-2019-3859
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/325
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/327
- scp: Do not NUL-terminate the command for remote exec (#1489736, GH#208)
- Make devel package dependency on main package arch-specific
- Drop EL-5 support
- noarch sub-packages always available now
- Drop legacy Group: and BuildRoot: tags
- Drop explicit buildroot cleaning
- %{__isa_bits} always defined now
- New upstream release 1.8.0
- Added a basic dockerised test suite
- crypto: Add support for the mbedTLS backend
- See RELEASE-NOTES for details of bug fixes
- New upstream release 1.7.0
- diffie_hellman_sha256: Convert bytes to bits (CVE-2016-0787); see
http://www.libssh2.org/adv_20160223.html
- libssh2_session_set_last_error: Add function
- See RELEASE-NOTES for details of bug fixes
MSVSphere Packaging Team
Arkady L. Shane
Paul Howarth
Fedora Release Engineering
Todd Zullinger
Sahana Prasad
Kamil Dudka
Igor Gnatenko
Tomas Mraz
Peter Robinson
Dennis Gilmore