- 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