I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.7f-1. This also includes the openssl-devel package.
This is a upstream bug fix update. The Cygwin version has a minor tweak applied which was necessary to resolve a build conflict. The patch is already sent upstream. Official release message: ======================================================================= OpenSSL version 0.9.7f released ========================================== OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS http://www.openssl.org/ The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.7f of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a bugfix release and incorporates changes and bugfixes to the toolkit (for a complete list see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES ). The most significant changes are: o Several compilation issues fixed. o Many memory allocation failure checks added. o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. o Performance improvements. We consider OpenSSL 0.9.7f to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.7f is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you can find the various FTP mirrors under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html): o http://www.openssl.org/source/ o ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/ The distribution file name is: o openssl-0.9.7f.tar.gz MD5 checksum: b2d37d7eb8a5a5040d834105d5ae1a50 The checksums were calculated using the following command: openssl md5 < openssl-0.9.7f.tar.gz Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov Ralf S. Engelschall Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe Dr. Stephen Henson Bodo M?ller Lutz J?nicke Ulf M?ller Nils Larsch ======================================================================= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.