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Subject: GnuTLS 3.4.0 released
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We are proud to announce a new GnuTLS release: Version 3.4.0.

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implements the standard network
security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications.  GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many
Unix-like systems and as well as Windows.

The GnuTLS library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License version 2 (or later).  The "extra" GnuTLS
library (which contains), the OpenSSL compatibility library, the self tests
and the command line tools are all distributed under the GNU General
Public License version 3.0 (or later).  The manual is distributed
under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 (or later).

The project page of the library is available at:
  http://www.gnutls.org/

What's New
==========

Version 3.4.0 is the first stable release on the 3.4.x branch and is
the result of a year of planning and work [0] on the git master branch. 
The GnuTLS 3.4.x branch is marked as stable-next, meaning it is considered
of stable quality but will not yet replace the current stable releases
based on 3.3.0, which will continue to be supported.

[0]. https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/wikis/Plan3_4


* Version 3.4.0

** libgnutls: Added support for AES-CCM and AES-CCM-8 (RFC6655 and RFC7251)
ciphersuites. The former are enabled by default, the latter need to be
explicitly enabled, since they reduce the overall security level.

** libgnutls: Added support for Chacha20-Poly1305 ciphersuites following
draft-mavrogiannopoulos-chacha-tls-05 and draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305-10.
That is currently provided as technology preview and is not enabled by
default, since there are no assigned ciphersuite points by IETF and there 
is no guarrantee of compatibility between draft versions. The ciphersuite
priority string to enable it is "+CHACHA20-POLY1305".

** libgnutls: Added support for encrypt-then-authenticate in CBC
ciphersuites (RFC7366 -taking into account its errata text). This is
enabled by default and can be disabled using the %NO_ETM priority
string.

** libgnutls: Added support for the extended master secret
(triple-handshake fix) following draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-02.

** libgnutls: Added a new simple and hard to misuse AEAD API (crypto.h).

** libgnutls: SSL 3.0 is no longer included in the default priorities
list. It has to be explicitly enabled, e.g., with a string like
"NORMAL:+VERS-SSL3.0".

** libgnutls: ARCFOUR (RC4) is no longer included in the default priorities
list. It has to be explicitly enabled, e.g., with a string like
"NORMAL:+ARCFOUR-128".

** libgnutls: DSA signatures and DHE-DSS are no longer included in the
default priorities list. They have to be explicitly enabled, e.g., with
a string like "NORMAL:+DHE-DSS:+SIGN-DSA-SHA256:+SIGN-DSA-SHA1". The
DSA ciphersuites were dropped because they had no deployment at all
on the internet, to justify their inclusion.

** libgnutls: The priority string EXPORT was completely removed. The string
was already defunc as support for the EXPORT ciphersuites was removed in
GnuTLS 3.2.0.

** libgnutls: Added API to utilize system specific private keys in
"gnutls/system-keys.h". It is currently provided as technology preview
and is restricted to windows CNG keys.

** libgnutls: gnutls_x509_crt_check_hostname() and friends will use
RFC6125 comparison of hostnames. That introduces a dependency on libidn.

** libgnutls: Depend on p11-kit 0.23.1 to comply with the final
PKCS #11 URLs draft (draft-pechanec-pkcs11uri-21).

** libgnutls: Depend on nettle 3.1.

** libgnutls: Use getrandom() or getentropy() when available. That
avoids the complexity of file descriptor handling and issues with
applications closing all open file descriptors on startup.

** libgnutls: Use pthread_atfork() to detect fork when available.

** libgnutls: The gnutls_handshake() process will enforce a timeout by
default.

** libgnutls: If a key purpose (extended key usage) is specified for verification,
it is applied into intermediate certificates. The verification result
GNUTLS_CERT_PURPOSE_MISMATCH is also introduced. 

** libgnutls: When gnutls_certificate_set_x509_key_file2() is used in
combination with PKCS #11, or TPM URLs, it will utilize the provided
password as PIN if required. That removes the requirement for the
application to set a callback for PINs in that case.

** libgnutls: priority strings VERS-TLS-ALL and VERS-DTLS-ALL are 
restricted to the corresponding protocols only, and the VERS-ALL
string is introduced to catch all possible protocols.

** libgnutls: Added helper functions to obtain information on PKCS #8
structures.

** libgnutls: Certificate chains which are provided to gnutls_certificate_credentials_t
will automatically be sorted instead of failing with GNUTLS_E_CERTIFICATE_LIST_UNSORTED.

** libgnutls: Added functions to export and set the record state. That
allows for gnutls_record_send() and recv() to be offloaded (to kernel,
hardware or any other subsystem).

** libgnutls: Added the ability to register application specific URL
types, which express certificates and keys using gnutls_register_custom_url().

** libgnutls: Added API to override existing ciphers, digests and MACs, e.g.,
to override AES-GCM using a system-specific accelerator. That is, (crypto.h)
gnutls_crypto_register_cipher(), gnutls_crypto_register_aead_cipher(),
gnutls_crypto_register_mac(), and gnutls_crypto_register_digest().

** libgnutls: Added gnutls_ext_register() to register custom extensions.
Contributed by Thierry Quemerais.

** libgnutls: Added gnutls_supplemental_register() to register custom
supplemental data handshake messages. Contributed by Thierry Quemerais.

** libgnutls-openssl: it is no longer built by default.

** certtool: Added --p8-info option, which will print PKCS #8 information
even if the password is not available.

** certtool: --key-info option will print PKCS #8 encryption information
when available.

** certtool: Added the --key-id and --fingerprint options.

** certtool: Added the --verify-hostname, --verify-email and --verify-purpose
options to be used in certificate chain verification, to simulate verification
for specific hostname and key purpose (extended key usage).

** certtool: --p12-info option will print PKCS #12 MAC and cipher information
when available.

** certtool: it will print the A-label (ACE) names in addition to UTF-8.

** p11tool: added options --set-id and --set-label.

** gnutls-cli: added options --priority-list and --save-cert.

** guile: Deprecated priority API has been removed. The old priority API, 
which had been deprecated for some time, is now gone; use 'set-session-priorities!'
instead.

** guile: Remove RSA parameters and related procedures. This API had been 
deprecated.  

** guile: Fix compilation on MinGW. Previously only the static version of the 
'guile-gnutls-v-2' library would be built, preventing dynamic loading from Guile.

** API and ABI modifications:
gnutls_record_get_state: Added
gnutls_record_set_state: Added
gnutls_aead_cipher_init: Added
gnutls_aead_cipher_decrypt: Added
gnutls_aead_cipher_encrypt: Added
gnutls_aead_cipher_deinit: Added
gnutls_pkcs12_generate_mac2: Added
gnutls_pkcs12_mac_info: Added
gnutls_pkcs12_bag_enc_info: Added
gnutls_pkcs8_info: Added
gnutls_pkcs_schema_get_name: Added
gnutls_pkcs_schema_get_oid: Added
gnutls_pcert_export_x509: Added
gnutls_pcert_export_openpgp: Added
gnutls_pcert_import_x509_list: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_privkey_cpy: Added
gnutls_x509_crq_get_signature_algorithm: Added
gnutls_x509_trust_list_iter_get_ca: Added
gnutls_x509_trust_list_iter_deinit: Added
gnutls_x509_trust_list_get_issuer_by_dn: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_get_raw_issuer_by_dn: Added
gnutls_certificate_get_trust_list: Added
gnutls_privkey_export_x509: Added
gnutls_privkey_export_pkcs11: Added
gnutls_privkey_export_openpgp: Added
gnutls_privkey_import_ext3: Added
gnutls_certificate_get_x509_key: Added
gnutls_certificate_get_x509_crt: Added
gnutls_certificate_get_openpgp_key: Added
gnutls_certificate_get_openpgp_crt: Added
gnutls_record_discard_queued: Added
gnutls_session_ext_master_secret_status: Added
gnutls_priority_string_list: Added
gnutls_dh_params_import_raw2: Added
gnutls_memset: Added
gnutls_memcmp: Added
gnutls_pkcs12_bag_set_privkey: Added
gnutls_ocsp_resp_get_responder_raw_id: Added
gnutls_system_key_iter_deinit: Added
gnutls_system_key_iter_get_info: Added
gnutls_system_key_delete: Added
gnutls_system_key_add_x509: Added
gnutls_system_recv_timeout: Added
gnutls_register_custom_url: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_obj_list_import_url3: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_obj_list_import_url4: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_obj_set_info: Added
gnutls_crypto_register_cipher: Added
gnutls_crypto_register_aead_cipher: Added
gnutls_crypto_register_mac: Added
gnutls_crypto_register_digest: Added
gnutls_ext_register: Added
gnutls_supplemental_register: Added
gnutls_supplemental_recv: Added
gnutls_supplemental_send: Added
gnutls_openpgp_crt_check_email: Added
gnutls_x509_crt_check_email: Added
gnutls_handshake_set_hook_function: Modified
gnutls_pkcs11_privkey_generate3: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_copy_x509_crt2: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_copy_x509_privkey2: Added
gnutls_pkcs11_obj_list_import_url: Removed
gnutls_pkcs11_obj_list_import_url2: Removed
gnutls_certificate_client_set_retrieve_function: Removed
gnutls_certificate_server_set_retrieve_function: Removed
gnutls_certificate_set_rsa_export_params: Removed
gnutls_certificate_type_set_priority: Removed
gnutls_cipher_set_priority: Removed
gnutls_compression_set_priority: Removed
gnutls_kx_set_priority: Removed
gnutls_mac_set_priority: Removed
gnutls_protocol_set_priority: Removed
gnutls_rsa_export_get_modulus_bits: Removed
gnutls_rsa_export_get_pubkey: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_cpy: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_deinit: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_export_pkcs1: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_export_raw: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_generate2: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_import_pkcs1: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_import_raw: Removed
gnutls_rsa_params_init: Removed
gnutls_sign_callback_get: Removed
gnutls_sign_callback_set: Removed
gnutls_x509_crt_verify_data: Removed
gnutls_x509_crt_verify_hash: Removed
gnutls_pubkey_get_verify_algorithm: Removed
gnutls_x509_crt_get_verify_algorithm: Removed
gnutls_pubkey_verify_hash: Removed
gnutls_pubkey_verify_data: Removed
gnutls_record_set_max_empty_records: Removed

guile:
set-session-cipher-priority!: Removed
set-session-mac-priority!: Removed
set-session-compression-method-priority!: Removed
set-session-kx-priority!: Removed
set-session-protocol-priority!: Removed
set-session-certificate-type-priority!: Removed
set-session-default-priority!: Removed
set-session-default-export-priority!: Removed
make-rsa-parameters: Removed
rsa-parameters?: Removed
set-certificate-credentials-rsa-export-parameters!: Removed
pkcs1-import-rsa-parameters: Removed
pkcs1-export-rsa-parameters: Removed


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=========

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====================

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