Changes for version 1.79 - 2017-01-03

  • Patch to fix a few inline variable declarations that cause errors for older compilers. From Andy Grundman. Thanks. Patch: Generated C code is not compatible with MSVC, AIX cc, probably others. Added some PREINIT blocks and replaced 2 cases of INIT with PREINIT. From Andy Grundman. Thanks. Patch to fix: Fails to compile if the OpenSSL library it's built against has compression support compiled out. From Stephan Wall. Thanks. Added RSA_get_key_parameters() to return a list of pointers to RSA key internals. Patch to fix some documentation typos courtesy gregor herrmann. RSA_get_key_parameters() is now only available prior OpenSSL 1.1. Testing with openssl-1.1.0b.

Modules

Perl extension for using OpenSSL
Perl module that lets SSL (HTTPS) sockets be handled as standard file handles.