Subject: RELEASE: libssh2 1.10.0

RELEASE: libssh2 1.10.0

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:45:37 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

I'm happy to announce that we've just packaged and shipped libssh2 1.10.0

You find it at https://libssh2.org/

This release includes the following enhancements and bugfixes:

  o adds agent forwarding support
  o adds OpenSSH Agent support on Windows
  o adds ECDSA key support using the Mbed TLS backend
  o adds ECDSA cert authentication
  o adds diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,
    diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 key exchanges
  o adds support for PKIX key reading when using ed25519 with OpenSSL
  o adds support for EWOULDBLOCK on VMS systems
  o adds support for building with OpenSSL 3
  o adds support for using FIPS mode in OpenSSL
  o adds debug symbols when building with MSVC
  o adds support for building on the 3DS
  o adds unicode build support on Windows
  o restores os400 building
  o increases min, max and opt Diffie Hellman group values
  o improves portiablity of the make file
  o improves timeout behavior with 2FA keyboard auth
  o various improvements to the Wincng backend
  o fixes reading parital packet replies when using an agent
  o fixes Diffie Hellman key exchange on Windows 1903+ builds
  o fixes building tests with older versions of OpenSSL
  o fixes possible multiple definition warnings
  o fixes potential cast issues _libssh2_ecdsa_key_get_curve_type()
  o fixes potential use after free if libssh2_init() is called twice
  o improved linking when using Mbed TLS
  o fixes call to libssh2_crypto_exit() if crypto hasn't been initialized
  o fixes crash when loading public keys with no id
  o fixes possible out of bounds read when exchanging keys
  o fixes possible out of bounds read when reading packets
  o fixes possible out of bounds read when opening an X11 connection
  o fixes possible out of bounds read when ecdh host keys
  o fixes possible hang when trying to read a disconnected socket
  o fixes a crash when using the delayed compression option
  o fixes read error with large known host entries
  o fixes various warnings
  o fixes various small memory leaks
  o improved error handling, various detailed errors will now be reported
  o builds are now using OSS-Fuzz
  o builds now use autoreconf instead of a custom build script
  o cmake now respects install directory
  o improved CI backend
  o updated HACKING-CRYPTO documentation
  o use markdown file extensions
  o improved unit tests

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

   katzer, Orgad Shaneh, mark-i-m, Zenju, axjowa, Thilo Schulz,
   Etienne Samson, hlefebvre, seba30, Panos, jethrogb, Fabrice Fontaine,
   Will Cosgrove, Daniel Stenberg, Michael Buckley, Wallace Souza Silva,
   Romain-Geissler-1A, meierha, Tseng Jun, Thomas Klausner, Brendan Shanks,
   Harry Sintonen, monnerat, Koutheir Attouchi, Marc Hörsken, yann-morin-1998,
   Wez Furlong, TDi-jonesds, David Benjamin, Max Dymond, Igor Klevanets,
   Viktor Szakats, Laurent Stacul, Mstrodl, Gabriel Smith, MarcT512,
   Paul Capron, teottin, Tor Erik Ottinsen, Brian Inglis

Thanks everyone!

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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Received on 2021-08-29