Late Monthly Status Report (July 2020)

[Richard Levitte]

Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business,
normal system administration tasks, small fixes, etc., key activities
this month:

* Development:

  - [closed in favor of #12512] WIP: OSSL_STORE for providers
    (PR openssl/openssl#9389)
  - Configure: Check source and build dir equality a little more thoroughly
    (PR openssl/openssl#12337)
  - util/perl/OpenSSL/config.pm: move misplaced Windows and VMS entries
    (PR openssl/openssl#12339)
  - Refactor ERR codes
    (PRs openssl/openssl#12314, openssl/openssl#12343)
  - Configure: fix handling of build.info attributes with value
    (PR openssl/openssl#12344)
  - Configuration and build:  Fix solaris tags
    (PR openssl/openssl#12360)
  - CORE: perform post-condition in algorithm_do_this() under all circumstances
    (PR openssl/openssl#12365)
  - DOC: install documentation without execution permissions.
    (PR openssl/openssl#12373)
  - Makefile template: fix incorrect treatment of produced document files
    (PR openssl/openssl#12374)
  - BN: Check endianness in run-time, in BN_native2bn() and BN_bn2nativepad()
    (PR openssl/openssl#12390)
  - OSSL_DESERIALIZER: New API for provider based deserializers
    (PR openssl/openssl#12410)
  - util/find-doc-nits: read full declarations as one line in name_synopsis()
    (PR openssl/openssl#12452)
  - Fix typo for SSL_get_peer_certificate()
    (PR openssl/openssl#12468)
  - PROV: Move bio_prov.c from libcommon.a to libfips.a / libnonfips.a
    (PR openssl/openssl#12486)
  - PROV: Add a DER to RSA-PSS deserializer implementation
    (PR openssl/openssl#12492)
  - util/find-doc-nits: Relax check of function declarations in name_synopsis()
    (PR openssl/openssl#12494)

* System Administration:

  - Performed operating system upgrade on our main machine

* Other:

  - Performed the release of OpenSSL 3.0.0 alpha5

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/