Monthly Status Report (April)

[Matt Caswell]

As well as normal reviews, responding to user queries, wiki user
requests, OMC business, support customer issues, CLA submissions,
handling security reports, etc., key activities this month:

- Completed and merged a man page giving a libcrypto overview
- Performed alpha14 release
- Changed KTLS to only enable it if explicitly configured
- Removed the EVP_PKEY_set_alias_type function
- Fixed problem with 128 bit int detection
- Refactored some FIPS global variables to store them in the FIPS_GLOBAL 
structure instead
- Removed a TODO from X509_PUBKEY_set
- Changed the default MANSUFFIX
- Fixed some TODOs in ssl/t1_lib.c
- Removed a TODO from the unix Makefile template
- Removed a TODO from keymgmt_lib.c
- Changed the semantics of OSSL_LIB_CTX_set0_default NULL handling to 
resolve a reported issue
- Fix to libssl to defer finished MAC handling until after the state 
transition (in DTLS)
- Performed the alpha15 release
- Implemented a draft PR to enable providers to use other providers from 
the application libctx
- Fixed access to the provider flag_activated field to ensure it was 
thread safe
- Fixed a thread safety issue the provider config module
- Fixed no-dtls1_2
- Ongoing investigation into a potential 1.1.1 memory issue (#15046)
- Implemented the new public API function BIO_new_from_core_bio()


Matt