Monthly Status Report (June 2021)

[Richard Levitte]

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

* Development:
  - STORE: Fix OSSL_STORE_open_ex() error reporting
    (PR openssl/openssl#15476)
  - Decoding PKCS#8: separate decoding of encrypted and unencrypted PKCS#8
    (PR openssl/openssl#15498)
  - Configure: variable expand GENERATE values too
    (PR openssl/openssl#15554)
  - PROV: Specify correct signature sizes for ED25519 and ED448 signatures
    (PR openssl/openssl#15565)
  - DECODER & ENCODER: use property definitions instead of getting implementation parameters
    (PR openssl/openssl#15570)
  - util/mknum.pl: Allow unset ordinals in beta1-dev
    (PR openssl/openssl#15578)
  - test/recipes/80-test_cmp_http.t: Simplify test_cmp_http()
    (PR openssl/openssl#15580)
  - Deprecate EVP_CIPHER_impl_ctx_size and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_buf_noconst
    (PR openssl/openssl#15584)
  - Refactor XXX_do_all_provided() to behave like XXX_fetch()
    (PR openssl/openssl#15604)
  - FIPS: don't include crypto/passphrase.c in libfips.a 
    (PR openssl/openssl#15615)
  - OpenSSL::Test.pm: Replace all uses of rel2abs() with abs_path()
    (PR openssl/openssl#15644)
  - APPS: Restore the possibility to combine -pubout with -text
    (PR openssl/openssl#15658)
  - STORE: Make OSSL_STORE_LOADER_fetch() consistent with all other fetch functions
    (PR openssl/openssl#15689)
  - Configure: Allow spaces around '=' in all build.info statements
    (PR openssl/openssl#15691)
  - Clean away remaining Travis related files
    (PR openssl/openssl#15692)
  - OpenSSL::Test: Treat SRCDATA directory specially, as it might not exist
    (PR openssl/openssl#15700)
  - OpenSSL::Test: If __cwd() is to create the directory, do it early
    (PR openssl/openssl#15701)
  - Windows Github CI: test in Windows 2016 as well
    (PR openssl/openssl#15709)
  - Building: Add necessary dependencies for linker scripts and .rc files
    (PR openssl/openssl#15717)
  - CORE: Move away the allocation of the temporary no_cache method store
    (PR openssl/openssl#15737)
  - CORE: Do a bit of cleanup of core fetching
    (PR openssl/openssl#15750)
  - VMS build: drop a spurious debug print
    (PR openssl/openssl#15758)
  - DSO: Fix the VMS DSO name converter to actually do something
    (PR openssl/openssl#15765)
  - TEST: Change 'catdir' to 'catfile' when dealing with files, in run_tests.pl
    (PR openssl/openssl#15767)
  - TEST: Make test/recipes/01-test_symbol_presence.t more platform agnostic
    (PR openssl/openssl#15771)
  - TEST: Display the correct shared library name
    (PR openssl/openssl#15776)
  - Make util/wrap.pl work better on VMS
    (PR openssl/openssl#15791)
  - test/recipes/80-test_cmp_http.t: Kill the mock server brutally
    (PR openssl/openssl#15797)
  - STORE: Fix OSSL_STORE_open_ex() error reporting, take 2
    (PR openssl/openssl#15820)
  - TESTS: drop explicit quotes from empty command line arguments
    (PR openssl/openssl#15822)
  - Fix definition of ossl_intmax_t and ossl_uintmax_t
    (PR openssl/openssl#15825)
  - test/recipes/80-test_cmp_http.t: use app() rather than cmd()
    (PR openssl/openssl#15846)
  - Adapt shlibloadtest for VMS
    (PR openssl/openssl#15872)
  - ENCODER & DECODER: Allow en/decoders to have multiple names
    (PR openssl/openssl#15904)
  - Fix 'openssl req' to correctly use the algorithm from '-newkey algo:nnnn'
    (PR openssl/openssl#15912)
  - PROV: Have our PEM->DER decoder only recognise our PEM names
    (PR openssl/openssl#15930)
  - ENCODER & DECODER: Make a tighter coupling between en/decoders and keymgmt
    (PR openssl/openssl#15933)
  - DECODER & ENCODER: Make sure to pass around the original selection bits
    (PR openssl/openssl#15934)
* Web:
  - bin/mk-manpages3: install more than just HTML files
    (PR openssl/web#241)
* Internal:
  - Worked on more details of the FIPS buildbot master
-- 
Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/