From 7a90254231eb419d2d7acfc5a3ce8c7f0e9ba181 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lowrey Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:27:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS/UPGRADING --- NEWS | 2 ++ UPGRADING | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3b41c6a055..16bdf21858 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ PHP NEWS . Peer name verification matches SAN DNS names for certs using the Subject Alternative Name x509 extension. (Daniel Lowrey) . Fixed segfault when built against OpenSSL>=1.0.1 (Daniel Lowrey) + . Peer certificates now verified by default in client socket operations + (RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/tls-peer-verification). (Daniel Lowrey) - PDO_pgsql: . Fixed Bug #42614 (PDO_pgsql: add pg_get_notify support). (Matteo) diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index e59a632918..6758615974 100755 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ PHP X.Y UPGRADE NOTES containing non-lowercase values inside JSON arrays or objects has never been accepted. +- openssl: + To prevent Man-in-the-Middle attacks against encrypted transfers client + streams now verify peer certificates by default. Previous versions + required users to manually enable peer verification. As a result of this + change, existing code using ssl:// or tls:// stream wrappers (e.g. + file_get_contents(), fsockopen(), stream_socket_client()) may no longer + connect successfully without manually disabling peer verification via the + stream context's "verify_peer" setting. Encrypted transfers delegate to + operating system certificate stores by default, so many/most users *should* + be unaffected by this transparent security enhancement. + ======================================== 2. New Features ======================================== -- 2.50.1