[Botan-announce] Botan 1.1.11 released

[Jack L. <ll...@ac...>]

A few days of steady hacking has produced Botan 1.1.11, the latest release
on the devel tree. Primarily, this release adds support for PKCS #10
certificate requests (including generating new ones). As a side affect,
quite a bit of X509_CA has changed - it is much more sensible to be signing
PKCS #10 requests, than random blobs of user information + a key. The old
constructor for creating a new root CA has also disappeared; this operation
is now handled by a function which creates a new self-signed certificate
(for use by a CA or end-entity).

X509_Store has seen various overhauls, mostly in the search code. Searching
can now also be done by DNS name (potentially useful for stuff done without
user interaction). I also added some hooks for a remote certificate store
(such as the HTTP certstore that's in draft status right now), but since I
haven't implemented a backend yet (and probably won't for a while)...
<shrug>

I changed a few X509_Certificate function names to be a little more
sensible/consistent, which is basically gratuitous breakage, but it _is the
devel tree so once again... <shrug>

A couple of new examples were added, and I updated the documentation (in
some places). I'll add that I've been up all night, and so there is a
reasonable chance there is something seriously broken in the release.

As it stands now, 1.1.12 will probably be out next week or so, to fix any
remaining problems (in particular the Windows stuff), followed by 1.2.0
around the last week of April.

-Jack