[Botan-announce] Botan 1.3.12 is released

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

I've finally released Botan 1.3.12, mostly a bug fix release. There were a
number of minor CRL handling bugs, and it's now possible to remove expired
certificates from a CRL. There were also a few minor bugs in the PKCS #10
request code. I've renamed about half a dozen functions in X509_Certificate and
PKCS10_Request; right now the old versions are still there, but I'll be
removing them prior to 1.4.0, I think (check doc/deprecated.txt). Also the
Hex_Decoder bug pointed out on the list has been fixed, and a large number of
grammatical errors in the API doc (pointed out by Ken Perano), have been
corrected.

At this point I'm still hoping to release 1.4.0 sometime in late June or early
July. It may end up slipping to August, but no later than that.

The amount of time I have to work on Botan has been pretty limited since I
started working fulltime, but, looking over the 1.3.x changelog, I've realized
there hasn't been much in the way of new features; 1.3 has mostly been a
massive internal cleanup with relatively few user-visible changes. I would kind
of like there to be at least one new major feature in 1.4.0 that wasn't in
1.2.x, and I'm open to suggestions. Currently, I have the following
possibilities:

  - ECDSA
  - OCSP
  - OpenPGP
  - CMS (S/MIME without the MIME)

Anyone have any thoughts on any or all of the above? Would anyone use any of
these if they were available? Any other things people would like to see? Etc...

-Jack