com php-src: Update NEWS/UPGRADING: NEWS UPGRADING

Commit: 7a90254231eb419d2d7acfc5a3ce8c7f0e9ba181 Author: Daniel Lowrey <rdlowrey@php.net> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:27:00 -0700 Parents: b4b4d9697fa43a526466165a3ca89d058296cb04 Branches: PHP-5.6 Link: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a90254231eb419d2d7acfc5a3ce8c7f0e9ba181 Log: Update NEWS/UPGRADING Changed paths: M NEWS M UPGRADING Diff: diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3b41c6a..16bdf21 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 e59a632..6758615 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 ========================================