Announcement: OpenSSL version 0.9.8k

The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.8k of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a moderate security and bugfix release. For a complete list of changes, please see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES.

We consider OpenSSL 0.9.8k to be the best version of OpenSSL available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.8k is available for download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you can find the various FTP mirrors under http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html):

• http://www.openssl.org/source/
• ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/

The distribution file name is:

• openssl-0.9.8k.tar.gz
  Size: 3852259
  MD5 checksum: e555c6d58d276aec7fdc53363e338ab3
  SHA1 checksum: 3ba079f91d3c1ec90a36dcd1d43857165035703f
  

The checksums were calculated using the following commands:

    openssl md5 openssl-0.9.*.tar.gz
    openssl sha1 openssl-0.9.*.tar.gz

Yours,
The OpenSSL Project Team...

    Mark J. Cox             Nils Larsch         Ulf Möller
    Ralf S. Engelschall     Ben Laurie          Andy Polyakov
    Dr. Stephen Henson      Richard Levitte     Geoff Thorpe
    Lutz Jänicke            Bodo Möller