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libssh 0.10.0

We are happy to announce that we put together a new release of libssh! With this version you will get OpenSSL 3.0 and mbedTLS 3.0 support. We also added added support for Smart Cards, ed25519 keys in PEM files, sk-ecdsa and sk-ed25519 (server side) and ssh-agent support on Windows.

Thanks to all contributors who made this release possible!

If you are new to libssh you should read our tutorial how to get started.
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You can download libssh-0.10.0 here.

Changelog

  • Added support for OpenSSL 3.0
  • Added support for mbedTLS 3
  • Added support for Smart Cards  (through openssl pkcs11 engine)
  • Added support for chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com with libgcrypt
  • Added support ed25519 keys in PEM files
  • Added support for sk-ecdsa and sk-ed25519 (server side)
  • Added support for limiting RSA key sizes and not accepting small one by default
  • Added support for ssh-agent on Windows
  • Added ssh_userauth_publickey_auto_get_current_identity() API
  • Added ssh_vlog() API
  • Added ssh_send_issue_banner() API
  • Added ssh_session_set_disconnect_message() API
  • Added new configuration options:
    • IdentityAgent
    • ModuliFile
  • Provided X11 client example
  • Disabled DSA support at build time by default (will be removed in the next release)
  • Deprecated the SCP API!
  • Deprecated old pubkey, privatekey API
  • Avoided some needless large stack buffers to minimize memory footprint
  • Removed support for OpenSSL < 1.0.1
  • Fixed parsing username@host in login name
  • Free global init mutex in the destructor on Windows
  • Fixed PEM parsing in mbedtls to support both legacy and new PKCS8 formats