ICS Beta V9.2 and OpenSSL 3.3.0

[Angus Robertson 527]

ICS V9.2 has started the beta process, and can be downloaded from https://svn.overbyte.be/svn/icsv9/ or the overnight zip from https://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download or https://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magics.asp

 

This beta version of V9.2 adds a new feature release of OpenSSL 3.3.0 and fixes a number of bugs mostly introduced in V9.1, but also two long term HTTP URL in the client and server software where missing / delimiters could cause problems, and fixing server authentication issues with POST requests. Several others issues discussed on Delphi-Praxis are also fixed, but not all, yet.

 

This beta also includes a new 'ICS Intermediate Short' SSL certificate to replace the one in V9.0 that has just expired, it is used by ICS to generate temporary server certificates to allow SSL servers to run until a Let's Encrypt or commercial certificate is installed.  

 

The OverbyteIcsSslMultiWebServ sample has various improvements to test authentication more thoroughly (the DDService version is not done yet).

 

Only Delphi 10.41 and 10.42 (10.4 with updates 1 or 2) will install correctly with the new install packages, the original RTM version does not support the package LIB suffix: $(Auto) so you must change it manually for each package to 21.0.

 

OpenSSL 3.3.0 is now the default in the OverbyteIcsDefs.inc file and the ICS-OpenSSL path, ICS does not use any of the new features (nor those in 3.1 or 3.2).

 

Now that OpenSSL is more closely integrated with ICS, updating for security fixes will become more complicated, needing files in two or more directories to be updated.  When OpenSSL does the next batch of security fix versions (scheduled quarterly), I'll generate a zip with all the new files and directories that can be extracted over an existing ICS installation with all the new files.  

 

Angus

 

[ertank 21]

Hi,

 

Those not needing to embed OpenSSL libraries, will it be enough to comment out {$DEFINE OpenSSL_Resource_Files} in OverbyteIcsDefs.inc?

 

Thanks.

[Angus Robertson 527]

{.$DEFINE OpenSSL_Resource_Files} will stop OpenSSL being linked, {$DEFINE] OpenSSL_ProgramData}  then helps determine where the DLLs are located. 

 

readme9.txt now has a lengthy section describing all the defines.

 

Angus