New OpenSSL 1.1.1j available, 1.0.2 no longer supported

[Angus Robertson 526]

Two new zips for Win32 and Win64 versions of OpenSSL 1.1.1j can now be downloadable from the Wiki at: http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download or https://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magics.asp . The latest 1.1.1 DLLs are also included in the ICS distribution SVN and overnight zip.

 

Beware SVN and the overnight zip for forthcoming V8.66 include is a major clean-up of OpenSSL functions, and may require end user application changes if low level OpenSSL functions have been used,
hopefully very rarely.   All OpenSSL functions have been renamed to their original names removing ICS f_ prefix so they now have the original OpenSSL names for commonality with other Delphi
applications.

 

OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 ceased security fix support over 12 months ago, so ICS now only supports 1.1.1, with 3.0 support due in the next few months. This removes a lot of legacy code and functions, and several old ICS functions needed for backward compatibility.  Two components only used for 1.0.2 have been removed, TSslStaticLock and TSslDynamicLock which may give an error loading forms, until they are removed.  SslContext SslOptions is now ignored, use SslOptions2 instead which has more modern options.  Can not remove SslOptions because it's saved on too many DFMs. Most modern
applications should not be using SslConext, but IcsHosts for servers or high level client components like TSslHttpRest.

 

If your application needs to use 1.0.2, you must keep using V8.65 or earlier.

 

Angus