Released: Oct 26, 2021

Updates in R5.6

Features

• All: Added support for Microsoft .NET 6.0 RC2.
• HTTP: Added support for PreAuthenticate with Digest authentication method.
• HTTP: Very small timeouts (<1000) in HttpRequest.Timeout are now treated as 1000 (one second).
• TLS Core: Improved handling of exceptions in TlsSocket.Send method.
• Cryptography: Small optimization in AVX2 implementation of ChaCha20.

Fixes

• TLS Core: Fixed possible NullReferenceException in TLS 1.2 socket after it has been closed.
• Cryptography: Fixed handling of RSAParameters without DP/DQ in AsymmetricKeyAlgorithm and PrivateKeyInfo.
• Cryptography: Fixed loading of encrypted keys with empty passwords in new OpenSSH format.