Released: Jan 24, 2022

Updates in R6.2

Features

• TLS Core: Optimized temporary object usage in TLS 1.3 Send/Receive methods.

Fixes

• Networking: Fixed timeout handling during name resolution.
• TLS Core: Fixed handling of TLS 1.3 signature_algorithms_cert extension.
• Cryptography: Fixed releasing of CNG handles in AES/GCM interop (issue only present in R6.1 on Windows).

Released: Jan 8, 2022

Updates in R6.1

Features

• TLS Core: Optimized receive operation in TLS 1.3.
• TLS Core: Slight optimizations in TLS 1.3 on modern platforms.
• Cryptography: Improved caching of CNG algorithm provider handles.
• Cryptography: Optimized symmetric branch of Microsoft Windows CNG (BCrypt) interop layer.

Fixes

• All: Fixed compatibility of Rebex binaries for .NET Framework 4.0 with ASP.NET 4.5 or higher.
• HTTP: Fixed workaround for server-side bug (fixed handling of servers that send more data than they announced...

Released: Nov 25, 2021

Updates in R6.0

Features

• All: Added a new set of binaries targeting Microsoft .NET 6.0. Including:
  • Microsoft Windows (x64, x86, ARM64).
  • Linux (x64, ARM32, ARM64).
  • Apple macOS (x64).
• All: Removed several obsolete and deprecated APIs.
• All: Removed support for legacy ISerializable interface from binaries for Microsoft .NET Standard.
• HTTP: Added asynchronous method overloads to WebClient class.
• SSH: ECDSA X.509 certificates in SSH - Added support for 'x509v3-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256', 'x509v3-ecdsa-sha2-nistp384' and...

Released: Nov 24, 2021

Updates in R5.7

Features

• All: Added support for Microsoft Windows 11.
• All: Added support for Microsoft .NET 6.0 on Windows, Linux and Apple macOS. Rebex assemblies targeting .NET Standard 2.1 now support .NET 6.0.
• HTTP: Added HttpRequest.AddRange() method.
• HTTP: Added HttpResponse.LastModified property.
• HTTP: Added support for CredentialCache to HttpRequest.
• HTTP: Improved handling of empty UserName in NetworkCredential for Basic and Digest authentication.
• SSH: Added support for PuTTY PPK3 format to...

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...

Released: Aug 17, 2021

Updates in R5.5

Features

• All: Added a new set of binaries targeting Microsoft .NET Core 3.1. The new set of binaries utilizes .NET Core's hardware intrinsics API and features a fast ChaCha20/Poly1305 implementation that has been previously only available on Microsoft .NET 5.0.
• HTTP: Enhanced error handling when more data than expected has been received.

Fixes

• All: Fixed compatibility with UWP and .NET Native compiler.

Released: Aug 5, 2021

Updates in R5.4

Features

• HTTP: Order of HTTP request headers as specified by HttpRequest.Headers is now used when constructing the HTTP request.

Fixes

• Networking: Fixed casing in 'Basic' HTTP proxy authorization header.
• TLS Core: Fixed parsing of TLS 1.3 Certificate handshake message spanning multiple records.
• Cryptography: Fixed Certificate.FriendlyName setter in .NET 5.0 on non-Windows platforms.

Released: Jun 18, 2021

Updates in R5.3

Features

• TLS Core: Added SslSettings.SetPreferredSuites/GetPreferredSuites methods to make it possible to specify client-side TLS cipher preference.
• TLS Core: Improved logging when remote party does not support TLS 1.3.
• TLS Core: Optimized TlsSocket.Negotiate method when TLS 1.3 is enabled but not supported by the remote side.
• Cryptography: Added support for private keys using PBKDF2 with HMAC/SHA-2 (RFC 8018 / PKCS #5 v2.1).
• Cryptography: Optimized creation of algorithm objects in CNG layer...

Released: May 9, 2021

Updates in R5.2

Features

• HTTP: Improved error handling when connection is closed prematurely in chunked mode.
• Networking: Added support for SOCKS5 servers that respond with domain name.
• SSH: Optimized usage of ChaCha20/Poly1305 in SSH.
• Cryptography: Added ChaCha20Poly1305 class that implements ChaCha20/Poly1305 with an API that resembles Microsoft .NET's AesGcm class.
• Cryptography: Added support for loading ECDSA certificates from PFX/P12 files in Microsoft .NET 5.0 and .NET Standard 2.1 on Linux and Apple...

Released: Mar 3, 2021

Updates in R5.1

Features

• All: Changed release naming scheme ('R5.1' instead of '2020 R5.1').
• Networking: More meaningful exception is throw when attempting to use HTTP CONNECT proxy with NTLM authentication on platforms that don't support it.
• Networking: Optimized timeout infrastructure in ProxySocket.Connect.
• TLS Core: Added VerifyMessage signature algorithm logging in TLS 1.3.
• TLS Core: Close/Dispose method called on TLS 1.3 socket ensures that all outstanding IO operations are canceled before the control is...