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# XML Security Library XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. The library supports major XML security standards: XML Signature XML Encryption Canonical XML (part of the LibXML2) Exclusive Canonical XML (part of the LibXML2) XML Security Library is released under the MIT Licence see the Copyright file in the distribution for details. News June 5 2018 The XML Security Library 1.2.26 release includes the following changes: Added xmlsec-mscng module based on Microsoft Cryptography API: Next Generation (vmiklos). Added support for GOST 2012 and fixed CryptoPro CSP provider for GOST R 34.10-2001 in xmlsec-mscrypto (ipechorin). Added LibreSSL 2.7 support (vishwin). Upgraded documentation build process to support the latest gtk-doc. Several other small fixes (more details). September 12 2017 The XML Security Library 1.2.25 release includes the following changes: Removed OpenSSL 0.9.8 support and several previously deprecated functions. Added SHA224 support for xmlsec-nss (vmiklos). Added configurable default linefeed for xmltree module (pablogallardo). Several other small fixes (more details). April 20 2017 The XML Security Library 1.2.24 release includes the following changes: Added ECDSA-SHA1, ECDSA-SHA256, ECDSA-SHA512 support for xmlsec-nss (vmiklos). Fixed XMLSEC_KEYINFO_FLAGS_X509DATA_DONT_VERIFY_CERTS handling (vmiklos). Disabled external entities loading by xmlsec utility app by default to prevent XXE attacks (d-hat). Improved OpenSSL version and features detection. Cleaned up, simplified, and standardized internal error reporting. Fixed a few Coverity-discovered bugs (report). Marked as deprecated all the functions in xmlsec/soap.h file and a couple other functions no longer required by xmlsec. These functions will be removed in the future releases. Several other small fixes (more details). Please note that OpenSSL 0.9.8 support will be removed in the next release of XMLSec library. October 16 2016 The XML Security Library 1.2.23 release includes the following changes: Full support for OpenSSL 1.1.0. Several other small fixes (more details).