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* 1.3.14, June 12, 2004
 - Added support for AEP's AEP1000/AEP2000 crypto cards
 - Added a Mutex module using Qt, from Justin Karneges
 - Added support for engine loading in LibraryInitializer
 - Tweaked SecureAllocator, giving 20% better performance under heavy load
 - Added timer and memory locking modules for Win32 (tm_win32, ml_win32)
 - Renamed PK_Engine to Engine_Core
 - Improved the Karatsuba cutoff points
 - Fixes for compiling with GCC 3.4 and Sun C++ 5.5
 - Fixes for Linux/s390, OpenBSD, and Solaris
 - Added support for Linux/s390x
 - The configure script was totally broken for 'generic' OS
 - Removed Montgomery reduction due to bugs
 - Removed an unused header, pkcs8alg.h
 - check --validate returns an error code if any tests failed
 - Removed duplicate entry in Unix command list for es_unix
 - Moved the Cert_Usage enumeration into X509_Store
 - Added new timing methods for PK benchmarks, clock_gettime and RDTSC
 - Fixed a few minor bugs in the configure script
 - Removed some deprecated functions from x509cert.h and pkcs10.h
 - Removed the 'minimal' module, has to be updated for Engine support
 - Changed MP_WORD_BITS macro to BOTAN_MP_WORD_BITS to clean up namespace
 - Documentation updates

* 1.3.13, May 15, 2004
 - Major fixes for Cygwin builds
 - Minor MacOS X install fixes
 - The configure script is a little better at picking the right modules
 - Removed ml_unix from the 'unix' module set for Cygwin compatibility
 - Fixed a stupid compile problem in pkcs10.h

* 1.3.12, May 2, 2004
 - Added ability to remove old entries from CRLs
 - Swapped the first two arguments of X509_CA::update_crl()
 - Added an < operator for MemoryRegion, so it can be used as a std::map key
 - Changed X.509 searching by DNS name from substring to full string compares
 - Renamed a few X509_Certificate and PKCS10_Request member functions
 - Fixed a problem when decoding some PKCS #10 requests
 - Hex_Decoder would not check inputs, reported by Vaclav Ovsik
 - Changed default CRL expire time from 30 days to 7 days
 - X509_CRL's default PEM header is now "X509 CRL", for OpenSSL compatibility
 - Corrected errors in the API doc, fixes from Ken Perano
 - More documentation about the Pipe/Filter code

* 1.3.11, April 1, 2004
 - Fixed two show-stopping bugs in PKCS10_Request
 - Added some sanity checks in Pipe/Filter
 - The DNS and URI entries would get swapped in subjectAlternativeNames
 - MAC_Filter is now willing to not take a key at creation time
 - Setting the expiration times of certs and CRLs is more flexible
 - Fixed problems building on AIX with GCC
 - Fixed some problems in the tutorial pointed out by Dominik Vogt
 - Documentation updates

* 1.3.10, March 27, 2004
 - Added support for OpenPGP's ASCII armor format
 - Cleaned up the RNG system; seeding is much more flexible
 - Added simple autoconfiguration abilities to configure.pl
 - Fixed a GCC 2.95.x compile problem
 - Updated the example configuration file
 - Documentation updates

* 1.3.9, March 7, 2004
 - Added an engine using OpenSSL (requires 0.9.7 or later)
 - X509_Certificate would lose email addresses stored in the DN
 - Fixed a missing initialization in a BigInt constructor
 - Fixed several Visual C++ compile problems
 - Fixed some BeOS build problems
 - Fixed the WiderWake benchmark

* 1.3.8, December 30, 2003
 - Internal changes to PK algorithms to divide data and algorithms
 - DSA/DH/NR/ElGamal constructors accept taking just the private key again
 - ElGamal keys now support being imported/exported as ASN.1 objects
 - Much more consistent and complete error checking in PK algorithms
 - Support for arbitrary backends (engines) for PK operations
 - Added Montgomery reductions
 - Added an engine that uses GNU MP (requires 4.1 or later)
 - Removed the obsolete mp_gmp module
 - Moved several initialization/shutdown functions to init.h
 - Major refactoring of the memory containers
 - New non-locking container, MemoryVector
 - Fixed 64-bit problems in BigInt::set_bit/clear_bit
 - Renamed PK_Key::check_params() to check_key()
 - Some incompatible changes to OctetString
 - Added version checking macros in version.h
 - Removed the fips140 module pending rewrite
 - Added some functions and hooks to help GUIs
 - Moved more shared code into MDx_HashFunction
 - Added a policy hook for specifying the encoding of X.509 strings

* 1.3.7, December 12, 2003
 - Fixed a big security problem in es_unix
 - Fixed several stability problems in es_unix
 - Expanded the list of programs es_unix will try to use
 - SecureAllocator now only preallocates blocks in special cases
 - Added a special case in Global_RNG::seed for forcing a full poll
 - Removed the FIPS 186 RNG added in 1.3.5 pending further testing
 - Configure updates for PowerPC CPUs
 - Removed the (never tested) VAX support
 - Added support for S/390 Linux

* 1.3.6, December 7, 2003
 - Added a new module 'minimal', which disables most algorithms
 - SecureAllocator allocates a few blocks at startup
 - A few minor MPI cleanups
 - RPM spec file cleanups and fixes

* 1.3.5, November 30, 2003
 - Major improvements in ASN.1 string handling
 - Added partial support for ASN.1 UTF8 STRINGs and BMP STRINGs
 - Added partial support for the X.509v3 certificate policies extension
 - Centralized the handling of character set information
 - Added FIPS 140-2 startup self tests
 - Added a module (fips140) for doing extra FIPS 140-2 tests
 - Added FIPS 186-2 RNG
 - Improved ASN.1 BIT STRING handling
 - Removed a memory leak in PKCS10_Request
 - The encoding of DirectoryString now follows PKIX guidelines
 - Fixed some of the character set dependencies
 - Fixed a DER encoding error for tags greater than 30
 - The BER decoder can now handle tags larger than 30
 - Fixed tm_hard.cpp to recognize SPARC on more systems
 - Workarounds for a GCC 2.95.x bug in x509find.cpp
 - RPM changed to install into /usr instead of /usr/local
 - Added support for QNX

* 1.3.4, November 21, 2003
 - Added a module that does certain MPI operations using GNU MP
 - Added the X9.42 Diffie-Hellman PRF
 - The Zlib and Bzip2 objects now use custom allocators
 - Added member functions for directly hashing/MACing SecureVectors
 - Minor optimizations to the MPI addition and subtraction algorithms
 - Some cleanups in the low-level MPI code
 - Created separate AES-{128,192,256} objects

* 1.3.3, November 17, 2003
 - The library can now be repeatedly initialized and shutdown without crashing
 - Fixed an off-by-one error in the CTS code
 - Fixed an error in the EMSA4 verification code
 - Fixed a memory leak in mutex.cpp (pointed out by James Widener)
 - Fixed a memory leak in Pthread_Mutex
 - Fixed several memory leaks in the testing code
 - Bulletproofed the EMSA/EME/KDF/MGF retrieval functions
 - Minor cleanups in SecureAllocator
 - Removed a needless mutex guarding the (stateless) global timer
 - Fixed a piece of bash-specific code in botan-config
 - X.509 objects report more information about decoding errors
 - Cleaned up some of the exception handling
 - Updated the example config file with new OIDSs
 - Moved the build instructions into a separate document, building.tex

* 1.3.2, November 13, 2003
 - Fixed a bug preventing DSA signatures from verifying on X.509 objects
 - Made the X509_Store search routines more efficient and flexible
 - Added a function to X509_PublicKey to do easy public/private key matching
 - Added support for decoding indefinite length BER data
 - Changed Pipe's peek() to take an offset
 - Removed Filter::set_owns in favor of the new incr_owns function
 - Removed BigInt::zero() and BigInt::one()
 - Renamed the PEM related options from base/pem_* to pem/*
 - Added an option to specify the line width when encoding PEM
 - Removed the "rng/safe_longterm" option; it's always on now
 - Changed the cipher used for RNG super-encryption from ARC4 to WiderWake4+1
 - Cleaned up the base64/hex encoders and decoders
 - Added an ASN.1/BER decoder as an example
 - AES had its internals marked 'public' in previous versions
 - Changed the value of the ASN.1 NO_OBJECT enum
 - Various new hacks in the configure script
 - Removed the already nominal support for SunOS

* 1.3.1, November 4, 2003
 - Generalized a few pieces of the DER encoder
 - PKCS8::load_key would fail if handed an unencrypted key
 - Added a failsafe so PKCS #8 key decoding can't go into an infinite loop

* 1.3.0, November 2, 2003
 - Major redesign of the PKCS #8 private key import/export system
 - Added a small amount of UI interface code for getting passphrases
 - Added heuristics that tell if a key, cert, etc is stored as PEM or BER
 - Removed CS-Cipher, SHARK, ThreeWay, MD5-MAC, and EMAC
 - Removed certain deprecated constructors of RSA, DSA, DH, RW, NR
 - Made PEM decoding more forgiving of extra text before the header