GNU Libtasn1 3.1 released

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

GNU Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating ASN.1
objects including DER/BER encoding/decoding.  GNU Libtasn1 is used by
GnuTLS to handle X.509 structures and by GNU Shishi to handle Kerberos
V5 structures.

This release includes new functionality to allow parsing of simple types
without the overhead of the full decoder. In addition, it adds support
for several new ASN.1 string types.

* Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (released 2012-11-24) [stable]
- Completed rename of types:
  ASN1_ARRAY_TYPE -> asn1_static_node (was asn1_static_node_t)
- Added new types: VisibleString, NumericString, IA5String,
  TeletexString, PrintableString, UniversalString, BMPString,
  UTF8String. When re-defined a warning is being print instead of
  failing.
- Parser outputs more detailed syntax error messages.
- Added asn1_decode_simple_der() and asn1_encode_simple_der().
- Added asn1_read_value_type() to return value and type.
- Introduced ASN1_ETYPE_UTC_TIME and ASN1_ETYPE_GENERALIZED_TIME

Homepage:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-3.1.tar.gz
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-3.1.tar.gz

Here are GPG detached signatures:
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-3.1.tar.gz.sig
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-3.1.tar.gz.sig

If you need help to use Libtasn1, or want to help others, you are
invited to join the help-libtasn1 mailing list, see:
  https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-libtasn1

All manuals are available from:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/

Direct links to the manual:
  HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.html
  PDF: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/libtasn1.pdf

Direct links to the API Reference manual:
  HTML: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/reference/
  PDF: https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/reference/libtasn1.pdf

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
OpenPGP key identified by the following information:

pub   3104R/96865171 2008-05-04 [expires: 2028-04-29]
uid                  Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav <at> gnutls.org>
uid                  Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <n.mavrogiannopoulos <at>
gmail.com>
sub   2048R/9013B842 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02]
sub   2048R/1404A91D 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02]

regards,
Nikos