A free software project maintaining an LGPL-licensed SSL library for small-footprint embedded devices has achieved a significant dot release. The axTLS project says its v1.1.0 release adds a tightly integrated custom web server, along with numerous other improvements and fixes.

The project emerged in May of last year, and produced the first stable axTLS 1.0.0 release last June. That release incorporated an https daemon based on Anti-Web, a CGI-capable embedded webserver.

As of axTLS 1.1.0, the library ships with a custom “axhttpd” daemon said to enjoy tighter integration. Additional improvements listed on the 1.1.0 changelog include “Fragmentation implemented and received packet sizes checked,” and “Mutexing on an SSLCTX instance is now an option.”

The axTLS project aims to produce a highly configurable SSL library supporting TLSv1 (Transport Layer Security). The library features a graphical build utility based on mconf, the familiar ncurses menu tool used by busybox and the Linux kernel project.

axTLS's mconf-based configuration menu

See our earlier axTLS coverage and the project changelog for more details.

 
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