NSS 3.59.1 release notes

Introduction

The NSS team has released Network Security Services (NSS) 3.59.1 on 18 December 2020, which is a patch release for NSS 3.59.

Distribution Information

The HG tag is NSS_3_59_1_RTM. NSS 3.59.1 requires NSPR 4.29 or newer.

NSS 3.59.1 source distributions are available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure HTTPS download:

• Source tarballs: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_59_1_RTM/src/

Other releases are available Release notes for recent versions of NSS.

Bugs fixed in NSS 3.59.1

• Bug 1679290 - Fix potential deadlock with certain third-party PKCS11 modules.

Compatibility

NSS 3.59.1 shared libraries are backward compatible with all older NSS 3.x shared libraries. A program linked with older NSS 3.x shared libraries will work with NSS 3.59.1 shared libraries without recompiling or relinking. Furthermore, applications that restrict their use of NSS APIs to the functions listed in NSS Public Functions will remain compatible with future versions of the NSS shared libraries.

Feedback

Bugs discovered should be reported by filing a bug report with bugzilla.mozilla.org (product NSS).