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We continue to improve our TLS (HTTPS) features and support. Noteworthy in 5.2.x is:

• SSLv3 is now disabled by default!
• Dynamic TLS record size tuning.
• Add forward secrecy support with DHE.
• Add ssl_pre_handshake hook for better plugin access to SSL handling.
• Improved session cache, for better performance and scalability.
• New configuration for OpenSSL session cache, proxy.config.ssl.session_cache.auto_clear.

Jira: TS-3153, TS-2503, TS-2417, TS-2956, TS-3080, TS-3127

Plugin improvements and additions

The following improvements were made to existing plugins:

• The header_rewrite plugin no longer requires the Boost libraries.
• The stats_over_http plugin will now emit JSON numbers.

The following additions were also done to plugins:

• The mySQL remap plugin now actually builds, as part of experimental.

Jira: TS-2119, TS-3068, TS-3071, 

Plugin APIs

The following additions were made to the plugin APIs:

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Jira: TS-1432, TS-3059, TS-3101