Dear Users,

I have released version 5.81 of stunnel.

### Version 5.81, 2026.09.16, urgency: HIGH
* Security bugfixes
  - OpenSSL DLLs updated to version 3.5.8.
  - Fixed truncation and out-of-bounds reads when inheriting binary
    session ticket keys containing null bytes (thanks to Jose A. Diaz).
  - Prevented OCSP stapling response failures from terminating the
    daemon (thanks to Jose A. Diaz).
* Bugfixes
  - Avoided spurious sysconf error messages after successful descriptor-limit
    queries on platforms where a successful call may change errno.
  - Fixed a potential crash when parsing empty ASCII PSK secrets
    (thanks to Jose A. Diaz).
  - Fixed a memory leak after DTLS listener poll errors and timeouts
    (thanks to Jose A. Diaz).
  - Fixed memory leaks during NTLM HTTP proxy negotiation
    (thanks to Jose A. Diaz).
  - Fixed early startup logging before thread lock initialization
    (thanks to Jose A. Diaz).
  - Rejected excessively nested configuration includes instead of
    consuming the process stack recursively.
* Features
  - Improved TLS and DTLS shutdown diagnostics.

Home page: https://www.stunnel.org/

Download: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html

SHA-256 hashes:
1d1b48fa26a06a5a035ca5ddc7377c75d5d78ad6f3b4886352a84818c854f932  stunnel-5.81.tar.gz
ec16df6313dced7c84f20dbb9c677847d0a5219bdd35ab40cde18c135abd0411  stunnel-5.81-win64-installer.exe
5eec038e3a9c44d135942c2486ffa5156c02cfcf31bb5b7a65c6134c459a49f9  stunnel-5.81-android.zip

Best regards,
    Mike