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XCA: all versions and old releases

This application is intended for creating and managing X.509 certificates, certificate requests, RSA, DSA and EC private keys, Smartcards and CRLs.

Christian Hohnstaedt Finance & crypto #11 Finance & crypto

8 versions of XCA are listed here, from May 7, 2021 to the current 2.9.0. Each one links to the publisher’s own installer files.

2020: 1 1 20 2021: 2 2 21 2022: 0 22 2023: 1 1 23 2024: 3 3 24 2025: 1 1 25

8 versions over 5 years · about 1.6 a year

VersionDateSizeFiles
2.9.0Latest March 28, 2025 — 64-bit MSI
2.8.0 October 13, 2024 — 64-bit MSI
2.7.0 August 27, 2024 — 64-bit MSI
2.6.0 February 26, 2024 — 64-bit MSI
2.5.0 September 24, 2023 — 64-bit MSI
Release notes
__Release Notes__
- The latest release is 2.5.0
- Drop support for Qt4, old XCA < 2.0.0 databases and OpenSSL < 1.1.0
- Add Support for Qt6 and OpenSSL 3.x
- Switch from autotools/qmake to cmake
- Fix a lot of bugs (and probably added some new)
- Add translations for Indonesian, Persian and Bulgarian
- Please report issues on github <https://github.com/chris2511/xca/issues>
- a toolchain
- cmake: https://cmake.org
- Qt5 or Qt6: https://www.qt.io
- OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org (1.1.1 or higher)
- Sphinx-Build: https://www.sphinx-doc.org
Linux / Unix
- Install the dependencies
- Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git
- Configure: cmake -B build xca
- Make: cmake --build build -j5
- Install: sudo cmake --install build
- Or install local and copy later as root: DESTDIR=DEST cmake --install build --prefix /usr
Apple macos
- Install the dependencies
- Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git
- Configure: cmake -B build xca
- Make: cmake --build build -j5
- Build the DMG: cd build && cpack
- Build the PKG: cd build && cpack -G productbuild
Windows
- Install the dependencies
- Install Python for windows from the store or https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
- Install OpenSSL from here: https://slproweb.com/download/Win64OpenSSL-3_0_8.msi and verify the sha256 from https://github.com/slproweb/opensslhashes/blob/master/win32_openssl_hashes.json
- To install the Qt libraries, cmake and the MinGW compiler aqtinstall is used.
- Add the PATH shown by pip to your PATH
- Install Qt, cmake and the MinGW toolchain
- If 7z is missing, install it from the store. 7-Zip File Manager (unofficial) or from 7-zip.org
- Install the "vcredist\\vcredist_64.exe"
- Add cmake, MinGW, OpenSSL and Qt5 to your Path
- Create CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable:
- Install https://wixtoolset.org/releases/ if you want to create the MSI installer
- Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git
- Configure: cmake -B build -G "MinGW Makefiles" xca
- Make: cmake --build build -j5
- Create the Portable App: cmake --build build -t install
- Build the MSI installer (and the Portable App): cd build ; cpack
Linux
- Debian: libqt6sql6-psql libqt6sql6-mysql or libqt6sql6-odbc.
- RPM: libqt6-database-plugin-pgsql libqt6-database-plugin-mysql libqt6-database-plugin-odbc
Apple macos
- PostgreSQL: Install the https://postgresapp.com/
- ODBC: It requires the /usr/local/opt/libiodbc/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib.
- MariaDB: Probably via ODBC ?
Windows
- PostgreSQL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads (Commandline tools).
- ODBC: Use the ODBC Datasources 64bit app to configure the SQL Server
- MariaDB (MySQL): Install the Plugin from here: https://github.com/thecodemonkey86/qt_mysql_driver.
2.4.0 May 7, 2021 — 64-bit MSI
Release notes
• Unify XCA icon (certificate) on all platforms
• Close #247: Apple silicon (M1) configure fixes
• Add Microsoft BitLocker extended key usage
• Disregard OpenSSL 0.9.8 compatibility
• Add bash completion script
• Add context sensitive help
• Convert documentation from linuxdoc/SGML to sphinxdoc
• Close #258: xca aborts on exit and on access to own templates
• Close #142: Support Ed25519 Import / Export private SSH2 key
• Close #142: Support Ed25519: Key-generation, import, export
• Close #251: AuthorityKeyIdentifier: use issuer:always
• Change language maintainer of brazilian portuguese
• Close #230: Change PKCS12 export extension from .p12 to .pfx
• Close #208: XCA hung when importing EC keys. For example prime256v1
• Close #210: Make dialog to edit SAN less strict
• Close #224: Store original path/filename on import
• Close #213: configure.ac: add description to AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED
• Close #172 #46: Multiple OCSP Responders
• Store default database and recently opened file as UTF8
• Close #157 Generate and export CRLs from commandline
• Add command line support for creating CRLs, keys and analyzing items
2.3.0 April 29, 2020 — 64-bit MSI
RELEASE.2.4.0 May 7, 2021 — 64-bit MSI
Release notes
__Release Notes__
- The latest release is 2.4.0
- Most notable changes
- Add support for Ed25519 keys
- Add commandline support (e.g. generate CRL)
- Fix a lot of bugs
- Since version 2 of XCA the database format changed to SQL
- Please report issues on github <https://github.com/chris2511/xca/issues>

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