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Commit db9a7557 authored by Niels Möller's avatar Niels Möller
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NEWS update

Mention bugfix for camellia on 64-bit non-x86 platforms, and the new
base64url support.
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......@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.1 release
This release adds a couple of new features.
XXX The shared library names???
The library is mostly source-level compatible with nettle-3.0.
It is however not binary compatible, due to the introduction
of versioned symbols, and extensions to the base64 context
structs. The shared library names are libnettle.so.6.0 and
libhogweed.so.4.0, with sonames libnettle.so.6 and
libhogweed.so.4.
Bug fixes:
* Fixed a missing include of <limits.h>, which made the
camellia implementation fail on all 64-bit non-x86
platforms.
* Eliminate out-of-bounds reads in the C implementation of
memxor (related to valgrind's --partial-loads-ok flag).
......@@ -33,13 +42,16 @@ XXX The shared library names???
mini-gmp are *not* binary compatible with regular builds,
and more likely to leak side-channel information.
One intended usecase is for small embedded applications
One intended use-case is for small embedded applications
which need to verify digital signatures.
XXX * The shared libraries are now built with versioned symbols.
Should reduce problems in case a program links explicitly
both to nettle and/or hogweed, and to gnutls, and the
program and gnutls expects different versions.
* The shared libraries are now built with versioned symbols.
Should reduce problems in case a program links explicitly to
nettle and/or hogweed, and to gnutls, and the program and
gnutls expect different versions.
* Support for "URL-safe" base64 encoding and decoding, as
specified in RFC 4648. Contributed by Amos Jeffries.
Optimizations:
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