diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4ff80c01b716d00bc534f03fd39078e0dcc48649..6db169cf74fbfa8ca44bfb82eabde23b102e8508 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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: