From 43b5a7275ec062ffe8a99066719a1cad4fa6a55f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:06:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS file update for soname changes. --- NEWS | 29 +++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0720e64e..6762c598 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,18 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release + This release adds a couple of new features, most notable being + support for ED448 signatures. + + It is not binary compatible with earlier releases. The shared + library names are libnettle.so.8.0 and libhogweed.so.6.0, with + sonames nibnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6. The changed + sonames are mainly to avoid upgrade problems with recent + GnuTLS versions, that depend on Nettle internals outside of + the advertised ABI. But also because of the removal of + internal poly1305 functions which were undocumented but + declared in an installed header file, see Interface changes + below. + New features: * Support for Curve448 and ED448 signatures. Contributed by @@ -53,6 +66,12 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release and unsupported. (Building with BSD make or Solaris make used to work years ago, but has not been tested recently). + Interface changes: + + * Declarations of internal poly1305.h functions have been + removed from the header file poly1305.h, to make it clear + that they are not part of the advertised API or ABI. + Miscellaneous: * A fair amount of changes to ECC internals, with a few @@ -66,16 +85,6 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release 8439 in Nettle-3.1, but that was not documented or announced at the time. - The shared library names are libnettle.so.7.1 and - libhogweed.so.6.0. The libnettle.so library is intended to be - fully binary compatible with nettle-3.5. - - The libhogweed.so library was also intended to be fully binary - compatible with nettle-3.5. However, the major version and the - soname are incremented anyway, to avoid upgrade problems with - recent GnuTLS versions that depend on Nettle internals outside - of the advertised ABI. - NEWS for the Nettle 3.5.1 release The Nettle-3.5.1 corrects a packaging mistake in Nettle-3.5. -- GitLab