From bcc2555be38c07814a49eb58191a7e1b801e77ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 19:41:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update info on ABI compatibility in NEWS.

---
 NEWS | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9559ec04..0d31dbc3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -67,8 +67,14 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release
 	  at the time.
 
 	The shared library names are libnettle.so.7.1 and
-	libhogweed.so.5.1. It is intended to be fully binary
-	compatible with nettle-3.5.
+	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
 
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