From: Joel Rosdahl <joel@rosdahl.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:39:06 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Update news with a high-level summary of changes in 4.0 so far
X-Git-Tag: v4.0~833
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Update news with a high-level summary of changes in 4.0 so far
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diff --git a/doc/NEWS.adoc b/doc/NEWS.adoc
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 ccache news
 ===========
 
+ccache 4.0
+----------
+Unreleased
+
+High-level summary of changes (work in progress)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Compilation results are now stored in single aggregated files; before up to
+  seven files per cached result were used.
+
+- Result files are now compressed by the real-time compression algorithm
+  Zstandard by default.
+
+- BLAKE2b is now used instead of MD4 for hashing input.
+
+- Added checksumming of result files using XXH64 to detect data corruption.
+
+- Made the hard link mode less error prone.
+
+- Added opt-in support for using file cloning (on Btrfs/XFS/APFS) to copy data
+  to and from the cache.
+
+- A C++11 compiler is now required to build ccache.
+
+- (More to be written.)
+
+
 ccache 3.7.2
 ------------
 Release date: 2019-07-19