NEWS entries for Nettle-3.8.1

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+NEWS for the Nettle 3.8.1 release
+
+       This is a bugfix release, fixing a few portability issues
+       reported for Nettle-3.8.
+
+       Bug fixes:
+
+       * Avoid non-posix m4 argument references in the chacha
+         implementation for arm64, powerpc64 and s390x. Reported by
+         Christian Weisgerber, fix contributed by Mamone Tarsha.
+
+       * Use explicit .machine pseudo-ops where needed in s390x
+         assembly files. Bug report by Andreas K. Huettel, fix
+         contributed by Mamone Tarsha.
+
+       Optimizations:
+
+       * Implemented runtime detection of cpu features for OpenBSD on
+         arm64. Contributed by Christian Weisgerber.
+
+       The new version is intended to be fully source and binary
+       compatible with Nettle-3.6. The shared library names are
+       libnettle.so.8.6 and libhogweed.so.6.6, with sonames
+       libnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6.
+
 NEWS for the Nettle 3.8 release
 
        This release includes a couple of new features, and many