NEWS entries for Nettle-3.7.1.

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+NEWS for the Nettle 3.7.1 release
+
+       This is primarily a bug fix release, fixing a couple of
+       problems found in Nettle-3.7.
+
+       The new version is intended to be fully source and binary
+       compatible with Nettle-3.6. The shared library names are
+       libnettle.so.8.2 and libhogweed.so.6.2, with sonames
+       libnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6.
+
+       Bug fixes:
+
+       * Fix bug in chacha counter update logic. The problem affected
+         ppc64 and ppc64el, with the new altivec assembly code
+         enabled. Reported by Andreas Metzler, after breakage in
+         GnuTLS tests on ppc64.
+
+       * Support for big-endian ARM platforms has been restored.
+         Fixes contributed by Michael Weiser.
+
+       * Fix build problem on OpenBSD/powerpc64, reported by Jasper
+         Lievisse Adriaanse.
+
+       * Fix corner case bug in ECDSA verify, it would produce
+         incorrect result in the unlikely case of an all-zero
+         message hash. Reported by Guido Vranken.
+
+       New features:
+
+       * Support for pbkdf2_hmac_sha384 and pbkdf2_hmac_sha512,
+         contributed by Nicolas Mora.
+
+       Miscellaneous:
+
+       * Poorly performing ARM Neon code for doing single-block
+         Salsa20 and Chacha has been deleted. The code to do two or
+         three blocks in parallel, introduced in Nettle-3.7, is
+         unchanged.
+
 NEWS for the Nettle 3.7 release
 
        This release adds one new feature, the bcrypt password hashing