From: Niels Möller Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:27:46 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Mention that --enable-shared now is the default. X-Git-Tag: nettle_2.5_release_20120707~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=801ea0ed90cf07c29ce2f62e368fda070710ebab;p=thirdparty%2Fnettle.git Mention that --enable-shared now is the default. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ece26035..4957f80e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,18 +31,27 @@ NEWS for the 2.5 release input in the form of a "DigestInfo". Suggested by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos. - Miscellaneous: + Configuration: + * Building of shared libraries (./configure --enable-shared) + is now enabled by default. + * Various portability fixes for MacOS and M$ Windows. A lot of this work done by Martin Storsjö. * In particular, Nettle now hopefully works on 64-bit Windows builds, "W64", including the x86_64 assembly code. + Miscellaneous: + * Documentation and example programs for the base16 and base64 functions. Was contributed by Jeronimo Pellegrini back in 2006, but unfortunately forgotten until now. + * Use an additional table to avoid GF2^8 multiplications in + aes_invert_key (mainly used by aes_set_decrypt_key). Also + tabulate round constants in aes_set_encrypt_key. + * The nettle repository has been migrated from cvs to git, with a public repository at http://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle. To make it independent of @@ -50,10 +59,6 @@ NEWS for the 2.5 release While at it, files have also been converted from latin-1 to utf-8. - * Use an additional table to avoid GF2^8 multiplications in - aes_invert_key (mainly used by aes_set_decrypt_key). Also - tabulate round constants in aes_set_encrypt_key. - The libraries are intended to be binary compatible with nettle-2.2 and later. The shared library names are libnettle.so.4.4 and libhogweed.so.2.2, with sonames still