From fa44247b2bb9b9077e445436b3f7808f5ba96397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:38:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS entries for Nettle-3.7.1. --- NEWS | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 35a5ae6c..af797434 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,42 @@ +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 -- 2.47.2