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authorNiels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>2022-07-26 20:35:55 +0200
committerNiels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>2023-05-03 10:27:49 +0200
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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