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authorNiels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>2020-04-06 19:41:35 +0200
committerNiels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se>2020-04-06 19:41:35 +0200
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Update info on ABI compatibility in NEWS.nettle_3.6rc1
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@@ -67,8 +67,14 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release
at the time.
The shared library names are libnettle.so.7.1 and
- libhogweed.so.5.1. It is intended to be fully binary
- compatible with nettle-3.5.
+ libhogweed.so.6.0. The libnettle.so library is intended to be
+ fully binary compatible with nettle-3.5.
+
+ The libhogweed.so library was also intended to be fully binary
+ compatible with nettle-3.5. However, the major version and the
+ soname are incremented anyway, to avoid upgrade problems with
+ recent Gnutls versions that depend on Nettle internals outside
+ of the advertised ABI.
NEWS for the Nettle 3.5.1 release