From bcc2555be38c07814a49eb58191a7e1b801e77ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Niels=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 19:41:35 +0200 Subject: Update info on ABI compatibility in NEWS. --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9559ec04..0d31dbc3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.1