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diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst index c5a71ee8..3566eb52 100644 --- a/CHANGES.rst +++ b/CHANGES.rst @@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ Version 6.0b1 --- 2021-07-18 - Some minor changes to usually invisible details of the HTML report: - Use a modern hash algorithm when fingerprinting, for high-security - environments (`issue 1189`_). + environments (`issue 1189`_). When generating the HTML report, we save the + hash of the data, to avoid regenerating an unchanged HTML page. We used to + use MD5 to generate the hash, and now use SHA-3-256. This was never a + security concern, but security scanners would notice the MD5 algorithm and + raise a false alarm. - Change how report file names are generated, to avoid leading underscores (`issue 1167`_), to avoid rare file name collisions (`issue 584`_), and to |