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ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.8.1
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Niels Möller |
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ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.8.1 |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:40:42 +0200 |
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I've prepared a bugfix minor release of GNU Nettle, a low-level
cryptographics library. See NEWS entries below.
The Nettle home page can be found at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/, and the manual at
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html.
The release can be downloaded from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.8.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.8.1.tar.gz
https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.8.1.tar.gz
Happy hacking,
/Niels Möller
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.
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