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Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 13 11:21:09 2020 +0100
Update NEWS.
* NEWS (Changes in alpha 2.9.x): Add (web client) news.
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@@ -285,6 +285,19 @@ would return an empty list for negative count. Now there
is only one
`iota' function with the extended semantics of SRFI-1. Note that as an
incompatible change, core `iota' no longer accepts a negative count.
+** Improved Transport Layer Security (TLS) support in (web client)
+
+`http-request', `http-get', and related procedures from (web client) are
+able to access content over TLS ("HTTPS") since Guile 2.2. However,
+that support lacked important facilities, which are now available.
+
+First, these procedures now have a #:verify-certificates? parameter to
+enable or disable the verification of X.509 server certificates. The
+new `x509-certificate-directory' SRFI-39 parameter specifies X.509
+certificates are searched for. Second, HTTPS proxies are now supported
+(in addition to HTTP proxies) and the new `current-https-proxy'
+parameter controls that. See "Web Client" in the manual for details.
+
* New deprecations
** scm_t_uint8, etc deprecated in favor of C99 stdint.h
