Hello Niels, ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
> ni...@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes: > >> I've updated the NEWS file, and I don't think there are any easy changes >> pending. Please let me know ASAP if there's anything missing in NEWS, or >> if there are additional changes you think ought to be included before >> release. > > I've created a tarball at > > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.6rc1.tar.gz > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.6rc1.tar.gz.sig > > Only recent change is the updated libhogweed soname, requested by > Dmitry. Both testing and review of the NEWS file highly appreciated. > Please report test results, both positive and negative, to the list. It builds fine on all arches running Fedora rawhide (with GCC 10): https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=43267967 I suggest a couple of minor improvements on the NEWS entry as attached.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0d31dbc3..46f97fb1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release enabled via CFLAGS (gcc --fcf-protection=full). Contributed by H.J. Lu and Simo Sorce. - * A few new functions to improve support the Chacha variant + * A few new functions to improve support for the Chacha variant with 96-bit nonce and 32-bit block counter (the existing functions use nonce and counter of 64-bit each), and functions to set the counter. Contributed by Daiki Ueno. * New interface, struct nettle_mac, for MAC (message - authentication) algorithms. This abstraction is only for + authentication code) algorithms. This abstraction is only for MACs that don't require a per-message nonce. For HMAC, the key size is fixed, and equal the digest size of the underlying hash function. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release * Fix configure check for __builtin_bswap64, the incorrect check would result in link errors on platforms missing this - function. Patch contributed by by George Koehler. + function. Patch contributed by George Koehler. * All use of old-fashioned suffix rules in the Makefiles have been replaced with %-pattern rules. Nettle's use of suffix @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ NEWS for the Nettle 3.6 release 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 + recent GnuTLS versions that depend on Nettle internals outside of the advertised ABI. NEWS for the Nettle 3.5.1 release
Regards, -- Daiki Ueno
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