+NEWS for the Nettle 3.5.1 release
+
+ The Nettle-3.5.1 corrects a packaging mistake in Nettle-3.5.
+ The new directory x86_64/sha_ni were missing in the tar file,
+ breaking x86_64 builds with --enable-fat, and producing worse
+ performance than promised for builds with --enable-x86-sha-ni.
+ Also a few unused in-progress assembly files were accidentally
+ included in the tar file.
+
+ These problems are corrected in Nettle-3.5.1. There are no
+ other changes, and also the library version numbers are
+ unchanged.
+
NEWS for the Nettle 3.5 release
- This release adds a couple of new features and optimizations.
- It is *not* binary (ABI) compatible with earlier versions,
- although it is intended to be fully source-level (API)
- compatible with Nettle-3.4.1.
+ This release adds a couple of new features and optimizations,
+ and deletes or deprecates a few obsolete features. It is *not*
+ binary (ABI) compatible with earlier versions. Except for
+ deprecations listed below, it is intended to be fully
+ source-level (API) compatible with Nettle-3.4.1.
The shared library names are libnettle.so.7.0 and
libhogweed.so.5.0, with sonames libnettle.so.7 and
* Support for CMAC (RFC 4493), contributed by Nikos
Mavrogiannopoulos.
+ * Support for XTS mode, contributed by Simo Sorce.
+
Optimizations:
* Improved performance of the x86_64 AES implementation using
operation, benchmarked on x86_64. Table sizes unchanged,
around 16 KB per curve.
+ * In ARM fat builds, automatically select Neon implementation
+ of Chacha, where possible. Contributed by Yuriy M.
+ Kaminskiy.
+
+ Deleted features:
+
+ * The header file des-compat.h and everything declared therein
+ has been deleted, as announced earlier. This file provided a
+ subset of the old libdes/ssleay/openssl interface for DES
+ and triple-DES. DES is still supported, via the functions
+ declared in des.h.
+
+ * Functions using the old struct aes_ctx have been marked as
+ deprecated. Use the fixed key size interface instead, e.g.,
+ struct aes256_ctx, introduced in Nettle-3.0.
+
+ * The header file nettle-stdint.h, and corresponding autoconf
+ tests, have been deleted. Nettle now requires that the
+ compiler/libc provides <stdint.h>.
+
Miscellaneous:
* Support for big-endian ARM systems, contributed by Michael
gcmdata are no longer built by default. Makefile
improvements contributed by Jay Foad.
+ * The "example" program examples/eratosthenes.c has been
+ deleted.
+
+ * The contents of hash context structs, and the deprecated
+ aes_ctx struct, have been reorganized, to enable later
+ optimizations.
+
+ The shared library names are libnettle.so.7.0 and
+ libhogweed.so.5.0.
+
NEWS for the Nettle 3.4.1 release
This release fixes a few bugs, and makes the RSA private key