NEWS update for Nettle-3.5.

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+2019-05-11  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+       * NEWS: More updates for Nettle-3.5.
+
 2019-04-27  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
 
        From Simo Sorce:

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        * 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
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          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.
+
+       Deprecations:
+
+       * Functions using the old struct aes_context have been marked
+         as deprecated. Use the fixed key size interface instead,
+         e.g., struct aes256_ctx, introduced in Nettle-3.0.
+
        Miscellaneous:
 
        * Support for big-endian ARM systems, contributed by Michael
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          gcmdata are no longer built by default. Makefile
          improvements contributed by Jay Foad.
 
+       * The header file nettle-stdint.h, and corresponding autoconf
+         tests, have been deleted. Nettle now requires that the
+         compiler/libc provides <stdint.h>.
+
+       * 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.
+
 NEWS for the Nettle 3.4.1 release
 
        This release fixes a few bugs, and makes the RSA private key