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+Version 1.9.9, 2010-06-28
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+A new pure virtual function has been added to ``Filter``, ``name``
+which simply returns some useful identifier for the object. Any
+out-of-tree ``Filter`` implementations will need to be updated.
+
+Add ``Keyed_Filter::valid_iv_length`` which makes it possible to query
+as to what IV length(s) a particular filter allows. Previously,
+partially because there was no such query mechanism, if a filter did
+not support IVs at all, then calls to ``set_iv`` would be silently
+ignored. Now an exception about the invalid IV length will be thrown.
+
+The default iteration count for the password based encryption schemes
+has been increased from 2048 to 10000. This should make
+password-guessing attacks against private keys encrypted with versions
+after this release somewhat harder.
+
+New functions for encoding public and private keys to binary,
+``X509::BER_encode`` and ``PKCS8::BER_encode`` have been added.
+
+Problems compiling under Apple's version of GCC 4.2.1 and on 64-bit
+MIPS systems using GCC 4.4 or later were fixed.
+
+The coverage of Doxygen documentation comments has significantly
+improved in this release.