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| author | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2019-02-11 07:28:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Jack Lloyd <[email protected]> | 2019-02-11 07:28:32 -0500 |
| commit | d67783f3f8af0562301f1a5a36010e94f7b8d935 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b2add9ce241ef9f11a3001af748b5810be27478 /news.rst | |
| parent | eb0d6194983e7f6bdf4a3ff774705c0fead0b2d3 (diff) | |
Update news
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@@ -4,15 +4,17 @@ Release Notes Version 2.10.0, Not Yet Released ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -* Redesigned Memory_Pool class, which services allocations out of a - set of pages locked into memory (using mlock/VirtualLock). It is now +* Redesigned ``Memory_Pool`` class, which services allocations out of a + set of pages locked into memory (using ``mlock``/``VirtualLock``). It is now faster and with improved exploit mitigations. (GH #1800) * Add BMI2 implementations of SHA-512 and SHA-3 which improve performance by 25-35% on common CPUs. (GH #1815) -* Add a Thread_Pool class. It is now possible to run the tests in multiple - threads with `--test-threads=N`` flag. (GH #1819) +* Add a ``Thread_Pool`` class. It is now possible to run the tests in multiple + threads with `--test-threads=N`` flag to select the number of threads to use. + Use ``--test-threads=0`` to run with as many CPU cores as are available on the + current system. The default remains single threaded. (GH #1819) * Some functions related to encoding and decoding BigInts have been deprecated. (GH #1817) @@ -20,15 +22,15 @@ Version 2.10.0, Not Yet Released * Binary encoding and decoding of BigInts has been optimized by performing word-size operations when possible. (GH #1817) -* Rename the exception Integrity_Failure to Invalid_Authentication_Tag to make +* Rename the exception ``Integrity_Failure`` to ``Invalid_Authentication_Tag`` to make its meaning and usage more clear. The old name remains as a typedef. (GH #1816) -* Support for using Boost filesystem and MSVC's std::filesystem have been +* Support for using Boost ``filesystem`` and MSVC's ``std::filesystem`` have been removed, since already POSIX and Win32 versions had to be maintained for portability. (GH #1814) * Add a facility for sandboxing the command line util. Currently FreeBSD - (Capsicum) and OpenBSD (pledge) sandboxes are supported. (GH #1808) + (Capsicum) and OpenBSD (``pledge``) sandboxes are supported. (GH #1808) * Use ``if constexpr`` when available. |