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@@ -40,15 +40,19 @@ Version 2.9.0, Not Yet Released * In the command line interface, add support for reading passphrases from the terminal with echo disabled (GH #1756) -* Add CT::Mask type to simplify const-time programming (GH #1751) +* Add ``CT::Mask`` type to simplify const-time programming (GH #1751) * Add new configure options ``--disable-bmi2``, ``--disable-rdrand``, and ``--disable-rdseed`` to prevent use of those instruction sets. -* Add error_type and error_code functions to Exception type (GH #1744) +* Add ``error_type`` and ``error_code`` functions to Exception type (GH #1744) + +* Now on POSIX systems ``posix_memalign`` is used instead of ``mmap`` for + allocating the page-locked memory pool. This avoids issues with ``fork``. + (GH #602 #1798) * When available, use RDRAND to generate the additional data in - Stateful_RNG::randomize_with_ts_input + ``Stateful_RNG::randomize_with_ts_input`` * Use vzeroall/vzeroupper intrinsics to avoid AVX2/SSE transition penalties. @@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ Version 2.9.0, Not Yet Released field in the shares. Now the correct length is encoded, but either correct or buggy lengths are accepted when decoding. (GH #1722) -* Correct a bug when reducing a negative BigInt modulo a small power of 2. +* Correct a bug when reducing a negative ``BigInt`` modulo a small power of 2. (GH #1755) * Add CLI utils for threshold secret splitting. (GH #1722) @@ -87,8 +91,8 @@ Version 2.9.0, Not Yet Released file, and (for systems where ``pkg-config`` support defaults to off, like Windows), to enable generating it. (GH #1268) -* Make configure.py parse_multiple_enable accept an empty list and - trailing/extra commas. +* Modify ``configure.py`` to accept empty lists or trailing/extra commas. + (GH #1705) Version 2.8.0, 2018-10-01 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |