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@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Release Notes
Version 1.11.26, Not Yet Released
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+* Deprecation warning: Nyberg-Rueppel signatures, MARS, RC2, RC5, RC6,
+ SAFER, HAS-160, RIPEMD-128, and MD2 are being considered for removal
+ in a future release. If there is a compelling use case for keeping
+ any of them in the library, please open a discussion ticket on GitHub.
+
* Root all exceptions thrown by the library in the `Botan::Exception` class.
Previously the library would in many cases throw `std::runtime_error`
or `std::invalid_argument` exceptions which would make it hard to determine
@@ -21,6 +26,12 @@ Version 1.11.26, Not Yet Released
random number generation, RSA key generation, and signing are
supported. Tested using Trousers and an ST TPM
+* Avoid calling memcpy, memset, or memmove with a length of zero to
+ avoid undefined behavior, as calling these functions with an invalid
+ or null pointer, even with a length of zero, is invalid. Often there
+ are corner cases where this can occur, such as pointing to the very
+ end of a buffer.
+
Version 1.11.25, 2015-12-07
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