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diff --git a/doc/relnotes/1_11_14.rst b/doc/relnotes/1_11_14.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 320a5f221..000000000 --- a/doc/relnotes/1_11_14.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,83 +0,0 @@ -Version 1.11.14, 2015-02-27 -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -* The global state object previously used by the library has been removed. - This includes the global PRNG. The library can be safely initialized - multiple times without harm. - - The engine code has also been removed, replaced by a much lighter-weight - object registry system which provides lookups in faster time and with less - memory overhead than the previous approach. - - One caveat of the current system with regards to static linking: because only - symbols already mentioned elsewhere in the program are included in the final - link step, few algorithms will be available through the lookup system by - default, even though they were compiled into the library. Your application - must explicitly reference the types you require or they will not end up - being available in the final binary. See also Github issue #52 - - If you intend to build your application against a static library and don't - want to explicitly reference each algo object you might attempt to look up by - string, consider either building with `--via-amalgamation`, or else (much - simpler) using the amalgamation directly. - -* The new `ffi` submodule provides a simple C API/ABI for a number of useful - operations (hashing, ciphers, public key operations, etc) which is easily - accessed using the FFI modules included in many languages. - -* A new Python wrapper (in `src/lib/python/botan.py`) using `ffi` and the Python - `ctypes` module is available. The old Boost.Python wrapper has been removed. - -* Add specialized reducers for P-192, P-224, P-256, and P-384 - -* OCB mode, which provides a fast and constant time AEAD mode without requiring - hardware support, is now supported in TLS, following - draft-zauner-tls-aes-ocb-01. Because this specification is not yet finalized - is not yet enabled by the default policy, and the ciphersuite numbers used are - in the experimental range and may conflict with other uses. - -* Add ability to read TLS policy from a text file using `TLS::Text_Policy`. - -* The amalgamation now splits off any ISA specific code (for instance, that - requiring SSSE3 instruction sets) into a new file named (for instance) - `botan_all_ssse3.cpp`. This allows the main amalgamation file to be compiled - without any special flags, so `--via-amalgamation` builds actually work now. - This is disabled with the build option `--single-amalgamation-file` - -* PBKDF and KDF operations now provide a way to write the desired output - directly to an application-specified area rather than always allocating a new - heap buffer. - -* HKDF, previously provided using a non-standard interface, now uses the - standard KDF interface and is retrievable using get_kdf. - -* It is once again possible to build the complete test suite without requiring - any boost libraries. This is currently only supported on systems supporting - the readdir interface. - -* Remove use of memset_s which caused problems with amalgamation on OS X. - Github 42, 45 - -* The memory usage of the counter mode implementation has been reduced. - Previously it encrypted 256 blocks in parallel as this leads to a slightly - faster counter increment operation. Instead CTR_BE simply encrypts a buffer - equal in size to the advertised parallelism of the cipher implementation. - This is not measurably slower, and dramatically reduces the memory use of - CTR mode. - -* The memory allocator available on Unix systems which uses mmap and mlock to - lock a pool of memory now checks environment variable BOTAN_MLOCK_POOL_SIZE - and interprets it as an integer. If the value set to a smaller value then the - library would originally have allocated (based on resource limits) the user - specified size is used instead. You can also set the variable to 0 to - disable the pool entirely. Previously the allocator would consume all - available mlocked memory, this allows botan to coexist with an application - which wants to mlock memory for its own uses. - -* The botan-config script previously installed on Unix systems has been - removed. Its functionality is replaced by the `config` command of the - `botan` tool executable, for example `botan config cflags` instead of - `botan-config --cflags`. - -* Added a target for POWER8 processors - |