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diff --git a/doc/relnotes/1_8_3.txt b/doc/relnotes/1_8_3.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3bfe7bde0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/relnotes/1_8_3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Version 1.8.3, 2009-07-11 +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +* Add a new Python configuration script +* Add the Skein-512 SHA-3 candidate hash function +* Add the XTS block cipher mode from IEEE P1619 +* Fix random_prime when generating a prime of less than 7 bits +* Improve handling of low-entropy situations during PRNG seeding +* Change random device polling to prefer /dev/urandom over /dev/random +* Use an input insensitive implementation of same_mem instead of memcmp +* Correct DataSource::discard_next to return the number of discarded bytes +* Provide a default value for AutoSeeded_RNG::reseed +* Fix Gentoo bug 272242 + |