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@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ Release Notes
Version 1.11.26, Not Yet Released
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-* 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.
+* Deprecation warnings: Nyberg-Rueppel signatures, MARS, RC2, RC5,
+ RC6, SAFER, HAS-160, RIPEMD-128, MD2 and support for the TLS minimum
+ fragment length extensions are all 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`
@@ -15,8 +16,12 @@ Version 1.11.26, Not Yet Released
the source of the error in some cases.
* The command line interface has been mostly rewritten. The syntax of
- many of the programs has changed, and a number have been extended with
- new features and options.
+ many of the sub-programs has changed, and a number have been
+ extended with new features and options.
+
+* Correct an error in PointGFp multiplication when multiplying a point
+ by the scalar value 3. PointGFp::operator* would instead erronously
+ compute it as if the scalar was 1 instead.
* Enable RdRand entropy source on Windows/MSVC. GH #364
@@ -53,6 +58,14 @@ Version 1.11.26, Not Yet Released
are corner cases where this can occur, such as pointing to the very
end of a buffer.
+* The function `RandomNumberGenerator::gen_mask` (added in 1.11.20)
+ had undefined behavior when called with a bits value of 32 or
+ higher, and was tested to behave in unpleasant ways (such as
+ returning zero) when compiled by common compilers. This function was
+ not being used anywhere in the library and rather than support
+ something without a use case to justify it it seemed simpler to
+ remove it. Undefined behavior found by Daniel Neus.
+
* Export MGF1 function mgf1_mask GH #380
Version 1.11.25, 2015-12-07