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Version 1.11.2, 2013-03-02
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

* A bug in the release script caused the `botan_version.py` included
  in :doc:`1.11.1 <1_11_1>` to be invalid, which required a manual
  edit to fix (:pr:`226`)

Memory Zeroization Changes
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* Previously `clear_mem` was implemented by an inlined call to
  `std::memset`. However an optimizing compiler might notice cases
  where the memset could be skipped in cases allowed by the standard.
  Now `clear_mem` calls `zero_mem` which is compiled separately and
  which zeros out the array through a volatile pointer. It is possible
  some compiler with some optimization setting (especially with
  something like LTO) might still skip the writes. It would be nice if
  there was an automated way to test this.

New Parallel Filter
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* The new filter :cpp:class:`Threaded_Fork` acts like a normal
  :cpp:class:`Fork,` sending its input to a number of different
  filters, but each subchain of filters in the fork runs in its own
  thread. Contributed by Joel Low.

TLS Enhancements and Bug Fixes
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* The default TLS policy formerly preferred AES over RC4, and allowed
  3DES by default. Now the default policy is to negotiate only either
  AES or RC4, and to prefer RC4.

* New TLS :cpp:class:`Blocking_Client` provides a thread per
  connection style API similar to that provided in 1.10

Other API Changes
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* The API of `Credentials_Manager::trusted_certificate_authorities`
  has changed to return a vector of `Certificate_Store*` instead of
  `X509_Certificate`. This allows the list of trusted CAs to be
  more easily updated dynamically or loaded lazily.

* The `asn1_int.h` header was split into `asn1_alt_name.h`,
  `asn1_attribute.h` and `asn1_time.h`.