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Version 1.8.9, 2010-06-16
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

* Use constant time multiplication in IDEA

* Avoid possible timing attack against OAEP decoding

* Add new X509::BER_encode and PKCS8::BER_encode

* Enable DLL builds under Windows

* Add Win32 installer support

* Add support for the Clang compiler

* Fix problem in semcem.h preventing build under Clang or GCC 3.4

* Fix bug that prevented creation of DSA groups under 1024 bits

* Fix crash in GMP_Engine if library is shutdown and reinitialized and
  a PK algorithm was used after the second init

* Work around problem with recent binutils in x86-64 SHA-1

* The Perl build script is no longer supported and refuses to run by
  default. If you really want to use it, pass
  ``--i-know-this-is-broken`` to the script.