I've prepared a bugfix minor release of GNU Nettle, a low-level cryptographics library. See NEWS entries below.
The Nettle home page can be found at https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/, and the manual at https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html. The release can be downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.8.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.8.1.tar.gz https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.8.1.tar.gz Happy hacking, /Niels Möller NEWS for the Nettle 3.8.1 release This is a bugfix release, fixing a few portability issues reported for Nettle-3.8. Bug fixes: * Avoid non-posix m4 argument references in the chacha implementation for arm64, powerpc64 and s390x. Reported by Christian Weisgerber, fix contributed by Mamone Tarsha. * Use explicit .machine pseudo-ops where needed in s390x assembly files. Bug report by Andreas K. Huettel, fix contributed by Mamone Tarsha. Optimizations: * Implemented runtime detection of cpu features for OpenBSD on arm64. Contributed by Christian Weisgerber. The new version is intended to be fully source and binary compatible with Nettle-3.6. The shared library names are libnettle.so.8.6 and libhogweed.so.6.6, with sonames libnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6. -- Niels Möller. PGP key CB4962D070D77D7FCB8BA36271D8F1FF368C6677. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance.
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