[Guile-commits] 06/06: Update NEWS.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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commit 10fdd88cb807c4299ce5eb4403c4c29db2b52a00
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 13 11:21:09 2020 +0100

    Update NEWS.
    
    * NEWS (Changes in alpha 2.9.x): Add (web client) news.
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 NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 27c9efd..a561c85 100644
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@@ -285,6 +285,19 @@ would return an empty list for negative count. Now there 
is only one
 `iota' function with the extended semantics of SRFI-1.  Note that as an
 incompatible change, core `iota' no longer accepts a negative count.
 
+** Improved Transport Layer Security (TLS) support in (web client)
+
+`http-request', `http-get', and related procedures from (web client) are
+able to access content over TLS ("HTTPS") since Guile 2.2.  However,
+that support lacked important facilities, which are now available.
+
+First, these procedures now have a #:verify-certificates?  parameter to
+enable or disable the verification of X.509 server certificates.  The
+new `x509-certificate-directory' SRFI-39 parameter specifies X.509
+certificates are searched for.  Second, HTTPS proxies are now supported
+(in addition to HTTP proxies) and the new `current-https-proxy'
+parameter controls that.  See "Web Client" in the manual for details.
+
 * New deprecations
 
 ** scm_t_uint8, etc deprecated in favor of C99 stdint.h