ANNOUNCE: Nettle-3.7.1

[Niels Möller]

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I'd like to announce a new release of GNU Nettle, a low-level
cryptographics library. This release fixes a few problem in Nettle-3.7,
in particular, a bug affecting GnuTLS on powerpc64 platforms. 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-3.7.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.7.1.tar.gz
  https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-3.7.1.tar.gz

Happy hacking,
/Niels Möller

NEWS for the Nettle 3.7.1 release

        This is primarily a bug fix release, fixing a couple of
        problems found in Nettle-3.7.

        The new version is intended to be fully source and binary
        compatible with Nettle-3.6. The shared library names are
        libnettle.so.8.2 and libhogweed.so.6.2, with sonames
        libnettle.so.8 and libhogweed.so.6.

        Bug fixes:

        * Fix bug in chacha counter update logic. The problem affected
          ppc64 and ppc64el, with the new altivec assembly code
          enabled. Reported by Andreas Metzler, after breakage in
          GnuTLS tests on ppc64.

        * Support for big-endian ARM platforms has been restored.
          Fixes contributed by Michael Weiser.

        * Fix build problem on OpenBSD/powerpc64, reported by Jasper
          Lievisse Adriaanse.

        * Fix corner case bug in ECDSA verify, it would produce
          incorrect result in the unlikely case of an all-zero
          message hash. Reported by Guido Vranken.

        New features:

        * Support for pbkdf2_hmac_sha384 and pbkdf2_hmac_sha512,
          contributed by Nicolas Mora.

        Miscellaneous:

        * Poorly performing ARM Neon code for doing single-block
          Salsa20 and Chacha has been deleted. The code to do two or
          three blocks in parallel, introduced in Nettle-3.7, is
          unchanged.


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