NEWS for the 1.13 release

Fixed problem with broken m4 on bsd, which resulted in corrupted x86 assembler for sha1.

Nettle probably works on windows: I've been able to cross compile it with ./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc (without public-key support), and the testsuite binaries seem to run fine in Wine.

Implemented CTR mode.

Improved sha1 performance on x86.

Configure check to figure out if symbols in assembler files need a leading underscore.

Improved benchmark program. Displays cycles per byte and block, and compares with openssl (if openssl is installed). Terminating newline in output from sexp-conv --hash.

The library is intended to be binary compatible with earlier versions. The library name is libnettle.so.2.4. However, the interface for the internal function _nettle_sha1_compress has changed; any program that calls this function directly will break.

Available at

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-1.13.tar.gz

Regards, /Niels