libsodium v1.0.18-RELEASE Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-05-30 // almost 5 years ago
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Enterprise versions of Visual Studio are now supported.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Visual Studio 2019 is now supported.
    • 32-bit binaries for Visual Studio 2010 are now provided.
    • ๐Ÿง A test designed to trigger an OOM condition didn't work on Linux systems with memory overcommit turned on. It has been removed in order to fix Ansible builds.
    • ๐Ÿ–จ Emscripten: print and printErr functions are overridden to send
      errors to the console, if there is one.
    • Emscripten: UTF8ToString() is now exported since Pointer_stringify()
      ๐Ÿ—„ has been deprecated.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Libsodium version detection has been fixed in the CMake recipe.
    • Generic hashing got a 10% speedup on AVX2.
    • ๐Ÿ†• New target: WebAssembly/WASI (compile with dist-builds/wasm32-wasi.sh).
    • ๐Ÿ†• New functions to map a hash to an edwards25519 point or get a random point:
      core_ed25519_from_hash() and core_ed25519_random().
    • crypto_core_ed25519_scalar_mul() has been implemented for scalar*scalar (mod L) multiplication.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for the Ristretto group has been implemented for interoperability with wasm-crypto.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improvements have been made to the test suite.
    • Portability improvements have been made.
    • getentropy() is now used on systems providing this system call.
    • randombytes_salsa20 has been renamed to randombytes_internal.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for NativeClient has been removed.
    • Most ((nonnull)) attributes have been relaxed to allow 0-length inputs
      to be NULL.
    • The -ftree-vectorize and -ftree-slp-vectorize compiler switches are
      โšก๏ธ now used, if available, for optimized builds.

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