[gnutls-help] gnutls 3.8.6

Zoltan Fridrich zfridric at redhat.com
Wed Jul 3 13:52:25 CEST 2024


Hello,

We have just released gnutls-3.8.6. This is a bug fix and enhancement 
release on the 3.8.x branch.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed in this release:
Kai Pastor, William Roberts, Stanislav Židek, Alexander Sosedkin, Daiki 
Ueno and Zoltan Fridrich

The detailed list of changes follows:

* Version 3.8.6 (released 2024-07-03)

** libgnutls: PBMAC1 is now supported as a MAC mechanism
    for PKCS#12 To be compliant with FIPS 140-3,
    PKCS#12 files with MAC based on PBKDF2 (PBMAC1)
    is now supported, according to the specification
    proposed in draft-ietf-lamps-pkcs12-pbmac1.

** libgnutls: SHA3 extendable output functions (XOF)
    are now supported SHA3 XOF, SHAKE128 and SHAKE256,
    are now usable through a new public API gnutls_hash_squeeze.

** API and ABI modifications:
gnutls_pkcs12_generate_mac3: New function
gnutls_pkcs12_flags_t: New enum
gnutls_hash_squeeze: New function


Getting the Software
================

GnuTLS may be downloaded directly from
https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/
A list of GnuTLS mirrors can be found at
http://www.gnutls.org/download.html

Here are the XZ compressed sources:
https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.8/gnutls-3.8.6.tar.xz

Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key:
5D46CB0F763405A7053556F47A75A648B3F9220C
https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.8/gnutls-3.8.6.tar.xz.sig

Note that it has been signed with my openpgp key:
pub   ed25519 2021-12-23 [SC] [expires: 2027-01-01]
       5D46CB0F763405A7053556F47A75A648B3F9220C
uid           [ultimate] Zoltan Fridrich <zfridric at redhat.com>
sub   cv25519 2021-12-23 [E] [expires: 2027-01-01]

Regards,
Zoltan
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