commit: 992cf6e5ecbc8de428792fe27bb821d04e03097c Author: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Tue Mar 21 02:29:34 2023 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Tue Mar 21 02:30:24 2023 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=992cf6e5
NEWS: update for checksum cleanups Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/597736 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/615620 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/885909 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/888884 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> NEWS | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2eb5a1b3a..8728ccaa3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,54 @@ +portage-3.0.46 (UNRELEASED) +--------------- + +Breaking changes: +* Drop STREEBOG{256,512} support + + Support was originally added in https://bugs.gentoo.org/597736, but + exclusively via two modules (pygost and pygcrypt) which aren't packaged in + Gentoo - or seemingly any other major distribution. + + We're dropping both pygost and pygcrypt compatibility: pygost has been + removed from pypi and pygcrypt is inactive upstream. + +Cleanups: +* Drop support for pygcrypt + + The codepath has been disabled since 2017 because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/615620, + so let's finally clean it up. + + pygcrypt *prior to 2017* was used for RMD160/WHIRLPOOL/SHA3_256/SHA3_512 + if hashlib didn't provide these *and* the sha3 module didn't either. + + pygcrypt last received a release in 2017 too. + +* Drop support for pyblake2, sha3 + + We've only supported >= Python 3.6 for quite some time, so these codepaths are + obsolete given hashlib will always provide support for BLAKE2 and SHA3. + + Neither pyblake2 nor sha3 are even packaged in Gentoo anymore either (the + Python bindings). + +* Drop most of the pycrypto/pycryptodome fallbacks + + >= Python 3.6 includes support for BLAKE2 and SHA3 in hashlib, so these + aren't needed anymore. + + pycrypto fallback support continues to exist for RMD160. + +* Drop support for WHIRLPOOL logic via mhash + + Drop mhash fallback logic for WHIRLPOOL as we already have: + hashlib > pycrypto > bundled C > bundled pure Python + in terms of priority for providers. + +Features: +* TODO + +Bug fixes: +* TODO + portage-3.0.45.3 (2023-03-19) ----------------
