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=== Monday 24th October 2011 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `python-crypto` in `f17-gmp` (special tag for packages using `libgmp`), which will get pulled into Rawhide in the not too distant future:
  * Python 3 support! `PyCrypto` now supports every version of Python from 2.1 through to 3.2
  * Timing-attack countermeasures in `_fastmath`: when built against `libgmp` version 5 or later, we use `mpz_powm_sec` instead of `mpz_powm`, which should prevent the [[http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-through-the-side-channel-timing-and-implementation-attacks-in-python-4897955|timing attack described by Geremy Condra at PyCon 2011]]
  * New hash modules (for Python ≥ 2.5 only): `SHA224`, `SHA384` and `SHA512`
  * Configuration using GNU `autoconf`, which should help fix a bunch of build issues
  * Support using `MPIR` as an alternative to `GMP`
  * Improve the `test` command in `setup.py`, by allowing tests to be performed on a single sub-package or module only
  * Fix double-decref of "`counter`" when Cipher object initialization fails
  * Apply patches from Debian's `python-crypto` 2.3-3 package:
   * `fix-RSA-generate-exception.patch`
   * `epydoc-exclude-introspect.patch`
   * `no-usr-local.patch`
  * Fix [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/702835|launchpad bug #702835]]: "Import key code is not compatible with GMP library"
  * More tests, better documentation, various bug-fixes

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `perl-DateTime-TimeZone` to 1.41:
  * This release is based on version 2011m of the Olson database
  * Contemporary changes for Brazil, Moldova, and Ukraine
 * Updated `python-crypto` to 2.4 as per the Fedora version
 * Updated `sendmail` to have the `nm-dispatcher` script use `try-restart` instead of `restart` ([[RedHatBugzilla:|Bug #748416]])

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