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authorChristian Heimes <christian@python.org>2020-05-15 21:54:53 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-15 21:54:53 (GMT)
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bpo-40637: Add option to disable builtin hashes (GH-20121)
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> Automerge-Triggered-By: @tiran
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@@ -314,6 +314,15 @@ Added a new function :func:`gc.is_finalized` to check if an object has been
finalized by the garbage collector. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in
:issue:`39322`.)
+hashlib
+-------
+
+Builtin hash modules can now be disabled with
+``./configure --without-builtin-hashlib-hashes`` or selectively enabled with
+e.g. ``./configure --with-builtin-hashlib-hashes=sha3,blake2`` to force use
+of OpenSSL based implementation.
+(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`40479`)
+
http
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