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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex index 4bd380a..118b4c7 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex @@ -247,6 +247,15 @@ archive into the current working directory. It's also possible to set a different directory as the extraction target, and to unpack only a subset of the archive's members. (Contributed by Lars Gust\"abel.) +\item A new \module{hashlib} module has been added to replace the +\module{md5} and \module{sha} modules and adds support for additional +secure hashes such as SHA-256 and SHA-512. The \module{hashlib} module +uses OpenSSL for fast platform optimized implementations of algorithms +when available. The old \module{md5} and \module{sha} modules still +exist as wrappers around hashlib to preserve backwards compatibility. + +(Contributed by Gregory P. Smith.) + \end{itemize} |