>From 797dce7e5891d8b91f219d428f3d2a0f87c57c15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Bex Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:47:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS with random procedure update --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6dc3ab7..4e9a1cf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +4.7.5 + +- Security fixes + - on 64-bit machines the "random" procedure no longer truncates result + values (which caused very nonrandom results for very large values). + Note that tandom shouldn't be used for security-critical code. + 4.7.4 - Security fixes @@ -5,6 +12,7 @@ to prevent malicious external causes of collisions. All SRFI-69 procedures accept extra arguments to control randomization for testing/debugging. + - Build system - the test-suite is now working on the mingw32 platform (with -- 1.7.9.1