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| author | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2022-04-30 22:05:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> | 2022-04-30 23:24:15 +0200 |
| commit | 8ccd3a8a89d95ae0613679ba7b394a4f87699e12 (patch) | |
| tree | 902a42a5bc972c66958ab6ce96260daf5957a78e /manual/release-notes.rst | |
| parent | 2213ed0c3dd1bcc5a62725190cca4a6ad8eb9d7f (diff) | |
| download | qpdf-8ccd3a8a89d95ae0613679ba7b394a4f87699e12.tar.zst | |
Mark weak encryption with API changes (fixes #576)
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diff --git a/manual/release-notes.rst b/manual/release-notes.rst index b5e4e150..8a90895c 100644 --- a/manual/release-notes.rst +++ b/manual/release-notes.rst @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ For a detailed list of changes, please see the file - The default json output version when :qpdf:ref:`--json` is specified has been changed from ``1`` to ``latest``. + - The :qpdf:ref:`--allow-weak-crypto` flag is now mandatory when + explicitly creating files with weak cryptographic algorithms. + See :ref:`weak-crypto` for a discussion. + - API: breaking changes - Remove @@ -73,6 +77,19 @@ For a detailed list of changes, please see the file ``QPDFNumberTreeObjectHelper`` constructors that don't take a ``QPDF&`` argument. + - Intentionally break API to call attention to operations that + write files with insecure encryption: + + - Remove pre qpdf-8.4.0 encryption API methods from ``QPDFWriter`` + and their corresponding C API functions + + - Add ``Insecure`` to the names of some ``QPDFWriter`` methods + and ``_insecure`` to the names of some C API functions without + otherwise changing their behavior + + - See :ref:`breaking-crypto-api` for specific details, and see + :ref:`weak-crypto` for a general discussion. + - Library Enhancements - Support for more fluent programming with ``QPDFObjectHandle``. |