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<!ENTITY mdash "&#x2014;">
<!ENTITY ndash "&#x2013;">
<!ENTITY nbsp "&#xA0;">
-<!ENTITY swversion "5.0.0">
-<!ENTITY lastreleased "July 10, 2013">
+<!ENTITY swversion "5.0.1">
+<!ENTITY lastreleased "October 18, 2013">
]>
<book>
<bookinfo>
@@ -2641,6 +2641,45 @@ print "\n";
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>5.0.1: October 18, 2013</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Thanks to a detailed review by Florian Weimer and the Red Hat
+ Product Security Team, this release includes a number of
+ non-user-visible security hardening changes. Please see the
+ ChangeLog file in the source distribution for the complete
+ list.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When available, operating system-specific secure random number
+ generation is used for generating initialization vectors and
+ other random values used during encryption or file creation.
+ For the Windows build, this results in an added dependency on
+ Microsoft's cryptography API. To disable the OS-specific
+ cryptography and use the old version, pass the
+ <option>--enable-insecure-random</option> option to
+ <command>./configure</command>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <command>qpdf</command> command-line tool now issues a
+ warning when <option>-accessibility=n</option> is specified
+ for newer encryption versions stating that the option is
+ ignored. qpdf, per the spec, has always ignored this flag,
+ but it previously did so silently. This warning is issued
+ only by the command-line tool, not by the library. The
+ library's handling of this flag is unchanged.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term>5.0.0: July 10, 2013</term>
<listitem>
<itemizedlist>