~ chicken-core (chicken-5) b5919a37ae9abf2d8f384c43f737096a566f7d74
commit b5919a37ae9abf2d8f384c43f737096a566f7d74 Author: Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl> AuthorDate: Wed Feb 29 21:47:17 2012 +0100 Commit: felix <felix@call-with-current-continuation.org> CommitDate: Sat Mar 3 14:11:43 2012 +0100 Update NEWS with random procedure update Signed-off-by: felix <felix@call-with-current-continuation.org> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6dc3ab75..4e9a1cf7 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 (withTrap