~ 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 (with
Trap