Crypto++ 8.5 released

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

Crypto++ 8.5 was released on March 7, 2021. The 8.5 release was a minor, planned release. There were no CVEs and no memory errors.

Crypto++ 8.5 was released is in support of Apple M1 hardware. Feature detection was added for the platform to ensure the proper code paths are used at runtime.

The release notes and list of issues fixed can be found at http://www.cryptopp.com/release850.html. The 8.5.0 ZIP archive can be downloaded from http://www.cryptopp.com/cryptopp850.zip. A GPG signature can be downloaded from http://www.cryptopp.com/cryptopp850.zip.sig.

The checksums for the 8.5.0 ZIP archive are:

  * SHA1: bbfa1b62099429ae6753d7d17fd632dd1d34b564
  * SHA256: 95fc50d59488ebf61a735cce2b2ec2c2561fc682077c7b496273d65a1ed93d9e
  * SHA512: 090472545c74bbf0579b56b09e8b5dcd777b38f29f7199a2e68f45d4a8c687acc82f105ba8b2a38f9aa65e5997a3d846aaf2341ab74d58b4bbfd1f5f03823b93
  * BLAKE2b: 857a65d63d17a3447d3cbd8370f9d750c480a9734c79739550b1ec7a6da3e7183af5748c2dfa5127be3810d73960af2f3b09b4b2bf4e624a43bfc4357ecde12b
  * WHIRLPOOL: b18f823b276dd672b5558acc3d6b12a237b87219debf068f3ca8e0ca1a3fed882ad35e98cc9cee71144f37eaf292002f12c32cff745c6eab47fc9f060af78faf

The 8.5.0 sources can be checked out from GitHub using the following. It is tagged as CRYPTOPP_8_5_0 at GitHub.

  * git clone http://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp.git cryptopp

There are 18 outstanding issues. Most of them are feature requests and enhancements.

Thanks to everyone who made it happen.

Jeff