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2017-05-23 Switch doc to schemeless URLsLaurent Bercot
2017-03-08 Update documentation for the types change, with some extra fixesLaurent Bercot
Also remove --enable-replace-libc from configure
2016-11-04 version: 2.4.0.1v2.4.0.1Laurent Bercot
2016-10-14 Clean up and modernize librandom.Laurent Bercot
Correct random number generation has historically been suprisingly painful to achieve. There was no standard, every system behaved in a subtly different way, and there were a few userland initiatives to get decent randomness, all incompatible of course. The situation is a bit better now, we're heading towards some standardization. The arc4random() series of functions is a good API, and available on a lot of systems - unfortunately not Linux, but on Linux the new getrandom() makes using /dev/random obsolete. So I removed the old crap in librandom, dropped EGD support, dropped dynamic backend selection, made a single API series (random_* instead of goodrandom_* and badrandom_*), added an arc4random backend and a getrandom backend, and defaulted to /dev/urandom backed up by SURF in the worst case. This should be much smaller and logical. However, it's a major API break, so the skarnet.org stack will be changed to adapt.
2015-05-07 Make all doc mobile-readable according to Google standardsLaurent Bercot
2014-09-18initial commit with rc for skalibs-2.0.0.0Laurent Bercot