Subject: ANNOUNCE: MD5 Message Digest Module -- Version 1.6
From: [email-masked] (Neil Winton)
Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:09:12 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

I have just uploaded version 1.6 of my MD5 module which provides a Perl5
extension interface to the RSA Data Security Inc. MD5 Message Digest algorithm. 
It will filter out to CPAN sites over the next few days.

There are no functional changes in this release. It does, however, make much
better use of MakeMaker facilities for configuration and build and also supports
versioning correctly. There is also a more comprehensive test suite. A list of
recent changes is appended to this message.

Bugs, queries, plaudits to

	Neil Winton

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Revision history for Perl extension MD5.

*** 96/04/09 Version 1.6

Re-generated module framework using h2xs to pick up the latest module
conventions for versions etc. You can now say "use MD5 1.6;" and things
should work correctly. MD5.pod has been integrated into MD5.pm and
CHANGES renamed to Changes. There is a fairly comprehensive test.pl
which can be invoked via "make test". There are no functional changes
to the MD5 routines themselves.

*** 96/03/14 Version 1.5.3

Fixed addfile method to accept type-glob references for the file-handle
(eg \*STDOUT). This is more consistent with other routines and is now the
recommended way of passing file-handles. The documentation now gives more
examples as to how the routines might be used.

*** 96/03/12 Version 1.5.2

Minor fixes from Christopher J Madsen <[email-masked]> to provide
support for building on OS/2 (and to work arround a perl -w bug).

Remove warning about possible difference between add('foo', 'bar') and
add('foobar'). This is not true (it may have been true in the earliest
version of the module but is no longer the case).

*** 96/03/08 Version 1.5.1

Add CHANGES file to make it easier for people to figure out what has
been going on. (Meant to do this as part of 1.5)

*** 96/03/05 Version 1.5

Add hash() and hexhash() methods at the suggestion/request of Gary
Howland <[email-masked]> before inclusion in a wider library
of cryptography modules.

*** 96/02/27 Version 1.4

Finally fixed the pesky Solaris dynamic loading bug. All kudos to Ken
Pizzini <[email-masked]>!

*** 95/11/29 Version 1.3.1

Add explanations of current known problems.

*** 95/06/02 Version 1.3

Fix problems with scope resolution in addfile() reported by
Jean-Claude Giese <[email-masked]>. Basically ARGV is
always implicitly in package main while other filehandles aren't.
 
*** 95/05/23 Version 1.2.1

[Changes pre 1.2.1 not recorded]

SCCS ID @(#)Changes	1.4 96/04/09