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| NSS 3.64 release notes |
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| `Introduction <#introduction>`__ |
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| Network Security Services (NSS) 3.64 was released on **15 April 2021**. |
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| .. _distribution_information: |
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| `Distribution Information <#distribution_information>`__ |
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| The HG tag is NSS_3_64_RTM. NSS 3.64 requires NSPR 4.30 or newer. |
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| NSS 3.64 source distributions are available on ftp.mozilla.org for secure HTTPS download: |
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| - Source tarballs: |
| https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_64_RTM/src/ |
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| Other releases are available :ref:`mozilla_projects_nss_nss_releases`. |
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| .. _bugs_fixed_in_nss_3.64: |
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| `Bugs fixed in NSS 3.64 <#bugs_fixed_in_nss_3.64>`__ |
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| - Bug 1705286 - Properly detect mips64. |
| - Bug 1687164 - Introduce NSS_DISABLE_CRYPTO_VSX and disable_crypto_vsx. |
| - Bug 1698320 - replace \__builtin_cpu_supports("vsx") with ppc_crypto_support() for clang. |
| - Bug 1613235 - Add POWER ChaCha20 stream cipher vector acceleration. |
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| `Compatibility <#compatibility>`__ |
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| NSS 3.64 shared libraries are backwards-compatible with all older NSS 3.x shared libraries. A |
| program linked with older NSS 3.x shared libraries will work with NSS 3.64 shared libraries |
| without recompiling or relinking. Furthermore, applications that restrict their use of NSS APIs |
| to the functions listed in NSS Public Functions will remain compatible with future versions of |
| the NSS shared libraries. |
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| `Feedback <#feedback>`__ |
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| Bugs discovered should be reported by filing a bug report on |
| `bugzilla.mozilla.org <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=NSS>`__ (product NSS). |
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| `Notes <#notes>`__ |
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| This version of NSS contains a number of contributions for "unsupported platforms". We would like |
| to thank the authors and the reviewers for their contributions to NSS. |
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| Discussions about moving the documentation are still ongoing. (See discussion in the 3.62 release |
| notes.) |