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spiped 1.6.1 released

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Hi all,

I have just tagged the spiped-1.6.1 source tree and uploaded the release
tarball to https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped/spiped-1.6.1.tgz .  The SHA256
hash of the release tarball is
  8d7089979db79a531a0ecc507b113ac6f2cf5f19305571eff1d3413e0ab33713

Significant changes since 1.6.0:
* A new -u option instructs spiped to run as a different uid/gid.
* RDRAND x86 CPU extensions (if available) are used as an additional source
of entropy.  (Note that they are only used as a *supplemental* source, and
if the operating system provides strong entropy then it doesn't matter if
RDRAND works.)
* SHA x86 CPU extensions (if available) are used to speed up computations.
Few CPUs support these yet.
* spipe now prints a warning if it cannot connect to the target host.

There are also a variety of less visible changes: Minor bug and compiler
warning fixes, added and improved tests, minor performance improvements, and
spelling and stylistic fixes.

- -- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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