From 089d4c0c490687db6c75f1d074e99c4d42936a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Wennborg Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 09:46:38 +0000 Subject: ReleaseNotes: move the retpoline bullet higher git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_60@326549 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index ecb119acf8c..ed867d5a9dc 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ them. Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release ================================================= +* Support for `retpolines `_ + was added to help mitigate "branch target injection" (variant #2) of the + "Spectre" speculative side channels described by `Project Zero + `_ + and the `Spectre paper `_. + * The ``Redirects`` argument of ``llvm::sys::ExecuteAndWait`` and ``llvm::sys::ExecuteNoWait`` was changed to an ``ArrayRef`` of optional ``StringRef``'s to make it safer and more convenient to use. @@ -42,12 +48,6 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release * Preliminary support for Sanitizers and sibling features on X86(_64) NetBSD (ASan, UBsan, TSan, MSan, SafeStack, libFuzzer). -* Support for `retpolines `_ - was added to help mitigate "branch target injection" (variant #2) of the - "Spectre" speculative side channels described by `Project Zero - `_ - and the `Spectre paper `_. - Changes to the LLVM IR ---------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3