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.. release date: 17-Sep-2008
.. section: Library

Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
segfault as a result.

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.. section: Library

Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were closed.

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.. section: Tools/Demos

recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
are caught and silenced.

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.. section: Build

Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft C runtime in the
Windows installer.