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ext/sodium: document the 8.4 aarch64 support for AES-256-GCM #5780

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23 changes: 23 additions & 0 deletions language-snippets.ent
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<!-- Sodium -->
<!ENTITY sodium.changelog.aes256gcm-aarch64 '
<informaltable xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>&Version;</entry>
<entry>&Description;</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>8.4.0</entry>
<entry>
This function is now also defined on aarch64.
Previously it was only defined on x86 and x86_64.
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
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</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Only defined on platforms where AES-256-GCM support is compiled in.
Defined on aarch64 as of PHP 8.4.0.
</simpara>
</listitem>
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</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Only defined on platforms where AES-256-GCM support is compiled in.
Defined on aarch64 as of PHP 8.4.0.
</simpara>
</listitem>
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</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Only defined on platforms where AES-256-GCM support is compiled in.
Defined on aarch64 as of PHP 8.4.0.
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</term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
Only defined on platforms where AES-256-GCM support is compiled in.
Defined on aarch64 as of PHP 8.4.0.
</simpara>
</listitem>
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</simpara>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
&sodium.changelog.aes256gcm-aarch64;
</refsect1>


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</simpara>
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<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
&sodium.changelog.aes256gcm-aarch64;
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</simpara>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>&Version;</entry>
<entry>&Description;</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>8.4.0</entry>
<entry>
This function may now return &true; on aarch64 CPUs with the ARM
cryptographic extensions.
Previously, hardware-accelerated AES-256-GCM was only detected on x86
and x86_64, and this function always returned &false; on aarch64.
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
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</simpara>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 role="changelog">
&reftitle.changelog;
&sodium.changelog.aes256gcm-aarch64;
</refsect1>


</refentry>
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