* Discussion has started regarding plans for Botan4, current ETA 2027.
* Ongoing elliptic curve optimizations and cleanups
* Add support for SM4 instructions added in upcoming Intel processors
* Add support for extended private keys in ML-KEM to handle certain implementations which do not use the seed encoding.
* Add support for SHA-512 instructions added in upcoming Intel processors
* The SHA-1 implementation using SSE2 has been extended to support NEON and LoongArch LSX.
* The default TLS policy now prefers AES/GCM over ChaCha20Poly1305
* Add support for TLS 1.3 post-quantum KEM secp384r1/ML-KEM-1024
For a full changelog, see: https://botan.randombit.net/news.html#version-3-8-1-2025-05-07
