RC1 of 2021-08 snapshot release

RELEASE.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2021-03
-==============================
+OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2021-08-rc1
+==================================
 
 About
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@@ -13,19 +13,18 @@ The **Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project** has the goal of developing and prototypi
 Release notes
 =============
 
-This is the 2021-03 snapshot release of OQS-BoringSSL, released on March 26, 2021. Its release page on GitHub is https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/releases/tag/OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2021-03. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.5.0.
+This is release candidate 1 for the 2021-08 snapshot release of OQS-BoringSSL, released on August 8, 2021. This release is intended to be used with liboqs version 0.7.0.
 
 What's New
 ----------
 
-This is the third snapshot release of OQS-BoringSSL.  It is based on BoringSSL commit [78b3337a10a7f7b3495b6cb8140a74e265290898](https://github.com/google/boringssl/commit/78b3337).
+This is the fourth snapshot release of OQS-BoringSSL.  It is based on BoringSSL commit [78b3337a10a7f7b3495b6cb8140a74e265290898](https://github.com/google/boringssl/commit/78b3337).
 
-- Removes algorithms from NIST PQC Round 2 that did not advance to Round 3: NewHope, ThreeBears, MQDSS, qTesla.
-- Updates algorithms to those used in liboqs 0.5.0, as described in the [liboqs release notes](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/blob/main/RELEASE.md).
-- Change format of hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3 to follow https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-hybrid-design-01
+- Updates algorithms to those used in liboqs 0.7.0, as described in the [liboqs release notes](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs/blob/main/RELEASE.md).
 
 Previous release notes
 ----------------------
 
+- [OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2021-03](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/releases/tag/OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2021-03) aligned with liboqs 0.5.0 (March 26, 2021)
 - [OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2020-08](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/releases/tag/OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2020-08) aligned with liboqs 0.4.0 (August 11, 2020)
 - [OQS-BoringSSL snapshot 2020-07](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/boringssl/releases/tag/OQS-BoringSSL-snapshot-2020-07) aligned with liboqs 0.3.0 (July 10, 2020)

include/openssl/crypto.h

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ OPENSSL_EXPORT void CRYPTO_pre_sandbox_init(void);
 
 // OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT contains a string the identifies the version of
 // “OpenSSL”. node.js requires a version number in this text.
-#define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT "OpenSSL 1.1.0 (compatible; BoringSSL; Open Quantum Safe snapshot 2021-03)"
+#define OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT "OpenSSL 1.1.0 (compatible; BoringSSL; Open Quantum Safe snapshot 2021-08-rc1)"
 
 #define OPENSSL_VERSION 0
 #define OPENSSL_CFLAGS 1