From d601f22c20682a7eafcf5c57f263239061509f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kleis Auke Wolthuizen Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 15:50:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] + security notes --- whats-new.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/whats-new.md b/whats-new.md index d597cc4a..e488bafa 100644 --- a/whats-new.md +++ b/whats-new.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ pipelines and long-running processes, a performance improvement can be observed. libvips now supports building OpenSlide, libheif, Poppler and {Image,Graphics}Magick as a dynamically loadable module. This makes it easier for distributions to provide separate (optional) packages for these dependencies, -making the core package much slimmer. +making the core package much slimmer and thus reducing the attack surface. [GModule](https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Dynamic-Loading-of-Modules.html) is used to accomplish this in a portable way. We already had a simple plugin system