- update to 1.7.9:
+ Added optional parallelization of the MD5-based crypt(3) code with OpenMP.
+ Added optional parallelization of the bitslice DES code with OpenMP.
+ Replaced the bitslice DES key setup algorithm with a faster one, which
significantly improves performance at LM hashes, as well as at DES-based
crypt(3) hashes when there's just one salt (or very few salts).
+ Optimized the DES S-box x86-64 (16-register SSE2) assembly code.
+ Added support for 10-character DES-based tripcodes (not optimized yet).
+ Added support for the "$2y$" prefix of bcrypt hashes.
+ Added two more hash table sizes (16M and 128M entries) for faster processing
of very large numbers of hashes per salt (over 1M).
+ Added two pre-defined external mode variables: "abort" and "status", which
let an external mode request the current cracking session to be aborted or the
status line to be displayed, respectively.
+ Made some minor optimizations to external mode function calls and virtual
machine implementation.
+ The "--make-charset" option now uses floating-point rather than 64-bit
integer operations, which allows for larger CHARSET_* settings in params.h.
+ Added runtime detection of Intel AVX and AMD XOP instruction set extensions,
with optional fallback to an alternate program binary.
+ Added relbench, a Perl script to compare two "john --test" benchmark runs,
such as for different machines, "make" targets, C compilers, optimization
options, or/and versions of John the Ripper.
+ Additional public lists of "top N passwords" have been merged into the
bundled common passwords list, and some insufficiently common passwords were
removed from the list.
+ Many minor enhancements and a few bug fixes were made.
- updated jumbo patch to 1.7.9-jumbo-6
- specfile cleanup (using spec-cleaner)