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ReleaseNotes: move the retpoline bullet higher
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* Support for `retpolines <https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886>`_
was added to help mitigate "branch target injection" (variant #2) of the
"Spectre" speculative side channels described by `Project Zero
<https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html>`_
and the `Spectre paper <https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf>`_.

* The ``Redirects`` argument of ``llvm::sys::ExecuteAndWait`` and
``llvm::sys::ExecuteNoWait`` was changed to an ``ArrayRef`` of optional
``StringRef``'s to make it safer and more convenient to use.
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* Preliminary support for Sanitizers and sibling features on X86(_64) NetBSD
(ASan, UBsan, TSan, MSan, SafeStack, libFuzzer).

* Support for `retpolines <https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886>`_
was added to help mitigate "branch target injection" (variant #2) of the
"Spectre" speculative side channels described by `Project Zero
<https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html>`_
and the `Spectre paper <https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf>`_.


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