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Sticking with security, NIST have announced that they are going to run an AES style competition to replace the SHA-1 hash function. We're talking 2012 before they anoint a set of new functions, so in the interim we'll start to see a steady migration towards the SHA-2 series.

But then a lot of stuff has moved to SHA-2 already and you probably never even noticed.