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Changelog entry for the mbedtls_mpi_read_xxx changes

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mbedtls_mpi_read_binary{,_le} (in https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/pull/4276)
and mbedtls_mpi_read_string (in https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/pull/4644)
changed their behavior on an empty input from constructing an MPI object with
one limb to not allocating a limb. In principle, this change should be
transparent to applications, however it caused a bug in the library and it does
affect the value when writing back out, so list the change in the changelog.

Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
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Changes
* mbedtls_mpi_read_binary(), mbedtls_mpi_read_binary_le() and
mbedtls_mpi_read_string() now construct an mbedtls_mpi object with 0 limbs
when their input has length 0. Note that this is an implementation detail
and can change at any time, so this change should be transparent, but it
may result in mbedtls_mpi_write_binary() or mbedtls_mpi_write_string()
now writing an empty string where it previously wrote one or more
zero digits when operating from values constructed with an mpi_read
function and some mpi operations.