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+Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.2.1 (2006-02-14)
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+ * Security fix for a verification weakness in gpgv. Some input
+ could lead to gpgv exiting with 0 even if the detached signature
+ file did not carry any signature. This is not as fatal as it
+ might seem because the suggestion as always been not to rely on
+ th exit code but to parse the --status-fd messages. However it
+ is likely that gpgv is used in that simplified way and thus we
+ do this release. Same problem with "gpg --verify" but nobody
+ should have used this for signature verification without
+ checking the status codes anyway. Thanks to the taviso from
+ Gentoo for reporting this problem.
+
+
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.2 (2005-07-26)
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@@ -1788,7 +1803,7 @@ Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.3
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
- 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without