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@@ -1,48 +1,55 @@ - - * WARNING: The semantics of --verify have changed to address a problem - with detached signature detection. --verify now ignores signed material - given on stdin unless this is requested by using a "-" as the name for - the file with the signed material. - - ! Please check all your detached signature handling applications ! - ! and make sure that they don't pipe the signed material to stdin ! - ! without using a filename and "-" on the the command line. ! - - * Corrected hash calculation for some inputs greater than 512M - it - was just wrong, so you might notice bad signature in some very - big files. It may be wise to keep an old copy of GnuPG around. +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.5 (2001-04-??) +------------------------------------------------ + + * WARNING: The semantics of --verify have changed to address a + problem with detached signature detection. --verify now ignores + signed material given on stdin unless this is requested by using + a "-" as the name for the file with the signed material. Please + check all your detached signature handling applications and make + sure that they don't pipe the signed material to stdin without + using a filename together with "-" on the the command line. + + * WARNING: Corrected hash calculation for input data larger than + 512M - it was just wrong, so you might notice bad signature in + some very big files. It may be wise to keep an old copy of + GnuPG around. * Secret keys are no longer imported unless you use the new option --allow-secret-key-import. This is a kludge and future versions will handle it in another way. - * There is now the notation of a primary user ID. For example, it is - printed with a signature verifaction as the first user ID; revoked user - IDs are not printed there anymore. In general the primary user ID is - the one with the latest self-signature. - - * The verification status of self-signatures are now cached. To increase - the speed of key list operations for existing keys you can do the - following in your GnuPG homedir (~/.gnupg): - $ cp pubring.gpg pubring.gpg.save - $ gpg --export-all >x - $ rm pubring.gpg - $ gpg --import x - Only v4 keys (i.e not the old RSA keys) benefit from this caching. + * New command "showpref" in the --edit-key menu to show an easier + to understand preference listing. - * Support for the gpg-agent from gpg 1.1 and other changes needed by - gpgme. + * There is now the notation of a primary user ID. For example, it + is printed with a signature verification as the first user ID; + revoked user IDs are not printed there anymore. In general the + primary user ID is the one with the latest self-signature. - * Better LFS support. + * New --charset=utf-8 to bypass all internal conversions. - * New option --ignore-crc-error + * Large File Support (LFS) is now working. + + * New options: --ignore-crc-error, --no-sig-create-check, + --no-sig-cache, --fixed_list_mode, --no-expensive-trust-checks, + --enable-special-filenames and --use-agent. See man page. + + * New command --pipemode, which can be used to run gpg as a + co-process. Currently only the verification of detached + signatures are working. See doc/DETAILS. * Keyserver support for the W32 version. - * New --charset=utf-8 to bypass all internal translations. + * A lot of bug fixes, rewritten key selection code so that GnuPG + can better cope with multiple sub keys, expire dates and so. + The drawback is that it is slower. - * New command "showpref" in the --edit-key menu to show an easier - to understand preference listing. + * The verification status of self-signatures are now cached. To + increase the speed of key list operations for existing keys you + can do the following in your GnuPG homedir (~/.gnupg): + $ cp pubring.gpg pubring.gpg.save && $ gpg --export-all >x && \ + rm pubring.gpg && gpg --import x + Only v4 keys (i.e not the old RSA keys) benefit from this caching. * New translations: Estonian, Turkish. |