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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Mail-Followup-To: [email protected]
Hello!
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2
-release: Version 2.0.14.
+release: Version 2.0.15.
The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication
and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital
@@ -31,21 +31,12 @@ GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
What's New
===========
- * The default for --include-cert is now to include all certificates
- in the chain except for the root certificate.
+ * New command --passwd for GPG.
- * Numerical values may now be used as an alternative to the
- debug-level keywords.
-
- * The GPGSM --audit-log feature is now more complete.
-
- * GPG now supports DNS lookups for SRV, PKA and CERT on W32.
-
- * New GPGSM option --ignore-cert-extension.
-
- * New and changed passphrases are now created with an iteration count
- requiring about 100ms of CPU work.
+ * Fixes a regression in 2.0.14 which prevented unprotection of new
+ or changed gpg-agent passphrases.
+ * Uses libassuan 2.0 which is available as a DSO.
Getting the Software
@@ -54,7 +45,7 @@ Getting the Software
Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/
or read on:
-GnuPG 2.0.14 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or
+GnuPG 2.0.15 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or
direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ . The list of mirrors
can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html . Note, that GnuPG
is not available at ftp.gnu.org.
@@ -62,14 +53,14 @@ is not available at ftp.gnu.org.
On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following files
in the gnupg/ directory:
- gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2 (3889k)
- gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2.sig
+ gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2 (3884k)
+ gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2.sig
GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature.
- gnupg-2.0.13-2.0.14.diff.bz2 (42k)
+ gnupg-2.0.14-2.0.15.diff.bz2 (40k)
- A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.13 GnuPG source tree. This patch
+ A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.14 GnuPG source tree. This patch
does not include updates of the language files.
Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs for GnuPG-2.
@@ -84,9 +75,9 @@ the following ways:
* If you already have a trusted version of GnuPG installed, you
can simply check the supplied signature. For example to check the
- signature of the file gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2 you would use this command:
+ signature of the file gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2 you would use this command:
- gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2.sig
+ gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2.sig
This checks whether the signature file matches the source file.
You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and
@@ -112,13 +103,13 @@ the following ways:
the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file
gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this:
- sha1sum gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2
+ sha1sum gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2
and check that the output matches the first line from the
following list:
-cc5e4637f37f5bc82b00c73fc094ddadb7401821 gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2
-cad88a7f3653479df41ddb7956b9f8a0ff6f2185 gnupg-2.0.13-2.0.14.diff.bz2
+3596668fb9cc8ec0714463a5009f990fc23434b0 gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2
+ed35765ae081706c8856fd491201f4f9576135fd gnupg-2.0.14-2.0.15.diff.bz2
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