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diff --git a/announce.txt b/announce.txt index e11d2994c..611309518 100644 --- a/announce.txt +++ b/announce.txt @@ -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 2.0.16. +release: Version 2.0.17. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. -GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.10) in +GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.11) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as @@ -31,14 +31,17 @@ GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License What's New =========== - * If the agent's --use-standard-socket option is active, all tools - try to start and daemonize the agent on the fly. In the past this - was only supported on W32; on non-W32 systems the new configure - option --use-standard-socket may now be used to use this feature by - default. + * Allow more hash algorithms with the OpenPGP v2 card. - * The gpg-agent commands KILLAGENT and RELOADAGENT are now available - on all platforms. + * The gpg-agent now tests for a new gpg-agent.conf on a HUP. + + * Fixed output of "gpgconf --check-options". + + * Fixed a bug where Scdaemon sends a signal to Gpg-agent running in + non-daemon mode. + + * Fixed TTY management for pinentries and session variable update + problem. * Minor bug fixes. @@ -49,7 +52,7 @@ Getting the Software Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/ or read on: -GnuPG 2.0.16 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or +GnuPG 2.0.17 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. @@ -57,14 +60,14 @@ 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-2.0.16.tar.bz2 (3910k) - gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2.sig + gnupg-2.0.17.tar.bz2 (3904k) + gnupg-2.0.17.tar.bz2.sig GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature. - gnupg-2.0.15-2.0.16.diff.bz2 (51k) + gnupg-2.0.16-2.0.17.diff.bz2 (75k) - A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.15 GnuPG source tree. This patch + A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.16 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. @@ -79,9 +82,9 @@ 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-2.0.16.tar.bz2 you would use this command: + signature of the file gnupg-2.0.17.tar.bz2 you would use this command: - gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2.sig + gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.17.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 @@ -94,36 +97,35 @@ the following ways: or using a keyserver like - gpg --recv-key 1CE0C630 + gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 4F25E3B6 - The distribution key 1CE0C630 is signed by the well known key - 5B0358A2. If you get an key expired message, you should retrieve a - fresh copy as the expiration date might have been prolonged. + The distribution key 4F25E3B6 is signed by the well known key + 1E42B367. NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION! * If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file - gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: + gnupg-2.0.17.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: - sha1sum gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2 + sha1sum gnupg-2.0.17.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the first line from the following list: -e7eb4f60026884bd90803b531472bc518804b95d gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2 -be77c0ba597b9ad9e38941e85ba1750890067227 gnupg-2.0.15-2.0.16.diff.bz2 +41ef5460417ca0a1131fc730849fe3afd49ad2de gnupg-2.0.17.tar.bz2 +ba49d5ab2659bfe6403d52df58722f439e393bbb gnupg-2.0.16-2.0.17.diff.bz2 Internationalization ==================== GnuPG comes with support for 27 languages. Due to a lot of new and -changed strings many translations are not entirely complete. Jedi, -Maxim Britov, Jaime Suárez and Nilgün Belma Bugüner have been kind -enough to go over their translations and thus the Chinese, German, -Russian, Spanish, and Turkish translations are pretty much complete. +changed strings many translations are not entirely complete. Jakub +Bogusz, Petr Pisar, Jedi and Daniel Nylander have been kind enough to +update their translations on short notice. Thus the Chinese, Czech, +German, Polish and Swedish translations are complete. Documentation |