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diff --git a/announce.txt b/announce.txt index 85dfc9202..e11d2994c 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 2.0.15. +release: Version 2.0.16. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital @@ -31,12 +31,16 @@ GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License What's New =========== - * New command --passwd for GPG. + * 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. - * Fixes a regression in 2.0.14 which prevented unprotection of new - or changed gpg-agent passphrases. + * The gpg-agent commands KILLAGENT and RELOADAGENT are now available + on all platforms. - * Uses libassuan 2.0 which is available as a DSO. + * Minor bug fixes. Getting the Software @@ -45,7 +49,7 @@ Getting the Software Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/ or read on: -GnuPG 2.0.15 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or +GnuPG 2.0.16 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. @@ -53,14 +57,14 @@ 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-2.0.15.tar.bz2 (3884k) - gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2.sig + gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2 (3910k) + gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2.sig GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature. - gnupg-2.0.14-2.0.15.diff.bz2 (40k) + gnupg-2.0.15-2.0.16.diff.bz2 (51k) - A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.14 GnuPG source tree. This patch + A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.15 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. @@ -75,9 +79,9 @@ 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-2.0.15.tar.bz2 you would use this command: + signature of the file gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2 you would use this command: - gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2.sig + gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.16.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 @@ -101,15 +105,15 @@ the following ways: * 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-2.0.14.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: + gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: - sha1sum gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2 + sha1sum gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the first line from the following list: -3596668fb9cc8ec0714463a5009f990fc23434b0 gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2 -ed35765ae081706c8856fd491201f4f9576135fd gnupg-2.0.14-2.0.15.diff.bz2 +e7eb4f60026884bd90803b531472bc518804b95d gnupg-2.0.16.tar.bz2 +be77c0ba597b9ad9e38941e85ba1750890067227 gnupg-2.0.15-2.0.16.diff.bz2 Internationalization |