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.. _new-stuff:
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What Was New
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| Version: | 0.0.1-draft |
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| GPGME Version: | 1.13.0 |
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| Author: | `Ben |
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| | McGinnes <https://gnupg.org/peopl |
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| | e/index.html#sec-1-5>`__ |
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| | <ben@gnupg.org> |
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| Author GPG Key: | DB4724E6FA4286C92B4E55C4321E4E237 |
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| Language: | Australian English, British |
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| | English |
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| xml:lang: | en-AU, en-GB, en |
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The following are all the past *What\'s New* sections for the Python
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Bindings HOWTO and other documentation.
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.. _gpgme-1-12-0:
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What Was New in GPGME 1·12·0
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The most obviously new point for those reading this guide is this
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section on other new things, but that's hardly important. Not given all
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the other things which spurred the need for adding this section and its
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subsections.
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.. _new-stuff-1-12-0:
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New in GPGME 1·12·0
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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There have been quite a number of additions to GPGME and the Python
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bindings to it since the last release of GPGME with versions 1.11.0 and
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1.11.1 in April, 2018.
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The bullet points of new additiions are:
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- an expanded section on
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`installing <gpgme-python-howto#installation>`__ and
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`troubleshooting <gpgme-python-howto#snafu>`__ the Python bindings.
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- The release of Python 3.7.0; which appears to be working just fine
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with our bindings, in spite of intermittent reports of problems for
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many other Python projects with that new release.
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- Python 3.7 has been moved to the head of the specified python
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versions list in the build process.
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- In order to fix some other issues, there are certain underlying
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functions which are more exposed through the
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`gpg.Context() <gpgme-python-howto#howto-get-context>`__, but ongoing
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documentation ought to clarify that or otherwise provide the best
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means of using the bindings. Some additions to ``gpg.core`` and the
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``Context()``, however, were intended (see below).
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- Continuing work in identifying and confirming the cause of
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oft-reported `problems installing the Python bindings on
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Windows <gpgme-python-howto#snafu-runtime-not-funtime>`__.
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- GSOC: Google\'s Surreptitiously Ordered Conscription ... erm ... oh,
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right; Google\'s Summer of Code. Though there were two hopeful
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candidates this year; only one ended up involved with the GnuPG
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Project directly, the other concentrated on an unrelated third party
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project with closer ties to one of the GNU/Linux distributions than
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to the GnuPG Project. Thus the Python bindings benefited from GSOC
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participant Jacob Adams, who added the key\ :sub:`import` function;
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building on prior work by Tobias Mueller.
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- Several new methods functions were added to the gpg.Context(),
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including: `key\ import <gpgme-python-howto#howto-import-key>`__,
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`key\ export <gpgme-python-howto#howto-export-key>`__,
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`key\ exportminimal <gpgme-python-howto#howto-export-public-key>`__
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and
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`key\ exportsecret <gpgme-python-howto#howto-export-secret-key>`__.
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- Importing and exporting examples include versions integrated with
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Marcel Fest\'s recently released `HKP for
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Python <https://github.com/Selfnet/hkp4py>`__ module. Some
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`additional notes on this module <gpgme-python-howto#hkp4py>`__ are
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included at the end of the HOWTO.
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- Instructions for dealing with semi-walled garden implementations like
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ProtonMail are also included. This is intended to make things a
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little easier when communicating with users of ProtonMail\'s services
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and should not be construed as an endorsement of said service. The
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GnuPG Project neither favours, nor disfavours ProtonMail and the
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majority of this deals with interacting with the ProtonMail
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keyserver.
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- Semi-formalised the location where `draft
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versions <gpgme-python-howto#draft-editions>`__ of this HOWTO may
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periodically be accessible. This is both for the reference of others
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and testing the publishing of the document itself. Renamed this file
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at around the same time.
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- The Texinfo documentation build configuration has been replicated
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from the parent project in order to make to maintain consistency with
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that project (and actually ship with each release).
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- a reStructuredText (``.rst``) version is also generated for Python
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developers more used to and comfortable with that format as it is the
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standard Python documentation format and Python developers may wish
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to use it with Sphinx. Please note that there has been no testing of
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the reStructuredText version with Sphinx at all. The reST file was
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generated by the simple expedient of using
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`Pandoc <https://pandoc.org/>`__.
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- Added a new section for `advanced or experimental
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use <gpgme-python-howto#advanced-use>`__.
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- Began the advanced use cases with `a
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section <gpgme-python-howto#cython>`__ on using the module with
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`Cython <https://cython.org/>`__.
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- Added a number of new scripts to the ``example/howto/`` directory;
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some of which may be in advance of their planned sections of the
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HOWTO (and some are just there because it seemed like a good idea at
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the time).
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- Cleaned up a lot of things under the hood.
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