Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of GnuPG 1.9.92 - one of the last steps towards a 2.0 release. The 1.9 branch of GnuPG features the OpenPGP as well as the S/MIME protocol. You should consider using GnuPG 1.9 if you want to use S/MIME. The included GPG-AGENT is also helpful when using the stable GPG version 1.4 or if you want to use its ssh-agent replacement feature (including smart card support). Note, that this version is still in beta state. The final release of GnuPG 2.0 is scheduled for November. Please watch the gnupg-users mailing list for announcement of more beta versions. You may still use GnuPG 1.4.5 for OpenPGP as there is no conflict in installing both versions. The actually binary for OpenPGP has been renamed to gpg2 in GnuPG 1.9. There are no plans to give up development on 1.4 after the 2.0 release. There are quite some changes since the announcement of 1.9.20 back in December: * New "relax" flag for trustlist.txt to allow root CA certificates without BasicContraints. * [gpg2] Removed the -k PGP 2 compatibility hack. -k is now an alias for --list-keys. * [gpg2] Print a warning if "-sat" is used instead of "--clearsign". * Regular man pages for most tools are now build directly from the Texinfo source. * Included translations from gnupg 1.4.5. * The gpg code from 1.4.5 has been fully merged into this release. The configure option --enable-gpg is still required to build this gpg part. For production use of OpenPGP the gpg version 1.4.5 is still recommended. Note, that gpg will be installed under the name gpg2 to allow coexisting with an 1.4.x gpg. * API change in gpg-agent's pkdecrypt command. Thus an older gpgsm may not be used with the current gpg-agent. * The scdaemon will now call a script on reader status changes. * gpgsm now allows file descriptor passing for "INPUT", "OUTPUT" and "MESSAGE". * The gpgsm server may now output a key listing to the output file handle. This needs to be enabled using "OPTION list-to-output=1". * The --output option of gpgsm has now an effect on list-keys. * New gpgsm commands --dump-chain and list-chain. * gpg-connect-agent has new options to utilize descriptor passing. * A global trustlist may now be used. See doc/examples/trustlist.txt. * When creating a new pubring.kbx keybox common certificates are imported. * Enhanced pkcs#12 support to allow import from simple keyBags. * Exporting to pkcs#12 now create bag attributes so that Mozilla is able to import the files. * Pkcs#12 files are now created with a MAC. This is for better interoperability. * Fixed uploading of certain keys to the smart card. * New command APDU for scdaemon to allow using it for general card access. Might be used through gpg-connect-agent by using the SCD prefix command. * Support for the CardMan 4040 PCMCIA reader (Linux 2.6.15 required). * Scdaemon does not anymore reset cards at the end of a connection. * Kludge to allow use of Bundesnetzagentur issued X.509 certificates. * Added --hash=xxx option to scdaemon's PKSIGN command. You may download GnuPG 1.9.92 from one of the mirrors as listed at http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html or direct from the master server ftp://ftp.gnupg.org: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.9.92.tar.bz2 (3703k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.9.92.tar.bz2.sig or as a patch against the previous release: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.9.91-1.9.92.diff.bz2 (20k) SHA-1 checksums for the above files are: 8021f1b170bde91fa4e7126c0dd8db2c69c7a8f5 gnupg-1.9.92.tar.bz2 24b28871d3ffb60f79878b33286160ec55a9b3e6 gnupg-1.9.91-1.9.92.diff.bz2 For help on installing or running GnuPG 1.9 you should send mail to the gnupg-users mailing list or to one of the country specific lists. See http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html . Improving GnuPG is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find GnuPG useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or by donating money. Commercial support contracts for GnuPG are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. g10 Code GmbH, a Duesseldorf based company owned and headed by gpg's principal author, is currently funding GnuPG development. We are always looking for interesting development projects. A service directory is available at http://www.gnupg.org/service.html . The GnuPG project is looking for a new logo. The contest runs until end of this month. See http://www.gnupg.org/misc/logo-contest.html Happy hacking, Werner -- Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> The GnuPG Experts http://g10code.com Join the Fellowship and protect your Freedom! http://www.fsfe.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 205 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/attachments/20061011/ff2fd5b0/attachment.pgp