Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of GnuPG 1.9.17 - the branch of GnuPG featuring the S/MIME protocol. You should consider using GnuPG 1.9 if you want to use the GPG-AGENT or GPGSM. The GPG-AGENT is also helpful when using the stable GPG version 1.4 or if you want to check out its ssh-agent replacement feature. GnuPG 1.9 is the current development version of GnuPG. Despite of that, most parts (in particular GPG-AGENT and GPGSM) are considered ready for production use. Please keep on using GnuPG 1.4.x for OpenPGP; 1.9 and 1.4 may - and actually should - be installed simultaneously. This release features a partly rewrite of the smartcard access code as well as several bug fixes and enhancements. Noteworthy things are: * gpg-connect-agent has now features to handle Assuan INQUIRE commands. * Internal changes for OpenPGP cards. New Assuan command WRITEKEY. * GNU Pth is now a hard requirement. * [scdaemon] Support for OpenSC has been removed. Instead a new and straightforward pkcs#15 modules has been written. As of now it does allows only signing using TCOS cards but we are going to enhance it to match all the old capabilities. * [gpg-agent] New option --write-env-file and Assuan command UPDATESTARTUPTTY. * [gpg-agent] New option --default-cache-ttl-ssh to set the TTL for SSH passphrase caching independent from the other passphrases. You may download it 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-1.9.17.tar.bz2 (1709k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.9.17.tar.bz2.sig or as a patch against the previous release: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.9.16-1.9.17.diff.bz2 (150k) You will also need to get a new libassuan (our IPC library): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/libassuan-0.6.10.tar.gz (252k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/libassuan-0.6.10.tar.gz.sig a patch is also available: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/libassuan-0.6.9-0.6.10.diff.bz2 (5k) SHA-1 checksums for the above files are: f089490450b99263332c71f6e296a3a83b28433c gnupg-1.9.17.tar.bz2 4331d0755e50e87b3001d061f63e82e2834ffc1a gnupg-1.9.16-1.9.17.diff.bz2 18d43335494b0d38dde6d9748cbde4141f04114b libassuan-0.6.10.tar.gz 6375968684e6c7dc854dc05366c4106e5dbe30dd libassuan-0.6.9-0.6.10.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. Happy hacking, Werner -- Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> The GnuPG Experts http://g10code.com Free Software Foundation Europe http://fsfeurope.org Join the Fellowship and protect your Freedom! http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Gnupg-announce mailing list Gnupg-announce@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-announce