1 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.7 (2018-05-02)
2 ------------------------------------------------
4 * gpg: New option --no-symkey-cache to disable the passphrase cache
5 for symmetrical en- and decryption.
7 * gpg: The ERRSIG status now prints the fingerprint if that is part
10 * gpg: Relax emitting of FAILURE status lines
12 * gpg: Add a status flag to "sig" lines printed with --list-sigs.
14 * gpg: Fix "Too many open files" when using --multifile. [#3951]
16 * ssh: Return an error for unknown ssh-agent flags. [#3880]
18 * dirmngr: Fix a regression since 2.1.16 which caused corrupted CRL
19 caches under Windows. [#2448,#3923]
21 * dirmngr: Fix a CNAME problem with pools and TLS. Also use a fixed
22 mapping of keys.gnupg.net to sks-keyservers.net. [#3755]
24 * dirmngr: Try resurrecting dead hosts earlier (from 3 to 1.5 hours).
26 * dirmngr: Fallback to CRL if no default OCSP responder is configured.
28 * dirmngr: Implement CRL fetching via https. Here a redirection to
29 http is explictly allowed.
31 * dirmngr: Make LDAP searching and CRL fetching work under Windows.
32 This stopped working with 2.1. [#3937]
34 * agent,dirmngr: New sub-command "getenv" for "getinfo" to ease
37 See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q2/000422.html
40 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.6 (2018-04-09)
41 ------------------------------------------------
43 * gpg,gpgsm: New option --request-origin to pretend requests coming
44 from a browser or a remote site.
46 * gpg: Fix race condition on trustdb.gpg updates due to too early
47 released lock. [#3839]
49 * gpg: Emit FAILURE status lines in almost all cases. [#3872]
51 * gpg: Implement --dry-run for --passwd to make checking a key's
52 passphrase straightforward.
54 * gpg: Make sure to only accept a certification capable key for key
57 * gpg: Better user interaction in --card-edit for the factory-reset
60 * gpg: Improve changing key attributes in --card-edit by adding an
61 explicit "key-attr" sub-command. [#3781]
63 * gpg: Print the keygrips in the --card-status.
65 * scd: Support KDF DO setup. [#3823]
67 * scd: Fix some issues with PC/SC on Windows. [#3825]
69 * scd: Fix suspend/resume handling in the CCID driver.
71 * agent: Evict cached passphrases also via a timer. [#3829]
73 * agent: Use separate passphrase caches depending on the request
76 * ssh: Support signature flags. [#3880]
78 * dirmngr: Handle failures related to missing IPv6 support
81 * Fix corner cases related to specified home directory with
82 drive letter on Windows. [#3720]
84 * Allow the use of UNC directory names as homedir. [#3818]
86 See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q2/000421.html
89 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.5 (2018-02-22)
90 ------------------------------------------------
92 * gpg: Allow the use of the "cv25519" and "ed25519" short names in
93 addition to the canonical curve names in --batch --gen-key.
95 * gpg: Make sure to print all secret keys with option --list-only
96 and --decrypt. [#3718]
98 * gpg: Fix the use of future-default with --quick-add-key for
101 * gpg: Select a secret key by checking availability under gpg-agent.
104 * gpg: Fix reversed prompt texts for --only-sign-text-ids. [#3787]
106 * gpg,gpgsm: Fix detection of bogus keybox blobs on 32 bit systems.
109 * gpgsm: Fix regression since 2.1 in --export-secret-key-raw which
110 got $d mod (q-1)$ wrong. Note that most tools automatically fixup
111 that parameter anyway.
113 * ssh: Fix a regression in getting the client'd PID on *BSD and
116 * scd: Support the KDF Data Object of the OpenPGP card 3.3. [#3152]
118 * scd: Fix a regression in the internal CCID driver for certain card
121 * scd: Fix a problem on NetBSD killing scdaemon on gpg-agent
124 * dirmngr: Improve returned error description on failure of DNS
127 * wks: Implement command --install-key for gpg-wks-server.
129 * Add option STATIC=1 to the Speedo build system to allow a build
130 with statically linked versions of the core GnuPG libraries. Also
131 use --enable-wks-tools by default by Speedo builds for Unix.
133 See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q1/000420.html
136 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.4 (2017-12-20)
137 ------------------------------------------------
139 * gpg: Change default preferences to prefer SHA512.
141 * gpg: Print a warning when more than 150 MiB are encrypted using a
142 cipher with 64 bit block size.
144 * gpg: Print a warning if the MDC feature has not been used for a
147 * gpg: Fix regular expression of domain addresses in trust
150 * agent: New option --auto-expand-secmem to help with high numbers
151 of concurrent connections. Requires libgcrypt 1.8.2 for having
154 * dirmngr: Cache responses of WKD queries.
156 * gpgconf: Add option --status-fd.
158 * wks: Add commands --check and --remove-key to gpg-wks-server.
160 * Increase the backlog parameter of the daemons to 64 and add
161 option --listen-backlog.
163 * New configure option --enable-run-gnupg-user-socket to first try a
164 socket directory which is not removed by systemd at session end.
166 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q4/000419.html
169 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.3 (2017-11-20)
170 ------------------------------------------------
172 * gpgsm: Fix initial keybox creation on Windows. [#3507]
174 * dirmngr: Fix crash in case of a CRL loading error. [#3510]
176 * Fix the name of the Windows registry key. [Git#4f5afaf1fd]
178 * gpgtar: Fix wrong behaviour of --set-filename. [#3500]
180 * gpg: Silence AKL retrieval messages. [#3504]
182 * agent: Use clock or clock_gettime for calibration. [#3056]
184 * agent: Improve robustness of the shutdown pending
185 state. [Git#7ffedfab89]
187 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q4/000417.html
190 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.2 (2017-11-07)
191 ------------------------------------------------
193 * gpg: Avoid duplicate key imports by concurrently running gpg
196 * gpg: Fix creating on-disk subkey with on-card primary key. [#3280]
198 * gpg: Fix validity retrieval for multiple keyrings. [Debian#878812]
200 * gpg: Fix --dry-run and import option show-only for secret keys.
202 * gpg: Print "sec" or "sbb" for secret keys with import option
205 * gpg: Make import less verbose. [#3397]
207 * gpg: Add alias "Key-Grip" for parameter "Keygrip" and new
208 parameter "Subkey-Grip" to unattended key generation. [#3478]
210 * gpg: Improve "factory-reset" command for OpenPGP cards. [#3286]
212 * gpg: Ease switching Gnuk tokens into ECC mode by using the magic
215 * gpgsm: Fix --with-colon listing in crt records for fields > 12.
217 * gpgsm: Do not expect X.509 keyids to be unique. [#1644]
219 * agent: Fix stucked Pinentry when using --max-passphrase-days. [#3190]
221 * agent: New option --s2k-count. [#3276 (workaround)]
223 * dirmngr: Do not follow https-to-http redirects. [#3436]
225 * dirmngr: Reduce default LDAP timeout from 100 to 15 seconds. [#3487]
227 * gpgconf: Ignore non-installed components for commands
228 --apply-profile and --apply-defaults. [#3313]
230 * Add configure option --enable-werror. [#2423]
232 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q4/000416.html
235 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.1 (2017-09-19)
236 ------------------------------------------------
238 * gpg: Fix formatting of the user id in batch mode key generation
239 if only "name-email" is given.
241 * gpgv: Fix annoying "not suitable for" warnings.
243 * wks: Convey only the newest user id to the provider. This is the
244 case if different names are used with the same addr-spec.
246 * wks: Create a complying user id for provider policy mailbox-only.
248 * wks: Add workaround for posteo.de.
250 * scd: Fix the use of large ECC keys with an OpenPGP card.
252 * dirmngr: Use system provided root certificates if no specific HKP
253 certificates are configured. If build with GNUTLS, this was
256 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000415.html
259 Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.0 (2017-08-28)
260 ------------------------------------------------
262 This is the new long term stable branch. This branch will only see
263 bug fixes and no new features.
265 * gpg: Reverted change in 2.1.23 so that --no-auto-key-retrieve is
268 * Fixed a few minor bugs.
270 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000413.html
273 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.23 (2017-08-09)
274 -------------------------------------------------
276 * gpg: "gpg" is now installed as "gpg" and not anymore as "gpg2".
277 If needed, the new configure option --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 can be
280 * gpg: Options --auto-key-retrieve and --auto-key-locate "local,wkd"
281 are now used by default. Note: this enables keyserver and Web Key
282 Directory operators to notice when a signature from a locally
283 non-available key is being verified for the first time or when
284 you intend to encrypt to a mail address without having the key
285 locally. This new behaviour will eventually make key discovery
286 much easier and mostly automatic. Disable this by adding
288 auto-key-locate local
291 * agent: Option --no-grab is now the default. The new option --grab
292 allows to revert this.
294 * gpg: New import option "show-only".
296 * gpg: New option --disable-dirmngr to entirely disable network
299 * gpg,gpgsm: Tweaked DE-VS compliance behaviour.
301 * New configure flag --enable-all-tests to run more extensive tests
304 * gpgsm: The keygrip is now always printed in colon mode as
305 documented in the man page.
307 * Fixed connection timeout problem under Windows.
309 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000412.html
312 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.22 (2017-07-28)
313 -------------------------------------------------
315 * gpg: Extend command --quick-set-expire to allow for setting the
316 expiration time of subkeys.
318 * gpg: By default try to repair keys during import. New sub-option
319 no-repair-keys for --import-options.
321 * gpg,gpgsm: Improved checking and reporting of DE-VS compliance.
323 * gpg: New options --key-origin and --with-key-origin. Store the
324 time of the last key update from keyservers, WKD, or DANE.
326 * agent: New option --ssh-fingerprint-digest.
328 * dimngr: Lower timeouts on keyserver connection attempts and made
331 * dirmngr: Tor will now automatically be detected and used. The
332 option --no-use-tor disables Tor detection.
334 * dirmngr: Now detects a changed /etc/resolv.conf.
336 * agent,dirmngr: Initiate shutdown on removal of the GnuPG home
339 * gpg: Avoid caching passphrase for failed symmetric encryption.
341 * agent: Support for unprotected ssh keys.
343 * dirmngr: Fixed name resolving on systems using only v6
346 * dirmngr: Allow the use of TLS over http proxies.
348 * w32: Change directory of the daemons after startup.
350 * wks: New man pages for client and server.
352 * Many other bug fixes.
354 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000411.html
357 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.21 (2017-05-15)
358 -------------------------------------------------
360 * gpg,gpgsm: Fix corruption of old style keyring.gpg files. This
361 bug was introduced with version 2.1.20. Note that the default
362 pubring.kbx format was not affected.
364 * gpg,dirmngr: Removed the skeleton config file support. The
365 system's standard methods for providing default configuration
366 files should be used instead.
368 * w32: The Windows installer now allows installation of GnuPG
369 without Administrator permissions.
371 * gpg: Fixed import filter property match bug.
373 * scd: Removed Linux support for Cardman 4040 PCMCIA reader.
375 * scd: Fixed some corner case bugs in resume/suspend handling.
377 * Many minor bug fixes and code cleanup.
379 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q2/000405.html
382 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.20 (2017-04-03)
383 -------------------------------------------------
385 * gpg: New properties 'expired', 'revoked', and 'disabled' for the
386 import and export filters.
388 * gpg: New command --quick-set-primary-uid.
390 * gpg: New compliance field for the --with-colon key listing.
392 * gpg: Changed the key parser to generalize the processing of local
395 * gpg: Fixed assertion failure in the TOFU trust model.
397 * gpg: Fixed exporting of zero length user ID packets.
399 * scd: Improved support for multiple readers.
401 * scd: Fixed timeout handling for key generation.
403 * agent: New option --enable-extended-key-format.
405 * dirmngr: Do not add a keyserver to a new dirmngr.conf. Dirmngr
406 uses a default keyserver.
408 * dimngr: Do not treat TLS warning alerts as severe error when
409 building with GNUTLS.
411 * dirmngr: Actually take /etc/hosts in account.
413 * wks: Fixed client problems on Windows. Published keys are now set
416 * tests: Fixed creation of temporary directories.
418 * A socket directory for a non standard GNUGHOME is now created on
419 the fly under /run/user. Thus "gpgconf --create-socketdir" is now
420 optional. The use of "gpgconf --remove-socketdir" to clean up
421 obsolete socket directories is however recommended to avoid
422 cluttering /run/user with useless directories.
424 * Fixed build problems on some platforms.
426 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q2/000404.html
429 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.19 (2017-03-01)
430 -------------------------------------------------
432 * gpg: Print a warning if Tor mode is requested but the Tor daemon
435 * gpg: New status code DECRYPTION_KEY to print the actual private
436 key used for decryption.
438 * gpgv: New options --log-file and --debug.
440 * gpg-agent: Revamp the prompts to ask for card PINs.
442 * scd: Support for multiple card readers.
444 * scd: Removed option --debug-disable-ticker. Ticker is used
445 only when it is required to watch removal of device/card.
447 * scd: Improved detection of card inserting and removal.
449 * dirmngr: New option --disable-ipv4.
451 * dirmngr: New option --no-use-tor to explicitly disable the use of
454 * dirmngr: The option --allow-version-check is now required even if
455 the option --use-tor is also used.
457 * dirmngr: Handle a missing nsswitch.conf gracefully.
459 * dirmngr: Avoid PTR lookups for keyserver pools. The are only done
460 for the debug command "keyserver --hosttable".
462 * dirmngr: Rework the internal certificate cache to support classes
463 of certificates. Load system provided certificates on startup.
464 Add options --tls, --no-crl, and --systrust to the "VALIDATE"
467 * dirmngr: Add support for the ntbtls library.
469 * wks: Create mails with a "WKS-Phase" header. Fix detection of
472 * The Windows installer is now build with limited TLS support.
474 * Many other bug fixes and new regression tests.
476 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q1/000402.html
479 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.18 (2017-01-23)
480 -------------------------------------------------
482 * gpg: Remove bogus subkey signature while cleaning a key (with
483 export-clean, import-clean, or --edit-key's sub-command clean)
485 * gpg: Allow freezing the clock with --faked-system-time.
487 * gpg: New --export-option flag "backup", new --import-option flag
490 * gpg-agent: Fixed long delay due to a regression in the progress
493 * scd: Lots of code cleanup and internal changes.
495 * scd: Improved the internal CCID driver.
497 * dirmngr: Fixed problem with the DNS glue code (removal of the
498 trailing dot in domain names).
500 * dirmngr: Make sure that Tor is actually enabled after changing the
501 conf file and sending SIGHUP or "gpgconf --reload dirmngr".
503 * dirmngr: Fixed Tor access to IPv6 addresses. Note that current
504 versions of Tor may require that the flag "IPv6Traffic" is used
505 with the option "SocksPort" in torrc to actually allow IPv6
508 * dirmngr: Fixed HKP for literally given IPv6 addresses.
510 * dirmngr: Enabled reverse DNS lookups via Tor.
512 * dirmngr: Added experimental SRV record lookup for WKD.
513 See commit 88dc3af3d4ae1afe1d5e136bc4c38bc4e7d4cd10 for details.
515 * dirmngr: For HKP use "pgpkey-hkps" and "pgpkey-hkp" in SRV record
516 lookups. Avoid SRV record lookup when a port is explicitly
517 specified. This fixes a regression from the 1.4 and 2.0 behavior.
519 * dirmngr: Gracefully handle a missing /etc/nsswitch.conf. Ignore
520 negation terms (e.g. "[!UNAVAIL=return]" instead of bailing out.
522 * dirmngr: Better debug output for flags "dns" and "network".
524 * dirmngr: On reload mark all known HKP servers alive.
526 * gpgconf: Allow keyword "all" for --launch, --kill, and --reload.
528 * tools: gpg-wks-client now ignores a missing policy file on the
531 * Avoid unnecessary ambiguity error message in the option parsing.
533 * Further improvements of the regression test suite.
535 * Fixed building with --disable-libdns configure option.
537 * Fixed a crash running the tests on 32 bit architectures.
539 * Fixed spurious failures on BSD system in the spawn functions.
540 This affected for example gpg-wks-client and gpgconf.
542 See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q1/000401.html
545 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.17 (2016-12-20)
546 -------------------------------------------------
548 * gpg: By default new keys expire after 2 years.
550 * gpg: New command --quick-set-expire to conveniently change the
551 expiration date of keys.
553 * gpg: Option and command names have been changed for easier
554 comprehension. The old names are still available as aliases.
556 * gpg: Improved the TOFU trust model.
558 * gpg: New option --default-new-key-algo.
560 * scd: Support OpenPGP card V3 for RSA.
562 * dirmngr: Support for the ADNS library has been removed. Instead
563 William Ahern's Libdns is now source included and used on all
564 platforms. This enables Tor support on all platforms. The new
565 option --standard-resolver can be used to disable this code at
566 runtime. In case of build problems the new configure option
567 --disable-libdns can be used to build without Libdns.
569 * dirmngr: Lazily launch ldap reaper thread.
571 * tools: New options --check and --status-fd for gpg-wks-client.
573 * The UTF-8 byte order mark is now skipped when reading conf files.
575 * Fixed many bugs and regressions.
577 * Major improvements to the test suite. For example it is possible
578 to run the external test suite of GPGME.
580 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q4/000400.html
583 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.16 (2016-11-18)
584 -------------------------------------------------
586 * gpg: New algorithm for selecting the best ranked public key when
587 using a mail address with -r, -R, or --locate-key.
589 * gpg: New option --with-tofu-info to print a new "tfs" record in
590 colon formatted key listings.
592 * gpg: New option --compliance as an alternative way to specify
593 options like --rfc2440, --rfc4880, et al.
595 * gpg: Many changes to the TOFU implementation.
597 * gpg: Improve usability of --quick-gen-key.
599 * gpg: In --verbose mode print a diagnostic when a pinentry is
602 * gpg: Remove code which warns for old versions of gnome-keyring.
604 * gpg: New option --override-session-key-fd.
606 * gpg: Option --output does now work with --verify.
608 * gpgv: New option --output to allow saving the verified data.
610 * gpgv: New option --enable-special-filenames.
612 * agent, dirmngr: New --supervised mode for use by systemd and alike.
614 * agent: By default listen on all available sockets using standard
617 * agent: Invoke scdaemon with --homedir.
619 * dirmngr: On Linux now detects the removal of its own socket and
622 * scd: Support ECC key generation.
624 * scd: Support more card readers.
626 * dirmngr: New option --allow-version-check to download a software
627 version database in the background.
629 * dirmngr: Use system provided CAs if no --hkp-cacert is given.
631 * dirmngr: Use a default keyserver if none is explicitly set
633 * gpgconf: New command --query-swdb to check software versions
634 against an copy of an online database.
636 * gpgconf: Print the socket directory with --list-dirs.
638 * tools: The WKS tools now support draft version -02.
640 * tools: Always build gpg-wks-client and install under libexec.
642 * tools: New option --supported for gpg-wks-client.
644 * The log-file option now accepts a value "socket://" to log to the
645 socket named "S.log" in the standard socket directory.
647 * Provide fake pinentries for use by tests cases of downstream
650 * Fixed many bugs and regressions.
652 * Many changes and improvements for the test suite.
654 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q4/000398.html
657 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.15 (2016-08-18)
658 -------------------------------------------------
660 * gpg: Remove the --tofu-db-format option and support for the split
663 * gpg: Add option --sender to prepare for coming features.
665 * gpg: Add option --input-size-hint to help progress indicators.
667 * gpg: Extend the PROGRESS status line with the counted unit.
669 * gpg: Avoid publishing the GnuPG version by default with --armor.
671 * gpg: Properly ignore legacy keys in the keyring cache.
673 * gpg: Always print fingerprint records in --with-colons mode.
675 * gpg: Make sure that keygrips are printed for each subkey in
678 * gpg: New import filter "drop-sig".
680 * gpgsm: Fix a bug in the machine-readable key listing.
682 * gpg,gpgsm: Block signals during keyring updates to limits the
683 effects of a Ctrl-C at the wrong time.
685 * g13: Add command --umount and other fixes for dm-crypt.
687 * agent: Fix regression in SIGTERM handling.
689 * agent: Cleanup of the ssh-agent code.
691 * agent: Allow import of overly long keys.
693 * scd: Fix problems with card removal.
695 * dirmngr: Remove all code for running as a system service.
697 * tools: Make gpg-wks-client conforming to the specs.
699 * tests: Improve the output of the new regression test tool.
701 * tests: Distribute the standalone test runner.
703 * tests: Run each test in a clean environment.
705 * Spelling and grammar fixes.
707 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q3/000396.html
710 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.14 (2016-07-14)
711 -------------------------------------------------
713 * gpg: Removed options --print-dane-records and --print-pka-records.
714 The new export options "export-pka" and "export-dane" can instead
715 be used with the export command.
717 * gpg: New options --import-filter and --export-filter.
719 * gpg: New import options "import-show" and "import-export".
721 * gpg: New option --no-keyring.
723 * gpg: New command --quick-revuid.
725 * gpg: New options -f/--recipient-file and -F/--hidden-recipient-file
726 to directly specify encryption keys.
728 * gpg: New option --mimemode to indicate that the content is a MIME
729 part. Does only enable --textmode right now.
731 * gpg: New option --rfc4880bis to allow experiments with proposed
732 changes to the current OpenPGP specs.
734 * gpg: Fix regression in the "fetch" sub-command of --card-edit.
736 * gpg: Fix regression since 2.1 in option --try-all-secrets.
738 * gpgv: Change default options for extra security.
740 * gpgsm: No more root certificates are installed by default.
742 * agent: "updatestartuptty" does now affect more environment
745 * scd: The option --homedir does now work with scdaemon.
747 * scd: Support some more GEMPlus card readers.
749 * gpgtar: Fix handling of '-' as file name.
751 * gpgtar: New commands --create and --extract.
753 * gpgconf: Tweak for --list-dirs to better support shell scripts.
755 * tools: Add programs gpg-wks-client and gpg-wks-server to implement
756 a Web Key Service. The configure option --enable-wks-tools is
757 required to build them; they should be considered Beta software.
759 * tests: Complete rework of the openpgp part of the test suite. The
760 test scripts have been changed from Bourne shell scripts to Scheme
761 programs. A customized scheme interpreter (gpgscm) is included.
762 This change was triggered by the need to run the test suite on
765 * The rendering of the man pages has been improved.
767 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q3/000393.html
770 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.13 (2016-06-16)
771 -------------------------------------------------
773 * gpg: New command --quick-addkey. Extend the --quick-gen-key
776 * gpg: New --keyid-format "none" which is now also the default.
778 * gpg: New option --with-subkey-fingerprint.
780 * gpg: Include Signer's UID subpacket in signatures if the secret key
781 has been specified using a mail address and the new option
782 --disable-signer-uid is not used.
784 * gpg: Allow unattended deletion of a secret key.
786 * gpg: Allow export of non-passphrase protected secret keys.
788 * gpg: New status lines KEY_CONSIDERED and NOTATION_FLAGS.
790 * gpg: Change status line TOFU_STATS_LONG to use '~' as
791 a non-breaking-space character.
793 * gpg: Speedup key listings in Tofu mode.
795 * gpg: Make sure that the current and total values of a PROGRESS
796 status line are small enough.
798 * gpgsm: Allow the use of AES192 and SERPENT ciphers.
800 * dirmngr: Adjust WKD lookup to current specs.
802 * dirmngr: Fallback to LDAP v3 if v2 is is not supported.
804 * gpgconf: New commands --create-socketdir and --remove-socketdir,
805 new option --homedir.
807 * If a /run/user/$UID directory exists, that directory is now used
808 for IPC sockets instead of the GNUPGHOME directory. This fixes
809 problems with NFS and too long socket names and thus avoids the
810 need for redirection files.
812 * The Speedo build systems now uses the new versions.gnupg.org server
813 to retrieve the default package versions.
815 * Fix detection of libusb on FreeBSD.
817 * Speedup fd closing after a fork.
819 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q2/000390.html
822 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.12 (2016-05-04)
823 -------------------------------------------------
825 * gpg: New --edit-key sub-command "change-usage" for testing
828 * gpg: Out of order key-signatures are now systematically detected
829 and fixed by --edit-key.
831 * gpg: Improved detection of non-armored messages.
833 * gpg: Removed the extra prompt needed to create Curve25519 keys.
835 * gpg: Improved user ID selection for --quick-sign-key.
837 * gpg: Use the root CAs provided by the system with --fetch-key.
839 * gpg: Add support for the experimental Web Key Directory key
842 * gpg: Improve formatting of Tofu messages and emit new Tofu specific
845 * gpgsm: Add option --pinentry-mode to support a loopback pinentry.
847 * gpgsm: A new pubring.kbx is now created with the header blob so
848 that gpg can detect that the keybox format needs to be used.
850 * agent: Add read support for the new private key protection format
853 * agent: Add read support for the new extended private key format.
855 * agent: Default to --allow-loopback-pinentry and add option
856 --no-allow-loopback-pinentry.
858 * scd: Changed to use the new libusb 1.0 API for the internal CCID
861 * dirmngr: The dirmngr-client does now auto-detect the PEM format.
863 * g13: Add experimental support for dm-crypt.
865 * w32: Tofu support is now available with the Speedo build method.
867 * w32: Removed the need for libiconv.dll.
869 * The man pages for gpg and gpgv are now installed under the correct
870 name (gpg2 or gpg - depending on a configure option).
872 * Lots of internal cleanups and bug fixes.
874 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q2/000387.html
877 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.11 (2016-01-26)
878 -------------------------------------------------
880 * gpg: New command --export-ssh-key to replace the gpgkey2ssh tool.
882 * gpg: Allow to generate mail address only keys with --gen-key.
884 * gpg: "--list-options show-usage" is now the default.
886 * gpg: Make lookup of DNS CERT records holding an URL work.
888 * gpg: Emit PROGRESS status lines during key generation.
890 * gpg: Don't check for ambigious or non-matching key specification in
891 the config file or given to --encrypt-to. This feature will return
894 * gpg: Lock keybox files while updating them.
896 * gpg: Solve rare error on Windows during keyring and Keybox updates.
898 * gpg: Fix possible keyring corruption. (bug#2193)
900 * gpg: Fix regression of "bkuptocard" sub-command in --edit-key and
901 remove "checkbkupkey" sub-command introduced with 2.1. (bug#2169)
903 * gpg: Fix internal error in gpgv when using default keyid-format.
905 * gpg: Fix --auto-key-retrieve to work with dirmngr.conf configured
906 keyservers. (bug#2147).
908 * agent: New option --pinentry-timeout.
910 * scd: Improve unplugging of USB readers under Windows.
912 * scd: Fix regression for generating RSA keys on card.
914 * dirmmgr: All configured keyservers are now searched.
916 * dirmngr: Install CA certificate for hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net.
917 Use this certiticate even if --hkp-cacert is not used.
919 * gpgtar: Add actual encryption code. gpgtar does now fully replace
922 * gpgtar: Fix filename encoding problem on Windows.
924 * Print a warning if a GnuPG component is using an older version of
925 gpg-agent, dirmngr, or scdaemon.
927 See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q1/000383.html
930 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.10 (2015-12-04)
931 -------------------------------------------------
933 * gpg: New trust models "tofu" and "tofu+pgp".
935 * gpg: New command --tofu-policy. New options --tofu-default-policy
936 and --tofu-db-format.
938 * gpg: New option --weak-digest to specify hash algorithms which
939 should be considered weak.
941 * gpg: Allow the use of multiple --default-key options; take the last
944 * gpg: New option --encrypt-to-default-key.
946 * gpg: New option --unwrap to only strip the encryption layer.
948 * gpg: New option --only-sign-text-ids to exclude photo IDs from key
951 * gpg: Check for ambigious or non-matching key specification in the
952 config file or given to --encrypt-to.
954 * gpg: Show the used card reader with --card-status.
956 * gpg: Print export statistics and an EXPORTED status line.
958 * gpg: Allow selecting subkeys by keyid in --edit-key.
960 * gpg: Allow updating the expiration time of multiple subkeys at
963 * dirmngr: New option --use-tor. For full support this requires
964 libassuan version 2.4.2 and a patched version of libadns
965 (e.g. adns-1.4-g10-7 as used by the standard Windows installer).
967 * dirmngr: New option --nameserver to specify the nameserver used in
970 * dirmngr: Keyservers may again be specified by IP address.
972 * dirmngr: Fixed problems in resolving keyserver pools.
974 * dirmngr: Fixed handling of premature termination of TLS streams so
975 that large numbers of keys can be refreshed via hkps.
977 * gpg: Fixed a regression in --locate-key [since 2.1.9].
979 * gpg: Fixed another bug for keyrings with legacy keys.
981 * gpgsm: Allow combinations of usage flags in --gen-key.
983 * Make tilde expansion work with most options.
985 * Many other cleanups and bug fixes.
987 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q4/000381.html
990 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.9 (2015-10-09)
991 ------------------------------------------------
993 * gpg: Allow fetching keys via OpenPGP DANE (--auto-key-locate). New
994 option --print-dane-records. [Update: --print-dane-records replaced
997 * gpg: Fix for a problem with PGP-2 keys in a keyring.
999 * gpg: Fail with an error instead of a warning if a modern cipher
1000 algorithm is used without a MDC.
1002 * agent: New option --pinentry-invisible-char.
1004 * agent: Always do a RSA signature verification after creation.
1006 * agent: Fix a regression in ssh-add-ing Ed25519 keys.
1008 * agent: Fix ssh fingerprint computation for nistp384 and EdDSA.
1010 * agent: Fix crash during passphrase entry on some platforms.
1012 * scd: Change timeout to fix problems with some 2.1 cards.
1014 * dirmngr: Displayed name is now Key Acquirer.
1016 * dirmngr: Add option --keyserver. Deprecate that option for gpg.
1017 Install a dirmngr.conf file from a skeleton for new installations.
1019 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q4/000380.html
1022 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.8 (2015-09-10)
1023 ------------------------------------------------
1025 * gpg: Sending very large keys to the keyservers works again.
1027 * gpg: Validity strings in key listings are now again translatable.
1029 * gpg: Emit FAILURE status lines to help GPGME.
1031 * gpg: Does not anymore link to Libksba to reduce dependencies.
1033 * gpgsm: Export of secret keys via Assuan is now possible.
1035 * agent: Raise the maximum passphrase length from 100 to 255 bytes.
1037 * agent: Fix regression using EdDSA keys with ssh.
1039 * Does not anymore use a build timestamp by default.
1041 * The fallback encoding for broken locale settings changed
1042 from Latin-1 to UTF-8.
1044 * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation.
1046 * Various minor bug fixes.
1048 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q3/000379.html
1051 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.7 (2015-08-11)
1052 ------------------------------------------------
1054 * gpg: Support encryption with Curve25519 if Libgcrypt 1.7 is used.
1056 * gpg: In the --edit-key menu: Removed the need for "toggle", changed
1057 how secret keys are indicated, new commands "fpr *" and "grip".
1059 * gpg: More fixes related to legacy keys in a keyring.
1061 * gpgv: Does now also work with a "trustedkeys.kbx" file.
1063 * scd: Support some feature from the OpenPGP card 3.0 specs.
1065 * scd: Improved ECC support
1067 * agent: New option --force for the DELETE_KEY command.
1069 * w32: Look for the Pinentry at more places.
1071 * Dropped deprecated gpgsm-gencert.sh
1073 * Various other bug fixes.
1075 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q3/000371.html
1078 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.6 (2015-07-01)
1079 ------------------------------------------------
1081 * agent: New option --verify for the PASSWD command.
1083 * gpgsm: Add command option "offline" as an alternative to
1086 * gpg: Do not prompt multiple times for a password in pinentry
1089 * Allow the use of debug category names with --debug.
1091 * Using gpg-agent and gpg/gpgsm with different locales will now show
1092 the correct translations in Pinentry.
1094 * gpg: Improve speed of --list-sigs and --check-sigs.
1096 * gpg: Make --list-options show-sig-subpackets work again.
1098 * gpg: Fix an export problem for old keyrings with PGP-2 keys.
1100 * scd: Support PIN-pads on more readers.
1102 * dirmngr: Properly cleanup zombie LDAP helper processes and avoid
1103 hangs on dirmngr shutdown.
1105 * Various other bug fixes.
1107 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q3/000370.html
1110 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.5 (2015-06-11)
1111 ------------------------------------------------
1113 * Support for an external passphrase cache.
1115 * Support for the forthcoming version 3 OpenPGP smartcard.
1117 * Manuals now show the actual used file names.
1119 * Prepared for improved integration with Emacs.
1121 * Code cleanups and minor bug fixes.
1123 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q2/000369.html
1126 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.4 (2015-05-12)
1127 ------------------------------------------------
1129 * gpg: Add command --quick-adduid to non-interactively add a new user
1130 id to an existing key.
1132 * gpg: Do no enable honor-keyserver-url by default. Make it work if
1135 * gpg: Display the serial number in the --card-status output again.
1137 * agent: Support for external password managers.
1138 Add option --no-allow-external-cache.
1140 * scdaemon: Improved handling of extended APDUs.
1142 * Make HTTP proxies work again.
1144 * All network access including DNS as been moved to Dirmngr.
1146 * Allow building without LDAP support.
1148 * Fixed lots of smaller bugs.
1150 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q2/000366.html
1153 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.3 (2015-04-11)
1154 ------------------------------------------------
1156 * gpg: LDAP keyservers are now supported by 2.1.
1158 * gpg: New option --with-icao-spelling.
1160 * gpg: New option --print-pka-records. Changed the PKA method to use
1161 CERT records and hashed names. [Update: --print-pka-records
1162 replaced in 2.1.14.]
1164 * gpg: New command --list-gcrypt-config. New parameter "curve"
1167 * gpg: Print a NEWSIG status line like gpgsm always did.
1169 * gpg: Print MPI values with --list-packets and --verbose.
1171 * gpg: Write correct MPI lengths with ECC keys.
1173 * gpg: Skip legacy PGP-2 keys while searching.
1175 * gpg: Improved searching for mail addresses when using a keybox.
1177 * gpgsm: Changed default algos to AES-128 and SHA-256.
1179 * gpgtar: Fixed extracting files with sizes of a multiple of 512.
1181 * dirmngr: Fixed SNI handling for hkps pools.
1183 * dirmngr: extra-certs and trusted-certs are now always loaded from
1184 the sysconfig dir instead of the homedir.
1186 * Fixed possible problems due to compiler optimization, two minor
1187 regressions, and other bugs.
1189 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q2/000365.html
1192 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.2 (2015-02-11)
1193 ------------------------------------------------
1195 * gpg: The parameter 'Passphrase' for batch key generation works
1198 * gpg: Using a passphrase option in batch mode now has the expected
1199 effect on --quick-gen-key.
1201 * gpg: Improved reporting of unsupported PGP-2 keys.
1203 * gpg: Added support for algo names when generating keys using
1206 * gpg: Fixed DoS based on bogus and overlong key packets.
1208 * agent: When setting --default-cache-ttl the value
1209 for --max-cache-ttl is adjusted to be not lower than the former.
1211 * agent: Fixed problems with the new --extra-socket.
1213 * agent: Made --allow-loopback-pinentry changeable with gpgconf.
1215 * agent: Fixed importing of unprotected openpgp keys.
1217 * agent: Now tries to use a fallback pinentry if the standard
1218 pinentry is not installed.
1220 * scd: Added support for ECDH.
1222 * Fixed several bugs related to bogus keyrings and improved some
1225 See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q1/000361.html
1228 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.1 (2014-12-16)
1229 ------------------------------------------------
1231 * gpg: Detect faulty use of --verify on detached signatures.
1233 * gpg: New import option "keep-ownertrust".
1235 * gpg: New sub-command "factory-reset" for --card-edit.
1237 * gpg: A stub key for smartcards is now created by --card-status.
1239 * gpg: Fixed regression in --refresh-keys.
1241 * gpg: Fixed regresion in %g and %p codes for --sig-notation.
1243 * gpg: Fixed best matching hash algo detection for ECDSA and EdDSA.
1245 * gpg: Improved perceived speed of secret key listisngs.
1247 * gpg: Print number of skipped PGP-2 keys on import.
1249 * gpg: Removed the option aliases --throw-keyid and --notation-data;
1250 use --throw-keyids and --set-notation instead.
1252 * gpg: New import option "keep-ownertrust".
1254 * gpg: Skip too large keys during import.
1256 * gpg,gpgsm: New option --no-autostart to avoid starting gpg-agent or
1259 * gpg-agent: New option --extra-socket to provide a restricted
1260 command set for use with remote clients.
1262 * gpgconf --kill does not anymore start a service only to kill it.
1264 * gpg-pconnect-agent: Add convenience option --uiserver.
1266 * Fixed keyserver access for Windows.
1268 * Fixed build problems on Mac OS X
1270 * The Windows installer does now install development files
1272 * More translations (but most of them are not complete).
1274 * To support remotely mounted home directories, the IPC sockets may
1275 now be redirected. This feature requires Libassuan 2.2.0.
1277 * Improved portability and the usual bunch of bug fixes.
1279 See-also: gnupg-announce/2014q4/000360.html
1282 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0 (2014-11-06)
1283 ------------------------------------------------
1285 This release introduces a lot of changes. Most of them are internal
1286 and thus not user visible. However, some long standing behavior has
1287 slightly changed and it is strongly suggested that an existing
1288 "~/.gnupg" directory is backed up before this version is used.
1290 A verbose description of the major new features and changes can be
1291 found in the file doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt.
1293 * gpg: All support for v3 (PGP 2) keys has been dropped. All
1294 signatures are now created as v4 signatures. v3 keys will be
1295 removed from the keyring.
1297 * gpg: With pinentry-0.9.0 the passphrase "enter again" prompt shows
1298 up in the same window as the "new passphrase" prompt.
1300 * gpg: Allow importing keys with duplicated long key ids.
1302 * dirmngr: May now be build without support for LDAP.
1304 * For a complete list of changes see the lists of changes for the
1305 2.1.0 beta versions below. Note that all relevant fixes from
1306 versions 2.0.14 to 2.0.26 are also applied to this version.
1309 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta864 (2014-10-03)]
1311 * gpg: Removed the GPG_AGENT_INFO related code. GnuPG does now
1312 always use a fixed socket name in its home directory.
1314 * gpg: Renamed --gen-key to --full-gen-key and re-added a --gen-key
1315 command with less choices.
1317 * gpg: Use SHA-256 for all signature types also on RSA keys.
1319 * gpg: Default keyring is now created with a .kbx suffix.
1321 * gpg: Add a shortcut to the key capabilies menu (e.g. "=e" sets the
1322 encryption capabilities).
1324 * gpg: Fixed obsolete options parsing.
1326 * Further improvements for the alternative speedo build system.
1329 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta834 (2014-09-18)]
1331 * gpg: Improved passphrase caching.
1333 * gpg: Switched to algorithm number 22 for EdDSA.
1335 * gpg: Removed CAST5 from the default preferences.
1337 * gpg: Order SHA-1 last in the hash preferences.
1339 * gpg: Changed default cipher for --symmetric to AES-128.
1341 * gpg: Fixed export of ECC keys and import of EdDSA keys.
1343 * dirmngr: Fixed the KS_FETCH command.
1345 * The speedo build system now downloads related packages and works
1346 for non-Windows platforms.
1349 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta783 (2014-08-14)]
1351 * gpg: Add command --quick-gen-key.
1353 * gpg: Make --quick-sign-key promote local key signatures.
1355 * gpg: Added "show-usage" sub-option to --list-options.
1357 * gpg: Screen keyserver responses to avoid importing unwanted keys
1360 * gpg: Removed the option --pgp2 and --rfc1991 and the ability to
1361 create PGP-2 compatible messages.
1363 * gpg: Removed options --compress-keys and --compress-sigs.
1365 * gpg: Cap attribute packets at 16MB.
1367 * gpg: Improved output of --list-packets.
1369 * gpg: Make with-colons output of --search-keys work again.
1371 * gpgsm: Auto-create the ".gnupg" directory like gpg does.
1373 * agent: Fold new passphrase warning prompts into one.
1375 * scdaemon: Add support for the Smartcard-HSM card.
1377 * scdaemon: Remove the use of the pcsc-wrapper.
1380 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta751 (2014-07-03)]
1382 * gpg: Create revocation certificates during key generation.
1384 * gpg: Create exported secret keys and revocation certifciates with
1387 * gpg: The validity of user ids is now shown by default. To revert
1388 this add "list-options no-show-uid-validity" to gpg.conf.
1390 * gpg: Make export of secret keys work again.
1392 * gpg: The output of --list-packets does now print the offset of the
1393 packet and information about the packet header.
1395 * gpg: Avoid DoS due to garbled compressed data packets. [CVE-2014-4617]
1397 * gpg: Print more specific reason codes with the INV_RECP status.
1399 * gpg: Cap RSA and Elgamal keysize at 4096 bit also for unattended
1402 * scdaemon: Support reader Gemalto IDBridge CT30 and pinpad of SCT
1405 * The speedo build system has been improved. It is now also possible
1406 to build a partly working installer for Windows.
1409 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta442 (2014-06-05)]
1411 * gpg: Changed the format of key listings. To revert to the old
1412 format the option --legacy-list-mode is available.
1414 * gpg: Add experimental signature support using curve Ed25519 and
1415 with a patched Libgcrypt also encryption support with Curve25519.
1416 [Update: this encryption support has been removed from 2.1.0 until
1417 we have agreed on a suitable format.]
1419 * gpg: Allow use of Brainpool curves.
1421 * gpg: Accepts a space separated fingerprint as user ID. This
1422 allows to copy and paste the fingerprint from the key listing.
1424 * gpg: The hash algorithm is now printed for signature records in key
1427 * gpg: Reject signatures made using the MD5 hash algorithm unless the
1428 new option --allow-weak-digest-algos or --pgp2 are given.
1430 * gpg: Print a warning if the Gnome-Keyring-Daemon intercepts the
1431 communication with the gpg-agent.
1433 * gpg: New option --pinentry-mode.
1435 * gpg: Fixed decryption using an OpenPGP card.
1437 * gpg: Fixed bug with deeply nested compressed packets.
1439 * gpg: Only the major version number is by default included in the
1442 * gpg: Do not create a trustdb file if --trust-model=always is used.
1444 * gpg: Protect against rogue keyservers sending secret keys.
1446 * gpg: The format of the fallback key listing ("gpg KEYFILE") is now
1447 more aligned to the regular key listing ("gpg -k").
1449 * gpg: The option--show-session-key prints its output now before the
1450 decryption of the bulk message starts.
1452 * gpg: New %U expando for the photo viewer.
1454 * gpg,gpgsm: New option --with-secret.
1456 * gpgsm: By default the users are now asked via the Pinentry whether
1457 they trust an X.509 root key. To prohibit interactive marking of
1458 such keys, the new option --no-allow-mark-trusted may be used.
1460 * gpgsm: New commands to export a secret RSA key in PKCS#1 or PKCS#8
1463 * gpgsm: Improved handling of re-issued CA certificates.
1465 * agent: The included ssh agent does now support ECDSA keys.
1467 * agent: New option --enable-putty-support to allow gpg-agent on
1468 Windows to act as a Pageant replacement with full smartcard support.
1470 * scdaemon: New option --enable-pinpad-varlen.
1472 * scdaemon: Various fixes for pinpad equipped card readers.
1474 * scdaemon: Rename option --disable-pinpad (was --disable-keypad).
1476 * scdaemon: Better support fo CCID readers. Now, internal CCID
1477 driver supports readers with no auto configuration feature.
1479 * dirmngr: Removed support for the original HKP keyserver which is
1480 not anymore used by any site.
1482 * dirmngr: Improved support for keyserver pools.
1484 * tools: New option --dirmngr for gpg-connect-agent.
1486 * The GNU Pth library has been replaced by the new nPth library.
1488 * Support installation as portable application under Windows.
1490 * All kind of other improvements - see the git log.
1493 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0beta3 (2011-12-20)]
1495 * gpg: Fixed regression in the secret key export function.
1497 * gpg: Allow generation of card keys up to 4096 bit.
1499 * gpgsm: Preliminary support for the validation model "steed".
1501 * gpgsm: Improved certificate creation.
1503 * agent: Support the SSH confirm flag.
1505 * agent: New option to select a passphrase mode. The loopback
1506 mode may be used to bypass Pinentry.
1508 * agent: The Assuan commands KILLAGENT and KILLSCD are working again.
1510 * scdaemon: Does not anymore block after changing a card (regression
1513 * tools: gpg-connect-agent does now proberly display the help output
1514 for "SCD HELP" commands.
1517 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0beta2 (2011-03-08)]
1519 * gpg: ECC support as described by draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc-06.txt
1520 [Update: now known as RFC-6637].
1522 * gpg: Print "AES128" instead of "AES". This change introduces a
1523 little incompatibility for tools using "gpg --list-config". We
1524 hope that these tools are written robust enough to accept this new
1525 algorithm name as well.
1527 * gpgsm: New feature to create certificates from a parameter file.
1528 Add prompt to the --gen-key UI to create self-signed certificates.
1530 * agent: TMPDIR is now also honored when creating a socket using
1531 the --no-standard-socket option and with symcryptrun's temp files.
1533 * scdaemon: Fixed a bug where scdaemon sends a signal to gpg-agent
1534 running in non-daemon mode.
1536 * dirmngr: Fixed CRL loading under W32 (bug#1010).
1538 * Dirmngr has taken over the function of the keyserver helpers. Thus
1539 we now have a specified direct interface to keyservers via Dirmngr.
1540 LDAP, DNS and mail backends are not yet implemented.
1542 * Fixed TTY management for pinentries and session variable update
1546 [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0beta1 (2010-10-26)]
1548 * gpg: secring.gpg is not anymore used but all secret key operations
1549 are delegated to gpg-agent. The import command moves secret keys
1552 * gpg: The OpenPGP import command is now able to merge secret keys.
1554 * gpg: Encrypted OpenPGP messages with trailing data (e.g. other
1555 OpenPGP packets) are now correctly parsed.
1557 * gpg: Given sufficient permissions Dirmngr is started automagically.
1559 * gpg: Fixed output of "gpgconf --check-options".
1561 * gpg: Removed options --export-options(export-secret-subkey-passwd)
1562 and --simple-sk-checksum.
1564 * gpg: New options --try-secret-key.
1566 * gpg: Support DNS lookups for SRV, PKA and CERT on W32.
1568 * gpgsm: The --audit-log feature is now more complete.
1570 * gpgsm: The default for --include-cert is now to include all
1571 certificates in the chain except for the root certificate.
1573 * gpgsm: New option --ignore-cert-extension.
1575 * g13: The G13 tool for disk encryption key management has been
1578 * agent: If the agent's --use-standard-socket option is active, all
1579 tools try to start and daemonize the agent on the fly. In the past
1580 this was only supported on W32; on non-W32 systems the new
1581 configure option --disable-standard-socket may now be used to
1582 disable this new default.
1584 * agent: New and changed passphrases are now created with an
1585 iteration count requiring about 100ms of CPU work.
1587 * dirmngr: Dirmngr is now a part of this package. It is now also
1588 expected to run as a system service and the configuration
1589 directories are changed to the GnuPG name space. [Update: 2.1.0
1590 starts dirmngr on demand as user daemon.]
1592 * Support for Windows CE. [Update: This has not been tested for the
1595 * Numerical values may now be used as an alternative to the
1596 debug-level keywords.
1598 See-also: gnupg-announce/2014q4/000358.html
1601 Version 2.0.28 (2015-06-02)
1602 Version 2.0.27 (2015-02-18)
1603 Version 2.0.26 (2014-08-12)
1604 Version 2.0.25 (2014-06-30)
1605 Version 2.0.24 (2014-06-24)
1606 Version 2.0.23 (2014-06-03)
1607 Version 2.0.22 (2013-10-04)
1608 Version 2.0.21 (2013-08-19)
1609 Version 2.0.20 (2013-05-10)
1610 Version 2.0.19 (2012-03-27)
1611 Version 2.0.18 (2011-08-04)
1612 Version 2.0.17 (2011-01-13)
1613 Version 2.0.16 (2010-07-19)
1614 Version 2.0.15 (2010-03-09)
1615 Version 2.0.14 (2009-12-21)
1618 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.13 (2009-09-04)
1619 -------------------------------------------------
1621 * GPG now generates 2048 bit RSA keys by default. The default hash
1622 algorithm preferences has changed to prefer SHA-256 over SHA-1.
1623 2048 bit DSA keys are now generated to use a 256 bit hash algorithm
1625 * The envvars XMODIFIERS, GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE are now
1626 passed to the Pinentry to make SCIM work.
1628 * The GPGSM command --gen-key features a --batch mode and implements
1629 all features of gpgsm-gencert.sh in standard mode.
1631 * New option --re-import for GPGSM's IMPORT server command.
1633 * Enhanced writing of existing keys to OpenPGP v2 cards.
1635 * Add hack to the internal CCID driver to allow the use of some
1636 Omnikey based card readers with 2048 bit keys.
1638 * GPG now repeatly asks the user to insert the requested OpenPGP
1639 card. This can be disabled with --limit-card-insert-tries=1.
1643 See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q3/000294.html
1646 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.12 (2009-06-17)
1647 -------------------------------------------------
1649 * GPGSM now always lists ephemeral certificates if specified by
1650 fingerprint or keygrip.
1652 * New command "KEYINFO" for GPG_AGENT. GPGSM now also returns
1653 information about smartcards.
1655 * Made sure not to leak file descriptors if running gpg-agent with a
1656 command. Restore the signal mask to solve a problem in Mono.
1658 * Changed order of the confirmation questions for root certificates
1659 and store negative answers in trustlist.txt.
1661 * Better synchronization of concurrent smartcard sessions.
1663 * Support 2048 bit OpenPGP cards.
1665 * Support Telesec Netkey 3 cards.
1667 * The gpg-protect-tool now uses gpg-agent via libassuan. Under
1668 Windows the Pinentry will now be put into the foreground.
1670 * Changed code to avoid a possible Mac OS X system freeze.
1672 See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q2/000288.html
1675 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.11 (2009-03-03)
1676 -------------------------------------------------
1678 * Fixed a problem in SCDAEMON which caused unexpected card resets.
1680 * SCDAEMON is now aware of the Geldkarte.
1682 * The SCDAEMON option --allow-admin is now used by default.
1684 * GPGCONF now restarts SCdaemon if necessary.
1686 * The default cipher algorithm in GPGSM is now again 3DES. This is
1687 due to interoperability problems with Outlook 2003 which still
1688 can't cope with AES.
1690 See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q1/000287.html
1693 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.10 (2009-01-12)
1694 -------------------------------------------------
1696 * [gpg] New keyserver helper gpg2keys_kdns as generic DNS CERT
1697 lookup. Run with --help for a short description. Requires the
1700 * [gpg] New mechanisms "local" and "nodefault" for --auto-key-locate.
1701 Fixed a few problems with this option.
1703 * [gpg] New command --locate-keys.
1705 * [gpg] New options --with-sig-list and --with-sig-check.
1707 * [gpg] The option "-sat" is no longer an alias for --clearsign.
1709 * [gpg] The option --fixed-list-mode is now implicitly used and obsolete.
1711 * [gpg] New control statement %ask-passphrase for the unattended key
1714 * [gpg] The algorithm to compute the SIG_ID status has been changed.
1716 * [gpgsm] Now uses AES by default.
1718 * [gpgsm] Made --output option work with --export-secret-key-p12.
1720 * [gpg-agent] Terminate process if the own listening socket is not
1721 anymore served by ourself.
1723 * [scdaemon] Made it more robust on W32.
1725 * [gpg-connect-agent] Accept commands given as command line arguments.
1727 * [w32] Initialized the socket subsystem for all keyserver helpers.
1729 * [w32] The sysconf directory has been moved from a subdirectory of
1730 the installation directory to %CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA%/GNU/etc/gnupg.
1732 * [w32] The gnupg2.nls directory is not anymore used. The standard
1733 locale directory is now used.
1735 * [w32] Fixed a race condition between gpg and gpgsm in the use of
1736 temporary file names.
1738 * The gpg-preset-passphrase mechanism works again. An arbitrary
1739 string may now be used for a custom cache ID.
1741 * Admin PINs are cached again (bug in 2.0.9).
1743 * Support for version 2 OpenPGP cards.
1745 * Libgcrypt 1.4 is now required.
1747 See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q1/000284.html
1750 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.9 (2008-03-26)
1751 ------------------------------------------------
1753 * Gpgsm always tries to locate missing certificates from a running
1756 * Tweaks for Windows.
1758 * The Admin PIN for OpenPGP cards may now be entered with the pinpad.
1760 * Improved certificate chain construction.
1762 * Extended the PKITS framework.
1764 * Fixed a bug in the ambigious name detection.
1766 * Fixed possible memory corruption while importing OpenPGP keys (bug
1767 introduced with 2.0.8). [CVE-2008-1530]
1773 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.8 (2007-12-20)
1774 ------------------------------------------------
1776 * Enhanced gpg-connect-agent with a small scripting language.
1778 * New option --list-config for gpgconf.
1780 * Fixed a crash in gpgconf.
1782 * Gpg-agent now supports the passphrase quality bar of the latest
1785 * The envvars XAUTHORITY and PINENTRY_USER_DATA are now passed to the
1788 * Fixed the auto creation of the key stub for smartcards.
1790 * Fixed a rare bug in decryption using the OpenPGP card.
1792 * Creating DSA2 keys is now possible.
1794 * New option --extra-digest-algo for gpgsm to allow verification of
1797 * Allow encryption with legacy Elgamal sign+encrypt keys with option
1800 * Windows is now a supported platform.
1802 * Made sure that under Windows the file permissions of the socket are
1803 taken into account. This required a change of our socket emulation
1804 code and changed the IPC protocol under Windows.
1806 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q4/000267.html
1809 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.7 (2007-09-10)
1810 ------------------------------------------------
1812 * Fixed encryption problem if duplicate certificates are in the
1815 * Made it work on Windows Vista. Note that the entire Windows port
1816 is still considered Beta.
1818 * Add new options min-passphrase-nonalpha, check-passphrase-pattern,
1819 enforce-passphrase-constraints and max-passphrase-days to
1822 * Add command --check-components to gpgconf. Gpgconf now uses the
1823 installed versions of the programs and does not anymore search via
1826 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q3/000259.html
1829 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.6 (2007-08-16)
1830 ------------------------------------------------
1832 * GPGSM does now grok --default-key.
1834 * GPGCONF is now aware of --default-key and --encrypt-to.
1836 * GPGSM does again correctly print the serial number as well the the
1837 various keyids. This was broken since 2.0.4.
1839 * New option --validation-model and support for the chain-model.
1841 * Improved Windows support.
1843 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q3/000258.html
1846 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.5 (2007-07-05)
1847 ------------------------------------------------
1849 * Switched license to GPLv3.
1851 * Basic support for Windows. Run "./autogen.sh --build-w32" to build
1852 it. As usual the mingw cross compiling toolchain is required.
1854 * Fixed bug when using the --p12-charset without --armor.
1856 * The command --gen-key may now be used instead of the
1857 gpgsm-gencert.sh script.
1859 * Changed key generation to reveal less information about the
1860 machine. Bug fixes for gpg2's card key generation.
1862 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q3/000255.html
1865 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.4 (2007-05-09)
1866 ------------------------------------------------
1868 * The server mode key listing commands are now also working for
1869 systems without the funopen/fopencookie API.
1871 * PKCS#12 import now tries several encodings in case the passphrase
1872 was not utf-8 encoded. New option --p12-charset for gpgsm.
1874 * Improved the libgcrypt logging support in all modules.
1876 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q2/000254.html
1879 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.3 (2007-03-08)
1880 ------------------------------------------------
1882 * By default, do not allow processing multiple plaintexts in a single
1883 stream. Many programs that called GnuPG were assuming that GnuPG
1884 did not permit this, and were thus not using the plaintext boundary
1885 status tags that GnuPG provides. This change makes GnuPG reject
1886 such messages by default which makes those programs safe again.
1887 --allow-multiple-messages returns to the old behavior. [CVE-2007-1263].
1889 * New --verify-option show-primary-uid-only.
1891 * gpgconf may now reads a global configuration file to select which
1892 options are changeable by a frontend. The new applygnupgdefaults
1893 tool may be used by an admin to set default options for all users.
1895 * The PIN pad of the Cherry XX44 keyboard is now supported. The
1896 DINSIG and the NKS applications are now also aware of PIN pads.
1898 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q1/000252.html
1901 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.2 (2007-01-31)
1902 ------------------------------------------------
1904 * Fixed a serious and exploitable bug in processing encrypted
1905 packages. [CVE-2006-6235].
1907 * Added --passphrase-repeat to set the number of times GPG will
1908 prompt for a new passphrase to be repeated. This is useful to help
1909 memorize a new passphrase. The default is 1 repetition.
1911 * Using a PIN pad does now also work for the signing key.
1913 * A warning is displayed by gpg-agent if a new passphrase is too
1914 short. New option --min-passphrase-len defaults to 8.
1916 * The status code BEGIN_SIGNING now shows the used hash algorithms.
1918 See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q1/000249.html
1921 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.1 (2006-11-28)
1922 ------------------------------------------------
1924 * Experimental support for the PIN pads of the SPR 532 and the Kaan
1925 Advanced card readers. Add "disable-keypad" scdaemon.conf if you
1926 don't want it. Does currently only work for the OpenPGP card and
1927 its authentication and decrypt keys.
1929 * Fixed build problems on some some platforms and crashes on amd64.
1931 * Fixed a buffer overflow in gpg2. [bug#728,CVE-2006-6169]
1933 See-also: gnupg-announce/2006q4/000242.html
1936 Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.0 (2006-11-11)
1937 ------------------------------------------------
1939 * First stable version of a GnuPG integrating OpenPGP and S/MIME.
1941 See-also: gnupg-announce/2006q4/000239.html
1944 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.95 (2006-11-06)
1945 -------------------------------------------------
1950 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.94 (2006-10-24)
1951 -------------------------------------------------
1953 * Keys for gpgsm may now be specified using a keygrip. A keygrip is
1954 indicated by a prefixing it with an ampersand.
1956 * gpgconf now supports switching the CMS cipher algo (e.g. to AES).
1958 * New command --gpgconf-test for all major tools. This may be used to
1959 check whether the configuration file is sane.
1962 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.93 (2006-10-18)
1963 -------------------------------------------------
1965 * In --with-validation mode gpgsm will now also ask whether a root
1966 certificate should be trusted.
1968 * Link to Pth only if really necessary.
1970 * Fixed a pubring corruption bug in gpg2 occurring when importing
1971 signatures or keys with insane lengths.
1973 * Fixed v3 keyID calculation bug in gpg2.
1975 * More tweaks for certificates without extensions.
1978 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.92 (2006-10-11)
1979 -------------------------------------------------
1983 See-also: gnupg-announce/2006q4/000236.html
1986 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.91 (2006-10-04)
1987 -------------------------------------------------
1989 * New "relax" flag for trustlist.txt to allow root CA certificates
1990 without BasicContraints.
1992 * [gpg2] Removed the -k PGP 2 compatibility hack. -k is now an
1993 alias for --list-keys.
1995 * [gpg2] Print a warning if "-sat" is used instead of "--clearsign".
1998 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.90 (2006-09-25)
1999 -------------------------------------------------
2001 * Made readline work for gpg.
2003 * Cleanups und minor bug fixes.
2005 * Included translations from gnupg 1.4.5.
2008 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.23 (2006-09-18)
2009 -------------------------------------------------
2011 * Regular man pages for most tools are now build directly from the
2014 * The gpg code from 1.4.5 has been fully merged into this release.
2015 The configure option --enable-gpg is still required to build this
2016 gpg part. For production use of OpenPGP the gpg version 1.4.5 is
2017 still recommended. Note, that gpg will be installed under the name
2018 gpg2 to allow coexisting with an 1.4.x gpg.
2020 * API change in gpg-agent's pkdecrypt command. Thus an older gpgsm
2021 may not be used with the current gpg-agent.
2023 * The scdaemon will now call a script on reader status changes.
2025 * gpgsm now allows file descriptor passing for "INPUT", "OUTPUT" and
2028 * The gpgsm server may now output a key listing to the output file
2029 handle. This needs to be enabled using "OPTION list-to-output=1".
2031 * The --output option of gpgsm has now an effect on list-keys.
2033 * New gpgsm commands --dump-chain and list-chain.
2035 * gpg-connect-agent has new options to utilize descriptor passing.
2037 * A global trustlist may now be used. See doc/examples/trustlist.txt.
2039 * When creating a new pubring.kbx keybox common certificates are
2043 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.22 (2006-07-27)
2044 -------------------------------------------------
2046 * Enhanced pkcs#12 support to allow import from simple keyBags.
2048 * Exporting to pkcs#12 now create bag attributes so that Mozilla is
2049 able to import the files.
2051 * Fixed uploading of certain keys to the smart card.
2054 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.21 (2006-06-20)
2055 -------------------------------------------------
2057 * New command APDU for scdaemon to allow using it for general card
2058 access. Might be used through gpg-connect-agent by using the SCD
2061 * Support for the CardMan 4040 PCMCIA reader (Linux 2.6.15 required).
2063 * Scdaemon does not anymore reset cards at the end of a connection.
2065 * Kludge to allow use of Bundesnetzagentur issued X.509 certificates.
2067 * Added --hash=xxx option to scdaemon's PKSIGN command.
2069 * Pkcs#12 files are now created with a MAC. This is for better
2072 * Collected bug fixes and minor other changes.
2075 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.20 (2005-12-20)
2076 -------------------------------------------------
2078 * Importing pkcs#12 files created be recent versions of Mozilla works
2081 * Basic support for qualified signatures.
2083 * New debug tool gpgparsemail.
2086 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.19 (2005-09-12)
2087 -------------------------------------------------
2089 * The Belgian eID card is now supported for signatures and ssh.
2090 Other pkcs#15 cards should work as well.
2092 * Fixed bug in --export-secret-key-p12 so that certificates are again
2096 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.18 (2005-08-01)
2097 -------------------------------------------------
2099 * [gpgsm] Now allows for more than one email address as well as URIs
2100 and dnsNames in certificate request generation. A keygrip may be
2101 given to create a request from an existing key.
2103 * A couple of minor bug fixes.
2106 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.17 (2005-06-20)
2107 -------------------------------------------------
2109 * gpg-connect-agent has now features to handle Assuan INQUIRE
2112 * Internal changes for OpenPGP cards. New Assuan command WRITEKEY.
2114 * GNU Pth is now a hard requirement.
2116 * [scdaemon] Support for OpenSC has been removed. Instead a new and
2117 straightforward pkcs#15 modules has been written. As of now it
2118 does allows only signing using TCOS cards but we are going to
2119 enhance it to match all the old capabilities.
2121 * [gpg-agent] New option --write-env-file and Assuan command
2124 * [gpg-agent] New option --default-cache-ttl-ssh to set the TTL for
2125 SSH passphrase caching independent from the other passphrases.
2128 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.16 (2005-04-21)
2129 -------------------------------------------------
2131 * gpg-agent does now support the ssh-agent protocol and thus allows
2132 to use the pinentry as well as the OpenPGP smartcard with ssh.
2134 * New tool gpg-connect-agent as a general client for the gpg-agent.
2136 * New tool symcryptrun as a wrapper for certain encryption tools.
2138 * The gpg tool is not anymore build by default because those gpg
2139 versions available in the gnupg 1.4 series are far more matured.
2142 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.15 (2005-01-13)
2143 -------------------------------------------------
2145 * Fixed passphrase caching bug.
2147 * Better support for CCID readers; the reader from Cherry RS 6700 USB
2151 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.14 (2004-12-22)
2152 -------------------------------------------------
2154 * [gpg-agent] New option --use-standard-socket to allow the use of a
2155 fixed socket. gpgsm falls back to this socket if GPG_AGENT_INFO
2158 * Ported to MS Windows with some functional limitations.
2160 * New tool gpg-preset-passphrase.
2163 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.13 (2004-12-03)
2164 -------------------------------------------------
2166 * [gpgsm] New option --prefer-system-dirmngr.
2168 * Minor cleanups and debugging aids.
2171 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.12 (2004-10-22)
2172 -------------------------------------------------
2174 * [scdaemon] Partly rewrote the PC/SC code.
2176 * Removed the sc-investigate tool. It is now in a separate package
2177 available at ftp://ftp.g10code.com/g10code/gscutils/ .
2179 * [gpg-agent] Fixed logging problem.
2182 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.11 (2004-10-01)
2183 -------------------------------------------------
2185 * When using --import along with --with-validation, the imported
2186 certificates are validated and only imported if they are fully
2189 * [gpg-agent] New option --max-cache-ttl.
2191 * [gpg-agent] When used without --daemon or --server, gpg-agent now
2192 check whether a agent is already running and usable.
2194 * Fixed some i18n problems.
2197 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.10 (2004-07-22)
2198 -------------------------------------------------
2200 * Fixed a serious bug in the checking of trusted root certificates.
2202 * New configure option --enable-agent-pnly allows to build and
2203 install just the agent.
2205 * Fixed a problem with the log file handling.
2208 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.9 (2004-06-08)
2209 ------------------------------------------------
2211 * [gpg-agent] The new option --allow-mark-trusted is now required to
2212 allow gpg-agent to add a key to the trustlist.txt after user
2215 * Creating PKCS#10 requests does now honor the key usage.
2218 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.8 (2004-04-29)
2219 ------------------------------------------------
2221 * [scdaemon] Overhauled the internal CCID driver.
2223 * [scdaemon] Status files named ~/.gnupg/reader_<n>.status are now
2224 written when using the internal CCID driver.
2226 * [gpgsm] New commands --dump-{,secret,external}-keys to show a very
2227 detailed view of the certificates.
2229 * The keybox gets now compressed after 3 hours and ephemeral
2230 stored certificates are deleted after about a day.
2232 * [gpg] Usability fixes for --card-edit. Note, that this has already
2233 been ported back to gnupg-1.3
2236 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.7 (2004-04-06)
2237 ------------------------------------------------
2239 * Instrumented the modules for gpgconf.
2241 * Added support for DINSIG card applications.
2243 * Include the smimeCapabilities attribute with signed messages.
2245 * Now uses the gettext domain "gnupg2" to avoid conflicts with gnupg
2249 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.6 (2004-03-06)
2250 ------------------------------------------------
2252 * Code cleanups and bug fixes.
2255 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.5 (2004-02-21)
2256 ------------------------------------------------
2258 * gpg-protect-tool gets now installed into libexec as it ought to be.
2259 Cleaned up the build system to better comply with the coding
2262 * [gpgsm] The --import command is now able to autodetect pkcs#12
2263 files and import secret and private keys from this file format.
2264 A new command --export-secret-key-p12 is provided to allow
2265 exporting of secret keys in PKCS\#12 format.
2267 * [gpgsm] The pinentry will now present a description of the key for
2268 whom the passphrase is requested.
2270 * [gpgsm] New option --with-validation to check the validity of key
2273 * New option --debug-level={none,basic,advanced,expert,guru} to map
2274 the debug flags to sensitive levels on a per program base.
2277 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.4 (2004-01-30)
2278 ------------------------------------------------
2280 * Added support for the Telesec NKS 2.0 card application.
2282 * Added simple tool addgnupghome to create .gnupg directories from
2285 * Various minor bug fixes and cleanups; mainly gpgsm and gpg-agent
2289 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.3 (2003-12-23)
2290 ------------------------------------------------
2292 * New gpgsm options --{enable,disable}-ocsp to validate keys using
2293 OCSP. This option requires a not yet released DirMngr version.
2294 Default is disabled.
2296 * The --log-file option may now be used to print logs to a socket.
2297 Prefix the socket name with "socket://" to enable this. This does
2298 not work on all systems and falls back to stderr if there is a
2299 problem with the socket.
2301 * The options --encrypt-to and --no-encrypt-to now work the same in
2302 gpgsm as in gpg. Note, they are also used in server mode.
2304 * Duplicated recipients are now silently removed in gpgsm.
2307 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.2 (2003-11-17)
2308 ------------------------------------------------
2310 * On card key generation is no longer done using the --gen-key
2311 command but from the menu provided by the new --card-edit command.
2313 * PINs are now properly cached and there are only 2 PINs visible.
2314 The 3rd PIN (CHV2) is internally syncronized with the regular PIN.
2316 * All kind of other internal stuff.
2319 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.1 (2003-09-06)
2320 ------------------------------------------------
2322 * Support for OpenSC is back. scdaemon supports a --disable-opensc to
2323 disable OpenSC use at runtime, so that PC/SC or ct-API can still be
2326 * Rudimentary support for the SCR335 smartcard reader using an
2327 internal driver. Requires current libusb from CVS.
2332 Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.0 (2003-08-05)
2333 ------------------------------------------------
2335 ====== PLEASE SEE README-alpha =======
2337 * gpg has been renamed to gpg2 and gpgv to gpgv2. This is a
2338 temporary change to allow co-existing with stable gpg versions.
2340 * ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf-1.9.0 is fist tried as config file before the
2343 * Removed the -k, -kv and -kvv commands. -k is now an alias to
2344 --list-keys. New command -K as alias for --list-secret-keys.
2346 * Removed --run-as-shm-coprocess feature.
2348 * gpg does now also use libgcrypt, libgpg-error is required.
2350 * New gpgsm commands --call-dirmngr and --call-protect-tool.
2352 * Changing a passphrase is now possible using "gpgsm --passwd"
2354 * The content-type attribute is now recognized and created.
2356 * The agent does now reread certain options on receiving a HUP.
2358 * The pinentry is now forked for each request so that clients with
2359 different environments are supported. When running in daemon mode
2360 and --keep-display is not used the DISPLAY variable is ignored.
2362 * Merged stuff from the newpg branch and started this new
2366 Version 1.4.19 (2015-02-27)
2367 Version 1.4.18 (2014-06-30)
2368 Version 1.4.17 (2014-06-23)
2369 Version 1.4.16 (2013-12-18)
2370 Version 1.4.15 (2013-10-04)
2371 Version 1.4.14 (2013-07-25)
2372 Version 1.4.13 (2012-12-20)
2373 Version 1.4.12 (2012-01-30)
2374 Version 1.4.11 (2010-10-18)
2375 Version 1.4.10 (2009-09-02)
2376 Version 1.4.9 (2008-03-26)
2377 Version 1.4.8 (2007-12-20)
2378 Version 1.4.7 (2007-03-05)
2379 Version 1.4.6 (2006-12-06)
2380 Version 1.4.5 (2006-08-01)
2381 Version 1.4.4 (2006-06-25)
2382 Version 1.4.3 (2006-04-03)
2383 Version 1.4.2 (2005-07-26)
2384 Version 1.4.1 (2005-03-15)
2385 Version 1.4.0 (2004-12-16)
2388 Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.2 (2003-05-27)
2389 ------------------------------------------------
2391 * New "--gnupg" option (set by default) that disables --openpgp,
2392 and the various --pgpX emulation options. This replaces
2393 --no-openpgp, and --no-pgpX, and also means that GnuPG has
2394 finally grown a --gnupg option to make GnuPG act like GnuPG.
2396 * A bug in key validation has been fixed. This bug only affects
2397 keys with more than one user ID (photo IDs do not count here),
2398 and results in all user IDs on a given key being treated with
2399 the validity of the most-valid user ID on that key.
2401 * Notation names that do not contain a '@' are no longer allowed
2402 unless --expert is set. This is to help prevent pollution of
2403 the (as yet unused) IETF notation namespace.
2405 * Multiple trust models are now supported via the --trust-model
2406 option. The options are "pgp" (web-of-trust plus trust
2407 signatures), "classic" (web-of-trust only), and "always"
2408 (identical to the --always-trust option).
2410 * The --personal-{cipher|digest|compression}-preferences are now
2411 consulted to get default algorithms before resorting to the
2412 last-ditch defaults of --s2k-cipher-algo, SHA1, and ZIP
2413 respectively. This allows a user to set algorithms to use in a
2414 safe manner so they are used when legal to do so, without
2415 forcing them on for all messages.
2417 * New --primary-keyring option to designate the keyring that the
2418 user wants new keys imported into.
2420 * --s2k-digest-algo is now used for all password mangling.
2421 Earlier versions used both --s2k-digest-algo and --digest-algo
2422 for passphrase mangling.
2424 * Handling of --hidden-recipient or --throw-keyid messages is now
2425 easier - the user only needs to give their passphrase once, and
2426 GnuPG will try it against all of the available secret keys.
2428 * Care is taken to prevent compiler optimization from removing
2431 * New option --no-mangle-dos-filenames so that filenames are not
2432 truncated in the W32 version.
2434 * A "convert-from-106" script has been added. This is a simple
2435 script that automates the conversion from a 1.0.6 or earlier
2436 version of GnuPG to a 1.0.7 or later version.
2438 * Disabled keys are now skipped when selecting keys for
2439 encryption. If you are using the --with-colons key listings to
2440 detect disabled keys, please see doc/DETAILS for a minor format
2441 change in this release.
2443 * Minor trustdb changes to make the trust calculations match
2446 * New command "revuid" in the --edit-key menu to revoke a user ID.
2447 This is a simpler interface to the old method (which still
2448 works) of revoking the user ID self-signature.
2450 * Status VALIDSIG does now also print the primary key's
2451 fingerprint, as well as the signature version, pubkey algorithm,
2452 hash algorithm, and signature class.
2454 * Add read-only support for the SHA-256 hash, and optional
2455 read-only support for the SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes.
2457 * New option --enable-progress-filter for use with frontends.
2459 * DNS SRV records are used in HKP keyserver lookups to allow
2460 administrators to load balance and select keyserver ports
2461 automatically. This is as specified in
2462 draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00.txt.
2464 * When using the "keyid!" syntax during a key export, only that
2465 specified key is exported. If the key in question is a subkey,
2466 the primary key plus only that subkey is exported.
2468 * configure --disable-xxx options to disable individual algorithms
2469 at build time. This can be used to build a smaller gpg binary
2470 for embedded uses where space is tight. See the README file for
2471 the algorithms that can be used with this option, or use
2472 --enable-minimal to build the smallest gpg possible (disables
2473 all optional algorithms, disables keyserver access, and disables
2476 * The keyserver no-modify flag on a key can now be displayed and
2479 * Note that the TIGER/192 digest algorithm is in the process of
2480 being dropped from the OpenPGP standard. While this release of
2481 GnuPG still contains it, it is disabled by default. To ensure
2482 you will still be able to use your messages with future versions
2483 of GnuPG and other OpenPGP programs, please do not use this
2486 See-also: gnupg-announce/2003q2/000153.html
2489 Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.1 (2002-11-12)
2490 ------------------------------------------------
2492 * Trust signature support. This is based on the Maurer trust
2493 model where a user can specify the trust level along with the
2494 signature with multiple levels so users can delegate
2495 certification ability to other users, possibly restricted by a
2496 regular expression on the user ID. Note that full trust
2497 signature support requires a regular expression parsing library.
2498 The regexp code from glibc 2.3.1 is included for those platforms
2499 that don't have working regexp functions available. The
2500 configure option --disable-regex may be used to disable any
2501 regular expression code, which will make GnuPG ignore any trust
2502 signature with a regular expression included.
2504 * Two new commands --hidden-recipient (-R) and --hidden-encrypt-to
2505 encrypt to a user, but hide the identity of that user. This is
2506 the same functionality as --throw-keyid, but can be used on a
2509 * Full algorithm names (e.g. "3DES", "SHA1", "ZIP") can now be
2510 used interchangeably with the short algorithm names (e.g. "S2",
2511 "H2", "Z1") anywhere algorithm names are used in GnuPG.
2514 Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.0 (2002-10-18)
2515 ------------------------------------------------
2517 * The last piece of internal keyserver support has been removed,
2518 and now all keyserver access is done via the keyserver plugins.
2519 There is also a newer keyserver protocol used between GnuPG and
2520 the plugins, so plugins from earlier versions of GnuPG may not
2523 * The HKP keyserver plugin supports the new machine-readable key
2524 listing format for those keyservers that provide it.
2526 * When using a HKP keyserver with multiple DNS records (such as
2527 wwwkeys.pgp.net which has the addresses of multiple servers
2528 around the world), try all records until one succeeds. Note
2529 that it depends on the LDAP library used whether the LDAP
2530 keyserver plugin does this as well.
2532 * The library dependencies for OpenLDAP seem to change fairly
2533 frequently, and GnuPG's configure script cannot guess all the
2534 combinations. Use ./configure LDAPLIBS="-L libdir -l libs" to
2535 override the script and use the libraries selected.
2537 * Secret keys generated with --export-secret-subkeys are now
2538 indicated in key listings with a '#' after the "sec", and in
2539 --with-colons listings by showing no capabilities (no lowercase
2542 * --trusted-key has been un-obsoleted, as it is useful for adding
2543 ultimately trusted keys from the config file. It is identical
2544 to using --edit and "trust" to change a key to ultimately
2547 * Translations other than de are no longer distributed with the
2548 development branch. This is due to the frequent text changes
2549 during development, which cause the translations to rapidly go
2553 Version 1.2.8 (2006-12-07)
2554 Version 1.2.7 (2004-12-27)
2555 Version 1.2.6 (2004-08-25)
2556 Version 1.2.5 (2004-07-26)
2557 Version 1.2.4 (2003-12-23)
2558 Version 1.2.3 (2003-08-21)
2559 Version 1.2.2 (2003-05-01)
2560 Version 1.2.1 (2002-10-25)
2561 Version 1.2.0 (2002-09-21)
2564 Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.92 (2002-09-11)
2565 -------------------------------------------------
2567 * [IMPORTANT] The default configuration file is now
2568 ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. If an old ~/.gnupg/options is found it will
2569 still be used. This change is required to have a more
2570 consistent naming scheme with forthcoming tools.
2572 * The use of MDCs have increased. A MDC will be used if the
2573 recipients directly request it, if the recipients have AES,
2574 AES192, AES256, or TWOFISH in their cipher preferences, or if
2575 the chosen cipher has a blocksize not equal to 64 bits
2576 (currently this is also AES, AES192, AES256, and TWOFISH).
2578 * GnuPG will no longer automatically disable compression when
2579 processing an already-compressed file unless a MDC is being
2580 used. This is to give the message a certain amount of
2581 resistance to the chosen-ciphertext attack while communicating
2582 with other programs (most commonly PGP earlier than version 7.x)
2583 that do not support MDCs.
2585 * The option --interactive now has the desired effect when
2588 * The file permission and ownership checks on files have been
2589 clarified. Specifically, the homedir (usually ~/.gnupg) is
2590 checked to protect everything within it. If the user specifies
2591 keyrings outside this homedir, they are presumed to be shared
2592 keyrings and therefore *not* checked. Configuration files
2593 specified with the --options option and the IDEA cipher
2594 extension specified with --load-extension are checked, along
2595 with their enclosing directories.
2597 * The configure option --with-static-rnd=auto allows to build gpg
2598 with all available entropy gathering modules included. At
2599 runtime the best usable one will be selected from the list
2600 linux, egd, unix. This is also the default for systems lacking
2601 a /dev/random device.
2603 * The default character set is now taken from the current locale;
2604 it can still be overridden by the --charset option. Using the
2605 option -vvv shows the used character set.
2607 * [REMOVED] --emulate-checksum-bug and --emulate-3des-s2k-bug have
2611 Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.91 (2002-08-04)
2612 -------------------------------------------------
2614 * All modules are now linked statically; the --load-extension
2615 option is in general not useful anymore. The only exception is
2616 to specify the deprecated idea cipher.
2618 * The IDEA plugin has changed. Previous versions of the IDEA
2619 plugin will no longer work with GnuPG. However, the current
2620 version of the plugin will work with earlier GnuPG versions.
2622 * When using --batch with one of the --delete-key commands, the
2623 key must be specified by fingerprint. See the man page for
2626 * There are now various ways to restrict the ability GnuPG has to
2627 exec external programs (for the keyserver helpers or photo ID
2628 viewers). Read the README file for the complete list.
2630 * New export option to leave off attribute packets (photo IDs)
2631 during export. This is useful when exporting to HKP keyservers
2632 which do not understand attribute packets.
2634 * New import option to repair during import the HKP keyserver
2635 mangling multiple subkeys bug. Note that this cannot completely
2636 repair the damaged key as some crucial data is removed by the
2637 keyserver, but it does at least give you back one subkey. This
2638 is on by default for keyserver --recv-keys, and off by default
2639 for regular --import.
2641 * The keyserver helper programs now live in
2642 /usr/[local/]libexec/gnupg by default. If you are upgrading
2643 from 1.0.7, you might want to delete your old copies in
2644 /usr/[local/]bin. If you use an OS that does not use libexec
2645 for whatever reason, use configure --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib
2646 to place the keyserver helpers there.
2648 * The LDAP keyserver handler now works properly with very old
2649 (version 1) LDAP keyservers.
2652 Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.90 (2002-07-01)
2653 -------------------------------------------------
2655 * New commands: --personal-cipher-preferences,
2656 --personal-digest-preferences, and
2657 --personal-compress-preferences allow the user to specify which
2658 algorithms are to be preferred. Note that this does not permit
2659 using an algorithm that is not present in the recipient's
2660 preferences (which would violate the OpenPGP standard). This
2661 just allows sorting the preferences differently.
2663 * New "group" command to refer to several keys with one name.
2665 * A warning is issued if the user forces the use of an algorithm
2666 that is not listed in the recipient's preferences.
2668 * Full revocation key (aka "designated revoker") support.
2670 * The preferred hash algorithms on a key are consulted when
2671 encrypting a signed message to that key. Note that this is
2672 disabled by default by a SHA1 preference in
2673 --personal-digest-preferences.
2675 * --cert-digest-algo allows the user to specify the hash algorithm
2676 to use when signing a key rather than the default SHA1 (or MD5
2677 for PGP2 keys). Do not use this feature unless you fully
2678 understand the implications of this.
2680 * --pgp7 mode automatically sets all necessary options to ensure
2681 that the resulting message will be usable by a user of PGP 7.x.
2683 * New --attribute-fd command for frontends and scripts to get the
2684 contents of attribute packets (i.e. photos)
2686 * In expert mode, the user can now re-sign a v3 key with a v4
2687 self-signature. This does not change the v3 key into a v4 key,
2688 but it does allow the user to use preferences, primary ID flags,
2691 * Significantly improved photo ID support on non-unixlike
2694 * The version number has jumped ahead to 1.1.90 to skip over the
2695 old version 1.1 and to get ready for the upcoming 1.2.
2697 * ElGamal sign and encrypt is not anymore allowed in the key
2698 generation dialog unless in expert mode. RSA sign and encrypt
2699 has been added with the same restrictions.
2701 * [W32] Keyserver access does work with Windows NT.
2704 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.7 (2002-04-29)
2705 ------------------------------------------------
2707 * Secret keys are now stored and exported in a new format which
2708 uses SHA-1 for integrity checks. This format renders the
2709 Rosa/Klima attack useless. Other OpenPGP implementations might
2710 not yet support this, so the option --simple-sk-checksum creates
2711 the old vulnerable format.
2713 * The default cipher algorithm for encryption is now CAST5,
2714 default hash algorithm is SHA-1. This will give us better
2715 interoperability with other OpenPGP implementations.
2717 * Symmetric encrypted messages now use a fixed file size if
2718 possible. This is a tradeoff: it breaks PGP 5, but fixes PGP 2,
2719 6, and 7. Note this was only an issue with RFC-1991 style
2722 * Photographic user ID support. This uses an external program to
2725 * Enhanced keyserver support via keyserver "plugins". GnuPG comes
2726 with plugins for the NAI LDAP keyserver as well as the HKP email
2727 keyserver. It retains internal support for the HKP HTTP
2730 * Nonrevocable signatures are now supported. If a user signs a
2731 key nonrevocably, this signature cannot be taken back so be
2734 * Multiple signature classes are usable when signing a key to
2735 specify how carefully the key information (fingerprint, photo
2736 ID, etc) was checked.
2738 * --pgp2 mode automatically sets all necessary options to ensure
2739 that the resulting message will be usable by a user of PGP 2.x.
2741 * --pgp6 mode automatically sets all necessary options to ensure
2742 that the resulting message will be usable by a user of PGP 6.x.
2744 * Signatures may now be given an expiration date. When signing a
2745 key with an expiration date, the user is prompted whether they
2746 want their signature to expire at the same time.
2748 * Revocation keys (designated revokers) are now supported if
2749 present. There is currently no way to designate new keys as
2750 designated revokers.
2752 * Permissions on the .gnupg directory and its files are checked
2755 * --expert mode enables certain silly things such as signing a
2756 revoked user id, expired key, or revoked key.
2758 * Some fixes to build cleanly under Cygwin32.
2760 * New tool gpgsplit to split OpenPGP data formats into packets.
2762 * New option --preserve-permissions.
2764 * Subkeys created in the future are not used for encryption or
2765 signing unless the new option --ignore-valid-from is used.
2767 * Revoked user-IDs are not listed unless signatures are listed too
2768 or we are in verbose mode.
2770 * There is no default comment string with ascii armors anymore
2771 except for revocation certificates and --enarmor mode.
2773 * The command "primary" in the edit menu can be used to change the
2774 primary UID, "setpref" and "updpref" can be used to change the
2777 * Fixed the preference handling; since 1.0.5 they were erroneously
2778 matched against against the latest user ID and not the given one.
2780 * RSA key generation.
2782 * Merged Stefan's patches for RISC OS in. See comments in
2783 scripts/build-riscos.
2785 * It is now possible to sign and conventional encrypt a message (-cs).
2787 * The MDC feature flag is supported and can be set by using
2788 the "updpref" edit command.
2790 * The status messages GOODSIG and BADSIG are now returning the primary
2791 UID, encoded using %XX escaping (but with spaces left as spaces,
2792 so that it should not break too much)
2794 * Support for GDBM based keyrings has been removed.
2796 * The entire keyring management has been revamped.
2798 * The way signature stati are store has changed so that v3
2799 signatures can be supported. To increase the speed of many
2800 operations for existing keyrings you can use the new
2801 --rebuild-keydb-caches command.
2803 * The entire key validation process (trustdb) has been revamped.
2804 See the man page entries for --update-trustdb, --check-trustdb
2805 and --no-auto-check-trustdb.
2807 * --trusted-keys is again obsolete, --edit can be used to set the
2808 ownertrust of any key to ultimately trusted.
2810 * A subkey is never used to sign keys.
2812 * Read only keyrings are now handled as expected.
2814 See-also: gnupg-announce/2002q2/000135.html
2817 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.6 (2001-05-29)
2818 ------------------------------------------------
2820 * Security fix for a format string bug in the tty code.
2822 * Fixed format string bugs in all PO files.
2824 * Removed Russian translation due to too many bugs. The FTP
2825 server has an unofficial but better translation in the contrib
2828 * Fixed expire time calculation and keyserver access.
2830 * The usual set of minor bug fixes and enhancements.
2832 * non-writable keyrings are now correctly handled.
2834 See-also: gnupg-announce/2001q2/000123.html
2837 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.5 (2001-04-29)
2838 ------------------------------------------------
2840 * WARNING: The semantics of --verify have changed to address a
2841 problem with detached signature detection. --verify now ignores
2842 signed material given on stdin unless this is requested by using
2843 a "-" as the name for the file with the signed material. Please
2844 check all your detached signature handling applications and make
2845 sure that they don't pipe the signed material to stdin without
2846 using a filename together with "-" on the the command line.
2848 * WARNING: Corrected hash calculation for input data larger than
2849 512M - it was just wrong, so you might notice bad signature in
2850 some very big files. It may be wise to keep an old copy of
2853 * Secret keys are no longer imported unless you use the new option
2854 --allow-secret-key-import. This is a kludge and future versions will
2855 handle it in another way.
2857 * New command "showpref" in the --edit-key menu to show an easier
2858 to understand preference listing.
2860 * There is now the notation of a primary user ID. For example, it
2861 is printed with a signature verification as the first user ID;
2862 revoked user IDs are not printed there anymore. In general the
2863 primary user ID is the one with the latest self-signature.
2865 * New --charset=utf-8 to bypass all internal conversions.
2867 * Large File Support (LFS) is now working.
2869 * New options: --ignore-crc-error, --no-sig-create-check,
2870 --no-sig-cache, --fixed-list-mode, --no-expensive-trust-checks,
2871 --enable-special-filenames and --use-agent. See man page.
2873 * New command --pipemode, which can be used to run gpg as a
2874 co-process. Currently only the verification of detached
2875 signatures are working. See doc/DETAILS.
2877 * Keyserver support for the W32 version.
2879 * Rewritten key selection code so that GnuPG can better cope with
2880 multiple subkeys, expire dates and so. The drawback is that it
2883 * A whole lot of bug fixes.
2885 * The verification status of self-signatures are now cached. To
2886 increase the speed of key list operations for existing keys you
2887 can do the following in your GnuPG homedir (~/.gnupg):
2888 cp pubring.gpg pubring.gpg.save && gpg --export-all >x && \
2889 rm pubring.gpg && gpg --import x
2890 Only v4 keys (i.e not the old RSA keys) benefit from this caching.
2892 * New translations: Estonian, Turkish.
2894 See-also: gnupg-announce/2001q2/000122.html
2897 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.4 (2000-10-17)
2898 ------------------------------------------------
2900 * Fixed a serious bug which could lead to false signature verification
2901 results when more than one signature is fed to gpg. This is the
2902 primary reason for releasing this version.
2904 * New utility gpgv which is a stripped down version of gpg to
2905 be used to verify signatures against a list of trusted keys.
2907 * Rijndael (AES) is now supported and listed with top preference.
2909 * --with-colons now works with --print-md[s].
2911 See-also: gnupg-announce/2000q4/000082.html
2914 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.3 (2000-09-18)
2915 ------------------------------------------------
2917 * Fixed problems with piping to/from other MS-Windows software
2919 * Expiration time of the primary key can be changed again.
2921 * Revoked user IDs are now marked in the output of --list-key
2923 * New options --show-session-key and --override-session-key
2924 to help the British folks to somewhat minimize the danger
2925 of this Orwellian RIP bill.
2927 * New options --merge-only and --try-all-secrets.
2929 * New configuration option --with-egd-socket.
2931 * The --trusted-key option is back after it left us with 0.9.5
2933 * RSA is supported. Key generation does not yet work but will come
2936 * CAST5 and SHA-1 are now the default algorithms to protect the key
2937 and for symmetric-only encryption. This should solve a couple
2938 of compatibility problems because the old algorithms are optional
2939 according to RFC2440
2941 * Twofish and MDC enhanced encryption is now used. PGP 7 supports
2942 this. Older versions of GnuPG don't support it, so they should be
2943 upgraded to at least 1.0.2
2945 See-also: gnupg-announce/2000q3/000075.html
2948 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.2 (2000-07-12)
2949 ----------------------------------------------
2951 * Fixed expiration handling of encryption keys.
2953 * Add an experimental feature to do unattended key generation.
2955 * The user is now asked for the reason of revocation as required
2956 by the new OpenPGP draft.
2958 * There is a ~/.gnupg/random_seed file now which saves the
2959 state of the internal RNG and increases system performance
2960 somewhat. This way the full entropy source is only used in
2961 cases were it is really required.
2962 Use the option --no-random-seed-file to disable this feature.
2964 * New options --ignore-time-conflict and --lock-never.
2966 * Some fixes for the W32 version.
2968 * The entropy.dll is not anymore used by the W32 version but replaced
2969 by code derived from Cryptlib.
2971 * Encryption is now much faster: About 2 times for 1k bit keys
2972 and 8 times for 4k keys.
2974 * New encryption keys are generated in a way which allows a much
2977 * New command --export-secret-subkeys which outputs the
2978 the _primary_ key with it's secret parts deleted. This is
2979 useful for automated decryption/signature creation as it
2980 allows to keep the real secret primary key offline and
2981 thereby protecting the key certificates and allowing to
2982 create revocations for the subkeys. See the FAQ for a
2983 procedure to install such secret keys.
2985 * Keygeneration now writes to the first writeable keyring or
2986 as default to the one in the homedirectory. Prior versions
2987 ignored all --keyring options.
2989 * New option --command-fd to take user input from a file descriptor;
2990 to be used with --status-fd by software which uses GnuPG as a backend.
2992 * There is a new status PROGRESS which is used to show progress during
2995 * Support for the new MDC encryption packets. To create them either
2996 --force-mdc must be use or cipher algorithm with a blocksize other
2997 than 64 bits is to be used. --openpgp currently disables MDC packets
2998 entirely. This option should not yet be used.
3000 * New option --no-auto-key-retrieve to disable retrieving of
3001 a missing public key from a keyserver, when a keyserver has been set.
3003 * Danish translation
3005 See-also: gnupg-announce/2000q3/000069.html
3008 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.1 (1999-12-16)
3009 -----------------------------------
3011 * New command --verify-files. New option --fast-list-mode.
3013 * $http_proxy is now used when --honor-http-proxy is set.
3015 * Fixed some minor bugs and the problem with conventional encrypted
3016 packets which did use the gpg v3 partial length headers.
3018 * Add Indonesian and Portugese translations.
3020 * Fixed a bug with symmetric-only encryption using the non-default 3DES.
3021 The option --emulate-3des-s2k-bug may be used to decrypt documents
3022 which have been encrypted this way; this should be done immediately
3023 as this workaround will be remove in 1.1
3025 * Can now handle (but not display) PGP's photo IDs. I don't know the
3026 format of that packet but after stripping a few bytes from the start
3027 it looks like a JPEG (at least my test data). Handling of this
3028 package is required because otherwise it would mix up the
3029 self signatures and you can't import those keys.
3031 * Passing non-ascii user IDs on the commandline should now work in all
3034 * New keys are now generated with an additional preference to Blowfish.
3036 * Removed the GNU Privacy Handbook from the distribution as it will go
3037 into a separate one.
3039 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q4/000050.html
3042 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0 (1999-09-07)
3043 -----------------------------------
3045 * Add a very preliminary version of the GNU Privacy Handbook to
3046 the distribution (lynx doc/gph/index.html).
3048 * Changed the version number to GnuPG 2001 ;-)
3050 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000037.html
3053 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.11 (1999-09-03)
3054 ------------------------------------
3056 * UTF-8 strings are now correctly printed (if --charset is set correctly).
3057 Output of --with-colons remains C-style escaped UTF-8.
3059 * Workaround for a problem with PGP 5 detached signature in textmode.
3061 * Fixed a problem when importing new subkeys (duplicated signatures).
3063 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000036.html
3066 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.10 (1999-07-23)
3067 ------------------------------------
3069 * Some strange new options to help pgpgpg
3071 * Cleaned up the dox a bit.
3073 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000034.html
3076 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.9
3077 -----------------------------------
3079 * New options --[no-]utf8-strings.
3081 * New edit-menu commands "enable" and "disable" for entire keys.
3083 * You will be asked for a filename if gpg cannot deduce one.
3085 * Changes to support libtool which is needed for the development
3088 * New script tools/lspgpot to help transferring assigned
3089 trustvalues from PGP to GnuPG.
3091 * New commands --lsign-key and made --sign-key a shortcut for --edit
3094 * New options (#122--126 ;-) --[no-]default-recipient[-self],
3095 --disable-{cipher,pubkey}-algo. See the man page.
3097 * Enhanced info output in case of multiple recipients and fixed exit code.
3099 * New option --allow-non-selfsigned-uid to work around a problem with
3100 the German IN way of separating signing and encryption keys.
3102 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000028.html
3105 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.8 (1999-06-26)
3106 -----------------------------------
3108 * New subcommand "delsig" in the edit menu.
3110 * The name of the output file is not anymore the one which is
3111 embedded in the processed message, but the used filename with
3112 the extension stripped. To revert to the old behaviour you can
3113 use the option --use-embedded-filename.
3115 * Another hack to cope with pgp2 generated detached signatures.
3117 * latin-2 character set works (--charset=iso-8859-2).
3119 * New option --with-key-data to list the public key parameters.
3120 New option -N to insert notations and a --set-policy-url.
3121 A couple of other options to allow reseting of options.
3123 * Better support for HPUX.
3125 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q2/000016.html
3128 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.7 (1999-05-23)
3129 -----------------------------------
3131 * Add some work arounds for a bugs in pgp 2 which led to bad signatures
3132 when used with canonical texts in some cases.
3134 * Enhanced some status outputs.
3136 See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q2/000000.html
3139 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.6 (1999-05-06)
3140 -----------------------------------
3142 * Twofish is now statically linked by default. The experimental 128 bit
3143 version is now disabled. Full support will be available as soon as
3144 the OpenPGP WG has decided on an interpretation of rfc2440.
3146 * Dropped support for the ancient Blowfish160 which is not OpenPGP.
3148 * Merged gpgm and gpg into one binary.
3150 * Add "revsig" and "revkey" commands to the edit menu. It is now
3151 possible to revoke signature and subkeys.
3154 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.5 (1999-03-20)
3155 -----------------------------------
3157 * New command "lsign" in the keyedit menu to create non-exportable
3158 signatures. Removed --trusted-keys option.
3160 * A bunch of changes to the key validation code.
3162 * --list-trust-path now has an optional --with-colons format.
3164 * New command --recv-keys to import keys from an keyserver.
3167 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.4 (1999-03-08)
3168 -----------------------------------
3170 * New configure option --enable-static-rnd=[egd|linux|unix|none]
3171 to select a random gathering module for static linking.
3173 * The original text is now verbatim copied to a cleartext signed message.
3175 * Bugfixes but there are still a couple of bugs.
3178 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.3 (1999-02-19)
3179 -----------------------------------
3181 * Changed the internal design of getkey which now allows a
3182 efficient lookup of multiple keys and add a word match mode.
3184 * New options --[no-]encrypt-to.
3186 * Some changes to the configure stuff. Switched to automake 1.4.
3187 Removed intl/ from CVS, autogen.sh now uses gettextize.
3189 * Preferences now include Twofish. Removed preference to Blowfish with
3190 a special hack to suppress the "not listed in preferences" warning;
3191 this is to allow us to switch completely to Twofish in the near future.
3193 * Changed the locking stuff.
3195 * Print all user ids of a good signature.
3198 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.2 (1999-01-01)
3199 -----------------------------------
3201 * add some additional time warp checks.
3203 * Option --keyserver and command --send-keys to utilize HKP servers.
3205 * Upgraded to zlib 1.1.3 and fixed an inflate bug
3207 * More cleanup on the cleartext signatures.
3210 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.1 (1999-01-01)
3211 -----------------------------------
3213 * Polish language support.
3215 * When querying the passphrase, the key ID of the primary key is
3216 displayed along with the one of the used secondary key.
3218 * Fixed a bug occurring when decrypting pgp 5 encrypted messages,
3219 fixed an infinite loop bug in the 3DES code and in the code
3220 which looks for trusted signatures.
3222 * Fixed a bug in the mpi library which caused signatures not to
3225 * Rewrote the handling of cleartext signatures; the code is now
3226 better maintainable (I hope so).
3228 * New status output VALIDSIG only for valid signatures together
3229 with the fingerprint of the signer's key.
3232 Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.0 (1998-12-23)
3233 -----------------------------------
3235 * --export does now only exports rfc2440 compatible keys; the
3236 old behaviour is available with --export-all.
3237 Generation of v3 ElGamal (sign and encrypt) keys is not longer
3240 * Fixed the uncompress bug.
3242 * Rewrote the rndunix module. There are two environment variables
3243 used for debugging now: GNUPG_RNDUNIX_DBG give the file to write
3244 debugging information (use "-" for stdout) and if GNUPG_RNDUNIX_DBGALL
3245 is set, all programs which are only tried are also printed.
3247 * New option --escape-from-lines to "dash-escape" "From " lines to
3248 prevent mailers to change them to ">From ". This is not enabled by
3249 default because it is not in compliance with rfc2440 - however, you
3253 Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.5 (1998-12-08)
3254 -----------------------------------
3256 * The keyrings and the trustdb is now locked, so that
3257 other GnuPG processes won't damage these files. You
3258 may want to put the option --lock-once into your options file.
3260 * The latest self-signatures are now used; this enables --import
3261 to see updated preferences etc.
3263 * Import of subkeys should now work.
3265 * Random gathering modules may now be loaded as extensions. Add
3266 such a module for most Unices but it is very experimental!
3268 * Brazilian language support.
3271 Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.4 (1998-11-20)
3272 -----------------------------------
3274 * Fixed the way the key expiration time is stored. If you have
3275 an expiration time on your key you should fix it with --edit-key
3276 and the command "expire". I apologize for this inconvenience.
3278 * Add option --charset to support "koi8-r" encoding of user ids.
3281 * Preferences should now work again. You should run
3282 "gpgm --check-trustdb \*" to rebuild all preferences.
3284 * Checking of certificates should now work but this needs a lot
3285 of testing. Key validation values are now cached in the
3286 trustdb; they should be recalculated as needed, but you may
3287 use --check-trustdb or --update-trustdb to do this.
3289 * Spanish translation by Urko Lusa.
3291 * Patch files are from now on signed. See the man page
3292 for the new option --not-dash-escaped.
3294 * New syntax: --edit-key <userID> [<commands>]
3295 If you run it without --batch the commands are executed and then
3296 you are put into normal mode unless you use "quit" or "save" as
3297 one of the commands. When in batch mode, the program quits after
3298 the last command, so you have to use "save" if you did some changes.
3299 It does not yet work completely, but may be used to list so the
3303 Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.3 (1998-11-08)
3304 -----------------------------------
3306 * Fixed the gettext configure bug.
3308 * Kludge for RSA keys: keyid and length of a RSA key are
3309 correctly reported, but you get an error if you try to use
3310 this key (If you do not have the non-US version).
3312 * Experimental support for keyrings stored in a GDBM database.
3313 This is *much* faster than a standard keyring. You will notice
3314 that the import gets slower with time; the reason is that all
3315 new keys are used to verify signatures of previous inserted
3316 keys. Use "--keyring gnupg-gdbm:<name-of-gdbm-file>". This is
3317 not (yet) supported for secret keys.
3319 * A Russian language file in the distribution (alternatives are in
3320 the contrib directory of the FTP servers)
3322 * commandline option processing now works as expected for GNU programs
3323 with the exception that you can't mix options and normal arguments.
3325 * Now --list-key lists all matching keys. This is needed in some
3329 Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.2 (1998-10-18)
3330 -----------------------------------
3332 * This is only a snapshot: There are still a few bugs.
3334 * Fixed this huge memory leak.
3336 * Redesigned the trust database: You should run "gpgm --check-trustdb".
3337 New command --update-trustdb, which adds new key from the public
3338 keyring into your trustdb
3340 * Fixed a bug in the armor code, leading to invalid packet errors.
3341 (a workaround for this was to use --no-armor). The shorten line
3342 length (64 instead of 72) fixes a problem with pgp5 and keyservers.
3344 * comment packets are not anymore generated. "--export" filters
3345 them out. One Exception: The comment packets in a secret keyring
3346 are still used because they carry the factorization of the public
3349 * --import now only looks for KEYBLOCK headers, so you can now simply
3350 remove the "- " in front of such a header if someone accidentally signed
3351 such a message or the keyblock is part of a cleartext signed message.
3353 * --with-colons now lists the key expiration time and not anymore
3356 * Some keyblocks created with old releases have a wrong sequence
3357 of packets, so that the keyservers don't accept these keys.
3358 Simply using "--edit-key" fixes the problem.
3360 * New option --force-v3-sigs to generate signed messages which are
3361 compatible to PGP 5.
3363 * Add some code to support DLD (for non ELF systems) - but this is
3364 not tested because my BSD box is currently broken.
3366 * New command "expire" in the edit-key menu.
3370 Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.1 (1998-10-07)
3371 -----------------------------------
3373 * A secondary key is used when the primary key is specified but cannot
3374 be used for the operation (if it is a sign-only key).
3376 * GNUPG can now handle concatenated armored messages: There is still a
3377 bug if different kinds of messages are mixed.
3379 * Iterated+Salted passphrases now work. If want to be sure that PGP5
3380 is able to handle them you may want to use the options
3381 "--s2k-mode 3 --s2k-cipher-algo cast5 --s2k-digest-algo sha1"
3382 when changing a passphrase.
3384 * doc/OpenPGP talks about OpenPGP compliance, doc/HACKING gives
3385 a few hints about the internal structure.
3387 * Checked gnupg against the August 1998 draft (07) and I believe
3388 it is in compliance with this document (except for one point).
3390 * Fixed some bugs in the import merging code and rewrote some
3391 code for the trustdb.
3394 Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.0 (1998-09-18)
3395 -----------------------------------
3397 * Triple DES is now supported. Michael Roth did this piece of
3398 needed work. We have now all the coded needed to be OpenPGP
3401 * Added a simple rpm spec file (see INSTALL).
3403 * detached and armored signatures are now using "PGP SIGNATURE",
3404 except when --rfc1991 is used.
3406 * All times which are not in the yyyy-mm-dd format are now printed
3410 Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.5 (1998-09-14)
3411 -----------------------------------
3413 * New option --throw-keyid to create anonymous enciphered messages.
3414 If gpg detects such a message it tires all available secret keys
3415 in turn so decode it. This is a gnupg extension and not in OpenPGP
3416 but it has been discussed there and afaik some products use this
3417 scheme too (Suggested by Nimrod Zimmerman).
3419 * Fixed a bug with 5 byte length headers.
3421 * --delete-[secret-]key is now also available in gpgm.
3423 * cleartext signatures are not anymore converted to LF only.
3425 * Fixed a trustdb problem. Run "gpgm --check-trustdb" to fix old
3428 * Building in another directory should now work.
3430 * Weak key detection mechanism (Niklas Hernaeus).
3433 Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.4 (1998-08-11)
3434 -----------------------------------
3436 * New options --comment and --set-filename; see g10/OPTIONS
3438 * yes/no, y/n localized.
3443 Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.3 (1998-08-08)
3444 -----------------------------------
3446 * IMPORTANT: I found yet another bug in the way the secret keys
3447 are encrypted - I did it the way pgp 2.x did it, but OpenPGP
3448 and pgp 5.x specify another (in some aspects simpler) method.
3449 To convert your secret keys you have to do this:
3450 1. Build the new release but don't install it and keep
3451 a copy of the old program.
3452 2. Disable the network, make sure that you are the only
3453 user, be sure that there are no Trojan horses etc ....
3454 3. Use your old gpg (version 0.3.1 or 0.3.2) and set the
3455 passphrases of ALL your secret keys to empty!
3456 (gpg --change-passphrase your-user-id).
3457 4. Save your ownertrusts (see the next point)
3458 5. rm ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg
3459 6. install the new version of gpg (0.3.3)
3460 7. For every secret key call "gpg --edit-key your-user-id",
3461 enter "passwd" at the prompt, follow the instructions and
3462 change your password back, enter "save" to store it.
3463 8. Restore the ownertrust (see next point).
3465 * The format of the trust database has changed; you must delete
3466 the old one, so gnupg can create a new one.
3467 IMPORTANT: Use version 0.3.1 or .2 to save your assigned ownertrusts
3468 ("gpgm --list-ownertrust >saved-trust"); then build this new version
3469 and restore the ownertrust with this new version
3470 ("gpgm --import-ownertrust saved-trust"). Please note that
3471 --list-ownertrust has been renamed to --export-ownertrust in this
3472 release and it does now only export defined ownertrusts.
3474 * The command --edit-key now provides a commandline driven menu
3475 which can be used for various tasks. --sign-key is only an
3476 an alias to --edit-key and maybe removed in future: use the
3477 command "sign" of this new menu - you can select which user ids
3480 * Alternate user ids can now be created an signed.
3482 * Owner trust values can now be changed with --edit-key (trust)
3484 * GNUPG can now run as a coprocess; this enables sophisticated
3485 frontends. tools/shmtest.c is a simple sample implementation.
3486 This needs some more work: all tty_xxx() are to be replaced
3487 by cpr_xxx() and some changes in the display logics is needed.
3489 * Removed options --gen-prime and --gen-random.
3491 * Removed option --add-key; use --edit-key instead.
3493 * Removed option --change-passphrase; use --edit-key instead.
3495 * Signatures are now checked even if the output file could not
3496 be created. Command "--verify" tries to find the detached data.
3498 * gpg now disables core dumps.
3500 * compress and symmetric cipher preferences are now used.
3501 Because there is no 3DES yet, this is replaced by Blowfish.
3503 * We have added the Twofish as an experimental cipher algorithm.
3504 Many thanks to Matthew Skala for doing this work.
3505 Twofish is the AES submission from Schneier et al.; see
3506 "www.counterpane.com/twofish.html" for more information.
3508 * Started with a help system: If you enter a question mark at some
3509 prompt; you should get a specific help for this prompt.
3511 * There is no more backup copy of the secret keyring.
3513 * A lot of new bugs. I think this release is not as stable as
3517 Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.2 (1998-07-09)
3518 -----------------------------------
3520 * Fixed some bugs when using --textmode (-seat)
3522 * Now displays the trust status of a positive verified message.
3524 * Keyrings are now scanned in the sequence they are added with
3525 --[secret-]keyring. Note that the default keyring is implicitly
3526 added as the very first one unless --no-default-keyring is used.
3528 * Fixed setuid and dlopen bug.
3531 Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.1 (1998-07-06)
3532 -----------------------------------
3534 * Partial headers are now written in the OpenPGP format if
3535 a key in a v4 packet is used.
3537 * Removed some unused options, removed the gnupg.sig stuff.
3539 * Key lookup by name now returns a key which can be used for
3542 * New options --list-ownertrust (gpgm) to make a backup copy
3543 of the ownertrust values you assigned.
3545 * clear signature headers are now in compliance with OpenPGP.
3548 Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.0 (1998-06-25)
3549 -----------------------------------
3551 * New option --emulate-checksum-bug. If your passphrase does not
3552 work anymore, use this option and --change-passphrase to rewrite
3555 * More complete v4 key support: Preferences and expiration time
3556 is set into the self signature.
3558 * Key generation defaults to DSA/ElGamal keys, so that new keys are
3559 interoperable with pgp5
3561 * DSA key generation is faster and key generation does not anymore
3562 remove entropy from the random generator (the primes are public
3563 parameters, so there is really no need for a cryptographic secure
3564 prime number generator which we had used).
3566 * A complete new structure for representing the key parameters.
3568 * Removed most public key knowledge into the cipher library.
3570 * Support for dynamic loading of new algorithms.
3572 * Moved tiger to an extension module.
3575 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.19 (1998-05-29)
3576 ------------------------------------
3578 * Replaced /dev/urandom in checks with new tool mk-tdata.
3580 * Some assembler file cleanups; some more functions for the Alpha.
3582 * Tiger has now the OpenPGP assigned number 6. Because the OID has
3583 changed, old signatures using this algorithm can't be verified.
3585 * gnupg now encrypts the compressed packed and not any longer in the
3586 reverse order; anyway it can decrypt both versions. Thanks to Tom
3587 for telling me this (not security related) bug.
3589 * --add-key works and you are now able to generate subkeys.
3591 * It is now possible to generate ElGamal keys in v4 packets to create
3594 * Some new features for better integration into MUAs.
3597 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.18 (1998-05-15)
3598 ------------------------------------
3600 * Splitted cipher/random.c, add new option "--disable-dev-random"
3601 to configure to support the development of a random source for
3602 other systems. Prepared sourcefiles rand-unix.c, rand-w32.c
3603 and rand-dummy.c (which is used to allow compilation on systems
3604 without a random source).
3606 * Fixed a small bug in the key generation (it was possible that 48 bits
3607 of a key were not taken from the random pool)
3609 * Add key generation for DSA and v4 signatures.
3611 * Add a function trap_unaligned(), so that a SIGBUS is issued on
3612 Alphas and not the slow emulation code is used. And success: rmd160
3615 * Enhanced the formatting facility of argparse and changed the use of
3616 \r,\v to @ because gettext does not like it.
3618 * New option "--compress-algo 1" to allow the creation of compressed
3619 messages which are readable by PGP and "--print-md" (gpgm) to make
3620 speed measurement easier.
3623 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.17 (1998-05-04)
3624 ------------------------------------
3626 * Comment packets are now of private type 61.
3628 * Passphrase code still used a 160 bit blowfish key, added a
3629 silly workaround. Please change your passphrase again - sorry.
3631 * Conventional encryption now uses a type 3 packet to describe the
3634 * The new algorithm number for Blowfish is 20, 16 is still used for
3635 encryption only; for signing it is only used when it is in a v3 packet,
3636 so that GNUPG keys are still valid.
3639 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.16 (1998-04-28)
3640 ------------------------------------
3642 * Add experimental support for the TIGER/192 message digest algorithm.
3643 (But there is only a dummy ASN OID).
3645 * Standard cipher is now Blowfish with 128 bit key in OpenPGP's CFB
3646 mode. I renamed the old cipher to Blowfish160. Because the OpenPGP
3647 group refused to assign me a number for Blowfish160, I have to
3648 drop support for this in the future. You should use
3649 "--change-passphrase" to recode your current passphrase with 128
3653 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.15 (1998-04-09)
3654 ------------------------------------
3656 * Fixed a bug with the old checksum calculation for secret keys.
3657 If you run the program without --batch, a warning does inform
3658 you if your secret key needs to be converted; simply use
3659 --change-passphrase to recalculate the checksum. Please do this
3660 soon, as the compatible mode will be removed sometime in the future.
3662 * CAST5 works (using the PGP's special CFB mode).
3664 * Again somewhat more PGP 5 compatible.
3666 * Some new test cases
3668 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.14 (1998-04-02)
3669 ------------------------------------
3671 * Changed the internal handling of keyrings.
3673 * Add support to list PGP 5 keyrings with subkeys
3675 * Timestamps of signatures are now verified.
3677 * A expiration time can now be specified during key generation.
3679 * Some speedups for Blowfish and SHA-1, rewrote SHA-1 transform.
3680 Reduced the amount of random bytes needed for key generation in
3684 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.13 (1998-03-10)
3685 ------------------------------------
3687 * Verify of DSA signatures works.
3689 * Re-implemented the slower random number generator.
3692 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.12 (1998-03-07)
3693 ------------------------------------
3695 * --delete-key checks that there is no secret key. The new
3696 option --delete-secret-key maybe used to delete a secret key.
3698 * "-kv" now works as expected. Options "--list-{keys,sigs]"
3699 and "--check-sigs" are now working.
3701 * New options "--verify" and "--decrypt" to better support integration
3702 into MUAs (partly done for Mutt).
3704 * New option "--with-colons" to make parsing of key lists easier.
3706 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.11 (1998-03-02)
3707 ------------------------------------
3709 * GPG now asks for a recipient's name if option "-r" is not used.
3711 * If there is no good trust path, the program asks whether to use
3712 the public keys anyway.
3714 * "--delete-key" works for public keys. What semantics shall I use
3715 when there is a secret key too? Delete the secret key or leave him
3716 and auto-regenerate the public key, next time the secret key is used?
3718 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.10 (1998-02-27)
3719 ------------------------------------
3721 * Code for the alpha is much faster (about 20 times); the data
3722 was misaligned and the kernel traps this, so nearly all time
3723 was used by system to trap the misalignments and to write
3724 syslog messages. Shame on me and thanks to Ralph for
3725 pointing me at this while drinking some beer yesterday.
3727 * Changed some configure options and add an option
3728 --disable-m-guard to remove the memory checking code
3729 and to compile everything with optimization on.
3731 * New environment variable GNUPGHOME, which can be used to set
3732 another homedir than ~/.gnupg. Changed default homedir for
3733 Windoze version to c:/gnupg.
3735 * Fixed detached signatures; detached PGP signatures caused a SEGV.
3737 * The Windoze version works (as usual w/o a strong RNG).
3740 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.9 (1998-02-26)
3741 -----------------------------------
3743 * Fixed FreeBSD bug.
3745 * Added a simple man page.
3747 * Switched to automake1.2f and a newer gettext.
3749 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.8 (1998-02-24)
3750 -----------------------------------
3752 * Changed the name to GNUPG, the binaries are called gpg and gpgm.
3753 You must rename rename the directory "~/.g10" to ~/.gnupg/, rename
3754 {pub,sec}ring.g10 to {pub,sec}ring.gpg, trustdb.g10 to trustdb.gpg
3755 and g10.sig to gnupg.sig.
3757 * New or changed passphrases are now salted.
3760 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.7 (1998-02-18)
3761 -----------------------------------
3763 * New command "gen-revoke" to create a key revocation certificate.
3765 * New option "homedir" to set the homedir (which defaults to "~/.g10").
3766 This directory is created if it does not exists (only the last
3767 part of the name and not the complete hierarchy)
3769 * Command "import" works. (Try: "finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de|g10 --import")
3771 * New commands "dearmor/enarmor" for g10maint. These are mainly
3772 used for internal test purposes.
3774 * Option --version now conforming to the GNU standards and lists
3775 the available ciphers, message digests and public key algorithms.
3777 * Assembler code for m68k (not tested).
3779 * "make check" works.
3781 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.6 (1998-02-13)
3782 -----------------------------------
3784 * Option "--export" works.
3787 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.5 (1998-02-12)
3788 -----------------------------------
3790 * Added zlib for systems which don't have it.
3791 Use "./configure --with-zlib" to link with the static version.
3793 * Generalized some more functions and rewrote the encoding of
3794 message digests into MPIs.
3796 * Enhanced the checkit script
3799 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.4 (1998-02-11)
3800 -----------------------------------
3802 * nearly doubled the speed of the ElGamal signature verification.
3804 * backup copies of keyrings are created.
3806 * assembler stuff for Pentium; gives about 15% better performance.
3808 * fixed a lot of bugs.
3811 Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.3 (1998-02-09)
3812 -----------------------------------
3814 * Found a bug in the calculation of ELG fingerprints. This is now
3815 fixed, but all existing fingerprints and keyids for ELG keys
3816 are not any more valid.
3818 * armor should now work; including clear signed text.
3820 * moved some options to the new program g10maint
3822 * It's now 64 bit clean and runs fine on an alpha--linux.
3824 * Key generation is much faster now. I fixed this by using not
3825 so strong random number for the primes (this was a bug because the
3826 ElGamal primes are public parameters and it does not make sense
3827 to generate them from strong random). The real secret is the x value
3828 which is still generated from strong (okay: /dev/random) random bits.
3830 * added option "--status-fd": see g10/OPTIONS
3832 * We have secure memory on systems which support mlock().
3833 It is not complete yet, because we do not have signal handler
3834 which does a cleanup in very case.
3835 We should also check the ulimit for the user in the case
3836 that the admin does not have set a limit on locked pages.
3838 * started with internationalization support.
3840 * The logic to handle the web of trust is now implemented. It is
3841 has some bugs; but I'm going to change the algorithm anyway.
3842 It works by calculating the trustlevel on the fly. It may ask
3843 you to provide trust parameters if the calculated trust probability
3844 is too low. I will write a paper which discusses this new approach.
3846 * a couple of changes to the configure script.
3848 * New option "--quick-random" which uses a much quicker random
3849 number generator. Keys generated while this option is in effect
3850 are flags with "INSECURE!" in the user-id. This is a development
3853 * Read support for new version packets (OpenPGP).
3855 * Comment packets are now of correct OpenPGP type 16. Old comment
3856 packets written by G10 are detected because they always start with
3857 a hash which is an invalid version byte.
3859 * The string "(INSECURE!)" is appended to a new user-id if this
3860 is generated on a system without a good random number generator.
3863 Version 0.2.2 (1998-02-09)
3864 Version 0.2.1 (1998-01-28)
3865 Version 0.2.0 (1998-01-25)
3866 Version 0.1.3 (1998-01-12)
3867 Version 0.1.2 (1998-01-07)
3868 Version 0.1.1 (1998-01-07)
3869 Version 0.1.0 (1998-01-05)
3870 Version 0.0.0 (1997-12-20)
3873 Copyright (C) 1998-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3874 Copyright (C) 1997-2017 Werner Koch
3876 This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
3877 unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
3878 modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
3880 This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
3881 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the
3882 implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.