+Subject: GNU Libtasn1 2.6
+To: help-libtasn1@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org
+<#part sign=pgpmime>
GNU Libtasn1 is a standalone library written in C for manipulating ASN.1
objects including DER/BER encoding/decoding. GNU Libtasn1 is used by
GnuTLS to handle X.509 structures and by GNU Shishi to handle Kerberos
V5 structures.
-* Noteworthy changes in release 2.5 (2010-03-15) [stable]
-- doc: Improve GTK-DOC comments.
-- misc: Updated gnulib files.
+NOTE! Future release announcements will not be cross-posted to
+help-gnutls, gnutls-devel or help-shishi. Please subscribe to info-gnu
+or join our new mailing list help-libtasn1:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
+ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-libtasn1
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2010-04-20) [stable]
+- Fix build failure on platforms without support for GNU LD version scripts.
+- libtasn1: Simplified implementation of asn1_check_version.
+- tests: Improved self-checks.
+- Update gnulib files, fix many syntax-check nits, indent code,
+ fix license templates.
Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/
Here are the compressed sources (1.7MB):
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.5.tar.gz
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.5.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.6.tar.gz
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.6.tar.gz
Here are GPG detached signatures using key 0xB565716F:
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.5.tar.gz.sig
- http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.5.tar.gz.sig
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.6.tar.gz.sig
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-2.6.tar.gz.sig
-A ZIP archive containing the Windows binaries (264KB):
- http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/libtasn1-2.5.zip
- http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/libtasn1-2.5.zip.sig
+A ZIP archive containing the Windows binaries (268KB):
+ http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/libtasn1-2.6.zip
+ http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/libtasn1-2.6.zip.sig
A Debian mingw32 package is also available (240KB):
- http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-libtasn1_2.5-1_all.deb
+ http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-libtasn1_2.6-1_all.deb
Commercial support contracts for Libtasn1 are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a
If you need help to use Libtasn1, or want to help others, you are
invited to join the help-libtasn1 mailing list, see:
-<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-libtasn1>.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-libtasn1
All manuals are available from:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/manual/
For developers interested in improving code quality, we publish
Cyclomatic code complexity charts that help you find code that may
need review and improvements:
-
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/cyclo/
Also useful are code coverage charts which indicate parts of the
source code that needs to be tested better by the included self-tests:
-
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/coverage/
The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-224 checksums:
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Happy hacking,
Simon