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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 16:14:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 16:14:06 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2.2.40.upstream/2.2.40
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -0,0 +1,5087 @@ +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.40 (2022-10-10) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Do not consider unknown public keys as non-compliant while + decrypting. [T6205] + + * gpg: Avoid to emit a compliance mode line if Libgcrypt is + non-compliant. [T6221] + + * gpg: In de-vs mode use AES-128 instead of 3-DES as implicit + preference. [T6063] + + * gpgsm: Fix reporting of bad passphrase error during PKCS#11 + import. [T5713,T6037] + + * dirmngr: Fix CRL Distribution Point fallback to other schemes. + [rG289fbc550d] + + * dirmngr: New LDAP server flag "areconly" (A-record-only). + [rG6300035ba1] + + * dirmngr: Fix upload of multiple keys for an LDAP server specified + using the colon format. [rG32ce7ac0c6] + + * dirmngr: Use LDAP schema v2 when a Base DN is specified. [T6047] + + * wkd: New command --mirror for gpg-wks-client. [T6224] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6181 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.39 (2022-09-02) +------------------------------------------------- + + * agent: Fix regression in 2.2.37 related to non-extended format + private keys. [T6176] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6175 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.38 (2022-09-01) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Make --require-compliance work for sign+encrypt. [T6174] + + * gpg: Fix an encoding problem under Windows in the printed + timezone. [T5073] + + * gpg: Emit a FAILURE status for --require-compliance errors. + [rGe05fb5ca37] + + * dirmngr: Avoid caching expired certificates. [T6142] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6159 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.37 (2022-08-24) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: In de-vs mode use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 as implicit + preference. [T6043, T6063] + + * gpg: Actually show symmetric+pubkey encrypted data as de-vs + compliant. Add extra compliance checks for symkey_enc packets. + [T6119] + + * gpg: Request keygrip of key to be added via command-fd interface. + [T5771] + + * gpg: Look up user ID to revoke by UID hash. [T5936] + + * gpg: Fix wrong error message for "keytocard". [T6122] + + * gpg: --card-status shows the application type for non-openpgp + cards again. [rG8e393e2592] + + * gpg: The options --auto-key-import and --include-key-block are + again listed by gpgconf. [T6138] + + * gpgsm: New option --compatibility-flags. [rG77b6896f7a] + + * agent: New options --no-user-trustlist and --sys-trustlist-name. + [T5990] + + * agent: Track and update the Display-S/N of cards so that the + "please insert card" prompt may now show more information. Use + "gpg --card-status" to update stored card meta data. [T6135] + + * scd:openpgp: Fix problem with ECC algorithm attributes on + Yubikeys. [rG225c66f13b87] + + * scd:openpgp: Fix problem with Yubikey 5.4 firmware. [T6070] + + * dirmngr: Ask keyservers to provide the key fingerprints. [T5741] + + * ssh: Allow authentication as used by OpenSSH's PQ crypto support. + [T5935] + + * wkd: Fix path traversal attack in gpg-wks-server. Add the mail + address to the pending request data. [rGc1489ca0e1, T6098] + + * gpgconf: Improve registry dumping. [rG6bc9592318] + + * Silence warnings from AllowSetForegroundWindow. [rG6583abedf3] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6105 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.36 (2022-07-06) +------------------------------------------------- + + * g10: Fix possibly garbled status messages in NOTATION_DATA. This + bug could trick GPGME and other parsers to accept faked status + lines. [T6027, CVE-2022-34903] + + * gpg: Handle leading zeroes in Ed25519 private keys and reverse + change regarding Ed25519 SOS encoding as introduced with 2.2.34. + [T5120] + + * gpg: Allow Unicode file names for iobuf_cancel under Windows. + + * gpgsm: Improve pkcs#12 import. [T6037,T5793,T4921,T4757] + + * scd,p15: Fix reading certificates w/o length info. + + * scd,p15: Improve the displayed S/N for Technology Nexus cards. + + * scd,openpgp: Add workaround for ECC attribute on Yubikey. [T5963] + + * scd: Fix use of SCardListReaders for PC/SC. [T5979] + + * gpgconf: New short options -X and -V. + + * Make sure to always set CONFIDENTIAL flag in Assuan. [T5977] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5949 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.35 (2022-04-25) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg,gpgsm: New option --require-compliance. [17890d4318] + + * gpgtar: New option --with-log. [rGce69d55f70] + + * gpg: Threefold decryption speedup for large files. + [T5820,rG9116fd1e9a] + + * gpgtar: Support file names longer than MAX_PATH. [rG5492079def] + + * scdaemon: Add support for GeNUA cards. [rG44ec383cde] + + * gpg: Allow decryption of symmetric encrypted data even for + non-compliant cipher. [rGe081a601f7] + + * gpg: Avoid possible race condition in --edit-card/factory-reset. + [T5831] + + * gpg: Emit an ERROR status as hint for a bad passphrase. [T5943] + + * gpg: Avoid NULL-ptr access due to corrupted packets. [T5940] + + * gpgsm: Fix parsing of certain PKCS#12 files. [T5793] + + * gpgtar: Use a pipe for decryption and thus avoid memory + exhaustion. [rGd431feb307] + + * scdaemon: Use extended mode for pkcs#15 already for rsa2048. + [rGa2db490de5] + + * dirmngr: Make WKD lookups work for resolvers not handling SRV + records. [T4729] + + * dirmngr: Escape more characters in WKD requests. [T5902] + + * gpgconf: Silence warnings from parsing the option files. [T5874] + + * Improve removing of stale lockfiles under Unix. [T5884] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5928 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.34 (2022-02-07) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpgconf: Backport the improved option reading and writing code + from 2.3. [rG7a3a1ef370,T4788] + + * gpgconf: Do not list ignored options and mark forced options as + read-only. [T5732] + + * gpgconf: Correctly show registry entries with --show-configs. + [T5724] + + * gpgconf: Add command aliases -L, -K, and -R. [rGf16c535eee] + + * gpgconf: Tweak the use of the ldapserver option. [T5801] + + * gpgconf: Make "--launch gpg-agent" work again. [rG5a7ed6dd8f] + + * gpg: Accept Ed25519 private keys in modernized encoding. [T5120] + + * gpg: Fix adding the list of ultimate trusted keys. [T5742] + + * gpgsm: New option --ignore-cert-with-oid. [rGbcf446b70c] + + * dirmngr: Avoid initial delay on the first keyserver access in + presence of --no-use-tor. [rGdde88897e2] + + * scdaemon: Also prefer Yubikeys if no reader port is given. + [rG38c666ec3f] + + * agent: Make missing strings translatable and update German and + Japanese translations. [T4777] + + * ssh: Fix adding an ed25519 key with a zero length comment. [T5794] + + * gpgtar: Create and handle extended headers to support long file + names. [T5754] + + * Fix the creation of socket directories under Windows for non-ascii + account names. [rG7d1215cb9c] + + * Improve the registry HKCU->HKLM fallback. [rG96db487a4d] + + * Prettify the --help output of most commands. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5703 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2022q1/000470.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.33 (2021-11-23) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New option --min-rsa-length. [rG6ee01c1d26] + + * gpg: New option --forbid-gen-key. [rG985fb25c46] + + * gpg: New option --override-compliance-check. [T5655] + + * gpgconf: New command --show-configs. [rG8fe3f57643] + + * agent,dirmngr: New option --steal-socket. [rG6507c6ab10] + + * scd: Improve the selection of the default PC/SC reader. [T5644] + + * gpg: Fix printing of binary notations. [T5667] + + * gpg: Remove stale ultimately trusted keys from the trustdb. [T5685] + + * gpgsm: Detect circular chains in --list-chain. [rGc9343bec83] + + * gpgconf: Create the local option file even if the global file + exists. [T5650] + + * dirmngr: Make reading resolv.conf more robust. [T5657] + + * gpg-wks-server: Fix created file permissions. [rGf54feb4470] + + * scd: Support longer data for ssh-agent authentication with openpgp + cards. [T5682] + + * Support gpgconf.ctl for NetBSD and Solaris. [T5656,T5671] + + * Silence "Garbled console data" warning under Windows in most + cases. + + * Silence warning about the rootdir under Unices w/o a mounted /proc + file system. + + * Fix possible build problems about missing include files. [T5592] + + * i18n: Replace the term "PIN-Cache" by "Passswort-Cache" in the + German translation. [rgf453d52e53] + + * i18n: Update the Russian translation. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5641 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q4/000467.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.32 (2021-10-06) +------------------------------------------------- + + * dirmngr: Fix Let's Encrypt certificate chain validation. [T5639] + + * dirmngr: New option --ignore-cert. [323a20399d] + + * gpg: Fix --list-packets for AEAD packets with unknown key. [T5584] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5601 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q4/000465.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.31 (2021-09-15) +------------------------------------------------- + + * agent: Fix a regression in GET_PASSPHRASE. [#5577] + + * scd: Fix an assertion failure in close_pcsc_reader. [67e1834ad4] + + * scd: Add support for PC/SC in "GETINFO reader_list". + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5571 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q3/000464.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.30 (2021-08-26) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Extended gpg-check-pattern to support accept rules, + conjunctions, and case-sensitive matching. [5ca15e58b2] + + * agent: New option --pinentry-formatted-passphrase. [#5553] + + * agent: New option --check-sym-passphrase-pattern. [#5517] + + * agent: Use the sysconfdir for the pattern files. [5ed8e598fa] + + * agent: Add "checkpin" inquiry for use by pinentry. [#5532] + + * wkd: Fix client issue with leading or trailing spaces in + user-ids. [576e429d41] + + * Pass XDG_SESSION_TYPE and QT_QPA_PLATFORM envvars to Pinentry. + [#3659] + + * Under Windows use LOCAL_APPDATA for the socket directory. [#5537] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5519 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q3/000463.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.29 (2021-07-04) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Fix regression in 2.2.28 for Yubikey NEO. [#5487] + + * Change the default keyserver to keyserver.ubuntu.com. This is a + temporary change due to the shutdown of the SKS keyserver pools. + [47c4e3e00a] + + * gpg: Let --fetch-key return an exit code on failure. [#5376] + + * dirmngr: Fix regression in KS_GET for mail address pattern. + [#5497] + + * Add fallback in case the Windows console can't cope with Unicode. + [#5491] + + * Improve initialization of SPR532 in the CCID driver and make the + driver more robust. [#5297,b90c55fa66db] + + * Make test suite work in presence of a broken Libgcrypt + installation. [#5502] + + * Make configure option --disable-ldap work again. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5498 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q3/000461.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.28 (2021-06-10) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Auto import keys specified with --trusted-keys. + [e7251be84c79] + + * gpg: Allow decryption w/o public key but with correct card + inserted. [e53f6037283e] + + * gpg: Allow fingerprint based lookup with --locate-external-key. + [2af217ecd7e4] + + * gpg: Lookup a missing public key of the current card via LDAP. + [b59af0e2a05a] + + * gpg: New option --force-sign-key. [#4584] + + * gpg: Use a more descriptive password prompt for symmetric + decryption. [03f83bcda5d1] + + * gpg: Do not use the self-sigs-only option for LDAP keyserver + imports. [#5387] + + * gpg: Keep temp files when opening images via xdg-open. + [0441ed6e1c] + + * gpg: Fix mailbox based search via AKL keyserver method. + [22fe23f46d31] + + * gpg: Fix sending an OpenPGP key with umlaut to an LDAP keyserver. + [7bf8530e75d0] + + * gpg: Allow ECDH with a smartcard returning only the x-coordinate. + [b203325ce1] + + * gpgsm: New option --ldapserver as an alias for --keyserver. Note + that configuring servers in gpgsm and gpg is deprecated; please + use the dirmngr configuration options. + + * gpgsm: Support AES-GCM decryption. [b722fd755c77] + + * gpgsm: Support decryption of password protected files. + [6f31acac767f] + + * gpgsm: Lock keyboxes also during a search to fix lockups on + Windows. [#4505] + + * agent: Skip unknown unknown ssh curves seen on + cards. [bbf4bd3bfcb5] + + * scdaemon: New option --pcsc-shared. [5eec40f3d827] + + * scdaemon: Backport PKCS#15 card support from GnuPG 2.3 + [7637d39fe20e] + + * scdaemon: Fix CCID driver for SCM SPR332/SPR532. [#5297] + + * scdaemon: Fix possible PC/SC removed card problem. [9d83bfb63968] + + * scdaemon: Fix unblock PIN by a Reset Code with KDF. [#5413] + + * scdaemon: Support compressed points. [96577e2e46e4] + + * scdaemon: Prettify S/N for Yubikeys and fix reading for early + Yubikey 5 tokens. [f8588369bcb0,#5442] + + * dirmngr: New option --ldapserver to avoid the need for the + separate dirmngr_ldapservers.conf file. + + * dirmngr: The dirmngr_ldap wrapper has been rewritten to properly + support ldap-over-tls and starttls for X.509 certificates and + CRLs. [39815c023f03] + + * dirmngr: OpenPGP LDAP keyservers may now also be configured using + the same syntax as used for X.509 and CRL LDAP servers. This + avoids the former cumbersome quoting rules and adds a flexible set + of flags to control the connection. [2b4cddf9086f] + + * dirmngr: The "ldaps" scheme of an OpenPGP keyserver URL is now + interpreted as ldap-with-starttls on port 389. To use the + non-standardized ldap-over-tls the new LDAP configuration method + of the new attribute "gpgNtds" needs to be used. [55f46b33df08] + + * dirmngr: Return the fingerprint as search result also for LDAP + OpenPGP keyservers. This requires the modernized LDAP schema. + [#5441] + + * dirmngr: An OpenPGP LDAP search by a mailbox now ignores revoked + keys. [b6f8cd7eef4b] + + * gpgconf: Make runtime changes with non-default homedir work. + [c8f0b02936c7] + + * gpgconf: Do not translate an empty string to the PO file's meta + data. [#5363] + + * gpgconf: Fix argv overflow if --homedir is used. [#5366] + + * gpgconf: Return a new pseudo option "compliance_de_vs". + [9feffc03f364] + + * gpgtar: Fix file size computation under Windows. [198b240b1955] + + * Full Unicode support for the Windows command line. [#4398] + + * Fix problem with Windows Job objects and auto start of our + daemons. [#4333] + + * i18n: In German always use "Passwort" instead of "Passphrase" in + prompts. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5482 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q2/000460.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.27 (2021-01-11) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Fix regression in 2.2.24 for gnupg_remove function under + Windows. [#5230] + + * gpgconf: Fix case with neither local nor global gpg.conf. [9f37d3e6f3] + + * gpgconf: Fix description of two new options. [#5221] + + * Build Windows installer without timestamps. Note that the + Authenticode signatures still carry a timestamp. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5234 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2021q1/000452.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.26 (2020-12-21) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New AKL method "ntds". [559efd23e9] + + * gpg: Fix --trusted-key with fingerprint arg. [8a2e5025eb] + + * scd: Fix writing of ECC keys to an OpenPGP card. [#5163] + + * scd: Make an USB error fix specific to SPR532 readers. [#5167] + + * dirmngr: With new LDAP keyservers store the new attributes. Never + store the useless pgpSignerID. Fix a long standing bug storing + some keys on an ldap server. [0e88c73bc9,e47de85382] + + * dirmngr: Support the new Active Direcory LDAP schema for + keyservers. [ac8ece9266] + + * dirmngr: Allow LDAP OpenPGP searches via fingerprint. + [c75fd75532] + + * dirmngr: Do not block other threads during keyserver LDAP calls. + [15bfd189c0] + + * Support global configuration files. [#4788,a028f24136] + + * Fix the iconv fallback handling to UTF-8. [#5038] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5153 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q4/000451.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.25 (2020-11-23) +------------------------------------------------- + + * scd: Fix regression in 2.2.24 requiring gpg --card-status before + signing or decrypting. [#5065] + + * gpgsm: Using Libksba 1.5.0 signatures with a rarely used + combination of attributes can now be verified. [#5146] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5140 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q4/000450.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.24 (2020-11-17) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Allow Unicode file names on Windows almost everywhere. Note that + it is still not possible to use Unicode strings on the command + line. This change also fixes a regression in 2.2.22 related to + non-ascii file names. [#5098] + + * Fix localized time printing on Windows. [#5073] + + * gpg: New command --quick-revoke-sig. [#5093] + + * gpg: Do not use weak digest algos if selected by recipient + preference during sign+encrypt. [4c181d51a6] + + * gpg: Switch to AES256 for symmetric encryption in de-vs mode. + [166e779634] + + * gpg: Silence weak digest warnings with --quiet. [#4893] + + * gpg: Print new status line CANCELED_BY_USER for a cancel during + symmetric encryption. [f05d1772c4] + + * gpg: Fix the encrypt+sign hash algo preference selection for + ECDSA. This is in particular needed for keys created from + existing smartcard based keys. [aeed0b93ff] + + * agent: Fix secret key import of GnuPG 2.3 generated Ed25519 keys. + [#5114] + + * agent: Keep some permissions of private-keys-v1.d. [#2312] + + * dirmngr: Align sks-keyservers.netCA.pem use between ntbtls and + gnutls builds. [e4f3b74c91] + + * dirmngr: Fix the pool keyserver case for a single host in the + pool. [72e04b03b1a7] + + * scd: Fix the use case of verify_chv2 by CHECKPIN. [61aea64b3c] + + * scd: Various improvements to the ccid-driver. [#4616,#5065] + + * scd: Minor fixes for Yubikey [25bec16d0b] + + * gpgconf: New option --show-versions. + + * w32: Install gpg-check-pattern and example profiles. Install + Windows subsystem variant of gpgconf (gpgconf-w32). + + * i18n: Complete overhaul and completion of the Italian translation. + Thanks to Denis Renzi. + + * Require Libgcrypt 1.8 because 1.7 has long reached end-of-life. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5052 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q4/000449.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.23 (2020-09-03) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Fix AEAD preference list overflow. [#5050] + + * gpg: Fix a possible segv in the key cleaning code. + + * gpgsm: Fix a minor RFC2253 parser bug. [#5037] + + * scdaemon: Fix a PIN verify failure on certain OpenPGP card + implementations. Regression in 2.2.22. [#5039] + + * po: Fix bug in the Hungarian translation. Updates for the Czech, + Polish, and Ukrainian translations. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5045 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q3/000448.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.22 (2020-08-27) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Change the default key algorithm to rsa3072. + + * gpg: Add regular expression support for Trust Signatures on all + platforms. [#4843] + + * gpg: Fix regression in 2.2.21 with non-default --passphrase-repeat + option. [#4991] + + * gpg: Ignore --personal-digest-prefs for ECDSA keys. [#5021] + + * gpgsm: Make rsaPSS a de-vs compliant scheme. + + * gpgsm: Show also the SHA256 fingerprint in key listings. + + * gpgsm: Do not require a default keyring for --gpgconf-list. [#4867] + + * gpg-agent: Default to extended key format and record the creation + time of keys. Add new option --disable-extended-key-format. + + * gpg-agent: Support the WAYLAND_DISPLAY envvar. [#5016] + + * gpg-agent: Allow using --gpgconf-list even if HOME does not + exist. [#4866] + + * gpg-agent: Make the Pinentry work even if the envvar TERM is set + to the empty string. [#4137] + + * scdaemon: Add a workaround for Gnuk tokens <= 2.15 which wrongly + incremented the error counter when using the "verify" command of + "gpg --edit-key" with only the signature key being present. + + * dirmngr: Better handle systems with disabled IPv6. [#4977] + + * gpgpslit: Install tool. It was not installed in the past to avoid + conflicts with the version installed by GnuPG 1.4. [#5023] + + * gpgtar: Handle Unicode file names on Windows correctly (requires + libgpg-error 1.39). [#4083] + + * gpgtar: Make --files-from and --null work as documented. [#5027] + + * Build the Windows installer with the new Ntbtls 0.2.0 so that TLS + connections succeed for servers demanding GCM. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5030 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q3/000447.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.21 (2020-07-09) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Improve symmetric decryption speed by about 25%. + See commit 144b95cc9d. + + * gpg: Support decryption of AEAD encrypted data packets. + + * gpg: Add option --no-include-key-block. [#4856] + + * gpg: Allow for extra padding in ECDH. [#4908] + + * gpg: Only a single pinentry is shown for symmetric encryption if + the pinentry supports this. [#4971] + + * gpg: Print a note if no keys are given to --delete-key. [#4959] + + * gpg,gpgsm: The ridiculous passphrase quality bar is not anymore + shown. [#2103] + + * gpgsm: Certificates without a CRL distribution point are now + considered valid without looking up a CRL. The new option + --enable-issuer-based-crl-check can be used to revert to the + former behaviour. + + * gpgsm: Support rsaPSS signature verification. [#4538] + + * gpgsm: Unless CRL checking is disabled lookup a missing issuer + certificate using the certificate's authorityInfoAccess. [#4898] + + * gpgsm: Print the certificate's serial number also in decimal + notation. + + * gpgsm: Fix possible NULL-deref in messages of --gen-key. [#4895] + + * scd: Support the CardOS 5 based D-Trust Card 3.1. + + * dirmngr: Allow http URLs with "LOOKUP --url". + + * wkd: Take name of sendmail from configure. Fixes an OpenBSD + specific bug. [#4886] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4897 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q3/000446.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.20 (2020-03-20) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Protect the error counter against overflow to guarantee that the + tools can't be tricked into returning success after an error. + + * gpg: Make really sure that --verify-files always returns an error. + + * gpg: Fix key listing --with-secret if a pattern is given. [#4061] + + * gpg: Fix detection of certain keys used as default-key. [#4810] + + * gpg: Fix default-key selection when a card is available. [#4850] + + * gpg: Fix key expiration and key usage for keys created with a + creation date of zero. [4670] + + * gpgsm: Fix import of some CR,LF terminated certificates. [#4847] + + * gpg: New options --include-key-block and --auto-key-import to + allow encrypted replies after an initial signed message. [#4856] + + * gpg: Allow the use of a fingerprint with --trusted-key. [#4855] + + * gpg: New property "fpr" for use by --export-filter. + + * scdaemon: Disable the pinpad if a KDF DO is used. [#4832] + + * dirmngr: Improve finding OCSP certificates. [#4536] + + * Avoid build problems with LTO or gcc-10. [#4831] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4860 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2020q1/000444.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.19 (2019-12-07) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Fix double free when decrypting for hidden recipients. + Regression in 2.2.18. [#4762]. + + * gpg: Use auto-key-locate for encryption even for mail addressed + given with angle brackets. [#4726] + + * gpgsm: Add special case for certain expired intermediate + certificates. [#4696] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4768 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q4/000443.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.18 (2019-11-25) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Changed the way keys are detected on a smartcards; this + allows the use of non-OpenPGP cards. In the case of a not very + likely regression the new option --use-only-openpgp-card is + available. [#4681] + + * gpg: The commands --full-gen-key and --quick-gen-key now allow + direct key generation from supported cards. [#4681] + + * gpg: Prepare against chosen-prefix SHA-1 collisions in key + signatures. This change removes all SHA-1 based key signature + newer than 2019-01-19 from the web-of-trust. Note that this + includes all key signature created with dsa1024 keys. The new + option --allow-weak-key-signatues can be used to override the new + and safer behaviour. [#4755,CVE-2019-14855] + + * gpg: Improve performance for import of large keyblocks. [#4592] + + * gpg: Implement a keybox compression run. [#4644] + + * gpg: Show warnings from dirmngr about redirect and certificate + problems (details require --verbose as usual). + + * gpg: Allow to pass the empty string for the passphrase if the + '--passphase=' syntax is used. [#4633] + + * gpg: Fix printing of the KDF object attributes. + + * gpg: Avoid surprises with --locate-external-key and certain + --auto-key-locate settings. [#4662] + + * gpg: Improve selection of best matching key. [#4713] + + * gpg: Delete key binding signature when deleting a subkey. + [#4665,#4457] + + * gpg: Fix a potential loss of key signatures during import with + self-sigs-only active. [#4628] + + * gpg: Silence "marked as ultimately trusted" diagnostics if + option --quiet is used. [#4634] + + * gpg: Silence some diagnostics during in key listsing even with + option --verbose. [#4627] + + * gpg, gpgsm: Change parsing of agent's pkdecrypt results. [#4652] + + * gpgsm: Support AES-256 keys. + + * gpgsm: Fix a bug in triggering a keybox compression run if + --faked-system-time is used. + + * dirmngr: System CA certificates are no longer used for the SKS + pool if GNUTLS instead of NTBTLS is used as TLS library. [#4594] + + * dirmngr: On Windows detect usability of IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces + to avoid long timeouts. [#4165] + + * scd: Fix BWI value for APDU level transfers to make Gemalto Ezio + Shield and Trustica Cryptoucan work. [#4654,#4566] + + * wkd: gpg-wks-client --install-key now installs the required policy + file. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4684 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q4/000442.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.17 (2019-07-09) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Ignore all key-signatures received from keyservers. This + change is required to mitigate a DoS due to keys flooded with + faked key-signatures. The old behaviour can be achieved by adding + keyserver-options no-self-sigs-only,no-import-clean + to your gpg.conf. [#4607] + + * gpg: If an imported keyblocks is too large to be stored in the + keybox (pubring.kbx) do not error out but fallback to an import + using the options "self-sigs-only,import-clean". [#4591] + + * gpg: New command --locate-external-key which can be used to + refresh keys from the Web Key Directory or via other methods + configured with --auto-key-locate. + + * gpg: New import option "self-sigs-only". + + * gpg: In --auto-key-retrieve prefer WKD over keyservers. [#4595] + + * dirmngr: Support the "openpgpkey" subdomain feature from + draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-07. [#4590]. + + * dirmngr: Add an exception for the "openpgpkey" subdomain to the + CSRF protection. [#4603] + + * dirmngr: Fix endless loop due to http errors 503 and 504. [#4600] + + * dirmngr: Fix TLS bug during redirection of HKP requests. [#4566] + + * gpgconf: Fix a race condition when killing components. [#4577] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4606 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q3/000439.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.16 (2019-05-28) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg,gpgsm: Fix deadlock on Windows due to a keybox sharing + violation. [#4505] + + * gpg: Allow deletion of subkeys with --delete-key. This finally + makes the bang-suffix work as expected for that command. [#4457] + + * gpg: Replace SHA-1 by SHA-256 in self-signatures when updating + them with --quick-set-expire or --quick-set-primary-uid. [#4508] + + * gpg: Improve the photo image viewer selection. [#4334] + + * gpg: Fix decryption with --use-embedded-filename. [#4500] + + * gpg: Remove hints on using the --keyserver option. [#4512] + + * gpg: Fix export of certain secret keys with comments. [#4490] + + * gpg: Reject too long user-ids in --quick-gen-key. [#4532] + + * gpg: Fix a double free in the best key selection code. [#4462] + + * gpg: Fix the key generation dialog for switching back from EdDSA + to ECDSA. + + * gpg: Use AES-192 with SHA-384 to comply with RFC-6637. + + * gpg: Use only the addrspec from the Signer's UID subpacket to + mitigate a problem with another implementation. + + * gpg: Skip invalid packets during a keyring listing and sync + diagnostics with the output. + + * gpgsm: Avoid confusing diagnostic when signing with the default + key. [#4535] + + * agent: Do not delete any secret key in --dry-run mode. + + * agent: Fix failures on 64 bit big-endian boxes related to URIs in + a keyfile. [#4501] + + * agent: Stop scdaemon after a reload with disable-scdaemon newly + configured. [#4326] + + * dirmngr: Improve caching algorithm for WKD domains. + + * dirmngr: Support other hash algorithms than SHA-1 for OCSP. [#3966] + + * gpgconf: Make --homedir work for --launch. [#4496] + + * gpgconf: Before --launch check for a valid config file. [#4497] + + * wkd: Do not import more than 5 keys from one WKD address. + + * wkd: Accept keys which are stored in armored format in the + directory. + + * The installer for Windows now comes with signed binaries. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4509 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q2/000438.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.15 (2019-03-26) +------------------------------------------------- + + * sm: Fix --logger-fd and --status-fd on Windows for non-standard + file descriptors. + + * sm: Allow decryption even if expired keys are configured. [#4431] + + * agent: Change command KEYINFO to print ssh fingerprints with other + hash algos. + + * dirmngr: Fix build problems on Solaris due to the use of reserved + symbol names. [#4420] + + * wkd: New commands --print-wkd-hash and --print-wkd-url for + gpg-wks-client. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4434 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q1/000436.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.14 (2019-03-19) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Allow import of PGP desktop exported secret keys. Also avoid + importing secret keys if the secret keyblock is not valid. [#4392] + + * gpg: Do not error out on version 5 keys in the local keyring. + + * gpg: Make invalid primary key algo obvious in key listings. + + * sm: Do not mark a certificate in a key listing as de-vs compliant + if its use for a signature will not be possible. + + * sm: Fix certificate creation with key on card. + + * sm: Create rsa3072 bit certificates by default. + + * sm: Print Yubikey attestation extensions with --dump-cert. + + * agent: Fix cancellation handling for scdaemon. + + * agent: Support --mode=ssh option for CLEAR_PASSPHRASE. [#4340] + + * scd: Fix flushing of the CA-FPR DOs in app-openpgp. + + * scd: Avoid a conflict error with the "undefined" app. + + * dirmngr: Add CSRF protection exception for protonmail. + + * dirmngr: Fix build problems with gcc 9 in libdns. + + * gpgconf: New option --show-socket for use with --launch. + + * gpgtar: Make option -C work for archive creation. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4412 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q1/000435.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.13 (2019-02-12) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Implement key lookup via keygrip (using the & prefix). + + * gpg: Allow generating Ed25519 key from existing key. + + * gpg: Emit an ERROR status line if no key was found with -k. + + * gpg: Stop early when trying to create a primary Elgamal key. [#4329] + + * gpgsm: Print the card's key algorithms along with their keygrips + in interactive key generation. + + * agent: Clear bogus pinentry cache in the error case. [#4348] + + * scd: Support "acknowledge button" feature. + + * scd: Fix for USB INTERRUPT transfer. [#4308] + + * wks: Do no use compression for the the encrypted challenge and + response. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4290 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2019q1/000434.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.12 (2018-12-14) +------------------------------------------------- + + * tools: New commands --install-key and --remove-key for + gpg-wks-client. This allows to prepare a Web Key Directory on a + local file system for later upload to a web server. + + * gpg: New --list-option "show-only-fpr-mbox". This makes the use + of the new gpg-wks-client --install-key command easier on Windows. + + * gpg: Improve processing speed when --skip-verify is used. + + * gpg: Fix a bug where a LF was accidentally written to the console. + + * gpg: --card-status now shows whether a card has the new KDF + feature enabled. + + * agent: New runtime option --s2k-calibration=MSEC. New configure + option --with-agent-s2k-calibration=MSEC. [#3399] + + * dirmngr: Try another keyserver from the pool on receiving a 502, + 503, or 504 error. [#4175] + + * dirmngr: Avoid possible CSRF attacks via http redirects. A HTTP + query will not anymore follow a 3xx redirect unless the Location + header gives the same host. If the host is different only the + host and port is taken from the Location header and the original + path and query parts are kept. + + * dirmngr: New command FLUSHCRL to flush all CRLS from disk and + memory. [#3967] + + * New simplified Chinese translation (zh_CN). + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4289 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q4/000433.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.11 (2018-11-06) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpgsm: Fix CRL loading when intermediate certicates are not yet + trusted. + + * gpgsm: Fix an error message about the digest algo. [#4219] + + * gpg: Fix a wrong warning due to new sign usage check introduced + with 2.2.9. [#4014] + + * gpg: Print the "data source" even for an unsuccessful keyserver + query. + + * gpg: Do not store the TOFU trust model in the trustdb. This + allows to enable or disable a TOFO model without triggering a + trustdb rebuild. [#4134] + + * scd: Fix cases of "Bad PIN" after using "forcesig". [#4177] + + * agent: Fix possible hang in the ssh handler. [#4221] + + * dirmngr: Tack the unmodified mail address to a WKD request. See + commit a2bd4a64e5b057f291a60a9499f881dd47745e2f for details. + + * dirmngr: Tweak diagnostic about missing LDAP server file. + + * dirmngr: In verbose mode print the OCSP responder id. + + * dirmngr: Fix parsing of the LDAP port. [#4230] + + * wks: Add option --directory/-C to the server. Always build the + server on Unix systems. + + * wks: Add option --with-colons to the client. Support sites which + use the policy file instead of the submission-address file. + + * Fix EBADF when gpg et al. are called by broken CGI scripts. + + * Fix some minor memory leaks and bugs. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4233 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q4/000432.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.10 (2018-08-30) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Refresh expired keys originating from the WKD. [#2917] + + * gpg: Use a 256 KiB limit for a WKD imported key. + + * gpg: New option --known-notation. [#4060] + + * scd: Add support for the Trustica Cryptoucan reader. + + * agent: Speed up starting during on-demand launching. [#3490] + + * dirmngr: Validate SRV records in WKD queries. + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4112 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q3/000428.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.9 (2018-07-12) +------------------------------------------------ + + * dirmngr: Fix recursive resolver mode and other bugs in the libdns + code. [#3374,#3803,#3610] + + * dirmngr: When using libgpg-error 1.32 or later a GnuPG build with + NTBTLS support (e.g. the standard Windows installer) does not + anymore block for dozens of seconds before returning data. + + * gpg: Fix bug in --show-keys which actually imported revocation + certificates. [#4017] + + * gpg: Ignore too long user-ID and comment packets. [#4022] + + * gpg: Fix crash due to bad German translation. Improved printf + format compile time check. + + * gpg: Handle missing ISSUER sub packet gracefully in the presence of + the new ISSUER_FPR. [#4046] + + * gpg: Allow decryption using several passphrases in most cases. + [#3795,#4050] + + * gpg: Command --show-keys now enables the list options + show-unusable-uids, show-unusable-subkeys, show-notations and + show-policy-urls by default. + + * gpg: Command --show-keys now prints revocation certificates. [#4018] + + * gpg: Add revocation reason to the "rev" and "rvs" records of the + option --with-colons. [#1173] + + * gpg: Export option export-clean does now remove certain expired + subkeys; export-minimal removes all expired subkeys. [#3622] + + * gpg: New "usage" property for the drop-subkey filters. [#4019] + + Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4036 + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q3/000427.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.8 (2018-06-08) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Decryption of messages not using the MDC mode will now lead + to a hard failure even if a legacy cipher algorithm was used. The + option --ignore-mdc-error can be used to turn this failure into a + warning. Take care: Never use that option unconditionally or + without a prior warning. + + * gpg: The MDC encryption mode is now always used regardless of the + cipher algorithm or any preferences. For testing --rfc2440 can be + used to create a message without an MDC. + + * gpg: Sanitize the diagnostic output of the original file name in + verbose mode. [#4012,CVE-2018-12020] + + * gpg: Detect suspicious multiple plaintext packets in a more + reliable way. [#4000] + + * gpg: Fix the duplicate key signature detection code. [#3994] + + * gpg: The options --no-mdc-warn, --force-mdc, --no-force-mdc, + --disable-mdc and --no-disable-mdc have no more effect. + + * gpg: New command --show-keys. + + * agent: Add DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and a few other envvars to the + list of startup environment variables. [#3947] + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q2/000425.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.7 (2018-05-02) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: New option --no-symkey-cache to disable the passphrase cache + for symmetrical en- and decryption. + + * gpg: The ERRSIG status now prints the fingerprint if that is part + of the signature. + + * gpg: Relax emitting of FAILURE status lines + + * gpg: Add a status flag to "sig" lines printed with --list-sigs. + + * gpg: Fix "Too many open files" when using --multifile. [#3951] + + * ssh: Return an error for unknown ssh-agent flags. [#3880] + + * dirmngr: Fix a regression since 2.1.16 which caused corrupted CRL + caches under Windows. [#2448,#3923] + + * dirmngr: Fix a CNAME problem with pools and TLS. Also use a fixed + mapping of keys.gnupg.net to sks-keyservers.net. [#3755] + + * dirmngr: Try resurrecting dead hosts earlier (from 3 to 1.5 hours). + + * dirmngr: Fallback to CRL if no default OCSP responder is configured. + + * dirmngr: Implement CRL fetching via https. Here a redirection to + http is explictly allowed. + + * dirmngr: Make LDAP searching and CRL fetching work under Windows. + This stopped working with 2.1. [#3937] + + * agent,dirmngr: New sub-command "getenv" for "getinfo" to ease + debugging. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q2/000424.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.6 (2018-04-09) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg,gpgsm: New option --request-origin to pretend requests coming + from a browser or a remote site. + + * gpg: Fix race condition on trustdb.gpg updates due to too early + released lock. [#3839] + + * gpg: Emit FAILURE status lines in almost all cases. [#3872] + + * gpg: Implement --dry-run for --passwd to make checking a key's + passphrase straightforward. + + * gpg: Make sure to only accept a certification capable key for key + signatures. [#3844] + + * gpg: Better user interaction in --card-edit for the factory-reset + sub-command. + + * gpg: Improve changing key attributes in --card-edit by adding an + explicit "key-attr" sub-command. [#3781] + + * gpg: Print the keygrips in the --card-status. + + * gpg: Improve the OpenPGP card's factory-reset. [7f765a98fd] + + * scd: Support KDF DO setup. [#3823] + + * scd: Fix some issues with PC/SC on Windows. [#3825] + + * scd: Fix suspend/resume handling in the CCID driver. + + * scd: Fix a race condition in the CCID driver leading to a segv for + some readers. [#5121] + + * agent: Evict cached passphrases also via a timer. [#3829] + + * agent: Use separate passphrase caches depending on the request + origin. [#3858] + + * ssh: Support signature flags. [#3880] + + * dirmngr: Handle failures related to missing IPv6 support + gracefully. [#3331] + + * Fix corner cases related to specified home directory with + drive letter on Windows. [#3720] + + * Allow the use of UNC directory names as homedir. [#3818] + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q2/000421.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.5 (2018-02-22) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Allow the use of the "cv25519" and "ed25519" short names in + addition to the canonical curve names in --batch --gen-key. + + * gpg: Make sure to print all secret keys with option --list-only + and --decrypt. [#3718] + + * gpg: Fix the use of future-default with --quick-add-key for + signing keys. [#3747] + + * gpg: Select a secret key by checking availability under gpg-agent. + [#1967] + + * gpg: Fix reversed prompt texts for --only-sign-text-ids. [#3787] + + * gpg,gpgsm: Fix detection of bogus keybox blobs on 32 bit systems. + [#3770] + + * gpgsm: Fix regression since 2.1 in --export-secret-key-raw which + got $d mod (q-1)$ wrong. Note that most tools automatically fixup + that parameter anyway. + + * ssh: Fix a regression in getting the client'd PID on *BSD and + macOS. + + * scd: Support the KDF Data Object of the OpenPGP card 3.3. [#3152] + + * scd: Fix a regression in the internal CCID driver for certain card + readers. [#3508] + + * scd: Fix a problem on NetBSD killing scdaemon on gpg-agent + shutdown. [#3778] + + * dirmngr: Improve returned error description on failure of DNS + resolving. [#3756] + + * wks: Implement command --install-key for gpg-wks-server. + + * Add option STATIC=1 to the Speedo build system to allow a build + with statically linked versions of the core GnuPG libraries. Also + use --enable-wks-tools by default by Speedo builds for Unix. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2018q1/000420.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.4 (2017-12-20) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Change default preferences to prefer SHA512. + + * gpg: Print a warning when more than 150 MiB are encrypted using a + cipher with 64 bit block size. + + * gpg: Print a warning if the MDC feature has not been used for a + message. + + * gpg: Fix regular expression of domain addresses in trust + signatures. [#2923] + + * agent: New option --auto-expand-secmem to help with high numbers + of concurrent connections. Requires libgcrypt 1.8.2 for having + an effect. [#3530] + + * dirmngr: Cache responses of WKD queries. + + * gpgconf: Add option --status-fd. + + * wks: Add commands --check and --remove-key to gpg-wks-server. + + * Increase the backlog parameter of the daemons to 64 and add + option --listen-backlog. + + * New configure option --enable-run-gnupg-user-socket to first try a + socket directory which is not removed by systemd at session end. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q4/000419.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.3 (2017-11-20) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpgsm: Fix initial keybox creation on Windows. [#3507] + + * dirmngr: Fix crash in case of a CRL loading error. [#3510] + + * Fix the name of the Windows registry key. [Git#4f5afaf1fd] + + * gpgtar: Fix wrong behaviour of --set-filename. [#3500] + + * gpg: Silence AKL retrieval messages. [#3504] + + * agent: Use clock or clock_gettime for calibration. [#3056] + + * agent: Improve robustness of the shutdown pending + state. [Git#7ffedfab89] + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q4/000417.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.2 (2017-11-07) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Avoid duplicate key imports by concurrently running gpg + processes. [#3446] + + * gpg: Fix creating on-disk subkey with on-card primary key. [#3280] + + * gpg: Fix validity retrieval for multiple keyrings. [Debian#878812] + + * gpg: Fix --dry-run and import option show-only for secret keys. + + * gpg: Print "sec" or "sbb" for secret keys with import option + import-show. [#3431] + + * gpg: Make import less verbose. [#3397] + + * gpg: Add alias "Key-Grip" for parameter "Keygrip" and new + parameter "Subkey-Grip" to unattended key generation. [#3478] + + * gpg: Improve "factory-reset" command for OpenPGP cards. [#3286] + + * gpg: Ease switching Gnuk tokens into ECC mode by using the magic + keysize value 25519. + + * gpgsm: Fix --with-colon listing in crt records for fields > 12. + + * gpgsm: Do not expect X.509 keyids to be unique. [#1644] + + * agent: Fix stucked Pinentry when using --max-passphrase-days. [#3190] + + * agent: New option --s2k-count. [#3276 (workaround)] + + * dirmngr: Do not follow https-to-http redirects. [#3436] + + * dirmngr: Reduce default LDAP timeout from 100 to 15 seconds. [#3487] + + * gpgconf: Ignore non-installed components for commands + --apply-profile and --apply-defaults. [#3313] + + * Add configure option --enable-werror. [#2423] + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q4/000416.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.1 (2017-09-19) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Fix formatting of the user id in batch mode key generation + if only "name-email" is given. + + * gpgv: Fix annoying "not suitable for" warnings. + + * wks: Convey only the newest user id to the provider. This is the + case if different names are used with the same addr-spec. + + * wks: Create a complying user id for provider policy mailbox-only. + + * wks: Add workaround for posteo.de. + + * scd: Fix the use of large ECC keys with an OpenPGP card. + + * dirmngr: Use system provided root certificates if no specific HKP + certificates are configured. If build with GNUTLS, this was + already the case. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000415.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.0 (2017-08-28) +------------------------------------------------ + + This is the new long term stable branch. This branch will only see + bug fixes and no new features. + + * gpg: Reverted change in 2.1.23 so that --no-auto-key-retrieve is + again the default. + + * Fixed a few minor bugs. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000413.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.23 (2017-08-09) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: "gpg" is now installed as "gpg" and not anymore as "gpg2". + If needed, the new configure option --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 can be + used to revert this. + + * gpg: Options --auto-key-retrieve and --auto-key-locate "local,wkd" + are now used by default. Note: this enables keyserver and Web Key + Directory operators to notice when a signature from a locally + non-available key is being verified for the first time or when + you intend to encrypt to a mail address without having the key + locally. This new behaviour will eventually make key discovery + much easier and mostly automatic. Disable this by adding + no-auto-key-retrieve + auto-key-locate local + to your gpg.conf. + + * agent: Option --no-grab is now the default. The new option --grab + allows to revert this. + + * gpg: New import option "show-only". + + * gpg: New option --disable-dirmngr to entirely disable network + access for gpg. + + * gpg,gpgsm: Tweaked DE-VS compliance behaviour. + + * New configure flag --enable-all-tests to run more extensive tests + during "make check". + + * gpgsm: The keygrip is now always printed in colon mode as + documented in the man page. + + * Fixed connection timeout problem under Windows. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000412.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.22 (2017-07-28) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Extend command --quick-set-expire to allow for setting the + expiration time of subkeys. + + * gpg: By default try to repair keys during import. New sub-option + no-repair-keys for --import-options. + + * gpg,gpgsm: Improved checking and reporting of DE-VS compliance. + + * gpg: New options --key-origin and --with-key-origin. Store the + time of the last key update from keyservers, WKD, or DANE. + + * agent: New option --ssh-fingerprint-digest. + + * dimngr: Lower timeouts on keyserver connection attempts and made + it configurable. + + * dirmngr: Tor will now automatically be detected and used. The + option --no-use-tor disables Tor detection. + + * dirmngr: Now detects a changed /etc/resolv.conf. + + * agent,dirmngr: Initiate shutdown on removal of the GnuPG home + directory. + + * gpg: Avoid caching passphrase for failed symmetric encryption. + + * agent: Support for unprotected ssh keys. + + * dirmngr: Fixed name resolving on systems using only v6 + nameservers. + + * dirmngr: Allow the use of TLS over http proxies. + + * w32: Change directory of the daemons after startup. + + * wks: New man pages for client and server. + + * Many other bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q3/000411.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.21 (2017-05-15) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg,gpgsm: Fix corruption of old style keyring.gpg files. This + bug was introduced with version 2.1.20. Note that the default + pubring.kbx format was not affected. + + * gpg,dirmngr: Removed the skeleton config file support. The + system's standard methods for providing default configuration + files should be used instead. + + * w32: The Windows installer now allows installation of GnuPG + without Administrator permissions. + + * gpg: Fixed import filter property match bug. + + * scd: Removed Linux support for Cardman 4040 PCMCIA reader. + + * scd: Fixed some corner case bugs in resume/suspend handling. + + * Many minor bug fixes and code cleanup. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q2/000405.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.20 (2017-04-03) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New properties 'expired', 'revoked', and 'disabled' for the + import and export filters. + + * gpg: New command --quick-set-primary-uid. + + * gpg: New compliance field for the --with-colon key listing. + + * gpg: Changed the key parser to generalize the processing of local + meta data packets. + + * gpg: Fixed assertion failure in the TOFU trust model. + + * gpg: Fixed exporting of zero length user ID packets. + + * scd: Improved support for multiple readers. + + * scd: Fixed timeout handling for key generation. + + * agent: New option --enable-extended-key-format. + + * dirmngr: Do not add a keyserver to a new dirmngr.conf. Dirmngr + uses a default keyserver. + + * dimngr: Do not treat TLS warning alerts as severe error when + building with GNUTLS. + + * dirmngr: Actually take /etc/hosts in account. + + * wks: Fixed client problems on Windows. Published keys are now set + to world-readable. + + * tests: Fixed creation of temporary directories. + + * A socket directory for a non standard GNUGHOME is now created on + the fly under /run/user. Thus "gpgconf --create-socketdir" is now + optional. The use of "gpgconf --remove-socketdir" to clean up + obsolete socket directories is however recommended to avoid + cluttering /run/user with useless directories. + + * Fixed build problems on some platforms. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q2/000404.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.19 (2017-03-01) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Print a warning if Tor mode is requested but the Tor daemon + is not running. + + * gpg: New status code DECRYPTION_KEY to print the actual private + key used for decryption. + + * gpgv: New options --log-file and --debug. + + * gpg-agent: Revamp the prompts to ask for card PINs. + + * scd: Support for multiple card readers. + + * scd: Removed option --debug-disable-ticker. Ticker is used + only when it is required to watch removal of device/card. + + * scd: Improved detection of card inserting and removal. + + * dirmngr: New option --disable-ipv4. + + * dirmngr: New option --no-use-tor to explicitly disable the use of + Tor. + + * dirmngr: The option --allow-version-check is now required even if + the option --use-tor is also used. + + * dirmngr: Handle a missing nsswitch.conf gracefully. + + * dirmngr: Avoid PTR lookups for keyserver pools. The are only done + for the debug command "keyserver --hosttable". + + * dirmngr: Rework the internal certificate cache to support classes + of certificates. Load system provided certificates on startup. + Add options --tls, --no-crl, and --systrust to the "VALIDATE" + command. + + * dirmngr: Add support for the ntbtls library. + + * wks: Create mails with a "WKS-Phase" header. Fix detection of + Draft-2 mode. + + * The Windows installer is now build with limited TLS support. + + * Many other bug fixes and new regression tests. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q1/000402.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.18 (2017-01-23) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Remove bogus subkey signature while cleaning a key (with + export-clean, import-clean, or --edit-key's sub-command clean) + + * gpg: Allow freezing the clock with --faked-system-time. + + * gpg: New --export-option flag "backup", new --import-option flag + "restore". + + * gpg-agent: Fixed long delay due to a regression in the progress + callback code. + + * scd: Lots of code cleanup and internal changes. + + * scd: Improved the internal CCID driver. + + * dirmngr: Fixed problem with the DNS glue code (removal of the + trailing dot in domain names). + + * dirmngr: Make sure that Tor is actually enabled after changing the + conf file and sending SIGHUP or "gpgconf --reload dirmngr". + + * dirmngr: Fixed Tor access to IPv6 addresses. Note that current + versions of Tor may require that the flag "IPv6Traffic" is used + with the option "SocksPort" in torrc to actually allow IPv6 + traffic. + + * dirmngr: Fixed HKP for literally given IPv6 addresses. + + * dirmngr: Enabled reverse DNS lookups via Tor. + + * dirmngr: Added experimental SRV record lookup for WKD. + See commit 88dc3af3d4ae1afe1d5e136bc4c38bc4e7d4cd10 for details. + + * dirmngr: For HKP use "pgpkey-hkps" and "pgpkey-hkp" in SRV record + lookups. Avoid SRV record lookup when a port is explicitly + specified. This fixes a regression from the 1.4 and 2.0 behavior. + + * dirmngr: Gracefully handle a missing /etc/nsswitch.conf. Ignore + negation terms (e.g. "[!UNAVAIL=return]" instead of bailing out. + + * dirmngr: Better debug output for flags "dns" and "network". + + * dirmngr: On reload mark all known HKP servers alive. + + * gpgconf: Allow keyword "all" for --launch, --kill, and --reload. + + * tools: gpg-wks-client now ignores a missing policy file on the + server. + + * Avoid unnecessary ambiguity error message in the option parsing. + + * Further improvements of the regression test suite. + + * Fixed building with --disable-libdns configure option. + + * Fixed a crash running the tests on 32 bit architectures. + + * Fixed spurious failures on BSD system in the spawn functions. + This affected for example gpg-wks-client and gpgconf. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2017q1/000401.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.17 (2016-12-20) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: By default new keys expire after 2 years. + + * gpg: New command --quick-set-expire to conveniently change the + expiration date of keys. + + * gpg: Option and command names have been changed for easier + comprehension. The old names are still available as aliases. + + * gpg: Improved the TOFU trust model. + + * gpg: New option --default-new-key-algo. + + * scd: Support OpenPGP card V3 for RSA. + + * dirmngr: Support for the ADNS library has been removed. Instead + William Ahern's Libdns is now source included and used on all + platforms. This enables Tor support on all platforms. The new + option --standard-resolver can be used to disable this code at + runtime. In case of build problems the new configure option + --disable-libdns can be used to build without Libdns. + + * dirmngr: Lazily launch ldap reaper thread. + + * tools: New options --check and --status-fd for gpg-wks-client. + + * The UTF-8 byte order mark is now skipped when reading conf files. + + * Fixed many bugs and regressions. + + * Major improvements to the test suite. For example it is possible + to run the external test suite of GPGME. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q4/000400.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.16 (2016-11-18) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New algorithm for selecting the best ranked public key when + using a mail address with -r, -R, or --locate-key. + + * gpg: New option --with-tofu-info to print a new "tfs" record in + colon formatted key listings. + + * gpg: New option --compliance as an alternative way to specify + options like --rfc2440, --rfc4880, et al. + + * gpg: Many changes to the TOFU implementation. + + * gpg: Improve usability of --quick-gen-key. + + * gpg: In --verbose mode print a diagnostic when a pinentry is + launched. + + * gpg: Remove code which warns for old versions of gnome-keyring. + + * gpg: New option --override-session-key-fd. + + * gpg: Option --output does now work with --verify. + + * gpgv: New option --output to allow saving the verified data. + + * gpgv: New option --enable-special-filenames. + + * agent, dirmngr: New --supervised mode for use by systemd and alike. + + * agent: By default listen on all available sockets using standard + names. + + * agent: Invoke scdaemon with --homedir. + + * dirmngr: On Linux now detects the removal of its own socket and + terminates. + + * scd: Support ECC key generation. + + * scd: Support more card readers. + + * dirmngr: New option --allow-version-check to download a software + version database in the background. + + * dirmngr: Use system provided CAs if no --hkp-cacert is given. + + * dirmngr: Use a default keyserver if none is explicitly set + + * gpgconf: New command --query-swdb to check software versions + against an copy of an online database. + + * gpgconf: Print the socket directory with --list-dirs. + + * tools: The WKS tools now support draft version -02. + + * tools: Always build gpg-wks-client and install under libexec. + + * tools: New option --supported for gpg-wks-client. + + * The log-file option now accepts a value "socket://" to log to the + socket named "S.log" in the standard socket directory. + + * Provide fake pinentries for use by tests cases of downstream + developers. + + * Fixed many bugs and regressions. + + * Many changes and improvements for the test suite. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q4/000398.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.15 (2016-08-18) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Remove the --tofu-db-format option and support for the split + TOFU database. + + * gpg: Add option --sender to prepare for coming features. + + * gpg: Add option --input-size-hint to help progress indicators. + + * gpg: Extend the PROGRESS status line with the counted unit. + + * gpg: Avoid publishing the GnuPG version by default with --armor. + + * gpg: Properly ignore legacy keys in the keyring cache. + + * gpg: Always print fingerprint records in --with-colons mode. + + * gpg: Make sure that keygrips are printed for each subkey in + --with-colons mode. + + * gpg: New import filter "drop-sig". + + * gpgsm: Fix a bug in the machine-readable key listing. + + * gpg,gpgsm: Block signals during keyring updates to limits the + effects of a Ctrl-C at the wrong time. + + * g13: Add command --umount and other fixes for dm-crypt. + + * agent: Fix regression in SIGTERM handling. + + * agent: Cleanup of the ssh-agent code. + + * agent: Allow import of overly long keys. + + * scd: Fix problems with card removal. + + * dirmngr: Remove all code for running as a system service. + + * tools: Make gpg-wks-client conforming to the specs. + + * tests: Improve the output of the new regression test tool. + + * tests: Distribute the standalone test runner. + + * tests: Run each test in a clean environment. + + * Spelling and grammar fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q3/000396.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.14 (2016-07-14) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: Removed options --print-dane-records and --print-pka-records. + The new export options "export-pka" and "export-dane" can instead + be used with the export command. + + * gpg: New options --import-filter and --export-filter. + + * gpg: New import options "import-show" and "import-export". + + * gpg: New option --no-keyring. + + * gpg: New command --quick-revuid. + + * gpg: New options -f/--recipient-file and -F/--hidden-recipient-file + to directly specify encryption keys. + + * gpg: New option --mimemode to indicate that the content is a MIME + part. Does only enable --textmode right now. + + * gpg: New option --rfc4880bis to allow experiments with proposed + changes to the current OpenPGP specs. + + * gpg: Fix regression in the "fetch" sub-command of --card-edit. + + * gpg: Fix regression since 2.1 in option --try-all-secrets. + + * gpgv: Change default options for extra security. + + * gpgsm: No more root certificates are installed by default. + + * agent: "updatestartuptty" does now affect more environment + variables. + + * scd: The option --homedir does now work with scdaemon. + + * scd: Support some more GEMPlus card readers. + + * gpgtar: Fix handling of '-' as file name. + + * gpgtar: New commands --create and --extract. + + * gpgconf: Tweak for --list-dirs to better support shell scripts. + + * tools: Add programs gpg-wks-client and gpg-wks-server to implement + a Web Key Service. The configure option --enable-wks-tools is + required to build them; they should be considered Beta software. + + * tests: Complete rework of the openpgp part of the test suite. The + test scripts have been changed from Bourne shell scripts to Scheme + programs. A customized scheme interpreter (gpgscm) is included. + This change was triggered by the need to run the test suite on + non-Unix platforms. + + * The rendering of the man pages has been improved. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q3/000393.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.13 (2016-06-16) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New command --quick-addkey. Extend the --quick-gen-key + command. + + * gpg: New --keyid-format "none" which is now also the default. + + * gpg: New option --with-subkey-fingerprint. + + * gpg: Include Signer's UID subpacket in signatures if the secret key + has been specified using a mail address and the new option + --disable-signer-uid is not used. + + * gpg: Allow unattended deletion of a secret key. + + * gpg: Allow export of non-passphrase protected secret keys. + + * gpg: New status lines KEY_CONSIDERED and NOTATION_FLAGS. + + * gpg: Change status line TOFU_STATS_LONG to use '~' as + a non-breaking-space character. + + * gpg: Speedup key listings in Tofu mode. + + * gpg: Make sure that the current and total values of a PROGRESS + status line are small enough. + + * gpgsm: Allow the use of AES192 and SERPENT ciphers. + + * dirmngr: Adjust WKD lookup to current specs. + + * dirmngr: Fallback to LDAP v3 if v2 is is not supported. + + * gpgconf: New commands --create-socketdir and --remove-socketdir, + new option --homedir. + + * If a /run/user/$UID directory exists, that directory is now used + for IPC sockets instead of the GNUPGHOME directory. This fixes + problems with NFS and too long socket names and thus avoids the + need for redirection files. + + * The Speedo build systems now uses the new versions.gnupg.org server + to retrieve the default package versions. + + * Fix detection of libusb on FreeBSD. + + * Speedup fd closing after a fork. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q2/000390.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.12 (2016-05-04) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New --edit-key sub-command "change-usage" for testing + purposes. + + * gpg: Out of order key-signatures are now systematically detected + and fixed by --edit-key. + + * gpg: Improved detection of non-armored messages. + + * gpg: Removed the extra prompt needed to create Curve25519 keys. + + * gpg: Improved user ID selection for --quick-sign-key. + + * gpg: Use the root CAs provided by the system with --fetch-key. + + * gpg: Add support for the experimental Web Key Directory key + location service. + + * gpg: Improve formatting of Tofu messages and emit new Tofu specific + status lines. + + * gpgsm: Add option --pinentry-mode to support a loopback pinentry. + + * gpgsm: A new pubring.kbx is now created with the header blob so + that gpg can detect that the keybox format needs to be used. + + * agent: Add read support for the new private key protection format + openpgp-s2k-ocb-aes. + + * agent: Add read support for the new extended private key format. + + * agent: Default to --allow-loopback-pinentry and add option + --no-allow-loopback-pinentry. + + * scd: Changed to use the new libusb 1.0 API for the internal CCID + driver. + + * dirmngr: The dirmngr-client does now auto-detect the PEM format. + + * g13: Add experimental support for dm-crypt. + + * w32: Tofu support is now available with the Speedo build method. + + * w32: Removed the need for libiconv.dll. + + * The man pages for gpg and gpgv are now installed under the correct + name (gpg2 or gpg - depending on a configure option). + + * Lots of internal cleanups and bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q2/000387.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.11 (2016-01-26) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New command --export-ssh-key to replace the gpgkey2ssh tool. + + * gpg: Allow to generate mail address only keys with --gen-key. + + * gpg: "--list-options show-usage" is now the default. + + * gpg: Make lookup of DNS CERT records holding an URL work. + + * gpg: Emit PROGRESS status lines during key generation. + + * gpg: Don't check for ambigious or non-matching key specification in + the config file or given to --encrypt-to. This feature will return + in 2.3.x. + + * gpg: Lock keybox files while updating them. + + * gpg: Solve rare error on Windows during keyring and Keybox updates. + + * gpg: Fix possible keyring corruption. (bug#2193) + + * gpg: Fix regression of "bkuptocard" sub-command in --edit-key and + remove "checkbkupkey" sub-command introduced with 2.1. (bug#2169) + + * gpg: Fix internal error in gpgv when using default keyid-format. + + * gpg: Fix --auto-key-retrieve to work with dirmngr.conf configured + keyservers. (bug#2147). + + * agent: New option --pinentry-timeout. + + * scd: Improve unplugging of USB readers under Windows. + + * scd: Fix regression for generating RSA keys on card. + + * dirmmgr: All configured keyservers are now searched. + + * dirmngr: Install CA certificate for hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net. + Use this certiticate even if --hkp-cacert is not used. + + * gpgtar: Add actual encryption code. gpgtar does now fully replace + gpg-zip. + + * gpgtar: Fix filename encoding problem on Windows. + + * Print a warning if a GnuPG component is using an older version of + gpg-agent, dirmngr, or scdaemon. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2016q1/000383.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.10 (2015-12-04) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg: New trust models "tofu" and "tofu+pgp". + + * gpg: New command --tofu-policy. New options --tofu-default-policy + and --tofu-db-format. + + * gpg: New option --weak-digest to specify hash algorithms which + should be considered weak. + + * gpg: Allow the use of multiple --default-key options; take the last + available key. + + * gpg: New option --encrypt-to-default-key. + + * gpg: New option --unwrap to only strip the encryption layer. + + * gpg: New option --only-sign-text-ids to exclude photo IDs from key + signing. + + * gpg: Check for ambigious or non-matching key specification in the + config file or given to --encrypt-to. + + * gpg: Show the used card reader with --card-status. + + * gpg: Print export statistics and an EXPORTED status line. + + * gpg: Allow selecting subkeys by keyid in --edit-key. + + * gpg: Allow updating the expiration time of multiple subkeys at + once. + + * dirmngr: New option --use-tor. For full support this requires + libassuan version 2.4.2 and a patched version of libadns + (e.g. adns-1.4-g10-7 as used by the standard Windows installer). + + * dirmngr: New option --nameserver to specify the nameserver used in + Tor mode. + + * dirmngr: Keyservers may again be specified by IP address. + + * dirmngr: Fixed problems in resolving keyserver pools. + + * dirmngr: Fixed handling of premature termination of TLS streams so + that large numbers of keys can be refreshed via hkps. + + * gpg: Fixed a regression in --locate-key [since 2.1.9]. + + * gpg: Fixed another bug for keyrings with legacy keys. + + * gpgsm: Allow combinations of usage flags in --gen-key. + + * Make tilde expansion work with most options. + + * Many other cleanups and bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q4/000381.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.9 (2015-10-09) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Allow fetching keys via OpenPGP DANE (--auto-key-locate). New + option --print-dane-records. [Update: --print-dane-records replaced + in 2.1.4.] + + * gpg: Fix for a problem with PGP-2 keys in a keyring. + + * gpg: Fail with an error instead of a warning if a modern cipher + algorithm is used without a MDC. + + * agent: New option --pinentry-invisible-char. + + * agent: Always do a RSA signature verification after creation. + + * agent: Fix a regression in ssh-add-ing Ed25519 keys. + + * agent: Fix ssh fingerprint computation for nistp384 and EdDSA. + + * agent: Fix crash during passphrase entry on some platforms. + + * scd: Change timeout to fix problems with some 2.1 cards. + + * dirmngr: Displayed name is now Key Acquirer. + + * dirmngr: Add option --keyserver. Deprecate that option for gpg. + Install a dirmngr.conf file from a skeleton for new installations. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q4/000380.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.8 (2015-09-10) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Sending very large keys to the keyservers works again. + + * gpg: Validity strings in key listings are now again translatable. + + * gpg: Emit FAILURE status lines to help GPGME. + + * gpg: Does not anymore link to Libksba to reduce dependencies. + + * gpgsm: Export of secret keys via Assuan is now possible. + + * agent: Raise the maximum passphrase length from 100 to 255 bytes. + + * agent: Fix regression using EdDSA keys with ssh. + + * Does not anymore use a build timestamp by default. + + * The fallback encoding for broken locale settings changed + from Latin-1 to UTF-8. + + * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation. + + * Various minor bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q3/000379.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.7 (2015-08-11) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Support encryption with Curve25519 if Libgcrypt 1.7 is used. + + * gpg: In the --edit-key menu: Removed the need for "toggle", changed + how secret keys are indicated, new commands "fpr *" and "grip". + + * gpg: More fixes related to legacy keys in a keyring. + + * gpgv: Does now also work with a "trustedkeys.kbx" file. + + * scd: Support some feature from the OpenPGP card 3.0 specs. + + * scd: Improved ECC support + + * agent: New option --force for the DELETE_KEY command. + + * w32: Look for the Pinentry at more places. + + * Dropped deprecated gpgsm-gencert.sh + + * Various other bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q3/000371.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.6 (2015-07-01) +------------------------------------------------ + + * agent: New option --verify for the PASSWD command. + + * gpgsm: Add command option "offline" as an alternative to + --disable-dirmngr. + + * gpg: Do not prompt multiple times for a password in pinentry + loopback mode. + + * Allow the use of debug category names with --debug. + + * Using gpg-agent and gpg/gpgsm with different locales will now show + the correct translations in Pinentry. + + * gpg: Improve speed of --list-sigs and --check-sigs. + + * gpg: Make --list-options show-sig-subpackets work again. + + * gpg: Fix an export problem for old keyrings with PGP-2 keys. + + * scd: Support PIN-pads on more readers. + + * dirmngr: Properly cleanup zombie LDAP helper processes and avoid + hangs on dirmngr shutdown. + + * Various other bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q3/000370.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.5 (2015-06-11) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Support for an external passphrase cache. + + * Support for the forthcoming version 3 OpenPGP smartcard. + + * Manuals now show the actual used file names. + + * Prepared for improved integration with Emacs. + + * Code cleanups and minor bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q2/000369.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.4 (2015-05-12) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Add command --quick-adduid to non-interactively add a new user + id to an existing key. + + * gpg: Do no enable honor-keyserver-url by default. Make it work if + enabled. + + * gpg: Display the serial number in the --card-status output again. + + * agent: Support for external password managers. + Add option --no-allow-external-cache. + + * scdaemon: Improved handling of extended APDUs. + + * Make HTTP proxies work again. + + * All network access including DNS as been moved to Dirmngr. + + * Allow building without LDAP support. + + * Fixed lots of smaller bugs. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q2/000366.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.3 (2015-04-11) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: LDAP keyservers are now supported by 2.1. + + * gpg: New option --with-icao-spelling. + + * gpg: New option --print-pka-records. Changed the PKA method to use + CERT records and hashed names. [Update: --print-pka-records + replaced in 2.1.14.] + + * gpg: New command --list-gcrypt-config. New parameter "curve" + for --list-config. + + * gpg: Print a NEWSIG status line like gpgsm always did. + + * gpg: Print MPI values with --list-packets and --verbose. + + * gpg: Write correct MPI lengths with ECC keys. + + * gpg: Skip legacy PGP-2 keys while searching. + + * gpg: Improved searching for mail addresses when using a keybox. + + * gpgsm: Changed default algos to AES-128 and SHA-256. + + * gpgtar: Fixed extracting files with sizes of a multiple of 512. + + * dirmngr: Fixed SNI handling for hkps pools. + + * dirmngr: extra-certs and trusted-certs are now always loaded from + the sysconfig dir instead of the homedir. + + * Fixed possible problems due to compiler optimization, two minor + regressions, and other bugs. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q2/000365.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.2 (2015-02-11) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: The parameter 'Passphrase' for batch key generation works + again. + + * gpg: Using a passphrase option in batch mode now has the expected + effect on --quick-gen-key. + + * gpg: Improved reporting of unsupported PGP-2 keys. + + * gpg: Added support for algo names when generating keys using + --command-fd. + + * gpg: Fixed DoS based on bogus and overlong key packets. + + * agent: When setting --default-cache-ttl the value + for --max-cache-ttl is adjusted to be not lower than the former. + + * agent: Fixed problems with the new --extra-socket. + + * agent: Made --allow-loopback-pinentry changeable with gpgconf. + + * agent: Fixed importing of unprotected openpgp keys. + + * agent: Now tries to use a fallback pinentry if the standard + pinentry is not installed. + + * scd: Added support for ECDH. + + * Fixed several bugs related to bogus keyrings and improved some + other code. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2015q1/000361.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.1 (2014-12-16) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg: Detect faulty use of --verify on detached signatures. + + * gpg: New import option "keep-ownertrust". + + * gpg: New sub-command "factory-reset" for --card-edit. + + * gpg: A stub key for smartcards is now created by --card-status. + + * gpg: Fixed regression in --refresh-keys. + + * gpg: Fixed regresion in %g and %p codes for --sig-notation. + + * gpg: Fixed best matching hash algo detection for ECDSA and EdDSA. + + * gpg: Improved perceived speed of secret key listisngs. + + * gpg: Print number of skipped PGP-2 keys on import. + + * gpg: Removed the option aliases --throw-keyid and --notation-data; + use --throw-keyids and --set-notation instead. + + * gpg: New import option "keep-ownertrust". + + * gpg: Skip too large keys during import. + + * gpg,gpgsm: New option --no-autostart to avoid starting gpg-agent or + dirmngr. + + * gpg-agent: New option --extra-socket to provide a restricted + command set for use with remote clients. + + * gpgconf --kill does not anymore start a service only to kill it. + + * gpg-pconnect-agent: Add convenience option --uiserver. + + * Fixed keyserver access for Windows. + + * Fixed build problems on Mac OS X + + * The Windows installer does now install development files + + * More translations (but most of them are not complete). + + * To support remotely mounted home directories, the IPC sockets may + now be redirected. This feature requires Libassuan 2.2.0. + + * Improved portability and the usual bunch of bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2014q4/000360.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0 (2014-11-06) +------------------------------------------------ + + This release introduces a lot of changes. Most of them are internal + and thus not user visible. However, some long standing behavior has + slightly changed and it is strongly suggested that an existing + "~/.gnupg" directory is backed up before this version is used. + + A verbose description of the major new features and changes can be + found in the file doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt. + + * gpg: All support for v3 (PGP 2) keys has been dropped. All + signatures are now created as v4 signatures. v3 keys will be + removed from the keyring. + + * gpg: With pinentry-0.9.0 the passphrase "enter again" prompt shows + up in the same window as the "new passphrase" prompt. + + * gpg: Allow importing keys with duplicated long key ids. + + * dirmngr: May now be build without support for LDAP. + + * For a complete list of changes see the lists of changes for the + 2.1.0 beta versions below. Note that all relevant fixes from + versions 2.0.14 to 2.0.26 are also applied to this version. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta864 (2014-10-03)] + + * gpg: Removed the GPG_AGENT_INFO related code. GnuPG does now + always use a fixed socket name in its home directory. + + * gpg: Renamed --gen-key to --full-gen-key and re-added a --gen-key + command with less choices. + + * gpg: Use SHA-256 for all signature types also on RSA keys. + + * gpg: Default keyring is now created with a .kbx suffix. + + * gpg: Add a shortcut to the key capabilies menu (e.g. "=e" sets the + encryption capabilities). + + * gpg: Fixed obsolete options parsing. + + * Further improvements for the alternative speedo build system. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta834 (2014-09-18)] + + * gpg: Improved passphrase caching. + + * gpg: Switched to algorithm number 22 for EdDSA. + + * gpg: Removed CAST5 from the default preferences. + + * gpg: Order SHA-1 last in the hash preferences. + + * gpg: Changed default cipher for --symmetric to AES-128. + + * gpg: Fixed export of ECC keys and import of EdDSA keys. + + * dirmngr: Fixed the KS_FETCH command. + + * The speedo build system now downloads related packages and works + for non-Windows platforms. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta783 (2014-08-14)] + + * gpg: Add command --quick-gen-key. + + * gpg: Make --quick-sign-key promote local key signatures. + + * gpg: Added "show-usage" sub-option to --list-options. + + * gpg: Screen keyserver responses to avoid importing unwanted keys + from rogue servers. + + * gpg: Removed the option --pgp2 and --rfc1991 and the ability to + create PGP-2 compatible messages. + + * gpg: Removed options --compress-keys and --compress-sigs. + + * gpg: Cap attribute packets at 16MB. + + * gpg: Improved output of --list-packets. + + * gpg: Make with-colons output of --search-keys work again. + + * gpgsm: Auto-create the ".gnupg" directory like gpg does. + + * agent: Fold new passphrase warning prompts into one. + + * scdaemon: Add support for the Smartcard-HSM card. + + * scdaemon: Remove the use of the pcsc-wrapper. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta751 (2014-07-03)] + + * gpg: Create revocation certificates during key generation. + + * gpg: Create exported secret keys and revocation certifciates with + mode 0700 + + * gpg: The validity of user ids is now shown by default. To revert + this add "list-options no-show-uid-validity" to gpg.conf. + + * gpg: Make export of secret keys work again. + + * gpg: The output of --list-packets does now print the offset of the + packet and information about the packet header. + + * gpg: Avoid DoS due to garbled compressed data packets. [CVE-2014-4617] + + * gpg: Print more specific reason codes with the INV_RECP status. + + * gpg: Cap RSA and Elgamal keysize at 4096 bit also for unattended + key generation. + + * scdaemon: Support reader Gemalto IDBridge CT30 and pinpad of SCT + cyberJack go. + + * The speedo build system has been improved. It is now also possible + to build a partly working installer for Windows. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0-beta442 (2014-06-05)] + + * gpg: Changed the format of key listings. To revert to the old + format the option --legacy-list-mode is available. + + * gpg: Add experimental signature support using curve Ed25519 and + with a patched Libgcrypt also encryption support with Curve25519. + [Update: this encryption support has been removed from 2.1.0 until + we have agreed on a suitable format.] + + * gpg: Allow use of Brainpool curves. + + * gpg: Accepts a space separated fingerprint as user ID. This + allows to copy and paste the fingerprint from the key listing. + + * gpg: The hash algorithm is now printed for signature records in key + listings. + + * gpg: Reject signatures made using the MD5 hash algorithm unless the + new option --allow-weak-digest-algos or --pgp2 are given. + + * gpg: Print a warning if the Gnome-Keyring-Daemon intercepts the + communication with the gpg-agent. + + * gpg: New option --pinentry-mode. + + * gpg: Fixed decryption using an OpenPGP card. + + * gpg: Fixed bug with deeply nested compressed packets. + + * gpg: Only the major version number is by default included in the + armored output. + + * gpg: Do not create a trustdb file if --trust-model=always is used. + + * gpg: Protect against rogue keyservers sending secret keys. + + * gpg: The format of the fallback key listing ("gpg KEYFILE") is now + more aligned to the regular key listing ("gpg -k"). + + * gpg: The option--show-session-key prints its output now before the + decryption of the bulk message starts. + + * gpg: New %U expando for the photo viewer. + + * gpg,gpgsm: New option --with-secret. + + * gpgsm: By default the users are now asked via the Pinentry whether + they trust an X.509 root key. To prohibit interactive marking of + such keys, the new option --no-allow-mark-trusted may be used. + + * gpgsm: New commands to export a secret RSA key in PKCS#1 or PKCS#8 + format. + + * gpgsm: Improved handling of re-issued CA certificates. + + * agent: The included ssh agent does now support ECDSA keys. + + * agent: New option --enable-putty-support to allow gpg-agent on + Windows to act as a Pageant replacement with full smartcard support. + + * scdaemon: New option --enable-pinpad-varlen. + + * scdaemon: Various fixes for pinpad equipped card readers. + + * scdaemon: Rename option --disable-pinpad (was --disable-keypad). + + * scdaemon: Better support fo CCID readers. Now, internal CCID + driver supports readers with no auto configuration feature. + + * dirmngr: Removed support for the original HKP keyserver which is + not anymore used by any site. + + * dirmngr: Improved support for keyserver pools. + + * tools: New option --dirmngr for gpg-connect-agent. + + * The GNU Pth library has been replaced by the new nPth library. + + * Support installation as portable application under Windows. + + * All kind of other improvements - see the git log. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0beta3 (2011-12-20)] + + * gpg: Fixed regression in the secret key export function. + + * gpg: Allow generation of card keys up to 4096 bit. + + * gpgsm: Preliminary support for the validation model "steed". + + * gpgsm: Improved certificate creation. + + * agent: Support the SSH confirm flag. + + * agent: New option to select a passphrase mode. The loopback + mode may be used to bypass Pinentry. + + * agent: The Assuan commands KILLAGENT and KILLSCD are working again. + + * scdaemon: Does not anymore block after changing a card (regression + fix). + + * tools: gpg-connect-agent does now proberly display the help output + for "SCD HELP" commands. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0beta2 (2011-03-08)] + + * gpg: ECC support as described by draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc-06.txt + [Update: now known as RFC-6637]. + + * gpg: Print "AES128" instead of "AES". This change introduces a + little incompatibility for tools using "gpg --list-config". We + hope that these tools are written robust enough to accept this new + algorithm name as well. + + * gpgsm: New feature to create certificates from a parameter file. + Add prompt to the --gen-key UI to create self-signed certificates. + + * agent: TMPDIR is now also honored when creating a socket using + the --no-standard-socket option and with symcryptrun's temp files. + + * scdaemon: Fixed a bug where scdaemon sends a signal to gpg-agent + running in non-daemon mode. + + * dirmngr: Fixed CRL loading under W32 (bug#1010). + + * Dirmngr has taken over the function of the keyserver helpers. Thus + we now have a specified direct interface to keyservers via Dirmngr. + LDAP, DNS and mail backends are not yet implemented. + + * Fixed TTY management for pinentries and session variable update + problem. + + + [Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.0beta1 (2010-10-26)] + + * gpg: secring.gpg is not anymore used but all secret key operations + are delegated to gpg-agent. The import command moves secret keys + to the agent. + + * gpg: The OpenPGP import command is now able to merge secret keys. + + * gpg: Encrypted OpenPGP messages with trailing data (e.g. other + OpenPGP packets) are now correctly parsed. + + * gpg: Given sufficient permissions Dirmngr is started automagically. + + * gpg: Fixed output of "gpgconf --check-options". + + * gpg: Removed options --export-options(export-secret-subkey-passwd) + and --simple-sk-checksum. + + * gpg: New options --try-secret-key. + + * gpg: Support DNS lookups for SRV, PKA and CERT on W32. + + * gpgsm: The --audit-log feature is now more complete. + + * gpgsm: The default for --include-cert is now to include all + certificates in the chain except for the root certificate. + + * gpgsm: New option --ignore-cert-extension. + + * g13: The G13 tool for disk encryption key management has been + added. + + * agent: If the agent's --use-standard-socket option is active, all + tools try to start and daemonize the agent on the fly. In the past + this was only supported on W32; on non-W32 systems the new + configure option --disable-standard-socket may now be used to + disable this new default. + + * agent: New and changed passphrases are now created with an + iteration count requiring about 100ms of CPU work. + + * dirmngr: Dirmngr is now a part of this package. It is now also + expected to run as a system service and the configuration + directories are changed to the GnuPG name space. [Update: 2.1.0 + starts dirmngr on demand as user daemon.] + + * Support for Windows CE. [Update: This has not been tested for the + 2.1.0 release] + + * Numerical values may now be used as an alternative to the + debug-level keywords. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2014q4/000358.html + + +Version 2.0.28 (2015-06-02) +Version 2.0.27 (2015-02-18) +Version 2.0.26 (2014-08-12) +Version 2.0.25 (2014-06-30) +Version 2.0.24 (2014-06-24) +Version 2.0.23 (2014-06-03) +Version 2.0.22 (2013-10-04) +Version 2.0.21 (2013-08-19) +Version 2.0.20 (2013-05-10) +Version 2.0.19 (2012-03-27) +Version 2.0.18 (2011-08-04) +Version 2.0.17 (2011-01-13) +Version 2.0.16 (2010-07-19) +Version 2.0.15 (2010-03-09) +Version 2.0.14 (2009-12-21) + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.13 (2009-09-04) +------------------------------------------------- + + * GPG now generates 2048 bit RSA keys by default. The default hash + algorithm preferences has changed to prefer SHA-256 over SHA-1. + 2048 bit DSA keys are now generated to use a 256 bit hash algorithm + + * The envvars XMODIFIERS, GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE are now + passed to the Pinentry to make SCIM work. + + * The GPGSM command --gen-key features a --batch mode and implements + all features of gpgsm-gencert.sh in standard mode. + + * New option --re-import for GPGSM's IMPORT server command. + + * Enhanced writing of existing keys to OpenPGP v2 cards. + + * Add hack to the internal CCID driver to allow the use of some + Omnikey based card readers with 2048 bit keys. + + * GPG now repeatly asks the user to insert the requested OpenPGP + card. This can be disabled with --limit-card-insert-tries=1. + + * Minor bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q3/000294.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.12 (2009-06-17) +------------------------------------------------- + + * GPGSM now always lists ephemeral certificates if specified by + fingerprint or keygrip. + + * New command "KEYINFO" for GPG_AGENT. GPGSM now also returns + information about smartcards. + + * Made sure not to leak file descriptors if running gpg-agent with a + command. Restore the signal mask to solve a problem in Mono. + + * Changed order of the confirmation questions for root certificates + and store negative answers in trustlist.txt. + + * Better synchronization of concurrent smartcard sessions. + + * Support 2048 bit OpenPGP cards. + + * Support Telesec Netkey 3 cards. + + * The gpg-protect-tool now uses gpg-agent via libassuan. Under + Windows the Pinentry will now be put into the foreground. + + * Changed code to avoid a possible Mac OS X system freeze. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q2/000288.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.11 (2009-03-03) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Fixed a problem in SCDAEMON which caused unexpected card resets. + + * SCDAEMON is now aware of the Geldkarte. + + * The SCDAEMON option --allow-admin is now used by default. + + * GPGCONF now restarts SCdaemon if necessary. + + * The default cipher algorithm in GPGSM is now again 3DES. This is + due to interoperability problems with Outlook 2003 which still + can't cope with AES. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q1/000287.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.10 (2009-01-12) +------------------------------------------------- + + * [gpg] New keyserver helper gpg2keys_kdns as generic DNS CERT + lookup. Run with --help for a short description. Requires the + ADNS library. + + * [gpg] New mechanisms "local" and "nodefault" for --auto-key-locate. + Fixed a few problems with this option. + + * [gpg] New command --locate-keys. + + * [gpg] New options --with-sig-list and --with-sig-check. + + * [gpg] The option "-sat" is no longer an alias for --clearsign. + + * [gpg] The option --fixed-list-mode is now implicitly used and obsolete. + + * [gpg] New control statement %ask-passphrase for the unattended key + generation. + + * [gpg] The algorithm to compute the SIG_ID status has been changed. + + * [gpgsm] Now uses AES by default. + + * [gpgsm] Made --output option work with --export-secret-key-p12. + + * [gpg-agent] Terminate process if the own listening socket is not + anymore served by ourself. + + * [scdaemon] Made it more robust on W32. + + * [gpg-connect-agent] Accept commands given as command line arguments. + + * [w32] Initialized the socket subsystem for all keyserver helpers. + + * [w32] The sysconf directory has been moved from a subdirectory of + the installation directory to %CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA%/GNU/etc/gnupg. + + * [w32] The gnupg2.nls directory is not anymore used. The standard + locale directory is now used. + + * [w32] Fixed a race condition between gpg and gpgsm in the use of + temporary file names. + + * The gpg-preset-passphrase mechanism works again. An arbitrary + string may now be used for a custom cache ID. + + * Admin PINs are cached again (bug in 2.0.9). + + * Support for version 2 OpenPGP cards. + + * Libgcrypt 1.4 is now required. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2009q1/000284.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.9 (2008-03-26) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Gpgsm always tries to locate missing certificates from a running + Dirmngr's cache. + + * Tweaks for Windows. + + * The Admin PIN for OpenPGP cards may now be entered with the pinpad. + + * Improved certificate chain construction. + + * Extended the PKITS framework. + + * Fixed a bug in the ambigious name detection. + + * Fixed possible memory corruption while importing OpenPGP keys (bug + introduced with 2.0.8). [CVE-2008-1530] + + * Minor bug fixes. + + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.8 (2007-12-20) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Enhanced gpg-connect-agent with a small scripting language. + + * New option --list-config for gpgconf. + + * Fixed a crash in gpgconf. + + * Gpg-agent now supports the passphrase quality bar of the latest + Pinentry. + + * The envvars XAUTHORITY and PINENTRY_USER_DATA are now passed to the + Pinentry. + + * Fixed the auto creation of the key stub for smartcards. + + * Fixed a rare bug in decryption using the OpenPGP card. + + * Creating DSA2 keys is now possible. + + * New option --extra-digest-algo for gpgsm to allow verification of + broken signatures. + + * Allow encryption with legacy Elgamal sign+encrypt keys with option + --rfc2440. + + * Windows is now a supported platform. + + * Made sure that under Windows the file permissions of the socket are + taken into account. This required a change of our socket emulation + code and changed the IPC protocol under Windows. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q4/000267.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.7 (2007-09-10) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Fixed encryption problem if duplicate certificates are in the + keybox. + + * Made it work on Windows Vista. Note that the entire Windows port + is still considered Beta. + + * Add new options min-passphrase-nonalpha, check-passphrase-pattern, + enforce-passphrase-constraints and max-passphrase-days to + gpg-agent. + + * Add command --check-components to gpgconf. Gpgconf now uses the + installed versions of the programs and does not anymore search via + PATH for them. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q3/000259.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.6 (2007-08-16) +------------------------------------------------ + + * GPGSM does now grok --default-key. + + * GPGCONF is now aware of --default-key and --encrypt-to. + + * GPGSM does again correctly print the serial number as well the the + various keyids. This was broken since 2.0.4. + + * New option --validation-model and support for the chain-model. + + * Improved Windows support. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q3/000258.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.5 (2007-07-05) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Switched license to GPLv3. + + * Basic support for Windows. Run "./autogen.sh --build-w32" to build + it. As usual the mingw cross compiling toolchain is required. + + * Fixed bug when using the --p12-charset without --armor. + + * The command --gen-key may now be used instead of the + gpgsm-gencert.sh script. + + * Changed key generation to reveal less information about the + machine. Bug fixes for gpg2's card key generation. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q3/000255.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.4 (2007-05-09) +------------------------------------------------ + + * The server mode key listing commands are now also working for + systems without the funopen/fopencookie API. + + * PKCS#12 import now tries several encodings in case the passphrase + was not utf-8 encoded. New option --p12-charset for gpgsm. + + * Improved the libgcrypt logging support in all modules. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q2/000254.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.3 (2007-03-08) +------------------------------------------------ + + * By default, do not allow processing multiple plaintexts in a single + stream. Many programs that called GnuPG were assuming that GnuPG + did not permit this, and were thus not using the plaintext boundary + status tags that GnuPG provides. This change makes GnuPG reject + such messages by default which makes those programs safe again. + --allow-multiple-messages returns to the old behavior. [CVE-2007-1263]. + + * New --verify-option show-primary-uid-only. + + * gpgconf may now reads a global configuration file to select which + options are changeable by a frontend. The new applygnupgdefaults + tool may be used by an admin to set default options for all users. + + * The PIN pad of the Cherry XX44 keyboard is now supported. The + DINSIG and the NKS applications are now also aware of PIN pads. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q1/000252.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.2 (2007-01-31) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Fixed a serious and exploitable bug in processing encrypted + packages. [CVE-2006-6235]. + + * Added --passphrase-repeat to set the number of times GPG will + prompt for a new passphrase to be repeated. This is useful to help + memorize a new passphrase. The default is 1 repetition. + + * Using a PIN pad does now also work for the signing key. + + * A warning is displayed by gpg-agent if a new passphrase is too + short. New option --min-passphrase-len defaults to 8. + + * The status code BEGIN_SIGNING now shows the used hash algorithms. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2007q1/000249.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.1 (2006-11-28) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Experimental support for the PIN pads of the SPR 532 and the Kaan + Advanced card readers. Add "disable-keypad" scdaemon.conf if you + don't want it. Does currently only work for the OpenPGP card and + its authentication and decrypt keys. + + * Fixed build problems on some some platforms and crashes on amd64. + + * Fixed a buffer overflow in gpg2. [bug#728,CVE-2006-6169] + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2006q4/000242.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 2.0.0 (2006-11-11) +------------------------------------------------ + + * First stable version of a GnuPG integrating OpenPGP and S/MIME. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2006q4/000239.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.95 (2006-11-06) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Minor bug fixes. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.94 (2006-10-24) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Keys for gpgsm may now be specified using a keygrip. A keygrip is + indicated by a prefixing it with an ampersand. + + * gpgconf now supports switching the CMS cipher algo (e.g. to AES). + + * New command --gpgconf-test for all major tools. This may be used to + check whether the configuration file is sane. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.93 (2006-10-18) +------------------------------------------------- + + * In --with-validation mode gpgsm will now also ask whether a root + certificate should be trusted. + + * Link to Pth only if really necessary. + + * Fixed a pubring corruption bug in gpg2 occurring when importing + signatures or keys with insane lengths. + + * Fixed v3 keyID calculation bug in gpg2. + + * More tweaks for certificates without extensions. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.92 (2006-10-11) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Bug fixes. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2006q4/000236.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.91 (2006-10-04) +------------------------------------------------- + + * New "relax" flag for trustlist.txt to allow root CA certificates + without BasicContraints. + + * [gpg2] Removed the -k PGP 2 compatibility hack. -k is now an + alias for --list-keys. + + * [gpg2] Print a warning if "-sat" is used instead of "--clearsign". + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.90 (2006-09-25) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Made readline work for gpg. + + * Cleanups und minor bug fixes. + + * Included translations from gnupg 1.4.5. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.23 (2006-09-18) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Regular man pages for most tools are now build directly from the + Texinfo source. + + * The gpg code from 1.4.5 has been fully merged into this release. + The configure option --enable-gpg is still required to build this + gpg part. For production use of OpenPGP the gpg version 1.4.5 is + still recommended. Note, that gpg will be installed under the name + gpg2 to allow coexisting with an 1.4.x gpg. + + * API change in gpg-agent's pkdecrypt command. Thus an older gpgsm + may not be used with the current gpg-agent. + + * The scdaemon will now call a script on reader status changes. + + * gpgsm now allows file descriptor passing for "INPUT", "OUTPUT" and + "MESSAGE". + + * The gpgsm server may now output a key listing to the output file + handle. This needs to be enabled using "OPTION list-to-output=1". + + * The --output option of gpgsm has now an effect on list-keys. + + * New gpgsm commands --dump-chain and list-chain. + + * gpg-connect-agent has new options to utilize descriptor passing. + + * A global trustlist may now be used. See doc/examples/trustlist.txt. + + * When creating a new pubring.kbx keybox common certificates are + imported. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.22 (2006-07-27) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Enhanced pkcs#12 support to allow import from simple keyBags. + + * Exporting to pkcs#12 now create bag attributes so that Mozilla is + able to import the files. + + * Fixed uploading of certain keys to the smart card. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.21 (2006-06-20) +------------------------------------------------- + + * New command APDU for scdaemon to allow using it for general card + access. Might be used through gpg-connect-agent by using the SCD + prefix command. + + * Support for the CardMan 4040 PCMCIA reader (Linux 2.6.15 required). + + * Scdaemon does not anymore reset cards at the end of a connection. + + * Kludge to allow use of Bundesnetzagentur issued X.509 certificates. + + * Added --hash=xxx option to scdaemon's PKSIGN command. + + * Pkcs#12 files are now created with a MAC. This is for better + interoperability. + + * Collected bug fixes and minor other changes. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.20 (2005-12-20) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Importing pkcs#12 files created be recent versions of Mozilla works + again. + + * Basic support for qualified signatures. + + * New debug tool gpgparsemail. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.19 (2005-09-12) +------------------------------------------------- + + * The Belgian eID card is now supported for signatures and ssh. + Other pkcs#15 cards should work as well. + + * Fixed bug in --export-secret-key-p12 so that certificates are again + included. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.18 (2005-08-01) +------------------------------------------------- + + * [gpgsm] Now allows for more than one email address as well as URIs + and dnsNames in certificate request generation. A keygrip may be + given to create a request from an existing key. + + * A couple of minor bug fixes. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.17 (2005-06-20) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg-connect-agent has now features to handle Assuan INQUIRE + commands. + + * Internal changes for OpenPGP cards. New Assuan command WRITEKEY. + + * GNU Pth is now a hard requirement. + + * [scdaemon] Support for OpenSC has been removed. Instead a new and + straightforward pkcs#15 modules has been written. As of now it + does allows only signing using TCOS cards but we are going to + enhance it to match all the old capabilities. + + * [gpg-agent] New option --write-env-file and Assuan command + UPDATESTARTUPTTY. + + * [gpg-agent] New option --default-cache-ttl-ssh to set the TTL for + SSH passphrase caching independent from the other passphrases. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.16 (2005-04-21) +------------------------------------------------- + + * gpg-agent does now support the ssh-agent protocol and thus allows + to use the pinentry as well as the OpenPGP smartcard with ssh. + + * New tool gpg-connect-agent as a general client for the gpg-agent. + + * New tool symcryptrun as a wrapper for certain encryption tools. + + * The gpg tool is not anymore build by default because those gpg + versions available in the gnupg 1.4 series are far more matured. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.15 (2005-01-13) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Fixed passphrase caching bug. + + * Better support for CCID readers; the reader from Cherry RS 6700 USB + does now work. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.14 (2004-12-22) +------------------------------------------------- + + * [gpg-agent] New option --use-standard-socket to allow the use of a + fixed socket. gpgsm falls back to this socket if GPG_AGENT_INFO + has not been set. + + * Ported to MS Windows with some functional limitations. + + * New tool gpg-preset-passphrase. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.13 (2004-12-03) +------------------------------------------------- + + * [gpgsm] New option --prefer-system-dirmngr. + + * Minor cleanups and debugging aids. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.12 (2004-10-22) +------------------------------------------------- + + * [scdaemon] Partly rewrote the PC/SC code. + + * Removed the sc-investigate tool. It is now in a separate package + available at ftp://ftp.g10code.com/g10code/gscutils/ . + + * [gpg-agent] Fixed logging problem. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.11 (2004-10-01) +------------------------------------------------- + + * When using --import along with --with-validation, the imported + certificates are validated and only imported if they are fully + valid. + + * [gpg-agent] New option --max-cache-ttl. + + * [gpg-agent] When used without --daemon or --server, gpg-agent now + check whether a agent is already running and usable. + + * Fixed some i18n problems. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.10 (2004-07-22) +------------------------------------------------- + + * Fixed a serious bug in the checking of trusted root certificates. + + * New configure option --enable-agent-pnly allows to build and + install just the agent. + + * Fixed a problem with the log file handling. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.9 (2004-06-08) +------------------------------------------------ + + * [gpg-agent] The new option --allow-mark-trusted is now required to + allow gpg-agent to add a key to the trustlist.txt after user + confirmation. + + * Creating PKCS#10 requests does now honor the key usage. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.8 (2004-04-29) +------------------------------------------------ + + * [scdaemon] Overhauled the internal CCID driver. + + * [scdaemon] Status files named ~/.gnupg/reader_<n>.status are now + written when using the internal CCID driver. + + * [gpgsm] New commands --dump-{,secret,external}-keys to show a very + detailed view of the certificates. + + * The keybox gets now compressed after 3 hours and ephemeral + stored certificates are deleted after about a day. + + * [gpg] Usability fixes for --card-edit. Note, that this has already + been ported back to gnupg-1.3 + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.7 (2004-04-06) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Instrumented the modules for gpgconf. + + * Added support for DINSIG card applications. + + * Include the smimeCapabilities attribute with signed messages. + + * Now uses the gettext domain "gnupg2" to avoid conflicts with gnupg + versions < 1.9. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.6 (2004-03-06) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Code cleanups and bug fixes. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.5 (2004-02-21) +------------------------------------------------ + + * gpg-protect-tool gets now installed into libexec as it ought to be. + Cleaned up the build system to better comply with the coding + standards. + + * [gpgsm] The --import command is now able to autodetect pkcs#12 + files and import secret and private keys from this file format. + A new command --export-secret-key-p12 is provided to allow + exporting of secret keys in PKCS\#12 format. + + * [gpgsm] The pinentry will now present a description of the key for + whom the passphrase is requested. + + * [gpgsm] New option --with-validation to check the validity of key + while listing it. + + * New option --debug-level={none,basic,advanced,expert,guru} to map + the debug flags to sensitive levels on a per program base. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.4 (2004-01-30) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Added support for the Telesec NKS 2.0 card application. + + * Added simple tool addgnupghome to create .gnupg directories from + /etc/skel/.gnupg. + + * Various minor bug fixes and cleanups; mainly gpgsm and gpg-agent + related. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.3 (2003-12-23) +------------------------------------------------ + + * New gpgsm options --{enable,disable}-ocsp to validate keys using + OCSP. This option requires a not yet released DirMngr version. + Default is disabled. + + * The --log-file option may now be used to print logs to a socket. + Prefix the socket name with "socket://" to enable this. This does + not work on all systems and falls back to stderr if there is a + problem with the socket. + + * The options --encrypt-to and --no-encrypt-to now work the same in + gpgsm as in gpg. Note, they are also used in server mode. + + * Duplicated recipients are now silently removed in gpgsm. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.2 (2003-11-17) +------------------------------------------------ + + * On card key generation is no longer done using the --gen-key + command but from the menu provided by the new --card-edit command. + + * PINs are now properly cached and there are only 2 PINs visible. + The 3rd PIN (CHV2) is internally synchronized with the regular PIN. + + * All kind of other internal stuff. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.1 (2003-09-06) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Support for OpenSC is back. scdaemon supports a --disable-opensc to + disable OpenSC use at runtime, so that PC/SC or ct-API can still be + used directly. + + * Rudimentary support for the SCR335 smartcard reader using an + internal driver. Requires current libusb from CVS. + + * Bug fixes. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.9.0 (2003-08-05) +------------------------------------------------ + + ====== PLEASE SEE README-alpha ======= + + * gpg has been renamed to gpg2 and gpgv to gpgv2. This is a + temporary change to allow co-existing with stable gpg versions. + + * ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf-1.9.0 is fist tried as config file before the + usual gpg.conf. + + * Removed the -k, -kv and -kvv commands. -k is now an alias to + --list-keys. New command -K as alias for --list-secret-keys. + + * Removed --run-as-shm-coprocess feature. + + * gpg does now also use libgcrypt, libgpg-error is required. + + * New gpgsm commands --call-dirmngr and --call-protect-tool. + + * Changing a passphrase is now possible using "gpgsm --passwd" + + * The content-type attribute is now recognized and created. + + * The agent does now reread certain options on receiving a HUP. + + * The pinentry is now forked for each request so that clients with + different environments are supported. When running in daemon mode + and --keep-display is not used the DISPLAY variable is ignored. + + * Merged stuff from the newpg branch and started this new + development branch. + + +Version 1.4.19 (2015-02-27) +Version 1.4.18 (2014-06-30) +Version 1.4.17 (2014-06-23) +Version 1.4.16 (2013-12-18) +Version 1.4.15 (2013-10-04) +Version 1.4.14 (2013-07-25) +Version 1.4.13 (2012-12-20) +Version 1.4.12 (2012-01-30) +Version 1.4.11 (2010-10-18) +Version 1.4.10 (2009-09-02) +Version 1.4.9 (2008-03-26) +Version 1.4.8 (2007-12-20) +Version 1.4.7 (2007-03-05) +Version 1.4.6 (2006-12-06) +Version 1.4.5 (2006-08-01) +Version 1.4.4 (2006-06-25) +Version 1.4.3 (2006-04-03) +Version 1.4.2 (2005-07-26) +Version 1.4.1 (2005-03-15) +Version 1.4.0 (2004-12-16) + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.2 (2003-05-27) +------------------------------------------------ + + * New "--gnupg" option (set by default) that disables --openpgp, + and the various --pgpX emulation options. This replaces + --no-openpgp, and --no-pgpX, and also means that GnuPG has + finally grown a --gnupg option to make GnuPG act like GnuPG. + + * A bug in key validation has been fixed. This bug only affects + keys with more than one user ID (photo IDs do not count here), + and results in all user IDs on a given key being treated with + the validity of the most-valid user ID on that key. + + * Notation names that do not contain a '@' are no longer allowed + unless --expert is set. This is to help prevent pollution of + the (as yet unused) IETF notation namespace. + + * Multiple trust models are now supported via the --trust-model + option. The options are "pgp" (web-of-trust plus trust + signatures), "classic" (web-of-trust only), and "always" + (identical to the --always-trust option). + + * The --personal-{cipher|digest|compression}-preferences are now + consulted to get default algorithms before resorting to the + last-ditch defaults of --s2k-cipher-algo, SHA1, and ZIP + respectively. This allows a user to set algorithms to use in a + safe manner so they are used when legal to do so, without + forcing them on for all messages. + + * New --primary-keyring option to designate the keyring that the + user wants new keys imported into. + + * --s2k-digest-algo is now used for all password mangling. + Earlier versions used both --s2k-digest-algo and --digest-algo + for passphrase mangling. + + * Handling of --hidden-recipient or --throw-keyid messages is now + easier - the user only needs to give their passphrase once, and + GnuPG will try it against all of the available secret keys. + + * Care is taken to prevent compiler optimization from removing + memory wiping code. + + * New option --no-mangle-dos-filenames so that filenames are not + truncated in the W32 version. + + * A "convert-from-106" script has been added. This is a simple + script that automates the conversion from a 1.0.6 or earlier + version of GnuPG to a 1.0.7 or later version. + + * Disabled keys are now skipped when selecting keys for + encryption. If you are using the --with-colons key listings to + detect disabled keys, please see doc/DETAILS for a minor format + change in this release. + + * Minor trustdb changes to make the trust calculations match + common usage. + + * New command "revuid" in the --edit-key menu to revoke a user ID. + This is a simpler interface to the old method (which still + works) of revoking the user ID self-signature. + + * Status VALIDSIG does now also print the primary key's + fingerprint, as well as the signature version, pubkey algorithm, + hash algorithm, and signature class. + + * Add read-only support for the SHA-256 hash, and optional + read-only support for the SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes. + + * New option --enable-progress-filter for use with frontends. + + * DNS SRV records are used in HKP keyserver lookups to allow + administrators to load balance and select keyserver ports + automatically. This is as specified in + draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp-00.txt. + + * When using the "keyid!" syntax during a key export, only that + specified key is exported. If the key in question is a subkey, + the primary key plus only that subkey is exported. + + * configure --disable-xxx options to disable individual algorithms + at build time. This can be used to build a smaller gpg binary + for embedded uses where space is tight. See the README file for + the algorithms that can be used with this option, or use + --enable-minimal to build the smallest gpg possible (disables + all optional algorithms, disables keyserver access, and disables + photo IDs). + + * The keyserver no-modify flag on a key can now be displayed and + modified. + + * Note that the TIGER/192 digest algorithm is in the process of + being dropped from the OpenPGP standard. While this release of + GnuPG still contains it, it is disabled by default. To ensure + you will still be able to use your messages with future versions + of GnuPG and other OpenPGP programs, please do not use this + algorithm. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2003q2/000153.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.1 (2002-11-12) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Trust signature support. This is based on the Maurer trust + model where a user can specify the trust level along with the + signature with multiple levels so users can delegate + certification ability to other users, possibly restricted by a + regular expression on the user ID. Note that full trust + signature support requires a regular expression parsing library. + The regexp code from glibc 2.3.1 is included for those platforms + that don't have working regexp functions available. The + configure option --disable-regex may be used to disable any + regular expression code, which will make GnuPG ignore any trust + signature with a regular expression included. + + * Two new commands --hidden-recipient (-R) and --hidden-encrypt-to + encrypt to a user, but hide the identity of that user. This is + the same functionality as --throw-keyid, but can be used on a + per-user basis. + + * Full algorithm names (e.g. "3DES", "SHA1", "ZIP") can now be + used interchangeably with the short algorithm names (e.g. "S2", + "H2", "Z1") anywhere algorithm names are used in GnuPG. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.0 (2002-10-18) +------------------------------------------------ + + * The last piece of internal keyserver support has been removed, + and now all keyserver access is done via the keyserver plugins. + There is also a newer keyserver protocol used between GnuPG and + the plugins, so plugins from earlier versions of GnuPG may not + work properly. + + * The HKP keyserver plugin supports the new machine-readable key + listing format for those keyservers that provide it. + + * When using a HKP keyserver with multiple DNS records (such as + wwwkeys.pgp.net which has the addresses of multiple servers + around the world), try all records until one succeeds. Note + that it depends on the LDAP library used whether the LDAP + keyserver plugin does this as well. + + * The library dependencies for OpenLDAP seem to change fairly + frequently, and GnuPG's configure script cannot guess all the + combinations. Use ./configure LDAPLIBS="-L libdir -l libs" to + override the script and use the libraries selected. + + * Secret keys generated with --export-secret-subkeys are now + indicated in key listings with a '#' after the "sec", and in + --with-colons listings by showing no capabilities (no lowercase + characters). + + * --trusted-key has been un-obsoleted, as it is useful for adding + ultimately trusted keys from the config file. It is identical + to using --edit and "trust" to change a key to ultimately + trusted. + + * Translations other than de are no longer distributed with the + development branch. This is due to the frequent text changes + during development, which cause the translations to rapidly go + out of date. + + +Version 1.2.8 (2006-12-07) +Version 1.2.7 (2004-12-27) +Version 1.2.6 (2004-08-25) +Version 1.2.5 (2004-07-26) +Version 1.2.4 (2003-12-23) +Version 1.2.3 (2003-08-21) +Version 1.2.2 (2003-05-01) +Version 1.2.1 (2002-10-25) +Version 1.2.0 (2002-09-21) + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.92 (2002-09-11) +------------------------------------------------- + + * [IMPORTANT] The default configuration file is now + ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. If an old ~/.gnupg/options is found it will + still be used. This change is required to have a more + consistent naming scheme with forthcoming tools. + + * The use of MDCs have increased. A MDC will be used if the + recipients directly request it, if the recipients have AES, + AES192, AES256, or TWOFISH in their cipher preferences, or if + the chosen cipher has a blocksize not equal to 64 bits + (currently this is also AES, AES192, AES256, and TWOFISH). + + * GnuPG will no longer automatically disable compression when + processing an already-compressed file unless a MDC is being + used. This is to give the message a certain amount of + resistance to the chosen-ciphertext attack while communicating + with other programs (most commonly PGP earlier than version 7.x) + that do not support MDCs. + + * The option --interactive now has the desired effect when + importing keys. + + * The file permission and ownership checks on files have been + clarified. Specifically, the homedir (usually ~/.gnupg) is + checked to protect everything within it. If the user specifies + keyrings outside this homedir, they are presumed to be shared + keyrings and therefore *not* checked. Configuration files + specified with the --options option and the IDEA cipher + extension specified with --load-extension are checked, along + with their enclosing directories. + + * The configure option --with-static-rnd=auto allows to build gpg + with all available entropy gathering modules included. At + runtime the best usable one will be selected from the list + linux, egd, unix. This is also the default for systems lacking + a /dev/random device. + + * The default character set is now taken from the current locale; + it can still be overridden by the --charset option. Using the + option -vvv shows the used character set. + + * [REMOVED] --emulate-checksum-bug and --emulate-3des-s2k-bug have + been removed. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.91 (2002-08-04) +------------------------------------------------- + + * All modules are now linked statically; the --load-extension + option is in general not useful anymore. The only exception is + to specify the deprecated idea cipher. + + * The IDEA plugin has changed. Previous versions of the IDEA + plugin will no longer work with GnuPG. However, the current + version of the plugin will work with earlier GnuPG versions. + + * When using --batch with one of the --delete-key commands, the + key must be specified by fingerprint. See the man page for + details. + + * There are now various ways to restrict the ability GnuPG has to + exec external programs (for the keyserver helpers or photo ID + viewers). Read the README file for the complete list. + + * New export option to leave off attribute packets (photo IDs) + during export. This is useful when exporting to HKP keyservers + which do not understand attribute packets. + + * New import option to repair during import the HKP keyserver + mangling multiple subkeys bug. Note that this cannot completely + repair the damaged key as some crucial data is removed by the + keyserver, but it does at least give you back one subkey. This + is on by default for keyserver --recv-keys, and off by default + for regular --import. + + * The keyserver helper programs now live in + /usr/[local/]libexec/gnupg by default. If you are upgrading + from 1.0.7, you might want to delete your old copies in + /usr/[local/]bin. If you use an OS that does not use libexec + for whatever reason, use configure --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib + to place the keyserver helpers there. + + * The LDAP keyserver handler now works properly with very old + (version 1) LDAP keyservers. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.90 (2002-07-01) +------------------------------------------------- + + * New commands: --personal-cipher-preferences, + --personal-digest-preferences, and + --personal-compress-preferences allow the user to specify which + algorithms are to be preferred. Note that this does not permit + using an algorithm that is not present in the recipient's + preferences (which would violate the OpenPGP standard). This + just allows sorting the preferences differently. + + * New "group" command to refer to several keys with one name. + + * A warning is issued if the user forces the use of an algorithm + that is not listed in the recipient's preferences. + + * Full revocation key (aka "designated revoker") support. + + * The preferred hash algorithms on a key are consulted when + encrypting a signed message to that key. Note that this is + disabled by default by a SHA1 preference in + --personal-digest-preferences. + + * --cert-digest-algo allows the user to specify the hash algorithm + to use when signing a key rather than the default SHA1 (or MD5 + for PGP2 keys). Do not use this feature unless you fully + understand the implications of this. + + * --pgp7 mode automatically sets all necessary options to ensure + that the resulting message will be usable by a user of PGP 7.x. + + * New --attribute-fd command for frontends and scripts to get the + contents of attribute packets (i.e. photos) + + * In expert mode, the user can now re-sign a v3 key with a v4 + self-signature. This does not change the v3 key into a v4 key, + but it does allow the user to use preferences, primary ID flags, + etc. + + * Significantly improved photo ID support on non-unixlike + platforms. + + * The version number has jumped ahead to 1.1.90 to skip over the + old version 1.1 and to get ready for the upcoming 1.2. + + * ElGamal sign and encrypt is not anymore allowed in the key + generation dialog unless in expert mode. RSA sign and encrypt + has been added with the same restrictions. + + * [W32] Keyserver access does work with Windows NT. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.7 (2002-04-29) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Secret keys are now stored and exported in a new format which + uses SHA-1 for integrity checks. This format renders the + Rosa/Klima attack useless. Other OpenPGP implementations might + not yet support this, so the option --simple-sk-checksum creates + the old vulnerable format. + + * The default cipher algorithm for encryption is now CAST5, + default hash algorithm is SHA-1. This will give us better + interoperability with other OpenPGP implementations. + + * Symmetric encrypted messages now use a fixed file size if + possible. This is a tradeoff: it breaks PGP 5, but fixes PGP 2, + 6, and 7. Note this was only an issue with RFC-1991 style + symmetric messages. + + * Photographic user ID support. This uses an external program to + view the images. + + * Enhanced keyserver support via keyserver "plugins". GnuPG comes + with plugins for the NAI LDAP keyserver as well as the HKP email + keyserver. It retains internal support for the HKP HTTP + keyserver. + + * Nonrevocable signatures are now supported. If a user signs a + key nonrevocably, this signature cannot be taken back so be + careful! + + * Multiple signature classes are usable when signing a key to + specify how carefully the key information (fingerprint, photo + ID, etc) was checked. + + * --pgp2 mode automatically sets all necessary options to ensure + that the resulting message will be usable by a user of PGP 2.x. + + * --pgp6 mode automatically sets all necessary options to ensure + that the resulting message will be usable by a user of PGP 6.x. + + * Signatures may now be given an expiration date. When signing a + key with an expiration date, the user is prompted whether they + want their signature to expire at the same time. + + * Revocation keys (designated revokers) are now supported if + present. There is currently no way to designate new keys as + designated revokers. + + * Permissions on the .gnupg directory and its files are checked + for safety. + + * --expert mode enables certain silly things such as signing a + revoked user id, expired key, or revoked key. + + * Some fixes to build cleanly under Cygwin32. + + * New tool gpgsplit to split OpenPGP data formats into packets. + + * New option --preserve-permissions. + + * Subkeys created in the future are not used for encryption or + signing unless the new option --ignore-valid-from is used. + + * Revoked user-IDs are not listed unless signatures are listed too + or we are in verbose mode. + + * There is no default comment string with ascii armors anymore + except for revocation certificates and --enarmor mode. + + * The command "primary" in the edit menu can be used to change the + primary UID, "setpref" and "updpref" can be used to change the + preferences. + + * Fixed the preference handling; since 1.0.5 they were erroneously + matched against against the latest user ID and not the given one. + + * RSA key generation. + + * Merged Stefan's patches for RISC OS in. See comments in + scripts/build-riscos. + + * It is now possible to sign and conventional encrypt a message (-cs). + + * The MDC feature flag is supported and can be set by using + the "updpref" edit command. + + * The status messages GOODSIG and BADSIG are now returning the primary + UID, encoded using %XX escaping (but with spaces left as spaces, + so that it should not break too much) + + * Support for GDBM based keyrings has been removed. + + * The entire keyring management has been revamped. + + * The way signature stati are store has changed so that v3 + signatures can be supported. To increase the speed of many + operations for existing keyrings you can use the new + --rebuild-keydb-caches command. + + * The entire key validation process (trustdb) has been revamped. + See the man page entries for --update-trustdb, --check-trustdb + and --no-auto-check-trustdb. + + * --trusted-keys is again obsolete, --edit can be used to set the + ownertrust of any key to ultimately trusted. + + * A subkey is never used to sign keys. + + * Read only keyrings are now handled as expected. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2002q2/000135.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.6 (2001-05-29) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Security fix for a format string bug in the tty code. + + * Fixed format string bugs in all PO files. + + * Removed Russian translation due to too many bugs. The FTP + server has an unofficial but better translation in the contrib + directory. + + * Fixed expire time calculation and keyserver access. + + * The usual set of minor bug fixes and enhancements. + + * non-writable keyrings are now correctly handled. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2001q2/000123.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.5 (2001-04-29) +------------------------------------------------ + + * WARNING: The semantics of --verify have changed to address a + problem with detached signature detection. --verify now ignores + signed material given on stdin unless this is requested by using + a "-" as the name for the file with the signed material. Please + check all your detached signature handling applications and make + sure that they don't pipe the signed material to stdin without + using a filename together with "-" on the the command line. + + * WARNING: Corrected hash calculation for input data larger than + 512M - it was just wrong, so you might notice bad signature in + some very big files. It may be wise to keep an old copy of + GnuPG around. + + * Secret keys are no longer imported unless you use the new option + --allow-secret-key-import. This is a kludge and future versions will + handle it in another way. + + * New command "showpref" in the --edit-key menu to show an easier + to understand preference listing. + + * There is now the notation of a primary user ID. For example, it + is printed with a signature verification as the first user ID; + revoked user IDs are not printed there anymore. In general the + primary user ID is the one with the latest self-signature. + + * New --charset=utf-8 to bypass all internal conversions. + + * Large File Support (LFS) is now working. + + * New options: --ignore-crc-error, --no-sig-create-check, + --no-sig-cache, --fixed-list-mode, --no-expensive-trust-checks, + --enable-special-filenames and --use-agent. See man page. + + * New command --pipemode, which can be used to run gpg as a + co-process. Currently only the verification of detached + signatures are working. See doc/DETAILS. + + * Keyserver support for the W32 version. + + * Rewritten key selection code so that GnuPG can better cope with + multiple subkeys, expire dates and so. The drawback is that it + is slower. + + * A whole lot of bug fixes. + + * The verification status of self-signatures are now cached. To + increase the speed of key list operations for existing keys you + can do the following in your GnuPG homedir (~/.gnupg): + cp pubring.gpg pubring.gpg.save && gpg --export-all >x && \ + rm pubring.gpg && gpg --import x + Only v4 keys (i.e not the old RSA keys) benefit from this caching. + + * New translations: Estonian, Turkish. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2001q2/000122.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.4 (2000-10-17) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Fixed a serious bug which could lead to false signature verification + results when more than one signature is fed to gpg. This is the + primary reason for releasing this version. + + * New utility gpgv which is a stripped down version of gpg to + be used to verify signatures against a list of trusted keys. + + * Rijndael (AES) is now supported and listed with top preference. + + * --with-colons now works with --print-md[s]. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2000q4/000082.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.3 (2000-09-18) +------------------------------------------------ + + * Fixed problems with piping to/from other MS-Windows software + + * Expiration time of the primary key can be changed again. + + * Revoked user IDs are now marked in the output of --list-key + + * New options --show-session-key and --override-session-key + to help the British folks to somewhat minimize the danger + of this Orwellian RIP bill. + + * New options --merge-only and --try-all-secrets. + + * New configuration option --with-egd-socket. + + * The --trusted-key option is back after it left us with 0.9.5 + + * RSA is supported. Key generation does not yet work but will come + soon. + + * CAST5 and SHA-1 are now the default algorithms to protect the key + and for symmetric-only encryption. This should solve a couple + of compatibility problems because the old algorithms are optional + according to RFC2440 + + * Twofish and MDC enhanced encryption is now used. PGP 7 supports + this. Older versions of GnuPG don't support it, so they should be + upgraded to at least 1.0.2 + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2000q3/000075.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.2 (2000-07-12) +---------------------------------------------- + + * Fixed expiration handling of encryption keys. + + * Add an experimental feature to do unattended key generation. + + * The user is now asked for the reason of revocation as required + by the new OpenPGP draft. + + * There is a ~/.gnupg/random_seed file now which saves the + state of the internal RNG and increases system performance + somewhat. This way the full entropy source is only used in + cases were it is really required. + Use the option --no-random-seed-file to disable this feature. + + * New options --ignore-time-conflict and --lock-never. + + * Some fixes for the W32 version. + + * The entropy.dll is not anymore used by the W32 version but replaced + by code derived from Cryptlib. + + * Encryption is now much faster: About 2 times for 1k bit keys + and 8 times for 4k keys. + + * New encryption keys are generated in a way which allows a much + faster decryption. + + * New command --export-secret-subkeys which outputs the + the _primary_ key with it's secret parts deleted. This is + useful for automated decryption/signature creation as it + allows to keep the real secret primary key offline and + thereby protecting the key certificates and allowing to + create revocations for the subkeys. See the FAQ for a + procedure to install such secret keys. + + * Keygeneration now writes to the first writeable keyring or + as default to the one in the homedirectory. Prior versions + ignored all --keyring options. + + * New option --command-fd to take user input from a file descriptor; + to be used with --status-fd by software which uses GnuPG as a backend. + + * There is a new status PROGRESS which is used to show progress during + key generation. + + * Support for the new MDC encryption packets. To create them either + --force-mdc must be use or cipher algorithm with a blocksize other + than 64 bits is to be used. --openpgp currently disables MDC packets + entirely. This option should not yet be used. + + * New option --no-auto-key-retrieve to disable retrieving of + a missing public key from a keyserver, when a keyserver has been set. + + * Danish translation + + See-also: gnupg-announce/2000q3/000069.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.1 (1999-12-16) +----------------------------------- + + * New command --verify-files. New option --fast-list-mode. + + * $http_proxy is now used when --honor-http-proxy is set. + + * Fixed some minor bugs and the problem with conventional encrypted + packets which did use the gpg v3 partial length headers. + + * Add Indonesian and Portugese translations. + + * Fixed a bug with symmetric-only encryption using the non-default 3DES. + The option --emulate-3des-s2k-bug may be used to decrypt documents + which have been encrypted this way; this should be done immediately + as this workaround will be remove in 1.1 + + * Can now handle (but not display) PGP's photo IDs. I don't know the + format of that packet but after stripping a few bytes from the start + it looks like a JPEG (at least my test data). Handling of this + package is required because otherwise it would mix up the + self signatures and you can't import those keys. + + * Passing non-ascii user IDs on the commandline should now work in all + cases. + + * New keys are now generated with an additional preference to Blowfish. + + * Removed the GNU Privacy Handbook from the distribution as it will go + into a separate one. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q4/000050.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0 (1999-09-07) +----------------------------------- + + * Add a very preliminary version of the GNU Privacy Handbook to + the distribution (lynx doc/gph/index.html). + + * Changed the version number to GnuPG 2001 ;-) + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000037.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.11 (1999-09-03) +------------------------------------ + + * UTF-8 strings are now correctly printed (if --charset is set correctly). + Output of --with-colons remains C-style escaped UTF-8. + + * Workaround for a problem with PGP 5 detached signature in textmode. + + * Fixed a problem when importing new subkeys (duplicated signatures). + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000036.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.10 (1999-07-23) +------------------------------------ + + * Some strange new options to help pgpgpg + + * Cleaned up the dox a bit. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000034.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.9 +----------------------------------- + + * New options --[no-]utf8-strings. + + * New edit-menu commands "enable" and "disable" for entire keys. + + * You will be asked for a filename if gpg cannot deduce one. + + * Changes to support libtool which is needed for the development + of libgcrypt. + + * New script tools/lspgpot to help transferring assigned + trustvalues from PGP to GnuPG. + + * New commands --lsign-key and made --sign-key a shortcut for --edit + and sign. + + * New options (#122--126 ;-) --[no-]default-recipient[-self], + --disable-{cipher,pubkey}-algo. See the man page. + + * Enhanced info output in case of multiple recipients and fixed exit code. + + * New option --allow-non-selfsigned-uid to work around a problem with + the German IN way of separating signing and encryption keys. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q3/000028.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.8 (1999-06-26) +----------------------------------- + + * New subcommand "delsig" in the edit menu. + + * The name of the output file is not anymore the one which is + embedded in the processed message, but the used filename with + the extension stripped. To revert to the old behaviour you can + use the option --use-embedded-filename. + + * Another hack to cope with pgp2 generated detached signatures. + + * latin-2 character set works (--charset=iso-8859-2). + + * New option --with-key-data to list the public key parameters. + New option -N to insert notations and a --set-policy-url. + A couple of other options to allow reseting of options. + + * Better support for HPUX. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q2/000016.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.7 (1999-05-23) +----------------------------------- + + * Add some work arounds for a bugs in pgp 2 which led to bad signatures + when used with canonical texts in some cases. + + * Enhanced some status outputs. + + See-also: gnupg-announce/1999q2/000000.html + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.6 (1999-05-06) +----------------------------------- + + * Twofish is now statically linked by default. The experimental 128 bit + version is now disabled. Full support will be available as soon as + the OpenPGP WG has decided on an interpretation of rfc2440. + + * Dropped support for the ancient Blowfish160 which is not OpenPGP. + + * Merged gpgm and gpg into one binary. + + * Add "revsig" and "revkey" commands to the edit menu. It is now + possible to revoke signature and subkeys. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.5 (1999-03-20) +----------------------------------- + + * New command "lsign" in the keyedit menu to create non-exportable + signatures. Removed --trusted-keys option. + + * A bunch of changes to the key validation code. + + * --list-trust-path now has an optional --with-colons format. + + * New command --recv-keys to import keys from an keyserver. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.4 (1999-03-08) +----------------------------------- + + * New configure option --enable-static-rnd=[egd|linux|unix|none] + to select a random gathering module for static linking. + + * The original text is now verbatim copied to a cleartext signed message. + + * Bugfixes but there are still a couple of bugs. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.3 (1999-02-19) +----------------------------------- + + * Changed the internal design of getkey which now allows a + efficient lookup of multiple keys and add a word match mode. + + * New options --[no-]encrypt-to. + + * Some changes to the configure stuff. Switched to automake 1.4. + Removed intl/ from CVS, autogen.sh now uses gettextize. + + * Preferences now include Twofish. Removed preference to Blowfish with + a special hack to suppress the "not listed in preferences" warning; + this is to allow us to switch completely to Twofish in the near future. + + * Changed the locking stuff. + + * Print all user ids of a good signature. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.2 (1999-01-01) +----------------------------------- + + * add some additional time warp checks. + + * Option --keyserver and command --send-keys to utilize HKP servers. + + * Upgraded to zlib 1.1.3 and fixed an inflate bug + + * More cleanup on the cleartext signatures. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.1 (1999-01-01) +----------------------------------- + + * Polish language support. + + * When querying the passphrase, the key ID of the primary key is + displayed along with the one of the used secondary key. + + * Fixed a bug occurring when decrypting pgp 5 encrypted messages, + fixed an infinite loop bug in the 3DES code and in the code + which looks for trusted signatures. + + * Fixed a bug in the mpi library which caused signatures not to + compare okay. + + * Rewrote the handling of cleartext signatures; the code is now + better maintainable (I hope so). + + * New status output VALIDSIG only for valid signatures together + with the fingerprint of the signer's key. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.0 (1998-12-23) +----------------------------------- + + * --export does now only exports rfc2440 compatible keys; the + old behaviour is available with --export-all. + Generation of v3 ElGamal (sign and encrypt) keys is not longer + supported. + + * Fixed the uncompress bug. + + * Rewrote the rndunix module. There are two environment variables + used for debugging now: GNUPG_RNDUNIX_DBG give the file to write + debugging information (use "-" for stdout) and if GNUPG_RNDUNIX_DBGALL + is set, all programs which are only tried are also printed. + + * New option --escape-from-lines to "dash-escape" "From " lines to + prevent mailers to change them to ">From ". This is not enabled by + default because it is not in compliance with rfc2440 - however, you + should turn it on. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.5 (1998-12-08) +----------------------------------- + + * The keyrings and the trustdb is now locked, so that + other GnuPG processes won't damage these files. You + may want to put the option --lock-once into your options file. + + * The latest self-signatures are now used; this enables --import + to see updated preferences etc. + + * Import of subkeys should now work. + + * Random gathering modules may now be loaded as extensions. Add + such a module for most Unices but it is very experimental! + + * Brazilian language support. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.4 (1998-11-20) +----------------------------------- + + * Fixed the way the key expiration time is stored. If you have + an expiration time on your key you should fix it with --edit-key + and the command "expire". I apologize for this inconvenience. + + * Add option --charset to support "koi8-r" encoding of user ids. + (Not yet tested). + + * Preferences should now work again. You should run + "gpgm --check-trustdb \*" to rebuild all preferences. + + * Checking of certificates should now work but this needs a lot + of testing. Key validation values are now cached in the + trustdb; they should be recalculated as needed, but you may + use --check-trustdb or --update-trustdb to do this. + + * Spanish translation by Urko Lusa. + + * Patch files are from now on signed. See the man page + for the new option --not-dash-escaped. + + * New syntax: --edit-key <userID> [<commands>] + If you run it without --batch the commands are executed and then + you are put into normal mode unless you use "quit" or "save" as + one of the commands. When in batch mode, the program quits after + the last command, so you have to use "save" if you did some changes. + It does not yet work completely, but may be used to list so the + keys etc. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.3 (1998-11-08) +----------------------------------- + + * Fixed the gettext configure bug. + + * Kludge for RSA keys: keyid and length of a RSA key are + correctly reported, but you get an error if you try to use + this key (If you do not have the non-US version). + + * Experimental support for keyrings stored in a GDBM database. + This is *much* faster than a standard keyring. You will notice + that the import gets slower with time; the reason is that all + new keys are used to verify signatures of previous inserted + keys. Use "--keyring gnupg-gdbm:<name-of-gdbm-file>". This is + not (yet) supported for secret keys. + + * A Russian language file in the distribution (alternatives are in + the contrib directory of the FTP servers) + + * commandline option processing now works as expected for GNU programs + with the exception that you can't mix options and normal arguments. + + * Now --list-key lists all matching keys. This is needed in some + other places too. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.2 (1998-10-18) +----------------------------------- + + * This is only a snapshot: There are still a few bugs. + + * Fixed this huge memory leak. + + * Redesigned the trust database: You should run "gpgm --check-trustdb". + New command --update-trustdb, which adds new key from the public + keyring into your trustdb + + * Fixed a bug in the armor code, leading to invalid packet errors. + (a workaround for this was to use --no-armor). The shorten line + length (64 instead of 72) fixes a problem with pgp5 and keyservers. + + * comment packets are not anymore generated. "--export" filters + them out. One Exception: The comment packets in a secret keyring + are still used because they carry the factorization of the public + prime product. + + * --import now only looks for KEYBLOCK headers, so you can now simply + remove the "- " in front of such a header if someone accidentally signed + such a message or the keyblock is part of a cleartext signed message. + + * --with-colons now lists the key expiration time and not anymore + the valid period. + + * Some keyblocks created with old releases have a wrong sequence + of packets, so that the keyservers don't accept these keys. + Simply using "--edit-key" fixes the problem. + + * New option --force-v3-sigs to generate signed messages which are + compatible to PGP 5. + + * Add some code to support DLD (for non ELF systems) - but this is + not tested because my BSD box is currently broken. + + * New command "expire" in the edit-key menu. + + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.1 (1998-10-07) +----------------------------------- + + * A secondary key is used when the primary key is specified but cannot + be used for the operation (if it is a sign-only key). + + * GNUPG can now handle concatenated armored messages: There is still a + bug if different kinds of messages are mixed. + + * Iterated+Salted passphrases now work. If want to be sure that PGP5 + is able to handle them you may want to use the options + "--s2k-mode 3 --s2k-cipher-algo cast5 --s2k-digest-algo sha1" + when changing a passphrase. + + * doc/OpenPGP talks about OpenPGP compliance, doc/HACKING gives + a few hints about the internal structure. + + * Checked gnupg against the August 1998 draft (07) and I believe + it is in compliance with this document (except for one point). + + * Fixed some bugs in the import merging code and rewrote some + code for the trustdb. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.0 (1998-09-18) +----------------------------------- + + * Triple DES is now supported. Michael Roth did this piece of + needed work. We have now all the coded needed to be OpenPGP + compliant. + + * Added a simple rpm spec file (see INSTALL). + + * detached and armored signatures are now using "PGP SIGNATURE", + except when --rfc1991 is used. + + * All times which are not in the yyyy-mm-dd format are now printed + in local time. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.5 (1998-09-14) +----------------------------------- + + * New option --throw-keyid to create anonymous enciphered messages. + If gpg detects such a message it tires all available secret keys + in turn so decode it. This is a gnupg extension and not in OpenPGP + but it has been discussed there and afaik some products use this + scheme too (Suggested by Nimrod Zimmerman). + + * Fixed a bug with 5 byte length headers. + + * --delete-[secret-]key is now also available in gpgm. + + * cleartext signatures are not anymore converted to LF only. + + * Fixed a trustdb problem. Run "gpgm --check-trustdb" to fix old + trust dbs. + + * Building in another directory should now work. + + * Weak key detection mechanism (Niklas Hernaeus). + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.4 (1998-08-11) +----------------------------------- + + * New options --comment and --set-filename; see g10/OPTIONS + + * yes/no, y/n localized. + + * Fixed some bugs. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.3 (1998-08-08) +----------------------------------- + + * IMPORTANT: I found yet another bug in the way the secret keys + are encrypted - I did it the way pgp 2.x did it, but OpenPGP + and pgp 5.x specify another (in some aspects simpler) method. + To convert your secret keys you have to do this: + 1. Build the new release but don't install it and keep + a copy of the old program. + 2. Disable the network, make sure that you are the only + user, be sure that there are no Trojan horses etc .... + 3. Use your old gpg (version 0.3.1 or 0.3.2) and set the + passphrases of ALL your secret keys to empty! + (gpg --change-passphrase your-user-id). + 4. Save your ownertrusts (see the next point) + 5. rm ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg + 6. install the new version of gpg (0.3.3) + 7. For every secret key call "gpg --edit-key your-user-id", + enter "passwd" at the prompt, follow the instructions and + change your password back, enter "save" to store it. + 8. Restore the ownertrust (see next point). + + * The format of the trust database has changed; you must delete + the old one, so gnupg can create a new one. + IMPORTANT: Use version 0.3.1 or .2 to save your assigned ownertrusts + ("gpgm --list-ownertrust >saved-trust"); then build this new version + and restore the ownertrust with this new version + ("gpgm --import-ownertrust saved-trust"). Please note that + --list-ownertrust has been renamed to --export-ownertrust in this + release and it does now only export defined ownertrusts. + + * The command --edit-key now provides a commandline driven menu + which can be used for various tasks. --sign-key is only an + an alias to --edit-key and maybe removed in future: use the + command "sign" of this new menu - you can select which user ids + you want to sign. + + * Alternate user ids can now be created an signed. + + * Owner trust values can now be changed with --edit-key (trust) + + * GNUPG can now run as a coprocess; this enables sophisticated + frontends. tools/shmtest.c is a simple sample implementation. + This needs some more work: all tty_xxx() are to be replaced + by cpr_xxx() and some changes in the display logics is needed. + + * Removed options --gen-prime and --gen-random. + + * Removed option --add-key; use --edit-key instead. + + * Removed option --change-passphrase; use --edit-key instead. + + * Signatures are now checked even if the output file could not + be created. Command "--verify" tries to find the detached data. + + * gpg now disables core dumps. + + * compress and symmetric cipher preferences are now used. + Because there is no 3DES yet, this is replaced by Blowfish. + + * We have added the Twofish as an experimental cipher algorithm. + Many thanks to Matthew Skala for doing this work. + Twofish is the AES submission from Schneier et al.; see + "www.counterpane.com/twofish.html" for more information. + + * Started with a help system: If you enter a question mark at some + prompt; you should get a specific help for this prompt. + + * There is no more backup copy of the secret keyring. + + * A lot of new bugs. I think this release is not as stable as + the previous one. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.2 (1998-07-09) +----------------------------------- + + * Fixed some bugs when using --textmode (-seat) + + * Now displays the trust status of a positive verified message. + + * Keyrings are now scanned in the sequence they are added with + --[secret-]keyring. Note that the default keyring is implicitly + added as the very first one unless --no-default-keyring is used. + + * Fixed setuid and dlopen bug. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.1 (1998-07-06) +----------------------------------- + + * Partial headers are now written in the OpenPGP format if + a key in a v4 packet is used. + + * Removed some unused options, removed the gnupg.sig stuff. + + * Key lookup by name now returns a key which can be used for + the desired action. + + * New options --list-ownertrust (gpgm) to make a backup copy + of the ownertrust values you assigned. + + * clear signature headers are now in compliance with OpenPGP. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.3.0 (1998-06-25) +----------------------------------- + + * New option --emulate-checksum-bug. If your passphrase does not + work anymore, use this option and --change-passphrase to rewrite + your passphrase. + + * More complete v4 key support: Preferences and expiration time + is set into the self signature. + + * Key generation defaults to DSA/ElGamal keys, so that new keys are + interoperable with pgp5 + + * DSA key generation is faster and key generation does not anymore + remove entropy from the random generator (the primes are public + parameters, so there is really no need for a cryptographic secure + prime number generator which we had used). + + * A complete new structure for representing the key parameters. + + * Removed most public key knowledge into the cipher library. + + * Support for dynamic loading of new algorithms. + + * Moved tiger to an extension module. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.19 (1998-05-29) +------------------------------------ + + * Replaced /dev/urandom in checks with new tool mk-tdata. + + * Some assembler file cleanups; some more functions for the Alpha. + + * Tiger has now the OpenPGP assigned number 6. Because the OID has + changed, old signatures using this algorithm can't be verified. + + * gnupg now encrypts the compressed packed and not any longer in the + reverse order; anyway it can decrypt both versions. Thanks to Tom + for telling me this (not security related) bug. + + * --add-key works and you are now able to generate subkeys. + + * It is now possible to generate ElGamal keys in v4 packets to create + valid OpenPGP keys. + + * Some new features for better integration into MUAs. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.18 (1998-05-15) +------------------------------------ + + * Splitted cipher/random.c, add new option "--disable-dev-random" + to configure to support the development of a random source for + other systems. Prepared sourcefiles rand-unix.c, rand-w32.c + and rand-dummy.c (which is used to allow compilation on systems + without a random source). + + * Fixed a small bug in the key generation (it was possible that 48 bits + of a key were not taken from the random pool) + + * Add key generation for DSA and v4 signatures. + + * Add a function trap_unaligned(), so that a SIGBUS is issued on + Alphas and not the slow emulation code is used. And success: rmd160 + raised a SIGBUS. + + * Enhanced the formatting facility of argparse and changed the use of + \r,\v to @ because gettext does not like it. + + * New option "--compress-algo 1" to allow the creation of compressed + messages which are readable by PGP and "--print-md" (gpgm) to make + speed measurement easier. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.17 (1998-05-04) +------------------------------------ + + * Comment packets are now of private type 61. + + * Passphrase code still used a 160 bit blowfish key, added a + silly workaround. Please change your passphrase again - sorry. + + * Conventional encryption now uses a type 3 packet to describe the + used algorithms. + + * The new algorithm number for Blowfish is 20, 16 is still used for + encryption only; for signing it is only used when it is in a v3 packet, + so that GNUPG keys are still valid. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.16 (1998-04-28) +------------------------------------ + + * Add experimental support for the TIGER/192 message digest algorithm. + (But there is only a dummy ASN OID). + + * Standard cipher is now Blowfish with 128 bit key in OpenPGP's CFB + mode. I renamed the old cipher to Blowfish160. Because the OpenPGP + group refused to assign me a number for Blowfish160, I have to + drop support for this in the future. You should use + "--change-passphrase" to recode your current passphrase with 128 + bit Blowfish. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.15 (1998-04-09) +------------------------------------ + + * Fixed a bug with the old checksum calculation for secret keys. + If you run the program without --batch, a warning does inform + you if your secret key needs to be converted; simply use + --change-passphrase to recalculate the checksum. Please do this + soon, as the compatible mode will be removed sometime in the future. + + * CAST5 works (using the PGP's special CFB mode). + + * Again somewhat more PGP 5 compatible. + + * Some new test cases + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.14 (1998-04-02) +------------------------------------ + + * Changed the internal handling of keyrings. + + * Add support to list PGP 5 keyrings with subkeys + + * Timestamps of signatures are now verified. + + * A expiration time can now be specified during key generation. + + * Some speedups for Blowfish and SHA-1, rewrote SHA-1 transform. + Reduced the amount of random bytes needed for key generation in + some cases. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.13 (1998-03-10) +------------------------------------ + + * Verify of DSA signatures works. + + * Re-implemented the slower random number generator. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.12 (1998-03-07) +------------------------------------ + + * --delete-key checks that there is no secret key. The new + option --delete-secret-key maybe used to delete a secret key. + + * "-kv" now works as expected. Options "--list-{keys,sigs]" + and "--check-sigs" are now working. + + * New options "--verify" and "--decrypt" to better support integration + into MUAs (partly done for Mutt). + + * New option "--with-colons" to make parsing of key lists easier. + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.11 (1998-03-02) +------------------------------------ + + * GPG now asks for a recipient's name if option "-r" is not used. + + * If there is no good trust path, the program asks whether to use + the public keys anyway. + + * "--delete-key" works for public keys. What semantics shall I use + when there is a secret key too? Delete the secret key or leave him + and auto-regenerate the public key, next time the secret key is used? + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.10 (1998-02-27) +------------------------------------ + + * Code for the alpha is much faster (about 20 times); the data + was misaligned and the kernel traps this, so nearly all time + was used by system to trap the misalignments and to write + syslog messages. Shame on me and thanks to Ralph for + pointing me at this while drinking some beer yesterday. + + * Changed some configure options and add an option + --disable-m-guard to remove the memory checking code + and to compile everything with optimization on. + + * New environment variable GNUPGHOME, which can be used to set + another homedir than ~/.gnupg. Changed default homedir for + Windoze version to c:/gnupg. + + * Fixed detached signatures; detached PGP signatures caused a SEGV. + + * The Windoze version works (as usual w/o a strong RNG). + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.9 (1998-02-26) +----------------------------------- + + * Fixed FreeBSD bug. + + * Added a simple man page. + + * Switched to automake1.2f and a newer gettext. + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.8 (1998-02-24) +----------------------------------- + + * Changed the name to GNUPG, the binaries are called gpg and gpgm. + You must rename rename the directory "~/.g10" to ~/.gnupg/, rename + {pub,sec}ring.g10 to {pub,sec}ring.gpg, trustdb.g10 to trustdb.gpg + and g10.sig to gnupg.sig. + + * New or changed passphrases are now salted. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.7 (1998-02-18) +----------------------------------- + + * New command "gen-revoke" to create a key revocation certificate. + + * New option "homedir" to set the homedir (which defaults to "~/.g10"). + This directory is created if it does not exists (only the last + part of the name and not the complete hierarchy) + + * Command "import" works. (Try: "finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de|g10 --import") + + * New commands "dearmor/enarmor" for g10maint. These are mainly + used for internal test purposes. + + * Option --version now conforming to the GNU standards and lists + the available ciphers, message digests and public key algorithms. + + * Assembler code for m68k (not tested). + + * "make check" works. + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.6 (1998-02-13) +----------------------------------- + + * Option "--export" works. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.5 (1998-02-12) +----------------------------------- + + * Added zlib for systems which don't have it. + Use "./configure --with-zlib" to link with the static version. + + * Generalized some more functions and rewrote the encoding of + message digests into MPIs. + + * Enhanced the checkit script + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.4 (1998-02-11) +----------------------------------- + + * nearly doubled the speed of the ElGamal signature verification. + + * backup copies of keyrings are created. + + * assembler stuff for Pentium; gives about 15% better performance. + + * fixed a lot of bugs. + + +Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.3 (1998-02-09) +----------------------------------- + + * Found a bug in the calculation of ELG fingerprints. This is now + fixed, but all existing fingerprints and keyids for ELG keys + are not any more valid. + + * armor should now work; including clear signed text. + + * moved some options to the new program g10maint + + * It's now 64 bit clean and runs fine on an alpha--linux. + + * Key generation is much faster now. I fixed this by using not + so strong random number for the primes (this was a bug because the + ElGamal primes are public parameters and it does not make sense + to generate them from strong random). The real secret is the x value + which is still generated from strong (okay: /dev/random) random bits. + + * added option "--status-fd": see g10/OPTIONS + + * We have secure memory on systems which support mlock(). + It is not complete yet, because we do not have signal handler + which does a cleanup in very case. + We should also check the ulimit for the user in the case + that the admin does not have set a limit on locked pages. + + * started with internationalization support. + + * The logic to handle the web of trust is now implemented. It is + has some bugs; but I'm going to change the algorithm anyway. + It works by calculating the trustlevel on the fly. It may ask + you to provide trust parameters if the calculated trust probability + is too low. I will write a paper which discusses this new approach. + + * a couple of changes to the configure script. + + * New option "--quick-random" which uses a much quicker random + number generator. Keys generated while this option is in effect + are flags with "INSECURE!" in the user-id. This is a development + only option. + + * Read support for new version packets (OpenPGP). + + * Comment packets are now of correct OpenPGP type 16. Old comment + packets written by G10 are detected because they always start with + a hash which is an invalid version byte. + + * The string "(INSECURE!)" is appended to a new user-id if this + is generated on a system without a good random number generator. + + +Version 0.2.2 (1998-02-09) +Version 0.2.1 (1998-01-28) +Version 0.2.0 (1998-01-25) +Version 0.1.3 (1998-01-12) +Version 0.1.2 (1998-01-07) +Version 0.1.1 (1998-01-07) +Version 0.1.0 (1998-01-05) +Version 0.0.0 (1997-12-20) + + + Copyright (C) 1998-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 1997-2017 Werner Koch + + This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives + unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without + modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. + + This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but + WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the + implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |