GPA 0.6.0 released

[Miguel Coca]

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Hello,

We are pleased to announce the release of GPA 0.6.0

GPA is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG,
http://www.gnupg.org). GPA can be used to encrypt, decrypt, and sign files,
to verify signatures and to manage the private and public keys.

This is a development release. Since GPA has undergone extensive internal
changes in this release, it must be considered unstable and very likely to
contain bugs. Please be careful when using it on production keys.

You can find the release here:

  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gpa/gpa-0.6.0.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gpa/gpa-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig

The MD5 checksums for this release are:

  322443c7754266cfdcb5667ffd022668  gpa-0.6.0.tar.gz
  ac289463d6ad2453761d374dfe1d2580  gpa-0.6.0.tar.gz.sig

Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.0 (2002-12-24)
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 * GPA now supports GnuPG 1.2 or later, thanks to it's use of GPGME.

 * All the user preferences are set from a single dialog, and automatically
 saved in gpa.conf, including the default keyserver and the use of
 advanced/simple UI mode.

 * The `--advanced-ui' command line options has been removed, as it is
 available within the program itself.

 * The new `-f' and `-k' options can be used to launch the keyring editor,
 the file manager, or both on startup.

 * All the user ID's in a key are now displayed in the `Details' section, and
 in most dialogs.

 * Key signatures are now displayed individually for each User ID, or in a
 global listing for the key.

 * The usual `Copy' and `Paste' commands can be used to import and export keys
 from the clipboard.

 * The `Edit key' option is now only available for private keys. Setting the
 ownertrust of a key is now an independent operation.

 * After every import operation, the user is informed of how many keys have
 been imported.

 * Errors or keyserver operations are now reported to the user.

 * The `Verify file' dialog has been completely revamped to allow
 verification of several files at the same time.

 * Added Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish translations.

 * The user interface has been updated to use GTK+ 2.0 and stock items.


Known problems in version 0.6.0
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 * Keyserver access now depends on the GnuPG's plugins themselves, instead
 of on the gpg executable. Therefore, these plugins must be installed for
 keyserver access to work:

	- LDAP keyservers require the gpgkeys_ldap plugin, which is
	automatically compiled along with gpg if the OpenLDAP libraries are
	available.

	- HKP keyserver access needs gpgkeys_hkp, which is provided by
	default along with GnuPG >= 1.3.0, and can be compiled for GnuPG
	1.2.x by passing the --enable-external-hkp option to configure.

 * It's been reported that compiling a Win32 version of GPA is impossible
 right now, due to our dependence on GPGME.


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody,
- -- 
Miguel Coca (mcoca@gnu.org)                http://zipi.fi.upm.es/~e970095/
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