From wk at gnupg.org Tue Oct 29 15:20:51 2024 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:20:51 +0100 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.4.6 released Message-ID: <87frofuh18.fsf@jacob.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: version 2.4.6. This version fixes a couple of bugs, comes with a few new features, and has now full support for Portuguese. What is GnuPG ============= The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG, GPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for public key directories. GnuPG itself is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. The separate library GPGME provides a uniform API to use the GnuPG engine by software written in common programming languages. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries making use of GnuPG are available. As an universal crypto engine GnuPG provides support for S/MIME and Secure Shell in addition to OpenPGP. GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Noteworthy changes in version 2.4.6 =================================== * gpg: New command --quick-set-ownertrust. [rG967678d972] * gpg: Indicate disabled keys in key listings and add list option "show-ownertrust". [rG2a0a706eb2] * gpg: Make sure a DECRYPTION_OKAY is never issued for a bad OCB tag. [T7042] * gpg: Do not allow to accidently set the RENC usage. [T7072] * gpg: Accept armored files without CRC24 checksum. [T7071] * gpg: New --import-option "only-pubkeys". [T7146] * gpg: Repurpose the AKL mechanism "ldap" to work like the keyserver mechnism but only for LDAP keyservers. [rG6551281ca3] * gpg: ADSKs are now configurable for new keys. [T6882] * gpg: New option --proc-all-sigs. [T7261] * gpg: Fix a wrong decryption failed status for signed and OCB encrypted messages without a signature verification key. [T7042] * gpg: Make --no-literal work again for -c and --store. [T5852] * gpg: Fix getting key by IPGP. [T7288] * gpg: Validate the trustdb after the import of a trusted key. [T7200] * gpg: Exclude expired trusted keys from the key validation process. [T7200] * gpgsm: New option --assert-signer. [T7286] * gpgsm: Emit user IDs with an empty Subject also in colon mode. [T7171] * keyboxd: Fix a race condition on the database handle. [T7294] * agent: Consider an empty pattern file as valid. [rGc27534de95] * agent: Fix error handling of READKEY. [T6012] * agent: Avoid random errors when storing key in ephemeral mode. [T7129, rG19d93a239d] * agent: Make "SCD DEVINFO --watch" more robust. [T7151] * agent: Fix detection of the yet unused trustflag de-vs. [T5079] * scd: Improve KDF data object handling for OpenPGP cards. [T7058] * scd: Avoid buffer overrun with more than 16 PC/SC readers. [T7129, rG524e3a9345] * scd: Fix how the scdaemon on its pipe connection finishes. [T7160] * gpgconf: Check readability of some files with -X and change its output format. [rG759adb2493] * gpg-mail-tube: New tool to apply PGP/MIME encryption to a mail. [rGa564a9f66c] * Fix a race condition in creating the socket directory. [T7332] * Fix some uninitialized variables and double frees in error code paths. [T7129] Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7030 Getting the Software ==================== Please follow the instructions found at or read on: GnuPG may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from its primary FTP server. The list of mirrors can be found at . Note that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. The GnuPG source code compressed using BZIP2 and its OpenPGP signature are available here: https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2 (7923k) https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2.sig An installer for Windows without any graphical frontend except for a very minimal Pinentry tool is available here: https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.4.6_20241029.exe (5488k) https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.4.6_20241029.exe.sig The source used to build this Windows installer can be found in the same directory with a ".tar.xz" suffix. A new release of Gpg4win has not yet been done because we are still working on GUI improvements. Checking the Integrity ====================== In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of the following ways: * If you already have a version of GnuPG installed, you can simply verify the supplied signature. For example to verify the signature of the file gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2.sig gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2 This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by one or more of the release signing keys. Make sure that this is a valid key, either by matching the shown fingerprint against a trustworthy list of valid release signing keys or by checking that the key has been signed by trustworthy other keys. See the end of this mail for information on the signing keys. * If you are not able to use an existing version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. On Unix systems the command to do this is either "sha1sum" or "shasum". Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2, you run the command like this: sha1sum gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the next line: 2d8aa2662c398d60f1f8e0bf46fd163eae703189 gnupg-2.4.6.tar.bz2 f296bcb4e252975b818246771102f8db057e24ad gnupg-w32-2.4.6_20241029.tar.xz 6d6b2017152fea4532afe38ce00e38a438b1e4bb gnupg-w32-2.4.6_20241029.exe Internationalization ==================== This version of GnuPG has support for 26 languages with Chinese (traditional and simplified), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian being almost completely translated. Documentation and Support ========================= The file gnupg.info has the complete reference manual of the system. Separate man pages are included as well but they miss some of the details available only in the manual. The manual is also available online at https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/ or can be downloaded as PDF at https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf You may also want to search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing list for advise on how to solve problems. Most of the new features are around for several years and thus enough public experience is available. https://wiki.gnupg.org has user contributed information around GnuPG and relate software. In case of build problems specific to this release please first check https://dev.gnupg.org/T7030 for updated information. Please consult the archive of the gnupg-users mailing list before reporting a bug: https://gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html. We suggest to send bug reports for a new release to this list in favor of filing a bug at https://bugs.gnupg.org. If you need commercial support go to https://gnupg.com or https://gnupg.org/service.html. If you are a developer and you need a certain feature for your project, please do not hesitate to bring it to the gnupg-devel mailing list for discussion. Thanks ====== Since 2001 maintenance and development of GnuPG is done by g10 Code GmbH and has mostly been financed by donations. Several full-time employed developers and contractors are working exclusively on GnuPG and closely related software like Libgcrypt, GPGME, Kleopatra and Gpg4win. Fortunately, and this is still not common with free software, we have established a way of financing the development while keeping all our software free and freely available for everyone. Our model is similar to the way RedHat manages RHEL and Fedora: Except for the actual binary of the MSI installer for Windows and client specific configuration files, all the software is available under the GNU GPL and other Open Source licenses. Thus customers may even build and distribute their own version of the software as long as they do not use our trademarks GnuPG Desktop? or GnuPG VS-Desktop?. We like to thank all the nice people who are helping the GnuPG project, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the servers, spreading the word, answering questions on the mailing lists, or helped with donations. *Thank you all* Your GnuPG hackers p.s. This is an announcement only mailing list. Please send replies only to the gnupg-users at gnupg.org mailing list. List of Release Signing Keys: To guarantee that a downloaded GnuPG version has not been tampered by malicious entities we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa3072 2017-03-17 [expires: 2027-03-15] 5B80 C575 4298 F0CB 55D8 ED6A BCEF 7E29 4B09 2E28 Andre Heinecke (Release Signing Key) ed25519 2020-08-24 [expires: 2030-06-30] 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) ed25519 2021-05-19 [expires: 2027-04-04] AC8E 115B F73E 2D8D 47FA 9908 E98E 9B2D 19C6 C8BD Niibe Yutaka (GnuPG Release Key) brainpoolP256r1 2021-10-15 [expires: 2029-12-31] 02F3 8DFF 731F F97C B039 A1DA 549E 695E 905B A208 GnuPG.com (Release Signing Key 2021) The keys are available at https://gnupg.org/signature_key.html and in any recently released GnuPG tarball in the file g10/distsigkey.gpg . 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