GnuPG 1.4.2 released

[Charly Avital]

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Hi,

compiled for Darwin 8.2.0, with idea.c, libcurl (afer applying the  
patch to g10/keyserver.c).

Thank you for your work.

Charly

Werner Koch wrote the following on 7/27/05 3:53 AM:
 > Hello!
 >
 > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG
 > release: Version 1.4.2
 >
[...]

 > GnuPG 1.4.2 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or
 > direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/ .  The list of mirrors can be
 > found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html .  Note, that GnuPG is not
 > available at ftp.gnu.org.
 >
 > On the mirrors you should find the following files in the *gnupg*
 > directory:
 >
 >   gnupg-1.4.2.tar.bz2 (2.8M)
 >   gnupg-1.4.2.tar.bz2.sig
 >
 >       GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature.
 >
 >   gnupg-1.4.2.tar.gz (4.0M)
 >   gnupg-1.4.2.tar.gz.sig
 >
 >       GnuPG source compressed using GZIP and OpenPGP signature.
 >
 >   gnupg-1.4.1-1.4.2.diff.bz2 (939k)
 >
 >       A patch file to upgrade a 1.4.1 GnuPG source.
 >
 > Select one of them. To shorten the download time, you probably  
want to
 > get the BZIP2 compressed file.  Please try another mirror if
 > exceptional your mirror is not yet up to date.
 >
[...]

 > What's New
 > ===========
 >
 >     * New command "verify" in the card-edit menu to display
 >       the Private-DO-3.  The Admin command has been enhanced to take
 >       the optional arguments "on", "off" and "verify".  The latter  
may
 >       be used to verify the Admin Pin without modifying data; this
 >       allows displaying the Private-DO-4 with the "list" command.
 >
 >     * Rewrote large parts of the card code to optionally make use  
of a
 >       running gpg-agent.  If --use-agent is being used and a gpg- 
agent
 >       with enabled scdaemon is active, gpg will now divert all card
 >       operations to that daemon.  This is required because both,
 >       scdaemon and gpg require exclusive access to the card  
reader. By
 >       delegating the work to scdaemon, both can peacefully coexist  
and
 >       scdaemon is able to control the use of the reader.  Note that
 >       this requires at least gnupg 1.9.17.
 >
 >     * Fixed a couple of problems with the card reader.
 >
 >     * Command completion is now available in the --edit-key and
 >       --card-edit menus.  Filename completion is available at all
 >       filename prompts.  Note that completion is only available if  
the
 >       system provides a readline library.
 >
 >     * New experimental HKP keyserver helper that uses the cURL
 >       library.  It is enabled via the configure option --with-libcurl
 >       like the other (also experimental) cURL helpers. Please make
 >       sure to also apply the attached patch.
 >
 >     * New key cleaning options that can be used to remove unusable
 >       (expired, revoked) signatures from a key.  This is available  
via
 >       the new "clean" command in --edit-key on a key by key basis, as
 >       well as via the import-clean-sigs/import-clean-uids and
 >       export-clean-sigs/export-clean-uids options for --import- 
options
 >       and --export-options.  These are currently off by default, and
 >       replace the import-unusable-sigs/export-unusable-sigs options
 >       from version 1.4.1.
 >
 >     * New export option export-reset-subkey-passwd.
 >
 >     * New option --limit-card-insert-tries.
 >
 >
 > Internationalization
 > ====================
 >
 > GnuPG comes with support for 28 languages:
 >
 >   American English         Indonesian (id)[*]
 >   Bela-Russian (be)[*]     Italian (it)[*]
 >   Catalan (ca)[*]          Japanese (ja)[*]
 >   Czech (cs)               Polish (pl)[*]
 >   Danish (da)[*]           Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)[*]
 >   Dutch (nl)[*]            Portuguese (pt)[*]
 >   Esperanto (eo)[*]        Romanian (ro)
 >   Estonian (et)[*]         Russian (ru)
 >   Finnish (fi)[*]          Slovak (sk)[*]
 >   French (fr)              Spanish (es)
 >   Galician (gl)[*]         Swedish (sv)[*]
 >   German (de) [*]          Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
 >   Greek (el) [*]           Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
 >   Hungarian (hu) [*]       Turkish (tr)
 >
 > Languages marked with [*] have not been updated for this release and
 > you will most likely notice untranslated messages. Many thanks to the
 > translators who updated their work in time.
 >
 >
 > Future Directions
 > =================
 >
 > GnuPG 1.4.x is the current stable branch and will be kept as the easy
 > to use and build single-executable versions.  We plan to backport new
 > features from the development series to 1.4.
 >
 > GnuPG 1.9.x is the new development series of GnuPG.  This version
 > merged the code from the Aegypten project and thus it includes the
 > gpg-agent, a smartcard daemon and gpg's S/MIME cousin gpgsm.  The
 > design is different to the previous versions and we may not support
 > all ancient systems - thus POSIX compatibility will be an absolute
 > requirement for supported platforms.  1.9 is as of now based on an
 > somewhat older 1.3 code but will peacefully coexist with other GnuPG
 > versions.
 >
 >
 > Support
 > =======
 >
 > Developing and maintaining GnuPG and related software is nothing one
 > can do in the evening or on weekends.  We all spend a lot of time and
 > money on it.  David is actually doing this in his spare time beside
 > his day job; g10 Code employs Timo and Werner to work on this  
software
 > and would appreciate to refinance it by entering into support
 > contracts or other contributions.
 >
 >
 > Thanks
 > ======
 >
 > We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it
 > testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the
 > servers, spreading the word or answering questions on the mailing
 > lists.
 >
 >
 > Happy Hacking,
 >
 >
 >   The GnuPG Team (David, Timo and Werner)
 >
 >
 >
 > p.s.  A few hours too late we found a bug in the cURL based helper
 > programs which makes cURL based LDAP support unusable.  Given that
 > --with-libcurl is not the default we did not offtake the release but
 > ask you to apply the patch below.
 >
 > diff -u -p -r1.90 -r1.91
 > --- g10/keyserver.c    22 Jul 2005 16:28:40 -0000    1.90
 > +++ g10/keyserver.c    27 Jul 2005 01:24:57 -0000    1.91
 > @@ -860,7 +860,9 @@ curl_can_handle(const char *scheme)
 >  static const char *
 >  keyserver_typemap(const char *type)
 >  {
 > -  if(strcmp(type,"ldaps")==0)
 > +  if(strcmp(type,"ldap")==0)
 > +    return "ldap";
 > +  else if(strcmp(type,"ldaps")==0)
 >      return "ldap";
 >    else if(curl_can_handle(type))
 >      return "curl";
 >
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