[Announce] GnuPG 1.4.2 released

[David Shaw]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:20:35PM -0400, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> 
> > We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG
> > release: Version 1.4.2
> 
> > What's New
> > ===========
>  
> >     * 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.
> 
> When enabled (./configure --with-libcurl=DIR), connections to
> hkp://keyserver.kjsl.com will be persistent/reused and pipelined
> (as defined in RFC 2616).  Enjoy (responsibly)!

Thought you'd get a kick out of that...

Note that in the next release of GnuPG, --with-libcurl will be the
default.  (So the more people who try it now, and report back any
problems, the better).

David