[Announce] GnuPG 2.5.12 released

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 3 Sep 2025, at 11:47, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
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> On Wed,  3 Sep 2025 09:21, Bernhard Reiter said:
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>> Congratulations to 2.5.12 and that it is now ready for production usage!
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> It has been for quite some time:
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>  Note that this 2.5 series [...]
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> I just added a note to make this more clear.  FWIW, we have customers
> using this on their systems since December.

It used to be that the marker of whether a gnupg release was “production ready” or not was the odd vs even minor release number. Will this no longer be the case in the future?

Thanks,
A