gnupg/dirmngr/ONEWS

These are NEWS entries from the old separate dirmngr package

Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.0 (unreleased)
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 * Fixed a resource problem with LDAP CRLs.

 * Fixed a bad EOF detection with HTTP CRLs.

 * Made "dirmngr-client --url --load-crl URL" work.

 * New option --ignore-cert-extension.

 * Make use of libassuan 2.0 which is available as a DSO.


Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.3 (2009-06-17)
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 * Client based trust anchors are now supported.

 * Configured certificates with the suffix ".der" are now also used.

 * Libgcrypt 1.4 is now required.


Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.2 (2008-07-31)
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 * New option --url for the LOOKUP command and dirmngr-client.

 * The LOOKUP command does now also consults the local cache.  New
   option --cache-only for it and --local for dirmngr-client.

 * Port to Windows completed.

 * Improved certificate chain construction.

 * Support loading of PEM encoded CRLs via HTTP.


Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.1 (2007-08-16)
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 * The option --ocsp-signer may now take a filename to allow several
   certificates to be valid signers for the default responder.

 * New option --ocsp-max-period and improved the OCSP time checks.

 * New option --force-default-signer for dirmngr-client.

 * Ported to Windows.


Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0 (2006-11-29)
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 * Bumbed the version number.

 * Removed included gettext.  We now require the system to provide a
   suitable installation.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.7 (2006-11-17)
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 * Internal cleanups.

 * Fixed updating of DIR.txt.  Add additional diagnostics.

 * Updated gettext package.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.6 (2006-09-04)
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 * A couple of bug fixes for OCSP.

 * OCSP does now make use of the responder ID and optionally included
   certificates in the response to locate certificates.

 * No more lost file descriptors when loading CRLs via HTTP.

 * HTTP redirection for CRL and OCSP has been implemented.

 * Man pages are now build and installed from the texinfo source.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.5 (2006-06-27)
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 * Fixed a problems with the CRL caching and CRL certificate
   validation.

 * Improved diagnostics.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.4 (2006-05-16)
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 * Try all names of each crlDP.

 * Don't shutdown the socket after sending the HTTP request.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.3 (2005-10-26)
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 * Minor bug fixes.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.2 (2005-04-21)
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 * Make use of authorityKeyidentifier.keyIdentifier.

 * Fixed a possible hang on exit.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.1 (2005-02-08)
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 * New option --pem for dirmngr-client to allow requesting service
   using a PEM encoded certificate.

 * New option --squid-mode to allow using dirmngr-client directly as a
   Squid helper.

 * Bug fixes.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.0 (2004-12-17)
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 * New option --daemon to start dirmngr as a system daemon.  This
   switches to the use of different directories and also does
   CRL signing certificate validation on its own.

 * New tool dirmngr-client.

 * New options: --ldap-wrapper-program, --http-wrapper-program,
   --disable-ldap, --disable-http, --honor-http-proxy, --http-proxy,
   --ldap-proxy, --only-ldap-proxy, --ignore-ldap-dp and
   --ignore-http-dp.

 * Uses an external ldap wrapper to cope with timeouts and general
   LDAP problems.

 * SIGHUP may be used to reread the configuration and to flush the
   certificate cache.

 * An authorithyKeyIdentifier in a CRL is now handled correctly.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.6 (2004-09-28)
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 * LDAP fix.

 * Logging fixes.

 * Updated some configuration files.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.5 (2004-05-13)
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 * Fixed the growing-dir.txt bug.

 * Better LDAP error logging.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.4 (2004-04-29)
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 * New commands --ocsp-responder and --ocsp-signer to define a default
   OCSP reponder if a certificate does not contain an assigned OCSP
   responder.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.3 (2004-04-06)
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 * Basic OCSP support.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.2 (2004-03-06)
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 * New Assuan command LISTCRLS.

 * A couple of minor bug fixes.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.1 (2003-12-23)
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* New options --faked-system-time and --force.

* Changed the name of the cache directory to $HOMEDIR/dirmngr-cache.d
  and renamed the dbcontents file.  You may delete the now obsolete
  cache/ directory and the dbcontents file.

* Dropped DB2 or DB4 use.  There is no need for it because a constant
  database fits our needs far better.

* Experimental support for retrieving CRLs via http.

* The --log-file option may now be used to print logs to a socket.
  Prefix the socket name with "socket://" to enable this.  This does
  not work on all systems and falls back to stderr if there is a
  problem with the socket.


Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.0 (2003-11-17)
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* Revamped the entire thing.

* Does now require Libgcrypt 1.1.90 or higher, as well as the latest
  libksba and libassuan.

* Fixed a bug in the assuan inquire processing.


Noteworthy changes as of 2002-08-21
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* The default home directory is now .gnupg


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