From 311816f6cf9d411dba060603e3c5d01c72824645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:40:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Release 2.1.8.

---
 NEWS | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a00c0e6d..e444f3838 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
-Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.8 (unreleased)
+Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.8 (2015-09-10)
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+ * gpg: Sending very large keys to the keyservers works again.
+
+ * gpg: Validity strings in key listings are now again translatable.
+
+ * gpg: Emit FAILURE status lines to help GPGME.
+
+ * gpg: Does not anymore link to Libksba to reduce dependencies.
+
+ * gpgsm: Export of secret keys via Assuan is now possible.
+
+ * agent: Raise the maximum passphrase length from 100 to 255 bytes.
+
+ * agent: Fix regression using EdDSA keys with ssh.
+
+ * Does not anymore use a build timestamp by default.
+
+ * The fallback encoding for broken locale settings changed
+   from Latin-1 to UTF-8.
+
+ * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation.
+
+ * Various minor bug fixes.
+
 
 Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.7 (2015-08-11)
 ------------------------------------------------