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To: gnupg-announce@gnupg.org, info-gnu@gnu.org
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Mail-Followup-To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
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Hello!
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We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2
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release: Version 2.0.15.
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The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication
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and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital
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signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a
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framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key
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management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME
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standards.
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GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.10) in
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that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both
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versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact,
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the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as
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included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The
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advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on
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other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1
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versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server
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based applications requiring only OpenPGP support.
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GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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(GPL version 3). GnuPG-2 works best on GNU/Linux or *BSD systems.
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What's New
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===========
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* New command --passwd for GPG.
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* Fixes a regression in 2.0.14 which prevented unprotection of new
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or changed gpg-agent passphrases.
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* Uses libassuan 2.0 which is available as a DSO.
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Getting the Software
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====================
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Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/
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or read on:
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GnuPG 2.0.15 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or
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direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ . The list of mirrors
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can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html . Note, that GnuPG
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is not available at ftp.gnu.org.
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On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following files
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in the gnupg/ directory:
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gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2 (3884k)
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gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2.sig
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GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature.
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gnupg-2.0.14-2.0.15.diff.bz2 (40k)
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A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.14 GnuPG source tree. This patch
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does not include updates of the language files.
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Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs for GnuPG-2.
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Checking the Integrity
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======================
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In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to
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install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of
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the following ways:
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* If you already have a trusted version of GnuPG installed, you
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can simply check the supplied signature. For example to check the
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signature of the file gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2 you would use this command:
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gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2.sig
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This checks whether the signature file matches the source file.
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You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and
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made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key,
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either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources
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or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other
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key. Note, that you can retrieve the signing key using the command
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finger wk ,at' g10code.com
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or using a keyserver like
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gpg --recv-key 1CE0C630
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The distribution key 1CE0C630 is signed by the well known key
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5B0358A2. If you get an key expired message, you should retrieve a
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fresh copy as the expiration date might have been prolonged.
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NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE
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INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION!
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* If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify
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the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file
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gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this:
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sha1sum gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2
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and check that the output matches the first line from the
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following list:
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3596668fb9cc8ec0714463a5009f990fc23434b0 gnupg-2.0.15.tar.bz2
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ed35765ae081706c8856fd491201f4f9576135fd gnupg-2.0.14-2.0.15.diff.bz2
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Internationalization
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====================
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GnuPG comes with support for 27 languages. Due to a lot of new and
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changed strings many translations are not entirely complete. Jedi,
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Maxim Britov, Jaime Suárez and Nilgün Belma Bugüner have been kind
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enough to go over their translations and thus the Chinese, German,
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Russian, Spanish, and Turkish translations are pretty much complete.
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Documentation
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=============
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We are currently working on an installation guide to explain in more
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detail how to configure the new features. As of now the chapters on
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gpg-agent and gpgsm include brief information on how to set up the
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whole thing. Please watch the GnuPG website for updates of the
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documentation. In the meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list
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archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing lists for advise on how to
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solve problems. Many of the new features are around for several years
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and thus enough public knowledge is already available. KDE's KMail is
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the most prominent user of GnuPG-2. In fact it has been developed along
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with the KMail folks. Mutt users might want to use the configure
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option "--enable-gpgme" and "set use_crypt_gpgme" in ~/.muttrc to make
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use of GnuPG-2 to enable S/MIME in addition to a reworked OpenPGP
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support.
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The manual is also available online in HTML format at
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http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/
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and in Portable Document Format at
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http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf .
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Support
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Improving GnuPG is costly, but you can help! We are looking for
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organizations that find GnuPG useful and wish to contribute back.
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You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, order
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extensions or support or more general by donating money to the Free
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Software movement (e.g. http://www.fsfeurope.org/help/donate.en.html).
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Commercial support contracts for GnuPG are available, and they help
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finance continued maintenance. g10 Code GmbH, a Duesseldorf based
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company owned and headed by GnuPG's principal author, is currently
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funding GnuPG development. We are always looking for interesting
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development projects.
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The GnuPG service directory is available at:
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http://www.gnupg.org/service.html
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Thanks
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We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it
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testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the
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servers, spreading the word or answering questions on the mailing
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lists.
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Happy Hacking,
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The GnuPG Team
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