We are pleased to announce the availability of GnuPG 1.9.17 - the
branch of GnuPG featuring the S/MIME protocol. You should consider
using GnuPG 1.9 if you want to use the GPG-AGENT or GPGSM. The
GPG-AGENT is also helpful when using the stable GPG version 1.4 or if
you want to check out its ssh-agent replacement feature.
GnuPG 1.9 is the current development version of GnuPG. Despite of
that, most parts (in particular GPG-AGENT and GPGSM) are considered
ready for production use. Please keep on using GnuPG 1.4.x for
OpenPGP; 1.9 and 1.4 may - and actually should - be installed
simultaneously.
This release features a partly rewrite of the smartcard access code as
well as several bug fixes and enhancements. Noteworthy things are:
* gpg-connect-agent has now features to handle Assuan INQUIRE
commands.
* Internal changes for OpenPGP cards. New Assuan command WRITEKEY.
* GNU Pth is now a hard requirement.
* [scdaemon] Support for OpenSC has been removed. Instead a new and
straightforward pkcs#15 modules has been written. As of now it
does allows only signing using TCOS cards but we are going to
enhance it to match all the old capabilities.
* [gpg-agent] New option --write-env-file and Assuan command
UPDATESTARTUPTTY.
* [gpg-agent] New option --default-cache-ttl-ssh to set the TTL for
SSH passphrase caching independent from the other passphrases.
You will also need to get a new libassuan (our IPC library).
GnuPG 1.9 is the development version of GnuPG; it is based on some old
GnuPG 1.3 code and the previous NewPG package. It will eventually
lead to a GnuPG 2.0 release. Note that GnuPG 1.4 and 1.9 are not yet
in sync and thus features and bug fixes done in 1.4 are not available
in 1.9. *Please keep on using 1.4.x for OpenPGP*; 1.9.x and 1.4.x may
be installed simultaneously.
You should use GnuPG 1.9 if you want to use the gpg-agent or gpgsm
(the S/MIME variant of gpg). The gpg-agent is also helpful when using
the stable gpg version 1.4 (as well as the old 1.2 series).
This is mainly a bug fix release but comes with some new features as
well:
* gpg-agent does now support the ssh-agent protocol and thus allows
to use the pinentry as well as the OpenPGP smartcard with ssh.
* New tool gpg-connect-agent as a general client for the gpg-agent.
* New tool symcryptrun as a wrapper for certain encryption tools.
* The gpg tool is not anymore build by default because those gpg
versions available in the gnupg 1.4 series are far more matured.
* [gpg-agent] New option --use-standard-socket to allow the use of a
fixed socket. gpgsm falls back to this socket if GPG_AGENT_INFO
has not been set.
* New tool gpg-preset-passphrase.
This is mainly a maintenance release to support new options in dirmngr
(to be released soon):
* [gpgsm] New option --prefer-system-dirmngr.
* Minor cleanups and debugging aids.
- Derive PKGNAME from DISTNAME.
- Move PKG_INSTALLATION_TYPES where it belongs.
- Sort USE_* and include sections alphabetically.
- Put CONFIGURE_ARGS in its own section.
- Fix indentation for TEST_TARGET line.
- No need to use LIBTOOL_OVERRIDE.
- No need to use BUILD_USES_MSGFMT; the distfile comes with prebuilt .gmo
files.
- No need to use GNU make.
- Add missing dependencies on libiconv and gettext-lib.
- Drop logic to detect the actual installed version of gettext. It was
wrong because it relied on the current state of the system, thus possibly
leading to different results depending on package installation order.
Instead, just include gettext-lib's buildlink3.mk file, so that the
'builtin' machinery does everything for us.
- Move the definition of PKG_OPTIONS_VAR and friends to its own section.
While here, add a comment saying that it might be possible to avoid this
option by creating a new package that includes the extra files installed
when it's enabled. (Not doing now because I'm not sure it's possible
yet.)
- Use PLIST_SRC correctly to handle multiple PLIST chunks instead of
manually creating a file inside WRKSRC.
- Remove empty directories from PLIST.gpgsm.
code and the previous newpg package. It will eventually lead to a
GnuPG 2.0 release. This pagkage provides several utilities that are used
by mail clients, such as Kmail and Balsa, to provide OpenPGP/MIME
and SMIME support.
