* Enhanced gpg-connect-agent with a small scripting language.
* New option --list-config for gpgconf.
* Fixed a crash in gpgconf.
* The envvars XAUTHORITY and PINENTRY_USER_DATA are now passed to the
pinentry.
* Fixed the auto creation of the key stub for smartcards.
* Fixed a rare bug in decryption using the OpenPGP card.
* Creating DSA2 keys is now possible.
* New option --extra-digest-algo for gpgsm to allow verification of
broken signatures.
* Allow encryption with legacy Elgamal sign+encrypt keys with option
--rfc2440.
Changes:
* Fixed encryption problem if duplicate certificates are in the
keybox.
* Add new options min-passphrase-nonalpha, check-passphrase-pattern,
enforce-passphrase-constraints and max-passphrase-days to
gpg-agent.
* Add command --check-components to gpgconf. Gpgconf now uses the
installed versions of the programs and does not anymore search via
PATH for them.
* Switched license to GPLv3.
* Fixed bug when using the --p12-charset without --armor.
* The command --gen-key may now be used instead of the
gpgsm-gencert.sh script.
* Changed key generation to reveal less information about the
machine. Bug fixes for gpg2's card key generation.
been identified in all released GnuPG versions. Exploiting this
overflow seems to be possible. Apply the following patch to GnuPG."
2006-11-27 Werner Koch <wk@g10code.com>
gnupg2 has been patched accordingly.
GnuPG-2 provides several utilities that are used by mail clients,
such as Kmail and Balsa, including OpenPGP and S/MIME support.
GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.5) in that
it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both
versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact,
the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as
included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The
advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on
other modules at run and build time.
