[Gpg4win-announce] Gpg4win 2.0.2 released

[Emanuel Schütze]

Hello,

we are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable Gpg4win
release: Version 2.0.2.

This is basically the same as the 2nd release candidate of 2.0.2.

The download is available via the usual download page:

        http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html


Important Note
--------------
Infrequently Kleopatra hangs while updating the certificates. 
(The button "Stop Operation" is enabled but does not take effect.) If this is 
the case, you can stop and restart Kleopatra to resolve the issue. 
A solution to this defect is in progress, but this chance whould have delayed 
the 2.0.2 release even further. 
Technical details for developers: https://issues.kolab.org/issue4302


Short overview on changes compared to version 2.0.1:
----------------------------------------------------
- Kleopatra:
  * New certificate wizard for OpenPGP and X.509 improved
  * Certificate selection dialog for sign/encrypt comes up in case of  
    conflict only
  * Result dialog for sign/encrypt combined in one window
  * File crypto operations with GpgEX stabilized
  * SmartCard support for X.509 NetKey cards improved
  * Rekursive sign/encrypt of files/directory now possible; condition:  
    external archive tool required (see README file for configuration)
  * new oxygen icons
  * Several minor and medium issues and errors were fixed

- GpgOL:
  * Symbol load mechanism improved to add new icons
    (now with crypto icons for the message list)

- Pinentry:
  * Change default: switch from GTK to QT4
  * new icons for pinentry-qt4
  * Pinentry-qt4 dialog always comes up in foreground

- GnuPG-Backend:
  * Generate new certificate for OpenPGP/X.509: default key length
    updated (new Default: RSA, 2048 bit); 
    furthermore select list of key length in Kleopatra updated

- Installer:
  * new images for NSIS installer

- Included components are:
    GnuPG:        2.0.14
    Kleopatra:    2.0.14-svn1098530 (20100303)
    GPA:          0.9.0
    GpgOL:        1.1.1
    GpgEX:        0.9.5
    Claws-Mail:   3.7.4cvs1
    Kompendium:   3.0.0-rc1


Installation
------------

For installation instructions, please visit http://www.gpg4win.org or
read on.

Developers who want to *build an installer* need to get the following
files from http://ftp.gpg4win.org/ :

  gpg4win-2.0.2.tar.bz2  (5M)
  gpg4win-2.0.2.tar.bz2.sig

The second file is a digital signature of the the first file.  Either
check that this signature is fine or compare with the checksums given
below.  (see also http://www.gpg4win.org/package-integrity.html)

The *ready to use installer* is available at:

  http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-2.0.2.exe  (35M)
  http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-2.0.0.exe.sig

Or using the ftp protocol at:

  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-2.0.2.exe  (35M)
  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-2.0.2.exe.sig

SHA1 checksums for these files are given below.

If you don't need the certificate manager Kleopatra or the manuals, 
you might alternatively download the "light" version of the installer:

  http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-light-2.0.2.exe  (12M)
  http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-light-2.0.2.exe.sig

or using FTP at:

  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-light-2.0.2.exe  (12M)
  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-light-2.0.2.exe.sig

A separate installer with the source files used to build the above
installer is available at:

  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-src-2.0.2.exe  (277M)
  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-src-2.0.2.exe.sig

Most people don't need this source installer; it is merely stored on
that server to satisfy the conditions of the GPL. In general it is
better to get the gpg4win builder tarball (see above) and follow the
instructions in the README to build new installers; building the
installer is not possible on Windows machines and works best on current
Debian GNU/Linux systems.

SHA1 checksums are:

f26500890f2adb65992fcf3aaeb855e1fe444f55  gpg4win-2.0.2.exe
9468ed74245419f1197d42090a06a56859086657  gpg4win-light-2.0.2.exe
6513e46b90c0cf391bbc0531a7b1cc95a0b6daf8  gpg4win-src-2.0.2.exe
5d04f0aaed889dedd1fc4ce545f7b90d63bf6aff  gpg4win-2.0.2.tar.bz2


If you have problems downloading the above files, you may try the mirror
server listed at the download page.

We like to thank the authors of the included packages, the NSIS authors,
all other contributors and first of all, those folks who stayed with us
and helped testing Gpg4win.

To help furthering this project, please consider to sponsor the
development.  See http://www.gpg4win.org .


With best regards

   your Gpg4win Development Team