[Gpg4win-announce] Gpg4win 2.2.0-beta released

[Emanuel Schütze]

Hello,

we are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta version of 
Gpg4win 2.2.0.

The download is available via the usual download page:

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

This version is intended for trying out and testing the furthcoming major 
version 2.2.0 (scheduled for end of August).

This software release incoporated work that was funded by a Small Technology 
Grant of the Information Security Coalition [1].

We thank very much Gpg4win donors who financially supported the Gpg4win 
initiative. Please note that Gpg4win needs your support also in future. Please 
help the Gpg4win initiative. 100% of your donation goes into the maintenance 
and development of Gpg4win. You like Gpg4win? Then donate here, please: 
http://www.gpg4win.org/donate.html
Thank you!

More details about Gpg4win 2.2.0-beta in the README:
http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/README-2.2.0-beta31.en.txt


New in Gpg4win Version 2.2.0 (2013-07-15)
-----------------------------------------
- GpgEx:
  * Now with Windows 64 bit support!

- GpgOL:
  * starts supporting Outlook 2010. There are some Context Menu / UI
    actions available in Outlook 2010. Due to the extensive compatiblity break
    with earlier extensions the support for Outlook 2010 is still minimal and
    does not include any MIME parsing.

- Kleopatra:
  * Kleopatra no longer crashes when started as User on Windows Server
    Systems.

- Pinentry:
  * Pinentry now allows you to paste in the passphrase.

- GnuPG-Backend:
  * Gpg-agent may now be used as Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) 
    replacement with additional smartcard support.

- Installer:
  * Updated License page
  * Removed S/MIME HOWTO page (available via program menu of 
    Gpg4win)

- Included Gpg4win components are:
    GnuPG:          2.0.21-beta20
    Kleopatra:      2.1.1 (2013-05-28), KDE 4.10.3
    GPA:            0.9.4
    GpgOL:          1.1.4-git3408e00
    GpgEX:          1.0.0-beta24
    Claws-Mail:     3.9.1
    Kompendium DE:  3.0.0
    Kompendium EN:  3.0.0-beta1


Installation
------------
For installation instructions please read the new Gpg4win Compendium:
http://gpg4win.de/doc/en/gpg4win-compendium_11.html

The *ready to use installer* is available at:
  http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-2.2.0-beta31.exe (29M)
  http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-2.2.0-beta31.exe.sig

The second file is a digital signature of the the first file. 
Either check that this signature is fine or compare with the following SHA1 
checksum:
  48586ecfa940343aabbe6bd5b169bf64105f225a  gpg4win-2.2.0-beta31.exe
See also http://www.gpg4win.org/package-integrity-de.html

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.


With best regards

    your Gpg4win Development Team

[1] https://www.informsec.net/
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