[Gpg4win-devel] gpg4win 0.5.0 released

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Werner,
your signature on this email was bad for me.
There is a chance that some part in the mailchain broke the signature
(e.g. like Mailman) Can you send me your original.
Bernhard

Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 11:05 schrieb Werner Koch:
> Hi!
>
> I have prepared a new release of gpg4win.  To build an installer get
> the files below from http://wald.intevation.de :
>
>   gpg4win-0.5.0.tar.bz2
>   gpg4win-0.5.0.tar.bz2.sig
>
> I also created installers featuring gnupg, gpa, winpt, gpgol, gpgee,
> sylpheed and dummy manuals.  They are available at:
>
>   ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-0.5.0.exe  (4.8M)
>   ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-0.5.0.exe.sig
>
>   ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-src-0.5.0.exe  (36M)
>   ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-src-0.5.0.exe.sig
>
> Note that it usually does not make sense to download the source
> installers (gpgwin-src-*.exe); they are on the ftp server to satisfy
> the conditions of the GPL.
>
> Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.0 (2006-01-05)
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>  * Fixed GPA problems.
>
>  * Sylpheed does now actually work.
>
>  * Changed the packaging of GPGee.
>
>
> I relaized to late that the German translatuion of GPA is broken (I
> included the non-fixed version).  The Sylpheed translation works.
>
> Key generation using GPA does now work.  Sylpheed is now actually
> usable; you need to load the plugins pgp plugins the first time you
> install it. (Menu: Configuration->Plugins then button "Load Plugins".
> You should load the pgpmime and the gpginline plugin; the core plugin
> gets loaded then automagically).
>
> We had to rewrite large chunks of glib's I/O Channel code for W32 and
> the result is basically working now.  However that code eventually
> needs a complete rewrite.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>    Werner
>
>
> p.s.  My code signing key expired last week, thus you need to get my
> new key (1CE0C630) either by using the URL given in my mail's header
> lines or by importing the attached keys.