[Gpg4win-devel] Gpg4win 2.2.3 released

[Andre Heinecke]

Hello,

we are pleased to announce the availability of the new stable Gpg4win version 
2.2.3.

The download is available via the usual download page:

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

This release includes the security fix for libkasba [1], which was announced 
yesterday.

More details about Gpg4win 2.2.3 in the README:
http://files.gpg4win.org/README-2.2.3.en.txt

You use Gpg4win? Then please help us with your donation that we can make 
security updates in future as well! Thank you!  
http://www.gpg4win.org/donate.html

New in Gpg4win Version 2.2.3 (2014-11-26)
-----------------------------------------

- The vanilla installer has been fixed by including GnuTLS.

- Creation of portable versions with mkportable has been fixed.

- GPA now works again under Windows XP.

- Verification of a detached signature without specifying what
  should be verified may now show a warning and has been disabled
  in batch mode.

- Tar archives can now include files and folders that use
  special characters (e.g. umlauts) which can be encoded
  in the native Windows 8-Bit codepage.

- Kleopatra now handles preprocessing (e.g. archiving) errors
  and safely aborts the operation.

- GPA has been updated to version 0.9.6.

- A security problem in the libksba library has been fixed.

- Included Gpg4win components are:  

    GnuPG:          2.0.26
    Kleopatra:      2.2.0-git945878c
    GPA:            0.9.6
    GpgOL:          1.2.1
    GpgEX:          1.0.1
    Claws-Mail:     3.9.1
    Kompendium DE:  3.0.0
    Kompendium EN:  3.0.0

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/gpg4win-2.2.3.exe (30M)
  http://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-2.2.3.exe.sig

The second file is a digital signature of the the first file. 
Either check that this signature is fine or compare with one of the following 
checksums for gpg4win-2.2.3.exe:

SHA1:  8f4be193852d510214bee65e298a0ebde9eaf2b8 
SHA256: 560f97103b302a8cc40879d9272e026acf5303912a71d1d0d198f50e16ed3367 

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] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q4/000359.html
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