[Gpg4win-users-en] Gpg4win 2.1.0-rc1 released

[Emanuel Schütze]

Hello,

we are pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of 
Gpg4win 2.1.0.

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 2.1.0. There are a lot of improvements and bug fixes, particularly    
in Kleopatra, Pinentry and GnuPG.
Read the README file for details:
http://ftp.gpg4win.org/Beta/README-2.1.0-rc1.en.txt


New in version 2.1.0-rc1:
-------------------------
[The following issue numbers reference to https://issues.kolab.org/.]

- Kleopatra:
  * Checksums 
    - create checksums for more than one files 
      [kolab/issue4540]
    - Create/verify checksum entry to file menu of Kleopatra added
      [kolab/issue4464]
    - Create and verify dialogs of Kleopatra extended
      [kolab/issue4487]
  * More GUI improvements:
    - Kleopatra's main window: column 'fingerprint' with 'key-id' replaced 
      [kolab/issue4542]
    - Show key-id always in 8-digit format
      [kolab/issue4659]
    - Decrypt/verify files dialog layout improved
      [kolab/issue4662] 
  * SmartCard:
    - Improve initialize smart card process with Kleopatra 
      [kolab/issue4519]

- Pinentry:
  * Pinentry-qt4 hanger while signing e-mail fixed
    (update from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1)
    [kolab/issue4302] 

- GnuPG-Backend:
  * fixed: gpgconf doesn't restart gpg-agent automatically
    [kolab/issue4563]
  * bzip2 updated (from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6)
  * Add better error code for missing certificates

- Installer:
  * Windows7 support for Gpg4win
  * S/MIME configuration instruction added

- Claws:
  see http://www.claws-mail.org

- Included Gpg4win components are:
    GnuPG:          2.0.16
    Kleopatra:      2.1.0-svn1192835 (2010-11-04)
    GPA:            0.9.1-svn1024
    GpgOL:          1.1.2
    GpgEX:          0.9.7
    Claws-Mail:     3.7.8cvs9
    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://ftp.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-2.1.0-rc1.exe  (42M)
  http://ftp.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-2.1.0-rc1.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 checksums given 
below.

SHA1 checksums are:
37a001e240264708511edfe1f9bebf151b4f85da  gpg4win-2.1.0-rc1.exe
d93d64bae4299d4ac33a9e7c4d7008b2b5392b6f  gpg4win-light-2.1.0-rc1.exe
c75994034dd5e8ae8e6cfe5866ce72abc52cc013  gpg4win-src-2.1.0-rc1.exe
0aa1a23627fb58341e24aa1737821ae59c7c01ab  gpg4win-2.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2

Developers who want to *build an installer* need to get the following
files from http://ftp.gpg4win.org/Beta/ :
  gpg4win-2.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2  (12M)
  gpg4win-2.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2.sig

A separate installer with the source files used to build the above
installer is available at:
  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/Beta/gpg4win-src-2.1.0-rc1.exe  (265M)
  ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/Beta/gpg4win-src-2.1.0-rc1.exe.sig

Most developer 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. For details see:
http://gpg4win.org/build-installer-gnulinux.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.


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


With best regards

   your Gpg4win Development Team
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