[Gpg4win-users-en] Gpg4win 2.1.1 released

[Dr. Peter Voigt]

Am Fri, 31 May 2013 14:06:27 +0200
schrieb Emanuel Schütze <emanuel at intevation.de>:

> Hello,
> 
> we are pleased to announce the availability of the new stable Gpg4win
> version 2.1.1.
> 
> The download is available via the usual download page:
> 
>         http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html
> 
> Gpg4win 2.1.1 updated a lot of components and libraries with some
> relevant security updates.
> 
> 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 in the last 12 months. 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 2.1.1 in the README:
> http://files.gpg4win.org/README-2.1.1.en.txt
> 
> 
> New in Gpg4win Version 2.1.1 (2013-05-31)
> -----------------------------------------
> - Kleopatra:
>   * Updated to Kleopatra 2.1.1 (from KDE 4.10.3).
>   * Fixed bugs in none latin environments.
>   * Several minor and medium improvements of stability.
>  
> - Qt:
>   * Updated to 4.8.4 (from Qt 4.4.0) with a lot of 
>     improvements in Kleopatra UI.
>   * Improved support for Windows7 and Windows8.
> 
> - GnuPG-Backend:
>   * Updated to gnupg 2.0.20.
>   * Updated most included packages to recent versions (e.g. gpgme,
>     dirmngr, libassuan, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, libksba, pinentry, 
>     libpng and much more - see 'packages.current' file in Gpg4win git
>     repository).
>   * Fixed a long standing bug in GPGME which led to spurious Kleopatra
>     hangs.
> 
> - GPA:
>   * Updated to GPA 0.9.4.
> 
> - Installer:
>   * Migrated the installer to the i686-w64-mingw32 toolchain.
>   * Improved of the build system.
> 
> - Claws-Mail:
>   * Updated Claws Mail to 3.9.1 - see http://www.claws-mail.org .
> 
> - Included Gpg4win components are:
>     GnuPG:          2.0.20
>     Kleopatra:      2.1.1 (2013-05-28), KDE 4.10.3
>     GPA:            0.9.4
>     GpgOL:          1.1.3
>     GpgEX:          0.9.7
>     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/gpg4win-2.1.1.exe (35M)
>   http://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-2.1.1.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:
>   a94b292c8944576e06fe8c697d5bb94e365cae25  gpg4win-2.1.1.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/
> 

Hello,

I've just upgraded from Gpg4win 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 - Windows 7 x68_64 DE.
Good news: New version is obviously running as stable as the previous
one.

Thanks to all developers and contributors.

Regards,
Peter