[Gpg4win-users-en] Gpg4win 2.1.1-beta197 released

[Emanuel Schütze]

Hello,

we are pleased to announce the availability of the second beta version of 
Gpg4win 2.1.1.

The download is available via the usual download page:

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

Gpg4win 2.1.1-beta197 updated a lot of components and libraries. This beta  
version is designed to test these changes before Gpg4win 2.1.1 is released. 
Please send feedback to our Gpg4win user or developer mailing lists.

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-beta197 in the README:
http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/README-2.1.1-34299-beta.en.txt


New in Gpg4win Version 2.1.1-beta197 (2013-05-16)
-------------------------------------------------
- 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 in Version 2.1.1-beta197 are:
    GnuPG:          2.0.20
    Kleopatra:      2.1.1 (2013-05-16), 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/Beta/gpg4win-2.1.1-beta197.exe (34M)
  http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-2.1.1-beta197.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:
28a213d840e8034838844321b4edf8ceb60614d6  gpg4win-2.1.1-beta197.exe
712aa91b6f592a4f7882fa4dbc3a05bce4770293  gpg4win-light-2.1.1-beta197.exe
7c3a201db76e551a91625ea0903db69ded89a1ab  gpg4win-src-2.1.1-beta197.exe
7cfc7908f2642b90c7db4aa53eceaacbbbd4c604  gpg4win-vanilla-2.1.1-beta197.exe

A separate installer with the source files used to build the above
installer is available at:
  http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-src-2.1.1-beta197.exe (309M)
  http://files.gpg4win.org/Beta/gpg4win-src-2.1.1-beta197.exe.sig

For details see: http://gpg4win.de/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.


With best regards

    your Gpg4win Development Team

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