Second 2.3.0 Beta

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at enigmail.net
Sun Mar 21 15:28:16 CET 2021


I created a first package of GpgOSX for x86_64 and arm64 of the new beta:

https://enigmail.net/download/gpgosx/unstable/GnuPG-2.3.0-beta1655.dmg
https://enigmail.net/download/gpgosx/unstable/GnuPG-2.3.0-beta1655.dmg.sig

-Patrick

Werner Koch via Gnupg-devel wrote on 15.03.2021 15:32:
> Hi!
> 
> We plan to soon start with a GnuPG 2.3 series to slightly modernize
> GnuPG.  We will need a few releases to fix still open bugs and to learn
> about new problems.  Before we release 2.3.0 we consider it useful to
> have wider beta tests to catch build problems etc.  Here comes the
> second beta.
> 
> 2.3 is GnuPG Git master and is regularly used at least by us.  However,
> building from Git is harder than building from a regular tarball or just
> using a Windows installer.  Thus here is our Beta:
> 
>  https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/unstable/gnupg-2.3.0-beta1655.tar.bz2
>  https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/unstable/gnupg-2.3.0-beta1655.tar.bz2.sig
> 
> You need the latest version of Libgcrypt and libgpg-error to build it.
> Windows users may want to try the installer at 
> 
>  https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/unstable/gnupg-w32-2.3.0-beta1655_20210315.exe
>  https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/unstable/gnupg-w32-2.3.0-beta1598_20210315.exe.sig
> 
> As usual no guarantee for not breaking things.  As long as no new option
> is used there should be no problem to move back to 2.2.27.
> 
> Here is a list of new things since the first beta (beta1689):
> 
>   * tpm2d: New daemon to physically bind keys to the local machine.
> 
>   * gpg: New option --force-sign-key.  [#4584]
> 
>   * gpg: New option --no-auto-trust-new-key.
> 
>   * scd: New option --pcsc-shared; see man page for important notes.
> 
> See the included NEWS for all changes in 2.3.0.  Note also that the
> Windows Unicode support in the provided build does not completely work
> if GnuPG is installed under a directory containing Unicode characters.
> This is because the needed Libassuan version has not yet been released;
> Unicode command line arguments will work in any case. 
> 
> Please send bug reports to this list.
> 
> 
> 
> Happy hacking.
> 
>   Your GnuPG hackers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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