[Help-gnutls] GnuTLS 1.6.0

[Simon Josefsson]

I am happy to announce GnuTLS 1.6.0!

This is the first release on our new stable branch.  This version is
what we recommend for those who need a stable version of GnuTLS.

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network
security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications.

* Version 1.6.0 (released 2006-11-17)

** No changes since 1.5.5.
The major changes compared to the 1.4.x branch are:

*** A GnuTLS C++ library is part of the official distribution.
Currently there are no examples or documentation, but hopefully this
will change.  See gnutlsxx.h for the API.

*** Windows is a supported platform.
There are, however, two know bugs.  One is related to select() in
command line tools (not, nota bene, in the library), the other is a
problem with libgcrypt that causes delays.  Help is needed to resolve
those issues, so we feel we can't delay the release because of this.

*** New APIs for custom push/pull function error reporting.
The new APIs are gnutls_transport_set_errno and
gnutls_transport_set_global_errno.  See the release notes for version
1.5.4 for more information.

*** Self tests are run under valgrind, if available.  See --disable-valgrind.

Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help!  We are looking for
organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back.
You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate
money or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance.  Simon Josefsson Datakonsult, a
Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GnuTLS
maintenance.  We are always looking for interesting development
projects.  See http://josefsson.org/ for more details.

All manual formats are available from:
  http://www.gnutls.org/manual/

Direct link to the most popular formats:
  http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html - HTML format
  http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.pdf  - PDF format
  http://www.gnutls.org/reference/ch01.html  - API Reference, GTK-DOC HTML

If you need help to use GnuTLS, or want to help others, you are
invited to join our help-gnutls mailing list, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls>.

The project page of the library is available at:
  http://www.gnutls.org/
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls/

Here are the compressed sources (4.1MB):
  ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-1.6.0.tar.bz2
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-1.6.0.tar.bz2

Here are GPG detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F:
  ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-1.6.0.tar.bz2.sig
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-1.6.0.tar.bz2.sig

For more information about GnuTLS for Windows:

  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/

The Windows binary installer and PGP signature:

  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-1.6.0.exe (14MB)
  http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-1.6.0.exe.sig

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
OpenPGP key identified by the following information:

pub   1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2007-02-15]
uid                  Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com>
uid                  Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>
sub   1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2007-02-15]
sub   1024R/09CC4670 2006-03-18 [expires: 2007-04-22]
sub   1024R/AABB1F7B 2006-03-18 [expires: 2007-04-22]
sub   1024R/A14C401A 2006-03-18 [expires: 2007-04-22]

The key is available from:
  http://josefsson.org/key.txt
  dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT

Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-224 checksums:

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Enjoy,
Nikos and Simon
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