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Gpg4win Light Changelog

What's new in Gpg4win Light 2.3.4

Jul 7, 2017
  • The cryptography library libgcrypt has been updated to version 1.7.8 to include a fix for a side channel attack. [CVE-2017-7526] Details: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2017q2/000408.html
  • Support libraries have been updated.
  • GPA was updated to 0.9.10. This includes a fix for file handling with filenames containing special characters.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.3.3 (Aug 18, 2016)

  • The cryptography library libgcrypt has been updated to version 1.6.6 to include a fix a problem with the random number generator.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.3.2 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • When S/MIME is disabled in GpgOL it now also ignores sent mails.
  • Problems causing the start of Kleopatra and GPA from GpgEX and GpgOL have been fixed.
  • Various regressions in 2.3.1 are now again fixed.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.3.1 (Apr 15, 2016)

  • GpgOL now has an option dialog where S/MIME can be disabled.
  • GpgOL now supports the 64 Bit version of Microsoft Outlook.
  • GpgOL can be switched to the new, experimental, MIME aware behavior in the Options Dialog.
  • GpgOL now reverts temporary changes made to MIME mails. So that they can be opened with other clients again.
  • GpgEX no longer blocks the Windows Explorer while it starts GPA or Kleopatra.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.6 (Sep 10, 2015)

  • Claws Mail has been removed from the package.
  • GnuPG has been updated to Version 2.0.29.
  • X509 Certificate requests can now again generated with default options.
  • GPA has been updated to Version 0.9.9.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.5 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • GnuPG has been updated to version 2.0.28.
  • A potential crash during certificate search has been fixed.
  • Kleopatra no longer queries revocation information for X509 certificates during startup. This will drastically improve the startup time for some users. Revocation information is still checked once a certificate is used.
  • Kleopatra now uses the same defaults as GnuPG for new OpenPGP certificates.
  • Third party libraries included in Gpg4win have been updated:
  • GnuPG: 2.0.28
  • Kleopatra: 2.2.0-gita3c9200
  • GPA: 0.9.7
  • GpgOL: 1.2.1
  • GpgEX: 1.0.2
  • Claws-Mail: 3.9.1
  • Kompendium DE: 3.0.0
  • Kompendium : 3.0.0

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.4 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • GnuPG has been updated to version 2.0.27. See release notes on www.gnupg.org for details.
  • Libgcrypt has been updated to version 1.6.3 (includes fix for CVE-2014-3591)
  • An issue has been fixed which could cause extracted files from TAR Archives to be truncated.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.3 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • The vanilla installer has been fixed by including GnuTLS.
  • Creation of portable versions with mkportable has been fixed.
  • GPA now works again under Windows XP.
  • Verification of a detached signature without specifying what should be verified may now show a warning and has been disabled in batch mode.
  • Tar archives can now include files and folders that use special characters (e.g. umlauts) which can be encoded in the native Windows 8-Bit codepage.
  • Kleopatra now handles preprocessing (e.g. archiving) errors and safely aborts the operation.
  • GPA has been updated to version 0.9.6.
  • A security problem in the libksba library has been fixed.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.2 (Apr 1, 2015)

  • GnuPG has been updated to version 2.0.26. See release notes on www.gnupg.org for details.
  • Sreen reader support and accessibility of Kleopatra was improved.
  • A library load problem has been fixed that could keep Kleopatra from starting on some systems.
  • Kleopatra has been updated to KDE Sofware Collection 4.14.
  • Used libraries have been updated to their latest stable relase.
  • GpgEX no longer crashes if the environment variable GNUPGHOME is set.
  • Pinentry-qt warning and confirmation dialogs should now open always in foreground.
  • Problems with Outlook sender and recipient address lookup have been fixed in GpgOL. Especially for Microsoft Exchange addresses.
  • Command line output is encoded to the Windows console encoding.
  • The pinentry dialog is now translated correctly in the French locale.
  • Command line wildcards (like *.txt) work again.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.1 (Oct 9, 2013)

  • Updated GnuPG to version 2.0.22 Kleopatra no longer crashes when using Microsoft Office IME. Support for SPR332 and 532 pinpads.
  • GnuPG: 2.0.22
  • Kleopatra: 2.2.0
  • GPA: 0.9.4
  • GpgOL: 1.2.0
  • GpgEX: 1.0.0
  • Claws-Mail: 3.9.1
  • Kompendium DE: 3.0.0
  • Kompendium EN: 3.0.0

New in Gpg4win Light 2.2.0 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Included Gpg4win components in Version 2.2.0 are:
  • GnuPG: 2.0.21
  • Kleopatra: 2.2.0
  • GPA: 0.9.4
  • GpgOL: 1.2.0
  • GpgEX: 1.0.0
  • Claws-Mail: 3.9.1
  • Kompendium DE: 3.0.0
  • Kompendium EN: 3.0.0
  • New:
  • GpgEx:
  • Now with Windows 64 bit support!
  • GpgOL:
  • Rudimentary support for Outlook 2010 and 2013.
  • The following crypto functions are already available via the new GpgOL ribbon rsp. Outlook's context menu (no MIME parsing, yet):
  • Encrypting/decrypting mail bodys
  • Saving and decrypting attachments
  • Attaching and encrypting files
  • Signing and signature verification (of opaque signatures)
  • GpgOL for Outlook 2003 and 2007 is unaffected by these changes.
  • Kleopatra:
  • Kleopatra no longer crashes when started by a regular user on terminal servers (Windows Server).
  • Pinentry:
  • Pinentry now allows to paste in the passphrase.
  • GnuPG-Backend:
  • Gpg-agent may now be used as Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent)
  • replacement with additional smartcard support.
  • Updated to GnuPG 2.0.21.
  • GPA:
  • Fixed crash when copying a key in the clipboard (gnupg bug #1525).
  • Installer:
  • Updated license page.
  • Removed S/MIME HOWTO page (still easily accessible via Gpg4win's program menu entry).
  • Gpg4win portable Version:
  • Added mkportable.exe as a new tool to create a portable installation.

New in Gpg4win Light 2.1.1 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Included components:
  • GnuPG: 2.0.20
  • GPA: 0.9.4
  • GpgOL: 1.1.3
  • GpgEX: 0.9.7
  • Claws-Mail: 3.9.1

New in Gpg4win Light 2.1.1 Beta (Mar 13, 2013)

  • Included components:
  • GnuPG: 2.0.19
  • Kleopatra: 2.1.0 (2011-02-04)
  • GPA: 0.9.1
  • GpgOL: 1.1.3
  • GpgEX: 0.9.7
  • Claws-Mail: 3.8.0cvs30
  • Kompendium DE: 3.0.0
  • Kompendium EN: 3.0.0-beta1

New in Gpg4win Light 2.1.0 (Mar 13, 2013)

  • New versions of GnuPG, Kleopatra, GpgEX, GpgOL, Claws.