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#Gpg4win is just jumping two little numbers from 4.0.0 to 4.0.2, but there is a lot in store for users. The (expert) GUI Kleopatra got many detailed improvements and the crypto backend. See https://www.gpg4win.org/change-history.html
https://dev.gnupg.org/T5743 and https://dev.gnupg.org/T5937 for all changes. #OpenPGP #EndtoEndCrypto #FreeSoftware #CryptographicMessageSyntax

#GnuPG 2.2.33 LTS brings a
few new options to ease user support and large scale installations (in addition of fixing a few minor problems as usual ;) ).
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q4/000467.html (GnuPG is a #FreeSoftware engine for #EndToEndCrypto wit email and files, it support both open standards #OpenPGP and #CryptographicMessageSyntax )

#GnuPG 2.2.28 LTS is available. It comes with a number of backports from the new stable 2.3 line, fixes and improvements for public key lookup via LDAP, smartcards, CMS and MS Windows. https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/000460.html https://dev.gnupg.org/T5482 #OpenPGP #CryptographicMessageSyntax #End2EndCrypto #FreeSoftware

#GnuPG 2.3.1- second release for the new 2.3.x major series, fixing some build issues, adding some features. Reminder: 2.2 -> 2.3 comes with faster pubkey lookup, new key defaults, AEAD encryption mode, TPM ability and more. Stay on 2.2 LTS if you are conservative. https://dev.gnupg.org/T5386
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/000458.html FreeSoftware #OpenPGP #CryptographicMessageSyntax #End2EndCrypto

#GnuPG 2.3.0 is a production ready release towards a new major series with breaking changes. A fast pubkey lookup (using an sqlite daemon). New keypairs default to ECC ed25519/cv25519. AEAD encryption mode, TPM ability and much more. See https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/000458.html Stay on 2.2 LTS if you are conservative. #FreeSoftware #OpenPGP #CryptographicMessageSyntax #End2EndCrypto