PGP と GnuPG

今回のリリースでは、 2.0.7 における不具合の修正や機能の改善・追加などが行われています。

What's New
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 * Enhanced gpg-connect-agent with a small scripting language.
 
 * New option --list-config for gpgconf.
 
 * Fixed a crash in gpgconf.
 
 * Gpg-agent now supports the passphrase quality bar of the latest
   Pinentry.
 
 * The envvars XAUTHORITY and PINENTRY_USER_DATA are now passed to the
   pinentry.
 
 * Fixed the auto creation of the key stub for smartcards.  
 
 * Fixed a rare bug in decryption using the OpenPGP card.
 
 * Creating DSA2 keys is now possible.
 
 * New option --extra-digest-algo for gpgsm to allow verification of
   broken signatures.
 
 * Allow encryption with legacy Elgamal sign+encrypt keys with option
   --rfc2440.
 
 * Windows is now a supported platform.
 
 * Made sure that under Windows the file permissions of the socket are
   taken into account.  This required a change of our socket emulation
   code and changed the IPC protocol under Windows.

[引用元 : GnuPG.org : Mailing List - gnupg-announce [Important announcements] - Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.8 released, From: Werner Koch, Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:44:54 +0100]

また、今回のリリースは GnuPG's 10th birthday celebration release とのことで、同日公開の「[Announce] GnuPG's 10th birthday」において、これまでの簡単な歴史が紹介されています。

なお、今回もソースコードパッケージのみのリリースとなっています。 (Windows 版バイナリパッケージはリリースされていません。)

情報源/参考情報

• GnuPG.org - The GNU Privacy Guard
  • Mailing List - gnupg-announce [Important announcements]
    • [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.8 released
    • [Announce] GnuPG's 10th birthday