Software Update: GnuPG 2.2.25

GnuPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard and is also often abbreviated to GPG. This is a collection of tools for securing communication flows and data. It can be used to encrypt data and create digital signatures, and to provide a framework for public-key cryptography. It supports both OpenPGP and s/mime standards. For more information, please refer to this page. The developers have released GnuPG 2.2.25 with the following changes:

Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.25

• scd: Fix regression in 2.2.24 requiring gpg –card-status before signing or decrypting. [#5065]
• gpgsm: Using Libksba 1.5.0 signatures with a rarely used combination of attributes can now be verified. [#5146]

Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.24

• Allow Unicode file names on Windows almost everywhere. Note that it is still not possible to use Unicode strings on the command line. This change also fixes a regression in 2.2.22 related to non-ascii file names. [#5098]
• Fix localized time printing on Windows. [#5073]
• gpg: New command –quick-revoke-sig. [#5093]
• gpg: Do not use weak digest algos if selected by recipient preference during sign+encrypt. [4c181d51a6]
• gpg: Switch to AES256 for symmetric encryption in the -vs mode. [166e779634]
• gpg: Silence weak digest warnings with –quiet. [#4893]
• gpg: Print new status line CANCELED_BY_USER for a cancel during symmetric encryption. [f05d1772c4]
• gpg: Fix the encrypt+sign hash algo preference selection for ECDSA. This is in particular needed for keys created from existing smartcard based keys. [aeed0b93ff]
• agent: Fix secret key import or GnuPG 2.3 generated Ed25519 keys. [#5114]
• agent: Keep some permissions of private-keys-v1.d. [#2312]
• dirmngr: Align sks-keyservers.netCA.pem use between ntbtls and gnutls builds. [e4f3b74c91]
• dirmngr: Fix the pool keyserver case for a single host in the pool. [72e04b03b1a7]
• scd: Fix the use case of verify_chv2 by CHECKPIN. [61aea64b3c]
• scd: Various improvements to the ccid driver. [#4616,#5065]
• scd: Minor fixes for Yubikey [25bec16d0b]
• gpgconf: New option –show-versions.
• w32: Install gpg-check-pattern and example profiles. Install Windows subsystem variant or gpgconf (gpgconf-w32).
• i18n: Complete overhaul and completion of the Italian translation. Thanks to Denis Renzi.
• Require Libgcrypt 1.8 because 1.7 has long reached end-of-life.