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guru meditation Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Mar 2018 Posts: 140 Location: Planet Earth
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2022 4:27 pm Post subject: Does anyone know the reason why GnuPG stable is still 2.2? |
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GnuPG 2.3 first appeared somewhere in April of 2021 and is now version 2.3.4. To be installed, app-crypt/gnupg has to be added in package.accept_keywords.
Any reason why in any other cases Gentoo sticks to 2.2?
I reckon there were multiple changes in the past, also for the underlying TLS library libgcrypt. That's why GnuTLS switched to libnettle in the past. |
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freke l33t
Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 962 Location: Somewhere in Denmark
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dmpogo Advocate
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:59 am Post subject: |
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There are couple of recent bugs opened on bugzilla against gnupg-2.3 |
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sam_ Developer
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:03 am Post subject: |
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Yep. For something critical like gnupg, we like to go slow, and allow upstream to iron out the kinks in new major versions. We'll probably stable 2.3.x soon though. |
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guru meditation Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds reasonable. In a blog post Mr. Koch mentions that v2.3 is kind of beta to a (planned) 2.4. |
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sam_ Developer
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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2022 1:15 am Post subject: |
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guru meditation wrote: | Sounds reasonable. In a blog post Mr. Koch mentions that v2.3 is kind of beta to a (planned) 2.4. |
Would you mind linking me to it if possible? Thank you! Apparently I've missed that. |
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Princess Nell l33t
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20053
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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From the previous link Quote: | Hello!
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new GnuPG release:
version 2.3.0. This release marks the start of public testing releases
eventually leading to a new stable version 2.4.
Although some bugs might linger in the 2.3 versions, they are intended
to replace the 2.2 series. 2.3 may even be used for production purposes
if either the risk of minor regressions is acceptable or the new
features are important. |
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