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GnuPG 2.2.17 released

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 10th of July 2019 09:44:01 AM Filed under
GNU
Security
Hello!

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new GnuPG release:
version 2.2.17.  This is maintenance release to mitigate the effects of
the denial-of-service attacks on the keyserver network.  See below for a
list changes.


About GnuPG
===========

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG, GPG) is a complete and free implementation
of the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.

GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign data and communication, features a
versatile key management system as well as access modules for public key
directories.  GnuPG itself is a command line tool with features for easy
integration with other applications.  The separate library GPGME provides
a uniform API to use the GnuPG engine by software written in common
programming languages.  A wealth of frontend applications and libraries
making use of GnuPG are available.  As an universal crypto engine GnuPG
provides support for S/MIME and Secure Shell in addition to OpenPGP.

GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom).  It can
be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.


Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.17
====================================

  * gpg: Ignore all key-signatures received from keyservers.  This
    change is required to mitigate a DoS due to keys flooded with
    faked key-signatures.  The old behaviour can be achieved by adding
      keyserver-options no-self-sigs-only,no-import-clean
    to your gpg.conf.  [#4607]

  * gpg: If an imported keyblocks is too large to be stored in the
    keybox (pubring.kbx) do not error out but fallback to an import
    using the options "self-sigs-only,import-clean".  [#4591]

  * gpg: New command --locate-external-key which can be used to
    refresh keys from the Web Key Directory or via other methods
    configured with --auto-key-locate.

  * gpg: New import option "self-sigs-only".

  * gpg: In --auto-key-retrieve prefer WKD over keyservers.  [#4595]

  * dirmngr: Support the "openpgpkey" subdomain feature from
    draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-07. [#4590].

  * dirmngr: Add an exception for the "openpgpkey" subdomain to the
    CSRF protection.  [#4603]

  * dirmngr: Fix endless loop due to http errors 503 and 504.  [#4600]

  * dirmngr: Fix TLS bug during redirection of HKP requests.  [#4566]

  * gpgconf: Fix a race condition when killing components.  [#4577]

  Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4606


Getting the Software
====================

Please follow the instructions found at https://gnupg.org/download/ or
read on:

GnuPG 2.2.17 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or
direct from its primary FTP server.  The list of mirrors can be found at
https://gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html.  Note that GnuPG is not
available at ftp.gnu.org.

The GnuPG source code compressed using BZIP2 and its OpenPGP signature
are available here:

 https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.17.tar.bz2 (6560k)
 https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.2.17.tar.bz2.sig

An installer for Windows without any graphical frontend except for a
very minimal Pinentry tool is available here:

 https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.2.17_2019... (4185k)
 https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.2.17_2019...

The source used to build the Windows installer can be found in the same
directory with a ".tar.xz" suffix.

A new version of Gpg4win incluing this version of GnuPG will be released
in a few days.

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