Download GnuPG 2.2.0

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 2.2.0 with the following announcement:

GnuPG 2.2.0 released

Hello!

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
-Edward Snowden

The GnuPG team is pleased to announce the availability of a new release of GnuPG: version 2.2.0. See below for a list of new features and bug fixes. This release marks the start of a new long term support series to replace the 2.0.x series which will reach end-of-life on 2017-12-31.

Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.0

This is the new long term stable branch. This branch will only see bug fixes and no new features.

• gpg: Reverted change done in 2.1.23 so that –no-auto-key-retrieve is again the default.
• Fixed a few minor bugs.

This release incorporates all changes from the 2.1 series including these from the release candidate 2.1.23:

• gpg: “gpg” is now installed as “gpg” and not anymore as “gpg2”. If needed, the new configure option –enable-gpg-is-gpg2 can be used to revert this.
• gpg: Option –auto-key-locate “local,wkd” is now used by default. Note: this enables keyserver and Web Key Directory operators to notice when you intend to encrypt to a mail address without having the key locally. This new behavior will eventually make key discovery much easier and mostly automatic. Disable this by adding auto-key-locate local to your gpg.conf. [This description has been adjusted to include the above mentioned change in 2.2.0]
• agent: Option –no-grab is now the default. The new option –grab allows to revert this.
• gpg: New import option “show-only”.
• gpg: New option –disable-dirmngr to entirely disable network access for gpg.
• gpg,gpgsm: Tweaked DE-US compliance behavior.
• New configure flag –enable-all-tests to run more extensive tests during “make check”.
• gpgsm: The keygrip is now always printed in colon mode as documented in the man page.
• Fixed connection timeout problem under Windows.

A detailed description of the changes in the 2.2 (formerly 2.1) branch can be found at https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html.