Download GnuPG 2.2.9

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 2.2.9 with the following announcement:

GnuPG 2.2.9 released

Hello!

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new GnuPG release: version 2.2.9. This is a maintenance release; see below for a list of fixed bugs.

Noteworthy changes in version 2.2.9

• dirmngr: Fix recursive resolver mode and other bugs in the libdns code. [#3374,#3803,#3610]
• dirmngr: When using libgpg-error 1.32 or later a GnuPG build with NTBTLS support (eg the standard Windows installer) does not anymore block for dozens of seconds before returning data. If you still have problems on Windows, please consider to use one of the options disable-ipv4 or disable-ipv6.
• gpg: Fix bug in –show-keys which actually imported revocation certificates. [#4017]
• gpg: Ignore too long user-ID and comment packets. [#4022]
• gpg: Fix crash due to bad German translation. Improved printf format compile time check.
• gpg: Handle missing ISSUER sub packet gracefully in the presence of the new ISSUER_FPR. [#4046]
• gpg: Allow decryption using several passphrases in most cases. [#3795,#4050]
• gpg: Command –show-keys now enables the list options show-unusable-uids, show-unusable-subkeys, show-notations and show-policy-urls by default.
• gpg: Command –show-keys now prints revocation certificates. [#4018]
• gpg: Add revocation reason to the “rev” and “rvs” records of the option –with-colons. [#1173]
• gpg: Export option export-clean does now remove certain expired subkeys; export-minimal removes all expired subkeys. [#3622]
• gpg: New “usage” property for the drop-subkey filters. [#4019]