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Release Notes

1.0.0 (1999-09-07)

• Released the first production version.

0.9.11 (1999-09-03)

• Some more fixes and cleanups

0.9.10 (1999-08-04)

• Minor bug fixes.

0.9.9 (1999-07-23)

• Yet another chunk of options.
• More bug fixes.

0.9.8 (1999-06-26)

• A couple of new options.
• Yet another workaround for PGP2.
• Other bug fixes.

0.9.7 (1999-05-23)

• Workarounds for a couple of PGP2 bugs.
• Other bug fixes.

0.9.6 (1999-05-06)

• Bug fixes.
• Subkey and signature revocations

0.9.5 (1999-03-20)

• Bug fixes.
• --recv-keys command

0.9.4 (1999-03-08)

• Bug fixes.

0.9.3 (1999-02-19)

• Bug fixes.
• Some new options.

0.9.2 (1999-01-20)

• Bug fixes.
• HKP keyserver support.

0.9.1 (1999-01-01)

• Fixed some serious bugs.
• Some internal redesign.
• Polish language support.
• Setup a anonymous rsync server.

0.9.0 (1998-12-23)

• Option to dash-escape "From" in clear text messages.
• Better support for unices without /dev/random.
• Fixed some bugs.

0.4.5 (1998-12-08)

• Brazilian translation.
• Improved key import.
• Loadable random gathering stuff.
• Files are now locked during updates.

0.4.4 (1998-11-20)

• Spanish translation.
• Fixed the way expiration dates are stored.
• Key validation is now much faster and some more bugs fixed.
• New feature to support signed patch files.

0.4.3 (1998-11-08)

• Russian translation.
• Now lists all matching names.
• Experimental support for keyrings store in GDBM files.
• Many bug fixes.

0.4.1 (1998-10-07)

• Fixed a couple of bugs and add some more features.
• Checked OpenPGP compliance.
• PGP 5 passphrase are now working.

0.4.0 (1998-09-18)

• Fixed a serious Bug in 0.3.5.
• Added 3DES

0.3.5 (1998-09-14)

Do not use this version!

• Anonymous enciphered messages.
• Building in another directory now work better.
• Blowfish weak key detection mechanism.

0.3.4 (1998-08-11)

Bug fixes

0.3.3 (1998-08-08)

• Alternate user IDs.
• A menu to sign, add, remove user ids and other tasks.
• Twofish as a new experimental cipher algorithm.
• Ability to run as a coprocess; this is nice for frontends.

0.3.2 (1998-07-09)

• Bug fixes

0.3.1 (1998-07-06)

• Bug fixes
• More in compliance with OpenPGP.

0.3.0 (1998-06-25)

• Major enhancements
• More complete v4 key support: Preferences and expiration time is set into the self signature.
• Key generation defaults to DSA/ElGamal keys, so that new keys are interoperable with pgp5
• Support for dynamic loading of new algorithms.

0.2.19 (1998-05-29)

• Tiger has now the OpenPGP assigned number 6. Because the OID has changed, old signatures using this algorithm can't be verified.
• gnupg now encrypts the compressed packed and not any longer in the reverse order; anyway it can decrypt both versions.
• --add-key works and you are now able to generate subkeys.
• It is now possible to generate ElGamal keys in v4 packets to create valid OpenPGP keys.
• Some new features for better integration into MUAs.

0.2.18 (1998-05-15)

• Add key generation for DSA and v4 signatures.
• Fixed a small bug in the key generation.
• New option --compress-algo 1 to allow the creation of compressed messages which are readable by PGP.

0.2.17 (1998-05-04)

• More stuff for OpenPGP: Blowfish is now type 20, comment packets moved to a private type, packet type 3 now prepends conventional encryption packets.
• Fixed a passphrase bug and some others

0.2.16 (1998-04-28)

• Experimental support for TIGER/192.
• Standard cipher is now Blowfish with 128 bit key in OpenPGP's CFB mode.

0.2.15 (1998-04-09)

• Fixed a bug with the old checksum calculation for secret keys.
• CAST5 works (using PGP's strange CFB mode).

0.0.0 (1997-12-22)

First release.

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Updated: 1999-09-30 wkoch