• GnuPG 2.5.19 released

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Sat Apr 25 06:40:09 2026

    Werner Koch has announced
    the release of GnuPG 2.5.19. This release includes a few new options
    and a number of bug fixes, and comes with the reminder that the
    GnuPG 2.4 series will reach end-of-life soon

    The main features in the 2.5 series are improvements for 64 bit Windows
    and the introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryption algorithm. Other than PQC support the 2.6 series will not differ a lot
    from 2.4 because the majority of changes are internal to make use of
    newer features from the supporting libraries.

    Note that the old 2.4 series reaches end-of-life in just two months.
    Thus update to 2.5.19 in time. As always with GnuPG new versions are
    fully compatible with previous versions.

    LWN recently
    covered Fedora's discussion about what to offer after GnuPG 2.4 is no
    longer supported.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1069552/
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