ANNOUNCEMENT: gnome-keyring 2.23.5

[news 28]

gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that saves your passwords

and encryption keys securely.

 

This is an development release.

 

Important Notes:

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* gnome-keyring now includes a new library:

- gp11 (GLib bindings for PKCS#11)

 

* Some helpful notes for distributors:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Distributors

 

 

Changes between 2.22.3 and 2.23.5:

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* Load all SSH keys in ~/.ssh with file names that match

id_?sa*. Not just id_rsa and id_dsa as was previously

the case.

* Load public SSH keys (ie: *.pub) when needed.

* Include new GP11 library, which is GLib bindings for PKCS#11

* Add ability to import keys/certificates to PKCS#11.

* Better storage and creation of PKCS#11 objects.

* Start using GTest for new unit testing.

* Better indexing of keys and certificates.

* Better buffer handling, and threading fixes. [Jon Burgress]

* Fix warnings in logs caused by programs checking whether

gnome-keyring is available.

* Add --disable-acl-prompts option to disable all ACL

prompting [Colin Walters]

* Build fixes.

 

 

Contributors:

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Many thanks to everyone who contributed fixes, functionality and advice.

In particular:

 

* Jon Burgress

* Colin Walters

 

 

Updated Translations:

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* Djihed Afifi (ar)

* Jorge Gonzalez (es)

* Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)

* Yair Hershkovitz (he)

* Kjartan Maraas (nb)

* Yannig Marchegay (oc)

* Daniel Nylander (sv)

* Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK)

* Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)

 

 

Downloads:

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Source code:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/2.23/gnome-keyring-2.23.5.tar.gz

[MD5 sum: ef3e3f6f2d59608299b3b242a3ec0ed9]

 

Cheers,

Stef Walter

 

 

 

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