ANNOUNCEMENT: gnome-keyring 2.23.6

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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 2.22.5 and 2.23.6:

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* If the user denies a prompt, then don't prompt the same

prompt again for that connection to the daemon.

* Bug fixes for loading of SSH keys.

* Add gconf schema for noting the user's configured PKCS#11

modules.

* Update and bug fixes for the new GP11 library.

* Better reference counting of internal objects.

* When a certificate is in the roots storage, assume it is

a CA if no basic constraints are present.

* Add ability of PKCS#11 module to accept a string on its

reserved initialization argument, similar to NSS's

libsoftkn3 module.

* Translation fixes.

* Build fixes.

 

 

Contributors:

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

In particular:

 

* Claude Paroz

 

 

Updated Translations:

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* Djihed Afifi (ar)

* Jorge Gonzalez (es)

* Kjartan Maraas (nb)

* Duarte Loreto (pt)

* Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)

 

Downloads:

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Source code:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/2.23/gnome-keyring-2.23.6.tar.gz

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Cheers,

Stef Walter

 

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