ANNOUNCEMENT: gnome-keyring 2.25.4

[news 28]

gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that stores your

passwords and encryption keys securely.

 

This is an unstable development release, and we're currently in the

middle of integrating a large batch of refactoring changes to make the

PKCS#11 code more modular, easier to test and hack.

 

 

Important Notes:

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* Some helpful notes for distributors:

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

 

* Details of starting gnome-keyring-daemon have changed:

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

 

* DBus is now a required dependency.

 

 

Changes between 2.25.2 and 2.25.4:

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* Half way through refactoring of PKCS#11 support.

* Add crypto support to gp11 library.

* gp11 library is now by and large thread-safe.

* Add modular ssh-store, roots and rpc-layer PKCS#11 components.

* Beginnings of a PKCS#11 based ssh-agent.

* Transactional storage of PKCS#11 objects.

* Add auto-authenticate support in GP11 library, which greatlty

simplifies figuring out when to provide passwords.

* Fix initialization problems which prevented SSH agent from setting

environment variables properly [Yanko Kaneti]

* Translation fixes [Gabor Kelemen]

 

 

Updated Translations:

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* Jorge Gonzalez (es)

* Gabor Kelemen (hu)

* Raivis Dejus (lv)

* Kjartan Maraas (nb)

* 甘露 Gan Lu (zh_CN)

 

 

Downloads:

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Source code:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/2.25/gnome-keyring-2.25.4.tar.gz

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Cheers,

Stef Walter

 

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