ANNOUNCEMENT: gnome-keyring 3.0.0

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

and encryption keys securely.

 

This is a stable release.

 

 

Important Notes:

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* A new library: libgck

 

* Use --with-gtk=3.0 to build with GTK 3.0

 

* libgp11 library has gone away.

 

* libgnome-keyring and gnome-keyring modules need to be upgraded

together to the same version. The running gnome-keyring-daemon

needs to match the libgnome-keyring version.

 

* Some helpful notes for distributors:

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

 

 

Changes between 2.32.0 and 3.0.0:

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* Better implementation of Secret Service specification.

* Fix gpg-agent prompting for new passwords.

* Don't leak login name into logs when logging PAM error.

* More secure negotiation of session keys for password transfer.

* Implement PKCS#11 URI support in libgck.

* Certificate Widget added in libgcr.

* Fix initialization problem if DBus wasn't started early enough.

* Testing cleanup (incomplete).

* gnome-keyring and gnome-keyring-daemon have --version option.

* Added APIs for building certificate chains in libgcr.

* Added APIs for looking up trust assertions in libgcr.

* Find the root certificate trust anchor files by default.

* GTK+3.0 compatibility.

* Use linux capabilities to overcome limits on locked memory.

* Add timeout if daemon is started by PAM but then not inited.

* Fix login keyring if password doesn't match unix login.

* Rename libgp11 to libgck and stabilize API.

* Tons of bugs fixes and build fixes.

 

 

Details of changes between 2.91.93 and 3.0.0:

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Alexander Shopov (1):

Updated Bulgarian translation

 

Amitakhya Phukan (1):

Updated Assamese translations

 

Chao-Hsiung Liao (1):

Updated Traditional Chinese translation(Hong Kong and Taiwan)

 

Daniel Korostil (1):

Uploaded Ukranian

 

Dirgita (1):

Updated Indonesian translation

 

Dr.T.Vasudevan (1):

Updated Tamil translation

 

Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio (1):

Updated Basque language

 

Jamil Ahmed (1):

Updated Bengali translation

 

Joan Duran (1):

Updated Catalan translation

 

Kjartan Maraas (1):

Updated Norwegian bokmål translation

 

Kris Thomsen (1):

Updated Danish translation

 

Luca Ferretti (1):

Updated Italian translation

 

Miroslav Nikolić (1):

Updated Serbian translation

 

Nguyễn Thái Ngá»Âc Duy (2):

po/vi.po: import from Damned Lies

Updated Vietnamese translation

 

Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (1):

Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation. Reviewed by Antonio

Fernandes C. Neto.

 

Stef Walter (1):

Release version 3.0.0

 

Sweta Kothari (1):

Updated Gujarati Translations

 

 

Downloads:

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Source code:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/3.0/gnome-keyring-3.0.0.tar.bz2

 

sha256:63bbe53031620d8514cf4ebd7705e2360d37679e785c4588f66b88f919e56c20

 

Cheers,

Stef Walter

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