hello everyone , this i my first question on the mailing list :) . Hopefully 
this is the right place to ask questions related to kleopatra. 
i am using kleopatra (flatpak version) on my Linux mint 22.1 (base noble) 
machine and  when i am doing any function like encryption or decryption on 
kleopatra, the actual operation is a success but on inspecting the audit log i 
am seeing the following warning messages.

> gpg: WARNING: server 'keyboxd' is older than us (2.4.4 < 2.5.1)gpg: WARNING: 
> server 'gpg-agent' is older than us (2.4.4 < 2.5.1)
> gpg: Note: Outdated servers may lack important security fixes.
> gpg: Note: Use the command "gpgconf --kill all" to restart them



kelopatra about section shows  gpg version 2.5.1 and libgcrypt version  1.11.0  
but my linux system has  gpg version 2.4.4. and libgcrypt v 1.10.3. So the 
warning may indicate that kleopatra might still be using my host systems 
gpg-agent and keyboxd. I  tried the suggested fix for it by killing gpg-agent 
but even after many tries the warning still persist. While most people would 
just ignore such warning as the operation still works but i decided to dig in 
to find a solution for this.(hopefully  also push ubuntu to upgrade their gpg 
packaged version). I suspect this could be related to some systemd service of 
the gpg-agent or keyboxd of the host which is set to restart automatically , 
thus causing conflicts. Though i am not entirely sure of this. A  solution for 
this would to manually install the updated version of gpg on my system and set 
it as default path but that won't solve the issue permanently and may not be 
desirable step in every case. Usually flatpaks bring their own binary version 
so it must be able to leverage the updated versions of gpg. Also to note that i 
had earlier manually changed the keydatabse method from keyring.kbx to keyboxd 
as per instuctions in docs , but the behaviour should remain the same. 
Here is my complete build info for kleopatra and system info.

> Kleopatra: 4.0.0.241203 (24.12.3) , KDE Frameworks: 6.12.0, Qt: Using 6.8.2 
> and built against 6.8.2, KDE Flatpak runtime (Xcb), Build ABI: 
> x86_64-little_endian-lp64, Kernel: linux 6.8.0-56-generic
> System info - Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble,  Kernel: 
> 6.8.0-56-generic arch: x86_64

Any suggestions for tackling this problem is greatly appreciated. Also thanks 
to developers for their work on gnupg Its a  wonderful free software and i have 
been reading into a lot details lately :)

Best regards
kevin

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