We are pleased to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.2.1. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many Unix-like systems and comes with a binary installer for Windows.
The core GnuTLS library is distribute under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (or later). The "extra" GnuTLS libraries -- which contains OpenPGP and TLS/IA support, LZO compression, the OpenSSL compatibility library -- and the self tests and command line tools are distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0 (or later). The manual is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 (or later). The project page of the library is available at: http://www.gnutls.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ http://josefsson.org/gnutls/ What's New ========== * Version 2.2.1 (released 2008-01-17) ** Prevent linking libextra against previously installed libgnutls. Tiny patch from "Alon Bar-Lev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, see <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202269>. ** Fixes the post_client_hello_function(). The extensions are now parsed in a callback friendly way. ** Fix for certificate selection in servers with certificate callbacks. ** API and ABI modifications: No changes since last version. Getting the Software ==================== GnuTLS may be downloaded from one of the mirror sites or direct from <ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/>. The list of mirrors can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html>. Note, that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources (4.8MB): ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2 http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2 Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F: ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2.sig http://josefsson.org/gnutls/releases/gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2.sig Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs. In order to check that the version of GnuTLS which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you should verify the OpenPGP signature. You can use the command gpg --verify gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2.sig This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. The signing key can be identified with the following information: pub 1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2008-06-30] Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F uid Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2008-06-30] The key is available from: http://josefsson.org/key.txt dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT Alternatively, after successfully verifying the OpenPGP signature of this announcement, you could verify that the files match the following checksum values. The values are for SHA-1 and SHA-224 respectively: cfc219dad028fd823be766d939dfcec73a408844 gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2 6a70a48e88ce47fe56abbae720da86fcfe4039c67fb6d826f42fb8f9 gnutls-2.2.1.tar.bz2 Documentation ============= The manual is available online at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/documentation.html In particular the following formats are available: HTML: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/index.html PDF: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/gnutls.pdf For developers there is a GnuTLS API reference manual formatted using the GTK-DOC tools: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/reference/gnutls-gnutls.html Community ========= If you need help to use GnuTLS, or want to help others, you are invited to join our help-gnutls mailing list, see: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls>. If you wish to participate in the development of GnuTLS, you are invited to join our gnutls-devel mailing list, see: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnutls-devel>. Windows installer ================= GnuTLS has been ported to the Windows operating system, and a binary installer is available. The installer contains DLLs for application development, manuals, examples, and source code. The installer consists of libgpg-error 1.6, libgcrypt 1.4.0, libtasn1 1.2, opencdk 0.6.6, and GnuTLS 2.2.1. For more information about GnuTLS for Windows: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ The Windows binary installer and PGP signature: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.2.1.exe (14MB) http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.2.1.exe.sig The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: e0c4662c45cca62150f22cd3ce9ee13e0cb8671b gnutls-2.2.1.exe d91d151da3bf2564851bd28c9bcf6c37ec6f806345a6d3727525caa7 gnutls-2.2.1.exe Internationalization ==================== GnuTLS messages have been translated into Dutch, German, Malay, Polish and Swedish. We welcome the addition of more translations. Support ======= Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate money or equipment. Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult, a Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GnuTLS maintenance. We are always looking for interesting development projects. See http://josefsson.org/ for more details. The GnuTLS service directory is available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/commercial.html Happy Hacking, Simon
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