We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.4.2. 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 distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (or later). The "extra" GnuTLS libraries -- which contains TLS/IA support, LZO compression -- and the OpenSSL compatibility library 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/ What's New ========== Changes compared to the last stable release version 2.4.1: ** libgnutls: Don't crash when gnutls_credentials_set is called twice. ** libgnutls: Corrected memory leak in X.509 functions. Thanks to Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ** libgnutls: Fix compile error with Sun CC. ** gnutls-cli.1: Document all new parameters. Thanks to James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ** tests/openssl: initialize gnutls before use. Fixes crash with libgcrypt 1.4.2. Reported by Ludovic Courtes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ** doc/: Fix texinfo markup for old texinfo versions. ** Included copy of libtasn1 is upgraded to version 1.5. ** 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>. Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources (4.8MB): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.4.2.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.4.2.tar.bz2 Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.4.2.tar.bz2.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.4.2.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-2.4.2.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: 2009-04-21] 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: 2009-04-21] 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: 79f66b47cccf9700778218b5582969255d623dc2 gnutls-2.4.2.tar.bz2 b30dc032271a052e0e5e08df2050217f4d14d37f4f5b92985a2b85da gnutls-2.4.2.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 1.4.2, libtasn1 1.5, and GnuTLS 2.4.2. For more information about GnuTLS for Windows: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ The Windows binary installer and PGP signature: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.4.2.exe (14MB) http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.4.2.exe.sig The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: 4b7b5a268386dc0393094e7517730f8e77f381d7 gnutls-2.4.2.exe fd1e6fa1abf4d3a9ab18ec83434aca55d78126f6b602452017a0adfb gnutls-2.4.2.exe Thanks to Enrico Tassi, we also have mingw32 *.deb's available: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-gnutls_2.4.2-1_all.deb The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: d9dbb77b220f48a155723b3c3b5f05067df99ee7 mingw32-gnutls_2.4.2-1_all.deb f7676ba8af27f47a2bab56c6e2e88129d6334c61eaf114c0eb5821b4 mingw32-gnutls_2.4.2-1_all.deb Internationalization ==================== GnuTLS messages have been translated into Dutch, German, Malay, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese. 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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