We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.8.5. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implements 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 GnuTLS library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (or later). The "extra" GnuTLS library (which contains TLS/IA support, LZO compression and Libgcrypt FIPS-mode handler), the OpenSSL compatibility library, the self tests and the command line tools are all distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0 (or later). The manual is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 (or later). The project page of the library is available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ What's New ========== ** libgnutls: In server side when resuming a session do not overwrite the ** initial session data with the resumed session data. ** libgnutls: Fix PKCS#12 encoding. The error you would get was "The OID is not supported.". Problem introduced for the v2.8.x branch in 2.7.6. ** guile: Compatibility with guile 2.x. By Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.cour...@laas.fr>. ** tests: Fix expired cert in chainverify self-test. ** tests: Fix time bomb in chainverify self-test. Reported by Andreas Metzler <ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org> in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3925>. ** 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.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/>. The list of mirrors can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html>. Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources (6.0MB): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2 Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.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-2.8.5.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: 2010-04-21] Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F uid Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> uid Simon Josefsson <j...@extundo.com> sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21] 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: 5121c52efd4718ad3d8b641d28343b0c6abaa571 gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2 9d6f1906e380cc7366e2427493c33b72a137e438cdc9080fba3d84f6 gnutls-2.8.5.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 For developers interested in improving code quality, we publish Cyclomatic code complexity charts that help you find code that may need review and improvements: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/cyclo/ Also useful are code coverage charts which indicate parts of the source code that needs to be tested better by the included self-tests: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/coverage/ 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-dev 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 includes libgpg-error v1.7, libgcrypt v1.4.4, libtasn1 v2.3, and GnuTLS v2.8.5. For more information about GnuTLS for Windows: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ The Windows binary installer and PGP signature: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.exe (15MB) http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.exe.sig The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: 5dadd78a630f30d3b4b3a34261068e74cba28d80 gnutls-2.8.5.exe 53af38a54ff2f971d9eecfb44f4ab39cc6dbad371ad6425d312eaccd gnutls-2.8.5.exe A ZIP archive containing the Windows binaries: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.zip (5.3MB) http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.zip.sig The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: b41c0ac3088620bf78996d719b335317cb90405a gnutls-2.8.5.zip 73ca7da90ebac569948114735d6899a08431ebbe15be3d619bec05a3 gnutls-2.8.5.zip A Debian mingw32 package is also available: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-gnutls_2.8.5-1_all.deb (4.8MB) The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: 4ecb2e7617d8722d090ec96138ce595647c06a82 mingw32-gnutls_2.8.5-1_all.deb cbdd418aea622dfaf9876f563ebc1e192ec0ab90bca8748277501e76 mingw32-gnutls_2.8.5-1_all.deb Internationalization ==================== The GnuTLS library messages have been translated into Czech, Dutch, French, 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 AB, 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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