Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:26:19PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:20, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net said: > > > While you're at it, you might want to update zlib to version 1.2.5 - > > looking at the source, it seems that the currently used version is 1.1.4. > > I see no reaso

Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:26:19PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:20, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net said: > > > While you're at it, you might want to update zlib to version 1.2.5 - > > looking at the source, it seems that the currently used version is 1.1.4. > > I see no reaso

Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread war_is_peace
> I see no reason for such an update. I remembered something with fixed security vulnerabilities - but those possible security vulnerabilities seem to be introduced in later versions than 1.1.4, which leaves bug fixes and performance improvements. ___

Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:20, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net said: > While you're at it, you might want to update zlib to version 1.2.5 - > looking at the source, it seems that the currently used version is 1.1.4. I see no reason for such an update. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind f

Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread war_is_peace
> However to build the 1.4 windows installer we better use the > new source along with an updated bzip. While you're at it, you might want to update zlib to version 1.2.5 - looking at the source, it seems that the currently used version is 1.1.4. ___ Gn

1.4.11 release candidate (was: Overflow bug in bzip2)

2010-09-23 Thread Werner Koch
Hi, The Windows installer version of GnuPG 1.4 uses a statically linked bzip library. Thus the bzip2 bug affects this version. We have not done a gnupg 1.4 release for more than a year. I believe it is best to first do a release candidate. There a couple of bug fixes collected over the last ye