[Announce] GPGME 0.4.5 released

We are pleased to announce version 0.4.5 of GnuPG Made Easy,
a library designed to make access to GnuPG easier for applications.
It may be found in the file (about 698 KB compressed)
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gpgme/gpgme-0.4.5.tar.gz.

It should soon appear on the mirrors listed at
http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html.

Bug reports and requests for assistance should be sent to
[email protected].

The md5sum checksums for this distibution are
24582f881113a9e4e76b70e63fbf5132  gpgme-0.4.4-0.4.5.diff.gz
f04bc4feb818f55107910d17273adf98  gpgme-0.4.5.tar.gz
b68700dbb966419cb0b5b8d9dc461afc  gpgme-0.4.5.tar.gz.sig

PLEASE NOTE: This is an unstable development version for testing.
The latest stable release is 0.3.16 and available from
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/.

Marcus Brinkmann
[email protected]

Noteworthy changes in version 0.4.5 (2004-03-07)
------------------------------------------------

 * GPGME is now compiled with LFS (large file support) by default.
   This means that _all_ programs using GPGME must be compiled with
   LFS support enabled by default.  You can do this easily with
   autoconf, by using the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.  Or you can do this
   without autoconf by defining the preprocessor symbol
   _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to 64 (by passing the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to
   the C compiler command line, or by defining this preprocessor
   symbol before including any system header files).  For more
   details, read the section on LFS in the manual.

   Up to now, it was undocumented that GPGME was not using LFS.
   But the public interfaces use off_t, and file descriptors are
   exchanged between the application and GPGME.  This was an oversight,
   and bound to cause troubles in the future.

   Writing GPGME as a dual mode library that seamlessly supports LFS
   while keeping backwards compatibility is possible, but does not
   solve the problem: Many applications already expect GPGME to have
   LFS (they are compiled with off_t being a 64bit value).  This is true
   in particular for the popular Gtk+ and Qt programs.

   So, although this is an ABI (but not an API) break, we will not
   change the library version to reflect that.  Because the interfaces
   affected are probably not used yet in any GPGME 0.4 based
   application, we don't expect any real failures from this change.
   In fact, applications already using LFS will have some subtle bugs
   fixed.

   However, if you encounter an application using GPGME 0.4.x that
   does _not_ use LFS by default (off_t is a 32bit value), _and_
   uses at least one of the functions gpgme_data_seek,
   gpgme_data_new_from_filepart, or a gpgme_data_seek_cb_t with
   gpgme_data_new_from_cbs, then indeed this library will be ABI
   incompatible with the program.  As said above, we don't believe
   such a program exists.  If we are in error, then you have two
   options: As a quick hack, you can configure GPGME with the
   --disable-largefile option.  This will revert the change, and GPGME
   will not use LFS.  However, GPGME will be incompatible with
   programs that expect GPGME to use LFS.  All applications are
   required to use LFS when using GPGME, so this is only good as a
   temporary local work-around.

   The other option is to change the versioning of the library and
   recompile all applications.  We have reserved a special version of
   the library for that, so you can do that without expecting a
   version clash in the future.  Furthermore, everyone who does this
   will agree on the version to use (this is important for
   distribution makers).  Read the comment in configure.ac (before
   LIBGPGME_LT_AGE) if you want to do this.  Please don't do this
   blindly: As stated above, we think it is unlikely this measure is
   needed.  Still, it is there if necessary.  If in doubt, contact us
   and we will give our advise for your specific situation.

 * New key listing mode GPGME_KEYLIST_MODE_VALIDATE for validation of
   the listed keys.

 * New interface gpgme_cancel() that can be used to cancel
   asynchronous operations.

 * Interface changes relative to the 0.4.4 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gpgme_data_seek_cb_t		CHANGED: off_t is now a largefile type.
gpgme_data_seek			CHANGED: off_t is now a largefile type.
gpgme_data_new_from_filepart	CHANGED: off_t is now a largefile type.
GPGME_KEYLIST_MODE_VALIDATE     NEW
gpgme_cancel			NEW
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~