GnuPG 2.5.19 released

Werner Koch has announcedthe release of GnuPG2.5.19. This release includes a few new optionsand a number of bug fixes, and comes with the reminder that theGnuPG2.4 series will reach end-of-life soon

The main features in the2.5 series are improvements for64 bit Windowsand the introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryptionalgorithm. Other than PQC support the2.6 series will not differ a lotfrom2.4 because the majority of changes are internal to make use ofnewer features from the supporting libraries.

Note that the old2.4 series reaches end-of-life in just two months.Thus update to2.5.19 in time. As always with GnuPG new versions arefully compatible with previous versions.

LWN recentlycovered Fedora's discussion about what to offer after GnuPG2.4 is nolonger supported.