Last week:

• dirmngr: Concluded that Happy Eyeballs are too much for dirmngr (and possibly risky for exposure of access).
• gpg: Now, Ed448/X448 can be generated by selecting "Curve 448", just like the pair of Ed25519/Curve25519.
• Bugs:
  • T4981: internationalization (support UNICODE/UTF-8 character set)
  • T4982: [PATCH] qt libraries should be linked with -fPIC instead of -fpic
• libgcrypt: constant-time ECC for EdDSA and X448/X25519
  • It's available in master
  • I'm not sure if it's worth to backport to 1.8

This week:

• bug fixes
• see something around Gnuk, next
  • Ed448/X448
  • RISC-V port
  • etc.

Last week:

• Improved parts of our S/MIME support
• Briefly looked at PDF signatures

This week:

• Release Libgcrypt 1.8.6
• Release GnuPG 2.2.21