man gpg has a WARNING section right below the RETURN Value section. The 3rd paragraph gives hints on how to use gpg with scripts etc:

The int-truncation change breaks other things. I noticed this by chance in the interactive mode due to warning noticed. Before we ever do such things again we need to have regression tests for setting preferences. Or manually check everything. Need to do a 2.5.16 tomorrow :-(

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x135.html could benefit from the same treatment under "Clearsigned documents".

Note using the output of --decrypt directly on the tty is a Bad Idea(tm). You won't cat arbitrary files to your tty for the same reason.

https://gnupg.org/blog/20251226-cleartext-signatures.html explains why we have cleartext signatures and how you properly use them. The suggestion of the reporters to remove them entirely is a no-go because there are too many systems (open source or in-house) which rely on that format. If properly used (i.e. using --output to get the signed text) there is no problem. Anyway the suggestion has always been to use detached signatures using two files or PGP/MIME).

I've created a global trustlist.txt at C:\ProgramData\GNU\etc\gnupg with an entry for the RootCA for Werners QES key with the qual keyword. (The local config would not work, according to the man page.)

Adding a new column to the layout is now remembered.
The with of the newly added column (Key-ID, all others are shown by default) is not set to the width of the content. But I think that is ok, one can increase the width manually and that is then remembered.

I am surprised that the solution with the separate tab was chosen… Looks like this:

works in Gpg4win-5.0.0-beta476

Ok, only 2 confirmations after the one above any more (for a standard key), they look like this:

Thank you!

Ok, my fault, I missed that in the beginning there was logging in the background which consumed gpg's error message.

If no logging is running in the background (that's something that often trips me…) on consecutive runs:

with Gpg4win-5.0.0-beta476

Yes, Kleopatra quits again with the beta from yesterday: