We will keep the 1.24 branch for bug fixing. Do you really have a problem with gpgme 2.0? Ist that due to factoring out the c++ and qt bindings? That was actually a long standing request from the KDE community so that they can use their cmake stuff.

I'm wondering whether gpgme v1 will still be supported? Or it will be abandoned from now on.

If you are experience problems with the test suite on NetBSD, please see T7634

Noet that one file is missing in the released tarball; when building for RISC-V please see T7647#201164

Note that 1.53 was released today which fixes a small regression:

In case of build problems related to a failed test you may want to apply rEb6df311368133df90c3bf338fbf5c90bd8d950f8.

Note: The is a bug in the gnupg-w32-2.5.3 tarballs. After untaring cd to the directory as usual but then do:

rm PLAY/src/zlib/*.[oa] PLAY/src/bzip2/*.[oa]

before you run

make -f build-aux/speedo.mk this-native

i see the tag has been published now, thanks! Given that this is an ELTS release, I'm assuming that the lack of a gnupg-2.2.46.tar.bz2 file on https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/ is deliberate.

will you tag 2.2.46 in git as well? it appears to be on rG7e48331afb611a2b39e5ae74b8806b84e54db924 but i don't see any tags.

See T7255 instead.