Ingo mentioned some maybe related expiration year 2038+ ticket, but I only found one for kleo: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7069

Issue about no valid smime certs found on signing split into: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7697

This is more a technical ticket. There's not really something to test. Setting to Resolved/Done as discussed with ebo.

Note that the first screenshot shows still "Sign/Encrypt" as button text instead of "Finish", but I didn't notice that again after this

Most issues with icons in high contrast modes (of Windows 10) should have been fixed. Needs to be verified especially with the high contrast modes of Windows 11.

Setting to Testing.

Moving to QA. All changes should be in the latest beta.

Many issues have been fixed. Setting to Testing to check what I have missed.

3 non-hang logs, all took ~20s to open the file (with 20s "Keine Rückmeldung" shown in Okular)

The problem with the invalid certificates seems to be unrelated. Isn't there already a ticket for Okular for certificates which expire after 2038?

If keyboxd sometimes takes 6 seconds, then I'm not surprised that stuff times out after 8 seconds occasionally. Or well. we need more numbers to determine that.

And in the first case, about 6 seconds are lost starting keyboxd:

2025-06-23 13:16:55 gpgsm[3252] DBG: chan_0x000000000000022c <- VERIFY
2025-06-23 13:16:57 gpgsm[3252] Kein aktiver keyboxd - `C:\\Program Files\\GnuPG\\bin\\keyboxd.exe' wird gestartet
2025-06-23 13:16:59 gpgsm[3252] Warte bis der Keyboxd bereit ist ... (8s)
2025-06-23 13:17:01 gpgsm[3252] DBG: chan_0x0000000000000260 <- # Home: C:\Users\g10\AppData\Roaming\gnupg
2025-06-23 13:17:01 gpgsm[3252] DBG: chan_0x0000000000000260 <- # Config: [none]
2025-06-23 13:17:01 gpgsm[3252] DBG: chan_0x0000000000000260 <- OK Keyboxd 2.5.6 at your service, process 4748

Here's the gpgsm debug log (debug x509,ipc,lookup):

The keylisting hangs ticket for Kleopatra: T6623

In T7658#202206, @svuorela wrote:

@ikloecker is https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git;a=commitdiff;h=f23cef6f66a44c5c1cc8717f74b658d14fde04e5 needed to be forward ported to split gpgmepp ?

@ikloecker is https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git;a=commitdiff;h=f23cef6f66a44c5c1cc8717f74b658d14fde04e5 needed to be forward ported to split gpgmepp ?

It could be connected to those "keylists hangs" problems. On Kleopatra it took some time to refresh the key list. After that I can open the signed file again.

Well, now I also can reproduce the hanging on verification again (opening of an unsigned document is fine, of a signed document hangs).
Maybe the signing part above is important to trigger it - although it happened now in a clean state after a reboot, so it should not be caused by e.g. leftover processes.

I'm quite sure, that I used a fresh install on a new VM, but on another fresh one I can't reproduce the verification part anymore and the signature is shown as valid.

The only time I succeded in reproducing this was when I broke my gnupg setup and got a mix between gpg from one version and gpg-agent from another.

Thanks! Maybe we should add a tooltip? "Default Appearance" does not have one and I do not find this self explanatory.

In T7212#201964, @ebo wrote:

Why are there 2 buttons for (probably) the same thing: "Default Appearance" and "Defaults"?

in 5.0-Beta-190

its not cleared any more in 5.0 Beta-190

If Kleopatra is already running then running

• kleopatra --help shows the help in a window
• kleopatra --help-all shows an error
• kleopatra --version, kleopatra --author, and kleopatra --license open the About window

And mind that the wording "This certificate is revoked" is wrong in any case, only the user ID is revoked, not the public key.

I updated the version database. We now have entries for "gpg4win", "gpd", and "vsd"

Yes, for GPD and VSD there probably should be version numbers in swdb.lst if the update check should actually be active in those distributions. I think for VSD the update check is usually deactivated because a) it accesses the public internet which some customers don't want and b) the software is usually not installed by the users themselves so that the update check doesn't make much sense.

So, what shall we do with vanilla kleopatra, or GPD or VSD? It will be easy to record current versions number in swdb.lst

Tagging with Windows because the update check is a NOP except on Windows.

In T7656#201529, @ikloecker wrote:

In T7656#201519, @TobiasFella wrote:

Do I understand correctly that this bug is then automatically done/fixed?

It depends on how the version comparison works. We may have to change the code to extract the version number (e.g. 5.0.0) from the version string.

I forgot to mention that gpgrt has an API to compare version numbers in the same way gpgconf and all gnupg components do it; this should be somewhat similar to sort -V

BTW, if you append a beta string the thing works as well. Thus with an development version for 4.4.2 we would get a 'newer' state:

The version file is locally cached and updated from time to time unless that feature is disabled.
An update can be forced using

By the way, Kleopatra uses GpgME::SwdbResult::query() which I expect to do what you propose.

First, gpgconf doesn't help with parsing a version string like gpg4win-5.0.0-beta190 which is what I was talking about. Once we have extracted "gpg4win" and "5.0.0" we could use gpgconf. ...if it worked as documented in the man page. I don't understand this:

$ gpgconf --query-swdb gpg4win 4.3.0
gpg4win:4.3.0:-::32849:::::::

This is all done by gpgconf like here:

This one made me curious because updating the should be UI solved, and it is incredibly dangerous to mess with that. It is super easy to get random crashes when you invalidate the UI too much. It took me ages to get that "stable enough". But also technically an appointment request is a mail. And thanks to dan (afair), KMail can sign and encrypt invitations. And at least for signed invitations they are displayed as appointment so I looked into this a bit out of curiousity.

Just as a reminder, knowledge transfer, because this is easily overlooked in testing but at least one customer would have gotten very annoyed if we had ever deployed an "Update all certificates" function which "added" new certificates. Even with the update of a single cert, we had a "funny" issue, like if you had expired certificates from anywhere and not from WKD (which old keyrings have a lot, maybe with many uids). Suddenly an update would pull in new keys which come from WKD but maybe there they all only have one UID. Because for keyservers the identifier was the fingerprint and for WKD the identifier was the userid.
Or even worse, you explicitly threw out the OpenPGP keys from WKD because you wanted to use only S/MIME, then such a function may not search on any OpenPGP Sources.
When I worked at Kleopatra we didn't want such a feature in GnuPG. Our strategy was to update keys when they are used, about to be used or close to expiry. The whole locate-external-key thing.
I think the feature we had to update in the certificate details is good. But i recommend especially keeping the S/MIME / OpenPGP difference in mind. I would also call it "Search updated certificates" with a tooltip that it might also find "new" certificates for the user. And then an option to disable this either for S/MIME or for OpenPGP.

In T7656#201519, @TobiasFella wrote:

Do I understand correctly that this bug is then automatically done/fixed?

Yes. If gpgconf could read that version directly from kleopatra it would be even better. Bit in cases of early crashes this might be sub-optimal; thus I will tell gpgconf to get some additional version info from an installed versioninfo.txt file (which gpg4win creates). Thanks.

Is this what you had in mind @werner:

Note: The Kleopatra in upcoming versions of Gpg4win 5 will have AboutData::version set to gpg4win-5.0.0 (or gpg4win-5.0.0-beta190 for beta versions). See T7666: Kleopatra: Rework versioning.

Note: The Kleopatra in upcoming versions of Gpg4win 5 will have AboutData::version set to gpg4win-5.0.0 (or gpg4win-5.0.0-beta190 for beta versions). See T7666: Kleopatra: Rework versioning.

Tools / Refresh OpenPGP certificates runs gpg --refresh-keys. I don't think that this command knows anything about WKD.

This should compare the gpg4win version number: