Forgot to mention this bug in the commit addressing this. ( 278893850ed926d4646929ee97576a8d09fd4998 )

You may have other changes on your system as well.

Should avoid the problem. Then import or create n OpenPGp key first and the next time you should(tm) not be bnotered by the bug.

Okay, I took your suggestion but also improved the documentation. Fixed in 2.2

Thanks for your reports.
I can finally reproduce this on a new Test VM which I gave little resources. Most of the time it does not work. Sometimes it works. Looks like a timing issue, on my main development VM which is fairly quick it always works. I'll work on it.

Oh that is not good. A passed arg should not be closed by the called fucntion unless that fucntion is documented as gaining ownership of it. Let me check.

Sorry for the confusion. We tried to reduce the interactions necessary to encrypt a file and our rationale was that users mostly want to either always use textmode or never. (Also See T3486 )

Thanks for your feedback. But this is intentional. There were two problems with with this:

Thank you Werner. Do you know when the next release will be? Is there a way for me to temporarily fix the current version in the code?

But this does not explain why it works on the same system with GPG 2.1.11 instead of 2.2.2.
Here is what happens after applying the suggested quick fixes:

--- ~ » sudo pcscd
--- ~ » sudo chown enno /dev/bus/usb/002/005                        1 ↵
--- ~ » sudo chgrp users /dev/bus/usb/002/005                      2 ↵
--- ~ » ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/005
crw-rw-r-- 1 enno users 189, 132 16 nov.  15:17 /dev/bus/usb/002/005
--- ~ » gpg --card-status
gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Aucun périphérique de ce type
gpg: la carte OpenPGP n'est pas disponible : Aucun périphérique de ce type

So you either need to start pcscd or you fix the permission of the device so that GnuPG's scdaemon can access the card reader using its internal access method. There are probably some udev rules which need to be adjusted. For a quick check you can manually change the owner or group to your own user or one of your groups. Then it should work again.

Dear Werner,

Entering on the shell

lsusb | grep USB

This is verly likely be fixed with commit 5ecef193bc2144e6d51a6bd5727bfd08a0d28b66 which will be released with the next gpg4win version.

Add the tag of npth (forgotten).