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Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.1 (2024-07-03)
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* qt: Install and use pinentry icon. [rPf9c252a8d9]
* qt: Small fix for Qt5. [rP844360c9c9]
* qt: Fix Windows build of Qt6. [rP34019f954a]
* New envvar PINENTRY_KDE_USE_WALLET to enable the secret storage
integration on KDE. [rP23753cfb03]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7046
Noteworthy changes in version 1.3.0 (2024-03-18)
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* qt: Add new Qt6 frontend. [rP1e79123c38]
* qt: Set parent window on Wayland. [T6930]
* qt: Fix capslock detection on Wayland. [rP7dfc60a70d]
* qt: Fix window icon on Wayland. [T6887]
* qt: Add support for external password manager with libsecret.
[T6801]
* qt: Remove focus indication by text selection. [T5863]
* qt: Use same focus indication for labels as Kleopatra. [T5863]
* qt: Improve accessibility. [T5863]
* gnome3: Prefer gcr-4. [rP069c219223]
* curses: Fix timeout handling. [rP08408498b3]
* curses: Add SETREPEATOK and quality bar colors. [rP2f109972e4]
* curses: Add password quality meter. [rP2923707e75]
* curses,tty: Upon SIGINT, let pinentry exit gracefully. [T6641]
* w32: Fix non-focused window and simplify code. [rPabbecc67d9]
* Disable secret storage integration when running on KDE Plasma.
[rPefb6de7f]
* The Windows CE support has been removed.
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7046
Noteworthy changes in version 1.2.1 (2022-08-24)
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* qt: Support building with Qt 5.9. [T5592]
* curses: Handle an error at curses initialization. [T5623]
* curses: Specify fg/bg when an extention of Ncurses is not available.
[T5631]
* qt: Fix translation of context menu entries. [T5786]
* qt: Further improve the accessibility. [T5863]
* qt: Fix moving focus to second input field when pressing Enter in
first input field. [T5866]
* qt: Update the cursor position when reformatting the text. [T5972]
* qt: Use foreground raising code also with the confirm prompt.
[T6134]
* Make the legacy qt4 version build again. [T5569]
* Make sure an entered PIN is always cleared from memory. [T5977]
* Build fixes for Windows. [T5893]
Noteworthy changes in version 1.2.0 (2021-08-25)
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* qt: Show a warning if Caps Lock is on on Windows, X11 (requires
libX11 and Qt5X11Extras), and Wayland (requires KF5WaylandClient).
[T4950]
* qt: Support password formatting. This makes generated passwords
easier to transcript. [T5517]
* qt: Fix showing of pinentry window on Wayland. [T5528]
* qt: Check passphrase constraints before accepting passphrase if
passphrase constraints are requested to be enforced. [T5532]
* qt: Improve detection of running in a GUI session. [T3659]
* qt: Improve accessibility when entering new password. [T5543]
Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5566
Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.1 (2021-01-21)
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* A EFL-based pinentry has been contributed.
* Disable echoing in backspace key is pressed first
(GTK, Qt, TQt, and ncurses pinentries).
* Support line editing in TTY pinentry.
* Remove support for old GTK+2 (< 2.12.0).
* Various minor fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.0 (2017-12-03)
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* A FLTK1.3-based pinentry has been contributed.
* A TQt3-based pinentry has been contributed.
* New option --ttyalert for pinentry-curses to alert the user.
* Don't show "save passphrase" checkbox if secret service is
unavailable.
* The GTK Pinentry shows on Linux some information anout the process
which invoked the Pinentry.
* The GTK Pinentry does not anymore show tooltips when keyboard
grabbing is enabled.
* Fixed various minor problems.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.0 (2016-11-22)
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* Qt pinentry now supports repeat mode in one dialog.
* Qt and GTK pinentries now make it possible to show the entered
value.
* Qt pinentry now only grabs the keyboard if an entry field is
focused.
* Fixed foreground handling in pinentry-qt if compiled with Qt5 for
Windows.
* Fixed potential crash in Qt qualitybar calculation.
* GTK keyboard grabbing is now a bit more robust. The cursor is
changed to a big dot as a visual indication that a pinentry has
popped up and is waiting for input.
* The GNOME pinentry now falls back to curses if it can't use the
GCR system prompter or a screenlock is active.
* Fixed error output for cached passwords.
* A show/hide passphrase button or checkbox is now available with
some pinentry flavors.
* Improved diagnostics and error codes.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.7 (2015-12-07)
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* Fix regressions in the Qt pinentry.
* Fix minor problems pinnetyr-tty.
* New option --invisible-char.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.6 (2015-09-10)
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* Many improvements for the dump tty pinentry.
* Use the standard GTK+-2 text entry widget instead of our outdated
and back-then-it-was-more-secure text widget.
* Use the standard Qt text widget.
* Allow for building a static Qt variant.
* Fix regression in w32 pinentry.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.5 (2015-07-01)
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* Replaced the internal Assuan and gpg-error code by the standard
libassuan and libgpg-error libraries.
* Add a new Emacs pinentry and use as fallback for GUI programs.
* gnome3: The use-password-manager checkbox does now work.
* Gtk: Improved fallback to curses feature.
* curses: Recognize DEL as backspace.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.4 (2015-06-05)
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* Fix regression in GTK+ and curses pinentries.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.3 (2015-06-01)
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* Improved documentation
* New pinentry-gnome3
* More improvements for pinentry-tty.
* Fixes for pinentry-curses including support for Ctrl-W, Ctrl-U,
Ctrl-H, Ctrl-L, and Alt-Backspace
* New Assuan command to request clearing an external cache.
* Fixed problems linking to ncursesw.
* All kind of other minor fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.2 (2015-05-11)
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* Support for saving the passphrase with libsecret.
* Escape key works in the Gtk+ pinentry.
* Improvements for pinentry-tty.
* Minor cleanups for the native Windows pinentry.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.1 (2015-03-18)
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* Fixed build problems for systems without ncurses.
* Reworked the option parser to allow building on systems without
getopt_long.
* Fixed Qt4 build problems.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.9.0 (2014-10-26)
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* New command SETREPEAT. Currently only supported for Gtk+-2.
* Gtk+-2: Pasting using the mouse is now supported.
* curses: Check that it is actually connected to a tty.
* Removed the old qt-3 and gtk+-1 pinentries.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.8.4 (2014-09-18)
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* New pinentry-tty version for dumb terminals.
* Qt4: New option to enable pasting the passphrase from clipboard
* Qt4: Improved accessiblity
* Qt4: Raise confirm message windows into foreground
* Qt4 (Windows): Improve the way pinentry-qt raises itself in the
foreground.
* Improved the build system.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.8.3 (2013-04-26)
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* Build fixes for newer mingw32 toolchains.
* Add SETTIMEOUT command for the gtk+-2 pinentry.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.8.2 (2012-08-08)
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* New SETTIMEOUT command for the qt4 pinentry.
* Wide character support for the curses pinentry.
* Various bug fixes.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.8.1 (2010-12-16)
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* The W32 pinentry now supports WindowsCE.
* The GTK pinentry now always sticks to the top and properly grabs
the keyboard.
* The protocol options default-cancel and default-ok now work for the
pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-qt (that is QT3).
Noteworthy changes in version 0.8.0 (2010-03-03)
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* Beautified the qt4 pinentry
* Minor enhancements.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.6 (2009-06-19)
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* Make Gtk+-2 pinentry transient to the root window.
* Add Qt4 pinentry.
* Add native W32 pinentry.
* Fix utf-8 problem in Qt pinentries.
* Return GPG_ERR_CANCELED if during a "CONFIRM" command the user
closed the window.
* Add quality bar.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.5 (2008-02-15)
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* Fix cross compilation for Gtk+-2 pinentry.
* New Assuan command GETINFO with subcommands "version" and "pid".
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.4 (2007-11-29)
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* Pinentry-gtk-2 and pinentry-qt now support a simple passphrase
quality indicator.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.3 (2007-07-06)
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* New command MESSAGE and --one-button compatibility option to
CONFIRM.
* New Assuan option touch-file to set a file which will be touched
after ncurses does not need the display anymore.
* New option --colors=FG,BG,SO to set the colors for the curses
pinentry.
* Pinentry-w32 does now basically work. It needs some finishing
though. For example the buttons should resize themself according
to the size of the text.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.2 (2005-01-27)
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* Remove bug in configure script that would use installed version of
Qt even if another path was explicitely specified with QTDIR.
* Honor the rpath setting for Qt.
* Add GTK+-2 pinentry.
* Install a symbolic link under the name "pinentry" that defaults to
pinentry-gtk, pinentry-qt, pinentry-gtk-2, or pinentry-curses, in
that order.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.1 (2004-04-21)
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* Removed unneeded Assuan cruft.
* Fixes for *BSD.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.7.0 (2003-12-23)
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* Make UTF8 description (prompt, error message, button texts) work.
* Make sure that secmem_term is called before program termination.
* Make assuan in Gtk and Curses pinentry use secure memory for
storage.
* Fixed a bug that would occur if a canceled GETPIN was immediately
followed by a CONFIRM.
* Disabled undo/redo in Qt pinentry.
* Print diagnostics for locale problems and return a new error code
in that case.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.8 (2003-02-07)
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* Bug fix in pinentry-qt.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.7 (2002-11-20)
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* Workaround for a bug in the curses version which led to an infinite
loop.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.6 (2002-11-09)
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* Fixed handling of DISPLAY and --display for the sake of the curses
fallback.
* UTF-8 conversion does now work for the GTK+ and CURSES version.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.5 (2002-09-30)
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* Handle Assuan options in the qt version.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.4 (2002-08-19)
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* Handle CONFIRM command in the qt version.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.3 (2002-06-26)
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* Minor bug fixes to the qt version.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.2 (2002-05-13)
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* Error texts can now be percent-escaped.
* The Curses pinentry supports multi-line error texts.
* The GTK+ and Qt pinentry can fall back to curses if no display is
available.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.1 (2002-04-25)
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* The Curses pinentry supports user-provided button texts via the
new SETOK and SETCANCEL commands.
* The Curses pinentry supports setting the desired character set
locale with --lc-ctype and correctly translates the UTF-8 strings
into that.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.6.0 (2002-04-05)
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* Merged all pinentry frontends into a single module.
* There is now a Curses frontend.
* The curses pinentry supports --ttyname and --ttytype options to
set the desired input/output terminal and its type.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.1 (2002-02-18)
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* CONFIRM command works
Noteworthy changes in version 0.5.0 (2002-01-04)
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* Window layout is somewhat nicer
* percent escape sequences do now work for SETDESC and SETERROR

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