Gpg4win Roadmap

This page lists the major goals that are worked on. For minor releases only the next release is listed with some more details.

Life Cycle

• For the crypto engine, see GnuPG's EOL. Note that GnuPG can be updated individually for Gpg4win.

• Gpg4win 3.1.x with GnuPG 2.2 will be maintained as part of GnuPG VS-Desktop GnuPG Desktop at least until Gpg4win 4 gains approval for restricted communication in Germany.

Gpg4win 4 (Q4 2021)

• GnuPG 2.3
• Improved Subkey handling in GpgOL and Kleopatra to better support "rules of representation (Vertreterregeln)".
• New smartcard handling with support for multiple smartcards.
• Additional Smartcard support for PIV Application - with GUI
• ECC Support in GpgSM (including brainpool curves)
• RFC4880bis support with new AEAD methods (EAX, OCB) in GPG
• Support for OpenPGP v5 keys using SHA-256 fingerprints.
• Better support for automated encryption for OpenPGP in GpgOL
• Usability improvements

Ongoing developments

• Authenticated encryption support for S/MIME in GpgSM
• Better Microsoft Exchange / GAL integration for GpgOL (fingerprints and encryption info as attributes in the GAL)
• Further improvements to automated encryption -> default on.
• Usability and automation improvements
• One focus is improved hardware token support (Yubikey, GnuK-Token) and for the GnuK-Token to improve availability in Europe.

For each release

• Update of third party libraries.
• Update of GnuPG and libraries.

Additional features from wishlist (needs cleanup) depending on funding and available time.