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Gpg4win Roadmap

Gpg4win 3.0 stable (~End of August 2017)

• Stable GnuPG 2.2 integration (with ECC support and HTTPS), TOFU trust model and WKD/WKS support.

• GpgOL:
  • Stable MIME support
  • No persistent modifications to email items. (Also fixing random crash on MIME Mail send.)
  • Support for Outlooks' inline editor in message list.
  • Optional support for PGP/Inline messages.
  • Show if message was encrypted directly in Outlook (no more popup)
  • Show signature details directly in Outlook (no more popup)
  • Support for HTML / multipart alternative emails
  • Improve error handling
  • Full support for MS Exchange (and EAS) >= 2010.
  • Improve signature display and Status (no more popup!)
  • Enable support for sending HTML emails.
  • Move decryption in a background thread (no more blocking Outlook).
  • Improve "Fluent UI" scaling
  • Preselect Sign/Encrypt on reply or forward based on email status.
  • Support new automatic key lookup options in GnuPG (WKD).

• GpgEX:
  • Reduce available options (thanks to autodetection).

• Gpg4win installer:
  • Show usage hints during installation (some pictures / icons).
  • Reduce steps by default. Enable "customized install".
  • Allow installation as normal user.
  • Register File Extensions / MIME Types for Gpg4win (.asc, .gpg, .sig, .key,.. etc (and the X509 extensions))

• General:
  • Gpg4win update notification

• Crypto-Manager/Expert Interface (Kleopatra):
  • Autodetect file contents and treat them accordingly (e.g. If a .gpg file is a cert import it. Or if encrypted decrypt it.)
  • Rework Sign/Encrypt files dialog to reduce steps and make certificate selection easier / better.
  • Rework Decrypt/Verify files dialog to have only one step and select automatic handling.
  • Rework key list to include aliases for email addresses when filtering.
  • Add more options to show in keylist, especially UID validity.
  • Support TOFU trust model in dialogs.
  • OpenPGP Smartcard Management
  • Paperkey export/import (print secret key).
  • Add input field like GPA's clipboard.
  • Generally improve clipboard behavior (2.3.x versions sometimes missdetect)
  • Based on KDE Frameworks 5: many UI improvements and additional localizations.
  • No more need for dbus, kbuildsycoca and wrapper script to start Kleopatra.
  • Add setting to Sign/Encrypt folder contents.
  • Improve first start (provide key import or key pair generation).
  • Integrate Gpg4win compendium for Windows and improve help buttons.
  • Support new automatic key lookup options in Kleopatra (WKD).

Gpg4win 3.0.x (Q3-Q4 2017)

• contains security and bug fixes

Gpg4win 3.1 (Q1 2018)

• GpgOL
  • Remove support for Outlook 2003/2007 (Microsofts' Extended Support ends 2017-12-31).
• more features ...

2.3.5(unscheduled)

To be done on demand only, if an important defect appears that needs a quick fix and 3.0 is not ready for primetime yet.

For each release

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

Additional features from wishlist depends on funding and available time.