= Informsec2013: Report for Milestone #1 =
//Delivered: 2013-05-17//
== 1. What we have done for milestone #1 ==
* Gpg4win 2.1.1-beta released (2013-05-16) which includes:
** new Gpg4win installer (all components are updated; see section 2.)
** website updated
** announcement on all gpg4win mailing lists (in English and Germen)
* Kleopatra's non-latin encoding bug fixed with an updated Kleopatra package
* Windows7 (64bit) test system is set up. Windows8 (64bit) license is orderd and will set up as second test system for the next milestone.
* Checked all Kleopatra bug reports on bugs.kde.org and Gpg4win tracker (see section 3.)
* Set up a new wiki for GnuPG/Gpg4win community: wiki.gnupg.org
* Released GnuPG 2.0.20.
* Released GPA 0.9.4
* Released GPGME 1.4.1
* Migrated the installer to the i686-w64-mingw32 toolchain.
* Updated most included packages to decent versions.
* Fixed many included packages to allow the use of that toolchain.
* Fixed a long standing bug in GPGME which led to spurious Kleopatra hangs.
* Improved of the build system.
* Updated Claws-Mail and changed to cope with the now internal plugins.
== 2. Updates of Gpg4win components and libraries ==
We checked (and if required updated) all in Gpg4win integrated
packages. An overview of updated packages:
{{{
Package old version new version
kleopatra 2.1.0 (20110204) 2.1.1 (20130516)
from KDE 4.1.4 4.10.3
-qt 4.4.0 4.8.4
-dbus 20090701 1.4.24-20130417
-oxygen-icons 20100218 4.10.3
gnupg2 2.0.19 2.0.20
-adns 1.4-g10-2 1.4-g10-3
-dirmngr 1.1.0 1.1.1
-gpgme 1.3.2. 1.4.1
-libassuan 2.0.3 2.1.0
-libgcrypt 1.5.0 1.5.2
-libgpg-error 1.10 1.11
-libksba 1.2.0 1.3.0
-paperkey 1.2 1.3
-pinentry 0.8.1 0.8.3
claws-mail 3.8.0cvs30 claws-mail-3.9.1
-curl 7.19.0 7.30.0
-gtkhtml2_viewer 0.32cvs2 0.34
-libetpan 0.58 0.58-g10-1
gpa 0.9.2 0.9.4
gdk-pixbuf 2.26.0 2.26.5
glib 2.32.0 2.34.3
gnutls 2.8.6 2.12.21
gtk+ 2.24.10 2.24.17
libffi 3.0.10 3.0.13
libgsasl 1.4.4 1.8.0
libpng 1.4.10 1.4.12
libtasn1 2.2 2.14
w32pth 2.0.2 2.0.5
zlib 1.2.5 1.2.7
}}}
=== 2.1 Library updates for Kleopatra ===
To make use of improvements developed by the KDE community Gpg4Win now used
the KDE-Windows buildsystem [[http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge|emerge]].
Emerge is a tool to automatically
compile the KDE sources into Windows binaries. There is a community around it
that keeps the build scripts up to date and works on build problems that exist
for Windows. We created a special Gpg4Win branch that can automatically build a kleopatra
binary package from scratch with dependencies tailored to the need of Gpg4Win.
This makes the packaging of Kleopatra more transparent and reproducable, and
enables us to have a more maintainable update process for kleopatra in the future
because we are now using a build process that is maintained by a larger community.
The repository of the build scripts can be reviewed under http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=emerge.git&a=shortlog&h=6fd6551b2af111b11ec2ad5fcfdb244f5dadbbcf .
The packaging of Kleopatra (which files should be installed where)
also had to be reworked as we needed an automated way to create such a package.
This work resulted in a reduced set of files actually needed in Gpg4Win
reducing the size of a Kleopatra installation from 65MB to 51MB.
==== Details: ====
**DBus:**<
>
The interprocess communication system used by Kleopatra has been updated
to the release dbus-1.4.26 from freedesktop.org. This release is officially
supported for Windows and brings improved stability and a better performance.
Additionally DBus instances on Windows are now better isolated from each other.
This improves the mulituser support and allows multiple installations of
different DBus instances on one System. This update was also a requirement
for a portable gpg4win installation.
Challenges:
* Changed installation paths in the new Version
* Testing the implications of the DBus isolation.
**Qt:**<
>
The Qt Framework used by Kleopatra has been updated to the latest stable
release 4.8.4. This update brings 4 years of Qt development and is a Qt
release that is supported for Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
This improves the look and feel of kleopatra on modern Windows Systems and
additionaly fixes several bugs that existed in the previously used 4.4
release of Qt.
Challenges were to create a reduced set of Icon.
**Icons:**<
>
The Icons used by Kleopatra have been updated to their current look in KDE 4.10.3.
Challenges:
* Packaging only the subset of Icons used by kleopatra out of the approx. 1200 Icons contained in the KDE icon set.
**Kdelibs / Kdepimlibs:**<
>
The KDE libraries have been updated to Version 4.10.3, providing Kleopatra
with an updated and maintainable base. This is a dependency for many of
the improvements and bugfixes (like using Kleopatra with a non-latin locale)
in the course of this project.
Challenges:
* Identifying the parts actually used by kleopatra and reducing the packaging to those parts.
* Checking for gpg4win specific changes and ensuring that they were also contained in KDE 4.10.3.
**Kleopatra:**<
>
A new development branch for Kleopatra has been created that is based on
on KDE 4.10.3. Changes made to Kleopatra for previous versions of
Gpg4Win have been merged into this branch and into the mainstream development
branch of KDE. This makes Kleopatra much more maintainable as the difference
between the Kleopatra version used and developed by the KDE community and the
Version contained in Gpg4Win could be reduced to a minimum.
Challenges:
- Checking for gpg4win specific changes and ensuring that they were
also contained in KDE 4.10.2, forwardporting old changes.
- A regression in the smart card communication code causing kleopatra
GUI to become frozen.
- Building and installing the Kleopatra documentation so that it can be
opened in a browser.
== 3. Kleopatra bug reports ==
We checked all open Kleopatra bug reports in bugs.kde.org.
Here is an overview of all 132 visited issues (without state 'resolved|verified|closed'):
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&list_id=642325&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDSINFO&product=kleopatra
Use https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=NUMBER to open an issue with a given number.
* 39 issues which need more work (assigned to Intevation):
170803
175980
642325
179788
179789
183806
176152
258490
259238
246991
273439
282718
294615
300959
280087
303790
303991
308235
287145
312940
314341
316353
309461
294124
176219
267808
211246
175013
192059
209768
219923
173377
172718
166732
206686
257086
319281
175593
176072
* 19 issues which need more info (assigned to reporter):
193664
213313
270149
298103
300290
225587
308234
304103
310491
313608
315816
316582
268630
244681
248910
308096
308157
308307
308504
* 12 issues which are feature request (nobody assigned):
179790
181460
192911
194602
202195
215032
258489
279224
307963
317019
223731
175586
* 43 issues which are resolved (closed):
201764
205987
201769
240033
246628
272424
203132
196216
233764
262918
266354
177766
180565
294107
295563
190639
258691
263238
262864
297023
192104
265363
229078
202192
251220
186001
217334
108206
313313
262338
289007
269258
184049
311684
* 19 issues which are invalid (closed)
156954
290362
297034
267374
275127
311725
277018
317359
218699
174445
257417
255311
247778
204812
226983
274124
311384
315645
234136
In Ggp4win's bug tracker there were 8 Kleopatra related issues which
we checked and answered.
https://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?atid=126&group_id=11&func=browse
* 7 issues which needs more tests (assigned to reporter):
1099
1220
2563
2566
2628
3234
6423
* 1 issue which is invalid (closed):
6632