[OTR-announce] New releases of pidgin-otr and libotr now available

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Oct 21 06:06:07 EDT 2014


We are pleased to announce new releases of pidgin-otr (4.0.1) and libotr
(4.1.0).  These are mostly bugfixes, with a small amount of new
functionality in libotr, as well as some new translations for
pidgin-otr.

pidgin-otr updates:
  - Fix max message size for Novell Groupwise
  - New Czech, Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål
    translations. Updated French, Chinese translations.
  - The Windows binary has been linked with updated versions of libotr,
    libgcrypt, and libgpg-error.

libotr updates:
  - Modernized autoconf build system
  - Use constant-time comparisons where needed
  - Use gcrypt secure memory allocation
  - Correctly reject attempts to fragment a message into too many pieces
  - Fix a missing opdata when sending message fragments
  - Don't lose the first user message when REQUIRE_ENCRYPTION is set
  - Fix some memory leaks
  - Correctly check for children contexts' state when forgetting a context
  - API Changes:
    - Added API functions otrl_context_find_recent_instance and
      otrl_context_find_recent_secure_instance.

You can get them at the OTR website (https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/).  If
you like, you can donate (https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/donate.php) to the
project there as well.

   - Ian


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