#GnuPG 2.2.30 and 2.2.31 (LTS) mainly add support to check entered passwords against patterns. (Backported from the "news release series", it seems.)
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q3/000463.html
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q3/000464.html
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Over the summer #GnuPG 2.3.2 (the new release series) pushed many smaller features further in August. Discovery of pubkeys is improved. So are the hardware tokens. Entered passwords can now be checked against patterns. https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q3/000462.html #EndtoEndCrypto #FreeSoftware #EmailSecurity #FileSecurity #OpenPGP

#GnuPG 2.2.29 (LTS) is available. It has a few regessions from 2.2.28 fixed and changes the the default keyserver to keyserver.ubuntu.com (temporarily).
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q3/000461.html As you may know the old SKS keyserver network was attacked and withers out. The future is for https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD and upcoming new keyserver software like hockeypuck. E.g. there are some candidate public keyservers you could try
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-June/065278.html #EndtoEndCrypto #FreeSoftware #EmailSecurity #FileSecurity