Download ======================================== All releases are signed with a :doc:`PGP key `. .. note:: All users, especially for new applications, are encouraged to use the latest 1.11 release instead of 1.10, though some API changes are still likely to occur before a new stable release based on 1.11. Current Development Series (1.11) ---------------------------------------- The latest development release is :doc:`relnotes/1_11_17`: :tgz:`1.11.17` (:tgz_sig:`sig <1.11.17>`) .. note:: Botan 1.11 requires a working C++11 compiler; GCC 4.8 and later, Clang 3.4 and later, and MSVC 2013 are regularly tested. Current Stable Series (1.10) ---------------------------------------- The latest stable branch release is :doc:`relnotes/1_10_9`: :tgz:`1.10.9` (:tgz_sig:`sig <1.10.9>`) From Your Favorite Distribution ---------------------------------------- Botan is already included in many package distributions though often the included version lags behind the latest release. Distributions providing botan include `Fedora `_, `EPEL `_ (for RHEL/CentOS), `Debian `_, `Ubuntu `_, `Gentoo `_, `Arch `_, `Slackbuild `_, `FreeBSD `_, `NetBSD `_, `Cygwin `_, `MacPorts `_, `OpenPKG `_, and `T2 SDE `_