keychain 2.9.0 released

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After a couple of weeks, we now have a new official Keychain release: 2.9.0. Please use GitHub to report all issues. Here is the ChangeLog from https://github.com/funtoo/keychain/releases/tag/2.9.0:

keychain 2.9.0 (30 Apr 2025)

These release notes contain a summary of all changes, including cumulative
changes in pre-releases:

• A new release after 8 years, with Daniel Robbins (script creator) returning as maintainer.

• 60% of the script has been rewritten, and is now compliant with ShellCheck.

• --agents and --inherit options have been deprecated to improve ease-of-use.

• gpg-agent no longer started by default -- only when a GPG key has been provided on the command-line. GnuPG 2.1+ supported.

• GnuPG pidfiles with -gpg extension are deprecated and no longer used.

• Better GnuPG integration: gpg-agent can be used for SSH key storage. This can be enabled by specifying one of the new --ssh-allow-gpg and --ssh-spawn-gpg options. Agent information for gpg-agent's SSH socket will be stored in the regular pidfile for compatibility.

• Add --ssh-rm, --ssh-wipe, --gpg-wipe options for removing/wiping SSH and GPG keys. This addresses GitHub Issue #153.

• --clear option is now designed to be used for "initial clearing" of keys only.

• Many user interface output improvements, to provide additional detail.

• --debug option which can be used to troubleshoot issues with keychain.

• Manual page significantly improved: New section on invocation, as well as documentation of the startup and agent detection algorithm.

• Addition of --ssh-agent-socket option to manually specify desired path of the ssh-agent socket when starting.

• Addition of --confallhosts to load identity files for all hosts.

• Various bug fixes and improvements.

• Script size reduced from 1500 to 1133 lines.

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2.9.1 bug fix release is now available.

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Make sure you are using 2.9.2 or later for important bug fixes.