On Wed, 18 May 1994, Dave Otto wrote:

MIT's press release on 2.6 also mentions bugs in 2.5 that have been pointed out to them. I'm all for liberating 2.5 from MIT but we need to fix the bugs in it that they fixed in (or are fixing in) 2.6.

If this is done successfully, it might be a good idea to name it PGP 2.7 for obvious reasons.