Web上で変更点が見つからなかったのでダウンロードしてNEWSを見たところ以下のような記述がありました。
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.2.1 (2006-02-14)
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* Security fix for a verification weakness in gpgv. Some input
could lead to gpgv exiting with 0 even if the detached signature
file did not carry any signature. This is not as fatal as it
might seem because the suggestion as always been not to rely on
th exit code but to parse the --status-fd messages. However it
is likely that gpgv is used in that simplified way and thus we
do this release. Same problem with "gpg --verify" but nobody
should have used this for signature verification without
checking the status codes anyway. Thanks to the taviso from
Gentoo for reporting this problem.
QMAIL3でGnuPGを使って署名の検証をする場合には、--status-fdを使っているので大丈夫だと思われます。