Encryption file method deprecated?

[zarraozaga]

GPG 2.1+ doesn't use secret keyring anymore. Is there a possible workaround? GnuPG 2.1 (and upwards) switched to a new keyring format with better performance. For newly generated keyrings, the keys are stored in the pubring.kbx file. Another change was merging public and private keyrings, that's why there is no additional secring.kbx.