[Passwordsafe-devel] Announcing PasswordSafe 3.12
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From: ronys <ro...@gm...> - 2008-02-22 09:29:47
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Hi, This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.12. This is a minor release - some annoying bugs have been fixed, some minor features have been added or improved upon. Thanks to DK his work on this release, and to all the folks who reported bugs and tested pre-release versions. Bugs fixed in 3.12 [1855658, 1436850] Implement font for password display correctly. [1850271] Save after Compare no longer corrupts database. [1849881, 700973] Pressing a character in the List view will now jump to the next entry with text beginning with that character in the second column. This is a change from previous behaviour, which only looked in the first column, now occupied by the icon. [1849830] Help now works properly for Manage->Option, displaying the relevant topic. [1849818] Browse-to no longer falsely reports "failed to browse to URL". [1843631] "Browse to Icon" now correctly shown using new Toolbar. [1841525] Increasing the number of passwords saved no longer deletes the existing Password History. [1833609, 1535341, 1502036] Fully support multiple monitors. [1749268] Mouse clicks on tree view plus/minus boxes now works correctly. [1670193] Better Vista support (Allow use of Windows Common Controls V6 with Vista). [1478022] User no longer needs to save a restored database before it can be exported. [1440693] Fix standard keyboard access to context menu (Shift+F10). [] Allow Expand/Collapse for read-only databases via toolbar. [] Set focus to new view on switching between Tree <-> List views. [] Update toolbar when view changes (List <-> Tree). [] Set title bar text when opening a database at startup. [] Allow List view to process all characters e.g. Page Up/Down, Home, End, Arrows etc. [] Fix program crash on clicking CompareResults dialog header. [] Toolbar Save button correctly enabled after drag & drop operations. Changes to Existing Features in 3.12 [1885710, 1852862] When re-showing the Find toolbar, any existing search argument is selected to allow easier deletion and modification. [1865009] Give user advanced option to ignore whitespace-only differences during compare. [1846688, 1224373] When generating a new password, it is no longer displayed in a separate window for approval. If you want to generate another password, just click on Generate again. If you want to revert to the existing password when editing an entry, just click on Cancel. [1841221] During drag & drop, a 1.5 scond delay was introduced before expanding a group that the cursor "hovers" upon. [] New disabled buttons for New Toolbar. New Features for 3.12 [1842449, 1000639] Implement standard F3 for repeat Find shortcut. [1838738] Implement minimum lengths of types of characters in the password policy i.e. 3 uppercase + 2 lowercase + 1 digit etc. Feature is incompatible with 'pronounceable' or 'easy-to-read' passwords. [] Implement individual password policy for entries that will override the current database policy. User can still override the individual policy or the database policy. [] An entry may have multiple references, or "shortcuts" to it, similar to Windows' shortcuts. These may be thought of as "synonyms" of the entry. To create a shortcut, drag an entry with the right mouse button pressed. [] Graphics added to menus. [] New password generation option: Pronounceable passwords. Thanks to Tom Van Vleck, Morrie Gasser, and Dan Edwards. [1676241, 1511829, 1436850, 1426250, 1078998, 996240, 771845] Allow user to select a font for Passwords, so that similar characters can be distinguished e.g. 0 & O, 1, I & l. The U3 version will be available soon from http://software.u3.com/Product_Details.aspx?productId=294&Selection=7 (Owners of previous releases of the U3 version are invited to contact me for an update) The release may be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&package_id=3316 9&release_id=578557 (http://preview.tinyurl.com/3c564t) SHA-1 checksums: 072981940afa3114cf52ba7964d6d13e2477dd7a pwsafe-3.12.exe 0da286ab876b0b4b9b17886e5f27b44af9d3cad4 pwsafe-3.12.msi 8032845cebbd296d96567b75f39d4b4380814a7e pwsafe-3.12-bin.zip fb72632c97ff8c04321ad20e052097fa79c586e2 pwsafe-3.12-src.zip Note that this release also includes PGP/GPG signature files of the respective packages. These were signed with my SourceForge account key, keyid FA175557, key fingerprint = FF77 379D D46D DAA6 6182 B452 1D79 5A91 FA17 5557, available from a PGP keyserver near you (such as http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFA175557). Enjoy, Rony |