[Passwordsafe-devel] Announcing PasswordSafe 3.22

[ronys <ro...@gm...>]

Hi,

This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.22. This release
has a couple of nice new features, as described below, some bug fixes, as
well as support for:
Danish (full), French (full), German (full), Swedish (full), Russian (full),
Chinese (partial), Polish (partial), and Spanish (partial).
(If you're interested in supporting your language, please let me know.)

Thanks to Rejmond, Karlo, Bjorn, pm_kan, freedoctor and Francois for their
translation efforts and feedback on this release.
Many thanks to DK for his work and patience, and of course thanks to all the
users who provide feedback, bug reports, suggestions and the occasional
donation...


New Features for 3.22
=====================
[] Support for Danish has been added - thanks to Rejmond for his effort in
translating!
[2983775] Recently Used Entries are now saved in the database header and so
are "persistent".  The current Windows user interface limits this to a
maximum of the last 25 entries accessed.
[2980609] Allow date filters to use relative dates
[2979411] A single entry can now be exported to a text or XML file via the
Edit menu or right-click context menu.
[2957185] Add Synchronize function to the menu options during review of the
results of a Compare database operation.
[] Validation of databases can now be performed via the Manage menu as well
as via the command line flag '-v'. When executed via the menu, it is very
similar to opening a new database in that the current open database is
closed and the selected database is validated during the open process.
[] Allow user to select external editor for Notes field in Add/Edit dialog.
[] Add entry size to the available filters to be able view entries.
[] Warn users during database open and entry import if there are entries
with large text fields (e.g. Notes) that cannot be fully displayed and may
be truncated if edited.

Changes to Existing Features in 3.22
====================================
[] Preferences are now saved in the 'normal' per-user directory under
Windows. Existing installations will use current preferences, but users can
migrate to the new location via Manage->Options->System->Migrate
PasswordSafe configuration to user directory.
[] New databases will be created by default in "My Safes" directory under
"My Documents".

Bugs fixed in 3.22
==================
[3004446] Deleting a group of entries works again.
[2994118] Swedish version no longer crashes when checking for latest
version.
[2990734] Changing either whether password history is kept and deleting
currently saved history now activates the OK Button.
[2990609] Clicking to rename entries is now disabled when database is
read-only.
[2984527] Database preferences (including the Idle Timer setting) now
retained during a locking minimize to the System Tray.
[2977941] The password expiry date is now updated during edit if the
password is changed either via the Generate button or by the user manually
editing it.
[2977045] Can now make password expiration date any value from the current
date.
[2962916] Save toolbar button only enabled if database is R/W and has been
changed since last saved.
[2962847] Fix password length checking to be between 4 and 1024 during menu
Generate Password option & Password Policy setting as per previous releases.
[2960709] Entry selected prior to workstation locking is reselected on being
restored after unlocking the workstation.
[2957933] Ensure that AutoType delay and wait times are not impacted by
numeric characters from any entry field substitution.
[2951871] Shortcut related menu items now returned to the Edit menu and the
"Run Command", "Browse to URL", "Browse to URL + Autotype" and "Send email"
functions now work again, when a Shortcut entry is selected.
[2897661, 2779654] Group expand/collapse state restored after the database
is Locked, Minimized or "AutoType with Minimize" and then Restored.
[] Use of External Editor on Notes field from Edit dialog now activates
Apply and OK buttons.
[] Fix errors if importing an XML file with entries with duplicate unique
IDs (UUID elements).
[] Remove "Confirm Deletion of Entries" checkbox from theMisc. Options page.
New support for Undo/Redo made this unnecessary. Users are always asked to
confirm the deletion of Groups or entries that have aliases or shortcuts.

The U3 version will be available soon from
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=2031906
(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/projects/passwordsafe/files/ (Newest Files):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.22/pwsafe
-3.22.exe/download (installer)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.22/pwsafe
-3.22-bin.zip/download (zip file with binaries, for those who don't like
installers)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.22/pwsafe
-3.22.msi/download (Microsoft installer)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.22/pwsafe
-3.22-src.zip/download (source code)

SHA-1 checksums:
7c971fba41f657757bcee1a62887c20926e74cf7 *pwsafe-3.22.exe
f191b507abd335c8c60aa528f821862a0d5176da *pwsafe-3.22.msi
044e35af91f0a6cacd874ff31fdf305e4b022567 *pwsafe-3.22-bin.zip
3fb2f522fb1b9affea331bc4e25621491576b44c *pwsafe-3.22-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

P.S. If you're interested in helping out by testing pre-release versions of
PasswordSafe, we've created a mailing list expressly for that purpose.
Please join it at
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-test.