[Passwordsafe-devel] Announcing PasswordSafe 3.26

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

Hi,

This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.25. This release
has a couple of nice new features, as described below, some bug fixes, as
well as support for:
Chinese (full), Dutch (partial), French (full), German (full), Korean
(partial), Russian (full), Swedish (full), Danish (partial), Polish
(partial), and Spanish (full).
(If you're interested in supporting your language, please let me know.)

A new beta release of the Linux version will be ready soon, and announced on
the passwordsafe-linux mailing list
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-linux).

Thanks to:
- Bert, Bjorn, Jose, Karlo, mniklas and pm_kan, for their translation
efforts and feedback on this release,
- The PasswordSafe testers for vetting this release,
- DK for his work and patience,
- Sauravg and pm_kan for their work on the Linux beta,
- All the users who provide feedback, bug reports, suggestions and the
occasional donation...

New Features for 3.26
=======================
[3288341] Autotype has been added to the DragBar. Drag the image to an input
area on another Window (e.g., Browser) and PasswordSafe will begin Autotype
from there. 
[3286721] User can now toggle between read-only and read-write modes via a
menu item or by double-clicking on the current R-O or R/W indicator in the
Status Bar.
[3203152] The displayed language can now be changed via the new
Manage->Change Language menu.
[3065111] Add/Edit now displays both the Application's (PasswordSafe) and
the current database's default Autotype string (if set via Manage->Options).
[2964804, 1855389] The user can specify the list of symbols valid for
password generation, and can override this for any particular entry (except
when EasyVision or  pronounceable passwords are chosen).
[1831893, 1471134] Added Autotype code "\s" to send "Shift+Tab" (back tab).
[] Allow user to control copying of the password to clipboard when
performing "Browse to URL" via an option in Options->Security. This is a
database option i.e., you can have different setting for different
databases.
[] Support importing of TXT, CSV files and XML exported from KeePass V1 and
KeePass V2 XML files. Note that KeePass V2's export in the V1 format is does
not conform to their own format as specified by their V1 product and can not
be imported. Please review our Help file for the settings in KeePass
required during their export. 

Changes to Existing Features in 3.26
======================================
[] New image on start-up dialog - courtesy of user Prinz_Eugen.
[] Polish installation texts added thanks to Michal Niklas.
[] An entry's password expiry date is set or cleared directly rather than
using the Set and Clear buttons after changing values.
[] The default password generation policy is now for 12 character passwords
that include symbol characters (previous default was 8, no symbols).
[] Unknown database header fields and unknown entry fields are no longer
exported when a database is exported to XML as there is no mechanism to
re-check them during import. Exporting to XML and then importing to a new
database can be used to remove these unknown fields.
[] Date time fields, when exported to XML, now are in the W3C dateTime
standard format instead of PasswordSafe's.  This release can import XML
files with date time fields in either of these forms. The next release will
only be able to process the W3C standard.
[] Fully support importing of TXT files exported from KeePass V1 including
the Group Tree structure, URL and date time fields. Please review the online
help for more details.

Bugs fixed in 3.26
====================
[3325116] Users can no longer select an entry via the System Tray icon's
Recent Entry menu if the display has not been restored after minimize or
unlock.
[3306357, 3062632, 2888026] User preference changes are now correctly saved.
This includes allowing user to change database preferences when the database
is read-only.
[3303018] Filters with quotes in their name are now correctly exported,
imported and displayed in the Manage Filters dialog.
[3301904] Export XML, export Text and the export of filters functions now
process file names and paths containing non-Latin characters.  In addition,
missing directories in the specified path are created as neeeded.
[3234204] PasswordSafe no longer exits if the command flag is set to "-s
<databasename>".
[3088187] The correct entry in List View is now used for Autotype when using
the keyboard to select the entry when PasswordSafe first opens.
[] Controls in Edit are now disabled if entry is protected.
[] Compare databases now correctly compares the 'Protect' and password
policy 'symbols' fields of entries.

The U3 and PasswordSafe2Go versions will be updated soon and available from
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=2031906
and
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=2880062
respectively.
(Owners of previous releases of these products are invited to contact me for
an update)


The release may be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/ (Newest Files):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.26/pwsafe-
3.26.exe/download (installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.26/pwsafe-
3.26-bin.zip/download (zip file with binaries, for those who don't like
installers)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.26/pwsafe-
3.26.msi/download (Microsoft installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.26/pwsafe-
3.26-src.zip.sig/download (source code)

SHA-1 checksums:
1ffd66a0db5c1b904f1c2fed7a7fe8079bb2c227 *pwsafe-3.26.exe
d359178d8bb19d42014cf99aa396a3b1df3ca124 *pwsafe-3.26.msi
b5086d45cb00d5251c47906a08e483be01283ff7 *pwsafe-3.26-bin.zip
cda0e9e71f16738c1e152ab5d4a3698446c29bb5 *pwsafe-3.26-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).


Folks interested in the Linux version of PasswordSafe are invited to
subscribe to the passwordsafe-linux mailing list
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-linux).
Annoucements of Linux version releases will be made to this list.
 
         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.