[Passwordsafe-devel] Announcing PasswordSafe 3.28

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

Hi,

This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.28 for Windows.
This release has a couple of nice new features, as described below, some bug
fixes, as well as full or partial support for:
Chinese, Czech (new!), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Polish,
Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
(If you're interested in supporting your language, please let me know.)

Thanks to:
- Bert, Bjorne, Buchtik, Karlo, 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,
- All the users who provide feedback, bug reports, suggestions and the
occasional donation...

New Features for 3.28
=====================
[3468289] The passwords in the Password History and in the List view now
displayed with the specified Password Font. In addition, you can now zoom in
and out of the Notes field, for easy reading of texts.
[3455436] The password history can now be deleted for all existing entries
in a database at once (optionally including Protected Entries).
[3421963] Multiple Password Policies can now be defined, managed and
selected in entries to generate passwords.
[] Partial support for Czech has been added, thanks to butchtik.

Changes to Existing Features in 3.28
====================================
[3445820] The Edit menu item and entry right-click context menu item "Copy
Run Command to Clipboard" will now substitute any variables within the
command. This can be disabled by holding down the Ctrl key when selecting
these menu items. (Note that the standard menu shortcut can't be used to
disable, as the Ctrl key may be used to select a different menu
item/command.)
[] As mentioned in the V3.26 release, the XML representation of date/time
fields, are now in the W3C dateTime standard format instead of
PasswordSafe's. This release no longer supports import of XML files with
date time fields in the old PasswordSafe's format.
See the online Help (the XML section of "Import Password Entries") if you
need to manually convert old XML files.
[] After closing the current database, on opening another, PasswordSafe will
first attempt to access the directory of the last opened database in order
to allow the user to start browsing for their intended database.  If this
directory is not available, PasswordSafe will open the default "My Safes"
directory as it did prior to this change.
[] Databases are now always validated when opened. The Manage->Validate menu
item has therefore been removed.
[] The default backup policy has been changed to save the last three
versions of the database, instead of one. 
[] The graphic symbols for entries, groups, etc. have been redone, as most
displays now support more than 256 colors.

Bugs fixed in 3.28
==================
[3486960] Rename of a group is now complete even if a filter is active.
[3486959] PasswordSafe no longer crashes when returning to edit after lock.
[3468853] The number of saved passwords can be changed and after the user
presses Apply they will no longer be warned that the entry has been changed
when pressing Cancel.
[3462520] A password entry's expiry time in days now correctly reflects the
expiration date for non-recurring expiration.
[3440318] Filters can now be cleared by double-clicking on the filter
indicator in the status bar. Also, Filter Menu correctly changed when a
filter is active.
[3435869] '-g config_file' option now accepts a non-existing file, creating
it after notifying the user.
[3430196] Buttons in the Options property pages now retain the user's
Windows theme.
[] Fix inability to copy entries to the original database in the Compare
database results dialog.
[] Thanks to Jon F. for proofreading the online help.

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 Windows release may be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/ (Newest Files):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.28/pwsafe-
3.28.exe/download (installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.28/pwsafe-
3.28-bin.zip/download (zip file with binaries, for those who don't
likeinstallers)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.28/pwsafe-
3.28.msi/download (Microsoft installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.28/pwsafe-
3.28-src.zip/download (source code)

SHA-1 checksums:
47402e7eb540656977617c79d9ce98d128306e9b *pwsafe-3.28.exe
abb2c6ff154329de0f9c0bd5e616c735c6cc7be3 *pwsafe-3.28.msi
85181762abc7469a70013fd7aa62e1d3ec7f9dc5 *pwsafe-3.28-bin.zip
623ae33107c4b81ca8ab8a897ae5275dc22b7e14 *pwsafe-3.28-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).

Details regarding the next Linux version of PasswordSafe will be announced
separately on the passwordsafe-linux mailing list
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-linux).
 
         Enjoy,
 
                 Rony

P.S. If you're interested in helping out by testing pre-release versions of
PasswordSafe, please consider joining the mailing list we created for that
purpose: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-test.