[Passwordsafe-devel] Announcing PasswordSafe 3.29

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

Hi,

This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.29 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:
- Andreas, Butchtik, pm_kan, Francois, mniklas, Bjorne, and Karlo 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 3.29
=====================
[3519484] Empty Groups are now persistent (previously a group with no
entries would 'disappear' if the database was locked or closed).
[3510481] The Last Modified and Password Modified date/times are initially
set to show the entry's creation time, instead of being blank.
[] When comparing databases, you can now display of the details of the
entries' differences in the results dialog by right-click -> compare
selected entries.
[] You can now cancel a long running Compare, Merge or Synchronize database
operation. Note: You should check the operation's report file to see if the
operation was indeed cancelled. If not, you can undo it as all operations).
[] Portuguese (Brazil) installation instructions added, thanks to Andreas.

Changes to Existing Features in 3.29
====================================
None

Bugs fixed in 3.29
==================
[3525995] Find now only highlights/select the found entry.
[3523117] Password Expiration Date now correctly set when using intervals.
[3521158] Paste into the Notes field (Add or Edit entry) is now always in
plain text.
[3518734] When generating passwords (Ctrl-P), the user is no longer prompted
to save changes when pressing Esc if they have selected a Named Password
Policy but not generated a password.
[3518732] Custom special symbol set now handled correctly in Generate
Password dialog box.
[3518389] All date/time fields in the List view are now displayed using the
user's "short date" format as specified via the Windows Control Panel
"Region and Language" tab.
[3515692] Fixed crash with Generate Password switching to default policy
with > 1 named policy.
[3514819] Add Group now works again.
[3510590] Password History is now correctly repaired during the automatic
Validate on database open. 
[3508891] Editing an entry's Notes using an external editor no longer adds
blank lines and fully supports non-Latin characters.
[3498625] Test selected password policy now reflects any edits done to the
policy.
[3495473] Notes Word Wrap during edit now works again.

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.

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/3.29/pwsafe-
3.29.exe/download (installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.29/pwsafe-
3.29-bin.zip/download (zip file with binaries, for those who don't
likeinstallers)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.29/pwsafe-
3.29.msi/download (Microsoft installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.29/pwsafe-
3.29-src.zip/download (source code)

SHA-1 checksums:
09846c2fea2436caf8fdbf37d5cfa5852b013092 *pwsafe-3.29.exe
b718e6a956f1292d09441a80806497485390dce6 *pwsafe-3.29.msi
a54460cb89bda5687d594ad1b1664a0f960154b6 *pwsafe-3.29-bin.zip
b0ca3dc50cc2f00f8c991b6b8e901a17602a2fce *pwsafe-3.29-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.