[Passwordsafe-devel] Towards PasswordSafe 4.0

[pwsafe.org <ro...@pw...>]

Hi,

As some of you may know, I've been working on a new format for PasswordSafe
to support attachments, multiple users and different encryption algorithms,
as well fixing some of the warts in the existing format. This, along with
some heavy refactoring of the 'core' library, has been going on in the
various v4 branches for a while.

I'd like to merge the v4 branch into master, making the next 'public'
release with the new core and "alpha" V4 file support, meaning that the
default database format will still be V3. (v4 databases can be created via
File->Export->V4...)

Other changes "beneath the hood" for the v4 branch:
- Unit testing using the gtest framework, for both Linux and Windows
- 'cmake' configuration and building under Linux (at this stage in addition
to the 'regular' make framework).

More details can be found in the developers' READMEs and the formatV4.txt
files.

My goal is to merge the v4/2015-12-04 branch into master towards the end of
December.

If you'd like to give this branch a test drive over the next couple of
weeks, that would be great! (Remember that the main repository is now on
github at https://github.com/pwsafe/pwsafe.git).

Known issues:
- cmake is currently unsupported on Windows. If anyone wants to help with
this, please drop me a note.
- I'm afraid I broke the CodeBlocks and CodeLite build of version.h from
version.in in order to support both cmake and the 'standard' make under
Linux.

Cheers,

  Rony