passwordsafe-announce — For Password Safe announcements - low volume

[Passwordsafe-announce] Announcing PasswordSafe 2.04

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

PasswordSafe 2.04 is available for download. This release has some nice
new features, and a few minor bug fixes:

Bugs fixed in 2.04:
===================
[970036] 24 bit displays now display toolbar correctly
[971114] Switch to list view now works with new toolbar (silly typo in
2.03)
[972460] Master password is no longer kept in memory in the clear
[899400, 899414] Drag & drop is now accurate
[864828] Icon should now be visible in taskbar on all versions of
Windows and all color schemes.
[992073] Double clicking a group icon now does the right thing, i.e.,
nothing
[899412] Editing group names is now easier: Can now be invoked via F2
and right-click, finished by Enter, and cancelled by Escape.
[871471] Key shortcuts for Yes/No added to several dialog boxes.
[986874] "Ooops" message no longer appears upon invoking Browse to URL
[unreported] PasswordSafe now compiles cleanly under Visual Studio .NET
as well a Visual Studio 6.0

New Features for 2.04:
======================
[851563, 654677] Minimize to System Tray now supported. This is a
configurable feature, active by default. Clearing the checkbox in
Manage->Options->Display will restore the old behaviour.
[986345] The popup menu for entries now displays the more frequently
used operations (copy username & password) first.
[unreported] There's a new "lock on workstation lock" option in
Manage->Options->Security
[969038] Autotype feature added: This is a really nice feature that
pastes the selected entry's information (by default, username, tab,
password, tab, enter) to the current browser field. See the online help
for more details (See Autotype under "PasswordSafe Overview").
[978070] Search (Find) function is now better documented.


The URL for this release is:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&package_id=
33169&release_id=255179
(http://tinyurl.com/4s8ow)

MD5 checksums:
8516cfa5b5ed22b585b89a4d71a57f46  pwsafe-2.04-bin.zip
83d25fa9e540de8e6ccac2e358bab290  pwsafe-2.04-src.zip
7fbc1e811111396a4b3649dee76c7bac  pwsafe-2.04.exe

Special thanks to Jeff Lawson and Dave Collins for the time and effort
they put in doing very professional work on this release.

        Enjoy,

                Rony

P.S. If anyone is willing and able to help port 2.x to PocketPC, please
let me know (https://sourceforge.net/users/ronys)

[Passwordsafe-announce] Announcing PasswordSafe 2.03

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

PasswordSafe 2.03 is available for download. This is a maintenance
release, with a couple of new features and a couple of bugfixes:

Bugs fixed in 2.03:
===================
[940585] On Windows XP, the toolbar would sometimes be invisible with
the tree view active.
[957957, 900331] No longer crashes when deleting certain items in tree
view.

New Features for 2.03:
======================
[847769] An "installer" version is now available! Thanks to David Lacy
Kusters and Andrew Mill.
[912799, 947146] If the display supports more than 256 colors, the user
can choose between two styles of toolbar icons via the View menu. If
not, then
only the simple toolbar is enabled.
[940000] The Notes section now has a scrollbar, making it easier to view
long notes entries.

The URL for this release is:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&package_id=
33169&release_id=244139

MD5 checksums:
da42378d3547e0d736b295a77cdc2501 pwsafe-2.03-bin.zip
455e297369f8ab500dd2ba060c14c23f pwsafe-2.03-src.zip
5b3380d907e81f826fd6135d81b577b8 pwsafe-2.03.exe

	Thanks,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] Announcing PasswordSafe 2.02

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

PasswordSafe release 2.02 is available for download. This is a
maintenance release. An embarrasing crash (introduced in 2.01) has been
fixed, and a minor new feature has been added.

The URL for this release is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&package_id=
33169&release_id=234935
Full Release Notes are at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=234935

MD5 checksums:
768d636e40393ad948ab2dc313692760 pwsafe-2.02-bin.zip
3ef93cd1b5372e9b7aeef782fb27dc71 pwsafe-2.02-src.zip

	Thanks,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] Announcing PasswordSafe 2.01

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

PasswordSafe 2.01 is now ready for use. This is a maintenance release,
fixing a few minor bugs, and adding a couple of (very) minor features.

The URL for this release is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&package_id=
33169&release_id=229332

Full Release Notes are at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=229332

md5 checksums:
c82a2d8a4884d0214fec5e6cf146cc57 pwsafe-2.01-bin.zip
04b01d4ab17ab321c73245389aaf1676 pwsafe-2.01-src.zip

Thanks to all who contributed to this release by reporting bugs,
suggesting improvements, sending code patches and discussing issues on
the passwordsafe-devel mailing list.

	enjoy,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] Announce PasswordSafe 2.0

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce that PasswordSafe 2.0 is now ready for use:

- Thanks to all who've downloaded the beta versions and provided their
input and assistance.
- Thanks to all of the passwordsafe-devel list members for their
insight, asistance and discussion.
- Thanks to Emilijan Mirceski for the new graphics.
- Thanks to Maxim Tikhonov for the Russian online help.

The URL for this release is
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&package_id=
33169&release_id=217889

Full Release Notes are at
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=217889

md5 checksums:
46e4f63af97e961b8b516082cd87bfef pwsafe-2.0-bin.zip
f6e4a4753145c4ac974c7710fdda64bb pwsafe-2.0-src.zip

	Enjoy,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] Announcing MyPasswordSafe - a Linux PasswordSafe-compatible application

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

Nolan Eakins has written a Linux version of PasswordSafe!

This port, called MyPasswordSafe, is compatible with pre-2.0 database
files created by the Windows version. MyPasswordSafe is built upon Qt 3.
For details and links to the source and binaries, see
http://www.semanticgap.com/myps/.

Note that I have not reviewed MyPasswordSafe's code in depth, nor have I
tried to run the program. Specifically, I've no idea if MyPasswordSafe
is as (in)secure as PasswordSafe is or not. Note also that this is a
first release, and that Nolan is actively developing the program. For
the time being, we have decided not to merge Nolan's code into the
PasswordSafe codebase on SourceForge. I'd like to thank Nolan for his
effort, and for making his work available in both source and binary
form. This is OpenSource development at its best!

	Cheers,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 2.0pre2-BETA released

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

A second beta version of PasswordSafe 2.0 has just been released. *MANY*
thanks to all who've downloaded the first beta and commented on it -
I've tried to include as many fixes and improvements as I could.

The files are available from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/passwordsafe/pwsafe-2.0pre2-bin.zip?d
ownload and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/passwordsafe/pwsafe-2.0pre2-src.zip?d
ownload

The md5sums are:

72c120e5465b2abc1766520ae475bd84 pwsafe-2.0pre2-bin.zip
616073e0388ecbb15c2277b9bb3c0898 pwsafe-2.0pre2-src.zip

Following are the Release Notes.

	enjoy,

		Rony

Password Safe 2.0pre2 Release Note - January 2004
=================================================

This note describe the new features, fixed bugs and known problems
with Password Safe version 2.0pre2. For a short description of Password
Safe, please see the accompanying README.txt file. For more
information on the product and the project, please visit
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net

This is the second BETA release of version 2.0 of PasswordSafe. While
much effort has been put into assuring the stability of the program
and the integrity of the data, it cannot be considered "production
quality" yet, and therefore should not be used except for evaluating
the new features and providing input as to bugs, feature requests, etc.

New Features for 2.0pre2:
=========================
[RFE 504086] It is now possible to export the password database into a
plain ASCII file. Fields are separated by a tab character. Note that
this is a VERY large security if used carelessly.

New Features for 2.0pre1:
=========================
[RFE 782508, 829563, 815350, 555440] Tree, or heirarchical, view of
entries now supported. This allows the user to define categories,
sub-categories, etc.

Bugs Fixed in 2.0pre2:
======================

[859798, 859565] Debug libraries are no longer required.

- Export to v1.7 format fixed.

Known Problems:
===============
- The Help file is outdated for this release.

- The Search facility is broken.

- The default user name facility is broken.

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 2.0pre1-BETA released

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

This is the first public release of Passwordsafe 2.0. Some features are
missing, and there are some annoying GUI issues, but the program is
stable, and it seems good enough to start getting feedback from users
asides myself...

THIS IS NOT YET READY FOR GENERAL USE. Please download and use this
program only if your are interested in seeing the new features, and
would like to help the development process by reporting bugs, desired
features, etc. (or, of course, coding).

Two major new features in this release: A new database format, and a new
tree view. The former should be invisible to users, the latter quite
useful.

The application imports old database files transparently, and warns the
user upon saving that the new format is incompatible. PLEASE SAVE YOUR
DATABASE UNDER A NEW NAME. This way, the stable (1.9x) passwordsafe will
still be able to access your data if something goes wrong.

Please write me if you find problems with this release. A small sample
database and description of how to recreate the problem is the best way
to report bugs.

Files are downloadable from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/passwordsafe/pwsafe-2.0pre1-bin.zip?d
ownload
and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/passwordsafe/pwsafe-2.0pre1-src.zip?d
ownload

md5sums are
36038b0d7f29c48ef38bf6db8b7fcd73 pwsafe-2.0pre1-bin.zip
665b5f6d0ea01cef1676f7d854c6cae4 pwsafe-2.0pre1-src.zip

enjoy,

Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 1.92c.2 for PocketPC is available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

Release 1.92c.2 is available for download. This is a maintenance release for
PocketPC (WinCE) versions of PasswordSafe, fixing the following:

Bugfix [818692] PPC: notes not fully visible:
Added horizontal and vertical scroll bars to the notes field in both the Add
and Edit dialogs to allow easy scrolling through the data.

This fix raises an additional known problem in that entering data into the
notes field is difficult because the field is partially obscured by the SIP.


Thanks to Kevin for this release.

Link to files:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1911
01

md5sums:

2a87c1f84a202f61874cd1f5fb9aa5a6 pwsafe-1.9.2c.2-ppc-exe.zip
ea4fd487de68094ecad9f2f00ee769d9 pwsafe-1.9.2c.2-src.zip

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 1.92c.1 for PocketPC is available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

Release 1.92c.1 is available for download. This is a maintenance release for
PocketPC (WinCE) versions of PasswordSafe, fixing the following:

Bugfix [787325] Endianness of the MIPS processor was wrong.

Bugfix [791417] [792555] Passwords were saved by the Pocket PC autocomplete
feature

Bugfix [791423] Multiline notes were displayed incorrectly in the edit
dialog

In addition, the following new feature has been added:

There is a new check box option ("Double-click shows password") in
Options/Display that changes the behaviour of a double click on a password
entry.  When checked, double clicks present a dialogue box showing the
password.  When unchecked the password is copied to the clipboard as normal.


Thanks to Kevin for this release.

Link to files:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1849
08

md5sums:

05e963cd8e780bcff9c7a58e205db0fa pwsafe-1.9.2c.1-ppc-exe.zip
87e90ea4904b7b0d9b62dcb5827496d2 pwsafe-1.9.2c.1-src.zip

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 1.92c available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

Release 1.92c is available for download. This is a maintenance release,
fixing a few minor annoyances:

Bugfix [783314] Clearing the clipboard now properly trashes the password in
process memory, as well as emptying the clipboard.

Bugfix [760656] Passing a filename that contains spaces via the command line
now works correctly. Previously, the quotation marks confused PasswordSafe.

Bugfix [777367] The Edit/View Item dialog box's Help button now works
correctly.

RFE [772212] Pressing Cancel when prompted for the password when
unminimizing the application no longer exits the program. (Would happen only
if "Lock password database on minimize" is set)

Bugfix [769820] Pressing Cancel in the Clear Clipboard dialog box will now
prevent the passowrd from being copied to the clipboard. Previously, it was
equivalent to pressing OK. (Would happen only if "Confirm item copy to
clipboard" was selected)

RFE [768870] Added a manifest file for native Windows XP theme support.

RFE [754790] The option "Clear the clipboard when minimized" has been
changed to "Clear clipboard upon minimize or exit". Previously, the
clipboard was unconditionally cleared upon exit. This allows the user to
change the behaviour.

The PocketPC release incorporates the fixes of the Windows release. In
addition, the endianness of devices built around the SH3 CPU is now correct.


Thanks to Gregg and Karlo for their work fixing the bugs, and to Kevin for
building the PocketPC versions.


Link to files:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1770
38

md5sums:

49b87547f2a09178d2b50bfd4bc72283 pwsafe-1.9.2c-bin.zip
7f00423b03db942422a933039d73fb21 pwsafe-1.9.2c-ppc-bin.zip
bb25d7ab1f0d9bcaf4133b7c311e24c8 pwsafe-1.9.2c-src.zip

	Enjoy,

		Rony
		mailto:ro...@us...

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe for PocketPC available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

Quite a bit ahead of schedule, Release 1.92b-ppc is the first version of
PasswordSafe that runs on the PocketPC platform. Many thanks to Kevin Preece
(https://sourceforge.net/users/preecek/) for his efforts!

Downloads are available from
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1727
30

Please read the release notes for information on installing (manually, for
now), limitations (very few), and compatibility issues (fully compatible
with databases on PC platforms!):
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=172730

md5 checksums:
b1cfb87136dc1ba6914610e0c67f47ec pwsafe-1.9.2b-ppc-exe.zip
4faa9dc63f8872cbe79e89a95769f6b3 pwsafe-1.9.2b-ppc-src.zip

	enjoy,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] MD5 checksum utility

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

I've been asked to recommend a utility for checking the md5 checksums that
are published with each release.

Personally, I've used the 'md5sum' utility that comes with the cygwin
toolchain (*), however, installing cygwin just for this is a bit of an
overkill.

Fortunately, you don't have to look very far - there's a SourceForge project
that provides a Windows application for this specific purpose -MD5Summer:

"The MD5summer is a GUI application for generating and verifying MD5
checksums of files. Entire directory structures can be summed recursively.
Input and output files are compatible with those of the GNU md5sum
application."

https://sourceforge.net/projects/md5summer/

	enjoy,

		Rony


(*) Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. http://www.cygwin.com.

[Passwordsafe-announce] maintenance release 1.9.2b available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

This release fixes a minor, but annoying, bug: The user no longer has to
click the list of entries before he or she can type the first letter of an
entry and thus jump to it. Thanks to Gregg for fixing this.

The URL for this release is:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1652
72

md5 checksums:
1fb1c8016ed100007a32d42212bfdc34 pwsafe-1.9.2b-bin.zip
0f33806ea065a6af2ba06c1642b9f099 pwsafe-1.9.2b-src.zip

	enjoy,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] EXPERIMENTAL release 1.9.2-DK available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

This is to announce the release of version 1.92-DK, an experimental version.
We've made this release available in order to gather input from the user
community regarding a feature being debated by the developers.

This version supports up to three passwords per entry, each one may be
copied to the clipboard separately. The motivation for this feature is a
banking website used by the author which requires this.

The development team will support this version, in the sense of responding
to minor bugs. However, the multiple password feature will either be
incorporated into release 2.0, or silently dropped.

This version will read existing passwordsafe databases. However, databases
created (or saved) by this version CANNOT be read by other versions of
PasswordSafe.

So, if you decide to use this version, please drop the developers
(mailto:pas...@li...) a note on your thought
regarding this feature.

Thanks to David Kelvin for his work on this.

Get it while it's hot from
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1625
02

md5sums:

e64a79c1e54fbf3b500417ac6ecfd1c0 pwsafe-1.9.2-DK-bin.zip
196369b2a43a385a6a111b6c7c7bc3d9 pwsafe-1.9.2-DK-src.zip

	Cheers,

		Rony

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 1.92a available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

Release 1.92a is available for download. This is a maintenance release,
fixing an old bug regarding multilingual support, and a problem with
persistence of the "Show password in display list" option.

Thanks to Gregg for fixing the multilingual issue, and to Alex Fung for
testing the fix on his machine.

You should probably upgrade only if you need to have these issues addressed.
No other features have been added.

Link to files:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id=1605
53

md5sums:

b0f934d2f9205ee4e128e4fd07fd3a1b pwsafe-1.9.2a-bin.zip
67c3c9859c87727f450fe5475f0405a6 pwsafe-1.9.2a-src.zip

	Enjoy,

		Rony
		mailto:ro...@us...

[Passwordsafe-announce] PasswordSafe 1.92 available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

This release has some nice new features:

[736391] Whan a new master passphrase ("Safe Combination") is defined, the
user is warned if it is cryptographically weak.

[732609] The Options dialog box has been tabified, hopefully making it less
intimidating for non-technical users.

[505540] It is now possible to change the default length of generated
passwords.

[541928] It is now possible to specify the "Password Policy" via the Options
dialog box, i.e., only uppercase, with/without digits, etc.

Also, the annoying "permanently minimized if closed while minimized." bug
has been fixed.

The md5sums of the packages are:

8b2e6e6588c4e14c8174f6f311c8c75b pwsafe-1.9.2-bin.zip
6b4ef773fa0d9bbdd41461d4abb2a486 pwsafe-1.9.2-src.zip

Credits:

In addition to the usual suspects
(https://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=41019), Karel
(Karlo) Van der Gucht contributed some GUI improvements and work on the
password policies.

	Enjoy,

		Rony
		mailto:ro...@us...

[Passwordsafe-announce] BETA release of 1.91 available for download

[<pas...@li...>]

Hi,

This is to announce the availabilty of a new and (hopefully) improved
version of Passwordsafe.

The version is 1.91, and it's currently a beta release. We hope to make it
non-beta in a couple of weeks, based on the feedback we receive from users.

I've managed to mess up the release name - In the File List section of the
project's web pages it's listed as 1.9.1a, whereas the downloadable zip
files are named -1.91-. My apologies for the confusion - I promise to
improve in future releases...

In any case, the md5 checksums of the packages are:

2bc437b1e09f30a0985b747794d74ea7 pwsafe-1.91-bin.zip
0291cb5fdfb5f0ff3675e1d623ddb06b pwsafe-1.91-src.zip

It's been fun getting this release together. Thanks to all the developers
who pitched in: Andrew Mullican, Edward Quackenbush, Gregg Conklin, and
Graham Ullrich.

	Enjoy,

		Rony
		mailto:ro...@us...

[Passwordsafe-announce] New admin for passwordsafe SourceForge project

[Rony S. <ro...@gm...>]

Hi,

This is to formally announce that passwordsafe now has a new project
administrator.

It's been a year, almost to the day, since Jim Russell last actively
maintained the project. All attempts to reach him via the Internet have
failed. I hope all is well with him, and would like to thank him for the
fine work he's done in bringing passwordsafe from Bruce Schneier's
CounterPane Labs to SourceForge.

I've been using PasswordSafe for quite a while now, and as a developer, I'm
itching to add new features and enhance it, as well as port it to other
platforms. Anyone who wants to contribute is more than welcome!

	Thanks,

		Rony Shapiro
		mailto:ro...@us...

[Passwordsafe-announce] The Mailing Lists are up and running

[Jim R. <jru...@us...>]

UPFRONT APOLOGY -- You may get more than one copy of this email.  I'm 
posting it to three mailing lists, and BCC'ing to a number of addresses. 
We'll get it all sorted out soon enough. <g>

Now that that's out of the way...

Thanks to everyone for their messages of congratulations/condolences 
on my appointment as maintainer of PasswordSafe.  You are receiving 
this message either because you subscribed to one of the mailing lists 
I've set up, or because I'm inviting you to do so.  PasswordSafe from 
this point forward will be, I hope, a collaborative effort, and 
mailing lists are a nice public way of hashing out where the 
development effort should go.

The mailing lists are pretty much what you would expect:

passwordsafe-devel -- subscribe to this one if you want to do some 
coding or documentation

passwordsafe-users -- subscribe to this one if you want to submit 
bug reports, feature requests, or complain about the user interface

passwordsafe-announce -- subscribe to this one if you only want to 
know when the next version is released


So subscribe if you haven't yet, and lets get rolling.  Point a 
browser to:

    https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=41019


Jim R