PasswordSafe was originally designed by Bruce Schneier and released as a free utility application. Since then,
it has evolved considerably. The following table has links to pages detailing the release history of PasswordSafe
since the project was made open source. This can be useful for seeing
what features were added and what bugs were fixed since a given release.
8 December 2004
Kimmo 'Yodakoski' Koskinen has translated both
the help file and the entire PasswordSafe (version 2.07) application to
Finnish! These may be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/7yqdv and http://tinyurl.com/5z3h3, respectively. The source files are available from http://tinyurl.com/5wt66.
24 November 2004
Release 2.07 has been published.
It has some nice new features and a few bugfixes. Thanks to Jason
Heddings, Justin Forrester, and Andrew Angelopoulos for their
contributions to this version.
Bugs fixed in 2.07
- [1043438] Idle time lockout now works for idle times other than one minute.
- [1060241] Changing preference with no database opened no longer pops up error message.
- [1006234] Choosing "Cancel" in the Enter Password dialog box now exits the application.
- [1065049] Fixed broken link to Blowfish algorithm reference in Help.
- [1021879] Enter on a tree-item expands/collapses the list under that item.
- [1055968,1030060] Import text now handles Notes that are more
than one line long (as long as the entire note is "within double
quotes").
New features for 2.07
- [885984] It is now possible to merge two different databases (File->Merge)
- [1055961, 1030775, 947841] The action taken upon double-clicking
an entry can now be configured (via Manage->Misc): Either copy the
password to the clipboard or edit/view the entry.
- The Import from text function is now more flexible: the field
separator can be configured, and the imported entries may be under a
common group or not.
- It is now possible to import text files exported by KeePass.
- The English online help file has been rewritten.
3 November 2004
Die deutsche Hilfedatei wurde aktualisiert und umfaßt nun alle
Funktionen von Password Safe Version 2.06. (The german version of the
helpfile has been updated to include all the features available in
version 2.06 of PasswordSafe. Thanks to Sebastian Juergens!)
17 October 2004
Release 2.06 is available for download. As usual, some minor new features and a few bugfixes:
Bugs fixed in 2.06
- [1026630] Autotype now works correctly when "lock database on minimize" active.
- [1028394] Export to text function works again.
- [1003780, 1026335] Autotype support for AltGr
- [1039214, 992178] PasswordSafe can now be configured to ignore
the Esc key or to exit when it is pressed (Manage->Options->Misc).
New Features for 2.06
- [958343] PasswordSafe can now be configured to lock automatically after a predefined idle time.
- [998966] In an "autotype" string, \d followed by up to 3 digits
will cause the program to pause that many milliseconds between
characters from that moment onwards.
- [1032149] Adding an entry with a group or item selected will
fill the Group field with that currently selected (previously, this
only worked on right-click on group item).
12 September 2004
Release 2.05 is available for download. Starting from this release, I will be signing the downloadable files with my GPG key. The signature files are available as part of the release.
Bugs fixed in 2.05
- [1007283] Database no longer accidentally erased if modified and then screen lock kicks in before save.
- [1022367] Screen lock is disabled if a dialog box is open, such as when editing an exiting entry, adding an entry, etc.
- [992178] ESC no longer exits the application.
- [998745, 1003780] Autotype feature now works for non-US keyboards
- <>[987618] The group field of an entry is now also taken into account when checking for uniqueness.
New Features for 2.05
- [917795] Import from plain text file supported
- [951317] Preferences stored in password database as well as
registry - useful for users who access the same database on several
computers.
23 July 2004
Release 2.04 is available for download. This release has some nice new features, and a few minor bug fixes. Special thanks to Jeff Lawson and Dave Collins for the time and effort they put in doing very professional work on this release.
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.
Windows binaries may be downloaded from here, self-installing executable from here, and sources from
here. If anyone is willing to work on upgrading the PocketPC version, please contact me.
8 June 2004
Release 2.03 is available for download. This is a maintenance release, adding a couple of minor features, fixing a couple of bugs.
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, Andrew Mill and the NSIS project.
- [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.
Windows binaries may be downloaded from here, self-installing executable from here, and sources from
here. Sorry, no PocketPC version yet.
1 May 2004
Release 2.02 is available for download. This release addresses a bug that was introduced in 2.01, and adds a minor new feature:
- Bugs fixed in 2.02: [931119, 934192, 938393] No longer crashes when trying to change master password ("combination") .
- New Features for 2.02: [789030, 932445] It's now possible to
override the random password generation policy for a single password in
the add and edit entry dialog boxes.
Windows binaries may be downloaded from here, sources from
here. Sorry, no PocketPC version yet.
7 April 2004
Release 2.01 is available for download. This is a maintenance release, fixing the following bugs:
- [902003, 905449] No longer crashes when last item is deleted.
- [923401] Combination (master password) wasn't checked for mixed-case.
- [917525] Right click when cursor isn't over an now entry handled correctly.
- [912293, 916587] Can now invoke edit dialog after in-line edit of
tree-view entry. (also, no longer crashes upon delete of edited item)
- [912751] If the last database saved is no longer available, ask
the user what to do, rather than force the creation of a new one.
- [908335, 913684] Icon display problem on XP fixed, thanks to Mike Batten.
- [xxxxxx] On XP, password no longer appears with vertical bars, thanks to DK.
Also, the following minor features have been added:
- [921859] URLs starting with "ftp://" are also right-clickable.
- [xxxxxx]
Now possible to specify hexadecimal password generation in
Manage->Options->Password Policy, thanks ot DK.
Windows binaries may be downloaded from here, sources from
here. Sorry, no PocketPC version yet.
18 February 2004
Release 2.0 is finally out! To recap, the major new features are:
- Tree view allowing items to be grouped logically
- URLs in the Notes filed that start with http: or https: are
entered in the popup (right-click) menu of the entry. Selecting the URL
will invoke the browser with the corresponding page
- Support for export to CSV (text) format - Used of this is strongly discouraged, as it is a huge potential security risk
- Updated Help file
- New graphics (thanks to Emilijan Mirceski)
Now that this release is done, I'll be able to implement some of the more interesting feature requests.
Oh - I almost forget: This release is currently available for desktop versions of Windows only, no PocketPC version (yet).
Maxim Tikhonov
has written a short description of Password Safe in Russian, as well as a Russian version of the 2.0 Help file. Thanks to Maxim for his work. If anyone is interested in doing such work in other languages, please let me know.
11 January 2004
Nolan Eakins has written a
Linux version of PasswordSafe! This application, called MyPasswordSafe, is compatible with
pre-2.0 database files created by the Windows version. MyPasswordSafe is built upon Qt 3, and is based on the 1.92 PasswordSafe code base. The first release
is available here (source) and here (binary). Nolan has put up a page describing MyPasswordSafe at 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!
3 January 2004
PasswordSafe 2.0-pre2 has been released. This fixes most of the
issues raised by user of the last release, as well as implementing the
"export to plaintext" feature. Here are the Release Notes, and here's a link to the download. Note that this is still a BETA release. I expect that there will be one or two additional iterations until a non-beta release will be ready.
