2025 History
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.
PasswordSafe 3.70.1 Release Nov 19 2025
Bugs Fixed in 3.70.1
- The size of an attachment is now accurately preserved instead of being null-padded to a multiple of 8.
- The Attachment tab is now documented in the English help file.
PasswordSafe 3.70.0 Release Nov 8 2025
New Features in 3.70.0
- Password Safe now supports adding a single attachment to an entry. Previously this was only available in the
experimental V4 database format. With this release, the ability to add, update, remove and download a single
attachment to an entry is now available via a new "attachment" tab in the Add/Edit Entry window.
Bugs Fixed in 3.70.0
- Improved support for high contrast mode in Windows.
- "Always on top" now persists correctly across restarts when "Start Password Safe at
Login" is selected.
- GH1534 No longer offer unsupported traditional
Chinese in NSIS installer.
- GH1531 Followup on GH1524 for Toolbar action.
PasswordSafe 3.69.0 Release Jun 29 2025
Bugs Fixed in 3.69.0
- GH1524 Report selection now works correctly when
language isn't English.
- GH1525 Title bar for alternate notes editor
selection is now correct.
- SF1613 Text in file merge/sync/compare
dialog is no longer truncated on some displays.
New features in 3.69.0
- GH1237, SF823 A rough password strength
meter now displays the strength of the password
for entries and the master password.
- Slovak is now fully supported thanks to Milan.
PasswordSafe 3.68.0 Release March 18 2025
New features in 3.68.0
- In this release, PasswordSafe will significantly increase the standard (default) unlock difficulty of
PasswordSafe databases. This may cause a noticeable slowdown when reading and writing databases.
This is necessary to maintain the same level of security on today's hardware as when PasswordSafe was
originally released.
- GH1439 PasswordSafe now uses the system text
color and background instead of assuming black and white, respectively.
Bugs Fixed in 3.68.0
- GH1408 Time fields (such as password modification
time) are now copied over correctly in sync operations between databases.
