KeePass Professional 2.14 Released

Airbot · Sep 11, 2010

September 6, 2010

KeePass Professional Edition (Free) 2.13 is available. Changelog below.

Information

Changes from 2.12 to 2.13:

New Features:

Password quality estimation algorithm: added check for about 1500 most common passwords (these are rated down to 1/8th of their statistical rating; Bloom filter-based implementation).
Global auto-type (using a system-wide hot key) is now possible on Unix-like systems (see the documentation for setup instructions, section 'Installation / Portability' in the 'KeePass 2.x' group; thanks to Jordan Sissel for enhancing 'xdotool').
Added IPC functionality for Unix-like systems.
Added possibility to write export plugins that don't require an output file.
Tag lists are sorted alphabetically now.
Password text boxes now use a monospace font by default.
Added option to select a different font for password text boxes (menu 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Interface').
Added support for importing Password Prompter 1.2 DAT files.
Added ability to export to Windows/IE favorites.
Added ability to specify IO credentials in the 'Synchronize' trigger action.
Added ability to specify IO credentials and a master key in the 'Open database file' trigger action.
If IO credentials are stored, they are now obfuscated.
Custom colors in the Windows color selection dialog are now remembered.
Added high resolution version of the KeePass application icon.
Improved lock overlay icon (higher resolution).
PLGX loader: added support for unversioned KeePass assembly references.

Improvements / Changes:

Added workaround to avoid alpha transparency corruption when adding images to an image list.
Improved image list generation performance.
Added workaround to display the lock overlay icon when having enabled the option to start minimized and locked.
Improved group and entries deletion confirmation dialogs (with preview; only Windows Vista and higher).
The password character picking dialog now offers the raw password characters instead of an auto-type encoded sequence.
PINs importer: improved importing of expiry dates.
Some button icons are now resized to 16x15 when the 16x16 icon is too large.
Renamed character repetition option in the password generator for improved clarity.
Improved workspace locking.
Locking timer is now thread-safe.
Added code to prevent loading libraries from the current working directory (to avoid binary planting attacks).
Removed Tomboy references (on Unix-like systems).
Various code optimizations.
Minor other improvements.

Bugfixes:

{NEWPASSWORD} placeholder: special characters in generated passwords are now transformed correctly based on context (auto-type, command line, etc.).

Airbot · Feb 13, 2011

February 1, 2011

2.14 Professional Edition (free) Released.

Information

Changes from 2.13 to 2.14:

New Features:

Added option to lock after some time of global user inactivity.
Added option to lock when the remote control status changes.
Auto-type on Unix-like systems: added special key code support (translation to X KeySyms) and support for {DELAY X} and {DELAY=X}.
Added window activation support on Unix-like systems.
Auto-type on Windows: added {VKEY X} special key code (sends virtual key X).
Added support for importing DataVault 4.7 CSV files.
Added support for importing Revelation 0.4 XML files.
Added 'Auto-Type - Without Context' application policy to disable the 'Perform Auto-Type' command (Ctrl+V), but still leave global auto-type available.
Added option to collapse newly-created recycle bin tree nodes.
Added 'Size' column in the history list of the entry dialog.
Added trigger action to remove custom toolbar buttons.
Added kdbx:// URL scheme overrides (for Windows and Unix-like systems; disabled by default).
Added KeePass.exe.config file to redirect old assemblies to the latest one, and explicitly declare .NET 4.0 runtime support.
Added documentation for the '-pw-enc' command line parameter, the {PASSWORD_ENC} placeholder and URL overrides.
Added workaround for ^/& .NET SendKeys issue.

Improvements / Changes:

New locking timer (using a timeout instead of a countdown).
Improved locking when the Windows session is being ended or switched.
Improved multi-database locking.
Separated the options for locking when the computer is locked and the computer is about to be suspended.
{FIREFOX} placeholder: added support for registry-redirected 32-bit Firefox installations on 64-bit Windows systems.
File transactions: the NTFS/EFS encryption flag is now also preserved when the containing directory isn't encrypted.
The IPC channel name on Unix-like systems is now dependent on the current user and machine name.
KeePass now selects the parent group after deleting a group.
Entries are now marked as modified when mass-changing their colors or icons.
Key states are now queried on interrupt level.
A {DELAY=X} global delay now affects all characters of a keystroke sequence when TCATO is enabled, too.
Improved dialog closing when exiting automatically.
Plugin-provided entry list columns can now be right-aligned at KeePass startup already.
Removed KDBX DOM code.
Installer: the KeePass start menu shortcut is now created directly in the programs folder; the other shortcuts have been removed (use the Control Panel for uninstalling and the 'Help' menu in KeePass to access the help).
Various code optimizations.
Minor other improvements.

Bugfixes:

Quotes in parameters for the 'Execute command line / URL' trigger action are now escaped correctly.
Auto-type on Unix-like systems: window filters without wildcards now match correctly.