Announcing PasswordSafe 3.19

Announcements of interest to users and developers of PasswordSafe <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:32:35 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.passwordsafe.announce
Message-ID <3B8E0FA6F9D84652B53833E9987982B6__41186.8900446736$1253993722$gmane$org@LYDIA>
Hi,

This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.19. This release
has a couple of nice new features, as described below, some bug fixes, as
well as support for French (NEW!), German (full), Swedish (full), Russian
(partial), Chinese (partial), Polish (partial), and Spanish (partial). If
you're interested in supporting your language, please let me know. Thanks to
Karlo, Bjorn, pm_kan and Francois for their translation efforts and feedback
on this release! Many thanks to DK for his work and patience, and thanks to
Vasily and gillum for their contributions to this release.

New Features for 3.19
================
[2832983] The Edit/View dialog now shows the details of the entry being
edited/viewed in its title caption (This is updated when saving the entry).
[2832810] A new email field has been added, supporting email headers 'to',
'subject', 'cc', 'bcc' and 'body' (per RFC 2368 - see online help for
details). If this field is not empty, it is used instead of the URL field
even if that contains an email address.
Note: whereas the URL field had to have the 'mailto:' prefix to denote an
email address rather than a URL, the email field must not contain this
prefix.
[] PasswordSafe now handles Vista (and later) logoff, shutdown & restart
more gracefully, giving the user now has more time to save a modified
database.
[] Add new AutoType special fields '\wnnn' and '\Wnnn'. Unlike '\d', which
sets the delay between sending each subsequent character, '\w' & '\W'
introduces a one-time delay where they appear.  For '\w', the value 'nnn' is
in milli-seconds. For '\W', this specifies seconds. Note: Max. value is 999s
(16m 39s), during which time PasswordSafe will be unresponsive while it
waits the specified time. Also supported via the Run Command $a command.
[] Add menu item to copy the Run Command to the clipboard.
[] Support Run Command and Double-Click Action (and email) fields in
Filters.

Changes to Existing Features in 3.19
===========================
[] Changing the Security option to lock Password Safe when the workstation
is locked, no longer requires a restart of Password Safe to come into
effect.
[] Due to the French keyboard not supporting the key '-' in an accelerator,
the shortcut for "Password Subset" has been changed from "Ctrl + -" to "Ctrl
+ B". Please do not allocate "Ctrl + -" to any shortcut if you will be using
a French keyboard.
[] If a dialog is open (e.g. Add, Edit, Options etc.) and Password Safe is
minimized, the Close and Exit options are no longer in the System Tray
context menu. The user must first Restore the application and close the
dialog before being able to close the database or exit the program.
[] If preferences stored in the database are changed, the user will be asked
if they want to save them in the database when closing the database or
application even if none of the entries have been changed.
[] The preference to Lock the Database after a certain amount of idle time
has changed from being a global parameter affecting all databases opened by
the user to be specific to each database.

Bugs fixed in 3.19
=============
[2865116] Status-Bar message now correctly states "Password Copied" when
doing a "Run Command".
[2865116] Status-Bar message now updated when using the keyboard arrows to
transverse entries in Tree and List views.
[2856750] The Password Policy now correctly displayed in List View, when
selected.
[2856051] Changes to database preferences are no longer lost upon minimize.
[2856410] The "Run Command" menu entry is no longer greyed out for Shortcuts
to base entries with a Run Command.
[2851848] Mouse double-click interval removed from Virtual Keyboard to allow
multiple virtual keys to be entered quickly.
[2850907] Password field no longer cleared after focus change.
[2842700] No longer crashes when using a French keyboard.
[2192490, 2840534] Multiple desktops now handled correctly for Windows XP
and later system.
[2836569] Correct password data now copied from Edit dialog using 'Smart
Labels'
[2832991] Double-click action display in the Status Bar now shows correct
value for entries that have overriden the current default.
[2820260] Fix password expiry interval processing during Edit.
[2818653] Password expiry interval now correctly exported to XML and
displayed during Edit, if present.
[2813295] 'Browse + Autotype' system tray menu items fixed - thanks to
Vasily for reporting and sending the patches for this.
[2085058] Old (1.x) format databases now closed correctly.
[] Fixed problem with viewing a shortcut in read-only mode - thanks to
gillum for reporting and helping track this down.
[] Fix crash when using External Editor on Notes field.
[] Password verification field not set when editing/viewing an alias entry
and the password is hidden.
[] Enter key works again in initial dialog if browse button used to select a
database. 
[] AutoType by an alias now has correct password and its own notes data
rather than '[Alias]' and its base's notes data, respectively.
[] Run command no longer truncates the first field if it is within double
quotes.
[] Duplicate entry now duplicates double-click action of original as well.
[] Double-click on a shortcut entry now executes the action of its base.
[] Drag & Drop of entries with explicit double-click action values between
different databases now works. 
[] Browse to URL from an Alias entry now puts the correct password in the
clipboard.
[] Text import no longer overwrites entry's RunCommand with double-click
action value.
[] Tidy up item order in Edit menu and right-click context menu.

The U3 version will be available soon from
http://software.u3.com/Product_Details.aspx?productId=294&Selection=7
(Owners of previous releases of the U3 version are invited to contact me for
an update)

The release may be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/ (Newest Files):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.19/pwsafe
-3.19.exe/download (installer)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.19/pwsafe
-3.19-bin.zip/download (zip file with binaries, for those who don't like
installers)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.19/pwsafe
-3.19.msi/download (Microsoft installer)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.19/pwsafe
-3.19-src.zip/download (source code)

SHA-1 checksums:
55c56d4ab124123861edb09efdf7cfcec8d24913 *pwsafe-3.19.exe
929d00ad04a939f70835b830b3dffa9bb3d06ceb *pwsafe-3.19.msi
2b3c1987817b61402f7a9b7f5d44807b82a2ef04 *pwsafe-3.19-bin.zip
13ed546b092dc5ddad80f4bd389b2e29b5a36f28 *pwsafe-3.19-src.zip

Note that this release also includes PGP/GPG signature files of the
respective packages. These were signed with my SourceForge account key,
keyid FA175557, key fingerprint = FF77 379D D46D DAA6 6182   B452 1D79 5A91
FA17 5557, available from a PGP keyserver near you (such as
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFA175557).
 
         Enjoy,
 
                 Rony


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