Announcing PasswordSafe 3.27 (Windows) and 0.7Beta (Linux)

Hi,

This is to announce the release of PasswordSafe version 3.27 for Windows,
and 0.7Beta for Linux. This release has a couple of nice new features, as
described below, some bug fixes, as well as support for:
Chinese (full), Dutch (partial), French (full), German (full), Korean
(partial), Russian (full), Swedish (full), Danish (partial), Polish
(partial), and Spanish (full).
(If you're interested in supporting your language, please let me know.)

Thanks to:
- Bjorne, Francois, Karlo, mniklas and pm_kan, for their translation efforts
and feedback on this release,
- The PasswordSafe testers for vetting this release,
- DK for his work and patience,
- Sauravg and pm_kan for their work on the Linux beta,
- All the users who provide feedback, bug reports, suggestions and the
occasional donation...

New Features for 3.27
=====================
[3367590] User can now add a database name and description via the
Properties diaolg.
[3349458] Allow filters to match on rules based on the password's length.
[3316779] Shift + "left mouse button 'Double-Click'" now configurable for
user. Default is copy the username to the clipboard.
[] Preferences stored in the database are shown in blue in the Options
dialogs.

Changes to Existing Features in 3.27
====================================
[3406549] Tooltip for System tray (displaying database file path) is now
limited to 40 characters (replacing text in the middle with '...' if
needed).
[3348954] The passphrase is now required to change from read-only to
read/write.

Bugs fixed in 3.27
==================
[3411210] No longer crashes when unlocking with Subset Password dialog box
opened.
[3395549] PasswordSafe now displays forms correctly on Netbooks.
[3382422] Toolbar now updated to reflect R/W or R-O mode when user
dynamically changes mode. 
[3380714] User can now save database after manually taking a backup.
[3380424] System Menu 'X' now closes the Edit/View PropertyPages when the
database is in R-O mode or the entry is protected.
[] Filter image in Status bar is no longer replaced by 'Filter1' after
changing preferences via Manage->Options.
[] Selecting hexadecimal passwords as the database policy no longer causes
validation to fail.
[] Correctly show database has been modified (to allow saving) if database
preferences have been changed.


The U3 and PasswordSafe2Go versions will be updated soon and available from
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=2031906
and
https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=2880062
respectively.
(Owners of previous releases of these products are invited to contact me for
an update)


The Windows release may be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/ (Newest Files):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.27/pwsafe-
3.27.exe/download (installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.27/pwsafe-
3.27-bin.zip/download (zip file with binaries, for those who don't like
installers)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.27/pwsafe-
3.27.msi/download (Microsoft installer)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/passwordsafe/3.27/pwsafe-
3.27-src.zip.sig/download (source code)

SHA-1 checksums:
a54ad90c7ae11a508f8f27ccd28ae560d583b251 *pwsafe-3.27.exe
e9d960ce89c10c21a7d6da010b3c58c8aadc3785 *pwsafe-3.27.msi
d2de5aa03cc66ec6ae11d8cb85537da6d08d8d72 *pwsafe-3.27-bin.zip
2980100a4bc6d85f4c7812f03ac55f11a1478355 *pwsafe-3.27-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).

Details regarding the Linux version of PasswordSafe will be announced
separately on the passwordsafe-linux mailing list
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-linux).
 
         Enjoy,
 
                 Rony

P.S. If you're interested in helping out by testing pre-release versions of
PasswordSafe, please consider joining the mailing list we created for that
purpose: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-test.


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