Software Update: KeePass Password Safe 0.99a

A new version of KeePass Password Safe has been released on Source Forge. This program makes it easy to save accounts, including data such as username, password, URL and notes. The program indicates in bits how ‘strong’ a password is and is also able to create passwords for you. At the touch of a mouse, a username or password can be temporarily copied to copy buffer to simplify logging in. All this information is of course encrypted and preferably protected with a heavy and hard-to-guess password. This way you only have to remember one password to access all your accounts. The changelog of today’s version 0.99a looks like this:

Changes in 0.99a

• You can reuse existing key-disk now (when you select an existing key-disk, KeePass asks you if you want to overwrite or reuse it), this way you can use a single key-disk for multiple databases
• Settings of the global KeePass.ini now override the settings of the KeePass.ini in the user directory (administrators can install KeePass on a network drive and force some specific options, while leaving other options like UI settings up the users, read the FAQ for more information about this)
• Added command-line options for specifying the password and the key-file location (switches -pw: and -keyfile:, see docs)
• Improved exports: the entries are now grouped together (ordered by their group, not the creation order any more)
• When you export a group, its complete child tree will be exported now, too (ie all subgroups of that group)
• Added ‘advanced’ tab to the options dialog
• Added option to show all expired and soon-to-expire entries immediately after opening a database (see ‘advanced’ tab)
• Added ‘minimize window on startup’ option (the main window is minimized automatically when starting KeePass)
• Moved start and exit options into the ‘advanced’ tab
• Added option to start KeePass with Windows (‘advanced’ tab)
• Added option to backup modified entries into a ‘Backup’ group
• Improved combo boxes (better XP theme compatibility, better item identification)
• When auto-typing, the window is minimized to tray if you enabled the minimize-to-tray option
• You are prompted for the database password if you try to auto-type when the database is locked
• The database isn’t marked as modified any more when closing the edit-entry dialog with OK but without modifying anything
• KeePass now saves its options when you exit windows without closing KeePass first
• Added password confirmation dialog for the change-master-key dialog when changing to password + key-file
• Fixed a bug in the subgroup creation code
• CSV and XML file formats are now documented in the CHM manual
• Added documentation about the option loading/saving procedure
• Added password show/hide button right of the password edit control in the password generator dialog
• Password asterisks setting is now independent of the show
• state of the password column in the main window
• Group structure is saved in XML exports (parent tree is stored in a ‘tree’ attribute of the ‘group’ element)
• Changed tray icon action trigger from single click to double click
• The enter-password dialog now appears in the task bar
• The key-file is now saved in its hex representation (ie you can look at it with a standard text editor)
• Cleaned up the code to save boolean/flag options
• Added window translation filter
• Improved window state handling routine
• Minor stability improvements (timer concurrency, …)
• Minor translation improvements

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