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KeePass 2.21 released

Screenshot KeePass 2.21 has been released today!

You can get it here: Download KeePass 2.21.

This is a stable release. It is recommended to upgrade from any previous 2.x version to 2.21.

KeePass 2.21 mainly features auto-type enhancements, support for more character encodings in various areas, many user interface improvements, and various other minor new features and improvements.

If you are using KeePass together with a port of KeePass and the port has problems with opening database files saved by KeePass 2.21, please read the page KeePass 1.24 and 2.20 Header Authentication.

Some LNGX translation files are now named differently. If you do not have to overwrite an existing file during updating your translation (i.e. the file name of the translation has changed), you have to select the new translation in 'View' -> 'Change Language'.

Hash sums and OpenPGP signatures for integrity checking are available. The .NET assemblies are signed, public keys for verifying are available.

For a comparison of the current KeePass 1.25 and 2.21, see: Editions Comparison.

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Changes from 2.20.1 to 2.21:

New Features:

  • Generic CSV importer: a group separator can be specified now (for importing group trees).
  • Internal data viewer: added hex viewer mode (which is now the default for unknown data types).
  • In the 'Show Entries by Tag' menu, the number of entries having a specific tag is now shown right of the tag.
  • In the 'Add Tag' menu, a tag is now disabled if all selected entries already have this tag.
  • Auto-Type: added support for right modifier keys.
  • Added special key codes: {WIN}, {LWIN}, {RWIN}, {APPS}, {NUMPAD0} to {NUMPAD9}.
  • Interleaved sending of keys is now prevented by default (if you e.g. have an auto-type sequence that triggers another auto-type, enable the new option 'Allow interleaved sending of keys' in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Advanced').
  • Added '-auto-type-selected' command line option (other running KeePass instances perform auto-type for the currently selected entry).
  • Added option to additionally show references when showing dereferenced data (enabled by default).
  • The selection in a secure edit control is now preserved when unhiding and hiding the content.
  • The auto-type association editing dialog now does not hang anymore when a window of any other application hangs.
  • When an application switches from the secure desktop to a different desktop, KeePass now shows a warning message box; clicking [OK] switches back to the secure desktop.
  • Added 'OK'/'Cancel' buttons in the icon picker dialog.
  • Added support for importing LastPass 2.0.2 CSV files.
  • KeePass now shows an error message when the user accidentally attempts to use a database file as key file.
  • Added support for UTF-16 surrogate pairs.
  • Added UTF-8 BOM support for version information files.
  • The KeePass version is now also shown in the components list in the 'About' dialog.
  • File operations are now context-independent (this e.g. makes it possible to use the 'Activate database' trigger action during locking).
  • Plugins can now register their placeholders to be shown in the auto-type item editing dialog.
  • Plugins can now subscribe to I/O access events.
  • Added workaround for .NET bug 694242; status dialogs now scale properly with the DPI resolution.
  • Added workaround for Mono DataGridView.EditMode bug.
  • Added workaround for Mono bug 586901; high Unicode characters in rich text boxes are displayed properly now.

Improvements / Changes:

  • When the main window UI is being unblocked, the focus is not reset anymore, if a primary control has the focus.
  • When opening the icon picker dialog, KeePass now ensures that the currently selected icon is visible.
  • Internal data viewer: improved visibility updating.
  • The e-mail box icon by default is not inherited by new entries anymore.
  • The database is now marked as modified when auto-typing a TAN entry.
  • Enhanced AnyPassword importer to additionally support CSV files exported by AnyPassword Pro 1.07.
  • Enhanced Password Safe XML importer (KeePass tries to fix the broken XML files exported by Password Safe 3.29 automatically).
  • I/O credentials can be loaded over IPC now.
  • Enhanced user switch detection.
  • Even when an exception occurs, temporary files created during KDB exports are now deleted immediately.
  • Improved behavior on Unix-like systems when the operating system does not grant KeePass access to the temporary directory.
  • Improved critical sections that are not supposed to be re-entered by the same thread.
  • Improved secure desktop name generation.
  • When a dialog is closed, references within the global client image list to controls (event handlers) are removed now.
  • .NET 4.5 is now preferred, if installed.
  • PLGX plugins are now preferably compiled using the .NET 4.5 compiler, if KeePass is currently running under the 4.5 CLR.
  • Updated KB links.
  • Changed naming of translation files.
  • The installer now always overwrites the KeePassLibC 1.x support libraries.
  • Upgraded installer.
  • Various code optimizations.
  • Minor other improvements.

Bugfixes:

  • When locking multiple databases and cancelling a 'Save Changes?' dialog, the UI is now updated correctly.
  • '&' characters in dynamic menu texts, in dialog banner texts, in image combobox texts, in text box prompts and in tooltips are now displayed properly.