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KeePass 2.17 has been released today!
You can get it here:
Download KeePass 2.17.
This is a stable release. It is recommended to upgrade from any
previous 2.x version to 2.17.
KeePass 2.17 mainly features auto-type enhancements,
field references improvements,
and various other minor new features and improvements.
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 1.21 and 2.17, see:
Editions Comparison.
If you like KeePass, please don't forget to donate.
Changes from 2.16 to 2.17:
New Features:
- Multiple auto-type
sequences can now be defined for a window
in one entry.
- The auto-type entry selection dialog now displays the
sequence that will be typed.
- The auto-type entry selection dialog is now resizable;
KeePass remembers the dialog's position, size and the list
view column widths.
- Added auto-type option 'An entry matches if its URL is
contained in the target window title'.
- Added two options to show dereferenced
data in the main entry
list (synchronously or asynchronously).
- Dereferenced data fields are now shown in the entry view of
the main window and the auto-type entry selection dialog
(additionally to the references).
- Field references in the entry view are now clickable; when
clicking one, KeePass jumps to the data source entry.
- Added option in the 'Find' dialog to search in dereferenced
data fields.
- Added option to search in dereferenced data fields when
performing a quick search (toolbar in main window).
- The 'Find' dialog now shows a status dialog while searching
for entries.
- The main window now shows a status bar and the UI is disabled
while performing a quick search.
- Added context menu commands to open the URL of an entry in a
specific browser.
- Added
{SAFARI} browser path
placeholder.
- Added
{C:...} comment placeholder.
- Added entry duplication options dialog (appending "- Copy" to
entry titles, and/or replacing user names and passwords by
field references to the original entries).
- Added option to focus the quick search box when restoring
from taskbar (disabled by default).
- Added tray context menu command to show the options dialog.
- Source fields are now compiled before using them in a
{PICKCHARS} dialog.
- Added 'Copy Link' rich text box context menu command.
- Before printing, the data/format dialog now shows a print
dialog, in which the printer can be selected.
- Added application policy to ask for the current master key
before printing.
- Added support for importing
Passphrase Keeper 2.50 HTML files
(in addition to the already supported 2.70 format).
- KeePass now removes zone identifiers from itself, ShInstUtil
and the CHM help file.
- Listing currently opened windows works under Unix-like
systems now, too.
- Alternating item background colors are now also supported in
list views with item groups.
IOConnection now supports reading from data URIs (RFC 2397).
- Group headers are now skipped when navigating in single
selection list views using the arrow keys.
- Added detection support for the following web browsers on
Unix-like systems: Firefox, Opera, Chromium, Epiphany, Arora,
Galeon and Konqueror.
- Added documentation of the synchronization feature.
- Key provider
plugins can now declare that they're compatible
with the secure desktop mode, and a new property in the query
context specifies whether the user currently is on the secure
desktop.
- Added workaround for a list view sorting bug under Windows XP.
- Added workaround for a .NET bug where a cached window state
gets out of sync with the real window state.
- Added workaround for a Mono
WebRequest bug affecting WebDAV
support.
Improvements / Changes:
- Items in the auto-type entry selection dialog can now be
selected using a single click.
- When performing global auto-type, the Spr engine now uses the
entry container database instead of the current database as
data source.
- The generated passwords list in the password
generator dialog
now uses the password font (monospace by default).
- The last modification time of an entry is now updated when a
new password is generated using the
{NEWPASSWORD} placeholder.
- The overlay icon for the taskbar button (on Windows 7) is now
restored when Windows Explorer crashes and when starting in
minimized and locked mode.
- Improved opening of CHM help file.
- The buttons in file save dialogs now have accelerator keys.
- Separated URL scheme overrides into built-in and custom ones.
- Improved tray command state updating.
- The default tray command is now rendered using a bold font.
- The main window is now disabled while searching and removing
duplicate entries.
- Improved banner
handling/updating in resizable dialogs.
- The 'Ctrl+U' shortcut hint is now moved either to the open or
to the copy command, depending on whether the option 'Copy
URLs to clipboard instead of opening them' is enabled or not.
- Improved command availability updating of rich text context
menus.
- Quick searches are now invoked asynchronously.
- Improved quick search performance.
- The option to minimize the main window after
locking the
KeePass workspace is now enabled by default.
- When performing auto-type, newline characters are now
converted to Enter keypresses.
- Auto-type on Unix-like systems: improved sending of backslash
characters.
- On Unix-like systems, the default delay between auto-typed
keystrokes is now 3 ms.
- Spr engine performance improvements.
- Changing the in-memory protection
state of a custom entry
string is now treated as a database change.
- Some options in the options dialog are now linked (e.g. the
option 'Automatically search key files also on removable
media' can only be enabled when 'Automatically search key
files' is enabled).
- Most items with default values aren't written to the
configuration file anymore (resulting in a smaller file and
making it possible to change defaults in future versions).
- Path separators in the configuration file are now updated for
the current operating system.
- Improved 'xdotool' version detection.
- Improved I/O response handling when deleting/renaming files.
- Various UI text improvements.
- Various code optimizations.
- Minor other improvements.
Bugfixes:
- Status bar text is now correctly updated to 'Ready' after an
unsuccessful/cancelled database opening attempt.
- Password generation based on
patterns: escaped curly brackets
are now parsed correctly.
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