Nowadays, you have to remember many passwords. You need a password to log in to the network, an e-mail account, an FTP password to access your personal site, online passwords to access various sites and services, etc. Also, you must use a different password for each account. Because if you use the same password for everything and everywhere, and someone somehow learns that password, you will have serious problems.
KeePass is an open-source password safe or manager that will help you organize all your passwords in a secure place. You can move all your passwords to one database, which you can “lock” with one master password or disk key.
So you only need to remember a single password or insert a key disk to unlock the entire database. It is encrypted using the best and most widely used encryption algorithms known to date – AES and Twofish.
License: Free (Open Source).
You can learn more about KeePass Password Safe from our article KeePass Password Safe – installation and configuration.
Changes in KeePass Password Safe 2.46 Professional:
New Features:
- Added auto-type matching option ‘Consider similar dashes as identical’ (in ‘Tools’ → ‘Options’ → tab ‘Advanced’ → button ‘Auto-Type’, turned on by default).
- If the option ‘Do not store data in the Windows clipboard history and the cloud clipboard’ is turned on (which it is by default), KeePass now additionally excludes its clipboard contents from processing by Windows’ internal ClipboardMonitor component.
Improvements:
- Upgraded to Boost libraries version 1.75.0.
- Upgraded installer.
- Various UI text improvements.
- Various code optimizations.
- Minor other improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash after performing a drag & drop operation into certain other applications.
Changes in KeePass Password Safe 2.46 Professional:
New Features:
- The entry editing dialog can now edit all currently selected entries at once.
- As entry attachment icons, the icons associated with the respective file types (in the system settings) are used now.
- When running on .NET 4.8 or higher, secure connections (eg for WebDAV) now support TLS 1.3.
- Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+* (numeric keypad) for the ‘Expand Recursively’ group command.
- Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+/ (numeric keypad) for the ‘Collapse Recursively’ group command.
- Right-clicking on the header of the main entry list now shows the ‘Configure Columns’ command.
- The
VKEY ...command now supports some flags (for specifying whether to send a key down or up event only and / or whether to send an extended key). - Added configuration option for protecting KeePass windows against certain screen capture operations.
- Added command line parameter ‘
-wa-enable:‘for enabling specific Mono workarounds. - On Unix-like systems with a Wayland compositor, KeePass (with the KPUInput plugin) can now auto-type the default sequence and manually selected sequences of the currently selected entry.
Improvements:
- Improved quality of the icons in the entry ‘URL (s)’ menu.
- Improved quality of the icons in the drop-down list of the ‘Override URL’ field in the entry editing dialog.
- Improved control state updating in the entry editing dialog.
- The file selection dialog for the Generic CSV Importer now shows only CSV, TSV, TAB, TXT and ASC files by default.
- Improved user interface of the Generic CSV Importer.
- For large texts containing probably invalid characters, the internal data viewer now shortens the text and provides a ‘Show more’ link for expanding the text; this ensures a responsive user interface in this case.
- Improved caching of dialog banners.
- Moved the help source selection from the ‘Help’ main menu to the options dialog (tab ‘Integration’).
- If the application policy option ‘Export – No Key Repeat’ is turned off, the master key must now be entered directly before the export is performed, ie after choosing the format and the target.
- The application policy option ‘Export – No Key Repeat’ now also applies to the trigger action ‘Export active database’.
- When running on Mono, the options ‘Focus quick search box when restoring from taskbar’ and ‘Focus quick search box when restoring from tray’ are disabled now (because they do not work reliably due to a bug in Mono).
- Various code optimizations.
- Minor other improvements.
Bugfixes:
- The attachment button drop-down menus in the entry editing dialog now use the correct font.
- The ‘Tools’ button in the entry editing dialog is not disabled for TAN entries anymore.
Official page
Download: KeePass Password Safe 1.39 Classic (2.89 MB)
Download: KeePass Password Safe 1.39 Classic Portable (1.50 MB)
Download: KeePass Password Safe 2.46 Professional (3.05 MB)
Download: KeePass Password Safe 2.46 Professional Portable (2.93 MB)