2025-11-02: 2.60
- Added option 'Search for group paths in quick searches' (in
  'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Interface (1)', turned on by
  default)
- Added optional main entry list columns 'Group Path' and
  'Group Name' (both turned off by default, can be turned on in
  'View' -> 'Configure Columns')
- In list views that support selecting multiple items, all
  items can now be selected by pressing Ctrl+A
- In list views that have a corresponding 'Delete' button, the
  selected items can now alternatively be deleted by pressing
  the Delete key
- Added empty state messages for list views
- The placeholder confirmation dialog now contains links to the
  help pages on placeholders and security
- If the global auto-type hot key is Ctrl+Alt+A and the new
  French Standard AZERTY keyboard layout (introduced in Windows
  11 24H2) is active, KeePass now shows a warning dialog
  (telling the user that Ctrl+Alt+A is in conflict with a
  system key combination producing a character and where it can
  be changed)
- Added 'More information' link in the Ctrl+Alt+A conflict
  warning dialog
- The clipboard clearing countdown bar now has a tooltip that
  shows the remaining number of seconds
- When the optimization for screen readers is active, the
  clipboard clearing countdown bar is now an alert
- When the optimization for screen readers is active, quality
  progress bars can now be focused (using the Tab key)
- Added support for importing Mozilla Firefox 143 passwords CSV
  files
- Bitwarden JSON import: if the value of a 'totp' field
  consists only of Base32 characters, it is now treated as a
  shared secret for time-based one-time password generation
- Added support for parsing Unix timestamps in milliseconds
- Added workaround for focus bug after returning from a secure
  desktop
- ShInstUtil is now built using Visual Studio 2022
- ShInstUtil: added support for generating native ARM64 images
  (NGen) on ARM64 systems
- When using the MSI file for installing KeePass, native images
  (NGen) are now generated and the start-up performance is
  optimized (as the regular installer does by default)

- It is now possible to select an item in the drop-down list of
  the quick search box using the keyboard (the quick search box
  can be focused by pressing Ctrl+E, and the drop-down list can
  be opened by pressing Alt+Down)
- Disabled auto-completion of the quick search box (because the
  auto-completion causes a bug when trying to search for a new
  text while the drop-down list is being displayed)
- The commands 'Show HMAC-Based OTP' and 'Show Time-Based OTP'
  now display the generated OTP with a larger font (on Windows
  Vista and later)
- In order to avoid selection/Ctrl+A problems, the entry string
  name auto-completion now does not append suggestions anymore;
  it only shows a list of suggestions (in which a suggestion
  can be selected manually)
- In the entropy collection dialog, the number of bits
  generated using the mouse is now displayed on the quality
  progress bar
- The value of a 'File/URL' or 'Key file' field of a trigger
  event/condition/action may now optionally be enclosed in
  double quotation marks
- When shutting down the system, KeePass now saves the
  configuration immediately
- Improved parsing of floating-point numbers in some places
- When trying to use the Windows user account as master key
  component and the 'ProtectedUserKey.bin' file cannot be
  decrypted, KeePass now shows an error message and does not
  overwrite the file anymore
- Improved handling of unsupported custom icons
- Improved handling of invalid handle values
- Improved plugin loading error messages
- Improved native structure tests
- ShInstUtil: improved command line handling
- ShInstUtil: improved uninstallation of native images (NGen)
- ShInstUtil: improved .NET check
- Upgraded installer
- MSI setup: when updating from KeePass 2.60 to a newer
  version, shortcuts created manually by users (e.g. pinned to
  the start menu or the taskbar) should not break anymore
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2025-07-09: 2.59
- On Windows 11 24H2 ARM64 and later, KeePass now runs
  natively, too (i.e. without x64 emulation)
- Added KeePassLibN native support library, which provides
  native implementations of AES-KDF and Argon2 on Windows
  systems (x86, x64 and ARM64)
- New C# AES-KDF implementation (about 30-50 times as fast as
  before, depending on the system; used when the native support
  library is unavailable or disabled)
- New C# KeePass KDB import/export module, which now makes it
  possible to import/export KDB files on ARM64 systems and on
  Unix-like systems, too
- The KeePass KDB import/export module now supports importing
  and exporting the default user name and the database color
- When exporting a database to a KDB file, the root group is
  now exported, too
- The 'About KeePass' dialog now displays the architecture of
  the current process ('x86'/'x64'/'ARM64'/... instead of only
  '32-bit'/'64-bit')
- Added support for opening URLs with Maxthon, SeaMonkey and
  Yandex in private mode
- On Unix-like systems, URLs in certain views are now linkified
- Some development snapshots can now load DLL plugins
- Added framework-specific solution and project files for
  Visual Studio 2022

- Encrypting/decrypting databases using the AES algorithm is
  now faster
- The option for using the native support library now also
  applies to Argon2
- Native support library settings are now respected when using
  KeePass as a library (e.g. KPScript or PowerShell script)
- When clicking the [OK] button of the options dialog, volatile
  settings (such as the main window position/size) are now
  saved, too
- When an exception occurs while exporting data, it is now
  shown in the status logger dialog, if one is displayed
- Improved formatting of multiline messages in the status
  logger dialog
- The KeePass KDB import/export module now refuses to use a
  master key containing an XML key file (because KeePass 1.x
  does not support XML key files)
- The KeePass KDB export module does not export unnecessary
  auto-type sequence definitions anymore
- Improved removal of dangling custom icon references
- KeePass is now built using Visual Studio 2022
- Increased target framework version
- Improved efficiency of some algorithms that use a set
- Improved creation of AES CSP objects
- Improved project cleanup script
- Removed KeePassLibC native support library (because it is not
  used by KeePass 2.x anymore; KeePassLibC continues to be
  available in the KeePass 1.x source code package); the
  installer deletes it when updating an existing KeePass
  installation
- Installer: updated native image (NGen) size estimation
- Upgraded installer
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The 'Test' button on the 'Security' tab page of the database
  settings dialog does not ignore the option for using the
  native support library anymore
- The KeePass KDB import module does not append a new-line
  character to notes anymore

2025-03-04: 2.58
- When no entry is selected in the entry list of the main
  window, the details view now displays information of the
  current group (name, expiry time, tags, notes)
- Added option 'Unhide empty data' (in 'Tools' -> 'Options' ->
  tab 'Advanced', turned off by default)
- On the 'Preview'/'Generate' tab page of the password
  generator dialog, the average estimated quality of the
  generated passwords is now displayed
- Added Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut for the 'Show/hide password
  using asterisks' option in report dialogs
- Added 'User-Agent' header for HTTP/HTTPS/WebDAV web requests
- If Microsoft Edge has been uninstalled, it now no longer
  appears in the 'URL(s)' menu
- Added 'More Commands' item in the group and entry context
  menus (it shows the corresponding full menu)
- Added 'Status' column in the triggers dialog
- Added support for comments in INI files
- Enhanced CodeWallet TXT import module
- Fatal error messages are now more detailed when running
  KeePass with the '-debug' command line option
- Added filter for duplicate MRU items (caused by an MRU item
  with an unsuitable database file path in an enforced
  configuration file)
- Added filter for duplicate key source associations (caused by
  a key source association with an unsuitable database file
  path in an enforced configuration file)
- Added solution and project files for Visual Studio 2022
- Added workaround for Mono's tree view right-click and context
  menu handling

- When clicking on a group in the group tree of the main
  window, all entries are deselected now
- If the currently selected entry does not have parameters for
  generating time-based one-time passwords, the Ctrl+T and
  Ctrl+Shift+T keyboard shortcuts are now ignored
- Improved icon handling in certain entry lists (significantly
  faster creation of such a list when there are many entries
  with custom icons, reduced memory usage, reduced number of
  GDI objects, ...)
- In the master key prompt dialog, toggling the hiding of the
  password now does not change the state of the password check
  box anymore
- When generating passwords for the 'Preview'/'Generate' tab
  page of the password generator dialog takes too long, it is
  now aborted
- Replaced status indicators on the 'Preview'/'Generate' tab
  page of the password generator dialog
- Increased the number of preview passwords to 50
- UI improvements in the trigger editing dialog
- After showing a command/placeholder confirmation dialog
  (cmd:// URI, {CMD:...} placeholder, {REF:P@...} placeholder),
  KeePass now focuses the previously focused window
- Renamed 'entry view' to 'details view' (because it can now
  also display details of a group)
- Removed the group/entry duplication commands from the context
  menus (they continue to be available in the main menu)
- Various improvements in some import modules
- Improved UUID zero tests
- The revision component of the assembly version is now
  invariant
- Improved PLGX cache item identifiers
- Improved project cleanup script
- Upgraded installer
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed two image list handling bugs

2024-10-08: 2.57.1
- Added options 'Show confirmation dialog when running/opening
  a cmd:// URI', 'Show confirmation dialog when evaluating/
  replacing a {CMD:...} placeholder' and 'Show confirmation
  dialog when evaluating/replacing a {REF:P@...} placeholder
  (action)' (in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Interface (1)',
  turned on by default)
- Added option 'Follow redirects' on the 'Advanced' tab page of
  the 'Open From URL' dialog
- When an exception occurs while creating/compiling a PLGX
  file, streams/readers/writers are now closed immediately
- When an exception occurs while a plugin performs a certain
  web request, streams/readers are now closed immediately
- Refactored code related to streams, import modules, menu/
  toolbar renderers and registry accesses
- Removed Spamex.com import module
- Minor other improvements

2024-06-01: 2.57
- Added option 'Prevent certain screen captures' (in 'Tools' ->
  'Options' -> tab 'Security', turned off by default); note
  that this may also prevent legitimate other software (remote
  desktop solutions, accessibility tools such as screen
  magnifiers, etc.) from seeing KeePass windows
- Added the new option 'Prevent certain screen captures' in the
  'Enforce Options (All Users)' dialog (in 'Tools' -> 'Advanced
  Tools' -> 'Enforce Options')
- Key files can be created on the secure desktop now
- Added shortcut keys for the 'Copy Group (Encrypted)'
  (Ctrl+Shift+C) and 'Paste Group' (Ctrl+Shift+V) commands
- Ctrl+Shift+V can now be used for pasting entries while the
  group tree has the input focus and vice versa
- Added 'More' button in the icon picker dialog, which shows a
  menu that provides two commands: 'Rename' and 'Export'; the
  menu is also shown as context menu of the custom icons list
- When importing an icon, the file name without extension is
  now used as icon name
- Added option 'Remember password hiding setting' in the main
  window column configuration dialog (turned off by default)
- Added support for long paths when running on .NET 4.6.2 or
  higher
- Some error messages now contain the type and the HResult of
  the exception that occurred
- Some error messages are now more detailed when running
  KeePass with the '-debug' command line option
- Bitwarden JSON import: two-digit years are now converted to
  four-digit years
- Added UIFlags bit for automatically adjusting weak key
  transformation settings to the current default values
  (without a confirmation dialog)
- Added DPI detection on Unix-like systems
- For applications using KeePass as a library: added a new
  common initialization method ('CommonInitialize') that allows
  a custom error handling/reporting

- Databases are now always saved in the KDBX 4/4.1 file format;
  if you need a KDBX 3.1 file (e.g. for compatibility with an
  old app), perform an export: main menu 'File' -> 'Export' ->
  format 'KeePass KDBX (2.34, Old Format)'
- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with Remote Desktop Client
  (WSL)
- In an auto-type error dialog, the sequence is now only
  displayed if KeePass has been started with the '-debug'
  command line option
- Increased maximum length of the main window title
- Improved handling of shortcut keys in the main window
- Improved entry data exchange menu update performance
- After moving a group, KeePass now ensures that the group is
  visible
- Improved database save confirmation dialog text
- When showing the master key creation/change dialog on the
  secure desktop, trying to perform an operation that is not
  supported on the secure desktop now results in a simple error
  message, i.e. it is not possible anymore to choose to cancel
  the dialog and perform the operation on the normal desktop;
  this avoids certain accidental data loss scenarios
- Various improvements in the simple file browser dialog (for
  the secure desktop)
- While a hot key control of the options dialog is focused,
  dialog-specific keyboard shortcuts are now disabled
- Changed the 'MAC Address' password generator profile such
  that it always generates a unicast, locally administered MAC
  address in the SLAP administratively assigned quadrant
- In the icon picker dialog: moved the 'Export' command into
  the 'More'/context menu of the custom icons list
- When running on .NET 4.7 or higher, KeePass now supports all
  TLS/SSL protocol versions that are supported/enabled by the
  framework/system
- Improved error messages for exception chains
- Improved serialization, deserialization and conversion of
  nullable booleans
- Improved deserialization of variant dictionaries
- Improved application context initialization
- Improved termination of the program in case of a fatal
  exception
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2024-02-04: 2.56
- Added search box in the options dialog (keyboard shortcut
  Ctrl+F)
- When pressing the Enter key in the group tree of the main
  window, the entries of the group are displayed now (this can
  be useful for instance when the entry list is displaying
  search results)
- Added 'More' button on the 'History' tab page of the entry
  dialog, which shows a menu that provides the following two
  new commands: 'Select All Historic Entries' and 'Delete All
  Historic Entries'; the menu is also shown as context menu of
  the history entries list
- Added Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut for the 'Select All Historic
  Entries' command in the entry dialog (the history entries
  list must have the input focus)
- Added workaround for Mono window size bug
- Added accessibility help page

- In the main window, the entry list is now updated when right-
  clicking onto a group in the group tree
- Expanding/collapsing a group in the group tree of the main
  window does not select it anymore
- The option 'Remember password hiding setting in the main
  window' is now turned off by default
- In the auto-type entry selection dialog, comments ({C:...}
  placeholders) are now removed from the values in the
  'Sequence' column if the 'Sequence - Comments' column is
  displayed
- The view is now restored after syntax highlighting in the
  sequence box of the auto-type association dialog
- Reduced flickering in the sequence box of the auto-type
  association dialog
- Improved performance of Spr compilations of certain texts
- Minor process memory protection improvement for the password
  generator
- Minor process memory protection improvements for some report
  dialogs
- Improved thread safety of message box management
- Improved UUID object implementation
- Collection equality testing improvements (for plugins)
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- In the main window, the entry list is now updated correctly
  when performing overlapping keypresses into the group tree
- When cancelling a group drag&drop operation, the group
  selection is now restored correctly
- Fixed background of CHM help pages

2023-10-12: 2.55
- Added 'Compare Entries' command (in the main menu 'Entry' ->
  'Compare'), which compares the two entries that are selected
  in the main entry list
- Added 'Mark Entry for Comparison' and 'Compare Entry with
  Marked Entry' commands (in the main menu 'Entry' ->
  'Compare'); these two commands support comparing two entries
  that are stored in different databases (opened in tabs)
- Report dialogs can now be closed by pressing the Esc key
- Added option 'Show warning when the key transformation
  settings are weak' (in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab
  'Security', turned on by default)
- The options in the entry/group duplication dialog are
  remembered now
- The options in the HTML export/print dialog are remembered
  now
- In dialogs that have a 'Do not show this dialog again' option
  and multiple commands, the command that will always be used
  when turning on the option is now mentioned in the dialog
- Added 'More information' link in the dialog that is displayed
  when KeePass automatically disables enforcement-requiring
  items
- Added {NEWPASSWORD:/#/P/O/} placeholder, which generates a
  new password for the current entry using the specified
  pattern P and the option(s) O
- Added accessible names for some controls (custom keystroke
  sequence edit control in the auto-type item dialog, filter
  edit control in report dialogs, a few controls in the
  password generator dialog; if the option 'Optimize for screen
  reader' is turned on)
- Added 'MasterKeyExpiryForce' configuration setting
- Enhanced Google Chrome passwords CSV import module to support
  the new format
- Enhanced mSecure CSV import module to support the new format
- Enhanced 1Password 1PUX import module to support the new
  password field/type

- The toolbar in report dialogs is now a tab stop
- Increased default number of AES-KDF iterations
- Improved syntax highlighting for {CLIPBOARD-SET:...}
  placeholders (in the auto-type item editing dialog)
- The node mode of the configuration element
  '/Configuration/Meta/PreferUserConfiguration' is now 'None'
  by default
- Improved INI loading performance
- Improved data size formatting
- Renamed value columns/commands in the history entry
  comparison dialog from 'A'/'B' to '1'/'2'
- Improved process memory protection of history entry
  comparisons
- Improved process memory protection of 'CryptoRandomStream'
  objects
- Improved thread safety of process memory protection on Unix-
  like systems
- The MSI file is now built using Visual Studio 2022
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Searches using an XPath expression involving history entries
  now always regard all history entries
- KeePass now does not crash anymore when a plugin tries to
  upload a file to a server asynchronously

2023-06-03: 2.54
- Triggers, global URL overrides, password generator profiles
  and a few more settings are now stored in the enforced
  configuration file
- Added dialog 'Enforce Options (All Users)' (menu 'Tools' ->
  'Advanced Tools' -> 'Enforce Options'), which facilitates
  storing certain options in the enforced configuration file
- Export confirmation dialog banners now have a yellow-orange
  background
- In export confirmation dialogs, the text of the 'OK' button
  is now changed to 'Confirm Export'
- In report dialogs, passwords (and other sensitive data) are
  now hidden using asterisks by default (if hiding is activated
  in the main window); the hiding can be toggled using the new
  '***' button in the toolbar
- The 'Print' command in most report dialogs now requires the
  'Print' application policy flag, and the master key must be
  entered if the 'Print - No Key Repeat' application policy
  flag is deactivated
- The 'Export' command in most report dialogs now requires the
  'Export' application policy flag, and the master key must be
  entered
- Single line edit dialogs now support hiding the value using
  asterisks
- On Unix-like systems, commands that require elevation now
  have a shield icon (like on Windows)
- TrlUtil: added 'Move Selected Unused Text to Dialog Control'
  command

- Improved process memory protection of secure edit controls
- The content mode of the configuration elements
  '/Configuration/Application/TriggerSystem',
  '/Configuration/Integration/UrlSchemeOverrides' and
  '/Configuration/PasswordGenerator/UserProfiles' is now
  'Replace' by default
- The built-in override for the 'ssh' URI scheme is now
  deactivated by default (it can be activated in the 'URL
  Overrides' dialog)
- When opening the password generator dialog without a derived
  profile, the '(Automatically generated passwords for new
  entries)' profile is now selected by default, if profiles are
  enabled (otherwise the default profile is used)
- Improved UI update performance in the password generator
  dialog
- Improved and renamed dialog banner styles
- The separator line of light dialog banners is gray now
- Improved serialization/deserialization of custom
  configuration settings (used by plugins)
- Improved reporting of unknown database header fields
- On Unix-like systems, the clipboard workarounds are now
  disabled by default (they are not needed anymore on most
  systems)
- Improved clipboard clearing on Unix-like systems
- Improved starting of an elevated process on Unix-like systems
- TrlUtil: improved keyboard shortcut assignment and toolbar
  construction
- Installer: the desktop shortcut is now created for all users
  (if the option 'Create a desktop shortcut' is activated)
- Installer: removed the Quick Launch shortcut option
- Upgraded installer
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- In report dialogs, the 'Print' and 'Export' commands now
  always use the actual data (in previous versions, asterisks
  were printed/exported when the application policy flag
  'Unhide Passwords' was turned off)
- The icon of the custom algorithm options button in the
  password generator dialog is not cut off anymore

2023-02-08: 2.53.1
- When testing a KDF ('Test' button in the database settings
  dialog), KeePass now spawns a child process that performs the
  KDF computation (which allows to cancel the test more cleanly
  in the case of excessive parameters; security is unaffected,
  because dummy data is used for the test)
- Removed the 'Export - No Key Repeat' application policy flag;
  KeePass now always asks for the current master key when
  trying to export data
- Minor other improvements

2023-01-09: 2.53
- For each entry listed on the 'History' tab page of the entry
  dialog, the fields modified with respect to the previous
  entry are displayed
- Added 'Compare' button on the 'History' tab page of the entry
  dialog; when two (not necessarily consecutive) history
  entries are selected, clicking the button shows a detailed
  comparison (with values, etc.)
- When editing an entry, the history entry list of the entry
  dialog now contains an entry called 'Dialog (unsaved)', which
  represents all data entered in the current dialog (other tab
  pages)
- When editing an entry, the history entry list of the entry
  dialog now contains an entry called 'Current (TIME)', which
  is the entry that is currently stored in the database
  (without any changes made in the current dialog)
- Added 'History' command in the 'Find' main menu; it lists all
  entry modifications (sorted by time)
- Added filter box in most report dialogs (last modified
  entries, history, large entries, similar password clusters,
  password quality, history entry comparison, database file
  search, ...)
- Added 'Print' button in most report dialogs
- Added 'Export' button in most report dialogs; supported
  formats are CSV and HTML
- Added {EDGE} placeholder, which is replaced by the executable
  path of the new (Chromium-based) Microsoft Edge, if installed
- Added URL override suggestion for Microsoft Edge in private
  mode in the URL override suggestions drop-down list of the
  entry dialog
- Added optional built-in global URL overrides for opening
  HTTP/HTTPS URLs with Microsoft Edge in private mode
- When trying to rearrange entries while automatic sorting is
  activated, KeePass now asks whether to deactivate automatic
  sorting
- Added access keys in the tags button drop-down menu of the
  entry/group dialogs
- Added access keys in the 'View' -> 'Sort By' menu
- Added access keys in the entry templates menu
- Added access keys in the 'Perform Auto-Type' menu (which is
  displayed if the 'Show additional auto-type menu commands'
  option is turned on)
- Added {HMACOTP} and {TIMEOTP} in the 'Perform Auto-Type' menu
- Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T for the 'Copy Time-Based OTP'
  entry data command
- Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T for the 'Show Time-Based
  OTP' entry data command
- Enhanced Password Depot XML import module to support the new
  format (added support for the new node names, group icons,
  recycle bin, tags, favorites, auto-type delay conversion,
  history, enhanced icon mapping, enhanced date/time parsing,
  ...)
- Added border for headings in HTML exports/printouts
- Added support for running KeePass in FIPS mode

- History entries listed on the 'History' tab page of the entry
  dialog are now sorted from newest to oldest
- The icons in the list on the 'History' tab page of the entry
  dialog now indicate the type of the entry
- History entry controls of the entry dialog are now disabled
  when creating a new entry
- The history entry 'Restore' button is now disabled when any
  change has been made in the current dialog
- The 'Password modified' time is now updated immediately when
  deleting a history entry
- Improved URL override suggestion for Microsoft Edge in the
  URL override suggestions drop-down list of the entry dialog
  (changed from 'microsoft-edge:{URL}' to 'cmd://{EDGE}
  "{URL}"')
- Improved optional built-in global URL overrides for opening
  HTTP/HTTPS URLs with Microsoft Edge (changed from
  'microsoft-edge:{BASE}' to 'cmd://{EDGE} "{BASE}"')
- Reordered web browser URL overrides alphabetically
- Improved dynamic menu item access key assignment
- Improved item separation in the entry details view
- In most places, groups in a group path are now separated by
  right arrows instead of hyphens
- Improved last modification time comparison for plugin data
  dictionaries
- Unified generation of common HTML parts
- The 'Copy Initial Password' command in the 'Tools' menu of
  the entry dialog now requires the 'Copy' application policy
  flag
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The history entry 'Restore' button now always works as
  expected

2022-09-09: 2.52
- Added 'Copy Initial Password' command in the tools menu of
  the entry dialog; it copies (to the clipboard) the password
  that was current when the dialog was opened
- When multiple entries are selected (containing at least one
  attachment), the number of attachments is now displayed in
  the 'Attachments' submenu of the entry menu
- Added option 'Alt. item background color' (supporting the
  states 'Off', 'On, default color' and 'On, custom color');
  this combines the previous two options 'Use alternating item
  background colors' and 'Custom alt. item color'
- Comment placeholders ({C:...}) may now contain balanced
  braces
- In the auto-type entry selection dialog, values in the
  'Sequence - Comments' column are dereferenced now
- The time when the password of an entry was last changed is
  now displayed in the entry dialog on the 'History' tab page
- The {FIREFOX} placeholder and the 'URL(s)' menu ('Open with
  ...' commands) now support detecting the Microsoft Store
  version of Firefox (in addition to the regular versions)
- Added support for importing 1Password 8.7 1PUX files
- Added support for importing Key Folder 1.22 XML files
- Sticky Password XML import: added support for importing
  groups and expiry dates
- Steganos Password Manager CSV import: added support for the
  new encoding of double quotes
- Bitwarden JSON import: time-based one-time password generator
  settings are converted automatically now
- KeePass now checks the 'KeePass.exe.config' file and shows a
  warning message when finding a problem
- For development builds: added command for showing GC
  information
- Plugins can now load the header of a database file more
  easily
- Plugins can now subscribe to a master key change event
- TrlUtil: added workaround for .NET tab control focus bug

- Moved the command 'Save Attached File(s) To' into the
  'Attachments' submenu of the entry menu and renamed it to
  'Save File(s) To'
- The command for saving attached files is now available only
  if at least one of the selected entries has at least one
  attachment
- The {APPACTIVATE ...} auto-type command now ignores the
  options 'Cancel auto-type when the target window changes' and
  'Cancel auto-type when the target window title changes'
- {APPACTIVATE ...} auto-type command: if the specified window
  does not exist or cannot be focused, auto-type is aborted now
- Unified creation of fields with indices
- Improved database modification state and UI updating after
  imports/synchronizations
- In the master key creation/prompt dialogs, the [OK] button is
  now disabled when checking the 'Key file/provider' check box
  and selecting '(None)' in the combo box
- Improved drop-down menu width adjustment for certain combo
  boxes in the options dialog
- Improved hashing performance of protected binaries, UUIDs,
  ...
- Performance improvements related to empty arrays
- Improved Mono framework version detection
- TrlUtil: improved preview dialog update performance
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed a bug that caused a minimized main window to be
  restored to a normal window instead of a maximized window in
  certain situations
- The 'Help' menu item in the entry dialog and the 'Help'
  button in the entry string field dialog now open the correct
  help sections

2022-05-09: 2.51.1
- The option 'Use alternating item background colors' is now
  compatible with automatic sorting again
- Improved entry list update performance when duplicating
  entries
- Fixed an entry list scrolling bug
- Minor other improvements

2022-05-06: 2.51
- Most dialogs with fixed size now detect whether they fit onto
  the current screen, and when a dialog does not fit (e.g. due
  to a very high DPI factor), its size is reduced and scroll
  bars are displayed
- Added plural entry command names in the main window (e.g. the
  command for editing the currently selected entry/entries is
  now called either 'Edit Entry' or 'Edit Entries', depending
  on the number of selected entries)
- Added tooltip for the main part of the status bar of the main
  window
- Enhanced color buttons (tooltips, accessible names, ...) in
  the entry dialog, in the database settings dialog and in the
  options dialog
- Added 'Interface (2)' tab page in the options dialog, renamed
  the existing 'Interface' tab page to 'Interface (1)', moved
  some controls from 'Interface (1)' to 'Interface (2)'
- Enhanced font selection controls (with a checkbox that allows
  to return to the default, the button shows the currently
  selected font, tooltip, improved accessibility, ...) in the
  options dialog
- Added help links 'Dark theme' and 'Main font (size)' in the
  options dialog
- The options 'Custom alt. item color' and 'Esc keypress in
  main window' are now disabled if they are enforced (by an
  enforced configuration file)
- Added support for opening URLs with Waterfox in private mode
- Added dialog for editing (HMAC-based and time-based) one-time
  password generator settings (can be opened using the 'OTP
  Generator Settings' commands in the entry dialog or in the
  'Edit Entry (Quick)' menu of the main window)
- Added entry commands 'Copy HMAC-Based OTP', 'Show HMAC-Based
  OTP', 'Copy Time-Based OTP' and 'Show Time-Based OTP' (in the
  'Other Data' menu)
- Added entry commands 'Copy Title' and 'Copy Notes' (in the
  'Other Data' menu)
- When switching to the 'Generate' tab page of the password
  generator dialog (no database open), the entropy collection
  dialog is displayed now, if the option 'Show dialog for
  collecting user input as additional entropy' is turned on
- Added option 'Colorize password characters' in the HTML
  export/print dialog; the colors are customizable
- Added options 'Custom main font' and 'Custom password font'
  in the HTML export/print dialog
- Added horizontal entry separator lines in tabular HTML
  exports/printouts
- In the plugins dialog, the 'Delete old files from cache
  automatically' option and the 'Clear' button are now disabled
  if they are enforced (by an enforced configuration file)
- Plugins can now change the expiry date of an entry more
  easily
- Added workaround for Wine bug 52457

- Improved main window initialization performance
- Improved initial emergence of a minimized or maximized main
  window (less flickering, improved performance, ...)
- Improved names/tooltips of the database toolbar buttons in
  the main window
- Improved handling of bold/italic list fonts
- Improved entry list update performance in certain situations
- Improved dynamic menu deconstruction performance
- Fields starting with 'HmacOtp-' or 'TimeOtp-' are not shown
  in the entry string copy menu anymore
- Improved tooltips and accessibility of password repetition
  text boxes
- When a dark theme is active, the error background color of
  text boxes is darker now
- Improved accessibility of expiry control groups
- The title of the master key creation/change dialog is now
  adjusted to the context
- Improved 'Compression' tab page of the database settings
  dialog (extended 'None' option description, improved
  accessibility, ...)
- If no color has been specified, the 'Custom alt. item color'
  button in the options dialog now shows the default color
- Improved HTML generation for HTML exports/printouts
- Improved default fonts used when printing or exporting to
  HTML
- In block HTML exports/printouts, field names are not italic
  anymore (unless the user has selected an italic main font)
- In HTML exports/printouts, all field values except passwords
  are trimmed now
- HTML exports/printouts: improved encoding of white-space
  characters in passwords
- Improved horizontal entry separator lines in block HTML
  exports/printouts
- TrlUtil: improved control classification
- Increased Authenticode certificate key length
- Various CHM/help improvements
- Upgraded installer
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The command line parameter '-preselect:' now works as
  expected when the option 'Clear master key command line
  parameters after using them once' is turned on
- Font selections in the options dialog are now applied only
  when closing the dialog with [OK]

2022-01-09: 2.50
- On most Windows systems, AES-KDF is now about twice as fast
  as before
- On most Linux systems, AES-KDF is now about 4 times as fast
  as before, if the 'libgcrypt' library is installed
- On most Windows systems, Argon2d and Argon2id are now about
  twice as fast as before (for default parameters)
- On most Linux systems, Argon2d and Argon2id are now about 3
  times as fast as before (for default parameters), if the
  'libargon2' library is installed
- The option 'Enter master key on secure desktop' is now also
  supported by master key prompt dialogs shown during imports,
  confirmations (before exporting, printing, changing the
  master key, ...) and trigger actions
- The option 'Enter master key on secure desktop' is now also
  supported by master key creation/change dialogs
- The key file/provider combo boxes in the master key dialogs
  now have a tooltip that shows the current value, if the value
  is very long
- When running on .NET 4.7.2 or higher, GZip decompression is
  faster now (i.e. most databases are opened a bit faster,
  pasting entries from the clipboard is a bit faster, ...)
- Added password generation button in the entry string field
  dialog
- When double-clicking the title cell of an entry in the main
  entry list while holding down the Shift key, the title is now
  copied to the clipboard
- Added support for opening URLs with Pale Moon, Epiphany and
  Midori in private mode
- Enhanced application detection on Unix-like systems (support
  for certain Snap packages, ...)
- Added support for detecting the latest versions of Chromium
  on Unix-like systems (for 'Open with ...' commands in the
  'URL(s)' menu, for the {GOOGLECHROME} placeholder, ...)
- In the 'URL(s)' menu, there now are separate commands for
  Google Chrome and Chromium, if both are installed
- Enhanced support for detecting Vivaldi, Brave, Pale Moon and
  Epiphany
- Added support for importing Kaspersky Password Manager 9.0.2
  TXT files
- Bitwarden import module: added support for importing
  subfolders, and collection names are now imported as tags
- In the 'About KeePass' dialog, each item in the components
  list now has a tooltip that shows the file/folder path of the
  component, if it is installed
- In the 'About KeePass' dialog, a double-click onto a
  component now shows the component file/folder with the file
  manager
- In the 'About KeePass' dialog, the components list now has a
  context menu that provides the following new commands: 'Show
  with File Manager', 'Copy Version/Status' and 'Copy Path'

- If the option 'An entry matches if one of its tags is
  contained in the target window title' is turned on, auto-type
  now additionally considers tags inherited from groups
- The built-in password generation patterns 'Hex Key - *-Bit'
  now use upper-case hexadecimal symbols
- Improved Spr variance check of the password generator (custom
  string references, ...)
- All commands in the password generator menu (shown by the
  password generator buttons in entry/string dialogs) support
  the option 'Show dialog for collecting user input as
  additional entropy' now
- Improved entropy collection dialog
- Improved control state updating in the master key prompt
  dialog and in the master key creation/change dialog
- Improved key file existence check in the master key
  creation/change dialog
- Improved master key construction
- Improved handling of exclusive key providers
- Improved compatibility of some dialogs with plugins that can
  cancel closing the dialog
- Improved automatic entry selections in the main entry list
- Access key improvements
- Improved entry equality test in order to prevent the creation
  of unnecessary history entries during certain operations
- XML Replace: improved entry modification detection
- Improved initial input focus in the single edit dialog
- In the import/export dialog, the icon of an import/export
  module now matches the file/procedure type
- DataVault CSV import module: improved importing of notes
- Improved native buffer handling
- When opening/copying the URL of an entry, the last access
  time of the entry is updated now
- TrlUtil: added DPI awareness mode declaration
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Column header context menus are not shown for non-report list
  views anymore
- When copying a URL to the clipboard fails, the main entry
  list is updated now
- Toggling the password generator option 'Show dialog for
  collecting user input as additional entropy' now causes a
  switch to the '(Custom)' profile
- In the TAN wizard dialog, group names containing ampersands
  are displayed correctly now

2021-09-10: 2.49
- Added dedicated context menu for custom string fields in the
  entry dialog, which provides the following new commands:
  'Copy Name(s)', 'Copy Value(s)', 'Copy Item(s)', 'Paste
  Item(s)', 'Select All' and 'Move To'
- Added button 'More' to the right of the custom string fields
  list in the entry dialog, which shows the context menu
- Added dedicated context menu for auto-type associations in
  the entry dialog, which provides the following new commands:
  'Copy Target Window(s)', 'Copy Sequence(s)', 'Copy Item(s)',
  'Paste Item(s)', 'Duplicate Item(s)' and 'Select All'
- Added button 'More' to the right of the auto-type
  associations list in the entry dialog, which shows the
  context menu
- Added optional 'Auto-Type - Enabled' main entry list column
  (turned off by default, can be turned on in 'View' ->
  'Configure Columns')
- Added optional 'Auto-Type - Sequences' main entry list column
  (turned off by default, can be turned on in 'View' ->
  'Configure Columns')
- Added support for importing Keeper 16.0.0 JSON files
- Added option 'Show confirmation dialog when opening a
  database file whose minor format version is unknown' (in
  'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Interface', turned on by
  default)
- Added tooltips for some controls
- Dialog banners can now be read by screen readers (if the
  option 'Optimize for screen reader' is turned on)
- Added accessibility names for some controls (text boxes after
  check boxes, image/color buttons, warning icons, ...; if the
  option 'Optimize for screen reader' is turned on)
- Controls in the accessibility/automation control tree are now
  ordered by their visual locations (if the option 'Optimize
  for screen reader' is turned on)
- Added automatic screen reader detection based on the
  operating system's screen reader parameter (this does not
  make the option 'Optimize for screen reader' obsolete though,
  because not all screen readers set the parameter)
- Various accessibility enhancements (when running on .NET
  4.7.1 or higher)
- Added UIFlags bit for not clearing the quick search terms
  list when closing/locking a database
- Added UIFlags bit for enabling the Input Method Editor (IME)
  on secure desktops
- Added customization option to override the URL that is opened
  for a help page

- In most list views, tooltips are now displayed for a longer
  time
- The entry string move commands can now move multiple strings
  at once
- Removed the entry string button 'Move' in the entry dialog
  (the move commands are available in the context menu)
- Reordered fields/columns in the entry details view and in the
  'Configure Columns' dialog for improved consistency with the
  entry dialog
- When running on .NET 4.7 or higher, rich text boxes now
  instantiate Rich Edit 4.1 (or higher) controls, which support
  various new features (e.g. Tamil characters are now displayed
  correctly even when the 'Latha' font is not installed)
- Improved linkification in the entry details view of the main
  window (URLs, attachments, ...) and in the internal data
  viewer (URLs)
- URLs in the hex view of the internal data viewer are not
  linkified anymore
- Improved tab order in various dialogs
- Improved accessibility control name provision
- Improved temporary file/directory deletion performance
- Improved hashing of protected binaries, UUIDs, popular
  passwords, images, ...
- Improved quality of some icons
- In the HTML export/printing dialog, the option 'Group name'
  is now disabled when group names are unavailable
- Reduced space between tables and group headings in HTML
  exports/printouts
- In the help source selection dialog, controls are now
  disabled if a help source is enforced (by an enforced
  configuration file) or if a help URL override is specified
- Improved keyboard shortcut check
- TrlUtil: improved string table handling
- Various CHM file improvements
- Upgraded installer
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The save confirmation dialog of the entry dialog does not
  create unnecessary history entries anymore
- The tags button drop-down menu in the entry/group dialogs now
  uses the correct font
- TrlUtil: fixed a string table association bug

2021-05-10: 2.48.1
- Improved compatibility with certain plugins/ports
- In the main entry list, new-line characters in text inserted
  by a placeholder are now filtered
- Minor other improvements

2021-05-07: 2.48
- New KDBX 4.1 file format, which supports various new features
  (listed below)
- Added support for group tags (KDBX 4.1)
- In the entry/group dialogs, there now is a button to show a
  menu for adding/removing existing tags
- If an entry/group inherits a tag from a parent group, a link
  is displayed in the entry/group dialog to show the parent
  groups and their tags
- Added option in the entry dialog for disabling/enabling the
  password quality estimation for the current entry (KDBX 4.1)
- If the password quality estimation is disabled for an entry,
  the entry is now excluded from password quality reports (menu
  'Find' -> 'Password Quality')
- When moving an entry/group into a different group (e.g. into
  the recycle bin), the previous parent group is remembered now
  (KDBX 4.1, not enforcing)
- Added command 'Move to Previous Parent Group' (in the
  'Rearrange' popup menu; if the command will move all selected
  entries/groups out of the recycle bin, a '(Restore)' suffix
  is appended to the command name; if at least one entry/group
  will be moved into/within the recycle bin, a confirmation
  dialog is displayed)
- Renaming a list view item (if supported, e.g. a file attached
  to an entry) can now be initiated by pressing the F2 key
- Each custom icon may now have a name, and its last
  modification time is remembered (KDBX 4.1)
- In the icon picker dialog, a custom icon can now be renamed
  (click on an already selected name or press the F2 key)
- In the icon picker dialog, the dimensions and the size of a
  custom icon are now displayed in a tooltip
- The UUID and the deletion time of a deleted custom icon are
  remembered now, and this information is used in order to
  delete the custom icon during a synchronization (if the last
  modification time is older than the deletion time)
- Added built-in URL override for associating the 'ssh' URL
  scheme with 'SSH.exe' (OpenSSH, included in Windows 10;
  activatable/deactivatable in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab
  'Integration' -> button 'URL Overrides')
- Added support for loading images with Exif orientation tags
- Enhanced the LastPass import module to support CSV files
  created by the latest versions
- Enhanced the nPassword import module to import group tags
- The last modification time of a database-specific custom data
  item (by a plugin/port) is now saved (KDBX 4.1)
- When synchronizing databases, database-specific custom data
  items (by plugins/ports) are now merged based on their last
  modification times
- Added support for loading KDBX 4 files created by other
  applications that do not perform a binary content
  deduplication
- Added workaround for .NET/Windows TopMost/WS_EX_TOPMOST
  desynchronization bug

- Various user interface improvements in the group dialog
  (moved the notes box to the first tab page, moved the auto-
  type behavior option to the auto-type tab, ...)
- Tags are sorted naturally now
- Improved tag handling performance
- Various user interface improvements in the icon picker dialog
- The temporary icon that represents multiple icons (when
  editing multiple entries at once) is now named '(Multiple
  values)'
- Improved custom icon handling performance
- The placeholders {HMACOTP} and {TIMEOTP} now automatically
  add padding to shared secrets in Base32 encoding, if
  necessary
- Improved error handling of the placeholders {HMACOTP} and
  {TIMEOTP}
- Internal data viewer/editor: '*.asc', '*.tab' and '*.tsv'
  files are now treated as text files by default
- The internal data viewer now does not try to display non-HTML
  files using the web browser control anymore
- Improved error handling of the Bitwarden JSON and nPassword
  NPW import modules
- Improved merging of custom data items (by plugins/ports) in
  the KDBX file header
- Improved image hashing
- Improved version display in the 'About' dialog
- Installer: improved file overwriting
- On 64-bit operating systems, the registry value for the setup
  option 'Optimize KeePass start-up performance' is now created
  in the 64-bit view of the registry
- ShInstUtil now fully supports Unicode
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The command 'Delete Unused Custom Icons' does not delete
  icons anymore that are still used by history entries

2021-01-09: 2.47
- In the 'Find' dialog, search parameters can now be saved as
  profiles; the profiles can be accessed quickly via the main
  menu ('Find' -> 'Search Profiles') and the group context menu
- Added search mode 'XPath expression' in the 'Find' dialog,
  which creates a KeePass 2.x XML DOM of the current database
  in memory and finds entries using the specified XPath
  expression
- Added option 'History' in the 'Find' dialog, which includes
  history entries in searches
- Added 'Help' button in the 'Find' dialog
- Added auto-type matching option 'Consider similar dashes as
  identical' (in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Advanced', turned
  on by default)
- Added commands 'Copy Group (Encrypted)', 'Copy Group
  (Unencrypted)' and 'Paste Group' (in the menu 'Group' ->
  'Data Exchange')
- When loading/saving a configuration file fails, an error
  message is displayed now, and in certain cases a backup of
  the configuration file is created (the path is mentioned in
  the error message)
- Added configuration option for saving the configuration
  (turned on by default)
- On the 'Security' tab page of the options dialog, two links
  have been added, which open help pages for experts and
  administrators
- Added {TIMEOTP} placeholder, which generates a time-based
  one-time password (as specified in RFC 6238)
- Enhanced XML key file format (added hash that allows to
  verify the integrity of the key; values are now encoded using
  hexadecimal characters in order to improve the readability)
- Added command 'Print Key File Backup' (in 'File' -> 'Print')
- In the dialog that asks whether to print an emergency sheet,
  there is now an option 'Also print a key file backup' (on
  Windows), if the master key contains a key file
- Added command 'Create Key File' (in 'Tools' -> 'Advanced
  Tools'), which shows a dialog for creating a new key file
  (random key) or for recreating a key file from a printed
  backup
- Added Argon2id key derivation function
- Added support for importing Dashlane 6.2039.0 JSON files
- Dashlane and RoboForm import: domains are now mapped to HTTPS
  URLs (instead of HTTP URLs)
- Added option 'Use a different master key' in the
  import/export dialog (tab page 'Options')
- Added option 'Additionally export parent groups' in the
  import/export dialog (tab page 'Options')
- Added options 'Open exported file (with associated
  application)' and 'Show exported file (with file manager)' in
  the import/export dialog (tab page 'Options')
- The 'About' dialog now shows whether KeePass is currently
  running as 32- or 64-bit application
- Plugins can now disable/enable specific Mono workarounds
- Added workaround for Mono URL opening bug
- Added workaround for Mono HTML document opening bug

- Improved performance of certain searches
- Various user interface improvements in the search dialog
- Improved keyboard shortcut handling (e.g. Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+
  Shift+Tab now also work when the quick search box is focused)
- The local configuration file is now loaded only if necessary
- Improved performance of configuration saving
- Changed default key file extension from 'key' to 'keyx'
- Most key file dialogs now only show '*.keyx' and '*.key'
  files by default
- When clicking the key file 'Browse' button in the master key
  creation dialog and selecting a file that is not an XML key
  file, KeePass now asks whether to use the file as key file
  anyway
- Improved key file loading/saving error messages
- Various user interface improvements in the import/export
  dialog
- The import/export dialog does not accept relative file paths
  anymore
- The import/export dialog now shows an error message when
  trying to export to multiple files
- Removed indeterminate progress indicators while displaying
  the import/export dialog
- Improved field to standard field mapping function
- Moved command 'Empty Recycle Bin' directly below the 'Delete
  Group' command
- Moved commands 'Print Group' and 'Export Group' into the
  'Data Exchange' popup menu
- Improved quality of some icons
- Improved dialog banner caching
- Improved performance of certain object collection operations
- History entry UUIDs are now fixed automatically
- Increased default value of Argon2 memory parameter
- Improved task dialog parent determination
- The setup program now installs KeePass into a folder in
  'C:\Program Files' by default (i.e. without '(x86)' suffix;
  this is reasonable, because on a 64-bit operating system,
  KeePass runs as 64-bit application)
- Upgraded installer
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Search: regular expressions starting with a '-' are not
  treated as exclusions anymore
- Fixed a bug that caused KeePass to hang when trying to read a
  configuration file that contains certain unsupported nodes

2020-09-10: 2.46
- 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 (e.g.
  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

- 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, i.e. 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

- 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

2020-05-07: 2.45
- Added support for opening URLs with the new (Chromium-based)
  Microsoft Edge in private mode
- Added support for opening URLs with Vivaldi in private mode
- Added automatic assignment of mnemonics for 'Open with ...'
  commands in the 'URL(s)' menu
- The entry templates menu now supports showing templates that
  are stored in subgroups of the templates group; each subgroup
  is displayed as a submenu
- When adding a new entry based on a template that has an empty
  user name, the user name is now set to the default user name
  of the database, unless the new entry is stored in the
  templates group
- When adding a new entry based on a template that has an empty
  password, a random password is generated now (based on the
  password generator profile 'Automatically generated passwords
  for new entries'), unless the new entry is stored in the
  templates group
- When adding a new entry based on a template that does not
  expire, the expiry date is now set based on the option 'By
  default, new entries expire in the following number of days'
  (in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Security'), unless the new
  entry is stored in the templates group
- New icon recoloring (with high DPI support, by deconstructing
  an ICO, modifying BMP palettes and data, and assembling a new
  ICO); there are 24 database colors now
- Added {UUID} placeholder, which is replaced by the UUID of
  the current entry
- The UUID of a group is now displayed in the group editing
  dialog (tab 'General')
- When specifying a weak master password in the master key
  creation dialog, KeePass now shows a warning
- Triggers: added string comparison mode 'Matches regular
  expression'
- Enforced configuration: added support for attributes that
  allow to specify the desired merge behavior
- Enforced configuration: for most lists, node keys are now
  used to find corresponding list items
- Plugins: added I/O connection event for customizing web
  requests
- Added workaround for Mono pre-authenticated anonymous web
  request bug

- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with VMware Horizon Client
  and Kaseya Live Connect
- Enhanced detection of Microsoft Edge
- The 'Open with ...' commands in the 'URL(s)' menu are sorted
  now
- Improved performance of the entry templates menu; removed
  limitation to 30 templates
- Database descriptions are now displayed in file tab tooltips
- When editing an attachment directly from the main window, a
  history entry is created now
- UUIDs in the group and entry editing dialogs are now
  displayed both in hexadecimal and base 64 form
- Improved Bitwarden import module to support JSON files
  without groups
- If the trigger system is disabled using an enforced
  configuration file, most controls in the triggers dialog are
  disabled now, too
- Plugins: an I/O access event is now raised when checking the
  existence of a local database file
- In texts that are about to be displayed in a rich text box,
  U+FFFC characters are now replaced by question marks (in
  order to avoid the text being cut off at this point)
- When running on Mono 5.10 or higher, a monospaced font is
  used in password text boxes by default again, as the Mono bug
  5795 has been fixed
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed a default value type problem in the hot key
  configuration settings
- Database file tab colors are now rounded to the nearest
  supported colors

2020-01-20: 2.44
- Added option 'Use file transactions for writing configuration
  settings' (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
- Added commands to find database files ('File' -> 'Open' ->
  'Find Files' and 'Find Files (In Folder)')
- Added 'Edit' menu in the internal text editor (including new
  'Select All' and 'Find' commands with keyboard shortcuts)
- Added keyboard shortcuts for formatting commands in the
  internal text editor
- Added 'Cancel' button in the save confirmation dialog of the
  internal text editor
- Added {CLIPBOARD} and {CLIPBOARD-SET:/T/} placeholders, which
  get/set the clipboard content
- Added support for importing True Key 4 CSV files
- Added command line options for adding/removing scheme-
  specific URL overrides
- Added an auto-type event for plugins
- When loading a plugin on a Unix-like system fails, the error
  message now includes a hint that the 'mono-complete' package
  may be required
- In order to avoid a Windows Input Method Editor (IME) bug
  (resulting in a black screen and/or an IME/CTF process with
  high CPU usage), KeePass now disables the IME on secure
  desktops

- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with VMware Workstation
- Auto-Type into virtual machines: improved compatibility with
  certain guest systems
- The option to use the 'Clipboard Viewer Ignore' clipboard
  format is now turned on by default
- Improved menu/toolbar item state updating in the internal
  text editor
- Improved performance of Spr compilations
- Before writing a local configuration file whose path has been
  specified using the '-cfg-local:' command line parameter,
  KeePass now tries to create the parent directory, if it does
  not exist yet
- Improved conversion of file URIs to local file paths
- Improved compatibility of the list view dialog with plugins
- If ChaCha20 is selected as file encryption algorithm, the
  database is now saved in the KDBX 4 format (thanks to
  AMOSSYS)
- Minor process memory protection improvements
- HTML export/printing: KeePass now generates HTML 5 documents
  (instead of XHTML 1.0 documents)
- HTML export/printing: improved internal CSS
- HTML exports do not contain temporary content identifiers
  anymore
- XSL files: HTML output now conforms to HTML 5 instead of
  XHTML 1.0
- XSL files: improved internal CSS
- CHM pages are now rendered in the highest standards mode
  supported by Internet Explorer (EdgeHTML mode)
- Migrated most of the documentation from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- In the internal text editor, the 'Delete' command does not
  reset RTF text formatting anymore
- The KeyCreationFlags bit 2^19 (for hiding the passwords) now
  works as intended

2019-09-10: 2.43
- Added tooltips for certain character set options in the
  password generator dialog
- Added option 'Remember password hiding setting in the main
  window' (in 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Advanced'; the
  option is turned on by default)
- Added yellow intermediate step in password quality progress
  bars
- When the URL override field in the entry editing dialog is
  not empty, but the URL field is empty, a warning is displayed
  now
- When an explicit request to generate a password fails (for
  instance due to an invalid pattern), an error message is
  displayed now
- Added trigger events 'Synchronizing database file' and
  'Synchronized database file'
- Enhanced the Password Agent import module to support XML
  files created by version 3
- The 'MasterKeyExpiryRec' configuration setting can now also
  be set to an XSD duration instead of an XSD date (for
  periodic master key change recommendations)
- KeePass now excludes itself from Windows Error Reporting
- On Unix-like systems, file transactions now preserve the Unix
  file access permissions, the user ID and the group ID
- Added workaround for .NET initial focus bug

- Auto-Type: improved sending of modifier keys
- Auto-Type: improved sending of characters that are realized
  with Ctrl+Alt/AltGr
- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with VMware Remote Console
  and Dameware Mini Remote Control
- Improved main window state handling
- Improved construction and updates of the main menu and the
  group/entry context menus
- Main menu items can now be deselected by pressing the Esc key
- Top-level nodes in tree views cannot be collapsed anymore if
  no root lines are displayed
- New entries in a group with the e-mail folder icon now have
  the e-mail icon by default
- Improved performance of automatic scrolling in the main entry
  list
- If user names are hidden in the main window, no user name
  suggestions are displayed in the entry editing dialog anymore
- Function keys without modifiers can be registered as system-
  wide hot keys now
- For file rename/move web requests, a canonical representation
  of the destination name/path is used now
- URL override base placeholders can now be used within
  {CMD:...} placeholders
- Directly after an import, the deleted object information is
  now applied/removed (depending on the last modification time
  and the deletion time)
- Improved compatibility of the 'Delete Duplicate Entries'
  command with the process memory protection
- Improved handling of command lines containing quotes or
  backslashes
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2019-05-04: 2.42.1
- Improved menu item state updating
- Improved backward compatibility with certain plugins
- Minor other improvements

2019-05-01: 2.42
- Added main menu items 'Group', 'Entry' and 'Find', which
  contain all commands related to groups and entries (supersets
  of context menus); removed 'Edit' main menu item, because all
  of its commands are included in the three new main menu items
- Added support for a system-wide hot key to auto-type only the
  password of a matching entry; by default, the hot key is
  Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A, changeable in the options dialog
- When double-clicking the URL cell of an entry in the main
  entry list while holding down the Shift key, KeePass now
  copies the URL to the clipboard (a double-click without Shift
  continues to open the URL; the option 'Copy URLs to clipboard
  instead of opening them' reverses this behavior)
- Added quick edit commands 'Expires: Now' and 'Expires: Never'
- There now are two commands for copying a whole entry to the
  clipboard: 'Copy Entry (Encrypted)' and 'Copy Entry
  (Unencrypted)'; the first one encrypts the data for the
  current user using the Windows DPAPI
- Added Ctrl+Shift+P shortcut for printing the currently
  selected group
- The creation time and the last modification time of an entry
  are now displayed on the 'History' tab of the entry editing
  dialog
- Added support for importing Steganos Password Manager 20 CSV
  files
- Added support for importing Bitwarden 1.12 JSON files
- Mozilla Bookmarks JSON import: added support for importing
  tags (new format, in addition to the old format) and keywords
- Enhanced the Enpass import module to support TXT files
  created by version 6.0.4
- The language selection dialog now also lists KeePass 1.x LNG
  files; when trying to select such a file, an informative
  error message is displayed
- Added 'Cancel' command in the context menu of KeePass' system
  tray icon, which can be used to abort opening and saving a
  database file
- Added '-cancel' command line option, which causes all other
  KeePass instances to cancel opening/saving a database file
- Added '-auto-type-password' command line option (other
  running KeePass instances auto-type only the password of a
  matching entry)
- Added '-e1:' command line parameter, which works like '-e:',
  but is handled by only one other instance; '-e:' is handled
  by all other instances
- When compiling a PLGX plugin, KeePass now defines a
  'KP_V_*_*_*' symbol, where the asterisks specify the KeePass
  version (for example, 'KP_V_2_42_0' for version 2.42)
- Added workarounds for .NET Caps Lock warning tooltip bug
- Added workaround for Mono grid view default color bug
- Added workaround for OneDrive bug on Windows 1809

- Auto-Type: improved sending of characters that are realized
  with the AltGr key
- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with VirtualBox 6 and
  VMware Player
- Improved user interface behavior while opening a database
  file
- Accelerator key improvements
- Replaced 4 and 8 weeks expiry date search commands by 1 and 2
  months (taking the number of days in the months into account)
- Improved hot key controls (better key combination handling
  and display)
- The hot key controls in the options dialog now support
  entering hot keys that are already registered by KeePass
- Improved field to standard field mapping function
- Improved new-line handling of several import modules
- When a file import fails, KeePass now shows a more detailed
  error message
- After changing the color of an entry using a quick edit
  command, the entries are deselected now, such that the new
  color is visible immediately
- Moved 'Print Emergency Sheet' command into 'File' -> 'Print'
- The pattern-based password generator now supports repeating
  escaped characters using '{...}'
- The pattern-based password generator now refuses to generate
  a password if the pattern is (partially) invalid
- Turning off the 'Unhide Passwords' policy now enforces hiding
  passwords in a few more places/situations
- New-line characters at the end of the output of a {CMD:...}
  placeholder are now removed (analogous to $(...) and `...`
  shell command substitutions)
- The {URL:SCM} and {BASE:SCM} placeholders now work with
  arbitrary data having a ':'-terminated prefix
- Improved {URL:RMVSCM} and {BASE:RMVSCM} placeholders ('//'
  authority prefix is removed, but not '/')
- The '-entry-url-open' command line option is now handled by
  all other KeePass instances (instead of only one)
- Path traversal with attachment names is not possible anymore
- Removed the option 'Show tray icon only if main window has
  been sent to tray' from the options dialog (due to possible
  denial-of-service problems); if you want to hide the icon, it
  is recommended to configure this in the system settings
  instead
- Improved reading of KDBX XML documents with unknown elements
- Improved JSON parser
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to import certain
  Mozilla Bookmarks JSON files
- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to import certain
  files with very deeply nested groups
- Fixed handling of paths with folder/file names containing
  quotes (which can occur on Unix-like systems only)

2019-01-09: 2.41
- Added option 'Do not store data in the Windows clipboard
  history and the cloud clipboard' (the option is turned on by
  default; for entry clipboard commands in the main window)
- Added option 'Esc keypress in main window' (in 'Tools' ->
  'Options' -> tab 'Interface'), which allows to specify the
  action of the Esc key (ignore, lock workspace, minimize,
  minimize to tray, exit)
- Added option 'Ignore search settings of groups' in the 'Find'
  dialog
- Internal data viewer: added support for zooming images using
  the OEM + and - keys with Ctrl
- Added accelerator keys (especially for labels) in various
  dialogs
- Added UIFlags bit for disabling the 'Database Settings' menu
  item
- Added workarounds for Windows RTF character encoding bug
- Added workaround for Mono input focus restoration problem
  that occurs when a form gets activated
- Plugins: added method to provide menu items
- Plugins: added property to get the edit mode of an entry
  dialog
- TrlUtil: added tab 'Validation', which shows the results of
  all checks that TrlUtil performs
- TrlUtil: the tab in the preview form that contains the
  currently selected control is now selected automatically
- TrlUtil: the preview form now shows accelerator keys
  permanently
- TrlUtil: enhanced support for derived control classes
- TrlUtil: the current file name is now displayed in the title
  bar
- Enhanced installer (added user directory checks, added option
  to open the plugins web page, component/option names can be
  translated now, updated NGen size estimation, improved file
  associations update, ...)

- In order to avoid selection/Ctrl+A problems, the user name
  auto-completion now does not append suggestions anymore; it
  only shows a list of suggestions (in which a suggestion can
  be selected manually)
- Improved accelerator keys in the 'Find' dialog
- The history list in the entry dialog now supports showing
  custom icons
- Mass entry modifications (colors/icons) now create history
  entries, if necessary
- Improved text rendering in dialog banners
- In the database settings dialog, the path of the database
  file is now shown in the dialog banner
- Improved selection/view preservation of the entry view
- While importing/synchronizing, a status dialog is displayed
  now if and only if the main window is not constructed
  completely yet (otherwise the status is displayed in the main
  window)
- Improved reliability of clipboard operations
- Improved error reporting for the 'Paste Entries' command
- Renamed the automatic clipboard clearing option and added a
  tooltip in order to clarify the behavior of the option
- The commands 'Find Similar Passwords (Pairs)', 'Find Similar
  Passwords (Clusters)' and 'Password Quality Report' now
  ignore TAN entries
- The report of clusters of similar passwords now shows more
  clusters in certain cases
- In the 'Plugins' dialog, the plugins are now sorted
  alphabetically
- KeePass does not try to load satellite assemblies as plugins
  anymore
- Improved configuration saving when an enforced configuration
  file exists, but no global one
- Improved reading of KDBX XML documents with unknown elements
- The export module 'Customizable HTML File' now works fine on
  Unix-like systems, too
- On Unix-like systems: improved support for executing KeePass
  while no X server is running
- ShInstUtil: improved NGen detection on 64-bit systems
- TrlUtil: the preview form does not steal the input focus
  anymore
- TrlUtil: improved accelerator key check
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed a bug that caused KeePass to crash when trying to view
  certain password generator profiles
- The option 'Use monospace font for passwords' in the 'Print'
  / HTML export dialog now works for all translations

2018-09-10: 2.40
- Added automatic completion support for the user name box in
  the entry editing dialog and the auto-type sequence boxes in
  the entry/group editing dialogs (suggesting user names and
  auto-type sequences that are used in other entries/groups)
- Added automatic completion support for the URL and user name
  boxes in the 'Open From URL' dialog (suggesting URLs and user
  names of items in the list of most recently used database
  files)
- Added option 'Group path' in the 'Find' dialog (enabled by
  default for quick searches)
- Added read-only mode for the entry string dialog, which is
  used by the entry dialog when viewing a history entry
- The internal data viewer now supports zooming images using
  Ctrl+Add, Ctrl+Subtract and the mouse wheel with Ctrl;
  furthermore, there are now '+' and '-' buttons right of the
  zoom selection box in the toolbar
- Added option 'Remember master password (in encrypted form) of
  a database while it is open' (which is the default; turning
  off this option prevents the usage of certain features)
- Enhanced compatibility check for DLL plugins
- Added URL opening event for plugins
- On Unix-like systems: added support for opening the local
  help file with KChmViewer
- Added workaround for initial input focus problem in the
  master key prompt dialog
- Added workaround for Mono not always raising the FormClosed
  event properly
- TrlUtil now remembers the last translation file directory

- The 'Configure Columns' dialog now computes a display order
  for the new columns, taking the previous display order into
  account
- While importing/synchronizing, no status dialog is displayed
  anymore (the status is displayed in the main window)
- Improved UI responsiveness during long operations
- When hiding/restoring the main window via the system tray
  icon fails, KeePass now shows a notification
- Improved Return key handling in text boxes
- Improved initial input focus in some dialogs
- Enhanced database file path unification
- The configuration system does not create a KeePass folder in
  the user's application data folder anymore when the target
  configuration file location is outside this folder
- Improved window text query method
- Improved Unicode environment detection
- Various improvements for right-to-left writing systems
- Improved support for case-sensitive command line parameter
  names (for plugins and KPScript)
- If a plugin is available both as a DLL and as a PLGX (in the
  same folder), KeePass now loads either the DLL or the PLGX
- For plugins: most public definitions are now static
- KPScript: improved parsing of escape sequences
- Renamed native support library item in the installer
- Upgraded installer
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2018-05-12: 2.39.1
- File transactions: improved access control list (ACL)
  restoration
- File transactions are not used anymore when attempting to
  write to a local file that does not exist yet (to ensure a
  correct default ACL)
- The option to minimize the main window after performing
  auto-type is now ignored while displaying a subdialog
- Plugins can now implement classes derived from KeePass'
  custom rich text boxes

2018-05-06: 2.39
- KeePass now uses Transactional NTFS (TxF) for writing
  database and configuration files, if possible; this improves
  the compatibility with other programs that are watching these
  files (e.g. file synchronization services)
- Added command 'Edit' -> 'Show Entries' -> 'Large Entries'
- Added command 'Edit' -> 'Show Entries' -> 'Last Modified
  Entries'
- Added option 'Automatically save after modifying an entry
  using the entry editing dialog' (turned off by default)
- Added option 'Minimize main window after performing
  auto-type' (turned off by default)
- Added option 'Show lines between nodes in tree views' (turned
  off by default)
- Added support for importing Google Chrome 66 password CSV
  files
- Added trigger event 'Time - Periodic', which is raised at
  user-defined intervals
- Links in the entry string editing dialog are clickable now
- Added UIFlags bit for disabling the 'XML Replace' menu item
- Added UIFlags bit for hiding auto-type obfuscation
  compatibility information dialogs
- Added workaround for .NET 'urtf' RTF round-trip bug
- Secure edit controls are now extensible by plugins
- KPScript: the 'AddEntry' command now supports the
  '-setx-Expires' and '-setx-ExpiryTime' parameters

- In printouts and HTML exports, expired entries now have a red
  'X' icon (if the option 'Icon' is turned on)
- Improved string normalization in the entry and string editing
  dialogs
- Improved and optimized process memory protection, especially
  in the entry editing dialog
- Secure edit control improvements
- Improved behavior when moving a custom string to a standard
  field
- Improved entry size calculation
- URL overrides are now used also for application URLs
- Improved input focus restoration
- When trying to toggle the auto-start option and
  creating/deleting the registry value fails, KeePass now shows
  a detailed error message
- Improved XML serialization
- Stream disposal improvements in exceptional situations
- Process object disposal improvements
- Extended inter-process communication (IPC) messages are
  compressed and encrypted now
- New IPC mechanism on Unix-like systems
- Enhanced desktop type detection on Unix-like systems
- On the Cinnamon desktop, the 'Always on Top' option is now
  disabled (because it is not supported properly by the
  environment)
- KeePass now ignores hidden Git and Visual Studio directories
  when building a PLGX file
- The trigger system now ignores state-changing placeholders in
  most places
- Removed trigger event 'User interface state updated'
  (consider using the new event 'Time - Periodic' instead)
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The 'View' button on the 'History' tab of the entry editing
  dialog is now disabled when multiple items are selected
- The main window state is now updated after closing an entry
  report dialog

2018-01-09: 2.38
- The installers (regular and MSI) now create an empty
  'Languages' folder in the application directory, and the
  portable package now also contains such a folder; language
  files should now be stored in this folder
- Added button 'Open Folder' in the language selection dialog,
  which opens the 'Languages' folder
- Added button 'Open Folder' in the plugins dialog, which opens
  the 'Plugins' folder
- Added a runtime activation policy setting (to improve
  compatibility with Microsoft User Experience Virtualization)
- Added option 'Icon' and an option for specifying the
  placeholder behavior (replace or not, or both forms) in the
  'Print' / HTML export dialog
- Printing / HTML export: the notes of a group are now
  displayed below the group name
- Enhanced the Password Exporter import module to support XML
  files created by version 1.3.4
- Added workaround for Microsoft Office breaking the 'Print'
  shell verb for HTML files
- Added workaround for Mono list view item deletion bug
- Added workaround for Mono command line argument encoding bug
- KPScript: the 'AddEntry' and 'EditEntry' commands now support
  the '-setx-Icon' and '-setx-CustomIcon' parameters, which set
  the icon of the entry
- KPScript: the 'ChangeMasterKey' command now supports the
  '-newpw-enc' parameter (for specifying the new master
  password in encrypted form, compatible with the
  {PASSWORD_ENC} placeholder)
- KPScript: the 'ListEntries' command now supports all '-ref-*'
  and '-refx-*' parameters

- Password quality estimation: improved compatibility with
  process memory protection
- Improved UI scaling when using KeePass on multiple systems
  with different DPI values
- Printing / HTML export: improved embedding of CSS
- Printing / HTML export: spaces in passwords are now encoded
  as non-breaking spaces
- Improved UI updating in the 'Print' / HTML export dialog
- Enhanced KDE system font detection
- Improved fatal error handling
- Various improvements in the language selection dialog
- KPScript: improved behavior of '-ref-*' parameters when
  combined with the '-refx-All' option
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed HTML generation bug: when the option 'Use monospace
  font for passwords' was turned off, a generated HTML file in
  'Details' mode could contain invalid end tags

2017-10-12: 2.37
- When creating a new database, KeePass now offers to print a
  KeePass emergency sheet (which can then be filled out and
  stored in a secure location, where only the user and possibly
  a few other people that the user trusts have access to); an
  emergency sheet can also be created via 'Tools' -> 'Database
  Tools' -> 'Print Emergency Sheet'
- Added database file information dialog that is displayed when
  creating a new database
- Added function to search similar password clusters ('Edit' ->
  'Show Entries' -> 'Find Similar Passwords (Clusters)')
- On Unix-like systems: if the library 'libgcrypt.so.20' is
  available, KeePass uses it for AES-KDF transformations
- Enhanced PrepMonoDev.sh script to upgrade a DTD processing
  definition
- Added workaround for .NET/Windows column header drawing bug
  when switching to TAN-only entry list mode
- Added workaround for Mono tab switching bug
- Added workaround for Mono '}' character RTF encoding bug
- TrlUtil: added support for .NET 4.*

- Improved dialog for changing the master key (key file and
  user account are now expert options, added more information
  and links to help page sections)
- KeePass now directly offers to save the database after
  changing the master key, and it asks whether to print a new
  emergency sheet
- Various improvements in the translation selection dialog (the
  selected translation can now be activated by pressing Return,
  the list view now uses the Explorer style, ...)
- KeePass now refuses to attach files that are larger than 512
  MB (as larger files can result in serialization problems)
- Increased default number of AES-KDF rounds
- On Unix-like systems, KeePass now uses the CSP implementation
  of the AES algorithm for encrypting data, which is a bit
  faster
- Improved tool strip checkmark rendering on Unix-like systems
- Updated links (to the website, help pages, etc.)
- The MSI file is now built using Visual Studio 2017
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2017-06-09: 2.36
- Added commands 'Find Duplicate Passwords' and 'Find Similar
  Passwords' (in 'Edit' -> 'Show Entries'), which show entries
  that are using the same or similar passwords
- Added command 'Password Quality Report' (in 'Edit' -> 'Show
  Entries'), which shows all entries and the estimated quality
  of their passwords
- Added option 'String name' in the 'Edit' -> 'Find' dialog
  (for searching entries that have a specific custom string
  field)
- Added option for using a gray tray icon
- Added {CMD:/.../} placeholder, which runs a command line
- Added {T-CONV:/.../Raw/} placeholder, which inserts a text
  without encoding it for the current context
- Added optional 'Last Password Modification Time (Based on
  History)' entry list column
- The internal text editor now supports editing PS1 files
- The position and size of the internal data viewer is now
  remembered and restored
- For various dialogs, the maximized state is now remembered
  and restored
- Added configuration option for specifying an expiry date for
  master keys
- Added configuration option for specifying disallowed
  auto-type target windows
- Added workaround for Edge throwing away all keyboard input
  for a short time after its activation
- Added workaround for Mono not properly rendering bold and
  italic text in rich text boxes
- TrlUtil now performs a case-sensitive word validation

- The password input controls in the I/O connection dialog and
  the proxy dialog now are secure edit controls
- The icon of the 'Save' command in the main menu is now grayed
  out when there are no database changes (like the toolbar
  button)
- Auto-Type: improved support for target applications that
  redirect the focus immediately
- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with VMware vSphere client
- When an error occurs during auto-type, KeePass is now brought
  to the foreground before showing an error message box
- Entries in groups where searching is disabled (e.g. the
  recycle bin group) are now ignored by the commands that show
  expired entries
- Improved scrolling when moving entries while grouping in the
  entry list is on
- Improved support for right-to-left writing systems
- Improved application and system tray icon handling
- Updated low resolution ICO files (for Mono development)
- Moved single-click tray icon action option from the
  'Integration' tab to the 'Interface' tab of the options
  dialog
- Synchronization file path comparisons are case-insensitive
  now
- Improved workaround for Mono clipboard bug (improved
  performance and window detection; the workaround is now
  applied only if 'xsel' and 'xdotool' are installed)
- Enhanced PrepMonoDev.sh script
- KPScript: times in group and entry lists now contain a time
  zone identifier (typically 'Z' for UTC)
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The drop-down menu commands in the entry editing dialog for
  setting the expiry date now work as expected

2017-01-09: 2.35
- New KDBX 4 file format, which supports various new features
  (listed below; e.g. Argon2)
- Added Argon2 key derivation function (it can be activated in
  the database settings dialog)
- Improved header and data authentication in KDBX 4 files
  (using HMAC-SHA-256, Encrypt-then-MAC scheme)
- Added ChaCha20 (RFC 7539) encryption algorithm (it can be
  activated as KDBX file encryption algorithm in the database
  settings dialog; furthermore, it supersedes Salsa20 as
  default for generating the inner random stream of KDBX 4
  files)
- Added support for opening entry URLs with Firefox or Opera in
  private mode via the context menu -> 'URL(s)' -> 'Open with
  ... (Private)'
- Added URL override suggestions for Firefox and Opera in
  private mode in the URL override suggestions drop-down list
  in the entry dialog
- Added optional built-in global URL overrides for opening
  HTTP/HTTPS URLs with Firefox or Opera in private mode
- Added {PICKFIELD} placeholder, which shows a dialog to pick a
  field whose value will be inserted
- Added option 'Hide "Close Database" toolbar button when at
  most one database is opened' (turned on by default)
- Added option 'Show additional auto-type menu commands', which
  can be turned on to show menu commands for performing entry
  auto-type with some specific sequences
- Added menu command 'Selected Entry's Group' (with keyboard
  shortcut Ctrl+G) in 'Edit' -> 'Show Entries' (and a context
  menu equivalent 'Show Parent Group' in 'Selected Entries'),
  which opens the parent group of the currently selected entry
  and selects the entry again
- Added menu commands in 'Edit' -> 'Show Entries' to show
  entries that expire in a specific number of days (1, 2, 3) or
  weeks (1, 2, 4, 8) or in the future
- Added configuration option that specifies the number of days
  within which entries are considered to expire 'soon' (the
  default is 7)
- Added option for changing the alternate item background color
- When the option 'Remember key sources' is enabled, KeePass
  now also remembers whether a master password has been used
- Added option 'Force changing the master key the next time
  (once)' (in 'File' -> 'Database Settings' -> tab 'Advanced')
- Added parameters 'Window style' and 'Verb' for the 'Execute
  command line / URL' trigger action
- Added support for importing mSecure 3.5.5 CSV files
- Added support for importing Password Saver 4.1.2 XML files
- Added support for importing Enpass 5.3.0.1 TXT files
- Enhanced SplashID CSV import (added support for the old
  version 3.4, added mappings for types of the latest version,
  groups are now created only for categories, and types are
  imported as tags)
- LastPass import: added support for CSV files exported by the
  LastPass Chrome extension, which encodes some special
  characters as XML entities
- Added 'KeePass KDBX (2.34, Old Format)' export module
- Export using XSL transformation: added support for the
  'xsl:output' element in XSL files
- If the global auto-type hot key is Ctrl+Alt+A and the current
  input locale is Polish, KeePass now shows a warning dialog
  (telling the user that Ctrl+Alt+A is in conflict with a
  system key combination producing a character)
- Added Alt+X Unicode character conversion support in rich text
  boxes on Unix-like systems
- For development snapshots, the 'About' dialog now shows the
  snapshot version (in the form 'YYMMDD')
- Plugins can provide other key derivation functions now
- The header of KDBX 4 files is extensible by plugins
- Enhanced support for developing encryption algorithm plugins
- Plugins can now store custom data in groups and entries
- Plugin data stored in the database, a group or an entry can
  now be inspected (and deleted) in the database maintenance
  dialog, the group dialog and the entry dialog, respectively
- For plugins: file closing events now contain information
  about whether KeePass is exiting, locking or performing a
  trigger action
- Added workaround for .NET handle cast overflow bug in
  InputLanguage.Culture
- Added workaround for Mono ignoring the Ctrl+I shortcut
- Added workaround for Mono clipboard bug
- Added workaround for Mono not focusing the default control in
  the entry editing dialog
- Added workaround for a Mono timer bug that caused high CPU
  load while showing a file save confirmation dialog
- Added Mono workaround: when running on MacOS, KeePass now
  does not try to instantiate a tray icon anymore
- Added workaround for XDoTool sending diacritic characters in
  incorrect case
- TrlUtil now recommends to clear the 'Unused Text' tab

- Improved behavior when searching entries with exclusions
  (terms prefixed with '-')
- Improved support for auto-typing into target windows using
  different keyboard layouts
- Auto-Type: improved support for keyboard layouts with keys
  where Shift, Caps Lock and no modifier result in 3 different
  characters
- Auto-Type: improved support for spacing modifier letters
  (U+02B0 to U+02FF)
- Global auto-type now works with target windows having empty
  titles
- When copying entries to the clipboard, the data package now
  includes custom icons used by the entries
- Unified behavior when drag&dropping a field containing a
  placeholder
- Improved entry edit confirmation dialog
- If the screen height is insufficient to display a dialog, the
  dialog's banner (if the dialog has one) is now removed to
  save some space
- Some tooltips are now displayed for a longer time
- A new entry created using a template now does not include the
  history of the template anymore
- For empty RTF attachments, the internal data editor now by
  default uses the font that is specified for TXT files
- Internal data editor: added support for changing the format
  of mixed-format selections
- Internal data viewer and editor: null characters ('\0', not
  '0') in texts are now automatically replaced by spaces (like
  Notepad on Windows 10)
- Improved encoding signature handling for conversions during
  text attachment imports (via the 'Text Encoding' dialog)
- File transactions are not used anymore for files that have a
  reparse point (e.g. symbolic links)
- Improved XSL stylesheets for KDBX XML files
- The internal window manager is now thread-safe
- Improved date/time handling
- Improved button image disposal
- When synchronizing two databases, custom data (by plugins) is
  now merged
- When opening a database file, corrupted icon indices are now
  automatically replaced by default values
- Added some more entropy sources for the seed of the
  cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator
  (environment variables, command line, full operating system
  version, current culture)
- ChaCha20 is now used during password generation (instead of
  Salsa20)
- ChaCha20 is now used as fallback process memory encryption
  algorithm (instead of Salsa20)
- When the encryption algorithm for a database file is unknown,
  the error message now shows the UUID of the algorithm
- In KDBX 4, header field lengths are now 4 bytes wide
- In KDBX 4, entry attachments are now stored in an inner,
  binary header (encrypted, possibly compressed), before the
  XML part; this reduces the database file size and improves
  the loading/saving performance
- In KDBX 4, the inner random stream cipher ID and key (to
  support process memory protection) are now stored in the
  inner header instead of in the outer header
- KPScript: the 'ChangeMasterKey' command now also updates the
  master key change date
- TrlUtil: improved validation warning dialogs
- The MSI file now requires any .NET Framework version, not a
  specific one
- The MSI file is now built using Visual Studio 2015
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- When executing a {HMACOTP} placeholder, the last modification
  time of the corresponding entry is now updated
- Key files containing exactly 64 alphanumeric characters are
  now loaded as intended

2016-06-11: 2.34
- The version information file (which the optional update check
  downloads to see if there exists a newer version) is now
  digitally signed (using RSA-4096 / SHA-512); furthermore, it
  is downloaded over HTTPS
- Added option 'Lock workspace when minimizing main window to
  tray'
- Added option 'Esc minimizes to tray instead of locking the
  workspace'
- Added Ctrl+Q shortcut for closing KeePass (as alternative to
  Alt+F4)
- Added UIFlags bit for disabling the 'Check for Updates' menu
  item
- The installers (regular and MSI) now create an empty
  'Plugins' folder in the application directory, and the
  portable package now also contains such a folder
- Plugins: added support for digitally signed version
  information files

- Plugins are now loaded only directly from the application
  directory and from any subdirectory of the 'Plugins' folder
  in the application directory
- Improved startup performance (by filtering plugin candidates)
- When closing a database, KeePass now searches and deletes any
  temporary files that may have been created and forgotten by
  MSHTML when printing failed
- CHM help file: improved high DPI support
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2016-05-07: 2.33
- Added commands in the group context menu (under 'Rearrange'):
  'Expand Recursively' and 'Collapse Recursively'
- Added option 'When selecting an entry, automatically select
  its parent group, too' (turned on by default)
- Added placeholders for data of the group that is currently
  selected in the main window: {GROUP_SEL}, {GROUP_SEL_PATH}
  and {GROUP_SEL_NOTES}
- While importing/synchronizing, indeterminate progress is now
  displayed on the taskbar button (on Windows 7 and higher)
- Added optional parameters 'Filter - Group' and 'Filter - Tag'
  for the 'Export active database' trigger action
- Pressing the Escape key in the main window now locks the
  workspace (independent of the current database locking state,
  in contrast to Ctrl+L)
- Added option 'Extra-safe file transactions' in 'Tools' ->
  'Options' -> tab 'Advanced'
- Added customization option to specify how often the master
  key dialog appears when entering incorrect master keys
- Plugins: added event 'FormLoadPost' for the main window
- KPScript: the 'GetEntryString' command now supports the
  '-Spr' option, which causes KPScript to Spr-compile the field
  value (i.e. placeholders are replaced, field references are
  resolved, environment variables are inserted, etc.)

- Improved database synchronization performance
- Improved object reordering during a database synchronization
  for new and relocated groups/entries
- Improved synchronization of deleted objects information
- Improved database synchronization to prevent implicit object
  deletions
- HTML export/printing: the notes column now is twice as wide
  as the other columns
- When entering a Spr-variant password in the entry dialog, the
  quality estimation is now disabled
- Group tooltips are now displayed for about 30 seconds
- The root group is now always expanded when opening a database
- Improved private mode browser detection
- Improved DPI awareness declaration (on Windows 10 and higher)
- Improved regular expression searching performance in usual
  use cases
- Improved natural string comparison performance (on Unix-like
  systems)
- Improved mnemonic characters in the 'Rearrange' menus
- Upgraded installer
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2016-03-09: 2.32
- The quick search box (in the toolbar of the main window) now
  supports searching using a regular expression; in order to
  indicate that the search text is a regular expression,
  enclose it in '//'; for example, performing a quick search
  for '//Michael|Adam//' shows all entries containing 'Michael'
  or 'Adam'
- Added 'Advanced' tab in the 'Open From URL' dialog (easily
  extensible by plugins); added options: timeout, pre-
  authenticate, HTTP/HTTPS/WebDAV user agent and 100-Continue
  behavior, FTP passive mode
- Added per-user Start Menu Internet Application detection
- When selecting an entry in the main entry list, its parent
  group is now selected automatically in the group tree view
- Auto-Type matching: added option 'Expired entries can match'
  (turned off by default, i.e. expired entries are ignored)
- Added option 'Always show global auto-type entry selection
  dialog' (to show the dialog even when no or one entry is
  found for the currently active target window; turned off by
  default)
- Added {GROUP_NOTES} placeholder
- Added support for importing nPassword 1.0.2.41 NPW files
- In triggers and KPScript, an import/export module can now be
  specified both using its display name and its format name
- When running under .NET 4.5 or higher, secure connections
  (e.g. for WebDAV) now support TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 (in
  addition to SSL 3 and TLS 1.0)
- Added Mono workaround: when running on the Unity or Pantheon
  desktop, KeePass now does not try to instantiate a tray icon
  anymore; if you want a tray icon on Unity/Pantheon, use the
  application indicator plugin
- Added workaround for Mono not implementing the property
  SystemInformation.SmallIconSize for MacOS systems
- Added command line parameter '-wa-disable:' for disabling
  specific Mono workarounds (IDs separated by commas)
- KPScript: if the value of a '-ref-*:' parameter is enclosed
  in '//', it is now treated as a regular expression, which
  must occur in the entry field for an entry to match
- KPScript: .NET 4.0/4.5 is now preferred, if installed
- KPScript: enhanced high DPI support

- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with target windows that
  handle activation slowly and ignore any input until being
  ready (like Microsoft Edge)
- Auto-Type: improved sending of characters that are typically
  realized with the AltGr key
- When editing a custom entry string, the value text box now
  has the initial focus
- Improved image/icon shrinking
- Improved icon recoloring on high DPI resolutions
- Changed some ICO files such that higher resolution images are
  used
- Changed some PNG files to workaround the image DPI scaling
  behavior on Windows XP
- Improved new-line filtering in the main entry view
- When trying to use the Windows user account as part of a
  composite master key fails, a more detailed error message is
  displayed now
- The 'About' dialog now indicates whether the current build is
  a development snapshot
- Changed code signing certificate
- Upgraded installer
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- After an incomplete drag&drop operation over the group tree
  view, the previous group selection is now restored

2016-01-09: 2.31
- Added menu/toolbar styles, freely selectable in 'Tools' ->
  'Options' -> tab 'Interface'; available styles are 'Windows
  10', 'Windows 8.1', 'KeePass - Gradient', '.NET/Office -
  Professional' and 'System - Classic'; by default KeePass uses
  the style most similar to the one of the current operating
  system
- Refined application icons (thanks to Victor Andreyenkov)
- Auto-Type: new target window classification method, which
  improves compatibility with target windows hosted within
  other windows (e.g. a PuTTY window within SuperPuTTY/MTPuTTY)
- Auto-Type: added workaround for the default Ctrl+Alt behavior
  of KiTTY variants (which differs from Windows' behavior)
- Before clearing the clipboard, KeePass now first copies a
  non-sensitive text into it; this ensures that no sensitive
  information remains in the clipboard even when clearing is
  prevented by the environment (e.g. when running in a virtual
  machine, when using a clipboard extension utility, ...)
- Added support for opening entry URLs with Internet Explorer
  or Google Chrome in private mode via the context menu ->
  'URL(s)' -> 'Open with ... (Private)'
- Added URL override suggestions for Internet Explorer and
  Google Chrome in private mode in the URL override suggestions
  drop-down list in the entry dialog
- Added optional built-in global URL overrides for opening
  HTTP/HTTPS URLs with Internet Explorer or Google Chrome in
  private mode
- Added Ctrl+K shortcut for the 'Duplicate Entry' command
- Mozilla Bookmarks HTML import: added support for importing
  tags
- Added support for exporting to Mozilla Bookmarks HTML files
- Windows/IE favorites export: entry fields are Spr-compiled
  now, and entries with cmd:// URLs are now exported as LNK
  files
- HTML export/printing: added support for UUIDs, added
  horizontal lines between entries in details mode, added
  background color for group headings, long field names are
  hyphenated now, and long field data now breaks and wraps onto
  the next line
- Plugins: added possibility to configure file transactions for
  each URI scheme
- Plugins: added possibility to provide custom 'Save As'
  dialogs more easily
- Converted some PNG images as a workaround for a problem in
  Cairo/LibPNG on Unix-like systems
- As a workaround for a weakness in Mono's FileDialog, before
  showing such a dialog on Unix-like systems KeePass now tries
  to load the file '~/.recently-used' and deletes it, if it is
  not a valid XML file
- KPScript: added support for specifying the master password in
  encrypted form using the '-pw-enc:' command line parameter
  (exactly like in KeePass, compatible with the {PASSWORD_ENC}
  placeholder)
- KPScript: the 'Export' command now supports the optional
  '-GroupPath:' parameter (to export a specific group instead
  of the whole database)
- KPScript: the 'GetEntryString' command now supports the
  '-FailIfNoEntry' option
- KPScript: added '-refx-Expires' and '-refx-Expired' entry
  identification parameters
- KPScript: the 'Import' command now prints more specific error
  messages
- All KeePass program binaries are now dual signed using SHA-1
  and SHA-256

- Auto-Type: improved keyboard layout handling when the target
  window changes during an auto-type process
- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with Remote Desktop
  Connection client and VirtualBox
- Improved icon recoloring
- Improved printing of dates/times and tags
- The password generator based on a character set now ensures
  that the generated password is Spr-invariant
- Password generator based on a pattern or a custom algorithm:
  when a Spr-variant password is generated, a confirmation
  dialog for accepting this password is displayed
- If the 'Save Database' policy prevents saving, the auto-save
  option is now ignored
- Improved .NET Framework version detection
- PLGX debugging: when the command line option '-debug' is
  passed and a PLGX plugin fails to compile, the output of all
  tried compilers is saved to a temporary file
- Improved file transaction creation time handling on Unix-like
  systems
- Improved compatibility with Mono on BSD systems
- Enhanced PrepMonoDev.sh script for compatibility with Mono
  4.x
- Removed KeePassLibSD sub-project (a KeePass library for
  Pocket PC / Windows Mobile) from the main solution
- Upgraded installer
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- When running under Mono (Linux, MacOS, ...), two options
  related to window minimization are disabled now (because they
  do not work properly due to a Mono bug)

2015-08-09: 2.30
- When opening a database via a URL fails, the error message
  dialog now has a button 'Specify different server
  credentials' (on Windows Vista and higher)
- Added support for opening entry URLs with Microsoft Edge via
  the context menu -> 'URL(s)' -> 'Open with Edge'
- Added URL override suggestion for Microsoft Edge in the URL
  override suggestions drop-down list in the entry dialog
- Added optional built-in global URL overrides for opening
  HTTP/HTTPS URLs with Microsoft Edge
- When clicking on a group link in the entry view, KeePass now
  ensures that the group is visible in the group tree
- The main window is now moved onto the primary screen when it
  is restored outside all screens
- KDBX loader: added support for non-empty protected binary
  value reference elements
- Plugins: added two auto-type sequence query events
- Added workaround for Mono drawing bug when scrolling a rich
  text box
- When running under Mono, some automatic locking options are
  now disabled (because Mono doesn't implement the required
  events)
- The installer now prevents running the installer while it is
  already running
- KPScript: added '-GroupPath:' parameter (for specifying the
  full path of a group)
- KPScript: the 'MoveEntry' command now also supports the
  '-GroupName:' parameter (as alternative to '-GroupPath:')
- KPScript: added support for specifying the path of an XSL
  stylesheet file using the command line parameter '-XslFile:'
- KPScript: the 'ListGroups' command now also outputs the
  parent group UUID for each group
- KPScript: the parameters for specifying new field data (for
  the 'AddEntry' and the 'EditEntry' command) now support
  escape sequences (e.g. '\n' is replaced by a new-line
  character)

- The 'Synchronize' file dialog now shows only KDBX files by
  default
- In the 'Attachments (Count)' column, only non-zero counts are
  shown now
- Improved MRU item refreshes
- The entry string dialog now supports changing the case of a
  string name
- The entry string dialog now does not allow adding a string
  whose name differs from another existing string name in this
  entry only by case
- The entry view in the main window is now updated immediately
  after pressing Ctrl+H or Ctrl+J
- The KDB import module now tries to round any invalid
  date/time to the nearest valid date/time
- XML serializers are now loaded/created at KeePass startup in
  order to avoid a problem when shutting down Windows and
  KeePass.XmlSerializers.dll not being present
- Changed tab bar behavior in the options dialog to avoid a tab
  content cropping issue caused by plugins
- Improved workaround for Mono splitter bug
- Upgraded installer
- Various performance improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2015-04-10: 2.29
- Added high resolution icons
- Added support for high resolution custom icons
- Added option in the proxy configuration dialog to use the
  user's default credentials (provided by the system)
- {FIREFOX} placeholder: if no regular Firefox is installed,
  KeePass now looks for Firefox ESR
- {PICKCHARS} placeholder: the Conv-Fmt option now supports all
  combinations of '0', 'A', 'a' and '?'; '?' skips a combobox
  item
- Added {BEEP X Y} auto-type command (where X is the frequency
  in hertz and Y the duration in milliseconds)
- Added optional 'Attachments (Count)' entry list column
- Added Ctrl+Insert shortcut as alternative for Ctrl+C in the
  entry list of the main window
- Added shortcut keys for 'Copy Entries' (Ctrl+Shift+C) and
  'Paste Entries' (Ctrl+Shift+V)
- Added some access keys in various dialogs
- In the field reference dialog, the field in which the
  reference will be inserted is now selected as source field by
  default
- Added UUID uniqueness check
- Added support for importing Passphrase Keeper 2.60 HTML files
  (in addition to the already supported 2.50 and 2.70 formats)
- The path of the local configuration file can now be changed
  using the '-cfg-local:' command line parameter
- Plugins can now access the KeePass resources (images, icons,
  etc.) through the IPluginHost interface
- Added a few workarounds for external window manipulations
  before the main window has been fully constructed
- Added workaround for .NET gradient drawing bug; 'Blue Carbon'
  dialog banners are now drawn correctly on high DPI
- Added workaround for Mono file version information block
  generation bug
- KPScript: added 'EstimateQuality' command (to estimate the
  quality of a specified password)
- All KeePass program binaries are now digitally signed (thanks
  to Certum/Unizeto)

- In the master key creation dialog, the 'Create' and 'Browse'
  buttons are now disabled when a key provider is selected
- Changed behavior of the 'Use system proxy settings' option
  (KeePass now directly gets the system proxy settings, not the
  .NET default proxy settings)
- Improved focus restoration after closing the character
  picking dialog
- Removed 'O' and 'C' access keys from 'OK' and 'Cancel'
  buttons (instead, press Enter for 'OK' and Esc for 'Cancel')
- Improved remembering of splitter positions
- Improved assignments of check mark images to menu items
- Improved behavior when synchronizing a local EFS-encrypted
  database file with a local database file
- On Unix-like systems, hot key boxes now show 'External'
  instead of 'None'
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- AltGr+E (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+E) does not focus the quick search box
  anymore

2014-10-08: 2.28
- Enhanced high DPI support
- Added trigger action 'Show message box' (which can abort the
  current trigger execution or execute a command line / URL)
- The 'Database has unsaved changes' trigger condition now
  supports choosing between the active database and the
  database that triggered the event
- Added parameter for the trigger action 'Activate database
  (select tab)' that allows activating the database that
  triggered the event
- Auto-Type: added workaround for KiTTY's default Ctrl+Alt
  behavior (which differs from Windows' behavior)
- Auto-Type: added workaround for PuTTYjp's default Ctrl+Alt
  behavior (which differs from Windows' behavior)
- Added up/down arrow buttons for reordering auto-type
  associations in the entry editing dialog
- While entering the master key on a secure desktop, dimmed
  screenshots are now also displayed on all non-primary screens
- Added support for importing VisKeeper 3.3.0 TXT files
- The group tree view is now saved and restored during most
  group tree updates
- In the main entry list, multiple entries can now be moved by
  one step up/down at once
- If Caps Lock is on, a balloon tip indicating this is now also
  displayed for password text boxes immediately after opening a
  dialog (where the password text box is the initially focused
  control)
- In the cases where Windows would display outdated thumbnail
  and peek preview images for the main window, KeePass now
  requests Windows to use a static bitmap instead (showing only
  the KeePass logo)
- Added fallback method for parsing dates/times (the default
  parser fails for some custom formats specified in the Control
  Panel)
- Added workaround for .NET ToolStrip height bug
- Added own process memory protection for Unix-like systems (as
  Mono doesn't provide any effective memory protection method)
- On Unix-like systems, Shift+F10 (and Ctrl+Alt+5 and
  Ctrl+NumPad5 on MacOS) now shows the context menu in most
  list/tree view controls and rich text boxes (like on Windows)
- KPScript: for the 'Import' command, a different master key
  can now be specified using the standard master key command
  line parameters with the prefix 'imp_' (e.g. -imp_pw:Secret)
- KPScript: added option '-FailIfNotExists' for the
  'GetEntryString' command
- KPScript: added '-refx-Group' and '-refx-GroupPath' entry
  identification parameters

- Improved compatibility with ClearType
- Improved support for high contrast themes
- When duplicating a group/entry, the creation time and the
  last access time of the copy are now set to the current time
- Character picker dialog: initially the text box is now
  focused, improved tab order, and picked characters are now
  inserted at the current insertion point (instead of the end)
- Ctrl+Tab is now handled only once when the database tab bar
  has the focus
- When exporting to a KeePass 1.x KDB file, a warning/error is
  now shown if the master key contains/is a Windows User
  Account
- Unknown trigger events/conditions/actions are now ignored by
  the trigger dialog
- Reduced group tree view flickering
- Improved default value for the entry history size limit
- Improved menu check mark and radio images
- Improved list view column resizing
- Improved list view scrolling
- Secure edit control performance improvements
- In some cases, double-clicking the tray icon now brings
  KeePass to the foreground
- Improved concurrent UI behavior during auto-type
- Auto-Type: improved compatibility with keyboard layouts with
  combining apostrophes, quotation marks and tildes
- Auto-Type: improved virtual key translation on Unix-like
  systems
- KPScript: the 'EditEntry' command now also updates the time
  fields of all affected entries
- KPScript: the 'DeleteEntry' and 'DeleteAllEntries' commands
  now create deleted object information (improving
  synchronization behavior)
- Upgraded installer
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- When auto-typing a sequence containing a {NEWPASSWORD}
  placeholder, the raw new password is now stored (in the
  password field of the entry), not its corresponding auto-type
  sequence
- Synchronizing two unrelated databases now always works as
  expected

2014-07-06: 2.27
- The estimated password quality (in bits) is now displayed on
  the quality progress bar, and right of the quality progress
  bar the length of the password is displayed
- Auto-Type: before sending a character using a key combination
  involving at least two modifiers, KeePass now first tests
  whether this key combination is a registered system-wide hot
  key, and, if so, tries to send the character as a Unicode
  packet instead
- Auto-Type: added workaround for Cygwin's default Ctrl+Alt
  behavior (which differs from Windows' behavior)
- Auto-Type: added {APPACTIVATE ...} command
- {HMACOTP} placeholder: added support for specifying the
  shared secret using the entry strings 'HmacOtp-Secret-Hex'
  (secret as hex string), 'HmacOtp-Secret-Base32' (secret as
  Base32 string) and 'HmacOtp-Secret-Base64' (secret as Base64
  string)
- {T-CONV:...} placeholder: added 'Uri-Dec' type (for
  converting the string to its URI-unescaped representation)
- Added placeholders: {URL:USERINFO}, {URL:USERNAME} and
  {URL:PASSWORD}
- Added placeholders: {BASE}, {BASE:RMVSCM}, {BASE:SCM},
  {BASE:HOST}, {BASE:PORT}, {BASE:PATH}, {BASE:QUERY},
  {BASE:USERINFO}, {BASE:USERNAME}, {BASE:PASSWORD} (within a
  URL override, each of these placeholders is replaced by the
  specified part of the string that is being overridden)
- Added {NEWPASSWORD:/Profile/} placeholder, which generates a
  new password for the current entry using the specified
  password generator profile
- Pattern-based password generator: the '^' character now
  removes the next character from the current custom character
  set (for example, [a^y] contains all lower-case alphanumeric
  characters except 'y')
- Enhanced syntax highlighting in the sequence field of the
  'Edit Auto-Type Item' dialog
- Added option 'Do not ask whether to synchronize or overwrite;
  force synchronization'
- Added synchronization support for the group behavior
  properties 'Auto-Type for entries in this group' and
  'Searching entries in this group'
- Root group properties are now synchronized based on the last
  modification time
- While saving a database, a shutdown block reason is now
  specified
- Added 'Move to Group' menu in the 'Selected Entries' popup of
  the main entry list context menu
- Items of dynamic menus (tags, strings, attachments, password
  generator profiles, ...) now have auto-assigned accelerator
  keys
- As alternative to Ctrl+F, pressing F3 in the main window now
  displays the 'Find' dialog
- Added UIFlags bit for hiding password quality progress bars
  and information labels
- Enhanced system font detection on Unix-like systems
- When using 'xsel' for clipboard operations on Unix-like
  systems, text is now copied into both the primary selection
  and the clipboard
- Added '--version' command line option (for Unix-like systems)
- Plugins can now subscribe to an IPC event that is raised when
  running KeePass with the '-e:' command line parameter
- Added workaround for .NET AutoWordSelection bug
- Added workaround for Mono bug 10163; saving files using
  WebDAV now also works under Mono 2.11 and higher
- Added workaround for Mono image tabs bug
- Added workaround for Mono NumericUpDown drawing bug

- Merged the URL scheme overrides and the 'Override all URLs'
  option into a new dialog 'URL Overrides'
- Improved autocompletion of I/O connection parameters using
  the MRU list (now treating the user name as filter)
- Improved interaction of I/O connection trigger parameters and
  the MRU list
- The master key prompt dialog now validates key files only
  when clicking [OK], and invalid ones are not removed
  automatically from the list anymore
- Improved support for managing columns leftover from
  uninstalled plugins in the 'Configure Columns' dialog
- If the 'Unhide Passwords' policy is turned off, the passwords
  column in the auto-type entry selection dialog is now
  unavailable
- The entry list in the main window is now updated immediately
  after performing auto-type or copying data to the clipboard
- Various list view performance improvements
- The 'Searching entries in this group' group behavior
  properties are now ignored during resolving field references
- Improved behavior in case of syntax errors in placeholders
  with parameters
- Two-channel auto-type obfuscation: improved realization of
  clipboard paste commands
- General main window keyboard shortcuts now also work within
  the quick search box and the database tab bar
- Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Tab in the main window now always selects
  the previous database tab (independent of which control has
  the focus)
- Changed shortcut keys for moving entries/groups on Unix-like
  systems, due to Mono's incorrect handling of Alt (preventing
  key events) and navigation keys (selection updated at the
  wrong time)
- Auto-Type: improved modifier key releasing on Unix-like
  systems
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- A key-up event to the groups tree in the main window without
  a corresponding key-down event does not change the entry list
  anymore

2014-04-13: 2.26
- Added option to show a confirmation dialog when moving
  entries/groups to the recycle bin
- Auto-Type: added workaround for applications with broken
  time-dependent message processing
- Auto-Type: added workaround for PuTTY's default Ctrl+Alt
  behavior (which differs from Windows' behavior)
- Auto-Type: added configuration option to specify the default
  delay between two keypresses
- Added optional sequence comments column in the auto-type
  entry selection dialog (in this column, only {C:...} comments
  in the sequence are displayed; if a comment starts with '!',
  only this comment is shown)
- If the option 'Automatically search key files' is activated,
  all drives are now scanned in parallel and any key files are
  added asynchronously (this avoids issues caused by slow
  network drives)
- Added trigger action 'Show entries by tag'
- {OPERA} placeholder: updated detection code to also support
  the latest versions of Opera
- {T-CONV:...} placeholder: added 'Uri' type (for converting
  the string to its URI-escaped representation)
- Synchronization functions are now available for remote
  databases, too
- Enhanced RoboForm importer to additionally support the new
  file format
- Summary lists are now also available in delete confirmation
  dialogs on Unix-like systems and Windows XP and earlier
- Added workaround for Mono Process StdIn BOM bug
- KPScript: added 'refx-All' option (matches all entries)
- KPScript: added optional parameters 'setx-Expires' and
  'setx-ExpiryTime' for the 'EditEntry' command

- Improved database tab selection after closing an inactive
  database
- New just-in-time MRU files list
- Improved selection of entries created by the password
  generator
- The internal text editor now determines the newline sequence
  that the data is using the most when opening it, and converts
  all newline sequences to the initial sequence when saving the
  data
- Improved realization of the {CLEARFIELD} command (now using
  Bksp instead of Del, in order to avoid Ctrl+Alt+Del issues on
  newer Windows systems)
- The note that deleting a group will also delete all subgroups
  and entries within this group is now only displayed if the
  group is not empty
- Improved GUI thread safety of the update check dialog
- Improved HTML generation
- Improved version formatting
- On Unix-like systems, window state automations are now
  disabled during initial auto-type target window switches
- On Unix-like systems, the button to choose a password font is
  disabled now (because this is unsupported due to Mono bug
  5795)
- Various files (e.g. 'History.txt') are now encoded using
  UTF-8
- Improved build system
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- In the 'Configure Columns' dialog, the activation states of
  plugin-provided columns are now preset correctly

2014-02-03: 2.25
- New auto-type key sending engine (improved support for
  sending Unicode characters and for sending keypresses into
  virtual machine/emulator windows; now largely compatible with
  the Neo keyboard layout; sequence parsing is faster, more
  flexible and optimizes the sequence; improved behavior for
  invalid sequences; differential delays, making the auto-type
  process less susceptible to externally caused delays;
  automatic cancelling is now more precise up to at most one
  keypress and also works on Unix-like systems; improved
  message processing during auto-type)
- When trying to open an entry attachment that the built-in
  editor/viewer cannot handle, KeePass now extracts the
  attachment to a (EFS-encrypted) temporary file and opens it
  using the default application associated with this file;
  afterwards the user can choose between importing/discarding
  changes and KeePass deletes the temporary file securely
- On Windows Vista and higher, the button in the entry editing
  dialog to open attachments is now a split button; the drop-
  down menu allows to choose between the built-in viewer, the
  built-in editor and an external application
- Added 'XML Replace' functionality
- Generic CSV importer: added option to merge imported groups
  with groups already existing in the database
- Added support for importing Dashlane 2.3.2 CSV files
- On Windows 8 and higher, some running Metro apps are now
  listed in the 'Edit Auto-Type Item' dialog
- Added {T-CONV:/T/C/} placeholder (to convert text to upper-
  case, lower-case, or its UTF-8 representation to Base64 or
  Hex)
- Added {SPACE} special key code (as alternative for the ' '
  character, for improved readability of auto-type sequences)
- XML merge (used e.g. when an enforced configuration file is
  present): added support for comments in inner nodes
- Added UIFlags bit for showing last access times

- In the history entry viewing dialog, the 'Open' and 'Save'
  commands are now available for attachments
- When replacing the {PASSWORD_ENC} placeholder, KeePass now
  first Spr-compiles the entry password (i.e. placeholders,
  environment variables, etc. can be used)
- Improved configuration loading performance
- Improved displaying of fatal exceptions
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Data inserted by entry URL component placeholders is now
  encoded correctly

2013-11-03: 2.24
- The URL override field in the entry editing dialog is now an
  editable combo box, where the drop-down list contains
  suggestions for browser overrides
- Password quality estimations are now computed in separate
  threads to improve the UI responsiveness
- The password generator profile 'Automatically generated
  passwords for new entries' is now available in the password
  generator context menu of the entry editing dialog
- Added UIFlags bit for hiding built-in profiles in the
  password generator context menu of the entry editing dialog
- Tags can be included in printouts now
- Generic CSV importer: added support for importing tags
- Added support for importing Norton Identity Safe 2013 CSV
  files
- Mozilla Bookmarks JSON import: added support for importing
  tags
- RoboForm import: URLs are now terminated using a '/', added
  support for the new file format and for the new note fields
- Added support for showing modern task dialogs even when no
  form exists (requiring a theming activation context)
- KeePass now terminates CtfMon child processes started by
  .NET/Windows, if they are not terminated automatically
- Added workarounds for '#', '{', '}', '[', ']', '~' and
  diaeresis .NET SendKeys issues
- Added workaround for 'xsel' hanging on Unix-like systems
- Converted some PNG images as a workaround for a problem in
  Cairo/LibPNG on Unix-like systems
- Installer: the version is now shown in the 'Version' field of
  the item in the Windows 'Programs and Features' dialog
- TrlUtil: added 'Go to Next Untranslated' command
- TrlUtil: added shortcut keys

- The 'Open From URL' dialog is now brought to the foreground
  when trying to perform global auto-type while the database is
  locked and the main window is minimized to tray
- Profiles are now shown directly in the password generator
  context menu of the entry editing dialog
- After duplicating entries, KeePass now ensures that the
  copies are visible
- User names of TAN entries are now dereferenced, if the option
  for showing dereferenced data in the main window is enabled
- When creating an entry from a template, the new entry is now
  selected and focused
- Empty fields are not included in detailed printouts anymore
- Enhanced Internet Explorer detection
- The '-preselect' command line option now works together with
  relative database file paths
- Improved quoted app paths parsing
- Extended culture invariance
- Improved synchronization performance
- Improved internal keypress routing
- Last access times by default are not shown in the UI anymore
- TrlUtil: improved dialog focusing when showing message boxes
- KeePassLib/KPScript: improved support for running on systems
  without any GUI
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed a crash that could occur if the option 'Show expired
  entries (if any)' is enabled and a trigger switches to a
  different locked database when unlocking a database
- The tab bar is now updated correctly after closing an
  inactive database by middle-clicking its tab
- Column display orders that are unstable with respect to
  linear auto-adjusting assignment are now restored correctly

2013-07-20: 2.23
- New password quality estimation algorithm
- Added toolbar buttons: 'Open URL(s)', 'Copy URL(s) to
  Clipboard' and 'Perform Auto-Type'
- Added 'Generate Password' command in the context menu of the
  KeePass system tray icon
- Added 'Copy history' option in the entry duplication dialog
  (enabled by default)
- Added 'Duplicate Group' context menu command
- In the MRU list, currently opened files now have an
  '[Opened]' suffix and are blue
- When a dialog is displayed, (double) clicking the KeePass
  system tray icon now activates the dialog
- Added {T-REPLACE-RX:...} placeholder, which replaces text
  using a regular expression
- Added {VKEY-NX X} and {VKEY-EX X} special key codes
- Added 'Perform auto-type with selected entry' trigger action
- Added 'Import into active database' trigger action
- Mozilla Bookmarks HTML import: added support for groups,
  bookmark descriptions and icons
- Mozilla Bookmarks JSON import: bookmark descriptions are now
  imported into the note fields of entries
- RoboForm import: added support for the new file format
- Added support for importing Network Password Manager 4.0 CSV
  files
- Enhanced SafeWallet XML importer to additionally support
  importing web entries and groups from very old export file
  versions (for newer versions this was already supported)
- Added database repair mode warning
- Added option to accept invalid SSL certificates (turned off
  by default)
- Added user activity notification event for plugins
- File transactions for FTP URLs are now always disabled when
  running under .NET 4.0 in order to workaround .NET bug 621450
- Added workaround for Mono list view item selection bug
- Added workaround for Mono bug 649266; minimizing to tray now
  removes the task bar item and restoring does not result in a
  broken window anymore
- Added workaround for Mono bug 5795; text and selections in
  password boxes are now drawn properly (a monospace font can
  only be used on Windows due to the bug)
- Added workaround for Mono bug 12525; dialog banners are now
  drawn correctly again
- Added workaround for Mono form loading bug
- KPScript: added 'Import' command
- KPScript: the 'ListEntries' command now also outputs
  date/time fields of entries

- When the option for remembering the last used database is
  enabled, KeePass now remembers the last active database
  (instead of the last opened or saved database)
- The 'Add Group' command and the F2 key in the groups tree
  view now open the group editing dialog; in-place tree node
  label editing is disabled
- Custom string and plugin-provided columns in the 'Configure
  Columns' dialog are sorted alphabetically now
- Improved behavior when closing inactive databases
- Improved support for trigger actions during database closing
- The 'Special' GUI character set now includes '|' and '~'
- The 'High ANSI' character set now consists of the range
  [U+0080, U+00FF] except control and non-printable characters
- The options dialog is now listed in the task bar when it is
  opened while KeePass is minimized to the system tray
- A remembered user account usage state can now be preset even
  when the user account option is disabled using key prompt
  configuration flags
- Improved initial input focus in key creation/prompt dialogs
  when key creation/prompt configuration flags are specified
- During synchronization, the status dialog is now closed after
  all files have been saved
- Improved behavior of the global KeePass activation hot key
  when a dialog is displayed
- Changed auto-type command icon
- Shortened product name in main window title
- Improved data URI validation
- Custom clipboard data is now encoded as data URI (with a
  vendor-specific MIME type)
- Improved configuration loading performance
- Enhanced I/O connection problem diagnostics
- Improved single instance checking on Unix-like systems
- KeePassLibC DLLs and ShInstUtil are now explicitly marked as
  DEP- and ASLR-compatible (like the executable file)
- Various UI improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The suffixes to the 'Inherit setting from parent' options on
  the 'Behavior' tab of the group editing dialog now correctly
  show the inherited settings of the current group's parent
- When locked, the main window's title doesn't show the full
  path of the database anymore when the option 'Show full path
  in title bar (instead of file name only)' is turned off
- The status bar is now updated correctly after sorting by a
  column

2013-04-05: 2.22
- When the option for remembering key sources is enabled,
  KeePass now also remembers whether the user account is
  required
- Added 'View' -> 'Grouping in Entry List' menu
- Added 'Close active database' trigger action
- Added '-ioiscomplete' command line option, which tells
  KeePass that the path and file system credentials are
  complete (the 'Open URL' dialog will not be displayed then)
- Added support for importing SafeWallet XML files (3.0.4 and
  3.0.5)
- Added support for importing TurboPasswords 5.0.1 CSV files
- LastPass CSV importer: added support for group trees
- Alle meine Passworte XML importer: added support for custom
  fields and group names with special characters
- Password Safe XML importer: added support for the e-mail
  field
- Added 'Help' button in the generic CSV importer dialog
- Added workaround for .NET bug 642188; top visible list view
  items are now remembered in details view with groups enabled
- Added workaround for Mono form title bar text update bug
  (which e.g. caused bug 801414)

- After closing a character picking dialog, KeePass now
  explicitly activates the previous window
- Improved behavior when cancelling the icon picker dialog
- Main window activation redirection now works with all KeePass
  dialogs automatically
- The window state of the current database is now remembered
  before opening another database
- Previous parameters are now discarded when switching between
  different trigger event/condition/action types
- Unified separators in group paths
- The UI state is now updated after adding an entry and
  clicking an entry reference link in the entry view
- The '-entry-url-open' command line option now searches for
  matching entries in all open databases
- Improved database context determination when opening a URL
- Added support for special values in date/time fields imported
  from KeePass 1.x
- Improved HTML entity decoding (support for more entities and
  CDATA sections, improved performance, ...)
- RoboForm HTML importer: URLs are converted to lower-case now
  and support for a special order rotation of attributes has
  been added
- Removed Password Gorilla CSV importer; users should use the
  generic CSV importer (which can import more data than the old
  specialized CSV importer)
- Improved file discoveries
- Improved test form entry auto-type window definition
- In the MSI package, the version is now included in the
  product name
- Native key transformation library: replaced Boost threads by
  Windows API threads (because Boost threads can result in
  crashes on restricted Windows 7 x64 systems)
- Various UI improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2013-02-03: 2.21
- 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

- 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

- 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

2012-10-04: 2.20.1
- Improved support for images with DPI resolutions different
  from the DPI resolution of the display device
- {GOOGLECHROME} placeholder: updated detection code to also
  support the latest versions of Chrome
- The option to lock on remote control mode changes now
  additionally watches for remote connects and disconnects
- Improved Windows registry accesses
- Improved behavior when the user deletes the system temporary
  directory
- On Unix-like systems, KeePass now stores most of its
  temporary files in a private temporary directory (preferably
  in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)
- Added detection support for the following web browsers on
  Unix-like systems: Rekonq, Midori and Dooble
- KeePass does not try to set the WM_CLASS property on MacOS
  systems anymore
- Modified some icons to work around unsupported PNG
  transparency keys in Mono
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

2012-09-08: 2.20
- Header data in KDBX files is now authenticated (to prevent
  silent data corruption attacks; thanks to P. Gasti and K. B.
  Rasmussen)
- Added management of working directories (a separate working
  directory is remembered for each file dialog context; working
  directories are remembered relatively to KeePass.exe; the
  management can be deactivated by turning off the new option
  'Remember working directories')
- Added option to cancel auto-type when the target window title
  changes
- Added quick search box in the toolbar of the internal text
  editor
- Files can now be attached to entries by using drag&drop from
  Windows Explorer to the attachments list in the entry editing
  dialog
- Added '-pw-stdin' command line option to make KeePass read
  the master password from the StdIn stream
- Added placeholders to get parts of the entry URL: {URL:SCM},
  {URL:HOST}, {URL:PORT}, {URL:PATH} and {URL:QUERY}
- Added a 'Details' button in the plugin load failure message
  box (when clicked, detailed error information for developers
  is shown)
- Added warning icon left of the Windows user account option
  description in the master key creation dialog
- Added support for more image file formats (e.g. when
  importing custom client icons)
- Added support for importing DesktopKnox 3.2 XML files
- The generic CSV importer now guesses whether the option to
  ignore the first row should be enabled or not (the user of
  course can still specify it manually, too)
- Added support for exporting to KeePass 1.x CSV files
- Added support for moving the PLGX cache to a different remote
  drive
- The Spr engine is now extensible, i.e. plugins can provide
  additional transformations/placeholders
- On Unix-like systems, KeePass now uses the 'xsel' utility for
  clipboard operations, if 'xsel' is installed (in order to
  work around Mono clipboard bugs)
- Added Mono workaround to set the WM_CLASS property
- Added workaround for Mono splitter bug
- The 'PrepMonoDev.sh' script now removes the serialization
  assembly generating post build event
- TrlUtil: added support for importing PO files

- Improved FTP file existence checking
- High DPI UI improvements
- The database is not marked as modified anymore when using in-
  place label editing to fake-edit a group's name (i.e. when
  the final new name is the same as the previous one)
- Password is not auto-repeated anymore when trying to unhide
  it fails due to the policy 'Unhide Passwords' being disabled
- Improved menu accelerator and shortcut keys
- Changed I/O connection name display format
- Improved browser detection on MacOS
- Task dialog thread safety improvements
- Added UI check during import for KPScript
- Upgraded and improved installer (now uses Unicode, LZMA2
  compression, ...)
- Various UI improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- On Windows systems, new line sequences in text to be shown in
  a standard multiline text box are now converted to Windows
  format

2012-05-01: 2.19
- New generic CSV importer (now supports multi-line fields, '\'
  as escape character, field & record separators and the text
  qualifier can be specified, white space characters can be
  removed from the beginning/end of fields, the fields and
  their order can be defined, supported fields now are group
  name & standard fields like e.g. title & custom strings &
  times & ignore column, the first row can be ignored, KeePass
  initially tries to guess the fields and their order based on
  the first row)
- Native master key transformations are now computed in two
  threads on 64-bit systems, too; on dual/multi core processors
  this results in almost twice the performance as before (by
  doubling the amount of rounds you'll get the same waiting
  time as in 2.18, but the protection against dictionary and
  guessing attacks is doubled)
- New XML configuration and translation deserializer to improve
  the startup performance
- Added option to require a password repetition only when
  hiding using asterisks is enabled (enabled by default)
- Entry attachments can now be renamed using in-place label
  editing (click on an already selected item to show an edit
  box)
- Empty entry attachments can now be created using 'Attach' ->
  'Create Empty Attachment'
- Sizes of entry attachments are now shown in a column of the
  attachments list in the entry editing dialog
- Added {ENV_PROGRAMFILES_X86} placeholder (this is
  %ProgramFiles(x86)%, if it exists, otherwise %ProgramFiles%)
- Added auto-type option 'An entry matches if one of its tags
  is contained in the target window title'
- URLs in HTML exports are now linkified
- Import modules may now specify multiple default/equivalent
  file extensions (like e.g. 'htm' and 'html')
- Added support for reading texts encoded using UTF-32 Big
  Endian
- Enhanced text encoding detection (now detects UTF-32 LE/BE
  and UTF-16 LE/BE by zeros, improved UTF-8 detection, ...)
- Added zoom function for images in internal data viewer
- Drop-down image buttons in the entry editing dialog are now
  marked using small black triangle overlays
- Added support for loading key files from URLs
- Controls in the options dialog are now disabled when the
  options are enforced (using an enforced configuration file)
- If KeePass is started with the '-debug' command line option,
  KeePass now shows a developer-friendly error message when
  opening a database file fails
- Added 'Wait for exit' property in the 'Execute command line /
  URL' trigger action
- The 'File exists' trigger condition now also supports URLs
- Added two file closing trigger events (one raised before and
  one after saving the database file)
- Plugins: added file closing events
- Plugins: added events (AutoType.Sequence*) that allow plugins
  to provide auto-type sequence suggestions
- Added workaround to support loading data from version
  information files even when they have incorrectly been
  decompressed by a web filter
- Added workarounds for '°', '|' and '£' .NET SendKeys issues
- Added workaround for topmost window .NET/Windows issue (the
  'Always on Top' option now works even when switching to a
  different window while KeePass is starting up)
- Added workaround for Mono dialog event ordering bug
- Added workaround for Mono clipboard bugs on MacOS
- KPScript: added 'MoveEntry', 'GetEntryString' and 'GenPw'
  commands
- KPScript: added '-refx-UUID' and '-refx-Tags' entry
  identification parameters

- When only deleting history entries (without changing any data
  field of an entry), no backup entry is created anymore
- Unified text encoding handling for internal data viewer and
  editor, generic CSV importer and text encoding selection
  dialog
- Improved font sizing in HTML exports/printouts
- Improved encoding of group names in HTML exports/printouts
- If an entry doesn't expire, 'Never expires' is now shown in
  the 'Expiry Time' column in HTML exports/printouts
- The expiry edit control now accepts incomplete edits and the
  'Expires' checkbox is checked immediately
- The time component of the default expiry suggestion is now
  00:00:00
- The last selected/focused item in the attachments list of the
  entry editing dialog is now selected/focused after editing an
  attachment
- Improved field to standard field mapping function
- Enhanced RoboForm importer to concatenate values of fields
  with conflicting names
- Updated Spamex.com importer
- Removed KeePass 1.x CSV importer; users should use the new
  generic CSV importer (which can import more data than the old
  specialized 1.x CSV importer)
- When trying to open another database while a dialog is
  displayed, KeePass now just brings itself to the foreground
  without attempting to open the second database
- More list views use the Vista Explorer style
- Modifier keys without another key aren't registered as global
  hot key anymore
- Improved default suggestions for custom sequences in the
  auto-type sequence editing dialog
- Improved default focus in the auto-type sequence editing
  dialog
- Added {C:Comment} placeholder in the auto-type sequence
  editing dialog
- On Unix-like systems, the {GOOGLECHROME} placeholder now
  first searches for Google Chrome and then (if not found) for
  Chromium
- Versions displayed in the update checking dialog now consist
  of at least two components
- Added '@' and '`' to the printable 7-bit ASCII character set
- Merged simple and extended special character spaces to one
  special character space
- Reduced control character space from 60 to 32
- The first sample entry's URL now points to the KeePass
  website
- Improved key transformation delay calculation
- Improved key file loading performance
- The main menu now isn't a tab stop anymore
- Some configuration nodes are now allocated only on demand
- Improved UI update when moving/copying entries to the
  currently active group or a subgroup of it using drag&drop
- Improved behavior when closing an inactive database having
  unsaved changes
- Changed versioning scheme in file version information blocks
  from digit- to component-based
- Development snapshots don't ask anymore whether to enable the
  automatic update check (only stable releases do)
- Improved PLGX cache directory naming
- The PLGX cache directory by default is now located in the
  local application data folder instead of the roaming one
- Improved support for PLGX plugins that are using LINQ
- Various UI improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Fixed sorting of items in the most recently used files list
- Fixed tab order in the 'Advanced' tab of the entry editing
  dialog

2012-01-05: 2.18
- The update check now also checks for plugin updates (if
  plugin developers provide version information files)
- When starting KeePass 2.18 for the first time, it asks
  whether to enable the automatic update check or not (if not
  enabled already)
- When closing the entry editing dialog by closing the window
  (using [X], Esc, ...) and there are unsaved changes, KeePass
  now asks whether to save or discard the changes; only when
  explicitly clicking the 'Cancel' button, KeePass doesn't
  prompt
- When not hiding passwords using asterisks, they don't need to
  be repeated anymore
- Password repetition boxes now provide instant visual feedback
  whether the password has been repeated correctly (if
  incorrect, the background color is changed to light red)
- When clicking an '***' button to change the visibility of the
  entered password, KeePass now automatically transfers the
  input focus into the password box
- Visibility of columns in the auto-type entry selection dialog
  can now be customized using the new 'Options' button
- Added auto-type option 'An entry matches if the host
  component of its URL is contained in the target window title'
- Added shortcut keys: Ctrl+Shift+O for 'Open URL',
  Ctrl+Shift+U for copying URLs to the clipboard, Ctrl+I for
  'Add Entry', Ctrl+R for synchronizing with a file,
  Ctrl+Shift+R for synchronizing with a URL
- Ensuring same keyboard layouts during auto-type is now
  optional (option enabled by default)
- Plain text KDB4 XML exports now store the memory protection
  flag of strings in an attribute 'ProtectInMemory'
- Added option to use database lock files (intended for storage
  providers that don't lock files while writing to them, like
  e.g. some FTP servers); the option is turned off by default
  (and especially for local files and files on a network share
  it's recommended to leave it turned off)
- Added UIFlags bit for disabling the controls to specify after
  how many days the master key should/must be changed
- Added support for in-memory protecting strings that are
  longer than 65536 characters
- Added workaround for '@' .NET SendKeys issue

- .NET 4.0 is now preferred, if installed
- PLGX plugins are now preferably compiled using the .NET 4.0
  compiler, if KeePass is currently running under the 4.0 CLR
- Automatic update checks are now performed at maximum once per
  day (you can still check manually as often as you wish)
- Auto-Type: entry titles and URLs are now Spr-compiled before
  being compared with the target window title
- Decoupled the options 'Show expired entries' and 'Show
  entries that will expire soon'
- Specifying the data hiding setting (using asterisks) in the
  column configuration dialog is now done using a checkbox
- The entry view now preferably uses the hiding settings
  (asterisks) of the entry list columns
- Improved entry expiry date calculation
- Enhanced Password Agent importer to support version 2.6.2
- Enhanced SplashID importer to import last modification dates
- Improved locating of system executables
- Password generator profiles are now sorted by name
- Separated built-in and user-defined password generator
  profiles (built-in profiles aren't stored in the
  configuration file anymore)
- Improved naming of shortcut keys, and shortcut keys are now
  displayed in tooltips
- Internal window manager can now close windows opened in other
  threads
- Improved entry touching when closing the entry editing dialog
  by closing the window (using [X], Esc, ...)
- Improved behavior when entering an invalid URL in the 'Open
  URL' dialog
- Improved workaround for Mono tab bar height bug
- ShInstUtil: improved Native Image Generator version detection
- Unified in-memory protection
- In-memory protection performance improvements
- Developers: in-memory protected objects are now immutable and
  thread-safe
- Various UI text improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- The cached/temporary custom icons image list is now updated
  correctly after running the 'Delete unused custom icons'
  command

2011-10-19: 2.17
- 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

- 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

- 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

2011-07-12: 2.16
- When searching for a string containing a whitespace
  character, KeePass now splits the terms and reports all
  entries containing all of the terms (e.g. when you search for
  "Forum KeePass" without the quotes, all entries containing
  both "Forum" and "KeePass" are reported); the order of the
  terms is arbitrary; if you want to search for a term
  containing whitespace, enclose the term in quotes
- When searching for a term starting with a minus ('-'), all
  entries that do not contain the term are reported (e.g. when
  you search for "Forum -KeePass" without the quotes, all
  entries containing "Forum" but not "KeePass" are reported)
- Added dialog in the options to specify a web proxy (none,
  system or manual) and user name and password for it
- Added option to always exit instead of locking the workspace
- Added option to play the UAC sound when switching to a secure
  desktop (enabled by default)
- Added filter box in the field references creation dialog
- Added command to delete duplicate entries (entries are
  considered to be equal when their strings and attachments are
  the same, all other data is ignored; if one of two equal
  entries is in the recycle bin, it is deleted preferably;
  otherwise the decision is based on the last modification
  time)
- Added command to delete empty groups
- Added command to delete unused custom icons
- For Unix-like systems: new file-based IPC broadcast mechanism
  (supporting multiple endpoints)
- For Unix-like systems: added file-based global mutex
  mechanism
- Auto-type on Unix-like systems: added support for sending
  square brackets and apostrophes
- Two-channel auto-type obfuscation is now supported on
  Unix-like systems, too
- Web access on Unix-like systems: added workarounds for non-
  implemented cache policy and credentials requirement
- Added context menu command to empty the recycle bin (without
  deleting the recycle bin group)
- On Windows Vista and higher, when trying to delete a group,
  the confirmation dialog now shows a short summary of the
  subgroups and entries that will be deleted, too
- In the auto-type target window drop-down combobox, icons are
  now shown left of the window names
- Added {CLEARFIELD} auto-type command (to clear the contents
  of single-line edit controls)
- Added support for importing Sticky Password 5.0 XML files
  (formatted memos are imported as RTF file attachments, which
  you can edit using the internal KeePass editor; e.g. right-
  click on the entry in the main window and go 'Attachments' ->
  'Edit Notes.rtf' or click on the attachment in the entry view
  at the bottom of the main window; see 'How to store and work
  with large amounts of formatted text?' in the FAQ)
- Added support for importing Kaspersky Password Manager 5.0
  XML files (formatted memos are imported the same as by the
  Sticky Password importer, see above)
- Password Depot importer: added support for more fields (new
  time fields and usage count), time fields can be imported
  using the stored format specifier, vertical tabulators are
  removed, improved import of information cards, and auto-type
  sequences are converted now
- Added ability to export links into the root directory of
  Windows/IE favorites
- Windows/IE favorites export: added configuration items to
  specify a prefix and a suffix for exported links/files
- In the entry editing dialog, KeePass now opens an attachment
  either in the internal editor or in the internal viewer,
  depending on whether the format is supported by the editor
- When creating a new database, KeePass now automatically
  creates a second sample entry, which is configured for the
  test form in the online help center
- Added configuration option to disable the 'Options',
  'Plugins' and/or 'Triggers' menu items
- Added workaround for Mono tab bar height bug
- Added workaround for Mono FTP bug
- Added workaround for Mono CryptoStream bug
- Added workaround for a Mono bug related to focusing list view
  items
- Added shell script to prepare the sources for MonoDevelop
- Translations can now also be loaded from the KeePass
  application data directory
- TrlUtil: added support for ellipses as alternative to 3 dots
- KPScript: added 'DetachBins' command to save all entry
  attachments (into the directory of the database) and remove
  them from the database

- After performing a quick-find, the search text is now
  selected
- Improved quick-find deselection performance
- On Unix-like systems, command line parameters prefixed with a
  '/' are now treated as absolute file paths instead of options
- Improved IPC support on Unix-like systems
- Locked databases can now be dismissed using the close command
- Invalid target windows (like the taskbar, own KeePass
  windows, etc.) are not shown in the auto-type target window
  drop-down combobox anymore
- Newly created entries are now selected and focused
- The entry list is now focused when duplicating and selecting
  all entries
- If KeePass is blocked from showing a dialog on the secure
  desktop, KeePass now shows the dialog on the normal desktop
- Improved dialog initialization on the secure desktop
- The current status is now shown while exporting Windows/IE
  favorites
- Windows/IE favorites export: improved naming of containing
  folder when exporting selected entries only
- Windows/IE favorites export: if a group doesn't contain any
  exportable entry, no directory is created for this group
  anymore
- Improved data editor window position/size remembering
- Key modifiers of shortcut key strings are translated now
- Shortcut keys of group and entry commands are now also shown
  in the main menu
- When no template entries are specified/found, this is now
  indicated in the 'Add Entry' toolbar drop-down menu
- When deleting a group, its subgroups and entries are now
  added correctly to the list of deleted objects
- Font handling improvements
- Improved lock timeout updating when a dialog is displayed
- Improved export error handling
- Improved FIPS compliance problems self-test (error message
  immediately at start), and specified configuration option to
  prevent .NET from enforcing FIPS policy
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Last modification time is now updated when restoring an older
  version of an entry
- When duplicating an entry, the UUIDs of history items are now
  changed, too

2011-04-10: 2.15
- Added option to show the master key dialog on a secure
  desktop (similar to Windows' UAC; almost no keylogger works
  on a secure desktop; the option is disabled by default for
  compatibility reasons)
- Added option to limit the number of history items per entry
  (the default is 10)
- Added option to limit the history size per entry (the default
  is 6 MB)
- Added {PICKCHARS} placeholder, which shows a dialog to pick
  certain characters from an entry string; various options like
  specifying the number of characters to pick and conversion to
  down arrow keypresses are supported; see the one page long
  documentation on the auto-type help page; the less powerful
  {PICKPASSWORDCHARS} is now obsolete (but still supported for
  backward compatibility)
- The character picking dialog now remembers and restores its
  last position and size
- KDBX file format: attachments are now stored in a pool within
  the file and entries reference these items; this reduces the
  file size a lot when there are history items of entries
  having attachments
- KDBX file format: attachments are now compressed (if the
  compression option is enabled) before being Base64-encoded,
  compressed and encrypted; this results in a smaller file,
  because the compression algorithm works better on the raw
  data than on its encoded form
- PLGX plugins can now be loaded on Unix-like systems, too
- Added option to specify a database color; by specifying a
  color, the main window icon and the tray icon are recolored
  and the database tab (shown when multiple databases are
  opened in one window) gets a colored rectangle icon
- New rich text builder, which supports using multiple
  languages in one text (e.g. different Chinese variants)
- Added 'Sort By' popup menu in the 'View' menu
- Added context menu commands to sort subgroups of a group
- Added option to clear master key command line parameters
  after using them once (enabled by default)
- Added application policies to ask for the current master key
  before changing the master key and/or exporting
- Added option to also unhide source characters when unhiding
  the selected characters in the character picking dialog
- Added ability to export custom icons
- Added 'String' trigger condition
- Added support for importing DataViz Passwords Plus 1.007 CSV
  files
- Enhanced 1Password Pro importer to also support 1PW CSV files
- Enhanced FlexWallet importer to also support version 2006 XML
  files (in addition to version 1.7 XML files)
- Enabled auto-suggest for editable drop-down combo boxes (and
  auto-append where it makes sense)
- Pressing Ctrl+Enter in the rich text boxes of the entry
  dialog and the custom string dialog now closes with OK (if
  possible)
- Added option to cancel auto-type when the target window
  changes
- Auto-type on Unix-like systems: added support for key
  modifiers
- Added '--saveplgxcr' command line option to save compiler
  results in case the compilation of a PLGX plugin fails
- Added workaround for % .NET SendKeys issue
- Added workaround for Mono bug 620618 in the main entry list

- Improved key file suggestion performance
- When the master key change application policy is disabled and
  the master key expires (forced change), KeePass now shows the
  two information dialogs only once per opening
- After removing the password column, hiding behind asterisks
  is suggested by default now when showing the column again
- TAN entries now expire on auto-type, if the option for
  expiring TANs on use is enabled
- Auto-type now sends acute and grave accents as separate
  characters
- Auto-type now explicitly skips the taskbar window when
  searching for the target window
- Multiple lines are now separated in the entry list and in the
  custom string list of the entry dialog by a space
- RoboForm importer: improved multiline value support
- Improved UNC path support
- Improved entry list refresh performance
- Improved UI state update performance
- Entry list context menus are now configured instantly
- Inapplicable group commands are now disabled
- Improved control focusing
- Improved clipboard handling
- Copying and pasting whole entries is now also supported on
  Windows 98 and ME
- Improved releasing of dialog resources
- Improved keys/placeholders box in auto-type editing dialog
- Improved user-friendliness in UAC dialogs
- Tooltips of the tab close button and the password repeat box
  can be translated now
- Improved help (moved placeholders to separate page, ...)
- KeePassLibSD now uses the SHA-256 implementation of Bouncy
  Castle
- Upgraded installer
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Window titles are now trimmed, such that auto-type also works
  with windows whose titles have leading or trailing whitespace
  characters
- Detection of XSL files works under Linux/MacOS now, too

2011-01-02: 2.14
- Added option to lock after some time of global user
  inactivity
- Added option to lock when the remote control status changes
- Auto-type on Unix-like systems: added special key code
  support (translation to X KeySyms) and support for {DELAY X}
  and {DELAY=X}
- Added window activation support on Unix-like systems
- Auto-type on Windows: added {VKEY X} special key code (sends
  virtual key X)
- Added support for importing DataVault 4.7 CSV files
- Added support for importing Revelation 0.4 XML files
- Added 'Auto-Type - Without Context' application policy to
  disable the 'Perform Auto-Type' command (Ctrl+V), but still
  leave global auto-type available
- Added option to collapse newly-created recycle bin tree nodes
- Added 'Size' column in the history list of the entry dialog
- Added trigger action to remove custom toolbar buttons
- Added kdbx:// URL scheme overrides (for Windows and Unix-like
  systems; disabled by default)
- Added KeePass.exe.config file to redirect old assemblies to
  the latest one, and explicitly declare .NET 4.0 runtime
  support
- Added documentation for the '-pw-enc' command line parameter,
  the {PASSWORD_ENC} placeholder and URL overrides
- Added workaround for ^/& .NET SendKeys issue

- New locking timer (using a timeout instead of a countdown)
- Improved locking when the Windows session is being ended or
  switched
- Improved multi-database locking
- Separated the options for locking when the computer is locked
  and the computer is about to be suspended
- {FIREFOX} placeholder: added support for registry-redirected
  32-bit Firefox installations on 64-bit Windows systems
- File transactions: the NTFS/EFS encryption flag is now also
  preserved when the containing directory isn't encrypted
- The IPC channel name on Unix-like systems is now dependent on
  the current user and machine name
- KeePass now selects the parent group after deleting a group
- Entries are now marked as modified when mass-changing their
  colors or icons
- Key states are now queried on interrupt level
- A {DELAY=X} global delay now affects all characters of a
  keystroke sequence when TCATO is enabled, too
- Improved dialog closing when exiting automatically
- Plugin-provided entry list columns can now be right-aligned
  at KeePass startup already
- Removed KDBX DOM code
- Installer: the KeePass start menu shortcut is now created
  directly in the programs folder; the other shortcuts have
  been removed (use the Control Panel for uninstalling and the
  'Help' menu in KeePass to access the help)
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Quotes in parameters for the 'Execute command line / URL'
  trigger action are now escaped correctly
- Auto-type on Unix-like systems: window filters without
  wildcards now match correctly

2010-09-06: 2.13
- Password quality estimation algorithm: added check for about
  1500 most common passwords (these are rated down to 1/8th of
  their statistical rating; Bloom filter-based implementation)
- Global auto-type (using a system-wide hot key) is now
  possible on Unix-like systems (see the documentation for
  setup instructions, section 'Installation / Portability' in
  the 'KeePass 2.x' group; thanks to Jordan Sissel for
  enhancing 'xdotool')
- Added IPC functionality for Unix-like systems
- Added possibility to write export plugins that don't require
  an output file
- Tag lists are sorted alphabetically now
- Password text boxes now use a monospace font by default
- Added option to select a different font for password text
  boxes (menu 'Tools' -> 'Options' -> tab 'Interface')
- Added support for importing Password Prompter 1.2 DAT files
- Added ability to export to Windows/IE favorites
- Added ability to specify I/O credentials in the 'Synchronize'
  trigger action
- Added ability to specify I/O credentials and a master key in
  the 'Open database file' trigger action
- If I/O credentials are stored, they are now obfuscated
- Custom colors in the Windows color selection dialog are now
  remembered
- Added high resolution version of the KeePass application icon
- Improved lock overlay icon (higher resolution)
- PLGX loader: added support for unversioned KeePass assembly
  references

- Added workaround to avoid alpha transparency corruption when
  adding images to an image list
- Improved image list generation performance
- Added workaround to display the lock overlay icon when having
  enabled the option to start minimized and locked
- Improved group and entries deletion confirmation dialogs
  (with preview; only Windows Vista and higher)
- The password character picking dialog now offers the raw
  password characters instead of an auto-type encoded sequence
- PINs importer: improved importing of expiry dates
- Some button icons are now resized to 16x15 when the 16x16
  icon is too large
- Renamed character repetition option in the password generator
  for improved clarity
- Improved workspace locking
- Locking timer is now thread-safe
- Added code to prevent loading libraries from the current
  working directory (to avoid binary planting attacks)
- Removed Tomboy references (on Unix-like systems)
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- {NEWPASSWORD} placeholder: special characters in generated
  passwords are now transformed correctly based on context
  (auto-type, command line, etc.)

2010-07-09: 2.12
- Auto-type window definitions in custom window-sequence pairs
  are now Spr-compiled (i.e. placeholders, environment
  variables, etc. can be used)
- Global auto-type delay: added support for multi-modified keys
  and special keys
- Added 'New Database' application policy flag
- Added 'Copy Whole Entries' application policy flag
- Multi-monitor support: at startup, KeePass now ensures that
  the main window's normal area at least partially overlaps the
  virtual screen rectangle of at least one monitor
- RoboForm importer: URLs without protocol prefix are now
  prefixed automatically (HTTP)
- Entry-dependent placeholders can now be used in most trigger
  events, conditions and actions (the currently focused entry
  is used)
- Auto-type on Unix-like systems: KeePass now shows an
  informative error message when trying to invoke auto-type
  without having installed the 'xdotool' package

- New column engine: drag&dropping hidden fields works as
  expected again (the field data is transferred, not asterisks)
- Improved restoration of a maximized main window
- Improved error message when trying to import/export data
  from/to a KDB file on a non-Windows operating system
- Minor other improvements

2010-07-03: 2.11
- Added entry tags (you can assign tags to entries in the entry
  editing window or by using the 'Selected Entries' context
  menu; to list all entries having a specific tag, choose the
  tag either in the 'Edit' main menu or in the 'Show Entries'
  toolbar drop-down button)
- Completely new entry list column engine; the columns are
  dynamic now, custom entry strings can be shown in the list,
  to configure go 'View' -> 'Configure Columns...'; the column
  engine is also extensible now, i.e. plugins can provide new
  columns
- Added 'Size' entry list column (shows the approximate memory
  required for the entry)
- Added 'History (Count)' entry list column (double-clicking a
  cell of this column opens the entry editing window and
  automatically switches to the 'History' tab)
- Added 'Expiry Time (Date Only)' entry list column
- Added options to specify the number of days until the master
  key of a database is recommended to and/or must be changed
- Added support for exporting selected entries to KDB
- Added 'FileSaveAsDirectory' configuration key to specify the
  default directory for 'Save As' database file dialogs
- Double-clicking a history entry in the entry editing dialog
  now opens/views the entry
- It's now possible to tab from menus and toolbars to dialog
  controls
- Added option to turn off hiding in-memory protected custom
  strings using asterisks in the entry view
- Added workaround for FTP servers sending a 550 error after
  opening and closing a file without downloading data
- Added 'Unhide Passwords' application policy flag
- Password Depot importer: some icons are converted now
- {GOOGLECHROME} placeholder: updated detection code to also
  support the latest versions of Chrome
- The main window now uses the shell font by default
- On Windows Vista and higher, Explorer-themed tree and list
  views are now used in the main window
- On Windows 7 and higher, the main window peek preview is now
  disabled when the KeePass workspace is locked
- Installer: added option to optimize the on-demand start-up
  performance of KeePass
- TrlUtil: added 3 dots string validation

- Improved entry list item selection performance (defer UI
  state update on selection change burst)
- Improved special key code conversion in KDB importer
- Icon picker dialog now has a 'Close' button
- When sorting is enabled, the entry list view now doesn't get
  destroyed anymore when trying to move entries
- Main window is now brought to the foreground when untraying
- Removed grid lines option
- Reduced size of MSI file
- Various performance improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- No file path is requested anymore when double-clicking an
  import source that doesn't require a file

2010-03-05: 2.10
- Translation system: added support for right-to-left scripts
- Added {HMACOTP} placeholder to generate HMAC-based one-time
  passwords as specified in RFC 4226 (the shared secret is the
  UTF-8 representation of the value of the 'HmacOtp-Secret'
  custom entry string field, and the counter is stored in
  decimal form in the 'HmacOtp-Counter' field)
- On Windows 7, KeePass now shows a 'locked' overlay icon on
  the taskbar button when the database is locked
- On Windows 7, the database loading/saving progress is now
  shown on the taskbar button
- Added option to disable automatic searching for key files
- Added KDBX database repair functionality (in File -> Import)
- Added support for expired root groups
- Added global delay support for shifted special keys
- Added 'Change Master Key' application policy flag
- Added 'Edit Triggers' application policy flag
- Added trigger action to activate a database (select tab)
- Added configuration options to allow enforcing states
  (enabled, disabled, checked, unchecked) of key source
  controls in the master key creation and prompt dialogs
  (see 'Composite Master Key' documentation page)
- Added option to disable the 'Save' command (instead of
  graying it out) if the database hasn't been modified
- Added support for importing KeePassX 0.4.1 XML files
- Added support for importing Handy Safe 5.12 TXT files
- Added support for importing Handy Safe Pro 1.2 XML files
- Added support for importing ZDNet's Password Pro 3.1.4 TXT
  files
- Added dialog for selecting the encoding of text files to be
  attached to an entry
- Added option to search for passwords in quick finds (disabled
  by default)
- Added Ctrl+S shortcut in the internal data editor
- Internal data editor window can now be maximized
- Document tabs can now be closed by middle-clicking on them
- Most strings in the trigger system are now Spr-compiled (i.e.
  placeholders, environment variables, etc. can be used)
- Added '--lock-all' and '--unlock-all' command line options to
  lock/unlock the workspaces of all other KeePass instances
- Added 'pw-enc' command line option and {PASSWORD_ENC}
  placeholder
- Added preliminary auto-type support for Linux (right-click on
  an entry and select 'Perform Auto-Type'; the 'xdotool'
  package is required)
- Added option to enforce using the system font when running
  under KDE and Gnome (option enabled by default)
- HTML exports are now XHTML 1.0 compliant
- Printing: added option to sort entries
- Printing: group names are now shown as headings
- KPScript: added '-CreateBackup' option for the EditEntry
  command (to create backups of entries before modifying them)
- The PLGX plugin cache root path can now be specified in the
  configuration file (Application/PluginCachePath)
- Plugin developers: added ability to write entropy providers
  that can update the internal pool of the cryptographically
  strong random number generator
- Plugin developers: added some public PwEntryForm properties,
  events and methods
- Plugin developers: added entry template events
- Plugin developers: added group and entry touching events
- Plugin developers: added main window focus changing event
- Plugin developers: added support for writing format providers
  for the internal attachments viewer

- Expired icons of groups are non-permanent now
- Improved search performance and in-memory protection
  compatibility
- The SendKeys class now always uses the SendInput method (not
  JournalHook anymore)
- Improved auto-type delay handling
- Two-channel auto-type obfuscation: added support for default
  delays
- The default auto-type delay is now 10 ms
- Improved top-most window auto-type support
- Improved high DPI support (text rendering, banners, ...)
- Temporary file transaction files are now deleted before
  writing to them
- Broadcasted file IPC notification messages do not wait
  infinitely for hanging applications anymore
- On Windows XP and higher, KeePass now uses alpha-transparent
  icons in the main entry list
- In the entry editing dialog, when moving a custom string to a
  standard field, the string is now appended to the field
  (instead of overwriting the previous contents of the field)
- Improved UTF-8 encoding (don't emit byte order marks)
- Improved field to standard field mapping function
- HTML exports do not contain byte-order marks anymore
- For improved clarity, some controls are now renamed/changed
  dynamically when using the password generator without having
  a database open
- Improved auto-type definition conversion for KDB exports
- Standard field placeholders are now correctly removed when
  auto-typing, if the standard field doesn't exist
- Improved icon picker cancel blocking when removing an icon
- The default workspace locking time is now 300 seconds (but
  the option is still disabled by default)
- Modern task dialogs are now displayed on 64-bit Windows
  systems, too
- Improved file corruption error messages
- Improved entry attachments renaming method
- Double-clicking an attachment in the entry editing dialog now
  opens it in the internal viewer (the internal editor can only
  be invoked in the main window)
- When attachments are edited using the internal editor, the
  entry's last modification time is now updated
- Improved plugin loading (detect PLGX cache files)
- If the application policy disallows clipboard operations,
  KeePass doesn't unnecessarily decrypt sensitive data anymore
- Added tooltip for the 'View' toolbar drop-down button
- Improved menu accelerator and shortcut keys
- Upgraded installer
- Installer: various minor improvements
- Various performance improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- No exception is thrown anymore when lowering the clipboard
  auto-clear time in the options below the value of a currently
  running clearing countdown
- The 'Show expired entries' functionality now also works when
  there's exactly one matching entry

2009-09-12: 2.09
- Added option to use file transactions when writing databases
  (enabled by default; writing to a temporary file and
  replacing the actual file afterwards avoids data loss when
  KeePass is prevented from saving the database completely)
- Added PLGX plugin file format
- Enhanced database synchronization by structure merging
  (relocation/moving and reordering groups and entries)
- Added synchronization 'Recent Files' list (in 'File' menu)
- Synchronization / import: added merging of entry histories
- Synchronization / import: backups of current entries are
  created automatically, if their data would be lost in the
  merging process
- Database name, description, default user name, entry
  templates group and the recycle bin settings are now
  synchronized
- Added {NEWPASSWORD} placeholder, which generates a new
  password for the current entry, based on the "Automatically
  generated passwords for new entries" generator profile; this
  placeholder is replaced once in an auto-type process, i.e.
  for a typical 'Old Password'-'New Password'-'Repeat New
  Password' dialog you can use
  {PASSWORD}{TAB}{NEWPASSWORD}{TAB}{NEWPASSWORD}{ENTER}
- Added scheme-specific URL overrides (this way you can for
  example tell KeePass to open all http- and https-URLs with
  Firefox or Opera instead of the system default browser; PuTTY
  is set as handler for ssh-URLs by default; see Options ->
  Integration)
- Added option to drop to the background when copying data to
  the clipboard
- Added option to use alternating item background colors in the
  main entry list (option enabled by default)
- The Ctrl+E shortcut key now jumps to the quick search box
- Added auto-type sequence conversion routine to convert key
  codes between 1.x and 2.x format
- Added workaround for internal queue issue in SendKeys.Flush
- Added more simple clipboard backup routine to workaround
  clipboard issues when special formats are present
- Added native clipboard clearing method to avoid empty data
  objects being left in the clipboard
- Added import support for custom icons
- Added {GOOGLECHROME} placeholder, which is replaced by the
  executable path of Google Chrome, if installed
- Added {URL:RMVSCM} placeholder, which inserts the URL of the
  current entry without the scheme specifier
- Added ability to search for UUIDs and group names
- Toolbar searches now also search in UUIDs and group names
- Added {DELAY=X} placeholder to specify a default delay of X
  milliseconds between standard keypresses in this sequence
- Added option to disable verifying written database files
- Attachment names in the entry view are now clickable (to open
  the attachments in the internal editor or viewer)
- Added Unicode support in entry details view
- Added option to render menus and toolbars with gradient
  backgrounds (enabled by default)
- MRU lists now have numeric access keys
- Added '--entry-url-open' command line option (specify the
  UUID of the entry as '--uuid:' command line parameter)
- Added 'Application initialized' trigger event
- Added 'User interface state updated' trigger event
- Added host reachability trigger condition
- Added 'Active database has unsaved changes' trigger condition
- Added 'Save active database' trigger action
- Added database file synchronization trigger action
- Added database file export trigger action
- KeePass now restores the last view when opening databases
- Added system-wide hot key to execute auto-type for the
  currently selected entry (configurable in the options)
- Added option to disable auto-type entry matching based on
  title (by default an entry matches if its title is contained
  in the target window title)
- Added option to disable marking TAN entries as expired when
  using them
- Added option to focus the quick search box when restoring
  from tray (disabled by default)
- Added entry context menu commands to sort by UUID and
  file attachments
- Custom string fields are now appended to the notes when
  exporting to KeePass 1.x KDB files
- Enforced configuration files are now item-based (items not
  defined in the enforced configuration file are now loaded
  from the global/local configuration files instead of being
  set to defaults)
- File transactions are used when writing configuration files
- KPScript: added 'ChangeMasterKey' command
- ShInstUtil: added check for the presence of .NET
- TrlUtil: added command under 'Import' that loads 2.x LNGX
  files without checking base hashes
- TrlUtil: added control docking support
- Plugin developers: added static window addition and removal
  events to the GlobalWindowManager class
- Plugin developers: added ability to write custom dialog
  banner generators (CustomGenerator of BannerFactory)
- Plugin developers: the IOConnectionInfo of the database is
  now accessible through the key provider query context
- Plugin developers: added static auto-type filter events
  (plugins can provide own placeholders, do sequence
  customizations like inserting delays, and provide alternative
  key sending methods)
- Plugin developers: added UIStateUpdated main window event

- Simple text boxes now convert rich text immediately
- Improved entry change detection (avoid unnecessary backups
  when closing the entry dialog with [OK] but without any
  changes; detect by content instead of change events)
- Header in entry selection dialog is now non-clickable
- Entry list header now uses native sorting icons
- Key providers are now remembered separately from key files
- The main window is now the owner of the import method dialog
- The global URL override is now also applied for main entry
  URLs in the entry details view
- Improved grouping behavior when disabling entry sorting
- Improved field mapping in RoboForm import
- Root groups now support custom icons
- In the entry dialog, string values are now copied to the
  clipboard instead of asterisks
- Improved import/synchronization status dialog
- Improved import/synchronization error message dialogs
- Entry history items are now identified by the last
  modification time instead of last access time
- The trigger system can now be accessed directly through
  'Tools' -> 'Triggers...', not the options anymore
- Changed order of commands in the 'Tools' menu
- Improved auto-type target window validity checking
- Ctrl-V does not make the main window lose the focus anymore
  if auto-type is disabled for the currently selected entry
- When restoring from tray, the main window is now brought to
  the foreground
- Double-clicking an icon in the icon picker dialog now chooses
  the icon and closes the dialog
- When adding a custom icon to the database, the new icon is
  selected automatically
- When opening a database by running KeePass.exe with the
  database file path as parameter (and single instance option
  enabled), the existing KeePass instance will not prompt for
  keys of previously locked databases anymore when restoring
  (they are just left in locked state)
- Unlocking routine doesn't display multiple dialogs anymore
- Improved shortcut key handling in main window
- Master key change success message now has a distinguishable
  window title
- Improved start position and focus of the URL dialog
- Improved layout in options dialog
- Improved UUID and UI updates when removing custom icons
- Improved window deconstruction when closing with [X]
- Improved user activity detection
- Improved state updating of sorting context menu commands
- Improved sorting by UUIDs
- Improved naming of options to clarify their meaning
- Converted ShInstUtil to a native application (in order to be
  able to show a warning in case .NET is not installed)
- Plugins: improved IOConnection to allow using registered
  custom WebRequest descendants (WebRequest.RegisterPrefix)
- TrlUtil: improved XML comments generation
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Password profile derivation function doesn't incorrectly
  always add standard character ranges anymore
- In-memory protection for the title field of new entries can
  be enabled now

2009-07-05: 2.08
- Key transformation library: KeePass can now use Windows'
  CNG/BCrypt API for key transformations (about 50% faster than
  the KeePass built-in key transformation code; by increasing
  the amount of rounds by 50%, you'll get the same waiting time
  as in 2.07, but the protection against dictionary and
  guessing attacks is raised by a factor of 1.5; only Windows
  Vista and higher)
- Added support for sending keystrokes (auto-type) to windows
  that are using different keyboard layouts
- Added option to remember key file paths (enabled by default)
- Added internal editor for text files (text only and RTF
  formatted text; editor can edit entry attachments)
- Internal data viewer: added support for showing rich text
  (text with formatting)
- Added inheritable group settings for disabling auto-type and
  searching for all entries in this group (see tab 'Behavior');
  for new recycle bins, both properties are set to disabled
- Added new placeholders: {DB_PATH}, {DB_DIR}, {DB_NAME},
  {DB_BASENAME}, {DB_EXT}, {ENV_DIRSEP}, {DT_SIMPLE},
  {DT_YEAR}, {DT_MONTH}, {DT_DAY}, {DT_HOUR}, {DT_MINUTE},
  {DT_SECOND}, {DT_UTC_SIMPLE}, {DT_UTC_YEAR}, {DT_UTC_MONTH},
  {DT_UTC_DAY}, {DT_UTC_HOUR}, {DT_UTC_MINUTE}, {DT_UTC_SECOND}
- The password character picking dialog now supports pre-
  defining the number of characters to pick; append :k in the
  placeholder to specify a length of k (for example,
  {PICKPASSWORDCHARS3:5} would be a placeholder with ID 3 and
  would pick 5 characters from the password); advantage: when
  having picked k characters, the dialog closes automatically,
  i.e. saves you to click [OK]
- IDs in {PICKPASSWORDCHARSn} do not need to be consecutive
  anymore
- The password character picking dialog now first dereferences
  passwords (i.e. placeholders can be used here, too)
- Added '-minimize' command line option
- Added '-iousername', '-iopassword' and '-iocredfromrecent'
  command line options
- Added '--auto-type' command line option
- Added support for importing FlexWallet 1.7 XML files
- Added option to disable protecting the clipboard using the
  CF_CLIPBOARD_VIEWER_IGNORE clipboard format
- Added support for WebDAV URLs (thanks to Ryan Press)
- Added shortcut keys in master key prompt dialog
- Added entry templates functionality (first specify an entry
  templates group in the database settings dialog, then use the
  'Add Entry' toolbar drop-down button)
- Added AceCustomConfig class (accessible through host
  interface), that allows plugins to store their configuration
  data in the KeePass configuration file
- Added ability for plugins to store custom data in KDBX
  database files (PwDatabase.CustomData)
- Added interface for custom password generation algorithm
  plugins
- URLs in the entry preview window are now always clickable
  (especially including cmd:// URLs)
- Added option to copy URLs to the clipboard instead of opening
  them (Options -> Interface, turned off by default)
- Added option to automatically resize entry list columns when
  resizing the main window (turned off by default)
- Added 'Sync' command in KPScript scripting tool
- Added FIPS compliance problems self-test (see FAQ for details
  about FIPS compliance)
- Added Rijndael/AES block size validation and configuration
- Added NotifyIcon workaround for Mono under MacOS
- Added confirmation box for empty master passwords
- Added radio buttons in auto-type sequence editing dialog to
  choose between the default entry sequence and a custom one
- Added hint that group notes are shown in group tooltips
- Added test for KeePass 1.x plugins and an appropriate error
  message
- Added interface for writing master password requirements
  validation plugins
- Key provider plugin API: enhanced key query method by a
  context information object
- Key provider plugin API: added 'DirectKey' property to key
  provider base class that allows returning keys that are
  directly written to the user key data stream
- Key provider plugin API: added support for exclusive plugins
- The '-keyfile' command line option now supports selecting key
  providers (plugins)
- Auto-Type: added option to send an Alt keypress when only the
  Alt modifier is active (option enabled by default)
- Added warning when trying to use only Alt or Alt-Shift as
  global hot key modifier
- TrlUtil: added search functionality and toolbar
- TrlUtil: version is now shown in the window title

- Improved database file versioning and changed KDBX file
  signature in order to prevent older versions from corrupting
  newer files
- ShInstUtil now first tries to uninstall a previous native
  image before creating a new one
- Improved file corruption error messages (instead of index out
  of array bounds exception text, ...)
- The 'Open in Browser' command now opens all selected entries
  instead of just the focused one
- Data-editing commands in the 'Tools' menu in the entry dialog
  are now disabled when being in history viewing mode
- Right arrow key now works correctly in group tree view
- Entry list is now updated when selecting a group by pressing
  a A-Z, 0-9 or numpad key
- Improved entry list performance and sorting behavior
- Improved splitter distance remembering
- Improved self-tests (KeePass now correctly terminates when a
  self-test fails)
- The attachment column in the main window now shows the names
  of the attached files instead of the attachments count
- Double-clicking an attachment field in the main window now
  edits (if possible) or shows the first attachment of the
  entry
- Group modification times are now updated after editing groups
- Improved scrolling of the entry list in item grouping mode
- Changed history view to show last modification times, titles
  and user names of history entries
- KeePass now also automatically prompts to unlock when
  restoring to a maximized window
- Improved file system root directory support
- Improved generic CSV importer preview performance
- When saving a file, its path is not remembered anymore, if
  the option for opening the recently used file at startup is
  disabled
- Improved auto-type input blocking
- Instead of a blank text, the entry dialog now shows
  "(Default)" if the default auto-type sequence is used in a
  window-sequence association
- Most broadcasted Windows messages do not wait for hanging
  applications anymore
- Improved main window hiding at startup when the options to
  minimize after opening a database and to tray are enabled
- Default tray action is now dependent on mouse button
- New entries can now inherit custom icons from their parent
  groups
- Improved maximized state handling when exiting while the main
  window is minimized
- Improved state updating in key creation form
- Improved MRU list updating performance
- Improved plugin incompatibility error message
- Deprecated {DOCDIR}, use {DB_DIR} instead ({DOCDIR} is still
  supported for backward compatibility though)
- Last modification times of TAN entries are now updated
- F12 cannot be registered as global hot key anymore, because
  it is reserved for kernel-mode / JIT debuggers
- Improved auto-type statement conversion routine in KeePass
  1.x KDB file importer
- Improved column width calculation in file/data format dialog
- Improved synchronization status bar messages
- TrlUtil: base hash for forms is now computed using the form's
  client rectangle instead of its window size
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- Recycle bin is now cleared correctly when clearing the
  database

2009-03-14: 2.07 Beta
- Added powerful trigger system (when events occur, check some
  conditions and execute a list of actions; see options dialog
  in 'Advanced'; more events / conditions / actions can be
  added later based on user requests, and can also be provided
  by plugins)
- Native master key transformations (rounds) are now computed
  by the native KeePassLibC support library (which contains the
  new, highly optimized transformation code used by KeePass
  1.15, in two threads); on dual/multi core processors this
  results in almost triple the performance as before (by
  tripling the amount of rounds you'll get the same waiting
  time as in 2.06, but the protection against dictionary and
  guessing attacks is tripled)
- Added recycle bin (enabled by default, it can be disabled in
  the database settings dialog)
- Added Salsa20 stream cipher for CryptoRandomStream (this
  algorithm is not only more secure than ArcFour, but also
  achieves a higher performance; CryptoRandomStream defaults to
  Salsa20 now; port developers: KeePass uses Salsa20 for the
  inner random stream in KDBX files)
- KeePass is now storing file paths (last used file, MRU list)
  in relative form in the configuration file
- Added support for importing 1Password Pro CSV files
- Added support for importing KeePass 1.x XML files
- Windows XP and higher: added support for double-buffering in
  all list views (including entry lists)
- Windows Vista and higher: added support for alpha-blended
  marquee selection in all list views (including entry lists)
- Added 'EditEntry', 'DeleteEntry', 'AddEntries' and
  'DeleteAllEntries' commands in KPScript scripting tool
- Added support for importing special ICO files
- Added option to exit instead of locking the workspace after
  the specified time of inactivity
- Added option to minimize the main window after locking the
  KeePass workspace
- Added option to minimize the main window after opening a
  database
- Added support for exporting to KDBX files
- Added command to remove deleted objects information
- TrlUtil now checks for duplicate accelerator keys in dialogs
- Added controls in the entry editing dialog to specify a
  custom text foreground color for entries
- KeePass now retrieves the default auto-type sequence from
  parent groups when adding new entries
- The password character picking dialog can now be invoked
  multiple times when auto-typing (use {PICKPASSWORDCHARS},
  {PICKPASSWORDCHARS2}, {PICKPASSWORDCHARS3}, etc.)
- Added '-set-urloverride', '-clear-urloverride' and
  '-get-urloverride' command line options
- Added '-set-translation' command line option
- Added option to print custom string fields in details mode
- Various entry listings now support custom foreground and
  background colors for entry items
- Added 'click through' behavior for menus and toolbars
- File association methods are now UAC aware

- User interface is now blocked while saving to a file (in
  order to prevent accidental user actions that might interfere
  with the saving process)
- Improved native modifier keys handling on 64-bit systems
- Improved application startup performance
- Added image list processing workaround for Windows 7
- OK button is now re-enabled after manually activating the key
  file checkbox and selecting a file in the master key dialog
- The master key dialog now appears in the task bar
- When KeePass is minimized to tray and locked, pressing the
  global auto-type hot key doesn't restore the main window
  anymore
- The installer now by default installs KeePass 1.x and 2.x
  into separate directories in the program files folder
- The optional autorun registry keys of KeePass 1.x and 2.x do
  not collide anymore
- File type association identifiers of KeePass 1.x and 2.x do
  not collide anymore
- File MRU list now uses case-insensitive comparisons
- Improved preview updates in Print and Data Viewer dialogs
- Message service provider is thread safe now
- Threading safety improvements in KPScript scripting plugin
- Improved control state updates in password generator dialog
- Improved master password validation in 'New Database' dialog
- Times are now stored as UTC in KDBX files (ISO 8601 format)
- Last access time fields are now updated when auto-typing,
  copying fields to the clipboard and drag&drop operations
- KPScript scripting tool now supports in-memory protection
- Database is not marked as modified anymore when closing the
  import dialog with Cancel
- Added asterisks in application policy editing dialog to make
  clearer that changing the policy requires a KeePass restart
- Double-clicking a format in the import/export dialog now
  automatically shows the file browsing dialog
- Improved permanent entry deletion confirmation prompt
- Improved font objects handling
- Expired groups are now rendered using a striked out font
- Improved auto-type statement conversion routine in KeePass
  1.x KDB file importer
- Clipboard clearing countdown is not started anymore when
  copying data fails (e.g. policy disabled)
- Improved synchronization with URLs
- The database maintenance dialog now only marks the database
  as modified when it actually has removed something
- KeePass now broadcasts a shell notification after changing
  the KDBX file association
- Improved warning message when trying to directly open KeePass
  1.x KDB files
- Improved Linux/MacOS compatibility
- Improved MSI package (removed unnecessary dependency)
- TrlUtil: improved NumericUpDown and RichTextBox handling
- Installer now checks for minimum operating system version
- Installer: file association is now a task, not a component
- Installer: various other improvements
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements

- When cloning a group tree using drag&drop, KeePass now
  assigns correct parent group references to cloned groups and
  entries
- Fixed crash when clicking 'Cancel' in the settings dialog
  when creating a new database

2008-11-01: 2.06 Beta
- Translation system is now complete (translations to various
  languages will be published on the KeePass translations page
  when translators finish them)
- When saving the database, KeePass now first checks whether
  the file on disk/server has been modified since it was loaded
  and if so, asks the user whether to synchronize with the
  changed file instead of overwriting it (i.e. multiple users
  can now use a shared database on a network drive)
- Database files are now verified (read and hashed) after
  writing them to disk (in order to prevent data loss caused by
  damaged/broken devices and/or file systems)
- Completely new auto-type/URL placeholder replacement and
  field reference engine
- On Windows Vista, some of the message boxes are now displayed
  as modern task dialogs
- KeePass is now also available as MSI package
- Accessibility: added advanced option to optimize the user
  interface for screen readers (only enable this option if
  you're really using a screen reader)
- Added standard client icons: Tux, feather, apple, generic
  Wiki icon, '$', certificate and BlackBerry
- Secure edit controls in the master key and entry dialogs now
  accept text drops
- Added ability to store notes for each group (see 'Notes' tab
  in the group editing window), these notes are shown in the
  tooltip of the group in the group tree of the main window
- Group names in the entry details view are now clickable;
  click it to jump to the group of the entry (especially useful
  for jumping from search results to the real group of an
  entry)
- Added 'GROUPPATH', 'DELAY' and 'PICKPASSWORDCHARS' special
  placeholders to auto-type sequence editing dialog
- Wildcards (*) may now also appear in the middle of auto-type
  target window filters
- For auto-type target window filters, regular expressions are
  now supported (enclose in //)
- KeePass now shows an explicit file corruption warning message
  when saving to a file fails
- Added option to prepend a special auto-type initialization
  sequence for Internet Explorer and Maxthon windows to fix a
  focus issue (option enabled by default)
- Added ability to specify a minimum length and minimum
  estimated quality that master passwords must have (see help
  file -> Features -> Composite Master Key; for admins)
- Added field reference creation dialog (accessible through
  the 'Tools' menu in the entry editing dialog)
- Field references are dereferenced when copying data to the
  clipboard
- Entry field references are now dereferenced in drag&drop
  operations
- KeePass now follows field references in indirect auto-type
  sequence paths
- Added internal field reference cache (highly improves
  performance of multiple-cyclic/recursive field references)
- Added managed system power mode change handler
- Added "Lock Workspace" tray context menu command
- Moved all export commands into a new export dialog
- Added context menu command to export the selected group only
- Added context menu command to export selected entries only
- Added support for importing Password Memory 2008 XML files
- Added support for importing Password Keeper 7.0 CSV files
- Added support for importing Passphrase Keeper 2.70 HTML files
- Added support for importing data from PassKeeper 1.2
- Added support for importing Mozilla bookmarks JSON files
  (Firefox 3 bookmark files)
- Added support for exporting to KeePass 1.x CSV files
- Added XSL transformation file to export passwords only
  (useful for generating and exporting password lists)
- Added support for writing databases to hidden files
- When passing '/?', '--help' or similar on the command line,
  KeePass will now open the command line help
- When single instance mode is enabled and a second instance is
  started with command line parameters, these parameters are
  now sent to the already open KeePass instance
- KeePass now ships with a compiled XML serializer library,
  which highly improves startup performance
- Added support for Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) paths
  (Windows) in the URL field (without cmd:// prefix)
- Added option to exclude expired entries in the 'Find' dialog
- Added option to exclude expired entries in quick searches
  (toolbar; disabled by default)
- The box to enter the name of a custom string field is now a
  combobox that suggests previously-used names in its drop-down
  list
- Added Shift, Control and Alt key modifiers to placeholder
  overview in the auto-type sequence editing dialog
- Added support for 64 byte key files which don't contain hex
  keys
- Added Ctrl-Shift-F accelerator for the 'Find in this Group'
  context menu command (group tree must have the focus)
- Added export ability to KPScript plugin
- Ctrl-Tab now also works in the password list, groups tree and
  entry details view
- Added multi-user documentation
- Plugin developers: DocumentManagerEx now has an
  ActiveDocumentSelected event
- Plugin developers: instead of manually setting the parent
  group property and adding an object to a group, use the new
  AddEntry / AddGroup methods of PwGroup (can take ownership)
- Plugins can now add new export file formats (in addition to
  import formats)
- Plugins: added static message service event

- When using the installation package and Windows Vista,
  settings are now stored in the user's profile directory
  (instead of Virtual Store; like on Windows XP and earlier)
- Accessibility: multi-line edit controls do not accept tabs
  anymore (i.e. tab jumps to the next dialog control), and
  inserting a new line doesn't require pressing Ctrl anymore
- When moving entries, KeePass doesn't switch to the target
  group anymore
- When deleting entries from the search results, the entry list
  is not cleared anymore
- Improved entry duplication method (now also works correctly
  in search results list and grouped list views)
- A more useful error message is shown when checking for
  updates fails
- Improved formats sorting in the import dialog
- The 'Limit to single instance' option is now turned on by
  default (multiple databases are opened in tabs)
- Removed 'sort up', 'sort down' and empty client icons
- Improved program termination code (common clean-up)
- Improved error message that is shown when reading/writing the
  protected user key fails
- The key file selection dialog now by default shows all files
- Plugins: improved event handlers (now using generic delegate)
- Implemented several workarounds for Mono (1.9.1+)
- Added conformance level specification for XSL transformations
  (in order to improve non-XML text exports using XSLT)
- Improved key state toggling for auto-type on 64-bit systems
- Removed several unnecessary .NET assembly dependencies
- Threading safety improvements
- Highly improved entry context menu performance when many
  entries are selected
- Entry selection performance improvements in main window
- Improved entries list view performance (state caching)
- List view group assignment improvements (to avoid splitting)
- Removed tab stops from quality progress bars
- After moving entries to a different group, the original group
  is selected instead of the target group
- Layout and text improvements in the master key creation form
- Text in the URL field is now shown in blue (if it's black in
  the standard theme)
- Improved auto-type tab in entry dialog (default sequence)
- Improved AES/Rijndael cipher engine initialization
- Improved build scripts
- Various code optimizations
- Minor other improvements
- Installer: changed AppId to allow parallel installation of
  KeePass 1.x and 2.x
- Minor other installer improvements

- The 'View' -> 'Show Columns' -> 'Last Access Time' menu
  command now works correctly
- The 'Clipboard' -> 'Paste Entries' menu command now assigns
  correct group references to pasted entries

2008-04-08: 2.05 Alpha
- Added placeholders for referencing fields of other entries
  (dereferenced when starting URLs and performing auto-type,
  see the auto-type placeholders documentation)
- Added natural sorting (when sorting the entry list, KeePass
  now performs a human-like comparison instead of a simple
  lexicographical one; this sorts entries with numbers more
  logically)
- Added support for importing RoboForm passcards (HTML)
- Added {DELAY X} auto-type command (to delay X milliseconds)
- Added {GROUPPATH} placeholder (will be replaced by the group
  hierarchy path to the entry; groups are separated by dots)
- When saving databases to removable media, KeePass now tries
  to lock and unlock the volume, which effectively flushes all
  system caches related to this drive (this prevents data loss
  caused by removing USB sticks without correctly unmounting in
  Windows first; but it only works when no other program is
  using the drive)
- Added pattern placeholder 's' to generate special characters
  of the printable 7-bit ASCII character set
- A " - Copy" suffix is now appended to duplicated entries
- After duplicating entries, the new entries are selected
- The list view item sorter now supports dates/times, i.e.
  sorting based on entry times is logically now, not
  lexicographically
- Added GUI option to focus the entry list after a successful
  quick search (toolbar; disabled by default)
- Several entry context menu commands are now only enabled if
  applicable (if the user name field of an entry is empty, the
  'Copy User Name' command is disabled, etc.)
- Added a 'Tools' button menu in the entry editing dialog
- Tools button menu: Added command to select an application for
  the URL field (will be prefixed with cmd://)
- Tools button menu: Added command to select a document for the
  URL field (will be prefixed with cmd://)
- Added password generator option to exclude/omit
  user-specified characters in generated passwords
- Added clarification paragraph in master key creation dialog
  about using the Windows user account as source (backup, ...)
- Added menu command to synchronize with a URL (database stored
  on a server)
- KeePass is now checking the network connection immediately
  when trying to close the URL dialog
- Added file closed event arguments (I/O connection info)
- Added "file created" event for plugins

- The document manager is now accessible by plugins
- Improved field to standard field mapping function
- KeePass now locks when the system is suspending (if the
  option for locking on locking Windows or switching user is
  enabled)
- All documents are now locked when the session is ended or the
  user is switched (if the option for this is enabled)
- Moving a group into one of its child groups does not make the
  group vanish anymore
- Auto-type validator now supports "{{}" and "{}}" sequences
  (i.e. auto-type can send '{' and '}' characters)
- Undo buffers of secure edit controls are now cleared
  correctly
- Disabling sorting does not clear search results anymore
- Entry editing dialog: Return and Esc work correctly now
- Column sort order indicators are now rendered using text
  instead of images (improves Windows Vista compatibility)
- Splitter positions are now saved correctly when exiting after
  minimizing the main window to tray
- Added handler code for some more unsupported image file
  format features (when importing special ICO files)
- Translation system is now about 75% complete
- KeePass is now developed using Visual Studio 2008
- Minor UI improvements
- Minor Windows installer improvements

- The CSV importer does not crash anymore when clicking Cancel
  while trying to import entries into an empty folder
- I/O connection credentials saving works correctly now
- Fixed duplicate accelerator keys in the entry context menu
- Help button in master key creation dialog now works correctly

2008-01-06: 2.04 Alpha
- Added key provider API (it now is very easy to write a plugin
  that provides additional key methods, like locking to USB
  device ID, certificates, smart cards, ... see the developers
  section in the online KeePass help center)
- Added option to show entries of sub-groups in the entry list
  of a group (see 'View' -> 'Show Entries of Sub-Groups')
- Added XML valid characters filter (to prevent XML document
  corruption by ASCII/DOS control characters)
- Added context menu command to print selected entries only
- Added option to disallow repeating characters in generated
  passwords (both character set-based and pattern-based)
- Moved security-reducing / dangerous password generator
  options to a separate 'Advanced' tab page (if you enable a
  security-reducing option, an exclamation mark (!) is
  appended to the 'Advanced' tab text)
- Added 'Get more languages' button to the translations dialog
- Added textual cue for the quick-search edit control
- The TAN wizard now shows the name of the group into which the
  TANs will be imported
- Improved random number generator (it now additionally
  collects system entropy manually and hashes it with random
  numbers provided by the system's default CSP and a counter)
- For determining the default text in the 'Override default
  sequence' edit box in the 'Edit Entry' window, KeePass now
  recursively traverses up the group tree
- Last entry list sorting mode (column, ascending / descending)
  is now remembered and restored
- First item in the auto-type entry selection window is now
  focused (allowing to immediately navigate using the keyboard)
- Text in secure edit controls is now selected when the control
  gets the focus the first time
- For TAN entries, only a command 'Copy TAN' is now shown in
  the context menu, others (that don't apply) are invisible
- Regular expressions are validated before they are matched
- KeePass now checks the auto-type string for invalid entry
  field references before sending it
- The clipboard auto-clear information message is now shown in
  the status bar instead of the tray balloon tooltip
- Matching entries are shown only once in the search results
  list, even when multiple fields match the search text
- First item of search results is selected automatically, if no
  other item is already selected (selection restoration)
- Entries with empty titles do not match all windows any more
- Improved high DPI support in entry window
- When having enabled the option to automatically lock the
  workspace after some time and saving a file fails, KeePass
  will prompt again after the specified amount of time instead
  of 1 second
- KeePass now suggests the current file name as name for new
  files (save as, save as copy)
- The password generator profile combo box can now show more
  profiles in the list without scrolling
- Improved native methods exception handling (Mono)
- Updated CHM documentation file
- TAN wizard now assigns correct indices to TANs after new line
  characters
- Copying KeePass entries to the clipboard now works together
  with the CF_CLIPBOARD_VIEWER_IGNORE clipboard format
- KeePass now uses the correct client icons image list
  immediately after adding a custom icon to the database
- Fixed 'generic error in GDI+' when trying to import a 16x16
  icon (thanks to 'stroebele' for the patch)
- File close button in the toolbar (multiple files) works now
- Fixed minor bug in provider registration of cipher pool

2007-10-11: 2.03 Alpha
- Added multi-document support (tabbed interface when multiple
  files are opened)
- KeePass 2.x now runs on Windows 98 / ME, too! (with .NET 2.0)
- Added option to permute passwords generated using a pattern
  (this allows generating passwords that follow complex rules)
- Added option to start minimized and locked
- Added support for importing Passwort.Tresor XML files
- Added support for importing SplashID CSV files
- Added '--exit-all' command line parameter; call KeePass.exe
  with this parameter to close all other open KeePass instances
  (if you do not wish to see the 'Save?' confirmation dialog,
  enable the 'Automatically save database on exit' option)
- Added support for CF_CLIPBOARD_VIEWER_IGNORE clipboard format
  (clipboard viewers/extenders compliant with this format
  ignore data copied by KeePass)
- Added support for synchronizing with multiple other databases
  (select multiple files in the file selection dialog)
- Added ability to specify custom character sets in password
  generation patterns
- Added pattern placeholder 'S' to generate printable 7-bit
  ASCII characters
- Added pattern placeholder 'b' to generate brackets
- Added support for starting very long command lines
- Entry UUID is now shown on the 'Properties' tab page
- Added Spanish language for installer
- KeePass now creates a mutex in the global name space
- Added menu command to save a copy of the current database
- The database name is now shown in the title of the 'Enter
  Password' window
- Added "Exit" command to tray icon context menu
- Pressing the 'Enter' key in the password list now opens the
  currently selected entry for editing
- Added '-GroupName:' parameter for 'AddEntry' command in the
  KPScript KeePass scripting tool (see plugins web page)
- Added URL example in 'Open URL' dialog
- Added support for plugin namespaces with dots (nested)
- Added ability to specify the characters a TAN can consist of
- '-' is now treated as TAN character by default, not as
  separator any more
- Added ability to search using a regular expression
- Notes in the entry list are now CR/LF-filtered
- Added {PICKPASSWORDCHARS} placeholder, KeePass will show a
  dialog which allows you to pick certain characters
- The password generator dialog is now shown in the Windows
  taskbar if the main window is minimized to tray
- Caps lock is now disabled before auto-typing
- Improved installer (added start menu link to the CHM help
  file, mutex checking at uninstallation, version information
  block, ...)
- Plugin architecture: added cancellable default entry action
  event handler
- Added support for subitem infotips in various list controls
- Group name is now shown in the 'Find' dialog (if not root)
- Pressing the 'Insert' key in the password list now opens the
  'Add Entry' dialog
- Last search settings are now remembered (except search text)
- The column order in the main window is now remembered
- Pressing F2 in the groups tree now initiates editing the name
  of the currently selected group
- Pressing F2 in the password list now opens the editing dialog
- The 'About' dialog is now automatically closed when clicking
  an hyperlink
- Entries generated by 'Tools' - 'Password Generator' are now
  highlighted in the main window (visible and selected)
- Extended auto-close functionality to some more dialogs
- Protected user key is now stored in the application data
  directory instead of the registry (when upgrading from 2.02,
  first change the master key so it doesn't use the user
  account credentials option!)
- Improved configuration file format (now using XML
  serialization, allowing serialization of complex structures)
- Improved configuration saving/loading (avoid file system
  virtualization on Windows Vista when using the installer,
  improved out of the box support for installation by admin /
  usage by user, better limited user account handling, ...)
- Improved password generator profile management (UI)
- Improved password generator character set definition
- Custom icons can be deleted from the database now
- Changed password pattern placeholders to support ANSI
- Removed plugin projects from core distribution (plugin source
  codes will be available separately, like in 1.x)
- Window position and size is saved now when exiting KeePass
  while minimized
- Splitter positions are restored correctly now when the main
  window is maximized
- Password list refreshes now restore the previous view
  (including selected and focused items, ...)
- Improved session ending handler
- Improved help menu
- Added more JPEG extensions in the icon dialog (JFIF/JFI/JIF)
- Navigation through the group tree using the keyboard is now
  possible (entries list is updated)
- Options dialog now remembers the last opened tab page
- Synchronization: deletion information is merged correctly now
- Improved importing status dialog
- Improved search results presentation
- Title field is now the first control in the focus cycle of
  the entry dialog
- The auto-type entry selection dialog now also shows custom /
  imported icons
- The quick-find box now has the focus after opening a database
- The main window title now shows 'File - KeePass Password
  Safe' instead of 'KeePass Password Safe [File]'; improved
  tooltip text for tray icon
- The 'Save Attachments' context menu command is disabled now
  if the currently selected entry doesn't have any attachments
- A more useful error message is shown when trying to import an
  unsupported image format
- Replaced 'Search All Fields' by an additional 'Other' option
- Expired/used TAN entries are not shown in the expired entries
  dialog any more
- UI now mostly follows the Windows Vista UI text guidelines
- Improved UI behavior in options dialog
- Improved text in password generator preview window
- After activating a language, the restart dialog is only shown
  if the selected language is different from the current one
- Online help browser is now started in a separate thread
- Value field in 'Edit String' window now accepts 'Return' key
- The name prompt in the 'Edit String' window now initially
  shows a prompt instead of an invalid field name warning
- Expired entries are now also shown when unlocking the
  database
- Expired entries are not shown any more in the auto-type entry
  selection dialog
- Various dialogs: Return and Esc work correctly now
- Improved key handling in password list
- Updated SharpZipLib component in KeePassLibSD
- Updated CHM documentation file
- Deleting custom string fields of entries works correctly now
- Fixed a small bug in the password list view restoration
  routines (the item above the previous top one was visible)
- KeePass doesn't prevent Windows from shutting down any more
  when the 'Close button minimizes window' option is enabled
- The "Application Policy Help" link in the options dialog
  works now
- KeePass doesn't crash any more when viewing an history entry
  that has a custom/imported icon
- Icon in group editing dialog is now initialized correctly
- Last TAN is not ignored any more by the TAN wizard
- Other minor features and bugfixes

2007-04-11: 2.02 Alpha
- Added "Two-Channel Auto-Type Obfuscation" feature, which
  makes auto-type resistant against keyloggers; this is an opt-
  in feature, see the documentation
- Added KDBX data integrity verification (partial content
  hashes); note: this is a breaking change to the KDBX format
- Added internal data viewer to display attachments (text
  files, images, and web documents); see the new 'View' button
  in the 'Edit Entry' window and the new dynamic entry context
  menu popup 'Show In Internal Viewer'
- External images can now be imported and used as entry icons
- Added KeePassLibC and KeePassNtv 64-bit compatibility
- Added Spamex.com import support
- Added KeePass CSV 1.x import support
- When adding a group, users are immediately prompted for a
  name (like Windows Explorer does when creating new folders)
- Added prompts for various text boxes
- The installer's version is now set to the KeePass version
- The key prompt dialog now shows an 'Exit' button when
  unlocking a database
- Added F1 menu shortcut for opening the help file/page
- URL override is now displayed in the entry view
- Added ability to check if the composite key is valid
  immdiately after starting to decrypt the file
- Added ability to move groups on the same level (up / down),
  use either the context menu or the Alt+... shortcuts
- The database isn't marked as modified any more when closing
  the 'Edit Entry' dialog with OK but without modifying
  anything
- Added version information for native transformations library
- Local file name isn't displayed any more in URL dialog
- Improved path clipping (tray text, ...)
- Improved data field retrieval in SPM 2007 import module
- Improved attachments display/handling in 'Edit Entry' dialog
- Improved entry context menu (added some keyboard shortcut
  indicators, updated icons, ...)
- Improved performance of secure password edit controls
- Clarified auto-type documentation
- Installer uses best compression now
- Improved auto-type state handling
- In-memory protected custom strings are hidden by asterisks
  in the entry details window now
- Improved entropy collection dialog
- Updated import/export documentation
- Added delete shortcut key for deleting groups
- Instead of showing the number of attachments in the entry
  view, the actual attachment names are shown now
- Improved asterisks hiding behavior in entry view
- New entries now by default inherit the icon of their parent
  groups, except if it's a folder-like icon
- Updated AES code in native library
- Improved native library detection and configuration
- Improved entry/group dragging behavior (window updates, ...)
- A more useful error message is shown when you try to export
  to a KDB3 file without having KeePassLibC installed
- Configuration class supports DLL assemblies
- KeePass doesn't create an empty directory in the application
  data path any more, if the global config file is writable
- Clipboard isn't cleared any more at exit if it doesn't
  contain data copied by KeePass
- Empty auto-type sequences in custom window-sequence pairs now
  map to the inherited ones or default overrides, if specified
- Cleaned up notify tray resources
- Improved help menu
- A *lot* code quality improvements
- ShInstUtil doesn't crash any more when called without any
  parameter
- Auto-type now sends modifier keys (+ for Shift, % for Alt,
  ...) and character groups correctly
- Fixed alpha transparency multi-shadow bug in groups list
- Overwrite confirmation now isn't displayed twice any more
  when saving an attachment from the 'Edit Entry' window
- User interface state is updated after 'Select All' command
- Auto-Type warnings are now shown correctly
- Fixed auto-type definition in sample entry (when creating a
  new database)
- The global auto-type hot key now also works when KeePass is
  locked and minimized to tray
- Fixed bug in initialization of Random class (KeePass could
  have crashed 1 time in 2^32 starts)

2007-03-23: 2.01 Alpha
- Improved auto-type engine (releases and restores modifier
  keys, improved focusing, etc.)
- Implemented update-checking functionality
- Added KPScript plugin (see source code package) for scripting
  (details about it can be found in the online help center)
- Added Whisper 32 1.16 import support
- Added Steganos Password Manager 2007 import support
- Search results now show the full path of the container group
- Entry windows (main password list, auto-type entry selection
  dialog, etc.) now show item tooltips when hovering over them
- Added window box drop-down hint in the auto-type item dialog
- Database maintenance history days setting is now remembered
- Improved main window update after importing a file
- Improved command line handling
- If opening/starting external files fails, helpful messages
  are displayed now
- Completely new exception handling mechanism in the Kdb4File
  class (allows to show more detailed messages)
- New message service class (KeePassLib.Utility.MessageService)
- Added option to disable remembering the password hiding
  setting in the 'Edit Entry' window
- Added menu shortcuts for opening the current entry URL
  (Ctrl+U) and performing current entry auto-type (Ctrl+V)
- Changed file extension to KDBX
- Password generation profiles are now saved when the dialog is
  closed with 'Close'/'Cancel'
- Entry URL overrides now precede the global URL override
- Standard password generation profiles are now included in the
  executable file
- Restructured plugin architecture, it's much clearer now
  (abstract base class, assembly-internal manager class, ...)
- Only non-empty strings are now displayed in the entry view
- Current working directory is set to the KeePass application
  directory before executing external files/URLs
- Changed fields shown in the auto-type entry selection dialog:
  title, user name and URL are displayed instead of title, user
  name and password
- Clarified clipboard commands in context menus
- Help buttons now open the correct topics in the CHM
- Fixed name in the installer script
- Workspace is not locked any more if a window is open (this
  prevents data loss)
- The 'Find' toolbar button works now
- The OK button in the Import dialog is now enabled when you
  manually enter a path into the file text box
- Fixed entry list focus bug
- Fixed menu focus bug
- The 'Copy Custom String' menu item doesn't disappear any more
- Fixed enabled/disabled state of auto-type menu command

2007-03-17: 2.00 Alpha
- Strings containing quotes are now passed correctly over the
  command-line
- Created small help file with links to online resources
- Rewrote cipher engines pool
- Restructured KeePassLib
- Added dialog for browser selection
- Added option to disable searching for key files on removable
  media
- Improved KDB3 support (especially added support for empty
  times as created by the KeePass Toolbar for example)
- Added confirmations for deleting entries and groups
- Fixed a lot of bugs and inconsistencies; added features
- Fixed a bug in the 'Start KeePass at Windows startup'
  registration method
- Added custom split container control to avoid focus problems
- Clipboard is only cleared if it contains KeePass data
- New system for configuration defaults
- A LOT of other features, bugfixes, ...

... (a lot of versions here) ...

2006-10-07: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 29
- Various small additions and bugfixes

2006-10-06: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 28
- Implemented entry data drag-n-drop for main entry list
- Implemented URL overriding
- Added {} repeat operator in password generator
- Added database maintenance dialog (deleting history entries)
- Custom entry strings are now shown in the entry preview
- Added alternative window layout: side by side
- A lot of other features and bugfixes

... (some versions here) ...

2006-09-17: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 25
- Fixed exception that occurred when WTS notifications are
  unavailable

2006-09-16: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 24
- Implemented quality progress bars (gradient bars)
- Added special key codes into placeholder insertion field in
  the 'Edit AutoType' dialog
- Currently opened windows are listed in the 'Edit AutoType'
  dialog
- Entries can be copied/pasted to/from Windows clipboard
- Added {APPDIR}, {DOCDIR} and {GROUP} codes
- Foreground and background colors can be assigned to entries
- Expired entries are displayed using a striked-out font
- Password generator supports profiles now
- Password generator supports patterns now
- VariousImport: Added support for Password Exporter XML files
- A _lot_ of other features and bugfixes

2006-09-07: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 23
- Internal release

2006-09-07: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 22
- Improved password quality estimation
- Implemented secure edit controls (in key creation dialog, key
  prompt dialog and entry editing dialog)

2006-09-05: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 21
- Removed BZip2 compression
- Added font selection for main window lists
- Added file association creation/removal buttons in the
  options dialog
- Installer supports associating KDB files with KeePass
- Added option to run KeePass at Windows startup (for current
  user; see Options dialog, Integration page)
- Added default tray action (sending/restoring to/from tray)
- Added single-click option for default tray action
- Added option to automatically open last used database on
  KeePass startup (see Options dialog, Advanced page)
- Added option to automatically save the current database on
  exit and workspace locking (Options dialog, Advanced page)
- Implemented system-wide KeePass application messages
- Added 'Limit to single instance' option
- Added option to check for update at KeePass startup
- Added options to show expired entries and entries that will
  expire soon after opening a database
- Added option to generate random passwords for new entries
- Links in the entry view are clickable now
- Links in the notes field of the entry dialog are clickable
  now
- Fixed context menu auto-type command (inheriting defaults)
- Improved entry list state updating performance
- Classic databases are listed in the main MRU list, prefixed
  with '[Classic]'
- Other features and bugfixes

2006-09-03: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 20
- First testing release

... (a lot of versions here) ...

2006-03-21: 2.00 Pre-Alpha 0
- Project started
