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What's New!

Changes through 4.3.5

  • 4.3.5r2 contains fixes for German iPhone only. (Build 4889)
  • PasswordWallet is now localized to German! (Provided by Ulf Dunkel at http://www.dsd.net.)
  • Added document title to the titlebar of the open-password dialog.
  • Fixed issues when opening more than one wallet document simultaneously.
  • Auto-typing now works if the URL is a file URL and all you want to do with it is auto-type.
  • Now removing all modifier characters when copying username or password to the clipboard. (Before we were removing only trailing modifiers.)
  • Added some pretty cool runtime error reporting to the console in case of errors.

Changes through 4.3.4

  • Added code so PasswordWindows can no longer be harvested by background utilities using new core graphics windowing interfaces.
  • Fixed issue that could cause a crash when dismissing the editor dialog on a few systems.
  • When reading old PasswordWallet 3 files, we're now using the machine's character sets for localization instead of assuming Mac OS Roman.
  • PasswordWallet is now a little more forgiving about windows off the edge of the screen when restoring the window position.
  • No longer confusing window layering when auto-tying panel closes.
  • Lots of iPhone changes... (See PasswordWallet for iPhone What's New.)

Changes through 4.3.3

  • PasswordWallet is now localized to Japanese! (Provided by Chris Li at http://www.bridge1.com.)
  • PasswordWallet is now localized to French! (Provided by Philippe Bonnaure at http://www.macvf.com.)
  • Fixed category of automator action under Leopard so it appears in the "Category:Utilities" section of the library.
  • Fixed issue with InternetConfig queries and their conversion to and from unicode strings when booted in Japanese only.
  • Fixed Japanese input in the notes field of the Entry Editor.
  • Clarified instructions for CSV and Text import.
  • Now explicitly checking write permission on files so users will see a warning when their document is first opened instead of when it's saved. Status area at bottom of wallet will now display "Read Only" in bright white on red letters.
  • Now stripping leading and trailing white-space from URLs before opening them.
  • Made detection and repair of Leopard Custom Icon bug a little faster. (This bug prevents saving files from most Cocoa apps.)
  • Purchase or Register from the Application menu now brings up "PasswordWallet" by default.
  • [Palm Conduit] Fixed reporting for documents that are not found during synchronization.

Changes through 4.3.2

  • Now express-opening PasswordWallet documents that are opened from other PasswordWallet documents. You can now create a tree of PasswordWallet documents that all reference each other.
  • Fixed one more case where NSColorPanel would abuse the window background color.
  • When picking linked fields for username or password, the list of entries is now sorted correctly.
  • Reworked code a little to avoid mysteriously changing background colors on Leopard's NSColorPanel.
  • Field substitutions may now be surrounded by other text or other substitutions.
  • Worked around Leopard bug where documents could not be saved if they had a stale custom icon bit. (Reproducible with TextEdit.app too.)

Changes through 4.3.1

  • Fixed issue with Categories menu not having command key equivalents 1, 2, 3 or 4 if the Background Color Picker was left on the "slider" pane the last time PasswordWallet was quit.
  • Fixed color saving bug when perfect white was selected as the background color.

Changes through 4.3

  • Lots of iPhone changes... (See PasswordWallet for iPhone What's New.)
  • Added Synchronize Files automator action. Just place PasswordWallet in your Applications folder, and Automator will find it. Theoretically.
  • Added CSV import for Excel-style CSV files.
  • Added shift-tab auto-typing substitution character. This has the effect of moving the insertion point to the previous field on most forms. The special character is available from the popup menu to the right of the username and password fields.
  • The "Confirm" checked state in the Wallet Editor is now saved between runs of PasswordWallet.
  • Added negative relative font sizes to the Entry List preferences.
  • An open Color Picker palette correctly tracks documents as they open, activate and close.
  • Fixed lack of warning with "Synchronize with file" if file wasn't actually saved.
  • Better color conversions from non-RGB selections. Removed some tabs from color picker too.
  • Fixed issue where bookmarks.plist was backed up a little too aggressively. Backups now rotate.
  • Fixed issue on Leopard where conduit would not communicate properly with PasswordWallet if it was running.
  • Fixed issue on Leopard where right and left arrows wouldn't expand/collapse rows if a modifier key was down.
  • Fixed issue on Leopard where color palette would be overly aggressive when clicking in password fields where digit highlighting was turned on.
  • Fixed issue on Leopard with authenticated installer not installing on some systems.

Changes through 4.2

  • Completely redesigned Export to iPhone interface. (See PasswordWallet for iPhone What's New.)
  • Display will now revert to Lucida Grande if Helvetica cannot be found.
  • Hold down the shift-key while selecting categories to select more than one at a time.
  • PasswordWallet is now shutting down the update check process when quit so users can trash when they're upgrading to a newer version.

Changes through 4.1

  • Added export to iPhone! (sold separately as iPhone PasswordWallet.)
  • Added export to stand-alone web page! (sold separately as iPhone PasswordWallet.)
  • Auto-typing is now Leopard Compatible!
  • With "Quit after last window closed" turned on, a new blank document will be created if password fails when opening the default document.
  • Improved Window Background color on systems prior to 10.5.
  • Reorganized preferences so users can tell which settings will modify their file and trigger a save dialog when closing.
  • Fixed issue where Auto-typing slowness would not be reset correctly for new auto-typings.
  • Added contextual menu items with all sorts of goodies to the entry list.
  • Added support for upper and lower case password generation elements, including characters, words and phonetic syllables.
  • Fixed problem with random passwords that had > 100 words in them. (Who are these people?)
  • Drag and Drop will now accept local files. Local documents can be opened with the default editor for the document, or an alternate editor. Just use default browser to open the item the way the Finder opens it. This is useful for local files that are password protected, like QuickBooks documents.
  • Fixed Drag and Drop in the Editor window to avoid accidental drops from inside the same window.
  • Fixed problem where the master password wouldn't be found in the Mac OS X Keychain if the file had a long file name.
  • Holding down the option-key while opening a document will position the document to the default location and size on screen.
  • Default File will now be set automatically set to the file saved if no default file has been set previously.
  • Added "Find Duplicates" to the "Edit" -> "Find" sub-menu. Hold down the option-key to during this operation to log differences to the console.
  • Added "Font Size" preference to increase the font size of the main list window.
  • If Font Size is anything larger than default, the notes field switches to the system font size from the small system font size.
  • The "checked state" of the Confirm checkbox is now saved between invocations of the Password Editor window.
  • If the name of a target record changes, the usernames and passwords of the referencing record are now updated.
  • PasswordWallet will no longer hog the CPU while it's asking you for a master password (or other password dialogs).
  • File selection paths are now colored red if they are empty. This includes default file and file selection for Palm OS Sync.
  • Added recommendation to use MissingSync for users running Palm HotSync Manager on Intel platforms.
  • Using URL's scheme with InternetConfig to find helper application more reliably.
  • Hold down the option-key when deleting records to bypass the warning delete dialog.
  • [CONDUIT] The "Do Nothing" sync setting no longer requires that a file be defined.

Changes through 4.0.4

  • Now trying even harder to load web pages with the default browser if the Launch Services database has become corrupted.
  • Fixed the slow typing directive to reset properly at the beginning of auto-typing.
  • Fixed problem with saving files when selecting patterned or textured named colors.
  • Updated CSS for the help files.

Changes through 4.0.3

  • Fixed problem where default browser would not be used correctly on some systems. Sorry about that.

Changes through 4.0.2 (And Conduit 4.0.2)

  • Added warning for corrupt or incomplete Keyboard Layouts when auto-typing.
  • Fixed problem where the PasswordWallet editor window wouldn't activate correctly after the auto-typing palette was dismissed.
  • Added a preference to edit passwords in separate windows. (Reversible if the option-key is down.)
  • Added "Next category" and "Previous category" menu items (and keyboard shortcuts) to the "Set Category" menu. This works in editor windows too.
  • Added "Next category" and "Previous category" menu items (and keyboard shortcuts) to the "Show Category" to the Category menu.
  • When filtering with the Find Box, the first item found will be selected if there were no other items retained from the previous selection. This will assist with keyboard navigation.
  • Tooltips on File Chooser views no longer show "%20" characters.
  • When pasting or duplicating, first selected resulting row will be scrolled in to view automatically.
  • Added better error messages when the type/creator code on the file is wrong.
  • Check for Update, if executed manually, will try harder to not hide its results behind other windows.
  • Fixed misleading messages in all "Choose File..." dialogs, especially those involved with Synchronization.
  • Copying modification and last-accessed dates when performing a Duplicate and a Copy-Paste.
  • Fixed problems where the "Help" menu would open the help in BBEdit. And fixed problems where URLs with a custom browser wouldn't always be loaded correctly.
  • Fixed bug in Category menu where releasing the mouse on a parent item would actually do something when it should do nothing.
  • [Conduit] Fixed issue where conduit settings wouldn't always be updated in conduit manager window. (HotSync and MissingSync.)

Changes through 4.0.1 (And Conduit 4.0.1)

  • Fixed an issue where PasswordWallet would always attempt to store the master password in the Mac OS X keychain. If you don't want your password stored in the Mac OS X keychain, change your password and un-check the keychain box. Then save your file.
  • Auto-typing delays (not pause-resumes) are now working differently. Each delay character will toggle the delay state of auto-typing. The default is fast typing. If the character is delayed, auto-typing will be slowed through completion, or until the next delay character makes it fast again.
  • Added logic to make sure we're reading a PW4 file when the suffix or type/creator says it's a PW4 file.
  • Added warning in conduit installer for "Macintosh overwrites Handheld" setting.
  • Fixed problem where browser setting in some records was not imported from v3 properly on Intel. PW4 now handles all custom browser records correctly.
  • PasswordWallet will no longer quit while syncing a file even if the "Quit after last window closed" preference is on.
  • Added tool-tip to file selectors so long paths can be viewed more easily.
  • Fixed problem where "Last Access Date" change would trigger a record duplication during a sync.
  • Within the AutoTyping special character menus, the actual special character glyph was added for reference.
  • [Conduit] Fixed issues with PowerPC Conduit in HotSync Manager.
  • [Conduit & App] Fixed issues with all "Reveal in Finder" buttons.

Changes through 4.0.0 (And Conduit 4.0.0)

  • PasswordWallet 4.0 and its Palm OS conduit are completely rewritten from the ground-up with Cocoa. Both the application and conduit are Universal and run natively on Intel and PowerPC Macintoshes. We've kept the same tight and unobtrusive appearance and added some incredible new features to help you get your work done faster, including:
  • A live-filtering seach box.
  • File-to-file synchronization.
  • Category filtering directly from the toolbar.
  • Auto-typing now works for sites where username and password are on separate pages.
  • Auto-typing also now works for sites that require more than one password.
  • Semi-transparent auto-typing palette.
  • Cocoa-licious transparency, sheets and animations.
  • Plain-text file export for iPod. (This feature should only be used with iPods with locking capability!)
  • A comprehensive user interface for text file import, complete with preview.
  • The ability to drag URLs directly from your browser to your PW4 document to quickly add a new entry.
  • Sort by last access date, and reverse sort, to see most recently visited entries at the top of your Wallet.
  • View passwords in extra large font to view them from across a room or laboratory with multiple computers.
  • Open multiple entries at a time in multiple windows.
  • Popup menus to change username and password field titles.
  • A new Window menu.
  • A new recent files menu.
  • Digits in passwords are now colored red everywhere.
  • Added automatic update notification. (Which can be turned off in preferences.)
  • All new icons, with tool-tips.
  • Auto-typing and URL functions available from the password editor window.
  • Improved printing for only visible or selected records.
  • Automatic conduit and Palm version installer.
  • Spell check in notes.
  • Slow down auto-typing for poorly behaved web sites.
  • New Cocoa based preferences window, complete with animation.

Changes through 3.1.3 (And Conduit 3.0.6)

  • No changes to application.
  • [Conduit 3.0.6] Fixed possible crash in conduit settings dialog that was introduced in 3.0.5.

Changes through 3.1.2 (And Conduit 3.0.5)

  • When opening a document, if the titlebar of the saved window position will not be visible (perhaps because monitor arrangement changed), the window will be moved to the default window position.
  • [Conduit 3.0.5] Conduit settings dialogs are now compatible with Missing Sync.

Changes through 3.1.1 (And Conduit 3.0.4)

  • Documents just plain work better with DOS and NFS formatted disks.
  • Made tokens popup in Format Preferences a little less annoying.
  • Fixed problem where entry would not be selected after an edit if (1) the entry in question was edited with the Enter or Return keys AND (2) a name change perturbed the sort order.
  • Fixed problem with temporary files not going away automatically on non-HFS disks.
  • [Conduit] Fixed same problem with temporaries on non-HFS disks.

Changes through 3.1 (And Conduit 3.0.3)

  • Password generation tokens are now available in a popup menu.
  • Added "repeaters" and "phonetic" tokens to Password Generation template.
  • Added "Phonetic Random" password generation that creates random but "pronounceable" passwords.
  • When generating passwords, PasswordWallet can now show a list of candidates to choose from.
  • Added "Default Browser" setting to each record so users can, say, select Safari for one record and FireFox for another.
  • When clicking in the list of entries without the command-key or shift-key down, only one cell will be selected after the click.
  • Creating a new entry now deselects all other entries.
  • Moved category popup in the entry editing window.
  • Defaulted "3D Row Colors" preference to "On" for new users.
  • File extensions for PasswordWallet documents now work. Append ".passwordWallet3" to your documents if they are saved on a "flat" file system like NFS or SMB share points.
  • File extensions now work in Open file dialogs as well.
  • Larger credits box in the about box for all those amazing testers. Thanks!!
  • [Conduit] File extensions now work when selecting files in the conduit.
  • [Conduit] Fixed problem with choose file dialog in Conduit under Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4).

Changes through 3.0.6

  • Added code so snoopers can't monitor PasswordWallet's auto-typing keystrokes. (10.3 or newer only.)
  • Added code so snoopers can't monitor you typing information into any dialog. (10.3 or newer only.)
  • Added "Shift" as a key to start auto-typing. "Control" conflicted with the Go To URL keystroke. (Sorry about that.) The "Option" key still works fine as always.

Changes through 3.0.5

  • If "Quit after last window closed" is enabled in the preferences, PasswordWallet will quit if no windows are open after unsuccessfully opening a document.
  • The Ask Password dialog will Cancel automatically after 15 minutes of idle time.
  • When opening a document, PasswordWallet will ask for your master password 3 times before closing.
  • If a username and/or password is of the format [:OtherEntryTitle:], the username and/or password will be taken from the entry whose title is OtherEntryTitle. (Any title can be between the "[:" and ":]" of course.) Substitutions are made when copying the username or password to the clipboard, and auto-typing.
  • In edit dialog: Command-g now generates a new password.
  • In edit dialog: Command-b now toggles bullets in password on and off.
  • Added better error detection for malformed keyboard layouts.
  • If the last character of Username or Password is a "•" or a "¶", then it will not be copied to the clipboard. It will be auto-typed, though.
  • The "Control" key will now initiate auto-typing, like the "Option" key. This was added for compatibility with Windows Emulators that use the "Option" key for "ALT".
  • Fixed small problem in edit dialog after canceling a "new category" selection.
  • Sorting of categories is now ignores case so a1, A2, a3 will sort correctly.
  • Reduced some of the CPU usage at idle time.
  • Printing no longer wastes paper and just plain works better.
  • Added facilities to enable sales for International versions.

Changes through 3.0.4 (And Conduit 3.0.2)

  • Fixed bug where auto-typing would stall under really bizarre circumstances.
  • If an existing password ends in a special tab or return character, this character is preserved when generating a new password. Special characters include option-7 and option-8 for return and tab, respectively.
  • Clarified 2.x upgrade notice so users are instructed to save their 3.x file after it opens.
  • Fixed minor issue with Category Menu command-key equivalents.
  • [Conduit] Removed a status message from the pure Classic conduit for HotSync 2.6.3 to bypass the "View Log" dialog.
  • [Conduit] Fixed another problem with the conduit's select file dialog in Palm Desktop 2.6.3.

Changes through 3.0.3

  • Classic: Fixed problem where users couldn't select default file in preferences or in conduit settings.
  • Classic: Fixed Password Format preferences pane.
  • Classic: If your password isn't being saved in the Keychain, try changing your wallet password. This will re-push your password into Keychain.
  • Classic: Drastically reduced memory requirements.
  • Classic: Fixed Classic Finder icons for Version 3 documents. (Users should rebuild their desktop files.)
  • Twiddled Theme Font drawing for all OS X users.
  • Fixed problem with "Rename Category" menu items that contained a '/' character.
  • Auto-typing instructions now appear when the small keyboard is pushed in the row (like when the globe is clicked).
  • [Conduit] Fixed problem with Choose File dialog under Classic.
  • [Conduit] Now detecting category changes if syncing between more than one computer **.

    ** Users who sync to more than one computer should select conduit options for "Macintosh overwrites Handheld" or "Handheld overwrites Macintosh" to avoid problems with synchronization. Only single computer/handheld synchronization is supported at this time.

Changes through 3.0.2

  • Fixed problem with not unselecting all other cells when the globe (or other icon) is clicked.

Changes through 3.0.1

  • Bumped up the Classic memory allocation.
  • Fixed problem with category menu item names that include escape characters.
  • Password generation no longer thinks there's a 255 character limit in the notes.

Changes through 3.0 (And Mac-Palm conduit 3.0)

  • Over 50 new features between the Mac, Palm and Conduit!
  • Added multiple selection to the password list. Delete, duplicate, copy, paste and others all work with multiple selection.
  • Added "Select All Found" to find dialog.
  • Added "Category" menu complete with "Show All", "Show Uncategorized" and other category related features.
  • New icons. (Log out/in or duplicate documents to see.)
  • Fixed bug where OS X Finder would use the old OS 9 icon for the PasswordWallet™ application and documents.
  • Removed 255 character limit on notes. New limit is 32,000 characters on both the Mac and the Palm.
  • 3.x now uses a new binary file format that's impervious to corruption from unix tools like mv and cp.
  • 3.x files open and save much faster than the old 2.x file format.
  • Added preference for "Beep when auto-typing completed" for those programs that don't provide any visual feedback when a password is typed. (Like Terminal.App.)
  • Added preference to hide and show individual shortcut buttons.
  • Added a "Perform auto-type" shortcut button to each entry in the Wallet window. This option doesn't copy anything to the clipboard.
  • Added preference to use Theme text in the Wallet window.
  • Preferences Window now automatically snaps back to the panel the user was last viewing when the preferences were closed.
  • Added "Appearance" panel with many options to the Preferences.
  • Wallet windows now have a document proxy icon in their titlebars. Command-click it to see where your wallet file is saved.
  • Added "Sort by Category" to "Sort" menu.
  • Better, faster sorting. Nested sorts are correct too.
  • Windows may now be resized very wide.
  • Editor window now has a size box in the lower right corner.
  • Reorganized command-key shortcuts in all menus.
  • Command keys for categories 1-9 are created automatically.
  • Added a categories menu to the Entry Editor.
  • Keychain now shows proper "service" name if your Wallet's password is saved in the Mac OS Keychain.
  • Fixed bug with export/import of multi-line fields.
  • Changed Preferences keyboard-shortcut to command-comma (Apple recommended).
  • The notes field in the editor now has a nice border around it when it is being edited.
  • Now trying harder to find the default browser from the system for URLs that don't begin with "http://".
  • Changed file format to support Hint Bytes.
  • Added option to substitute "¶" (option-7) for carriage returns.
  • Added "Save hints for faster searching on Palm" preference to the "Wallet" menu. Read more about this in the Palm PasswordWallet documentation.
  • Added the ability to set or override the category of each record when importing.
  • Duplicating original file before converting, and informing the user of this.
  • Rename a category to empty sets resulting categories to "None".
  • [Conduit] Added "Handheld overwrites Macintosh".
  • [Conduit] Added "Macintosh overwrites Handheld".
  • [Conduit] Faster syncing.
  • [Conduit] Uses much (much much) less memory.
  • [Conduit] Added "Reveal" button in the Conduit Settings Panel to reveal the selected file in the Finder.
  • [Conduit] Improved error messages.