Updated to v2.57.1

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 occured

• 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

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