KeePassXC 2.7.1 Released

79 points by louib 4 years ago | 17 comments

snvzz 4 years ago |

As much as I like/use KeePassXC, I don't think we need a post for every minor release.

autoexec 4 years ago | |

I'm personally grateful for the periodic reminders. Keeping an eye on what's changed in all the applications I use is a lot of work, and I can let it slide when things get busy. I have specific communities for some things like browsers to alert me to some changes in the meantime, but for something like a password manager which probably doesn't have a thriving online community around it it's nice to know folks here are keeping an eye out for changes and updates.

seanw444 4 years ago | |

Same goes for all software. Unless there's a significant change or upgrade in the release, why post? The Emacs post today made sense, because it introduced native compilation. That's a huge speed increase. Not merely bug fixes.

bscphil 4 years ago | | |

> why post

Because it gets upvoted to the sky every time, for reasons unclear to most of us. Maybe there's an "I've heard of that - upvote" effect.

AdmiralAsshat 4 years ago |

Switching from KeePass to KeePassXC for work was one of the best decisions I've made in awhile.The modern GUI is cleaner, stuff is easier to find, and the browser integration extension is much better. I have yet to find any downsides.

williamjackson 4 years ago | |

Every time KeePassXC comes up, I think about when I tried to switch from KeePass in 2020 and wrote myself the following notes:

    * Does not have global hotkey to show window
    * Does not have {PICKFIELD} auto-type placeholder

I hope someone can tell me I am wrong and somehow overlooked these features.

AdmiralAsshat 4 years ago | | |

I guess I never felt the need for a global hotkey to show window. 90% of my password autofill is through the browser extension, and if you click the KeePassXC icon next to a field and the database is not open, KeePassXC itself will pop to the forefront to allow you to re-authenticate.

tkuraku 4 years ago |

Interesting that they are changing the official distribution method from snap to flatpak. I've had much better experience with flatpak than snaps.

seanw444 4 years ago | |

I don't think I've personally heard someone praise Snap over Flatpak.

brightball 4 years ago | |

Also interesting because PopOS has flatpak built directly into the software center. No idea how common that is.

tkuraku 4 years ago | | |

Redhat family of distros are the same.

jkhsjdhjs 4 years ago | |

Why is it interesting then? Or did you have a better experience with snaps?

tkuraku 4 years ago | | |

Just happy that they made the switch. Not interesting in the sense that it is unexpected.

JohnTHaller 4 years ago |

One additional change that came after the release of 2.7.0 and is continued in 2.7.1, there are now builds that support legacy Windows 64-bit (7/8/8.1) as the main builds are only for Window 10/11 64-bit starting with 2.7.0. The last version to support 32-bit Windows is 2.6.6 and as that's no longer updated, it would be better to switch to mainline KeePass on 32-bit Windows.