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Passware Kit Standard Changelog

What's new in Passware Kit Standard 2024.2.0

Apr 4, 2024
  • New Features:
  • Windows password reset: extended RAID drivers support [SUP-1807]
  • Improved GPU-accelerated credential recovery for older versions of Mozilla
  • New QR-codes and short links simplifying the workflow in air-gapped environments
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed problem with Passware Kit not starting due to corrupted config file [SUP-1782]
  • Resolved the “…image is likely corrupted"…” error for ISO files in Windows Key
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes [SUP-1790] [SUP-1793]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2024.1.1 (Feb 6, 2024)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved handling of external links when Internet connection is not available
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed incorrect display of CPU load percentage for cases with low utilization level
  • Other bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2023.4.0 (Oct 19, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • Master password recovery for the latest Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
  • Support for macOS 14 Sonoma [SUP-1755]
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with the Windows Key Demo password reset
  • Stability fixes for Encryption Analyzer
  • Resolved occasional crashes on macOS Mojave [SUP-1749]
  • UI bugfixes and improvements [SUP-1713]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2023.3.1 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved “Known passwords/part” attack UI
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed issue with saving custom dictionaries after restart
  • Minor fixes for scanning and processing encrypted files
  • Resolved issues with creating an unprotected copy for MS Excel files larger than 1 GB [SUP-1726]
  • Fixed issues with launching Passware Kit Forensic from Encryption Analyzer
  • Minor UI bugfixes [SUP-1713]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2023.3.0 (Jul 11, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • Added a warning for Known Password(s)/Part attack on passwords longer than 128 characters being skipped
  • Attack settings and UI navigation: quality of life improvements
  • UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with incorrect password recovery for some ZIP files [SUP-1729]
  • Fixed support for some ZIP 5.x-6.x files [SUP-1725]
  • Stability and UI fixes [SUP-1713] [SUP-1728] [SUP-1732] [SUP-1691]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2023.2.0 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • New Features:
  • Instant password recovery for Opera GX and Crypto browsers
  • Support for password recovery for VBA projects in Passware Kit Basic
  • Automatic saving of Dictionary Manager settings
  • New dictionary: Ukrainian
  • Bugfixes:
  • Revised keyboard shortcuts in the Attack Settings editor for improved usability
  • UI improvements and stability fixes [SUP-1671]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2023.1.1 (Feb 2, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • UI minor improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved navigation issues after stopping the password recovery process
  • UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2023.1.0 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Simplified setup of decryption for multiple disk images
  • Password recovery for AxCrypt v.2
  • Instant decryption of the latest VeraCrypt versions via memory analysis
  • Updated Rainbow Tables for Office to increase the instant decryption success rate for MS Excel and Word files to 99.8%
  • Ability to establish a GPU utilization level in Tools | Options
  • Improved integrity check for the imported Rainbow Tables
  • GPU acceleration UI improvements
  • Batch mode minor UI improvements
  • UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Detection of ZIP archives with unsupported PKWARE encryption [SUP-1649]
  • Resolved "Calibration timed out” issue in Hardware benchmark for TrueCrypt [SUP-1610]
  • Fixed an issue with displaying GUID instead of account names for macOS Ventura
  • Minor stability fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.4.1 (Nov 23, 2022)

  • Minor UI bugfixes and quality of life improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.4.0 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • Improved Windows password reset for UEFI systems
  • Support for booting in UEFI mode directly from a WindowsKey.ISO file
  • New dictionary: Vietnamese
  • Added display of passwords on the Passwords Found tab as they get recovered
  • A list of supported file types is now available in the Help menu
  • A newsletter subscription option is available during Windows installation
  • UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Minor navigation UI improvements
  • Minor UI improvements for the Dictionary Manager
  • Removed “Filed to parse from session” error record from Log files
  • Bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.3.1 (Aug 25, 2022)

  • Multiple bugfixes and improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.3.0 (Jul 27, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Option on the Passwords Found tab to view the attack that found the password
  • Search option on Attacks Tab
  • Dictionary Attack UI improvements
  • Faster startup
  • Multiple UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issue with .csv reports not being saved correctly
  • Cross-platform implementation of hot keys
  • Improved a display on the Logs Tab for files that are not supported on macOS
  • Windows Key minor improvements
  • License manager improvements
  • Application navigation fixes
  • Multiple bugfixes and improvements [SUP-1563]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.3.0 (Jul 27, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Option on the Passwords Found tab to view the attack that found the password
  • Search option on Attacks Tab
  • Dictionary Attack UI improvements
  • Faster startup
  • Multiple UI improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issue with .csv reports not being saved correctly
  • Cross-platform implementation of hot keys
  • Improved a display on the Logs Tab for files that are not supported on macOS
  • Windows Key minor improvements
  • License manager improvements
  • Application navigation fixes
  • Multiple bugfixes and improvements [SUP-1563]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.2.1 (May 19, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with resetting passwords for some LiveID accounts [SUP-1543]
  • Fixed an issue with “Find Encrypted Files” not working due to a disconnected network drive
  • Improved display of the dictionaries list in the Dictionary Manager
  • Minor UI improvements and bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.2.0 (Apr 12, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Passware Kit for Mac with GPU acceleration support
  • OneNote Revision Store support
  • Added Average speed value to Performance Tab
  • Added Troubleshooting tab in the Tools|Options
  • New dictionary: Icelandic
  • Bugfixes:
  • Optimized OpenCL acceleration for RAR3 and 7-Zip archives
  • Improved sync of "Light/Dark" theme setting with system settings
  • Detection of unsupported solid archive encryption for RAR archives [SUP-1520]
  • Resolved issues with some antivirus products reporting false positives for Passware Kit
  • Improved telemetry for some GPU cards
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes [SUP-1518] [SUP-1519] [SUP-1524]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.1.2 (Mar 22, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved "Error: Call timeout” error [SUP-1503]
  • Resolved an issue with Plaintext attack for some ZIP files [SUP-1508]
  • Improved the way recovery state is saved for ZIP files [SUP-1498]
  • Minor UI improvements and bug fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.1.1 (Feb 3, 2022)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Added an option to sync "Light/Dark" theme setting with system settings
  • UI and performance improvements for Dictionary Manager
  • Decreased memory usage for Dictionary attacks
  • Minor UI improvements and fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2022.1.0 (Dec 15, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Support for Windows 11
  • List of passwords supported by the Known Password attack
  • “About” box allows copying the product key, version, and product name
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with incorrect image processing in PDF files [SUP-1397]
  • Resolved an issue with processing some custom dictionaries [SUP-1432]
  • Multiple Dark theme improvements
  • Resolved an error caused by scanning the root folder on macOS
  • Minor UI improvements and fixes [SUP-1396] [SUP-1427]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.4.1 (Nov 4, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved “editingGroupCid is undefined” error [SUP-1394]
  • Resolved “PubSub: Not found handle on engine process” error [SUP-1407]
  • Resolved an issue with Wizard showing default attacks after configuration
  • Minor fixes and improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.4.0 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Mac version of all Passware Kit editions
  • New dictionary: Turkish
  • Dark theme
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue with the “Undo” option not working when a new model is added to an existing one [SUP-1374]
  • “Clear History” option now works from any page of Passware Kit
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.3.1 (Jul 19, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue with adding drivers to Windows Key [SUP-1300]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.3.0 (Jun 30, 2021)

  • What’s new:
  • Passware Kit Forensic for Mac
  • Decryption of LUKS2 disks
  • Password recovery for Dashlane Desktop
  • Batch mode: improved performance for 1,000+ files
  • Passware Bootable Memory Imager supports UEFI 1.x
  • Passware Rainbow Tables for Windows
  • Keychain extraction improvements
  • Usability improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.2.0 (Apr 15, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • 13x faster on Zip and support for large archives
  • Ability to view settings of successful password recovery attacks
  • Usability improvements
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Passware from checking some passwords for 7Zip archives after disabling and then enabling a GPU or CPU
  • UI improvements and minor fixes [SUP-1249]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.1.3 (Feb 7, 2021)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with some PDF files [SUP-1215]
  • Resolved an error with TPR acceleration [SUP-1225]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.1.1 (Dec 24, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issues for some GPUs [SUP-1200]
  • Resolved an intermittent issue occurring after stopping Passware Agent [SUP-1197] [POS-4330]
  • Resolved an issue causing an incorrect number of passwords displayed for some brute-force attacks [POS-4314]
  • UI improvements and minor fixes [PKM-339]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2021.1.0 (Dec 16, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Preview of generated passwords
  • GPU-accelerated recovery of PDF owner password
  • PDF password recovery improvements
  • Import of dictionaries preserving the order of passwords
  • Bugfixes:
  • Added an option to change file encoding
  • UI improvements and minor fixes

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.4.2 (Nov 28, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved detection for some TrueCrypt images with pre-boot authentication [SUP-1186]
  • Minor improvements to support some APFS images [SUP-1187]
  • Minor GUI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.4.0 (Oct 14, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • New Mask attack
  • Password recovery for iWork 2020 files
  • New modifier: transliteration for keyboard layout
  • Reports saved as CSV files
  • Bugfixes:
  • Minor UI improvements
  • Resolved recovery attack failing for some Internet Explorer 7-9 forms

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.3.2 (Aug 20, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with auto-update showing an error message for slow internet connections

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.3.1 (Aug 7, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Hardware acceleration improvements
  • Resolved an issue with some long passwords for RAR archives not being processed correctly [SUP-1142]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.3.0 (Aug 6, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Instant recovery of website passwords from Opera, Chrome, and Edge browsers
  • Instant recovery of Outlook 2016/2019 email passwords
  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved password recovery speed for PDF documents on systems with multiple GPUs

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.2.2 (Jun 26, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved performance for multi-GPU systems

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.2.1 (Jun 5, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue where password recovery process would freeze in Demo version
  • Fixed an issue that could cause an error message while processing certain types of dictionaries [SUP-1107]
  • Fixed a bug that caused an error message to appear for some PDF files during hardware-accelerated password attacks [SUP-1117] [SUP-1123]
  • Resolved compatibility issues with some older NVIDIA GPU cards [SUP-1120]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.2.0 (Apr 7, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Access to APFS disks from Mac with T2 chip
  • Mac version of Passware Kit Forensic (Beta)
  • Passwords extraction from macOS system keychain
  • Instant decryption and password recovery for QuickBooks 2020 databases
  • Support for Windows account selection for PIN / password recovery
  • Recovery of Windows accounts’ passwords from SAM databases in batch mode
  • Improved GPU performance
  • UI improvements for displaying recovered passwords
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved system memory error caused by some VeraCrypt images [SUP-1095]
  • Batch password recovery now allows adding the same SAM file multiple times, so that different attack settings could be applied
  • Fixed an issue that caused a Javascript error for some Windows 10 systems [SUP-1081]
  • Resolved an issue with password not being recovered for some Excel files [SUP-1102]
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.1.2 (Mar 2, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an error occurring during dictionary merge for some dictionaries
  • Resolved an issue with an incorrect number of passwords shown for the merged dictionary
  • Resolved an issue with Password Exchange not syncing new passwords
  • Reduced the time required for GPUs to start attacks for some file types
  • Resolved "Slow progress" issue for GPU acceleration for some files [SUP-1082]
  • Resolved an issue that caused GPU cards to stay idle under certain circumstances
  • Minor stability improvements of GPU acceleration [SUP-1082]
  • Improved GPU logging and performance stats [SUP-1092]
  • Resolved an error occurring while applying some patterns to the dictionary attack
  • Resolved an issue with the attack settings being reset after closing Dictionary Manager
  • Improved Windows password reset for Live ID accounts [SUP-1056]
  • Minor Dictionary Manager improvements
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.1.1 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Dictionary Manager improvements
  • Resolved occasional error in Dictionary Manager during dictionary compilation

New in Passware Kit Standard 2020.1.0 (Dec 18, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Dictionary Manager
  • 5 times faster on dictionary compilation
  • A new “Mixed order” option for “Join Attacks” group

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.4.2 (Nov 5, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with starting the password recovery process for some file types using command line
  • Added support for DRM-protected MS Office files [SUP-1055]
  • Resolved a data race issue with some attacks [SUP-1063]
  • Resolved an issue that was causing a crash for some attacks for PDF files [SUP-1065]
  • Minor logging improvements
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.4.1 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Improved support for multiple GPU cards being connected to a single PCI slot [SUP-1043]
  • Fixed an issue for certain Zip 2.0 archives
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.4.0 (Oct 2, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Export and import of dictionaries
  • Saved recovery state now includes dictionaries used for recovery
  • Improved password recovery speed for Zip AES encryption
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with the "Clear history -> Log files” option not working for some systems
  • Resolved “A valid JSON document must be either an array or an object value” error [SUP-1035]
  • Resolved "Empty password" error for PDF 6.0 files [SUP-1038]
  • Improved Passware Kit stability
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.3.3 (Aug 22, 2019)

  • Minor Attack Builder improvements
  • Resolved "Internal error" while compiling some custom dictionaries [SUP-1033]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.3.2 (Aug 2, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • "Clear Passwords Found" option added
  • Minor GUI updates
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with Wizard setup option
  • Resolved an error with Zip archives containing large files
  • Chrome passwords extraction fixed
  • Import of password recovery states fixed
  • Resolved an error with .DIC file compilation [SUP-1026]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.3.1 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Total number of passwords checked is now displayed at the end of the password recovery process [SUP-1007]
  • Minor improvements of GPU acceleration
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved issue with Distributed Password Recovery for larger ZIP archives
  • Minor GUI updates

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.3 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Protection against GPU overheating
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved possible GPU error caused by long dictionary passwords [SUP-991]
  • Resolved possible memory leak for some GPU-accelerated attacks [SUP-1001] [SUP-974]
  • Minor log system improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.2.2 (May 2, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with GPU cards being idle during the recovery process for some attack settings [SUP-981]
  • Resolved an issue with Passware dictionaries from older versions of Passware (*.dic) not being imported [SUP-987]
  • Resolved an issue with Wizard not saving a chosen pattern after changing the settings manually
  • Resolved an issue with some Wizard settings not being available for editing
  • Minor UI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.1.3 (Jan 23, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved an issue with some attacks being skipped instead of resumed [SUP-909]
  • Resolved MS Office attack issue with TPR devices [SUP-906][SUP-907]
  • Improved diagnostic messages for Windows Key [SUP-916]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.1.2 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Added an option to attach all the logs and crash dumps before sending a Bug Report
  • Resolved an issue with sending Bug Reports failed with some email clients

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.1.1 (Dec 27, 2018)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved "Unexpected end of JSON inputnSyntaxError" error
  • Resolved issue with binary dictionaries compilation
  • Resolved Wizard issues for some Brute-force attacks [SUP-910]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2019.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • GPU monitoring
  • Additional dictionaries: Rumanian, Bulgarian, Irish
  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved blank screen on launch issue [SUP-903]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2018.3.1 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Encrypted items are now sorted correctly after a folder is moved in Encryption Analyzer

New in Passware Kit Standard 2018.2.1 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • Resolved an issue with saving password recovery state
  • Resolved Windows Key 'Incorrect Product Key' error [SUP-868]
  • Minor GUI improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.5.2 (Jun 6, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved GPU acceleration issue [SUP-705]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.5.1 (Jan 26, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved minor GPU issues [SUP-695], [SUP-696]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.5.0 (Dec 14, 2017)

  • Minor GUI improvements for PDF recovery

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.4.2 (Nov 9, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved OpenCL compatibility issue with older NVIDIA GPUs [SUP-668]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.4.1 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed password recovery issue for multipart RAR 3.x-4.x archives [SUP-660]
  • Fixed OpenCL initialization issue with older NVIDIA GPUs [SUP-668]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.4.0 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Support of GPU-accelerated password recovery for PDFs (encryption revision 3)
  • Increased performance of GPU-accelerated password recovery
  • Support for SHA-256 encryption for MS Office 2013

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.3.1 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Minor improvements for Live ID account reset [SUP-637]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.3.0 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Password resets for Windows Server 2016 users, administrators, and Active Directory
  • OpenCL hardware acceleration for 7-Zip archives

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.2.2 (Apr 14, 2017)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Resolved GPU acceleration issue for ZIP password recovery
  • Minor GPU acceleration improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.2.0 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Export and import of known passwords
  • Dictionaries for Estonian, Finnish, and Polish languages
  • Optimizations for hardware acceleration

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.1.2 (Feb 27, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Resolved an issue that prevented password recovery attack from restarting correctly [SUP-581]

New in Passware Kit Standard 2017.1.0 (Dec 15, 2016)

  • Dictionaries for Danish and Swedish languages

New in Passware Kit Standard 2016.4.0 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • 2x faster on NVIDIA GTX-1080
  • New Attack Modifier: Substitution

New in Passware Kit Standard 2016.3.1 (Jun 23, 2016)

  • Password recovery for iWork documents
  • GPU acceleration improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2016.2.0 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • GPU acceleration improvements

New in Passware Kit Standard 2016.1.0 (Dec 8, 2015)

  • Password recovery for OpenOffice files
  • Support for shared dictionaries

New in Passware Kit Standard 2015.4.0 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Windows Administrator password reset on Windows 10
  • Password recovery for files from MS Office 2016 for Mac

New in Passware Kit Standard 2015.1.0 (Dec 4, 2014)

  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for RAR v5 archives
  • Password recovery for KeePass Password Safe databases:
  • Passware Kit now recovers passwords for KeePass password manager, both KDB and KDBX files.
  • The password recovery process is accelerated with NVIDIA and AMD GPU cards, as well as distributed computing.

New in Passware Kit Standard 13.7 Build 9095 (Oct 3, 2014)

  • GPU-accelerated password recovery for RAR v5 archives

New in Passware Kit Standard 13.5 Build 8266 (May 17, 2014)

  • Instant reset of MS Windows Live ID passwords

New in Passware Kit Standard 12.1 Build 6044 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • Recovers passwords for MS Office v.2013 files and accelerates it with GPU cards. Recovers passwords for Adobe Acrobat X-XI PDF documents and RAR v.4 archives.

New in Passware Kit Standard 12.0 Build 5677 (Oct 3, 2012)

  • Instantly resets Administrator passwords for Windows 8

New in Passware Kit Standard 10.1 Build 2043 (Sep 23, 2010)

  • Password recovery for MS Office 2010 files. Acceleration of password recovery for MS Office 2007/2010 files and RAR archives using NVIDIA GPU cards.