What's new in Notebook PEA 1.7
May 30, 2022
- Button to make links clickable or to make text editable appears always when many links are present or if set from menu if any link is present
- Import bookmark files like exported files from browsers as links
- Header H1-H6 for HTML files
- Starting the program in the console and quick start with scripts
- Additional default cryptographic algorithms: Serpent as cipher, SHA-512 as hash function
- Accessibility improved.
New in Notebook PEA 1.6 (Jan 26, 2022)
- Setting of algorithms and parameters, key files can be added as a second security factor to the password.
- Changing and installing languages, additional languages: TK, ES, FR, RU
- Open encrypted files and initialize new files in the text editor.
- GUI of text editor improved.
- Convert HTML to RTF, option to automatically search for updates and other minor features.
- Accessibility: Keyboard access improved.
- Several minor bugfixes
New in Notebook PEA 1.5 (Jun 6, 2021)
- Default format is now HTML (RTF still supported).
- Fix of a security related bug: if the password change process was started and aborted without a password, then the content was encrypted with a null password instead of the process being aborted.
- Import of and export as HTML files.
- Minor improvements and bugfixes (font size up 32, when several encrypted files inside of directories were opened, no scheme was selected by default, additional hints for import/export...)
New in Notebook PEA 1.4 (Apr 21, 2021)
- Libraries for cloud support were replaced so that the program runs now with Java 8 up to Java 17 and probably further versions
- You can choose various algorithms: Catena or Argon2 as KDF, Threefish or AES-256 as cipher, Blake2b or SHA-3 as hash
- The GUI is more accessible: larger resizable buttons that better show focus, better keyboard accessibility
- Cloud performance: authorize only once to a provider
- Imported RFT files are checked for probably malicious code (object linking and embedding)
- Minor usability improvements: Simplified cloud provider login, checkbox to (de)select all files if many files are present, remove files from list by right click...
- Several minor bug fixes
New in Notebook PEA 1.3 (Jun 2, 2020)
- Cloud access for Nextcloud, Owncloud and other providers, that support WebDAV
- Search function: searching for a word in the opened text
- Look for program updates in the menu
- Same file name and content is now opened in one tab (and changes automatically saved in all)
- Bug fix: When only the format was changed but not the text, changes were not saved automatically
New in Notebook PEA 1.2 (Mar 26, 2019)
- General settings for text area background, default font color, size and family,
- settings for color and font size of the PEA
- Remembers last size and location
- Accessibility: accessible description for all items and buttons if there is no tool
- tip text (english only),
- Drag&Drop of files in the password dialog
- Bug fixes
New in Notebook PEA 1.1 (Aug 8, 2017)
- Java default accessibility support for custom components,
- Accessible descriptions for images and icons (accessibility is still incomplete)
- Managing several encrypted files and folders (tree view...)
- Short cuts for character tables and virtual keyboard
- Accessibility for visually impaired: set font size for session
- Start helper file for UNIX: find a appropriate Java version (will work for future
- Versions).
- Small GUI modifications: Different background colors encrypted and plain text,
- Padlock symbol for encrypted status
New in Notebook PEA 1.0 (Mar 7, 2017)
- Several text files can now be managed simultaneously, without restarting the program or re-entering the password.
- Small changes in appearance.
- A wait cursor indicates that the program is working.
- fix of small errors (position of dialogs, space deleted in path file, width of password generator...)
New in Notebook PEA 0.2 (Jun 28, 2016)
- Improvement of the internal proactive password-strenght meter: Display of the strength while typing a new password, small list of most common passwords, consideration of prefixes, suffixes and some leet transformations
- New GUI: Nimbus Look & Feel
- Possibility to edit the file in which the paths of the encrypted files are stored
- Button bar for some text formatting
- More formatting options (colors, text alignment)
- Minor improvement in usability (positions of the windows and dialogs, help menu)
- Fix of small errors (start script also works for Linux Mint, display password-strength, even when using the character tables ...)
New in Notebook PEA 0.1 (May 10, 2016)
- Usabilty of the virtual keyboard
- Catena-Dragonfly version v3.3 using a public input along with the Salt replaces version v3.2.
- HKDF replaces a simple hash function for key expansion and the initial hash.
- Better language support, usability and some code cleanup.