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Word Password Recovery Changelog

What's new in Word Password Recovery 4.2.2.240

Oct 16, 2023
  • Some AV false positives workaround.

New in Word Password Recovery 4.2.1.233 (Oct 6, 2023)

  • General update.

New in Word Password Recovery 4.2.0.230 (Apr 6, 2023)

  • Support for some new GPU cards.
  • A fix for the hardware monitoring problem of some AMD devices.

New in Word Password Recovery 4.1.0.225 (Oct 11, 2022)

  • Support for Nvidia GeForce RTX 4xxx GPUs.

New in Word Password Recovery 4.0.0.220 (Sep 13, 2021)

  • New guaranteed password recovery for Microsoft Office 97-2003 files with 40-bit encryption.

New in Word Password Recovery 3.0.0.197 (Jul 6, 2021)

  • Support for old Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats.
  • Support for Hashcat and JohnTheRipper hash files.
  • The Mask attack supports dictionaries now.
  • New password benchmarks.
  • New rules for the Hybrid dictionary attack.
  • The program's built-in dictionary was expanded with new top-used and popular passwords.
  • A new HTML/email parsing engine that has a much more thorough algorithm for data analysis. Some advantages of the new engine:
  • Faster processing of plain HTML files;
  • Better detection of text encoding;
  • Much deeper processing of email attachments. For example, if the program finds an attachment as a ZIP file, it unpacks the content of the archive, enumerates the files, and extracts words from every file to put them into a general wordlist (to be used later for password guessing).
  • The HTML/email parsing engine is made for generating miscellaneous dictionaries. All it does is extracts user email correspondence, words from recently used files, typed-in queries in browser search, and so on. This dictionary is used then in AI attacks, creating other dictionaries, etc.
  • Minor improvements.
  • A bug was fixed when scanning and extracting HDD-sensitive data.
  • A COM initialization bug was fixed. Sometimes the program was showing an error on exit.
  • A minor bug in password benchmarking dialog.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.5.2.185 (Dec 14, 2020)

  • Support for NVidia 30xx devices.
  • New speed benchmarks.
  • New rules for the Hybrid dictionary attack.
  • CUDA 2.0-2.1 GPUs are no longer supported.
  • Some items for the "Overall GPU performance" report was not sorting properly.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.5.1.180 (Dec 14, 2018)

  • Sometimes the demo version failed unexpectedly after demo message notification.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.5.0.177 (Dec 11, 2018)

  • Support for new GPU devices.
  • New rule-files for Hybrid dictionary attack.
  • New speed benchmarks.
  • Up to 50% speedup when recovering MS Word 2013-2019 passwords using AMD GPUs.
  • Internal changes in recovery engine.
  • Support for newest versions of Firefox when extracting local passwords in AI attack and in Wordlist indexation tool.
  • The default rule-file (Yurets.ini) of a Hybrid dictionary attack have been changed.
  • Some minor changes.
  • A error caused by AMD drivers was fixed. The program crashed unexpectedly when launching AMD kernels on certain drivers.
  • It turns out that some versions of AMD drivers report they
  • Have support for SPIR but in fact they do not. Moreover,
  • Trying to compile a SPIR binary using the drivers may ruin
  • The program (as well as any other application that call the
  • SPIR compilation routine). This version has a workaround for
  • The problem.
  • Buffer overflow bug in dictionary merge tool.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.4.0.163 (Oct 4, 2017)

  • Added support for NVidia Volta GPUs.
  • Added support for newest AMD devices.
  • Support for 7z archives.
  • Preliminary support for Windows 10 Fall Creator Update.
  • Security issue.
  • Several minor fixes and improvements.
  • Wordlist sorting tool worked incorrectly for non-Latin characters if the 'Ignore case' option was set on.
  • A bug in Artificial Intelligence attack was eliminated.
  • Sometimes the attack failed unexpectedly.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.3.0.155 (Sep 17, 2016)

  • Added support for NVidia Pascal GPUs.
  • Added support for AMD Radeon RX 400 Series GPUs.
  • Fixed a error in GPU Hybrid dictionary attack. Some password mutation rules were not working correctly.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.2.0.150 (Apr 21, 2016)

  • Support for Microsoft Office 2016 documents.
  • New rules in Hybrid dictionary recovery.
  • Support was dropped for old NVidia devices (with compute capability 1.1-1.3).
  • Support for Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 Series cards was dropped because AMD no longer supports these devices.
  • Some minor enhancements in internal engines, like better support for Firefox password extraction, etc.
  • Better tag wiper algorithm in wordlist extended tools.
  • ?i and ?o rules were working incorrectly in Hybrid dictionary attacks.
  • Fixed a critical error in smart mutation engine.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.1.7.147 (Jan 19, 2015)

  • Document name mutation (in Preliminary attack) works much more effectively.
  • Minor improvement in CUDA error-handling engine.
  • Fixed a problem in Base-word attack. Case mutation worked incorrectly.
  • A problem with non-English passwords was eliminated.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.1.6.145 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Performance tuning for some NVidia devices.
  • Support for CUDA 1.0 GPU devices was dropped.
  • The "Password-list analysis -> Character set ordering" report has been revised.
  • The "Password-list analysis -> Character sets" report displayed incorrect values sometimes. Fixed.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.1.4.140 (Aug 12, 2014)

  • Changes in Combined dictionary attack. Default rule is not used any longer.
  • Minor interface changes.
  • Fixed a bug processing ':' rule in Hybrid attack.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.1.1.129 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • Some changes in dictionary caching algorithm.
  • Windows XP compatibility issue.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.1.0 (Jun 25, 2014)

  • Minor performance improvement on certain NVidia GPUs.
  • Hybrid rules were updated.
  • Syntax for Hybrid attack was changed slightly. Now you can use character bitwise shift operations.
  • A minor bug was fixed in Dictionary attack.

New in Word Password Recovery 2.0.0 (May 6, 2014)

  • Support for NVidia Maxwell GPUs.
  • Support for AVX2 CPU instruction set.
  • New password recovery speed benchmarks.
  • New flat color themes in Reports.
  • Fixed a problem opening a project moved from another PC. Now if the program detects that the opening project was not created on a current PC, it resets the hardware configuration and asks user to revise other options.
  • Fixed a critical error parsing Outlook *.pst files. AI attack and disk indexation tool may failed unexpectedly.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.6.0 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • 4 new rules for the Hybrid attack.
  • HTML link extraction tool.
  • New speed bencmarks for NVidia Tesla C2050 GPU.
  • Added character sets with new languages. Support for loadbable charsets in the Mask attack options.
  • Batch attack bug. Sometimes the program failed with critical error when running a Batch attack.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.5.5 (Nov 1, 2013)

  • New option in the Base-word attack. Now the program can use document name as an input word.
  • Preliminary attack was revised to avoid some problems with memory over-usage.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.5.4 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • Yet another fixup for progress indicator.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.5.3 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Fixed some progress problems.
  • Minor bug in CPU recovery engine.
  • Program's help was updated.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.5.0 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Support for future AMD Radeon Rx 200 series GPUs.
  • Several thousands of new Hybrid rules were added.
  • New GPU speed benchmarks.
  • New password lookup module. Affects AI attack and password search tool.
  • Hybrid syntax has been revised significantly. 9 new rules were added and several bugs were eliminated. A number of GUI improvements. The program can import hashcat and passwordspro rules now.
  • The Pass-phrase mutation engine has been rewritten from scratch. New rules were added, some were omitted. Great speed optimization has been done: all ultra mutation modes run more than 10 times faster now.
  • Changes in the Base-word attack. The program generates more variants for input words.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.4.0 (Sep 16, 2013)

  • Artificial Intelligence attack and HDD indexing tool support password recovery of newest versions of Opera browser now.
  • Support for password recovery of almost all Chromium-based browsers: Google Chrome, Orbitum, Torch, CoolNovo, Comodo Dragon, RockMeIt, SRWare Iron, Yandex browser, Epic browser, etc.
  • Online check for updates is working now.
  • New speed benchmarks.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.3.6 (Sep 16, 2013)

  • Numerous interface bugs were fixed.
  • Changes in French and Russian language interfaces.
  • Wordlist utilities were updated. Now it can wipe HTML tags (like , , ), HTML entities (for example,  , &,   "e;) and other trash out of dictionaries.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.3.5 (Aug 14, 2013)

  • Update for French translation.
  • Minor changes.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.3.4 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • French translation of the program's interface.
  • Changes in the Base-word attack.
  • Fixed a bug in the asterisk password revealer tool. The program crashed unexpectedly when dragging the magnifying glass over certain applications.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.3.2 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • Sometimes after password of a certain document was reset, Word may reported that the file was corrupted. It can be opened successfully though. The problem is fixed now.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.3.1 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • Fixed some problems parsing UTF-8 tags in inside *.docx XML files.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.3.0 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • The program can reset (remove) protection for encrypted
  • .docx files with known passwords now.
  • Support for password open and password edit protections set together.
  • Advanced support for password edit protection.
  • Enhanced *.docx parser.
  • Security issue.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.2.0 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • Russian language interface.
  • Support for non-standard (e.g. AES-256 or AES-192) encryption key length of Microsoft Word 2007 password-protected documents.
  • Several minor enhancements.
  • Incorrect algorithm optimization bug was fixed (for certain GPU devices).
  • Some *.docx files with protection for editing were parsed incorrectly.
  • Some password speed reports displayed incorrect hardware names.

New in Word Password Recovery 1.1.0 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • New speed benchmarks.
  • Up to 30% speedup when recovering Word 2007 and Word 2010 password using ATI GPUs.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.