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SAM - Steam Account Manager Changelog

What's new in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.5.3.2

Aug 9, 2023
  • Disable -login parameter usage as it seems to be broken with the new Steam UI.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.5.3.0 (Jul 1, 2023)

  • Restore -login parameter usage in conjunction with the -vgui parameter #177
  • Improve new UI interaction by focusing the elements directly rather than sending Tab inputs #175
  • Update StringCipher Decrypt behavior to support newer versions of .NET #163
  • Attempt to fix Settings window crash for some users #122 #139
  • Set UseShellExecute to true for starting Steam #156
  • Fix SteamId population for accounts with uppercase letters in username by @Kristiaen

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.5.2.0 (Jun 24, 2023)

  • Support for the new Steam UI
  • New Remember Password functionality implementation
  • Fix blank space/character detection for import window
  • Fixed crash due to Vdf Token being too large by @Alexander3a

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.5.1.0 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • Steam React UI support (default)
  • Friends login status per account #110
  • Parameters per account #140
  • Load .txt file(s) for import #134
  • Restore start with windows functionality #154
  • Account data file backup system #137 #111
  • Restore from tray with left click #145
  • Additional language support.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.5.0.1 (Oct 9, 2022)

  • Merged refactoring changes by @Venipa
  • Merged IndexOutOfBounds fix by @catgirlkara
  • Merged temporary fix for Steam React UI by @KillaBoi
  • Update NuGet packages

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.3.0 (Dec 15, 2020)

  • Automatic login sequence for all accounts without SteamId to populate them in local vdf files. #104
  • Expose an editable Steam Id field for the account info dialog, which auto populates if found.
  • Update the sleep time box and behavior to allow decimal values or even 0. #106
  • Nest 'Copy' account button actions together. #82
  • Fix saving recent and selected account selection.
  • Improve config info detection. Steam saves account names to config.vdf in lower case, which would cause them to sometimes not be found if a user entered or imported them originally with uppercase letters.
  • Fix SteamId retrieved from config not being saved to the account collection if it did not already exist #108
  • Update NuGet packages

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.2.0 (May 3, 2020)

  • Selectable 2FA input methods in the 'Auto-Login' settings menu. Default is SendMessage, which works in most cases. PostMessage is also included. SendWait, which was used before, should solve the issue of it not working like it used to in environments like Windows 7 and various sandbox systems.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.1.1 (Mar 3, 2020)

  • Address issue that was created by implementing the Microsoft IME fix that would cause the Steam Guard code sent from SAM to be incorrect for some Windows Language and Keyboard settings.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.1.0 (Feb 28, 2020)

  • Sandbox Mode toggle setting to prevent SAM from attempting to close the existing open Steam process (if one exists) with the -shutdown parameter between logins, for example when used with Avast Sandbox to open multiple instances of the Steam client.
  • Fix a bug in the event there is an error deserializing during the password protection check, which could be caused by a corrupted dat file, that would then cause accounts to be encrypted with an empty password.
  • Fix CPU usage bug.
  • Fix userdata not found bug.
  • Steam Guard window detection for Simplified Chinese and Japanese languages.
  • Add 'Copy Username' to account context menu.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.0.5 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • Fix a bug that would cause the initial password prompt to always be the default theme (baseDark and Blue) instead of the user settings values.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.0.4 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • Generate info.dat file even when no accounts are present and serialize and encrypt the empty account collection with entered application password if protection is enabled. This resolves problems with using the application password on first use.
  • Prevent unneeded password prompts when refreshing the window after it was entered correctly on startup.
  • Fix a bug that would persist the list view window size to the icon view when opening SAM in list view then changing to icon view if no accounts are present.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.0.3 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • Fix incorrect password bug that would prevent adding new accounts while password protection is enabled.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.0.2 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Auto reload account web data setting (like bans) on a user defined interval.
  • Improve account info dialog
  • Remove 'Topmost' properties from child windows.
  • Fix not tracking account game bans.
  • Fix location reset when minimized to tray
  • Fix mouse wheel scrolling issue when scroll bars are present.
  • Improve settings checkbox spacing.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.0.1 (Nov 14, 2019)

  • Add description column to list view.
  • Save list view column order.
  • Fix minimize to tray.
  • Fix remember window position.
  • Improve window out of bounds checking.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.4.0.0 (Nov 12, 2019)

  • Theme and Accent settings to customize SAM appearance.
  • User API key input. (Hard coded API key is overused)
  • Track and mark accounts with bans through user provided API key.
  • Hide banned account marker toggle setting.
  • Close SAM after login toggle setting.
  • Fix auto-log account setting toggles.
  • Fix new lines and other white space characters causing issues with importing delimited accounts.
  • Fix and improve account serialization.
  • List view toggle setting:
  • Remember list view window size.
  • Quick account timeout selections through context menu.
  • 30 minutes
  • 2 hours
  • 21 hours
  • 24 hours
  • 7 Days

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.1.4 (Sep 25, 2019)

  • Fix finding the Steam Login window by also checking for the window text length. There is a hidden window with text "Steam" that was being detected before the actual login window initialized.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.1.3 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • Fixed a bug that would not focus the Steam login window when entering credentials for users not utilizing the '-login' parameter.
  • Add field to the Parameters section of the settings window for entering custom Steam client launch parameters.
  • Increase settings window height.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.1.1 (Aug 24, 2019)

  • Fix account data not properly encrypting with the user's provided application password when adding accounts on first use.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.1.0 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Support for accounts with passwords containing special characters. !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[]^_`{|}~
  • Fix importing delimited accounts with white spaces and new line characters.
  • If minimize to tray is enabled, prevent SAM from appearing in the alt + tab selection.
  • Check for updates on application startup toggle setting.
  • Fix detecting the Steam Login window in other languages, which would prevent typing the 2FA code.
  • Improve button layout when account images are not being used.
  • Global button customization: size, color, etc.
  • Setting to hide the 'Add Account' button.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.0.3 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Fix bug that would not delete the userdata folder with that setting enabled while logging in by parameters.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.0.2 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Enable login by parameter by default in fresh settings file.
  • Fix fresh settings crash bug.
  • Restore default settings button.
  • Go to repository if updater is not found.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.0.1 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Restore login by parameter functionality:
  • Can be disabled in Parameters settings.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.3.0.0 (Jul 16, 2019)

  • Send user credentials as key presses rather than launch paramters.
  • Better account button position logic.
  • Set button size ranging between 50-200px.
  • Show account names/aliases on hover.
  • Delete userdata folder after login toggle setting.
  • Delete all or selected accounts in bulk file menu items.
  • Fix scaling issue when window size is greater than screen size.
  • Disable Steam Vanity URL API call.
  • Remember window position.
  • Improve SteamGuard window focus.
  • Set custom sleep time for waiting actions.
  • Potentially useful Steam client launch parameter toggles.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.6.2 Hotfix (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Fix importing delimited accounts without a shared secret.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.6.0 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • Set account timeouts through account context menu.
  • Support for importing character delimited accounts in bulk.
  • Shared secret optional.
  • Copy password from account context menu.
  • Expose all account credentials in delimited format through file drop down menu.
  • Password required if protected.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.5.0 (Apr 20, 2019)

  • Password protect application and data file.
  • Encrypts entire data file.
  • Fix properly minimizing to system tray if setting enabled.
  • Fix Steam Guard window detection in different languages using the em dash '—' instead of standard hyphen.
  • Crash fixes.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.4.1 (Mar 27, 2019)

  • Steam Guard login fixes.
  • Additional Language support.
  • Auto-login fixes when used with the Start With Windows option.
  • Fix config.vdf parse path.
  • Alias input to display instead of username.
  • Tray right click options and logging in.
  • Drag window while dragging background.
  • Login freeze fixes.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.4.0 (Mar 21, 2019)

  • Multi-select accounts for export through the file drop down menu.
  • Can also export individual account through the context menu.
  • Focus the 2FA window for every key press.
  • Auto Steam path button in Settings, which will try to find the installed Steam path from the registry or installed directory for portable users.
  • Utilize the Steam Web Api and parsing the Steam config.vdf with Gameloop.vdf to try to automatically find profile information.
  • Auto login and SAMSettings.ini fixes.
  • Bundle new Updater.exe

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.3.2 (Feb 24, 2019)

  • Better handle waiting for the 2FA Steam Guard window when logging in.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.3.1 (Feb 19, 2019)

  • Fixed an issue that would cause a crash if an old account did not have the new 2FA field, which all accounts with the previous update did not have.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.2.0 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • Much better handling of profile image scrape.
  • No longer relies on image source pattern.
  • Reload all images from edit drop down.
  • Change Steam file path in settings.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.1.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Fixed file export bug.
  • Import and Export have been moved to the 'File' dropdown.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.2.0.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Sort accounts alphabetically through the 'Edit' dropdown.
  • Import/Export accounts data file in settings.
  • Start minimized setting.
  • Auto-Login now only triggers if Steam is not already open.
  • Account buttons now change opacity when clicked.
  • Redesign settings window.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.1.0.1 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Fixed a bug that would not let emails be entered into the 'Name' field.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.1.0.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Enable minimize.
  • Do not display tooltip if description is empty/blank.
  • Fixed saving and loading steam path.
  • Automatic login on program startup.
  • Most recently used account via settings menu.
  • Pre-selected account via new account/edit menu.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.0.2.1 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Start with windows setting.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.0.2.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Optional description profile entry.
  • Confirmation window when deleting entries.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.0.1.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Window resize animations
  • Fix settings window to be less annoying

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 1.0.0.1 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • 1.0 release (completely usable with all origionally planned features)
  • Edit entry
  • Bug fixes

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 0.1.4.1 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Bundle new autoupdater
  • Fix window refresh bugs
  • Lighten background color
  • Display version number in help menu or if there is an update

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 0.1.4.0 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Finally fixed obnoxious button glow effect.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 0.1.3.1 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Fixed all spacing weirdness/issues.

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 0.1.3 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Display steam avatar on button if user inputs a profile url.
  • Password entry masking.
  • Switched to type List instead of HashTable to store information.
  • Old info.dat will be deleted

New in SAM - Steam Account Manager 0.1.2 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Right click on any account for an option to delete it.
  • File menu.
  • Settings window.
  • New row after user specified amount of accounts in settings. Defaults to 5.