{"id":48290,"date":"2025-03-06T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48290"},"modified":"2025-03-07T04:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:50:19","slug":"keepass-2-58-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/keepass-2-58-released\/","title":{"rendered":"KeePass 2.58 Released with New Features [Ubuntu PPA]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43100\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/keepass2-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KeePass password manager released new 2.58 version few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu through PPA.<\/p>\n<p>KeePass 2.58 improved its graphical user interface with some new options. It added <code>Ctrl+H<\/code> keyboard shortcut for the &#8216;Show\/hide password using asterisks&#8217; option in report dialogs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/keepass258.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48293\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/keepass258-700x491.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/keepass258-700x491.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/keepass258-300x210.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/keepass258-768x538.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/keepass258.webp 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The password generator dialog now displays the average estimated quality of the generated passwords. The triggers dialog now includes a &#8216;Status&#8217; column. And, the group and entry context menus include new &#8220;More Commands&#8221; option to open the corresponding full menu.<\/p>\n<p>In <code>Tools<\/code> -&gt; <code>Options<\/code> under <code>Advanced<\/code> tab, there&#8217;s now new &#8220;Unhide empty data&#8221; option, though disabled by default.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unhide-empty.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48292\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unhide-empty-700x589.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unhide-empty-700x589.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unhide-empty-300x253.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unhide-empty-768x647.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/unhide-empty.webp 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KeePass 2.58 also added support for comments in INI files, enhanced CodeWallet TXT import module, and added &#8216;User-Agent&#8217; header for HTTP\/HTTPS\/WebDAV web requests.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include new filter for duplicate MRU items, filter for duplicate key source associations, solution and project files for Visual Studio 2022, as well as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More detailed fatal error messages when running with <code>-debug<\/code> option.<\/li>\n<li>Add workaround for Mono tree view context menu handling.<\/li>\n<li>Renamed &#8216;entry view&#8217; to &#8216;details view&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Remove duplicate group\/entry option from context menu.<\/li>\n<li>Fix two image list handling bugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more about KeePass 2.58, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/keepass.info\/news\/n250304_2.58.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install KeePass 2.58 in Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p>KeePass password manager is available in Ubuntu repository, but old! For the new release, I&#8217;ve built the package into this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/keepass2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and even the old Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>NOTE: The new release updated the build files that require msbuild (within .NET). I reverted the changes to build it in old Ubuntu 18.04 &amp; 20.04. Please report if you found issue due to this change.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/keepass2<\/pre>\n<p>Then, refresh package cache by running command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt update<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, install keepass2 password manager:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install keepass2<\/pre>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>To uninstall the password manager, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt remove --autoremove keepass2<\/pre>\n<p>And, remove the PPA via command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/keepass2<\/pre>\n<p>You may also need to run <code>sudo apt update<\/code> to refresh cache afterward.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KeePass password manager released new 2.58 version few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu through PPA. KeePass 2.58 improved its graphical user interface with some new options. It added Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut for the &#8216;Show\/hide password using asterisks&#8217; option in report dialogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1320,1433,1322],"class_list":["post-48290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-keepass","tag-keepass2","tag-password-manager"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}