A new version of the password manager KeePass for Windows is now available. KeePass 2.58 is the first release of the password manager in 2025. The last version, KeePass 2.57.1, was released in October 2024.
The update is a smaller one. It introduces a few minor features and changes. Good news is that no security issues needed fixing, which is why this is a non-security update for the password manager.
The list of changes is relatively long, and it may be confusing to navigate the listing. Here is a quick overview of the most important or useful changes in the release:
- You may now use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-H to toggle password visibility in report dialogs. Note that this works when viewing passwords in the table-like interface, but seemingly not, when you display a single password.
- The preview tab of the password generator displays the average estimated quality of the passwords now and has the number of passwords increased to 50.
- KeePass will abort the preview generation of passwords if the operation is taking too long.
- User-Agent header for web requests added.
- On systems with Microsoft Edge uninstalled, the browser no longer appears in the URL(s) menu.
Again, there is more to discover but these look to be the highlights of the release.
How to update KeePass: this is relatively easy. Since there is no integrated update system that you may use to download and install updates, you need to visit the developer website, download the latest release, and install it manually.
If you like winget, you could also run winget upgrade DominikReichl.KeePass to download and install the latest version using the built-in software package manager.
Now it is your turn. What is your favorite password manager right now and why? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
Keepass has always been my favourite password manager and yes, I have the latest version already installed.
But I’m experiencing a bug if I can call it that. What seems to be happening is that passwords are being modified without my knowlegde. I usually only discover this when I want to login to a site somewhere and see a warning that it’s the incorrect password. When I try a second time with the usual copy/paste function and clear the clipboard in between, the same thing happens. When I check the app to see what’s stored there as a password I see a long string of alphanumeric characters which don’t resemble anything like I usually use such as the special characters on the top row of keys in combination with numbers and upper/lowercase characters. If anything, it resembles a URL where you see something like “hj8gfda6auree7” etc in the string. How that happens I don’t know. In any event, when it changes like this I don’t get a prompt to save “the new password” which should theoretically happen when a password change has been made.
According to Malwarebytes the system is clean both on my Windows 8.1 machine as well as on Win 11 Pro laptop. I’ve looked through all my passwords today and everything seems to be in order so I’m at at a loss at the moment to explain how this change takes place.
I’ve also searched the Keepass forum to see if anyone else has reported this, but date I haven’t found anything.
I’ll just have to keep a wary eye on it for the time being.
Could it be new generated passwords?