Passware Kit Standard

What's new in this version:

Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2025.1.0
New Features:
- Password recovery for newer versions of Hancom Office
- Usability improvements

Fixed:
- Improved password verification for ZIP archives
- Fixed an issue with the “Current password” field displaying the same passwords during the recovery process in some cases
- Resolved “Password not found” error for MS Office files with Enhanced RSA and AES-256 Cryptographic Provider
- Bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2024.4.0
New Features:
- Support for macOS 15 Sequoia
- Public GPU and CPU benchmarks
- GPU-accelerated password recovery for Hancom Office
- Usability improvements

Fixed:
- Minor UI and usability bugfixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2024.3.0
New Features:
- Password hint display
- Usability improvements
- Improved UI experience for stopping the password recovery process

Fixed:
- Fixed saving of log files when the default location is changed
- UI bug fixes and stability improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2024.2.0
New Features:
- Windows password reset: extended RAID drivers support
- Improved GPU-accelerated credential recovery for older versions of Mozilla
- New QR-codes and short links simplifying the workflow in air-gapped environments

Fixed:
- Fixed problem with Passware Kit not starting due to corrupted config file
- Resolved the “…image is likely corrupted"…” error for ISO files in Windows Key
- Miscellaneous bug fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2024.1.1
Improved:
- Improved handling of external links when Internet connection is not available

Fixed:
- Resolved the “Error in calculation worker thread” error for some 7-Zip files
- Fixed incorrect display of CPU load percentage for cases with low utilization level
- Other bug fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2024.1.0
New Features:
- New product icons

Fixed:
- Discontinued TACC support, as the product has reached end-of-life
- Fixed minor issues with Xieve-attack
- Fixed occasional issues with TrueCrypt password recovery in Hardware Benchmark
- Other fixes and software quality-of-life improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2023.4.0
New Features:
- Master password recovery for the latest Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
- Support for macOS 14 Sonoma

Fixed:
- Resolved an issue with the Windows Key Demo password reset
- Stability fixes for Encryption Analyzer
- Resolved occasional crashes on macOS Mojave
- UI bugfixes and improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2023.3.1
Improved:
- Improved “Known passwords/part” attack UI
- Apple Notes recovery is supported in Passware Kit Standard Plus

Fixed:
- Resolved "Unhandled QuickBooks clue subtype” error for some QuickBooks files
- Fixed issue with saving custom dictionaries after restart
- Fixed "Internal error" that occurred when saving jobs in certain cases
- Minor fixes for scanning and processing encrypted files
- Resolved issues with creating an unprotected copy for MS Excel files larger than 1 GB
- Fixed issues with launching Passware Kit Forensic from Encryption Analyzer
- Minor UI bugfixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2023.3.0
New Features:
- Added a warning for Known Password(s)/Part attack on passwords longer than 128 characters being skipped
- Attack settings and UI navigation: quality of life improvements
- UI improvements

Fixed:
- Resolved an issue with incorrect password recovery for some ZIP files
- Fixed support for some ZIP 5.x-6.x files
- Stability and UI fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2023.2.0
New Features:
- Instant password recovery for Opera GX and Crypto browsers
- Support for password recovery for VBA projects in Passware Kit Basic
- Automatic saving of Dictionary Manager settings
- New dictionary: Ukrainian

Fixed:
- Revised keyboard shortcuts in the Attack Settings editor for improved usability
- UI improvements and stability fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2023.1.1
Improved:
- UI minor improvements

Fixed:
- Resolved navigation issues after stopping the password recovery process
- UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2023.1.0
New Features:
- Ability to establish a GPU utilization level in Tools | Options
- GPU acceleration UI improvements
- UI improvements

Fixed:
- Detection of ZIP archives with unsupported PKWARE encryption
- Minor stability fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.4.1
Fixed:
- Minor UI bugfixes and quality of life improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.4.0
New Features:
- Support of macOS Ventura
- Improved Windows password reset for UEFI systems
- Support for booting in UEFI mode directly from a WindowsKey.ISO file
- New dictionary: Vietnamese
- Added display of passwords on the Passwords Found tab as they get recovered
- A list of supported file types is now available in the Help menu
- A newsletter subscription option is available during Windows installation
- UI improvements

Fixed:
- Minor navigation UI improvements
- Minor UI improvements for the Dictionary Manager
- Removed “Filed to parse from session” error record from Log files
- Bug fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.3.1
- Multiple bugfixes and improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.3.0
New Features:
- Option on the Passwords Found tab to view the attack that found the password
- Search option on Attacks Tab
- Dictionary Attack UI improvements
- Faster startup
- Multiple UI improvements

Fixed:
- Resolved issue with .csv reports not being saved correctly
- Cross-platform implementation of hot keys
- Improved a display on the Logs Tab for files that are not supported on macOS
- Windows Key minor improvements
- License manager improvements
- Application navigation fixes
- Multiple bugfixes and improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.2.1
- Resolved an issue with resetting passwords for some LiveID accounts [SUP-1543]
- Fixed an issue with “Find Encrypted Files” not working due to a disconnected network drive
- Improved display of the dictionaries list in the Dictionary Manager
- Minor UI improvements and bug fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.2.0
New Features:
- Passware Kit for Mac with GPU acceleration support
- OneNote Revision Store support
- Added Average speed value to Performance Tab
- Added Troubleshooting tab in the Tools|Options
- New dictionary: Icelandic

Fixed:
- Optimized OpenCL acceleration for RAR3 and 7-Zip archives
- Improved sync of "Light/Dark" theme setting with system settings
- Detection of unsupported solid archive encryption for RAR archives [SUP-1520]
- Resolved issues with some antivirus products reporting false positives for Passware Kit
- Improved telemetry for some GPU cards
- Minor improvements and bug fixes [SUP-1518] [SUP-1519] [SUP-1524]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.1.2
Fixed:
- Resolved "Error: Call timeout” error
- Resolved an issue with Plaintext attack for some ZIP files
- Improved the way recovery state is saved for ZIP files
- Minor UI improvements and bug fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.1.1
Fixed:
- Added an option to sync "Light/Dark" theme setting with system settings
- UI and performance improvements for Dictionary Manager
- Decreased memory usage for Dictionary attacks
- Minor UI improvements and fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2022.1.0
New Features:
- Support for Windows 11
- Support for macOS Monterey
- GPU-accelerated password recovery for Acronis backups
- List of passwords supported by the Known Password attack
- Instant LUKS2 decryption via memory analysis
- Support for LUKS2 AES-CBC plain encryption
- Batch mode improvements
- New Passware dictionaries
- Hardware Benchmark added to Demo version
- Shutdown and Reboot options in the Bootable Memory Imager
- “About” box allows copying the product key, version, and product name

Fixed:
- Resolved an issue with incorrect image processing in PDF files [SUP-1397]
- Improved sort options for the Find Encrypted Files page [SUP-1417]
- Revised Read Me document for Passware Agent for Linux [SUP-1424]
- Resolved an issue with processing some custom dictionaries [SUP-1432]
- Multiple Dark theme improvements
- Resolved an error caused by scanning the root folder on macOS
- Minor UI improvements and fixes [SUP-1396] [SUP-1427]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.4.2
- Change log not available for this version


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.4.1
Fixed:
- Resolved “editingGroupCid is undefined” error
- Resolved “PubSub: Not found handle on engine process” error
- Resolved an issue with Wizard showing default attacks after configuration
- Minor fixes and improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.4.0
New Features:
- Mac version of all Passware Kit editions
- New dictionary: Turkish
- Dark theme

Fixed:
- Fixed an issue with the “Undo” option not working when a new model is added to an existing one [SUP-1374]
- “Clear History” option now works from any page of Passware Kit
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.3.1
- Fixed an issue with adding drivers to Windows Key [SUP-1300]
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.3.0
New Features:
- Usability improvements

Fixed:
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.2.1
- Change log not available for this version


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.2.0
New:
- 13x faster on Zip and support for large archives
- Ability to view settings of successful password recovery attacks
- Usability improvements

Fixed:
- Fixed an issue that prevented Passware from checking some passwords for 7Zip archives after disabling and then enabling a GPU or CPU
- UI improvements and minor fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.1.3
Fixed:
- Resolved an issue with some PDF files
- Resolved an error with TPR acceleration


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.1.2
- Change log not available for this version


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.1.1
Bug-fixes:
- Resolved issues for some GPUs
- Resolved an intermittent issue occurring after stopping Passware Agent
- Resolved an issue causing an incorrect number of passwords displayed for some brute-force attacks
- UI improvements and minor fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2021.1.0
New Features:
- Preview of generated passwords
- GPU-accelerated recovery of PDF owner password
- PDF password recovery improvements
- Import of dictionaries preserving the order of passwords

Bug-fixes:
- Added an option to change file encoding
- UI improvements and minor fixes


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.4.2
- Change log not available for this version


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.4.1
New Features:
- Resolved an issue for some PDF files showing as unsupported
- Resolved an error shown for encrypted empty Zip archives


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.4.0
New Features:
- New Mask attack
- Password recovery for iWork 2020 files
- New modifier: transliteration for keyboard layout
- Improved performance for Zip AES password recovery
- Reports saved as CSV files

Bugfixes:
- Minor UI improvements
- Resolved an issue with some PDF files showing an error
- Resolved recovery attack failing for some Internet Explorer 7-9 forms


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.3.2
Bug-fixes:
- Resolved an issue with auto-update showing an error message for slow internet connections


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.3.1
Bug-fixes:
- Hardware acceleration improvements
- Resolved an issue with some long passwords for RAR archives not being processed correctly
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.3.0
New Features:
- Instant recovery of website passwords from Opera, Chrome, and Edge browsers
- Instant recovery of Outlook 2016/2019 email passwords
- Decryptum performance improvements for TrueCrypt and Zip

Bugfixes:
- Improved password recovery speed for PDF documents on systems with multiple GPUs


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.2.3
- Minor stability improvements of GPU acceleration


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.2.3
- Improved performance for multi-GPU systems


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.2.1
Bugfixes:
- Resolved an issue where password recovery process would freeze in Demo version
- Fixed an issue that could cause an error message while processing certain types of dictionaries
- Fixed a bug that caused an error message to appear for some PDF files during hardware-accelerated password attacks
- Resolved compatibility issues with some older NVIDIA GPU cards
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.2.0
New Features:
- Improved GPU performance
- UI improvements for displaying recovered passwords

Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue that caused a Javascript error for some Windows 10 systems [SUP-1081]
- Resolved an issue with password not being recovered for some Excel files [SUP-1102]
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.1.3
Bug fixes:
- Resolved an issue with an incorrect amount of words for some merged dictionaries


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.1.2
Bugfixes:
- Resolved an error occurring during dictionary merge for some dictionaries
- Resolved an issue with an incorrect number of passwords shown for the merged dictionary
- Resolved an issue with Password Exchange not syncing new passwords
- Reduced the time required for GPUs to start attacks for some file types
- Resolved "Slow progress" issue for GPU acceleration for some files [SUP-1082]
- Resolved an issue that caused GPU cards to stay idle under certain circumstances
- Minor stability improvements of GPU acceleration [SUP-1082]
- Improved GPU logging and performance stats [SUP-1092]
- Resolved an error occurring while applying some patterns to the dictionary attack
- Resolved an issue with the attack settings being reset after closing Dictionary Manager
- Improved Windows password reset for Live ID accounts [SUP-1056]
- Minor Dictionary Manager improvements
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.1.1
Bugfixes:
- Dictionary Manager improvements
- Resolved occasional error in Dictionary Manager during dictionary compilation


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2020.1.0
New Features:
- Dictionary Manager
- 5 times faster on dictionary compilation
- A new “Mixed order” option for “Join Attacks” group


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.4.2
- Resolved an issue with starting the password recovery process for some file types using command line
- Added support for DRM-protected MS Office files [SUP-1055]
- Resolved a data race issue with some attacks [SUP-1063]
- Resolved an issue that was causing a crash for some attacks for PDF files [SUP-1065]
- Minor logging improvements
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.4.1
- Improved support for multiple GPU cards being connected to a single PCI slot [SUP-1043]
- Fixed an issue for certain Zip 2.0 archives
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.4.0
New Features:
- Export and import of dictionaries
- Saved recovery state now includes dictionaries used for recovery
- Improved password recovery speed for Zip AES encryption

Bugfixes:
- Resolved an issue with the "Clear history -> Log files” option not working for some systems
- Resolved “A valid JSON document must be either an array or an object value” error [SUP-1035]
- Resolved "Empty password" error for PDF 6.0 files [SUP-1038]
- Improved Passware Kit stability
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.3.3
Bugfixes:
- Minor Attack Builder improvements
- Resolved "Internal error" while compiling some custom dictionaries [SUP-1033]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.3.2
New Features:
- "Clear Passwords Found" option added
- Minor GUI updates

Bugfixes:
- Resolved an issue with Wizard setup option
- Resolved an error with Zip archives containing large files
- Chrome passwords extraction fixed
- Import of password recovery states fixed
- Resolved an error with .DIC file compilation [SUP-1026]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.3.1
New Features:
- Total number of passwords checked is now displayed at the end of the password recovery process [SUP-1007]
- Minor improvements of GPU acceleration

Bugfixes:
- Resolved issue with Distributed Password Recovery for larger ZIP archives
- Minor GUI updates


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.3
New Features:
- Protection against GPU overheating

Bugfixes:
- Resolved possible GPU error caused by long dictionary passwords
- Resolved possible memory leak for some GPU-accelerated attacks
- Minor log system improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.2.2
Bugfixes:
- Resolved an issue with GPU cards being idle during the recovery process for some attack settings
- Resolved an issue with Passware dictionaries from older versions of Passware (*.dic) not being imported
- Resolved an issue with Wizard not saving a chosen pattern after changing the settings manually
- Resolved an issue with some Wizard settings not being available for editing
- Minor UI improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.2.0
New Features:
- Export and import of password recovery state
- Added ability to change Main Product Key in "License Manager"

Bugfixes:
- Fixed crash when trying to double click the "Websites" attack


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.1.4
- Resolved an issue with some of the passwords found displayed as 0
- Improved support for older versions of WinRar archives
- Improved logging


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.1.3
Bugfixes:
- Resolved an issue with some attacks being skipped instead of resumed
- Resolved MS Office attack issue with TPR devices
- Improved diagnostic messages for Windows Key


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.1.2
Bugfixes:
- Added an option to attach all the logs and crash dumps before sending a Bug Report
- Resolved an issue with sending Bug Reports failed with some email clients


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.1.1
Bugfixes:
- Resolved "Unexpected end of JSON inputnSyntaxError" error
- Resolved issue with binary dictionaries compilation
- Resolved Wizard issues for some Brute-force attacks [SUP-910]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2019.1
New Features:
- GPU monitoring
- Additional dictionaries: Rumanian, Bulgarian, Irish

Bugfixes:
- Resolved blank screen on launch issue [SUP-903]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2018.3.1
Bugfixes:
- Encrypted items are now sorted correctly after a folder is moved in Encryption Analyzer


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2018.3
New Features:
- Support for MS Office 2019
- Improved support for Tableau Password Recovery (TPR)

Bugfixes:
- Resolved an issue with the application window not being updated (or getting blank) during a password recovery process
- Resolved Encryption Analyzer issue [SUP-870]


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2018.2.1
- Resolved an issue with saving password recovery state
- Resolved Windows Key 'Incorrect Product Key' error [SUP-868]
- Minor GUI improvements


Passware Kit Standard 2018.1.2
- Resolved "setNetworkObserver" error
- Multiple minor GUI improvements and fixes
- Resolved issues with the Undo option of the Attack Editor


Passware Kit Standard 2018.1.1
- Multiple minor UI improvements
- Fixed an issue with non-English locales
- Resolved an issue that caused slow password recovery for RAR archives


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.5.2
- Bug fixes: Resolved GPU acceleration issue


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.5.1
- Bug fixes: Resolved minor GPU issues


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.5.0
- Minor GUI improvements for PDF recovery


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.4.2
- Bug fixes: Resolved OpenCL compatibility issue with older NVIDIA GPUs


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.4.1
- Fixed password recovery issue for multipart RAR 3.x-4.x archives
- Fixed OpenCL initialization issue with older NVIDIA GPUs


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.4.0
- Support of GPU-accelerated password recovery for PDFs (encryption revision 3)
- Increased performance of GPU-accelerated password recovery
- Support for SHA-256 encryption for MS Office 2013


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.3.1
- Minor improvements for Live ID account reset


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.3.0
- Password resets for Windows Server 2016 users, administrators, and Active Directory
- OpenCL hardware acceleration for 7-Zip archives


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.2.2
- Resolved GPU acceleration issue for ZIP password recovery
- Minor GPU acceleration improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.2.1
- Change log not available for this version


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.2.0
- Export and import of known passwords
- Dictionaries for Estonian, Finnish, and Polish languages
- Optimizations for hardware acceleration


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.1.2
- Resolved an issue that prevented password recovery attack from restarting correctly


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.1.1
- Change log not available for this version


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2017.1.0
- Dictionaries for Danish and Swedish languages


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2016.4.0
- 2x faster on NVIDIA GTX-1080
- New Attack Modifier: Substitution


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2016.3.1
- Password recovery for iWork documents
- GPU acceleration improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2016.2.0
- GPU acceleration improvements


Passware Password Recovery Kit Standard 2016.1.0
- Password recovery for OpenOffice files
- Support for shared dictionaries