2 February 2020
PasswordVault v8.4.0 is now available for Windows and MacOS X! New 64-bit Windows version (to complement the existing 32-bit version), MacOS version includes all new Catalina security enhancements, new font to make usernames and passwords easier to read, and excellent speed optimizations on all platforms.
6 September 2018
In readiness for the upcoming Mojave release of MacOS, PasswordVault v8.3.0 is now 64-bit and ready to download! We have plans for some great new features, including support for two-factor authentication (2FA) keys, like the Yubikey and Google's new Titan Security Key. A new Linux version is also coming soon.
22 November 2014
The Enterprise Edition of PasswordVault is now available for Windows and MacOS X, and offers a range of fantastic new features for small businesses all the way up to large enterprise users!
30 October 2014
PasswordVault v8.2.4 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This maintenance upgrade includes a number of enhancements and fixes, as well as compatibility to the new ‘Yosemite’ (v10.10) version of MacOS X.
18 November 2013
PasswordVault v8.2.0 is now available, and is a free upgrade for all users! The MacOS X version is compatible to the new ‘Mavericks’ (v10.9) version of MacOS, and the Windows version is compatible to Windows 8.
3 September 2011
PasswordVault v8.0.1 has now been validated for use with MacOS X Lion.
21 September 2010
PasswordVault v8.0.1 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This maintenance upgrade optimises news updates, and corrects a problem where forced modes accessed via the Shift and Ctrl keys (ie. copy-to-clipboard, and drag-and-drop) didn't work in some instances. It is a free upgrade for all users. The Linux version is coming soon.
7 September 2010
PasswordVault v8.0.0 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This major upgrade adds a stylish new ‘Origami’ button set and ‘White Marble’ backdrop for newer operating systems like Windows 7 and MacOS X 10.6, includes an updated button layout, as well as various optimizations and fixes. It is a free upgrade for all users. The Linux version is coming soon.
16 August 2010
PasswordVault v7.4.3 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This maintenance upgrade adds forced drag-and-drop and copy-to-clipboard modes (to better support technical IT specialists using textclips to store console commands), and fixes minor issues related to auto-exporting. It is a free upgrade for all users. The Linux version is coming soon.
9 August 2010
PasswordVault v7.4.2 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This maintenance upgrade fixes a minor issue with adding Exporters on the Auto-Distribution dialog. It is a free upgrade for all users. The Linux version is coming soon.
26 July 2010
PasswordVault v7.4.1 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This maintenance upgrade adds some minor enhancements, optimizations and fixes. It is a free upgrade for all users. The Linux version is coming soon.
20 July 2010
PasswordVault v7.4.0 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. This major upgrade contains a new encryption architecture based on double-layer 256-bit AES encryption, an automatic service data backup system (with easy restore), support for multiple users on shared computers, an activity monitor to assist with setting up secure network distribution of service data, and various optimizations and fixes. It is a free upgrade for all users. The Linux version is coming soon.
25 March 2010
PasswordVault v7.1.4 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. This upgrade contains some minor enhancements and fixes, as well as the re-release of the Linux build. It is a free upgrade for all users.
Important Note: Please ensure the 'Get Latest News On Launch' checkbox is set in the preferences, if you'd like to receive news automatically when PasswordVault starts up. An issue in v7.1.3 disabled this automatic news function.
17 December 2009
PasswordVault v7.1.3 is now available for Windows and MacOS X (Linux version coming soon). This minor upgrade adds better sync error alerts, compatibility to netbook screen resolutions, increased note size, an improved custom export function, digitally signed Windows installers, and a fix for a launch failure issue on Windows. It is a free upgrade for all users.
19 August 2009
PasswordVault v7.1 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux! This minor upgrade adds subcategory support for all PasswordVault services, import filters for Web Confidential, URL Manager Pro and titled csv files, simplified username/password setup of auto-filled web logins, improved portable/desktop and online synchronization, and various optimizations and bug fixes. It is a free upgrade for all users.
24 July 2009
PasswordVault v7.0 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux! This major new release provides comprehensive web bookmark management for 1000s of bookmarks, imports web bookmarks from most browsers, adds a textclip library function (for building standardized emails), generates various types of passwords directly in the ‘Add Service’ dialog, provides a number of sorting methods for displayed services, adds powerful drag-and-drop addition of web bookmarks and textclips, includes an optimized button layout, offers a simplified menu layout, includes updated help tags and help messages, and vastly reduces startup and import times. It is a free upgrade for all users.
5 April 2009
PasswordVault v6.2.1 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. This maintenance release contains a number of fixes and optimizations, including improvements in timed paste mode.
23 December 2008
PasswordVault v6.2 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux!
This new version adds a ‘Synchronize Now’ function to allow users to easily perform an online synchronization, significantly improves the ‘Timed Paste’ Username/Password transfer mode, and includes a number of optimizations and bug fixes.
17 November 2008
Kenbushi® v7.5.1 is now available for MacOS X and Windows! It is free for all users.
This new version adds support for Ogg Vorbis movie and music formats, adds an ‘Exit To Desktop’ option to KenbushiTV, has improved media file scanning, smoother KenbushiTV screen navigation, and various optimizations and bug fixes.
24 October 2008
PasswordVault v6.1 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux!
This new version makes it easy to add a new service by simply dropping a website URL onto a URL dropbox on the global floating window, has incredibly fast and simple search abilities, includes easy data backup, automatic backup before any manual import (in case the import goes awry), the ability to copy a service URL to the clipboard with one click, easy printing of online synchronization information (for setting up online sync on another computer, filing for future reference, etc.) and various enhancements and optimizations.
PasswordVault can now also manage all your web browser bookmarks. It works with all web browsers, runs on Windows, MacOS X and Linux, securely synchronizes bookmarks for individual users over LAN and Internet, synchronizes groups of bookmarks between multiple users over LAN, and delivers incredibly fast and simple bookmark search abilities. PasswordVault can also be run directly off a USB memory stick, allowing you to take your bookmarks with you on the road.
30 September 2008
Kenbushi® v7.5 is now available for MacOS X and Windows! It is free for all users.
This new version supports non-English language versions of Windows and MacOS X, such as Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Chinese. It also loads media files with non-English file paths onto media players and mobile phones, plays Divx format movies directly, provides easy access to detailed information about video podcasts, and contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes.
25 August 2008
Kenbushi® v7.4 is now available for MacOS X and Windows! It is free for all users.
This new version can now help you quickly and easily load your MP3 player, multimedia player, mobile phone, USB stick, SD card (for playback on a PSP) or portable hard disk with media from the Kenbushi media library. 'Media Space Limits' can be set for each playlist list to ensure only a portion of the available storage space is used for media files. Multiple playlist lists can be set for any storage device. Media types supported by a particular storage device can be specified, ensuring only those types are loaded on during synchronization. Media storage devices are automatically detected when they are connected.
The 'Kenbushi Setup Wizard' has also been significantly improved, making setup very simple and intuitive - all Internet TV programs, music and movies are automatically set up, including full cover artwork and metadata.
4 May 2008
The Kenbushi® Pro v7.3.2 maintenance release is now available and contains a number of fixes and optimizations.
20 April 2008
We have just opened a forum to support the Kenbushi Pro user community. You can now post questions, get tips, suggest new Internet TV programs, make feature requests and report bugs in a centralized location. Please visit the new forums at:
http://lavasoftware.com/kbforum
24 March 2008
The Kenbushi® Pro v7.3.1 maintenance release is now available and fixes problems with high CPU utilization on Macs, occasionally disabled navigation keys and incorrect movie genres on the KenbushiTV screen, and some other issues.
10 March 2008
Kenbushi® Pro v7.3 is now available! New features in this version include complete video podcast (Internet TV) management on the main window, 30 new Internet TV channels, additional methods to sort and filter video podcasts, music play/pause control in the Windows tray, expanded setup wizard, better video podcast download progress information, significant stability improvements, and a range of bug fixes. The Pro Edition is now free for all users.
1 January 2008
Kenbushi media server examples have been made available, making it easy for users to choose low-cost computer hardware and software to build a complete custom Kenbushi Media Server, or convert an existing computer into a Kenbushi Media Server.
12 December 2007
Kenbushi® Pro v7.2 released! New features in this version include a complete Internet TV system with 180+ channels of high-quality content, simplified DVD and CD cover artwork downloads, a one-click setup wizard, powerful Internet download management tools (such as download quotas), a regularly updated Internet TV program guide, and various enhancements and fixes. It is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista and MacOS X (a Linux version is coming soon).
28 August 2007
Kenbushi® Pro v7.1 released! The Pro Edition is now free for personal users, schools and charity organizations. All other users, such as commercial entities (eg. companies, businesses, etc.) and government still need to purchase a license for each computer.
New features in this version include a greatly enhanced full-screen media control system, vidcast support, automatic addition of iTunes podcasts/vidcasts, BitTorrent downloads and remotely transferred media files to the media library, improved automatic categorization of media, automatic daily news updates, and various bug fixes.
Note: The Standard Edition of Kenbushi has been discontinued.
2 July 2007
PasswordVault v6.0 is now available! New features in this version include online password synchronization (so passwords on multiple computers can be easily and securely synchronized anywhere in the world), global floating window transparency (making it less conspicuous), Windows Vista compatibility, reduced CPU utilization, and various optimizations. It is a free upgrade for all users.
28 May 2007
Kenbushi v7.0 is now available! New features in this version include full-screen media control with simple and powerful media search and play, easy browsing of movies and albums by DVD and CD cover artwork, automated download of DVD and CD media information from Amazon.com, extraction of extensive TV show meta-information from download file names, a key press during TV show playback captures cover artwork for an episode, fully integrated support for Quicktime and the VLC media player, fast database-driven searching of local and remote media libraries, easy local and remote playlist creation and management, local control of media playback via wireless (or wired) keyboard or PDA, remote control of media playback over LAN or Internet, playback of virtually all movie and music formats including avi, divx, mpeg4, flash, mov, mp3, mp4 and music purchased from the iTunes store, full-screen media control auto-scales to any TV resolution from 640x480 upwards, and an On-Screen-Display (OSD) when controlling full-screen media playback. It is a free upgrade for all users.
11 December 2006
PasswordVault v5.2 is now available! This new version offers a selection of button graphic styles including ‘Aqua’, ‘Sketch’ and ‘Win32’, increased web form auto-fill speed, improved ‘Quick Start’ information, and additional MacOS X detail in the user manual. It is a free upgrade for all users.
22 November 2006
PasswordVault v5.1 is now available! This new version offers powerful import functions which allow password data to be imported efficiently from most other password managers, easier updating of runtime keys (for Std to Pro Edition crossgrades), and enhancements which simplify the setting up and testing of auto-import and auto-export of password data (used by the password auto-distribution system). It is a free upgrade for all users.
31 October 2006
PasswordVault v5.0 is now available! This new version offers auto-filling of Web forms, detailed reports after portable/desktop synchronization (showing added, changed and removed services), first letter filtering on service names, improved propagation of removed services when synchronizing, a larger font size for better readability, larger buttons for easier mouse clicking, and greatly reduced CPU utilization. It is a free upgrade for all users.
The new Professional Edition offers additional features which are very useful for password management and control within organizations. This includes auto-distribution, a very streamlined and secure way to automatically distribute passwords (and other service information) between groups of users, and a distribution log showing all auto-exports and all service changes made during auto-imports. All current site licensees are offered a complimentary cross-grade to this new edition.
Note: 'PasswordVault' was previously called 'PC-Mac PasswordVault'.
10 October 2006
Kenbushi v6.2 is now available! This new version allows users to remotely control media playback using any PDA with Wi-Fi, offers wireless PDA slideshows, a simple integrated Web server, media bookmarks, a Skipmark(TM) system (sections of movies can be automatically skipped, such as credits, scenes unsuitable for children, etc.), new mute, playlist shuffle and loop controls, in addition to a number of bug fixes. It is a free upgrade for all users.
Note: 'Kenbushi' was previously called 'PC-Mac-Net FileShare'. The new name was chosen to better reflect it's wider range of functions than simply cross-platform file sharing.
1 August 2006
PC-Mac-Net FileShare v6.1 is now available! This new version offers incremental backup to local hard disk, incremental backup over LAN or Internet to one or more destination computers (thus providing on and offsite redundancy), up to 256-bit AES encryption of remotely stored backup files, email notification of backup plan execution, pre-backup and post-backup script support, automatic MD5 digital signature verification of backup files to ensure file integrity, automatic launch on startup/login, queuing of automatic backups when offline, greatly increased file backup speed, significantly reduced CPU utilization, an activity list showing all backups and restores, and support for inexpensive Linux-based home backup/media servers.
31 March 2006
PC-Mac-Net FileShare v6.0 is now available for Windows, MacOS X, MacOS Classic and Linux! This new version offers incremental data backup with scheduling, improved remote folder synchronization, greater robustness in transferring large groups of files, better diagnostics for setting up Internet file transfers, significant fixes in the Linux and MacOS Classic versions, superfast launch times, reduced CPU utilization, an enhanced user interface, and increased compatibility with non-English Windows operating systems.
16 January 2006
PC-Mac-Net FileShare v5.5 is now available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux! This new version allows one computer (such as a laptop) to simultaneously control media playback on multiple remote computers over wired or wireless LANs or the Internet. It also offers instant playlist creation, the display of music track title, artist and album information, superfast workgroup reconnection, significant fixes in the remote media player functions, full compatibility to all versions of MacOS X, and large file support (>2GB) on Linux.
