safepass.me 9.0.1 and pwncheck 2.0.3 released!
We’re pleased to announce the release of safepass.me 9.0.1 and pwncheck 2.0.3, major upgrades that brings significant improvements in performance, efficiency, and flexibility for password exposure detection.
This release introduces a completely new database engine, a new automated update system, a significantly expanded breach dataset, and several new capabilities requested by users. Together, these changes make safepass.me faster, lighter, and more accurate than ever before.
Highlights include:
A New Database Engine
At the core of this release is a brand-new database engine designed for speed and efficiency.
Compared to previous versions, the new engine provides:
- Lower RAM usage
- Reduced disk space requirements, enabling us to use larger databases
In practical terms, this results in faster scans, smaller deployments, and more reliable results.
Incremental Database Updates
Keeping the breach database current is now much easier.
This release introduces a new update tool that supports incremental database updates. Instead of rebuilding or re-downloading large datasets, updates are applied efficiently as new data becomes available.
During installation, a scheduled task will be created that attempts to update the database monthly, helping ensure deployments remain current with minimal operational effort.
Updated Have I Been Pwned Dataset
The bundled breach dataset has been updated to the current version of Have I Been Pwned, which now contains approximately 2.05 billion password entries.
This is nearly twice the size of earlier versions and significantly improves detection coverage.
Optional Online Verification via the HIBP API
While we fundamentally believe that offline is the better way, safepass.me can now optionally perform online verification against the HIBP API.
This can be configured to:
- Always perform online checks (to potentially cover gaps in our offline database), or
- Verify only potential matches to eliminate any remaining false positives
This hybrid approach allows organizations to balance privacy, performance, and verification accuracy up to their standards.
Nested Group Membership Support
This release also adds support for nested group membership lookups. This allows safepass.me to correctly resolve users who inherit access through multi-level group structures, improving accuracy in environments with complex directory configurations where online group-membership evaluation was too slow to be practical.
Upgrade instructions
Please refer to the product documentation. You will need to plan for a reboot at the end of the upgrade process and may want to optimise database distribution if you are bandwidth constrained.
Dowload link are as follows:
– safepass.me documentation
– safepass.me download
– pwncheck.me documentation
– pwncheck.me download
Thank You
This is one of the most substantial updates to safepass.me in recent years. We appreciate the feedback and testing from users that helped shape this release and hope the improvements make the tool even more useful in your environments.