Updates

• Moving to a new computer: Once you have taken your login picture over to a new computer with the backup file and your twelve words, BlindLock writes backups there straight away and carries the vault rescue along.
• Backup setup window: The window that sets up your backup after an update always has a way forward. Choose a folder, check your twelve words or create new ones, then BlindLock writes the backup and proves it opens. If the stored words cannot be read, the window offers new words right there.
• Backup files: A backup you save by hand uses the same twelve words as the automatic one. Every backup file is written completely or not at all, the first backup is opened for a check right after it is written, and a vault counts as rescued only once its rescue is proven inside a backup.
• Entries: Cancel empties the new-entry form. The searches in Wallets and in the vault file browser have a clear button. An entry you expand near the bottom edge scrolls into view on its own.

• Unlocking without server contact: At every successful unlock the server issues a seven-day permit, signed, bound to your device and sealed by the security chip. If the server is ever unreachable, BlindLock opens with that permit. As soon as it answers again, the permit is renewed on your next unlock. When you open without server contact, a strip on the dashboard shows how many days the permit still runs.

• Connect briefly to unlock: If there is no connection while you unlock, your PIN stays valid for ten minutes. "Try again" only re-checks the connection, you never type anything twice.
• Hardware key: The dialog for adding a hardware key fits the window completely and calls your twelve words by their name.
• Vault playlists: When creating or editing, you pick media from the whole vault, with folders and search, not only from the current folder.

• Address book: A new area for family, friends, customers and your own groups. A contact has phone, email, address, birthday and a note, lives in your login picture like everything else and travels with every backup.
• Folders: Above the categories there are folders now, for example 2025 and 2026. One click on a folder shows only its entries, and the editor lets you pick one with a pill.
• New entry editor: Access on the left, everything else on the right, nothing scrolls any more. Categories and tags you already use sit there as pills to click instead of typing.
• Field types: A custom field now has a kind: text, password, URL, email, phone, date or address. Password fields are masked from the start.
• Sort and filter: Sort passwords and notes by name, recently created or recently changed. Click several tags at once and only entries carrying all of them remain. An X clears the search box.
• Keyboard: Arrow keys, page up and down, home and end move through the list, Enter opens the entry. Arrow down from the search box drops straight into the list.
• Vaults: The storage line updates the moment a file is added or removed. Playlists take your selection instead of the whole folder, and the editor lets you add single files. A video keeps its position when you enter or leave full screen.

• One backup file for everything: The backup file and the recovery file are now one and the same file. It carries everything behind your login picture and the rescue for your vaults. A separate rescue file and recovery secret per vault no longer exist. For a vault on another device you need the vault file, your vault password, the backup file and your twelve words.
• Several backup destinations: BlindLock writes the backup file to up to four folders, suggests the sync folders on your device, and checks at every destination that the file really opens with your twelve words. Pending changes are still written before locking and on quit.
• New twelve words at any time: Misplaced the note? As long as you can sign in, you can create new twelve words whenever you like. BlindLock rewrites the backup right away.
• One-time transition: After your first sign-in BlindLock walks you once through the new backup, explains what has changed, and finally checks at every destination that recovery works with your twelve words. Afterwards you see where your backup file lives.

• Custom fields: Every entry can now hold extra fields, such as a PIN, a customer number or a security question. You choose the label, and if you want, the value stays masked until you reveal it.
• Tags: Next to the category you can give an entry any number of tags. The list filters by them, and search finds them too.
• Only the name is required: Username, password and address are now optional, so a door code or a licence key fits into an entry as well. Entries without a password no longer count as "weak".

• Playlists: Put together what you want to watch and play it in one go: images, videos or both. You build your lists in the Playlists tab, rename them, reorder them and take entries back out. They stay encrypted in the vault.
• Slideshow: When a folder holds at least five images, you start a full-screen slideshow from the bar below. How long each image stays is yours to set, from two to fifteen seconds.
• Loop: Slideshows and lists with images keep going on their own, a videos-only list plays through once. Top right you can switch the loop either way at any time.
• Calm full screen: Hold the mouse still and the controls fade out, leaving just your picture. Esc brings you back.

• Vault rescue: The rescue file is now saved straight away. Before, BlindLock showed a QR code to scan first — the file is what you need.
• Tidier settings: A card with backup switches is gone. It had no effect after the backup was simplified. The backup itself keeps running on its own.
• Clearer wording: Setting up your rescue now says "twelve words and a backup file" instead of "and a QR".

• Moving to another computer: A login picture taken over on a new computer is now bound completely to that computer's security chip, including the counter for sign-in attempts.
• Full screen: Videos in the file explorer now play in full screen on request. While a video or an audio file is playing, the automatic lock stays out of the way.

• One backup file for everything: Your backup file is now your rescue file too. With it and your twelve words you bring your entries back on a new device or move your login picture to another computer. BlindLock adds this to your existing file on its own the next time you sign in.

• Video playback: Videos in your vault now play right in the built-in file explorer — MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV, with sound, and you can skip back and forth. You no longer have to export a video to watch it.
• Reliability: Checking the backup file at sign-in and restoring with your twelve words now work reliably.

• Server infrastructure: Fully renewed and redundantly protected, across independent locations and different providers.
• Security: The signing keys for app updates were rebuilt from scratch, along with various hardenings across the security architecture.

• Security: Hardened protections and improvements in the core.

• Twelve words: You enter them in twelve numbered fields. A word typed wrong is marked in its own place.
• Reliability: The update confirmation after a program update now appears reliably.
• Interface: Clearer update confirmation screen.