Software:KeePassX

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Short description: Free and open-source password manager
KeePassX
KeePassX logo
KeePassX 2.0.png
A screenshot of KeePassX 2.0.3
Developer(s)KeePassX Team
Initial release2005; 19 years ago (2005)
Stable release
2.0.3 / October 8, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-10-08)[1]
Written inC++
Operating systemMulti-platform
TypePassword manager
LicenseGPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only[2]
Websitekeepassx.org

KeePassX is a discontinued free and open-source password manager. It started as a Linux port of KeePass,[3] which was at that time an open-source but Windows-only password manager. Both are now cross platform, with KeePassX using Qt libraries and recent versions of KeePass using .NET / Mono. It is built using version 5 of the Qt toolkit, making it a multi-platform application, which can be run on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

KeePassX uses the KeePass 2 (.kdbx) password database format as the native format. It can also import (and convert) the older KeePass 1 (.kdb) databases.[3]

As of December 2021, KeePassX is no longer actively maintained.[4]

There is a community fork of KeePassX, called KeePassXC.

See also

References

  1. "KeePassX 2.0.3 Released". KeePassX Team. 2016-10-08. https://www.keepassx.org/news/2016/10/609. Retrieved 2016-10-11. 
  2. "COPYING". https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/blob/master/COPYING. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frydman, Ricardo (2016-05-11). "Managing passwords in Linux with KeePassX". https://opensource.com/business/16/5/keepassx. "KeePassX started as a Linux port of KeePass, which was at that time an open source but Windows-only password manager" 
  4. "Development stopped". 9 December 2021. https://www.keepassx.org/index.html%3Fp=636.html. 

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