This release contains lots of small improvements and a few bug fixes.

The complete list of changes can be found in the release notes.

Today we are celebrating a decade of KeyStore Explorer as open source software. On October 19, 2013 version 5.0.0 of KeyStore Explorer was released under the GPLv3 license on Sourceforge.

The history of KSE up to this date and how it became open source was documented by its creator Wayne in a very captivating manner in his blog. If you haven't read this story yet, here are the links:

A History of KeyStore Explorer – Part One
A History of KeyStore Explorer – Part Two
A History of KeyStore Explorer – Part Three
New Owner Wanted for KeyStore Explorer
KeyStore Explorer - OSS Update
KeyStore Explorer Now Open Source

In those last 10 years more than 100 new features have been added in 18 releases. To name just a few of the most important ones:

Many of those features were user contributions. All in all almost 30 persons have contributed code or translations to this project and I want to thank all of them for making this project what it is today! The top 5 contributors are:

Contributor Commits Additions
Jairo Graterón 49 6,825
Frank Dietrich 48 4,630
Colbix 38 3,170
Davy Defaud 32 11,376
The-Lum 18 1,595

There has been a constant rise in the user count over the last 10 years as well. In 2013, monthly downloads averaged 1,500, but today, that figure has increased to around 35,000.

What is planned for the future? KSE v5.6.0 will be the next big feature release, and it will focus on the following topics:

This release contains lots of small improvements and a few bug fixes.

Highlights:

The complete list of changes can be found in the release notes.

Highlights of this release:

The complete list of changes can be found in the release notes.

KeyStore Explorer 5.5.0 contains more than 40 new features, improvements and bug fixes. As always the complete and detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes.

The downloads are here.

Today KeyStore Explorer has crossed one million downloads on GitHub. This includes all releases since November 2015. Not included are downloads from the time when KSE was hosted on Sourceforge (2013 - 2015) or when KSE was Closed Source (2004 - 2013). It took around three years to reach 500,000 downloads and then only two more years for one million, which shows that the number of users is steadily increasing.

If you are interested in a more detailed breakdown of the download numbers, there is a nice website called GitHub Release Stats.

KeyStore Explorer 5.4.4 brings some minor improvements and bug fixes. The macOS version now comes with a bundled Java runtime.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer 5.4.3 brings some new features and improvements.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer's user manual is now part of this website. Future releases of KeyStore Explorer won't include a user manual anymore. Instead the menu item 'Help' will link to the online user manual.

Please keep in mind that you can contribute to the KeyStore Explorer project by improving the documentation. Like KeyStore Explorer itself this website is managed in a repository on GitHub.

KeyStore Explorer 5.4.2 brings enhancements, bugfixes and a new version of appbundler (the macOS launcher).

See the release notes for details and download it here.

Almost exactly three years ago KeyStore Explorer moved from Sourceforge to GitHub. Since then it has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, forked almost 100 times and starred more than 400 times.

KeyStore Explorer 5.4.1 is a small bugfix release.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer 5.4.0 is a huge feature release. See the release notes for a list of all changes.

KeyStore Explorer 5.3.2 is a small bugfix release.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer 5.3.1 is a small bugfix release.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer 5.3.0 includes many new features, enhancements and bugfixes.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KSE 5.2.2 is mainly a maintenance release, but also includes another translation.

Three months have passed since the release of KSE 5.2 and a couple of bugs have been reported - time for a bugfix release.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer 5.2.0 includes many new features, improvements and bugfixes.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

A new page has been added to this website that contains suggestions and guidelines on how to contribute to the KeyStore Explorer project.

It also contains a list of contributors.

This website is now also available under www.keystore-explorer.org

A code repository for KSE has been created on GitHub: KeyStore Explorer on GitHub

The repository on Sourceforge will soon be removed.

KeyStore Explorer 5.1.1 is a bugfix release. See the release notes for details.

KeyStore Explorer 5.1.0 includes many new features, improvements and bugfixes.

See the release notes for details and download it here.

KeyStore Explorer 5.0.1 is a bug fix release. See the release notes for details.

KeyStore Explorer 5.0.0 has been released today. See the release notes for details.

The downloads are available here.