SeedPass/releases/draft-20260228.md

Weekly Changelog: 2026-02-21 to 2026-02-28

Highlights

• Re-enabled skip test logic for pty/termios on Windows (test_ai_tui_agent_harness).
• Simplified GUI backend config handling by refactoring it to constants.py.
• Fixed arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in backup processing.
• Reduced code complexity and redundancy across multiple entry management modules.
• Assorted test reliability fixes and CI updates.

Changed

• Refactored modify_entry to reduce complexity by using helper methods (96afc4a)
• Refactored entry menus to use generic MenuHandler.run_menu (a1b459f)
• Refactored GUI backend config to constants.py (9e08e50)
• Refactored handle_add_* methods to remove duplication (4ebc14e)
• Refactored Vault.load_index into smaller private methods (e6ff619)
• Refactored _enforce_complexity in password_generation.py (a6856c1)
• Refactored display_sensitive_entry_info into DisplayService (40f37b3)
• Refactored initialize_managers in PasswordManager for better readability (24fa2e8)
• Refactored imghdr compatibility hack to a dedicated compat module (f9023e8)

Fixed

• test_ai_tui_agent_harness on Windows platform skip handling (4b15596, a4fb4c2, b8da933, f7eb3a3, 596b491, ee7cde1)
• Removed unformatted patch.py from git history and repo (f39669a)
• Race condition in backup file permissions (bee0d62)
• Added pycryptodome dependency for PGP RSA features (1dc98a3)
• Prevented arbitrary file overwrite in backup_parent_seed (39f552d)
• Fixed legacy empty salt key derivation issues (b5a3215)
• Fixed index verification for TOTP in modify entry test (29b955c)
• Fixed macOS build script and updated requirements.lock (b61386b)

Added

• Favicon and switched accent palette to green for landing page (e089574)
• Comprehensive unit tests for generate_fingerprint (6a921b8)
• Unit test for StatsManager.reset method (407dfee)
• Test to verify atomic_write cleanup on failure (566988b)
• Test to verify verify_checksum behavior when file is missing (00d19d9)

Performance

• Offloaded blocking import_vault operations to thread (cf9d473)

Potential breaking changes / migrations — needs review

• None explicitly detected in this timeframe.

Missing metadata

• PR and author metadata are unavailable in the current environment and omitted.