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Passbolt

COLLAB
Velocity2.5

Open-source password manager for teams

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Passbolt collapsed the Community-to-Pro upgrade into a settings toggle, then spent the next release on sharing transparency.

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◆Current state
Three releases on a roughly monthly cadence, each named after a song. 5.12 took the Safari extension out of beta so it stands level with Chrome, Firefox and Edge, and added a PIN code resource type. 5.13 built on the 5.12 codebase unification to let administrators switch between Community and Pro editions from organisation settings, with no separate environment or manual migration. 5.14 added explicit confirmation dialogs before creating items in shared folders or editing shared resources, made group members visible in access lists, and fixed an MFA policy enforcement issue.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads are running at once. Commercially, the friction between the open-source edition and the paid one has been engineered away — evaluation is now a toggle rather than a deployment project. Product-wise, the focus has moved from storing secrets to showing users who can actually reach them, which is where self-hosted password managers usually lose enterprise deals. Both threads point at the same buyer: an admin at an organisation already running Community and considering Pro.
◆Prediction
The sharing-visibility work looks unfinished — expect access review or permission audit surfaces to follow — and the in-app edition switch is a natural place for licence and trial handling to appear next.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    5.14.0: confirmation prompts before shared-folder changes

    Users now get an explicit confirmation before creating items in shared folders or editing shared resources, and group members are visible in the access list rather than hidden behind the group name. Both close the same gap: users could previously widen access without seeing who that meant. An MFA policy enforcement fix ships alongside.

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  2. 1mo ago

    5.13.0: switch between Community and Pro from settings

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    The codebase unification from 5.12 pays off: editions become a setting rather than a build. This is the commercial half of Passbolt's trajectory made concrete — the barrier between the free product and the paid one is now a toggle, not a migration.

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  3. 2mo ago

    5.12.0: Safari extension leaves beta, PIN code resource type

    Safari reaches parity with Chrome, Firefox and Edge, closing the last major browser gap and removing a blocker for Apple-standardised organisations. The codebase unification landed here is what makes 5.13's in-app edition switching possible, so this release is more structurally important than its notes suggest.

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