Release history

Changelog

v0.6.0

Latest

5 April 2026

Multi-language secret detection: passwords and API keys written in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hindi are now detected automatically
24 international patterns: phone numbers for FR, DE, ES, IT, BR, IN, AU, JP; national IDs (French INSEE, Indian Aadhaar/PAN, Canadian SIN, Australian TFN); postcodes; EU and ISO date formats
25 real-world patterns: NHS numbers, bank sort codes, SWIFT/BIC, routing numbers, account numbers, UK/US driving licences, UTR, NINO, EIN, ITIN, VIN, vehicle plates (UK/EU/US), claim numbers, booking refs, DOB, age, gender, nationality
Name detection: first and last name pairs matched against an 800-word dictionary. Catches "John Smith" without false-positives on common words like "mark" or "grace"
Web tool: mapping table and JSON now display side-by-side for easier review
Web tool: sample button updated to showcase all pattern types
VS Code extension v0.6.0: engine synced with all new patterns
Bug fixes: IBAN now matches spaced format, Japanese postcode no longer false-positives on phone suffixes, language detection threshold corrected, allowlist tightened to exact match only
413 tests passing including 80 adversarial fuzzing tests

3 March 2026

Web tool: detection category toggles. Enable/disable Secrets, Network, PII, AWS, Cloud, and Generic Identifiers independently
Web tool: custom words. Always redact specific terms regardless of pattern matching
Web tool: allowlist. Values that are never redacted (e.g. localhost, example.com)
Web tool: confidence scoring. Mapping table now shows High / Medium / Low confidence per detection
Web tool: "Redact selection". Highlight any text in the output and click to add it to custom words and re-run
Browser extension: custom words support added to settings panel
Browser extension: expanded to 25+ additional LLM sites including Perplexity, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Character.AI, Poe, Phind, HuggingChat, and more
VS Code extension: category toggles, custom words, and allowlist now configurable via VS Code settings
Confidence levels assigned to all 30 detection patterns

13 March 2026

VS Code extension: fixed a bug where all commands failed silently. The extension was not working at all for any user. This release fixes it.

18 February 2026

VS Code extension: anonymize and deanonymize directly in the editor with keyboard shortcuts and right-click menu
Edge browser extension support
File handling on the web UI: load files via button or drag & drop, download anonymized output
Fixed .env file support: KEY=value format (no space after =) now detected correctly
Added mongodb+srv:// connection string detection
Added googleusercontent.com to skip list to prevent false positives

16 February 2026

Massively expanded secret detection with 100+ keywords: database passwords, API tokens, client secrets, encryption keys, deploy tokens, vault tokens, and more
Natural language grammar support: detects secrets and identifiers using "is", "are", "was", "were", "will be", "set to", "equals" (not just = and :)
Unquoted value detection: catches secrets and identifiers without surrounding quotes
New keyword-based identifier patterns: 200+ keywords across hostnames, usernames, accounts, infrastructure, endpoints, databases, file paths, names, and addresses
Improved pattern priority to prevent false positives with well-known domains
226 tests passing

15 February 2026

15 February 2026

Initial release
Anonymizes IPs, emails, API keys (AWS, OpenAI, GitHub, Slack), JWTs, PEM keys, connection strings
Detects phone numbers, credit cards (Luhn-validated), SSNs, passport numbers, IBANs
AWS account IDs, ARNs, S3 buckets
Domain names, MAC addresses, UUIDs
Reversible mapping: deanonymize AI responses with one click
Browser extension for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot
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100% local processing, no data leaves your machine