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Changelog
v0.6.0
Latest5 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
v0.5.0
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
v0.4.5
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.
v0.4.0
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=valueformat (no space after =) now detected correctly - Added
mongodb+srv://connection string detection - Added
googleusercontent.comto skip list to prevent false positives
v0.3.0
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
v0.2.0
15 February 2026
- New icon design (black theme)
- Added site favicon
- Privacy policy page
- Centred install section layout
- Firefox Add-ons listing
v0.1.0
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
- Web-based tool at privatiser.net
- 100% local processing, no data leaves your machine