a BIG THANK YOU and an important question about the 1Password8 model

Hi @chongolcn2

Thanks so much for the kind words and careful consideration about how 1Password might fit into your workflow going forward. I'll try to answer your questions the best I can:

What will happen to private vaults if we upgrade to 1Password8?

Versions of 1Password beyond v7 will not include support for standalone vaults, as we call them. These vaults would need to be migrated to 1Password membership vaults in order to utilize them with new versions of 1Password.

How long will 1Password v7 be supported and updated, if at all, once 1Password8 is released?
This is something that management is evaluating but I can say that 1Password 7 is alive and well and it will continue to receive at least critical security fixes. I would say that fixes for minor bugs are less likely at this point and moving forward.

Is / will smart folders (or anything similar) be supported for 1password.com based vaults in 1Password8?

We don’t currently have anything like this, or any definite plans that I’m aware of for it, but one of the advantages of the 1Password 8 model is that it makes rolling something like this out much more realistic. I’m happy to share this request with the team.

For a device without network access, how does 1Password8 (if it can) give one access to password data?

If a device will never have network access, then it will not be able to use 1Password effectively. That said, the apps do keep an offline cache, and so once they’ve synced with the server offline access is possible.

For a device that is offline for a period, how does 1Password8 (if it can) sync adds/mods/deletes once that device comes back online?

For sure, 1Password can work in an environment like this. It is designed to be able to work offline and then sync back up when reconnected.

Is there any option / ability for 1Password8 to not sync a given password over the internet?
There is not, however we are running a survey to see what benefit would be provided by self-hosting, and how many people / companies would be interested in that: https://survey.1password.com/self-host/

I hope that helps!

Ben