Where are the features?

We certainly need a more detailed post with screenshots and walkthough. We were hoping to make it available for the official release but it is obvious that we should have done it before the Early Access was announced.

Our lead developer posted a few of his favourite features on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/4german/status/1425466303423434764?s=20

Here is a quick list off the top of my head. I am sure I will miss a few but we will try to collect more of them and publish a detailed post at some point:

Sign-in and Lock screen

• New lock screen that works better with multiple 1Password accounts and allows unlocking of individual accounts separately if needed.
• Simpler sign into 1Password account, more signing options that are important when setting up a new computer.

Main window

• Full keyboard navigation in the main window
• Can adjust the size of the font and other elements with ⌘+ and ⌘- keyboard shortcuts
• Simpler Preferences window (that might actually get expanded based on the feedback, like customizable keyboard shortcuts, etc)

Sidebar

• Simplified sidebar to avoid the confusion we have in 1Password 7 with its "dual-state" sidebar
• Moved Categories to be above the Item List to avoid sidebar being overloaded
• New Vault collections feature makes it easier to organize vaults for advanced users (a better solution to the All Vaults feature)
• Sidebar now clearly shows private and shared vaults.

New Watchtower

• Rebuilt from scratch to show the overall view of your current security state.

New Search

• Intelligently show the top matching items instead of a simple text matching that was done before
• Can search and select vaults, tags, etc.
• Additional features are still in development

Item List

• Greatly improved scroll performance compared to 1Password 7 (that was bugging me a lot, personally).
• The icons used in the item list view and now fully encrypted when being cached on disk.

Item Details

• New item detail view that makes it easy to see the location of the item (Account, Vault)
• Now it is easy to see with who the current item is being shared.
• We made it clear who will have access to the item when it is being moved to a different vault.

Item Editing

• Huge usability improvements compared to 1Password 7.
• Multiple file attachments can now be added to any item. For example, a Driver License can have a photo of the license card attached to it, etc.
• Items with file attachments can now be moved between vaults.
• New "Security Questions" section that makes it super-easy to create answers for websites that still require security questions.
• Tag autocompletion.
• Special handling of the scenario where 1Password becomes locked in the middle of the editing session.

Quick Access

• A new approach to the mini that does not try replace the main 1Password window but give advanced users the fastest access to their data without switching to the app.
• Extremely keyboard-friendly.
• Still in development, expect changes there.

Other features

• New browser integration that is now fully based on native messaging and supports shared lock state between all browsers and the main app.
• New update system that automatically downloads and installs the build based on your computer architecture (M1 vs Intel).
• New export feature to perform full local encrypted data backups if needed.
• Fully sandboxed and notarized (we obviously had this in 1Password 7 but I wanted to point it out).

Internal things that you will not see:

• Rework of the encryption to avoid using older OpenSSL libraries.
• Encryption uses the well-regarded open-source Ring library.
• The account password you type during the unlock is removed from memory as soon as the initial generation of the MUK is completed.
• A lot of work went into making sure there is no decrypted data floating in memory when the app is locked.
• The front-end does not get the decrypted password until it really has to show it to the user.
• Better validation of input data (to prevent malicious encrypted payloads that could be a potential vector of attack in large teams)
• Reworked logging system to prevent any chance that the customer data could be logged to disk.
• Multiple external security audits.
• Multiple usability tests with both old-time 1Password users and people who never used a password manager.

Again, I probably missed some things but it is Sunday and I need to see my family.

We all know that 1Password 8 still needs work and I wanted to say that we appreciate all the feedback you gave us this week. There were some words said that got our entire team a bit rattled and frustrated but we understand that this is because you all care so much about 1Password ❤️