New Update Sandboxie-Plus v1.18.0 / 5.73.0 Latest

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Release v1.18.0 / 5.73.0 Latest​

Sandboxie-Plus 1.18.0 / Sandboxie 5.73.0 focuses on improving everyday usability, responsiveness, and Chromium browser compatibility, with particular attention given to one of the most frequently requested scenarios: sharing an existing browser profile between the host and a sandbox.

The most significant work in this release addresses long-standing issues affecting Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other derivatives when using the host profile from within a sandbox. Previous versions could trigger browser setting resets due to Chromium's Secure Preferences protection, making profile sharing unreliable. This release introduces a compatibility workaround that preserves browser settings and extensions when a host profile is accessed from inside a sandbox, eliminating one of the biggest obstacles to this workflow. In addition, Sandboxie now properly supports Chromium's elevation service and the required DPAPI handling, allowing sandboxed browsers to access host credentials, cookies, passwords, and other protected data when the appropriate compatibility template is enabled. Together, these improvements make running a sandboxed browser against an existing host profile far more practical and transparent than before.

Recovery functionality has also received several improvements. RecoverFolder and AutoRecoverIgnore patterns now support wildcards, including recursive matching, providing much more flexible recovery configuration. AutoRecoverIgnore rules can now also be applied to the Quick Recovery dialog, while recovery handling itself has been refined to avoid unnecessary dialog closures and to provide a more consistent deletion workflow. Several issues affecting Immediate Recovery have been resolved as well, including problems caused by path casing differences and situations where recovery could become permanently suspended.

The SandMan user interface has been improved with pending-change highlighting in the Options and Settings dialogs. Responsiveness has also been significantly improved during periods of heavy Sandboxie logging by batching UI updates and reducing rendering overhead.

The crash dump mechanism has also been completely reworked. The new crash reporter provides a more streamlined experience and, if the user chooses, can automatically submit crash reports together with an optional comment, making it much easier to provide useful feedback and helping identify and resolve issues more quickly.

This release further resolves several smaller but noticeable issues throughout the project, including cleaner handling of expected system account lookups, correct display of network paths in notifications, and numerous fixes that improve overall stability and polish.

Overall, version 1.18.0 delivers a substantial quality-of-life update, with the new Chromium profile compatibility work standing out as a major improvement for users who rely on sharing their existing browser environment between the host system and Sandboxie.

For a full list of changes please review the change log.

You can support the project through donations, any help will be greatly appreciated.
If you have issues with an update installation, just uninstall the previous version keeping the sandboxie.ini and reinstall the new build.

https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases/tag/v1.18.0
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/sandboxie-plus-v1-18-0.460302/

 

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Sandboxie-Plus 1.18.0 Overview

Thank you for sharing the release notes. This update looks like a meaningful quality-of-life release, and a few points are worth highlighting for anyone planning to upgrade.

Chromium Profile Sharing

The Secure Preferences protection in Chromium-based browsers has historically been one of the trickiest things to work around when sharing a host profile inside a sandbox, since Chromium ties certain preference values to machine-specific keys. If this release genuinely addresses that, along with proper handling of the elevation service and DPAPI, it should make sandboxed browsing with an existing profile noticeably more reliable. That said, anyone relying on sensitive data (saved passwords, cookies) through this workflow should still treat it cautiously, since exposing host credential stores to a sandboxed process changes the isolation model somewhat, even with the compatibility template enabled.

Recovery Improvements

Wildcard and recursive pattern support for RecoverFolder and AutoRecoverIgnore is a practical improvement for users managing complex sandbox configurations. The fixes to Immediate Recovery (path casing issues, permanently suspended recovery states) address real pain points that have been reported before.

Crash Reporter Rework

The reworked crash dump/report mechanism with optional automatic submission is a good move for the developers, as it should improve diagnostic quality. Users who prefer not to share crash data automatically should check whether that submission remains opt-in, as described.

General Update Advice

• Back up sandboxie.ini before upgrading, as recommended in the release notes.
• If upgrading from an older build, uninstalling first while keeping the ini file is the safer path, as stated by the developer.
• For users with custom compatibility templates, it would be worth re-checking whether the new Chromium workaround changes any manual settings previously used to achieve profile sharing.

Since this is a fairly fresh release, anyone encountering issues after upgrading should report them with logs on the official GitHub issue tracker or the linked Wilders Security thread, where the developer and community actively review feedback.