• Bug fix: Fixed syntax display for log file path pattern.
• Bug fix: Configured transfer settings were not applied to uploads from editor when editing of more than one file was enabled. 449

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Bug fix: Folder history included directories opened just for scanning. 324
• SSH/SFTP/FTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.1.6. The interface and logic of the plugin updated to include most functionality of the version. It brings following changes:
  • Workaround for problem with Tectia SFTP server corrupting remote file if resumed transfer fails again. 351
  • Errors while keeping session alive with FTP protocol are ignored.
  • Improved logging of FTP protocol events and errors.
  • Password for tunnel session is also remembered for background transfers. 400
  • Timestamps of local and remote file are compared with respect to their precision when transferring updated files only. 409
  • Expanding/collapsing capability of message boxes removed.
  • System error message is shown when FTP connection is refused.
  • Bug fix: Alias to directory listing command was not cleared (SCP only). 285
  • Bug fix: Failure when creating directory with SFTP. 307
  • Bug fix: Changes to internal editor configuration were not applied to opened editors with local files.
  • Bug fix: Some administrative restrictions were not being applied. 315
  • Bug fix: When synchronizing timestamps of local files, update of non-existing local files was offered. 346
  • Bug fix: When name of destination remote file was changed on overwrite confirmation dialog, timestamps and permissions were yet set on the original filename (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Change of name of destination remote file on overwrite confirmation dialog was not reflected properly for resumable file transfers (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Failure during dummy listing of remote directory with FTP as form of keepalive, while error message of failed regular directory listing was shown.
  • Bug fix: Infinite loop when FTP directory listing with -a switch fails. 352
  • Bug fix: Suspending background transfer was not working with FTP. 341
  • Bug fix: Opening session in PuTTY was not working for ad-hoc sessions. 372
  • Bug fix: Incorrectly URL-encoded character in session specification may caused the session to be silently ignored. 373
  • Bug fix: Failure of authentication was not shown on authentication dialog with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Directories with no transferred files were not created on upload with FTP. 137
  • Bug fix: Plugin stopped responding if directory listing with SFTP started with file with suspicious name. 384
  • Bug fix: The Update subdirectories checkbox of Keep remote directory up to date did not apply to synchronization on start. 395
  • Bug fix: When changing directory with FTP failed due to new remote path being different to requested one, respective error message missed to report a cause. 398
  • Bug fix: Remembered password of main session was in some cases reused to authenticate tunnel session for background transfers. 400
  • Bug fix: Transfer to temporary file was disabled when transferring file to/from editor. 407
  • Bug fix: Overwrite confirmation prompt was showing timestamps not adjusted for DST with FTP. 412
  • Bug fix: Failure while uploading file when timestamp of remote file was not retrieved with FTP protocol. 413
  • Bug fix: Plugin hanged when FTP connection was closed while waiting for reply to keepalive. 414
  • Bug fix: FTP command scheduled for execution just before connection is closed was executed out of the order after reconnect. 415

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Setup detects installation directory of FAR.
  • When exporting session, only session properties whose values are different from factory defaults are stored.
  • Ctrl-Alt-Ins, Ctrl+Enter, and Ctrl+F on parent directory (the ..) works correctly.
  • Bug fix: Failure on startup. 191
  • Bug fix: Rarely the “Stored sessions” panel may not have been updated after new session was stored.
• The interface and logic of plugin already includes some features of upcoming WinSCP version:
  • Transfer speed limit can be set as part of transfer settings. 302
  • Session name can contain special characters like []/. 305
• SSH/SFTP/FTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.1.6. The interface and logic of the plugin updated to include most functionality of the version. It brings following changes:
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.60. It brings following changes:
    • Support for “local proxying”, where a network connection is replaced by a local command.
    • Various cryptographic improvements in SSH-2, including SDCTR cipher modes and a workaround for a weakness in CBC cipher modes. Support for Diffie-Hellman group exchange with SHA-256 was not included due to performance problems.
    • Support for the Arcfour cipher in SSH-2.
    • When Pageant is running and an SSH key is specified in the configuration, WinSCP will now only try Pageant authentication with that key. This gets round a problem where some servers would only allow a limited number of keys to be offered before disconnecting.
    • Support for SSH-2 password expiry mechanisms, and various other improvements and bugfixes in authentication.
    • A change to the SSH-2 password camouflage mechanism in 0.58 upset some Cisco servers, so we have reverted to the old method.
    • If authentication challenge includes multiple prompts, all are displayed in one form.
    • Random seed file is being stored to application data folder when possible.
    • Bug fix: SSH-1 connections tended to crash, particularly when using port forwarding.
    • Bug fix: SSH Tectia Server would reject SSH-2 tunnels from WinSCP due to a malformed request.
    • Bug fix: SSH-2 login banner messages were being dropped silently under some circumstances.
    • Bug fix: IPv6 should now work on Windows Vista.
  • Stored sessions can be organized into folders. 34
  • Several changes to Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication:
    • Switched to Quest PuTTY implementation of Kerberos/GSSAPI.
    • Preference of GSS key exchange algorithms can be configured on Key exchange tab of login dialog.
    • Service principal name can be configured for session.
  • Custom command to execute SFTP server binary may be specified. This allows using su to run SFTP server. 84
  • It is possible to cancel connection attempts of background transfer.
  • More verbose error messages are shown when operation with local file fails.
  • Ignoring less than 2 seconds timestamp difference when synchronizing. 249
  • Change: Text files are not converted to canonical format with FTP protocol. 204
  • Improved keepalive mechanism of FTP sessions by listing current directory in regular intervals.
  • During resumable transfers, the destination file is not removed (if present) until the transfer actually finishes.
  • When opening secondary shell session, startup actions like clearing of aliases, unsetting national variables and looking up user groups are not performed.
  • For SCP protocol, listing command can be fully specified to overcome specifics of platform (this obsoletes former option Alias LS to display group name). 142
  • New patterns for custom commands: !/ expands to current remote path, !@ expands to current session hostname. !u expands to username, !p expands to password. 48
  • Escaping of special characters is reversed on upload. 32
  • Custom FTP commands can be executed after login. 162
  • Open in PuTTY makes PuTTY use Telnet or SSH session for FTP sessions in WinSCP.
  • Change: Log file path patterns changed to match those of custom commands.
  • Most options on SCP tab of login dialog are disabled, when SCP protocol is not selected, to avoid confusion (although they can actually be used when SCP fallback is administered).
  • For internal directory listings with FTP protocol LIST is used unless LIST -a was already proven to work. 263
  • Default ping interval session option is not saved anymore.
  • Change: Transfer option Preserve read-only is off by default.
  • On download with LF to CR/LF EOL conversion, CR EOL’s were needlessly removed. 67
  • UTF-8 byte-order-mask is stripped on upload. 82
  • Example for switching user on login added to Shell session option (/bin/bash -c 'sudo su -').
  • Workarounds for OpenSSH-specific bugs are applied with Sun SSH as well. 228
  • Transfer mode and resume support status are no longer shown on progress window.
  • System error message is shown when FTP connection is refused.
  • Bug fix: Failure when moving files from remote directory with SCP. 206
  • Bug fix: Failure on tunnel connection termination. 187
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to match file/directory in root with file mask. 170
  • Bug fix: Incorrect handling of certain errors while connecting.
  • Bug fix: Ping interval of the first opened FTP session was preserved for all later sessions.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to configure Preserve timestamp transfer settings for synchronization, although it is always enabled actually.
  • Bug fix: Plugin was stealing ports binded to by other applications when setting up SSH tunnel. 188
  • Bug fix: Automatic reconnect during transfer did not work occasionally. 72
  • Bug fix: Plugin hanged when dummy protocol command was dispatched to keep session alive, while reconnecting.
  • Bug fix: Plugin hanged when server stopped receiving data.
  • Bug fix: Permissions to uploaded directories were set even when Set permissions was off, what caused problems on servers not allowing setting permissions to directories (Serv-U). 268
  • Bug fix: Remote files were incorrectly moved to recycle bin even when alternative resume or append was selected instead of overwrite.
  • Bug fix: Overwritten remote files were not moved to recycle bin during resumable transfers. 272
  • Bug fix: Overwritten remote files were not moved to recycle bin if overwrite confirmations were disabled. 272
  • Bug fix: It was pointlessly offered to alternatively resume transfer when local and remote files had a same size.

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • It is possible to enable plugin-managed editing of remote files, which allows multiple (non-modal) simultaneous editors.
  • Plugin correctly works with files with non-ASCII characters in names.
  • Open bookmark command renamed to Open directory and shows also folder history in addition to bookmarks.
  • Plugin can optionally beep:
    • When background transfer queue is emptied.
    • When user interaction is required for background transfer.
  • Ctrl-F, Alt-Shift-Ins and Ctrl-Alt-Ins handled by the plugin itself to avoid winscp: prefix.
  • Operation progress display shows percent number.
  • Configuration of default transfer settings added to plugin configuration.
  • It is possible to bookmark folder for session not opened from stored session.
  • It is possible to open ad hoc session from command line, as well as SCP session.
  • After upload from editor after saving of file, content of directory is not reloaded.
  • During creation of directory, status message is shown in FAR window title.
  • Partial workaround for FAR 1.7 inability to use keyboard shortcuts while list box is focused.
  • Bug fix: When refreshing stored session list, no longer existing sessions were not removed.
  • Bug fix: Setting of Overwriting of files was not properly remembered.
• The interface and logic of plugin already includes some features of upcoming WinSCP version:
  • Transfer settings were removed from transfer options dialog to simplify it. The settings can be changed by selecting transfer settings preset or by invoking custom transfer settings dialog (the same way as for synchronization).
  • More than one host key for a host may be accepted.
  • When synchronized browsing is on and entered directory does not exist in an opposite directory, WinSCP offers to create it.
  • Host key confirmation dialog has an option to copy the key into clipboard.
  • It is possible to optionally overwrite stored password with new one, if authentication with original stored password fails.
  • KiB is used instead of KB for kilobyte.
• SSH/SFTP/FTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.0.5. The interface and logic of plugin updated to include most functionality of the version. It brings following changes:
  • FTP support (based on FileZilla project).
  • WinSCP can itself setup SSH tunnel to allow indirect connections through proxy SSH host.
  • SFTP uploads optimized.
  • New option for handling of remote file timestamps: Preserve remote timestamp.
  • Support for SSPI authentication.
  • Support for Kerberos ticket forwarding.
  • Mirror mode for synchronization, where files are updated on any timestamp difference (i.e. even newer files are updated).
  • Preview changes for synchronization is enabled by default.
  • Quick preset buttons for Windows and Unix systems on Environment tab of Login dialog.
  • It is no longer required to specify username of login dialog. User is prompted for username once required (and only if required).
  • Mask *.php* in default text file mask is replaced with *.php and *.php3.
  • Username of the main session is reused for background transfers.
  • Size of directory change cache is limited.
  • During resumable transfers, the destination file is not removed (if present) until the transfer actually finishes.
  • Server does not use UTF-8 changed to UTF-8 encoding for filenames and moved to Environment tab, as it is used also by FTP protocol.
  • Timezone offset moved to Environment tab, as it is used also by FTP protocol.
  • For convenience, file mask “*.” matches files without an extension (even if the name does not include the dot at all).
  • Environment variables can be used in most configurable paths (like path to random seed file, log file, configuration INI file, PuTTY executable, folder for temporary files, private key file, etc.). The syntax is %NAME%. Part of U3 support.
  • Single log file is used for all connections of one session (background transfer connections, secondary shell connection, tunnel connection).
  • Workaround for SSH servers based on cryptlib, which reports invalid files types in response to SSH_FXP_LSTAT request.
  • Configuration of GSSAPI/SSPI authentication is exported to PuTTY sessions.
  • Shell options of SCP tab of login dialog redesigned.
  • Detection of OpenSSH sftp-server is more strict, not to apply on other SFTP servers running under OpenSSH.
  • Pattern hint link for log file name added.
  • For fatal errors (e.g. “lost connection”), original cause of the problem is kept as a top message, as opposite to regular errors, where contextual error message is on top.
  • Partial files (.filepart) are no longer considered for synchronization (SFTP-only).
  • Bug fix: Last line of authentication banner may have been incorrectly listed on authentication window.
  • Bug fix: Memory leak when SSH connection is refused.
  • Bug fix: Local files excluded from transfer (upload) were indefinitely locked by WinSCP.
  • Bug fix: Failure, when remote command had character % in its error output.
  • Bug fix: Trailing delimiter text were occasionally left in remote command output.
  • Bug fix: Some authentication progress steps were not shown on authentication window for secondary shell sessions.
  • Bug fix: Failure to change attributes of local files was not reported sometime.
  • Bug fix: When patterns were used in log file name, the log file was recreated every time configuration has changed.

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • “Host hasn’t answered for X seconds” message disappears itself once the response finally arrives.
  • Bug fix: When option Upload after every save was enabled, the edited file may have been incorrectly uploaded to filesystems of both panels. Occasional failure followed on the next operation with passive panel.
  • Bug fix: The plugin failed to load itself occasionally (particularly when FAR console window title contained non-ASCII characters).
  • Bug fix: The plugin have not ignored requests to execute file operation commands on parent directory (.. link).
  • Bug fix: Some messages were not wrapped to fit on console window.
  • Bug fix: Stored session may be lost when letter case was changed solely during rename.
• The interface and logic of plugin already includes some features of upcoming WinSCP version:
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to cancel text mode upload with SCP protocol.

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