WinSCP 5.9 - What’s New?

A lot of things! WinSCP 5.9 is a major application update focused on improving user experience!

New features and enhancements, many of them inspired by WinSCP community, include:

• Significantly improved WinSCP look in large font / high DPI environments; toolbar, menu, icons and dialog images now support 125%, 150% and 200% zooms
• Support for authentication with TLS/SSL client certificates
• Improved transfer speed with SFTP and SCP protocols when CPU is limiting factor; and with SFTP on high latency connections
• Automatic WinSCP updates (only for donors)
• Configurable internal editor font color and default background color, added Save All function in internal editor
• Session color can be set to black
• Incremental site search can be restricted to the beginning of site name only or expanded to other site fields
• Files can be dropped on queue list
• Increase length limit of site note to 4000
• Dual code signing binaries with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
• Including all at least 80% translations into installer and informing user when incomplete language is selected when installing
• Optionally trimming VMS version numbers from filenames during transfer
• Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+L and Alt+D to focus Address toolbar (Explorer interface) or open bookmarks (Commander interface); change: Shortcut of command Clear Selection changed to Shift+Ctrl+L.
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• Many improvements to scripting, command-line and .NET assembly, e.g.,
  • Script or .NET assembly code template can be generated in GUI
  • Showing full open command syntax suggestion, when using saved site in batch script
  • Command-line interface for converting and editing private keys
  • Resume and Append (TransferOptions.OverwriteMode) in .NET assembly
  • Added Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles method that can enumerate remote files and directories recursively
  • Added FullName property to the RemoteFileInfo class
  • Added properties IsThisDirectory and IsParentDirectory to RemoteFileInfo class
  • Added Session.CombinePaths utility method as remote path equivalent of Path.Combine
  • Added Session.TranslateRemotePathToLocal to generate a local path equivalent of a remote path, given root paths
  • Switch -latest for get and put commands to transfer the latest file only
  • Protocol prefix ftpes:// for FTP over explicit TLS/SSL
  • Change: Script file has to be in UTF-8 encoding
  • Change: The RemoteFileInfo.Name now contains a name only, even for a RemoteFileInfo instance returned by the Session.GetFileInfo
  • Change: Deprecating Session.DefaultConfiguration in favor of Session.AddRawConfiguration
  • Change: Deprecating Session.IniFilePath in favor of Session.AddRawConfiguration.
  • Change: SessionOptions.SshPrivateKeyPassphrase renamed to SessionOptions.PrivateKeyPassphrase
• Improvements to code/script generation with syntax highlighting for generated code
• Custom commands can be distributed in a form of configurable WinSCP extension; distributing Verify Checksum, Search Text and ZIP and Upload .NET assembly examples as official WinSCP extensions

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Thank you!

As usual, you can obtain WinSCP 5.9 from the official WinSCP download page.