Recent Version History

2005-05-11

• Bug fix: Layout of some toolbars was not restored when using INI file as configuration storage.
• Bug fix: Occasional failure when opening Preferences dialog.

2005-05-07

• Transfer settings presets:
  • In addition to default transfer settings, any number of presets can be configured on Presets tab of Preferences Dialog.
  • User can make any preset default on Transfer Settings toolbar.
  • The preset can be also made default automatically based on current hostname, username, remote and local directory.
  • User can load settings from any preset on Upload, Download, Synchronize and Keep Remote Directory Up to Date dialogs.
• Transfers settings can be configured on Synchronize and Keep Remote Directory Up to Date dialogs.
• New Office XP-like look and functionality of menus and toolbars:
  • Nicer design.
  • Toolbars can be docked virtually anywhere. They can be even left floating.
  • When the whole toolbar does not fit on a window, dropped off buttons can be still shown using drop down menu.
  • Support for large fonts.
  • Limitations to be resolved yet:
    • Session drop down menu cannot be resized anymore.
  • All that thanks to Toolbar2000 library by Jordan Russell and TBX library by Alex A. Denisov.
• Check for updates improved:
  • Automatic check in regular interval can be enabled. See Updates tab on Preferences dialog.
  • New toolbar Updates with icon indicating the new version.
  • In addition to information about the new version, WinSCP can show message from the server (even when new version is not available yet).
  • The check can pass thru HTTP proxy server.
  • To allow new features, WinSCP sends to the server its current version and UI language.
• Several changes to custom commands:
  • Custom commands that does not work with files selected in file panels (no !, !&, !^! patterns) are now officially supported. Such commands can be executed anytime, even if no file is selected. Also they are executed only once, despite several files being selected. Options Apply to directories and Execute recursivelly cannot be configured for them. Command Disk Space Usage added as an example (df).
  • Possibility to run ad hoc custom command (File(s) > Custom Commands > Enter).
  • Custom command that works with local files can be run from the main menu even when local panel is active (Norton Commander interface only).
  • History for custom command parameters.
  • Output to stderr and exit code 1 are not considered as error for custom commands.
  • Example custom command File compare is not shown on Windows 95/98 saving necessity to tag it as NT/2k/XP only.
• Context sensitive help improved:
  • Button Help added to all dialogs.
  • Virtually all main menu items have context-sensitive help (F1).
  • Many message boxes have context-sensitive help.
  • Context help points to specific tab help for Preferences dialog.
• Preferred SFTP protocol version can be set. Particularly useful to workaround bugs in implementation of particular SFTP version (both in WinSCP and the server).
• Functionality of SFTP server bug Does not use UTF-8 for SFTP4 and newer workaround extended. It is now titled Server does not use UTF-8. By setting it to Off, usage of UTF-8 can be forced even for SFTP3 and older (useful for servers using MBCS natively). Thanks to Tommy Wu.
• Function Keep remote directory up to date can handle subdirectory addition and removal.
• Function Synchronize can optionally synchronize timestamps of existing files only, instead of actual files (SFTP only).
• New /command command-line option to pass command to scripting.
• File size can be optionally used as comparison criterion for synchronization.
• Files can be excluded from transfer negatively using Include mask.
• All links now point to winscp.net.
• Several changes in setup:
  • Link “Using public keys for SSH authentication” is no longer created.
  • Link “Documentation” is added to Start menu.
  • Setup allows user to install WinSCP without accepting the GPL licence.
  • Some Start menu icons have comment (displayed as hint).
• Direction of synchronization can be saved to preferences.
• SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.58. It brings following changes:
  • Bug fix: Failure when connecting through SOCKS proxy.
• SFTP moved before SCP in Login dialog navigation tree as well as in protocol selection box to emphasise current state of art.
• SFTP server bug Misinterprets file timestamps prior to 1970 workaround introduced in 3.7.4 can be now configured from SFTP tab of Login dialog.
• Added workaround for some versions of F-SECURE SSH server that incorrectly use attribute SSH_FILEXFER_ATTR_UIDGID with SFTP4.
• Transfer queue list distinguishes process of “transfer size calculation”.
• Confirmation messages unified to always show Cancel button. Previously some contained Abort instead.
• Improved error reporting for Keep remote directory up to date function.
• Function Keep remote directory up to date can perform full synchronization on start. By default user confirmation is required.
• Confirmation of transfer resume can be suppressed the same way as overwrite confirmation, i.e. by disabling confirmation for synchronization, background transfers or in script.
• Function Open in PuTTY is available on Commands toolbar.
• Error messages have button Skip All to skip all futher errors during batch operation.
• Single notation consistently used to refer to SSH protocol versions.
• Proxy password is stored encrypted, while maintaining compatibility with older versions and PuTTY.
• Some error messages that were previously tagged as Confirmation are now properly tagged as Error.
• During upload, when overwritting remote file fails and user selects Retry, overwrite confirmation is not requested again.
• Editor tab of Preferences dialog redesigned.
• Fixed potential security issue in console interface tool WinSCP3.com (thanks to Paul Ward).
• Fixed potential security issues when decoding SFTP packets.
• Confirmations during background transfers can be supressed from Background tab of Preferences dialog too.
• Both compare directory criterions (Compare by time and Compare by size) can be unselected making WinSCP select only files not existing in the opposite directory.
• Functions Synchronize and Keep remote directory up to date do not delete files by default. This affects fresh installation only!
• Server host key fingerprint verification box re-formated. It also shows key type now.
• When synchronizing and comparing directories, the time difference of one second is ignored (for compatibility with FAT file systems). It is also ignored when transferring newer files only.
• New scripting command call to run arbitrary remote shell command. If the current session does not support this (SFTP), separate shell session is automatically opened. Alias for the command is !.
• File masks can be directory specific, where meaningful (text file mask, exclusion masks). For example mask */public_html/*.php matches only PHP files in directory public_html. It does not matter what slashes are used, the mask always matches both remote and local directories.
• Lines beginning with ; or # are ignored in script files (can be used for comments).
• When connected to Vandyke VShell server for Windows, the remote directory tree shows list of drives on the server (implemented support for SFTP extension fs-roots@vandyke.com).
• Window title and application taskbar button can show name of current directory (default) or current full path.
• Session toolbar is initially hidden. Shows once you open at least two sessions simultaneously.
• When authentication using stored password fails while running script, WinSCP does not ask user for another password.
• Back/forward menu is preserved when switching sessions.
• Reverted 3.7.2 change “File panel reflects change of system icon font in run time”. It caused file panel fonts to be extremelly large on some systems.
• When the same file is downloaded to editor again and support for editors that open multiple files in one process is enabled, the file is downloaded to the same temporary directory as before. This allows editor to reload the updated file (if supported by the editor).
• Optional remote file panel column Link target showing target of symbolic links.
• Context menu for “name” column header of file panel has item By extension to sort the column by file extension.
• Logging level can be configured from GUI (on Logging tab of Login and Preferences dialog).
• When changing permissions of one directory, the checkboxes cannot be toggled to “undefined” state unless Recursive options is checked.
• Progress dialog shows Time left instead of previous Time estimated.
• Checkboxes on permissions box toggle in order: unchecked, checked, grayed.
• Existing target file is removed before resumable transfer to verify that user has sufficient permissions as soon as possible (SFTP-only).
• When downloading to or uploading from the temporary directory (e.g. when editing files), user is not bothered with full path.
• When uploading from editor using background transfer, the confirmations are always suppressed despite settings of background transfers.
• Fallback to pre-3.7.2 method of detecting existence of remote directory, in case the server does not support SSH_FXP_LSTAT request (FTPshell Server).
• WinSCP is no longer sending SFTP extensions winscp@winscp.sourceforge.net and software@generic-extensions. Instead vendor-id is used as proposed by SFTP version 6.
• Smarter queue visibility toggling.
• Link to logging configuration from log window toolbar.
• Internal editor window never falls off the desktop work area. The same is true for default (fresh installation) position of main window.
• Session name cannot contain some special characters. Especially slash /, that caused problems when parsing URLs.
• New No to all button on confirmation message, where user can select between appending source file and alternate method for transfer resuming. It makes WinSCP resume transfer whenever it finds smaller file in target directory with the same name.
• New No to all button on confirmation message for alternative method of transfer resume.
• Bug fix: Command File(s) > Move to was not disabled for SFTP version 1 and older.
• Bug fix: It was to possible to change local drive using drop down menu, when the last used path on the drive was removed.
• Bug fix: Functions Synchronize and Keep remote directory up to date have ignored file for one minute after the target file was changed just at whole minute (0 seconds).
• Bug fix: Failure when browsing using back/forward buttons on some mouses and there is no path to browse back/forward.
• Bug fix: Random seed file was not saved at all in most cases.
• Bug fix: Misleading error message was shown when file in subdirectory was excluded by filemask (SCP-only).
• Bug fix: When uploading file from editor, Exclude mask was not ignored, what prevented editing some files.
• Bug fix: Check for suspicious files containing / or \ have not considered Unicode filenames (SFTP-only).
• Bug fix: Shift+Ctrl+Left/Right in path input boxes was not selecting text.
• Bug fix: WinSCP failed when keepalive occured during initialisation of separate shell session.
• Bug fix: Timestamp was incorrectly shown in terminal window.
• Bug fix: cd command in terminal window on separate shell session have not changed path in main SFTP session.
• Bug fix: Function Keep remote directory up to date has watched even directories excluded from transfers.
• Bug fix: Excluding remote files containing colon (:) from transfer have not worked correctly.
• Bug fix: Synchronization confirmation message for download referred to “upload” instead.

2005-02-10

• Workaround for OpenSSH SFTP server bug that caused all file modification timestamps older than 1970 be interpreted as timestamps after 2038.
• Current directory can be changed by pasting (Ctrl+V or File > Paste) path from clipboard.
• Small improvements for bi-directional languages.
• Key exchange tab of Login dialog is disabled for SSH-1-only.
• Improved debug logging.
• Bug fix: In 3.7.3 the Synchronize dialog failed to open in non-English versions.
• Bug fix: SCP uploads sometime timed out.

2005-02-07

• Function Keep remote directory up to date now can watch for up to 500 directories (62 previously).
• Allowed downloads to UNC paths.
• When logging is enabled and several sessions (including background transfer connections) are opened at a time, several log files are generated.
• Exit code is propagated to console interface tool, WinSCP3.com.
• GUI application, WinSCP3.exe, waits until user pressed any key before exit, when run with /? parameter.
• When focused control (like directory tree) is hidden, focus is moved to the last used file panel.
• Default (installation) size of the Norton Commander interface is larger, if the screen resolution allows it.
• Log file includes timestamps of all events.
• Bug fix: Crash when using Proxy with Do DNS name lookup at proxy end enabled.
• Bug fix: Upload hangs on empty (0 bytes) files (SFTP only).
• Bug fix: Command File Names > Copy to Clipboard have not worked correctly.
• Bug fix: The last toolbar in a toolbar row is not restored incorrectly right-aligned anymore.
• Bug fix: WinSCP now restores window size correctly even when it was closed very small.
• Bug fix: Hangs and other problems when showing control (like queue view) that was previously hidden larger then current window size.
• Bug fix: Rekey time limit could not be set to zero (to disable time-based rekey).

2005-01-29

• Scripting commands get, put, ls, lls, chmod, mv and rm support wildcards.
• SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2005-01-28). It brings following changes:
  • New Key exchange tab on Login dialog. It allows configuration of key exchange algorithm selection policy. It also include options to configure regular key re-exchanged based on time and data transfered.
  • Support for IPv6 (unfix.org’s IPv6 patches up to level 10). IP protocol version can be configured on Connection tab of Login dialog.
  • Removed bug Chokes on Diffie-Hellman group exchange from Bugs tab.
  • Fixed key exchange problems with some servers.
  • Software version strings for adhere to SSH standard.
  • Fixed some potential crashes.
  • Support for diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 group exchange .
  • Keyboard-interactive authentication is offered as long as server offers it, rather than only once, unless the server responds to our initial request with failure.
  • Support for ssh.com “des-cbc@ssh.com” authentication.
• SFTP protocol optimalisation, especially for dealing with very small files and directories and when transfering over very fast connections. Downloads, uploads and directory listings now take up to 80%, 80% and 40% less time, respectively. Please report your personal experiences with the change, positive or negative.
• Implemented support for editors that open multiple files in one process (window).
  • WinSCP can delay deletion of temporary local file until its exit. This is allowed only if Allow multiple opened files (editors) is enabled.
  • The behaviour can be turned on using option External editor opens multiple files in one window (process) (off by default).
  • If the option if disabled and the editor closes too early, WinSCP suggests user to enable the option.
• When switching sessions, the panel state can be optionally preserved, including selected file and sort column/order. To disable this, go to Panels tab of Preferences dialog. Option Do not change local directory when switching sessions on Commands tab renamed to Do not change state of local panel when switching sessions and now affects this feature too.
• When INI file is used as configuration storage, SSH host key cache is stored into the INI file too.
• Transfer queue shows transfer speed and elapsed time.
• With SFTP it is now possible to enter the traverse-only (chmod 110) directories.
• Menu Files > File Names includes new command Copy URL to Clipboard. The URL format is: <protocol>://<session>/<path>/<file>.
• WinSCP now detects dropped connection immediatelly. It also responds to server keepalive requests immediately (keepalive@openssh.com).
• It is possible to edit remote files whose filenames contain characters not allowed on Windows.
• Inline rename box on remote panel now accepts characters not allowed on Windows, but allowed on other systems.
• Window server/protocol information shows server host key fingerprint.
• New SFTP tab on session dialog. It contains configuration options for detection of two known bugs in SFTP servers. The first bug Reverses order of symlink command arguments is known on all OpenSSH servers. The second bug Does not use UTF-8 for SFTP4 and newer is known on Foxit WAC server.
• When overwritting local read-only file, the read-only attribute is preserved.
• It is now possible to overwrite local hidden file (the attribute is preserved).
• When changing local drive using drive drop down menu the current working directory on the drive is opened instead of root directory (Norton Commander interface only).
• Partially transferred files (.filepart) have the same icon as full file would have with “partial file” overlay over it.
• It is possible to change width of session drop down menu on Session toolbar. Just drag the empty space on the right of the drop down menu.
• Queue sessions are kept alive if the main session is configured so. As side effect dropped connection is detected immediately (no error is displayed), not only after there is transfer attempt over it. It avoids failing transfer just because of dropped connection.
• When secondary shell session is dropped on background, no error is displayed and the main session is no longer closed.
• If the edited file is saved while the previous change is still being uploaded, the error is no longer displayed, re-upload is scheduled instead.
• Language button on Login dialog includes Get More command to open translation download page.
• Menu File Names is included in remote panel context menu too.
• The command Files > Open opens the remote file locally always. It does not imitate double-clicking anymore (when symbolic link resolving is not enabled/supported, double-click tries to open remote file as if it were symlink to directory).
• Internal editor shows name of the session in the window title.
• File panel scrolls whole page when visualising batch operation progress.
• File panel reflects change of system icon font in run time.
• The same remote file cannot be edited twice.
• If reading directory takes too long, number of files read is shown on WinSCP button on taskbar.
• Several changes in installer:
  • When installer finds obsolete default translation in the installation directory, it displays a warning with option to delete the translation.
  • Bug fix: Removed flags: unchecked string from the Add installation directory to search path checkbox.
  • Bug fix: Last few characters of long lines were cut off.
• Proxy password box is disabled for SOCK4 proxies, as SOCK4 does not support passwords.
• When transferring files using scripting commands get and put, without explictly specifing operation mask, the mask *.* is used, overriding default operation mask set in GUI.
• Wildcards in operation mask (* and ?) can be delimited using backslash (\).
• It is no longer possible to check Disconnect when operation finishes during total transfer size calculation before file transfer.
• Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from host and user names.
• Links to WinSCP homepage in Help menu updated to point directly on respective Wiki topics
• First attempts for context help. F1 key now opens WinSCP documentation page. On some dialogs it now opens directly help for the dialog.
• Installation path can be added to system search path from Integration tab of Prefenreces dialog.
• Bug fix: When synchronizing local directory from console mode using SCP protocol, some files were printed twice. Once with path, once without.
• When listing directory with SFTP protocol, files whose filenames contain slashes or dots-only are ignored.
• Bug fix: Duration indicators failed to display more than 24 hours.
• When WinSCP in console mode were executed from batch file its console title was incorrectly preserved for next commands of the batch
• Bug fix: Some errors in console mode were displayed in message box instead of being printed on console
• Bug fix: Scripting command ls has never shown year when full file timestamp was known. Now it shows full timestamp (including year and full precision time).
• Bug fix: WinSCP crashed when timeout message was shown while reading directory content.
• Bug fix: Scripting command get with SCP protocol printed downloaded directory twice, the second time with statistics of the last file downloaded.
• Bug fix: Fixed several bugs when downloading files for which the server incorrectly reports unreasonable file sizes.
• Bug fix: WinSCP refused to start, when using /ini parameter without session name parameter.
• Bug fix: The download of files smaller then 4 kB could not be interrupted.
• Bug fix: Attempt to open non-existing local directory (Norton Commander interface only) have not displayed any error message. The first existing parent directory (if any) was opened instead.
• Bug fix: When downloading file to editor, Exclude mask and operation mask were not ignored, what prevented editing some files.
• Bug fix: When using ls command with --full-time option (SCP protocol) the leading spaces in the filenames were omitted while reading directory.
• Bug fix: Time estimated showed incorrect values for resumed file transfers.
• Bug fix: When downloading file with SCP protocol, any leading spaces in the filename were lost.
• Bug fix: Possible crashes when having more sessions opened in parallel.
• Bug fix: When using INI file as configuration storage, the quotes enclosing configuration options (particularly path to PuTTY executable) were lost.
• Bug fix: Directory was randomly selected in remote panel when switching sessions.
• Bug fix: When upgrading from 3.7 and older, command Open in PuTTY stopped working if path to PuTTY included spaces.
• Bug fix: Items in queue display menu may have been sometime disabled.
• Bug fix: When uploading, the contents of selected directories was counted twice into “total size”, making progress indicator inaccurate.
• Bug fix: When restoring maximised main window it was sometime wider than before maximisation.
• Bug fix: Fake “Ext” column could be shown by mistake.
• Bug fix: Sorted On Exit Crash after long periods of use.

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