Recent Version History

2005-09-01

• If the SFTP server does not provide file permissions/owner/group in directory listing, WinSCP requests them explicitly before showing Properties dialog.
• SFTP extension “versions”, specifying list of supported protocol versions, is decoded and logged.
• SFTP extension “supported” is ignored, when extension “supported2” is also sent by the server.
• Custom transfer settings dialog disables settings unusable in current context (synchronisation mode, server capabilities, etc.).
• Transfer setting preset info tip does not show settings unusable in current context (server capabilities, etc.).
• Transfer setting options “Permissions” and “Preserve read-only” are disabled when the server does not support permissions.
• Bug fix: Selection cold not be restored after changing file properties.
• Bug fix: WinSCP hanged on start-up occasionally (for example when the main window was closed maximised on different screen resolution the last time).
• Bug fix: Failure when changing file properties on SFTP server supporting UTF-8.
• Bug fix: Incorrectly formatted message “Unknown principal”.
• Bug fix: Hint on status bar for transfer setting preset selector incorrectly showed preset configuration.
• Bug fix: Custom transfer settings dialog invoked from context menu on synchronisation dialog did incorrectly allowed changing all settings, even when time-stamp-only synchronisation was selected.
• Bug fix: When the SFTP server does not support permissions, random permissions was used for the files.

2005-08-15

• Editing files enhanced:
  • There can be several external editors configured.
  • Appropriate editor for particular file can be selected automatically by file mask (i.e. file extension, directory, etc.).
  • Command File(s) > Edit (alternative) replaced with sub menu listing all available editors.
  • Command File(s) > Edit new has now keyboard shortcut originally used by File(s) > Edit (alternative).
  • File can be optionally opened in editor as response to double-click.
  • Change to internal editor configuration is immediately applied to all already opened editor windows.
  • Search options are shared among opened internal editors.
  • Search dialogs have context help.
  • Bug fix: Application could not be closed as long as any internal editor was opened.
  • Bug fix: “Total replacements” message sometime incorrectly appeared, even when Replace All was not used.
  • Bug fix: Find results sometime appeared over the main window instead of over the editor window.
  • Bug fix: Search dialogs were sometime incorrectly placed.
• Authentication banner, if any, is shown during authentication.
• New functions for queue management: Suspend, Resume, Suspend All and Resume All.
• Unix-style approach to Daylight saving time (client does adjustment) is made default. This can affect interpretation of timestamps of your files. Use function Synchronize with option Synchronize timestamps only, not files to resolve it.
• Button Calculate on Properties dialog calculates also total number of files/directories/symlinks. The button newly also does not show up, when all selected directories are actually symlinks.
• Several changes to synchronization:
  • Added new option Selected files only for functions Synchronize and Keep Remote Directory Up To Date. It limits the synchronisation to files selected in either panel only.
  • Removed option No confirmations for functions Synchronize and Keep Remote Directory Up To Date. Confirmations are now disabled always.
  • Directory number limit for function Keep remote directory up to date can be overruled.
  • Event log is shown for function Keep remote directory up to date.
  • When synchronizing timestamps, only same-sized files can be affected optionally.
  • For Synchronize timestamps only, not files mode the only item of transfer settings that can be set (and that is displayed) is exclusion/inclusion mask.
  • Keep remote directory up to date can be interrupted by ESC.
  • Bug fix: Failure when synchronization before Keep remote directory up to date was interrupted.
  • Bug fix: When time-stamp synchronisation was configured as default synchronization action, it was incorrectly inherited by Keep remote directory up to date.
• Several changes to scripting:
  • New scripting option option batch abort. When set, WinSCP will abort the script as soon as any of the commands fail. Values on and off are still available with unchanged behaviour.
  • New scripting options include and exclude to set include/exclude masks. Only one of the two can be set at a time.
  • Ctrl+C during script file processing breaks whole script, not only current command.
  • During synchronisation names of directories where change happened are displayed only.
  • Bug fix: Script file loading errors were displayed in message box instead of console.
  • Bug fix: Scripting have not inherited configured synchronisation settings.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect parameter syntax in help for scripting command open. Thanks to Gottfried Haider.
  • Bug fix: Second consecutive put command from script file overwrites output of previous one.
• When overwritting of remote file fails, WinSCP can try to delete file and create new one (SFTP only).
• New custom command option Copy results to clipboard.
• Workaround for OpenSSH limit of 256 kB for size of SFTP packet. Consequence was occasional interruption of transfer with error “Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 11.”
• All new sessions can be automatically opened also in PuTTY.
• The Office XP-like look can be turned off from Interface tab of Preferences dialog.
• WinSCP remembers what location profile folders were opened.
• New Type column for remote panel (hidden by default).
• Default private key can be specified using /privatekey option.
• User is notified when selected private key file does not contain private key in supported format or when the private key is for different SSH version than preferred one.
• New file selection command Restore Selection which restores file selection before last file operation.
• Characters not allowed in Windows file names are now replaced by %XX (where XX is hexadecimal representation of character ASCII code), instead of underscore (_).
• Increased chance that files information on overwrite confirmation message are properly aligned (English version only).
• New optional file selection mode in Norton Commander interface, where mouse behaves as in Windows Explorer and keyboard behaves as in Norton Commander.
• Files dropped on newly created desktop icons, associated with particular stored session, are uploaded.
• File mask ending with slash matches directories only. This is particularly useful for include mask to match any directories using mask */.
• When appending (including alternative resume), the target file is not deleted, when transfer is canceled by user.
• Custom command parameters are escaped for remote commands. For !?prompt[\]?default! pattern, escaping can be avoided using optional slash (\).
• Added hint links to several dialogs. They open popup hint describing syntax of masks and custom command patterns.
• About dialog redesigned. URL links can receive focus, to allow opening the URL using keyboard. Additional URL link can be associated with translation.
• Confirmation of overwritting read-only files can be suppressed the same way as overwrite confirmation, i.e. by disabling confirmation for synchronization, background transfers or in script.
• When saving location profile, existing profile can be overwritten (names of existing profiles are provided for selection in drop down menu), giving limited ability to edit profiles.
• When one of the directories of location profile does not exist anymore, the latter is opened, before error shows up.
• Added new error messages as defined by SFTP-6.
• Maximal size of read block as requested by SFTP server using supported2 extension is respected.
• New option to lock placement of toolbars.
• Added /command option to usage screen (/help).
• Cache directory changes checkbox is disabled when Cache visited remote directories is unchecked and SCP-only mode is selected.
• Empty proxy password is not “saved” to reduce session data size.
• When reloading directory content, file panel tries to preserve its position.
• When checking Never ask me again checkbox, all answer buttons are disabled except for the positive one, to avoid confusion.
• More informative error message when setting permissions of uploaded directory fails.
• File masks can be separated also by comma (in addition to semicolon).
• Dialog for entering deselection mask has Deselect title now.
• It is now possible to specify both password and private key on Login dialog (server may require double authentication).
• Confirmation is required before stored session is deleted.
• Too long authentication prompts can be revealed also using keyboard.
• Queue command Delete renamed to Cancel to avoid confusion with delete file command.
• Usage of ellipsis (…) and capital letters in menus revised.
• Splitters have hints describing their specific functionality.
• Double clicking some of the splitters hide component they resize.
• Commands toolbar has initially vertical layout when undocked.
• When reading of local file during upload fails, more descriptive error message is shown and Skip button is not offered (SCP only).
• When automatic popup of background transfer prompts is disabled, task bar button at least flashes when WinSCP is on background.
• Obsolete temporary directories are no longer checked, when WinSCP is run for service task (such as registration for URL handling).
• Bug fix: When using MS Virtual Desktop Manager, the main window of WinSCP was enlarged, when its virtual desktop was activated. Other associated issues panding.
• Bug fix: Stored session name was not recognized in URL’s containing path suffix.
• Bug fix: When remote file was opened (not edited) in an external application that opens multiple files in window (process), WinSCP incorrectly suggested to enable support for this kind of editors. Now it suggests to configure the application as an external editor.
• Bug fix: Wrong default action was highlighted in remote file context menu when resolving of symbolic links is turned off or impossible.
• Bug fix: When directory was removed its cache was not, making it possible to enter no longer existing directory by typing its path manually.
• Bug fix: SCP fallback was not working in 3.7.5.
• Bug fix: Include mask was not saved in configuration.
• Bug fix: Command Open in PuTTY was not working when current session was not opened from stored session.
• Bug fix: When there were too frequent changes to current local directory the panel content was never refreshed.
• Bug fix: Failure when directory was reloaded while file was being renamed.
• Bug fix: Layout of some toolbars was not restored when using INI file as configuration storage.
• Bug fix: Occasional failure when opening Preferences dialog.
• Bug fix: Custom transfer settings dialog had some controls incorrectly disabled when invoked from Keep remote directory up to date dialog by double-clicking the transfer settings panel.
• Bug fix: Custom transfer settings dialog had incorrect help context.
• Bug fix: Incorrect files were selected when using Shift-click after reloading directory after using Left or Right keys to select first or last file.
• Bug fix: Incorrect help context for message informing about autoselection of transfer settings preset.
• Bug fix: Inccorect behaviour after two consecutive clicks on Execute command of queue.
• Bug fix: It was possible to enter invalid mask to transfer setting preset autoselection rule.
• Bug fix: Help button on console window was incorrectly anchored.

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).

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