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Recent Version History

This is list of changes for each release of WinSCP. See also project history.

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2010-10-29

  • Increased socket internal buffer size for SSH. It should improve transfer speed. Thanks to ultramage. 615
  • Environment variables are resolved in path to external editor. 563
  • Include/exclude masks can be used when moving files between local and remote directories. 536
  • Add to Bookmarks and Refresh commands added to context menus of panel path labels. 624
  • Change: With FTP protocol, passive mode is used by default. 165
  • Change: Links to website and help are no longer created in start menu folder. 616
  • Autocomplete disabled for most of the combo boxes. 619
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2010-09-27, revision 9010). It brings following changes:
    • Improved port forwarding robustness.
    • When disconnected because there are no supported authentication methods left to try, the error message contains the list of methods sent by the server.
    • Standard GSS libraries are now loaded from standard locations rather than using the default DLL search path.
    • Other small bugs fixed.
  • Bug fix: Error when refreshing panel content. 617
  • Bug fix: Error when more background transfers finish at the same moment. 622
  • Bug fix: Script does not abort after receiving no answer for prompt, when running in batch mode. 623
  • Bug fix: Main window appeared in background, when prompt for master password appeared during authentication. 629

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4.2.9

2010-09-23

  • Never try to rename file to the very same name. 604
  • Bug fix: Failure when executing custom command and not capturing its output. 587
  • Bug fix: GSSAPI/Kerberos was not working. 590
  • Bug fix: Local file timestamp was interpreted incorrectly for synchronization on Windows 7. 591
  • Bug fix: Failure on close scripting command. 599
  • Bug fix: Edited file was reloaded from active session, not from original session. 603
  • Bug fix: Path history was mixed among sessions. 607
  • Bug fix: Session closed after operation completes was automatically reconnected. 608
  • Bug fix: Check for application updates was hanging. 611
  • Bug fix: Missing content on OpenCandy screen. 600

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4.2.6

2010-02-16

  • ZIP archive with both executables is released instead of just compressed EXE. 523
  • Automatically named session is renamed when hostname and/or username is modified. 532
  • When reading of file to be edited fails, empty internal editor is no longer shown.
  • Forcing width of message box not to exceed screen width.
  • Environment variables in path to private key file are resolved before passing it to PuTTY to open the session. 524
  • WinSCP name is included in balloon notifications. 533
  • Timezone offset can be set up to +/-25 hours. 534
  • Setup does not query OpenCandy for ads when running silent install.
  • Small visual changes for Windows 7.
  • Being tolerant to FTP servers enclosing path in 257 response to single quotes. 541
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2010-01-17, revision 8846). Fixing memory leak.
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 0.9.8l.
  • Bug fix: Bookmarks with equal sign in their name were not preserved when using INI file. 522
  • Bug fix: Synchronize browsing failed, when entering local directory, while current remote path was root. 525
  • Bug fix: Having higher logging level set decreased performance even when logging itself was disabled. 526
  • Bug fix: Error when running ad hoc custom command. 529
  • Bug fix: Tray icon was sometimes not removed when application closed.
  • Bug fix: Navigation tree on Preferences dialog was corrupted sometimes. 539
  • Bug fix: Memory leak while authenticating with private key.
  • Bug fix: System date/time format was not followed on Windows 7. 537
  • Bug fix: On some systems winscp.com did not find winscp.exe when executed from search path. 542
  • Bug fix: Failure when connection was closed while Console window was opened. 544

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4.2.5

2009-12-22

  • Environment variable WINSCP_PATH pointing to path, where WinSCP executable file is located, is set on startup, so it can be used to configure portable paths relative to the WinSCP executable file. 311
  • It is not possible to cancel master password prompt anymore, when saving session with passwords.
  • Slash added to names of directories in search results to distinguish them from files.
  • Keyboard shortcut for finding files changed to F3 in Explorer interface.
  • Path is recorded in history after changing directory in console window. 518
  • Replacing characters not allowed in local file names is taken into account with synchronized browsing. 512
  • Merged error message and directory creation confirmation box into one, when synchronized browsing cannot find corresponding opposite directory. 347
  • Synchronized browsing can handle change to different directory branch. 101
  • Placed Use same options next time on synchronization dialog above transfer settings box to make it clear that transfer settings are not saved. 519
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2009-11-22, revision 8755). It does not bring any notable change.
  • Bug fix: When master password changing was canceled, message informing about successful change appeared anyway.
  • Bug fix: No help was associated with Security tab of Preferences dialog.
  • Bug fix: Passwords in default session settings were not re-encrypted when master password was changed.
  • Bug fix: Empty session password were in rare situation encrypted using master password, what caused seemingly useless prompts for master passwords.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP did not offer to unset read-only flag when overwriting local files anymore.
  • Bug fix: Error when downloading remote files from root directory into temporary local directory. 502
  • Bug fix: Failure when retrying connect attempt after host is not resolved. 503
  • Bug fix: Incorrect calculation of DST start/end date. 504
  • Bug fix: Session data on Login dialog were overwritten when locale is changed. 508
  • Bug fix: Error when moving local directory to remote side. 509
  • Bug fix: Help for put scripting command incorrectly claimed that -append switch is valid for FTP protocol only.
  • Bug fix: Ampersands (&) in names of transfer settings presets and custom commands were handled inconsistently. 506
  • Bug fix: Excluding file from transfer did not prevent access to the file. 514
  • Bug fix: Error when daylight saving is not properly configured in Windows. 519
  • Bug fix: Shell icon for stored session in folder could not be created. 515

4.2.4 beta

2009-10-25

  • File search. 92
  • Stored session passwords can be encrypted by AES cipher using master password. 273
  • Path relative to startup directory can be used in initial session local directory. 492
  • Up to 255 characters long SFTP server commands are allowed. 495
  • Value off of reconnecttime script option is case-insensitive. 491
  • SFTP status code is not logged as status/error code anymore. 484
  • While downloading trailing dot in filenames is replaced with %2E, as Windows trim them. 452
  • WinSCP can load plain text tunnel password from configuration (new attribute TunnelPasswordPlain). If possible, it automatically converts the password to encrypted form. 497
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-09-27, revision 8665). It brings following changes:
    • Bug fix: Minor memory leaks.
  • Bug fix: Uploads of large files with FTP were restarting. 157
  • Bug fix: Error when opening separate shell session. 477
  • Bug fix: Backslash in remote path broke path label. 482
  • Bug fix: Using passive mode was suggested when connection fails even when used already. 485
  • Bug fix: Operation hanged for a while when transfer of file was skipped with FTP protocol. 486
  • Bug fix: Operation hanged occasionally when both control and transfer connection were closed at the same time with FTP protocol. 487
  • Bug fix: Quote escaping did not work with console interface tool. 494
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+C in console windows occasionally interrupted more than one prompt.
  • Bug fix: Failed connection in script closed last active session simultaneously.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to copy remote files using drag&drop within remote panel with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Problem minimizing progress windows while performing operation executed from command-line. 475
  • Bug fix: WinSCP hanged on some systems, when remote file with name reserved on Windows appeared in directory listing. 152
  • Bug fix: Backslash was inserted to remote path when running custom command from synchronization checklist dialog. 498

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