Recent Version History

2015-11-12

• Authentication with TLS/SSL client certificates. 921
• Redesigned Progress and Synchronization progress windows.
• WebDAV file locking. 1315
• Opening the initial Login dialog over the main window.
• Automatic updates (for donors only).
• Updates are checked over an encrypted HTTPS connection.
• Showing tips on using the application.
• Improvements and fixes for large font/high DPI environments:
  • Toolbar, menu and dialog images for 125%, 150% and 200% zooms (120, 144, and 192 DPI respectively). 1302
  • Scaling toolbar drop downs.
  • Scaling menu and toolbar details (submenu arrows, drop down arrows, drag handles, checkmarks, radio-button marks, color palettes).
  • Scaling status bars on Synchronization checklist and Find windows.
  • Scaling drop down button arrows.
  • Correctly scaling file icon on Properties dialog.
  • Scaling application icon on About dialog.
  • Scaling images in installer.
  • New application icon sizes.
  • New installer icon sizes.
  • New desktop icon sizes for site, site folder and workspace.
  • New Console, Editor, Log, Find and Synchronization checklist windows icon sizes.
  • Scaling icon overlays.
  • Own scaled icons for message boxes.
  • Using scalable system window resize grip.
  • Preventing system from scaling windows when moving them between displays with a different DPI.
  • Scaling Synchronization checklist action column.
• SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.66.
• Improved transfer speed:
  • with SFTP and SCP protocols when CPU is limiting factor.
  • with SFTP on high latency connections. 1295
• Improvements to scripting, command-line and .NET assembly:
  • Change: Script file has to be in UTF-8 encoding.
  • Command-line interface for converting and editing private keys. 1331
  • Script or .NET assembly code template can be generated in GUI.
  • Allowing manual verification (with timeout) of SSH hostkey/TLS certificate in batch mode in scripting.
  • Added Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles method that can enumerate remote files and directories recursively. 1356
  • Switch -latest for get and put commands to transfer the latest file only.
  • Added a FullName property to the RemoteFileInfo class.
  • Resume and Append (TransferOptions.OverwriteMode) in .NET assembly. 1358
  • The open command in scripting can open FileZilla stored site.
  • Showing full open command syntax suggestion, when using saved site in batch script.
  • Change: The RemoteFileInfo.Name now contains a name only, even for a RemoteFileInfo instance returned by the Session.GetFileInfo.
  • 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.
  • Change: Deprecating Session.DefaultConfiguration in favor of Session.AddRawConfiguration.
  • Not re-reading XML log when end of the file is reached to optimize performance. 1287
  • Parameter /loglevel documented in usage.
  • Removed deprecated .NET assembly options FtpSecure.ExplicitTls and FtpSecure.ExplicitSsl.
  • Warning when useless command-line parameters are specified in scripting.
  • Not offering host key verification in scripting if configuration is not persistent.
  • Suggesting use of -hostkey switch in host key verification prompt in scripting.
• Optionally not closing the application after the last session closes. 857
• Selected private key files in OpenSSH or ssh.com format can be automatically converted to PuTTY format. 22
• Allowing selection to start in the first column of file panel.
• Change: Change of language on run-time is not supported anymore.
• Session name (!N) and port number (!#) patterns for custom commands and terminal client path. 1346 1020
• Configurable internal editor font color and default background color. 1326
• Change: Using UTF-8 for strings (such as password) with SSH protocol. 1014
• Using REST command to resume upload with FTP protocol. 552
• Incremental site search can be restricted to the beginning of site name only or expanded to other site fields. 1348
• Supporting impersonated IIS environment with .NET assembly. 1334
• Files can be dropped on queue list. 1281
• Including all at least 80% translations into installer. Informing user when incomplete language is selected when installing.
• Displaying Owner file property with WebDAV protocol.
• Save All function in Internal editor. 1327
• Masking out passwords when logging command-line. 1344
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2d.
• Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 5.5.6.
• Enabled IPv6 with FTP by default. 1310
• Support for long local paths when deleting local file. 1352
• Animation on Find dialog and Authentication progress window.
• Displaying mod_dav executable property.
• Reloading site list when opening Login dialog to open additional session. 1322
• Handling ssh:// URLs and opening them in PuTTY. 1305
• Resetting 10 seconds input timeout every time a key is pressed in scripting batch mode. 1347
• Optionally trimming VMS version numbers from filenames during transfer. 1312
• Caching fingerprints of last verified host keys so they can be used in Generate URL function on Login dialog already.
• Download/Upload and Delete command moved to Download/Upload submenu 1279 and Edit With menu moved to Edit submenu. Edit With submenu is newly available on Edit toolbar button.
• Added Download/Upload in Background commands to respective menus. 1280
• Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+L and Alt+D to focus Address toolbar (Explorer interface) or open bookmarks (Commander interface). 1303 Change: Shortcut of command Clear Selection changed to Shift+Ctrl+L.
• Commands to select/unselect all files with the same extension. 1286
• Inserting -load argument of PuTTY before custom user arguments. 1351
• New icon for Find command and dialog.
• About dialog lists all current and past translators.
• Warning when transferring multiple files to same name. 1282
• Hint user about possible reasons of SFTP code 4 error. 1285
• Platform SDK is no longer required to build 64-bit drag&drop shell extension.
• Increasing initial/minimal SFTP transfer packet size.
• Improving layout of installer Completing page of for long translations.
• Display parent directory in file panel even if the server does not include it in directory listing. 1298
• Showing only folder, not files, on Progress window, when calculating transfer size.
• Avoid flickering busy mouse cursor while calculating transfer size or collecting changes for synchronization.
• Showing localized language name on description of Typical installation.
• Added icon for Cancel All queue command.
• Correcting labels and hints for color commands in an internal editor.
• Session color can be set to black.
• Not showing percentage progress for indeterminate Directory size calculation.
• Preferences window opens with focused navigation tree.
• When Cancel is pressed on Progress window before moving transfer to background finishes, transfer is canceled.
• Disabling Proceed to Background once Cancel is pressed on Progress window.
• Added icon for queue Speed command.
• Desktop icons created by an installer show application description.
• Not showing details about retrieving timezone information on Authentication progress window.
• Using delete icon on site/site folder/workspace delete confirmation prompts.
• Showing error message when neon library initialization fails.
• Prompt for username even with GSSAPI authentication enabled. 1349
• Providing error details when deleting a local file fails.
• Using printenv instead of echo to obtain a value of the LANG environment variable. 1354
• Logging clear Authorization header when password logging is enabled.
• Explaining that certificate cannot be verified against hostname if IP address is used to connect to the server. 1359
• Updated to JCL library 2.7.
• Using Save dialog instead of Open for selecting log file and random seed file paths.
• Bug fix: Speed limit history is not relocalized when language is changed. 490
• Bug fix: Not showing symlinks to directories as a difference on synchronization checklist as they are not synchronized anyway.
• Bug fix: When restoring an application from minimization, progress windows did not get activated.
• Bug fix: Preventing active window title flickering before opening Preferences dialog.
• Bug fix: Failure when opening WebDAVS session, if SSPI initialization failed (such as when running under Wine).
• Bug fix: When window is closing, its icon is hidden momentarily.
• Bug fix: WebDAV redirect loop was not detected on the first redirect.
• Bug fix: Error when SFTP server responds to upload (write) requests out of order. 1365
• Bug fix: Duplicated ad-hoc session from workspace is wrongly named.
• Bug fix: Cannot work with filenames starting or ending with space with FTP protocol. 26
• Bug fix: Failure or broken synchronized browsing when changing directory while another command was executing already. 1369
• Bug fix: Showing a command of a custom command in status bar. 1370

2015-11-04

• Translation completed: Spanish.
• Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.65.
• Workaround for ProFTPD using cdir type in MLST response when retrieving listing for a current working directory. 1350
• Workaround for FTP servers that incorrectly use RFC 2228-style response to MLST command. 1360
• Perform TLS/SSL handshake on transfer connection immediately when connected to Idea FTP server (home.pl). 1357
• Recognize WebDAV folder by trailing slash in its path, if the server does not provide DAV:collection tag. 1362
• Limiting Session.Output size not to waste memory with large sessions. 1367
• Bug fix: Failure when spinning a mouse wheel over a Find/Replace dialogs of Internal editor. 1353
• Bug fix: Failure when dropping files from application that fails to provide CF_HDROP. 1361
• Bug fix: Failure when Windows session is closing while no session is connected. 1363
• Bug fix: Cannot download root folder from an FTP server that does not support MLSD or SIZE and MDTM commands. 1364
• Bug fix: Queue setting on Copy dialog is lost when different transfer setting preset is selected.
• Bug fix: File timestamps are incorrectly adjusted for autodetected positive timezone difference. 1366

2015-08-04

• Translation completed: Catalan.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1p.
• Supporting the RFC 4419 revision to Diffie-Hellman group exchange. 1345 rfc4419
• Workaround for Cerberus SFTP server incorrectly indicating end of directory listing. 1338
• SHA-256 hash of binaries provided in release notes.
• Aligning Save button with Edit button on Login dialog.
• Bug fix: Failure or timeout when Execute button on Console window was clicked while another command was executing already. 1339
• Bug fix: Switches do not work with aliases to scripting commands. 1340
• Bug fix: Failure when trying to manipulate files in nonexisting directory in “batch continue” scripting mode. 1314
• Bug fix: It was not possible to configure Timezone offset for SCP protocol. 1343
• Bug fix: When timezone difference is autodetected with legacy FTP server, timestamp precision is not taken into account when comparing timestamps (e.g. for synchronization). 1342

2015-06-17

• Translations completed: French and Ukrainian.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1o.
• Not using directory include masks recursively when finding files. 1329
• Recognizing UTF-8 encoded localized German month names in FTP LIST command results. 1328
• Bug fix: Relative path of find results is shown incorrectly when finding from root folder. 1330
• Bug fix: Failure when switching sessions with session log window opened. 1333
• Bug fix: Session and log file information on Log window is not updated when switching session.
• Bug fix: Reference to parent WebDAV directory shows incorrectly when a name of the current folder includes special characters. 1335
• Bug fix: History of some inputs is not saved. 1336
• Bug fix: Incorrect behavior when retrying connection after listing of initial remote directory fails.
• Bug fix: When panel drive/path comboxes box do not cover whole toolbar height, the change Drive/Directory command do not work.

2015-05-13

• Using FTP command SIZE in binary mode. 1292
• Optionally determining local file icon by extension only. 1325
• Ensuring that sessions to be opened in a new window do not get actually opened back in the existing window.
• Bug fix: SFTP transfers fail occasionally. 1321
• Bug fix: Controls occasionally do not align correctly after restoring maximized window from minimization. 1309
• Bug fix: Embedded session is not opened. 1311
• Bug fix: SCP session breaks when an output includes a null character. 1313
• Bug fix: Error retrieving file attributes with FTP protocol when the path is given with trailing slash. 1314
• Bug fix: Sort arrow was shown on unsortable Find dialog.
• Bug fix: File mask with size constraint over 4 GB does not work. 1318
• Bug fix: When dragging files from local panel to local tree, status bar is not updated. 1319
• Bug fix: Local directory tree does not show newly created folder. 1320
• Bug fix: Local directory tree stops reflecting changes after creating new folder.
• Bug fix: Failure when HTTPS WebDAV URL redirects to HTTP. 1323
• Bug fix: Certificate validation fails, when HTTP WebDAV URL redirects to HTTPS.
• Bug fix: Some redirected WebDAVS connection error messages show original host name instead of the actual host name.
• Bug fix: WebDAVS certificate failure override for redirected session is stored for original host name.
• Bug fix: During file transfers on FTP servers that do not support MLSD command, file details are not provided on overwrite confirmation prompt and transfer progress is not shown correctly. 1324
• Bug fix: Edit commands on all Internal editors reflect state of the currently focused editor, instead of their editor.

2015-04-14

• Reporting relative addresses in stack trace.
• Bug fix: SFTP/SCP transfers occasionally time out. 1306
• Bug fix: Fail gracefully when internal command generated by WinSCP .NET assembly is too long. 1297
• Bug fix: Failure when “downloading and deleting” an empty remote directory with .NET assembly. 1299
• Bug fix: When overwriting configuration export, new configuration is appended, instead of replacing the previous export. 1300
• Bug fix: When listing WebDAV directory using relative path, the listing includes a reference to the directory itself. 1301
• Bug fix: Failure when pressing help icon while no control has focus. 1304
• Bug fix: Failure when closing log window during activity.
• Bug fix: Incorrect encoding of SSH_FXP_REALPATH. 1308

2015-03-25

• Translations added: Croatian, Finnish, Korean and Polish.
• Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.64.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1m.
• Not requiring confirmation when canceling an operation.
• Import of Base64-encoded passwords from FileZilla.
• Progress window uses Skip button instead of Cancel when calculating transfer size. 1296
• Workaround for ProFTPD/mod_sftp bug in SSH_FXP_REALPATH handling with SFTP version 6. 1289
• Not asking for master password repeatedly when opening Generate URL dialog. Not asking at all unless user chooses to include password into URL.
• More space for information about translators.
• Bug fix: Back-propagated SSH security fixes from PuTTY 0.64.1 private-key-not-wiped-2 diffie-hellman-range-check
• Bug fix: Failure when working with stored sites when a temporary hidden site for interprocess communication is not properly removed.
• Bug fix: Overwrite confirmation prompt displays name of source file instead of target file, when file name changes, with SFTP, SCP and WebDAV protocols. 1290
• Bug fix: Transfer was not resumed after moving the transfer to the background when source and target file name differs with FTP protocol.
• Bug fix: Failure when trying to open another externally initiated session while externally initiated session is opening.
• Bug fix: It is not possible to configure certificate accepting with WebDAV protocol in .NET assembly. 1284
• Bug fix: User and group name is not decoded properly from UTF-8 encoding with SFTP version 3 and older. 1288
• Bug fix: When calculating size of files to transfer is canceled, not using the incomplete results to estimate transfer progress.
• Bug fix: When local custom command is applied to a remote folder, it is unconditionally uploaded back after the command finishes. 1294
• Bug fix: Calculation of transfer size could not be moved to background.

Users upgrading from WinSCP 5.5.6 can read more about WinSCP 5.7 - What’s New?

2015-02-20

• Translations added: Czech, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish.
• Requesting FTP directory listing fields using OPTS MLST, if the server does not provide all needed fields by default. 1267
• Support for MD5 FTP command.
• Executable winscp.exe is included in .NET assembly package.
• Logging level and password logging can be set on command-line using /loglevel switch.
• Logging parsed command-line and script command parameters on Debug 1 level.
• Size of connection receiving buffer increased. 1273
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1l.
• Reducing amount of detailed information shown on Authentication Progress window for FTP sessions.
• Adjusting message box size for icons scaled on Windows 8.1 and newer.
• Not using drag images. 1274
• Logging processes and performance counters in .NET assembly debug log, only when Session.DebugLogLevel is 1.
• Not logging value of -passphrase switch of open command. 1277
• Bug fix: After several unsuccessful reconnects a resumed FTP file download starts from an initial remote folder, instead of correct source folder. 1268
• Bug fix: When sorting local files modified at the same time by modification time, sort direction is not considered when falling back to sorting by filename. 1269
• Bug fix: Command could be invoked in the middle of creating directory or navigating. 1272
• Bug fix: It was possible to drop on a file with drop handler in local panel with enabled drag&drop shell extension, although it cannot work with drop handlers.
• Bug fix: Failure when dropping on a file with drop handler in local panel with disabled drag&drop shell extension.
• Bug fix: Failure when running in a restricted environment. 1276
• Bug fix: Confirmation button on Read to Install and Finished installing installer screens was incorrectly labeled Next.
• Bug fix: Order of sessions in workspace with more than 10 sessions is not preserved. 1278

2015-01-13

• Local custom commands can optionally be executed with remote file paths. 510
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1k. Fixing several security defects.
• Change: Session.CalculateFileChecksum method returns a byte array instead of a string to match .NET framework cryptography functions.
• Never doing transfer via temporary file when overwriting a file known to be owned by another user. 1260
• Never automatically refresh a file panel while menu is opened or file is being dragged. 1262
• Loading files ownership before showing Properties when connected to Bitvise SFTP server.
• Meaningful error message when a cipher or a key-exchange algorithm is not verified.
• Using term “Sleep” instead of “Suspend” as used by Windows Vista and newer.
• Bug fix: Location profile folders are duplicated. 1259
• Bug fix: Command could be invoked while keeping session up to date. 1263
• Bug fix: Wrong syntax of SHA-1 cipher name in checksum command help.
• Bug fix: Default configuration was recreated after user chose to cleanup configuration during uninstallation.
• Bug fix: Failure in scripting one some rare prompts. 1264
• Bug fix: Failure when file panel autorefresh is triggered while directory is being read. 1265
• Bug fix: Could not connect to FTP server over a proxy with Force IP address for passive mode connections set to On. 1266

2014-12-18

• Automatic reconnect during listing of remote directory. 25
• Remembering the last working directories in a workspace. 1165
• Improvements to calculating remote file checksum:
  • Checksum support for FTP using HASH/XSHA1/XSHA256/XSHA512/XMD5/XCRC commands. 1242
  • File checksum can be calculated in scripting (checksum command and XML log entry) and .NET assembly (Session.CalculateFileChecksum method). 1246
  • Using IANA checksum algorithm names.
  • Calculate checksum button on Properties dialog becomes the default button when Algorithm box has focus.
• Supporting AVBL and XQUOTA commands to retrieve information about space available of FTP server.
• Home path can be resolved in .NET assembly using Session.HomePath. 1248
• Site tree on Login dialog responds to mouse wheel even when not focused. 846
• Custom command pattern !S that expands to session URL.
• SessionOptions.ParseUrl method in .NET assembly.
• Cancel all command for Background transfer queue list. 602
• Supporting IIS WebDAV Translate header to allow downloading source files and files with unknown MIME type. 1255
• Supporting FTP HOST command (RFC 7151). 1166
• Keep remote directory up to date dialog can be minimized to tray, even when minimizing to taskbar is used for the application.
• Prolonging countdown instead of suspending it when moving mouse over message box with “timeout” button. 1107
• File ownership is available in .NET assembly and XML log. 1245
• Improved automatic sizing of columns in various lists.
• Items with unknown value on Space available tab of Server and protocol information dialog are shown dimmed.
• Change: Considering directories to have zero size, when matching file masks or sorting by size, even when the server reports size for the directory, to achieve consistent behavior.
• Further compatibility improvements with FTP servers:
  • Workaround for malformed FEAT response of older versions of IIS FTP Server and WS_FTP server.
  • Bug fix: Cannot upload file to directory when FTP server returns 4xx/5xx response to directory listing request after allowing (typically empty) listing transfer (old versions of IIS FTP server). 1249
• Replaced FtpSecure.ExplicitTls .NET assembly option with FtpSecure.Explicit and deprecated FtpSecure.ExplicitSsl.
• Using Yes/No, instead of OK/Cancel on sites import confirmation during installation not to make an impression that rejecting the import cancels the installation.
• Logging when a symlink to a directory is skipped while downloading.
• Using standard formatting of IPv6 literals in session URL (instead of URL-encoding them).
• Displaying hint when F5 keyboard shortcut is used for the first time on Commander interface. 1254
• Bug fix: Parameters /help and /batchsettings were not working with winscp.com.
• Bug fix: Command could be invoked using keyboard shortcut in the middle of reloading directory. 1256
• Bug fix: Reason not given when FTP upload fails because local file attributes cannot be retrieved. 1250
• Bug fix: FTP upload fails when volume information for local drive cannot be retrieved. 1251
• Bug fix: Size of directories was reported as -1 for some FTP servers.
• Bug fix: Invalid stored FTP password was tried indefinitely in a loop. 1252
• Bug fix: Ad-hoc session duplicated to a new window had no name.
• Bug fix: Failure when dropping files to an external application via a temporary directory with an automatic refresh of a remote directory enabled. 1253
• Bug fix: Pasting permissions when Octal box has focus does not update the box itself. 1257
• Bug fix: Mouse cursor is hidden when hovering over progress window during download via temporary directory. 1258

2014-11-13

• Improved GUI responsiveness (with SFTP, SCP and FTP protocols). 1237
• Sites can be mass-modified using /batchsettings command-line parameter. 1236
• Use default transfer mode for edited files, except when using Notepad. 1239
• Added method Session.AddRawConfiguration to configure any global configuration option. 876
• Optionally logging even sensitive information (such as passwords).
• Consistently logging transferred bytes for every transferred file.
• Improving protection from undesired modifications of local files when handling URLs from browser while relieving restriction on combining URLs on command line with some switches, such as /log, /xmllog and /defaults.
• The failonnomatch option applies also to ls and lls command. 1172
• Replaced -explicittls command-line parameter and switch of open command with -explicit and deprecated -explicitssl.
• Change: lls by default only displays a notification that no matching file is found, instead of failing.
• Differentiating unknown private key format and non-existing/non-readable private key file errors.
• Bug fix: Session cannot be opened when Session.AddRawSettings is used. 1234
• Bug fix: Failure when connecting to WebDAV server not supporting persistent connections. 1235
• Bug fix: Keepalives were turned off when overriding site settings with raw settings.
• Bug fix: Parameter /rawconfig was not documented in usage.
• Bug fix: The Use default system editor button is misplaced on (ad-hoc) Editor dialog.
• Bug fix: Synchronization checklist window could be resized too small not to fit Custom button.
• Bug fix: The last file upload before creating a remote directory is not reported with .NET assembly. 1238
• Bug fix: Progress bar not appearing on task bar when main window is not visible. 1240
• Bug fix: Overwrite confirmation was required when changing case of site name.
• Bug fix: Failure when copying multiple files checksum results to clipboard. 1243
• Bug fix: Large sizes are displayed incorrectly. 1244

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