Recent Version History

• Suspending workaround 1644 for a bug in Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 update), fixed in version 1809 (October 2018 update), that caused drag&drop downloads to Windows Explorer end in a wrong folder.
• Control labels do not show keyboard accelerator cue, until Alt key is pressed.
• Bug fix: Mouse range selection does not start from the file focused by an incremental search. 1714
• Bug fix: Incremental search in Explorer-selection mode does not select the found file. 1713
• Bug fix: The last file transfer before creating a remote directory during synchronization is not reported with .NET assembly. 1715
• Bug fix: Properties dialog shows “1 file/folder”, instead of a name, even when a single entry was selected only.
• Bug fix: When an ancestor directory cannot be read, its child files and subdirectories are incorrectly assumed to be encrypted. 1716
• Bug fix: Failure when starting GUI. 1717

• Compare Files extensions (obsoletes File Compare custom command).
• Dark theme. 1696
• Coloring files in file panels based on a file mask. 1574
• Improved incremental search in file panels. 1711
• Synchronization preview in .NET assembly. 1371
• Allowed dropping remote files to network drives. 1701
• Synchronization can be started in a new window. 327
• Command to un/check all files in a folder on Synchronization checklist window. 1705
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2q.
• /rawtransfersettings command-line switch to configure any transfer settings using a raw format as in an INI file.
• Command-line switch /comregistration for inspecting and clearing broken COM registrations. 1706
• Optionally failing synchronization in scripting when there are no changes. 1707
• Ctrl+PgDn tries to enter even a file. 1704
• Adding “Open Directory/Bookmark” command to bookmark drop down menu.
• Change: Renamed RemotePath.CombinePaths to RemotePath.Combine.
• Showing a progress while executing a local custom command with a set of files.
• Loading .exe (and similar) file icons asynchronously
• Allowed excluding certain drive letters from monitoring for dropped files.
• Better error message when drop target cannot be detected and drag&drop shell extension is not available.
• Flashing taskbar button, when synchronization checklist window shows with found changed files, while WinSCP is on background.
• Custom font colors history.
• When switching colored sessions, file panels were temporarily drawn using a color of a previous session.
• Not offering name of selected subfolder as a name of new file and not downloading the folder if it by coincidence matches with name of the new file.
• Bug fix: Failure when dropping down bookmark menu while no bookmark is saved. 1697
• Bug fix: Failure when canceling connection attempt. 1698
• Bug fix: With themes disabled, an empty space is reserved for and working as a close button on a session tab even though the button is not drawn. 1699
• Bug fix: GUI freezes while executing an extension with ShowResultsInMsgBox or CopyResults flags.
• Bug fix: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+? keyboard shortcuts for custom commands and extensions were not working. 1700
• Bug fix: User name edit box on Login dialog in some cases does not include modification commands (like Paste). 1702
• Bug fix: Opening context menu of a file in a local panel locks a parent folder of the file. 1703
• Bug fix: Bug fix: Ampersand (&) from the last custom command was not shown in menu.
• Bug fix: Remembered private key passphrase is not passed to PuTTY. 1708
• Bug fix: Crash on start while loading local file icons. 1709
• Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684
• Bug fix: Failure when canceling connection attempt started from command-line. 1710
• Bug fix: It was not possible to access a bucket, if the user does not have permissions to list its root folder. 1712

• Support OpenSSH AES-256-CTR-encrypted keys. PuTTYgen updated to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2018-10-22.1806b71). 1692
• Allow connecting to Amazon S3 using non-default endpoints. 1695
• With parallel background transfers, it is not possible to disable size calculation, which effectively prevented parallel transfers from working. 1691
• Low logging level implemented also for S3 and partly for WebDAV protocols. 1637
• Optionally consider exit code 1 an error when executing a shell command on a server. 1694
• Middle mouse click closes session without activating its tab.
• Choosing right color for background of calculated checksum on Properties dialog.
• Bug fix: Failure when closing the main window with a colored session. 1693
• Bug fix: Confirmation of copy&paste transfers between panels was incorrectly controlled by drag&drop confirmation preference option.
• Bug fix: Background transfer settings are not preserved. 1690
• Bug fix: Resolving file move from synchronization checklist, invoked from command-line, closes a connection.
• Bug fix: Generated code included redundant PortNumber raw settings settings setter for all sessions not using port 22.

• Files can be optionally encrypted when storing them on SFTP server. 1653
• Local UNC paths can be browsed. 133
• Files can be copied to the clipboard. 316
• Empty directories can be excluded from transfer and synchronization. 207
• Files can be downloaded directly to an external drop location even without a loaded drag&drop shell extension.
• It is always possible to use drag&drop to move remote files to external applications, while copy is always the default operation.
• Improvements to directory synchronization:
  • Synchronization runs on top of Synchronization checklist window for easier overview of the process.
  • Showing overall synchronization progress on progress window and taskbar. 598
  • File/directory rename can be resolved on Synchronization checklist window.
  • Size of directories can be calculated on Synchronization checklist window.
  • Synchronization summary is shown at the end of the operation. 1680
  • Function “Keep remote directory up to date” can be started in a new window.
  • During synchronization transfer speed limit is preserved across set of synchronized directories.
  • Larger default size of Synchronization checklist window on larger screens.
  • Not showing “Operation was successfully completed” when canceling Synchronization Checklist window opened from command-line.
  • Not showing “Operation was successfully completed” message, after command-line synchronization operation, where there were no files to be synchronized.
  • Once Finished option now applies to whole synchronization operation, not only to the current particular synchronization sub-operation.
  • Preventing artifacts on Synchronization checklist window.
  • Bug fix: When synchronization changes preview is turned off, and changes are found, but none of them match synchronization options, no feedback is provided.
• Bookmark drop down menu. 1127
• Added Generate button to SSH > Authentication page of Advanced Site Settings dialog, that starts PuTTYgen and detects a private key file generated by it. 386
• Command to install public key in available both on main window and on Advanced Site Settings dialog. 386
• Close button on session tab. 1393 Using it, a non-active session can be closed, as well as disconnected session without a need to reconnect it.
• When a path entered in Open Directory dialog or Address toolbar cannot be opened, retry an entry to allow user to correct it. 1673
• Public key can be displayed in Advanced Site Settings dialog.
• Session tab can be renamed. 1183
• Save as Preset command in transfer settings drop down menu. 892
• Improved design of About window.
• Build of .NET assembly that targets .NET Standard 2.0 is provided. 1640
• Change: .NET Assembly now targets .NET Framework 4.0.
• Support for long local paths with FTP protocol. 1337
• PowerShell script that runs WinSCP scripting commands can be generated on Generate Code dialog.
• Transfer settings that do not have a dedicated scripting switch or a .NET TransferOptions property can be set using -rawtransfersettings switch or TransferOptions.AddRawSettings method.
• Toolbar buttons can be hidden. 582
• Found files can be edited from the Find dialog. 1634
• Hidden files can be excluded from transfer/synchronization. 209
• Session URL can contain any raw session settings using connection parameter. New custom command pattern !E can generate such URL for use in WinSCP extensions.
• Session name specified by /sessionname command-line switch is preserved in workspace.
• Time constraints can be set to a start of an interval.
• today and yesterday time constraint aliases.
• Configuration can be saved to read-only INI file by holding down Shift key while closing WinSCP or submitting Preferences dialog.
• Change: Do not match URL after stripping protocol against stored site name in scripting/automation. 1647
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts for extensions. 1613
• When opening a session in PuTTY, exporting also cached host keys.
• Low logging level. 1637
• It’s possible to limit number of command line parameters used for open-ended switches like -rawconfig, -rawsettings and -rawtransfersettings using syntax -switch[count].
• Optionally create background queue connection right after session starts (hidden settings). 1681
• Natural order numerical sorting for directory tree. 1685
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.6.
• Distinguishing multiple sessions opened to the same site by current path. 1635
• Change: Keyboard shortcut for Download command in Explorer interface changed to Ctrl+T (Ctrl+C previously).
• Change: Keyboard shortcut for Open Terminal command changed to Shift+Ctrl+T (Ctrl+T previously).
• Silently ignore errors writing a read-only INI file when automatically saving a workspace when exiting.
• Do not show an error when remembered last used directories do not exist anymore. 1616
• Not failing transfer if file selected for transfer, but excluded by file mask, is deleted during operation. 1677
• Optimized loading time in scripting/.NET assembly mode. 1621
• Use remembered private key passphrase in generated script/code. 1688
• Generated code does not include fingerprints of TLS certificates signed by a trusted authority.
• Preventing session tabs flicker with large number of sessions.
• Moving session Color submenu to Session menu.
• Not reloading site list when opening Login dialog/Site menu/etc where there is too many sites. 1658
• Allow authentication with empty passwords in scripting. 1638
• Preventing stall on startup when updating jumplist 1625 or resolving icons of common file types 1649 takes too long.
• Ctrl+A is working in file/directory path selection boxes.
• Parsing file modification time from display string if not provided explicitly in SFTP packet. 1665
• Operation status is shown on task bar button and tray icon title also for command-line operations.
• Not showing an estimated time left till the end of an operation for the first few seconds.
• Hidden option to generate WebDAV URLs with http:// protocol prefix. 1668
• Removed (non-working) panel loading animation.
• Workaround for problems when uploading files from symlinked location (such as deduplicated drive). 1355
• History of edit boxes can be deleted using Ctrl+Del keyboard shortcut. 1686
• Bug fix: Hangs when clicking directory tree while inline editing file name. 1618
• Bug fix: Failure when .NET assembly starts reading an XML log file in a short moment when it’s empty yet. 1619
• Bug fix: Ad-hoc sessions opened with workspace duplicated into a new window had a wrong name.
• Bug fix: When editing multiple files, opening ends on the first file that is already opened.
• Bug fix: When minimizing command-line operation, task bar button was hidden.
• Bug fix: Hint popup on too long transfer settings panel was truncated on separator (|) of exclude masks.
• Bug fix: WinSCP instance without main window (opened from command-line) could incorrectly accept session opened from another instance.
• Bug fix: Generated code included PortNumber property setter for all non-SSH protocols, even when the default port number of a respective protocol was used.
• Bug fix: Prevent SCP server sending files that were not requested. 1675
• Bug fix: Hang when doing an operation on FTP connection that disconnected on a background. 1679
• Bug fix: Failure or delay when .NET assembly timeouts waiting for WinSCP process. 1683
• Bug fix: When dropping files on another session tab, the target path was not set to the working directory of that session.
• Bug fix: Orphaned hidden temporary folders were not being deleted.
• Bug fix: Using /ini=nul in GUI shows an error.
• Bug fix: Sort arrow is not shown on start up.
• Bug fix: When dragging files to other session tabs, drag cursor could change to “Move”, although only “Copy” is possible.
• Bug fix: Remembered passphrase is used as a password in generated script/code. 1687
• Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684

• Translation updated: Simplified Chinese.
• Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.14–5.14.3 beta releases:
  • Suspending workaround 1644 for a bug in Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 update), fixed in version 1809 (October 2018 update), that caused drag&drop downloads to Windows Explorer end in a wrong folder.
  • Use remembered private key passphrase in generated script/code. 1688
  • Bug fix: Remembered private key passphrase is not passed to PuTTY. 1708
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling connection attempt started from command-line. 1710
  • Bug fix: The last file transfer before creating a remote directory during synchronization is not reported with .NET assembly. 1715
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting GUI. 1717

• Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.14.2 beta release:
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684
  • Bug fix: Crash on start while loading local file icons. 1709

• Translations updated: Dutch, Hungarian, Kabyle, Korean, Polish and Spanish.
• Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.14–5.14.2 beta releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2q.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.6.
  • Bug fix: Using /ini=nul in GUI shows an error.
  • Bug fix: Sort arrow is not shown on start up.
  • Bug fix: When dragging files to other session tabs, drag cursor could change to “Move”, although only “Copy” is possible.
  • Bug fix: Remembered passphrase is used as a password in generated script/code. 1687
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684
  • Bug fix: GUI freezes while executing an extension with ShowResultsInMsgBox or CopyResults flags.
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+? keyboard shortcuts for custom commands and extensions were not working. 1700
  • Bug fix: User name edit box on Login dialog in some cases does not include modification commands (like Paste). 1702
  • Bug fix: Opening context menu of a file in a local panel locks a parent folder of the file. 1703

• Passing private key to PuTTY when installed from Microsoft Store. 1654 Passing also other options that PuTTY can accept on its command-line, like “Attempt authentication using Pageant”, “Allow agent forwarding”, “Enable compression”, “SSH protocol version”, “Logical name of remote host” and “Internal protocol version”.
• WinSCP installed from Microsoft Store can be executed from command-line. 1662
• Translation updated: Icelandic.
• With logging level 1 and higher, printing scripting exit debug information on an output too.
• Hidden configuration option to disable running shell operations on a separate thread. 1666
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
• Bug fix: When system theme changes, path labels lose their background color.
• Bug fix: File mask is not considered when calculating total file transfer size when deleting original files. 1656
• Bug fix: When canceling connection, mouse cursor sometimes stay “busy”. 1657
• Bug fix: Relative long paths are not handled correctly. 1659
• Bug fix: Error when closing edited/opened files with “Keep temporary copies of remote files in deterministic paths” option enabled. 1660
• Bug fix: It is not possible to open S3 folder from command-line/URL or in scripting when path ends with slash. 1661
• Bug fix: File panel columns do not have a width constraints. 1663
• Bug fix: Update information window layout is broken in some situations. 1664
• Bug fix: Timezone autodetection failed if timestamp of file cannot be retrieved. 1672
• Bug fix: Wrong error message when attempting to rename an S3 folder. 1674

• Generated session URL for opened FTP/WebDAV session over TLS/SSL with invalid certificate includes its fingerprint. 1646
• Generated session URL has colons in TLS/SSL fingerprint unnecessarily URL-encoded. 1645
• Bug fix: It is not possible to delete symlink pointing to a directory with “Follow symbolic links to directories” session settings being on. 1648
• Bug fix: Scripting command ln does silently nothing when the server does not support creating symlinks, instead of reporting that.
• Bug fix: Error when downloading file to a temporary filename with a long path with SFTP protocol.
• Bug fix: Keywords that link to help page are underlined in generated code on Windows 10 version 1803. 1650
• Bug fix: Start of file drag from remote panel stalls on some systems with floppy drive. 1652
• Bug fix: Path argument in lcd command in generated script has to end with backslash, if it points to a root folder.
• Kabyle translation removed.

• WinSCP is available in Microsoft Store. 1639
• Workaround for a bug in Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 Update), causing drag&drop downloads to Windows Explorer end in a wrong folder (computer restart required). 1644
• Translations completed: Croatian, Farsi and Russian; and updated: Dutch, French, German and Polish.
• Bug fix: ssh:// URL is handled once for every opened instance of WinSCP too much. 1627
• Bug fix: Icons for local files do not show on some systems. 1628
• Bug fix: Failure when binary file is attempted to be opened in an internal editor on system with multibyte legacy encoding. 1629
• Bug fix: Login dialog opens slowly, when there is a lot of stored sites with a color. 1630
• Bug fix: Extensions were not loaded when configuration is empty.
• Bug fix: Starts slowly on some systems. 1633
• Bug fix: Failure when uploading a file larger than 2GB using S3 protocol. 1636

• Translations completed: Kabyle, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian; and updated: Bahasa Indonesia.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
• Treating a star as an unset permission for compatibility with Win32-OpenSSH.
• Bug fix: /refresh parameter with sftp:// URL was not working for SFTP sessions with enabled fallback to SCP protocol.
• Bug fix: Simple input boxes (like “Edit File” dialog) are broken on multi monitor systems with different DPI. 1614
• Bug fix: HTTP proxy responses for FTP protocol are logged char by char. 1615
• Bug fix: Port number box was visible for S3 protocol, even though its value has no effect.
• Bug fix: Hang when opening a menu with any Paste command, while clipboard contains a large amount of text. 1620
• Bug fix: Slashes in SHA-256 fingerprints are not encoded in generated URLs. 1622
• Bug fix: Failure when closing a session with a local proxy command. 1623
• Bug fix: Failure when closing Find window while finding files. 1624

• Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
• Better error message when trying to upload a file to virtual S3 root “folder”.
• Displaying server name in network drive label. 1607
• When using session name as a part of a path to a temporary directory, replace a slash separating a session folder from a session name with a dash instead of %2F. 1608
• Configurable path to XML log file for the .NET assembly. 942
• Bug fix: Failure when opening context menu of edit boxes on Login dialog. 1605
• Bug fix: Failure when processing FileTransferProgress event. 1606
• Bug fix: It was not possible to open workspace with special characters from a desktop shortcut. 1610
• Bug fix: Failure when focused panel is changed, while double-clicking a file to edit it. 1611

• Multiple levels of directories can be created, while synchronizing browsing to a non existing directory. 1601
• Setting Content Type of files uploaded to S3. 1602
• Configurable mapping from file extension to Content-Type (using hidden setting). 1604
• Bug fix: Local directory tree cannot be controlled using keyboard. 1599
• Bug fix: Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut executed/opened selected file, instead of opening Properties dialog.
• Bug fix: Session hangs when QueryReceived is set while session is already opened. 1600
• Bug fix: QueryReceivedEventArgs.Message is empty.
• Bug fix: Parallel background connections are never started, when queue processing is disabled.
• Bug fix: Panel column context menus were working incorrectly when panel was horizontally scrolled.
• Bug fix: Failure when processing results of upload during synchronization in .NET assembly when a directory was created with explicitly set permissions as the first operation. 1603

• Improvements and changes to .NET assembly and scripting:
  • Custom error handling instead of default abort can be optionally implemented for batch operations in .NET assembly. 1594
  • Change: .NET assembly instance methods Session.EscapeFileMask, Session.CombinePaths, Session.TranslateLocalPathToRemote, Session.TranslateRemotePathToLocal, Session.AddDirectorySeparator, Session.GetDirectoryName, and Session.GetFileName replaced by static methods of the same name in class RemotePath.
  • Change: Session.ScanFingerprint has a new mandatory algorithm parameter.
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly methods GetFileName and GetDirectoryName did not behave correctly when provided a filename without any path.
  • Bug fix: Backtick (`) and dollar ($) signs are not escaped in generated PowerShell code. 1590
• Displaying both SHA-256 and MD5 fingerprint of SSH host key on Server and protocol information dialog.
• Choosing right color for background of “selectable” labels.
• All read-only edit boxes/selectable labels have user friendly context menu for copying contents.
• Bug fix: Setting hidden raw session setting for “Configurable priority of host key types” overrides host key.
• Bug fix: Failure when error occurs while another error is already being handled.
• Bug fix: When connection is lost while deleting source remote file during “Download and Delete” operation, downloaded file may be deleted once connection is resumed. 1592
• Bug fix: Hidden session settings S3DefaultRegion to create an S3 bucket in a non-default region was not working.
• Bug fix: It was not possible to work with S3 buckets with a dot in their name. 1597
• Bug fix: S3 temporary redirect was not handled (consequently it was not possible to work with newly created S3 buckets)
• Bug fix: HTTP error was displayed instead of a more specific S3 error message in some situations.
• Bug fix: When viewing stored S3 site with a non-default hostname, the default Amazon S3 hostname was shown instead.
• Bug fix: Failure when updating jumplist. 1591

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