Recent Version History

• Local file manager mode (two local panels). 1893
• Ongoing delete operation can be moved to background queue. 194
• Showing directory size in file panel. 41
• File checksum calculation support for SCP protocol and SFTP protocol via secondary shell session using shell commands like sha256sum.
• Tab titles are shortened to fit window width as needed. 1423
• Consistent behavior across protocols when renaming/moving remote files: 2120
  • Asking before overwriting existing files, both for renaming/moving.
  • Allowing overwriting existing files even with protocols that require deleting the existing file first and with WebDAV.
• Tabs show tooltips with full session name and paths.
• Displaying thanks and transitioning help toolbar message after Store installation over classic installation.
• Remembering remote directory tree nodes state when switching sessions. 1057
• Download edited/opened files with up-to-date timestamps. 2122
• Support for S3 servers without TLS encryption. 1995
• Support for redirected WebDAV downloads (even to other hosts). 1667
• Optionally reading password from a file. 2102
• Input files can be read from named pipes. 2118
• Shift-clicking New Session command opens the Login dialog in new WinSCP instance, instead of possibly opening new instance of workspace.
• Allowed opening all sites in a folder in PuTTY. 2079
• Allowing environment variables in custom INI file path. 2105
• Private key pattern !K in PuTTY command-line and custom commands. 2107
• Automatically reconnect when FTP server fails to open data connection with 426 code, if it previously worked. 2110
• Cleaning up temporary WinSCP PuTTY sessions.
• Added import from KiTTY directly to the Import dialog. 1551
• Blocking Windows Rich Edit formatting keyboard shortcuts in Internal editor. 2108
• PNG code upgraded to PngComponents 1.9.0.
• When switching tabs, prevent visibly scrolling the panels when focusing the last selected file.
• Removed the “compression” indicator from the status bar.
• Allowed normal behavior of double-click on a file even when resolving of symlinks is disabled. 2037
• Change: SessionOptions.WebdavSecure renamed to SessionOptions.Secure (and applies to S3 protocol too).
• Session.ExecutablePath returns detected or actual executable path when not set. 2055
• Change: Keyboard shortcut for Command Line command changed to Shift+Ctrl+M (Shift+Ctrl+N previously).
• Preventing construction of .NET assembly internal collection classes, what avoids them being unnecessarily registered for COM.
• Hidden configuration option to increase maximal number of transfer at the same time. 2117
• Removed gap in initial toolbar layout.
• Bug fix: Failure when trying to switch session tabs while previous switch did not complete yet.
• Bug fix: When importing from FileZilla with KiTTY selected as SSH terminal, host keys were imported from KiTTY instead of FileZilla/PuTTY.
• Bug fix: Incorrect escaping of values in single-quoted patterns in custom commands.
• Bug fix: Configuration does not load when using /rawconfig command-line switch and read-only configuration sections.
• Bug fix: When file rename fails, wrong part of filename might be selected in the inline filename editor.

• WebDAV/HTTP core upgraded to neon 0.32.4.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.9.
• Preventing opening tunneled sessions in PuTTY from Login dialog as it cannot work. 2116
• Bug fix: Agent forwarding does not work. 2113
• Bug fix: Stall when new folder is detected and the drive contains folders with numerical names. 2114
• Bug fix: New version notification is not displaying.

• This is Microsoft Store-only release with the following fix:
  • The Donate command removed from the Help menu to comply with Store App policies.

• Translation updated: Ukrainian.
• Added new me-central-1 AWS region.
• Bug fix: Site with a stored password protected by master password cannot be opened from command-line. 2101
• Bug fix: Opening session in new window fails. 2104

• Translation completed: Farsi.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1q.
• Initial implementation of application logging.
• Bug fix: “Hidden files showing toggled” message displays opposite status.
• Bug fix: Cannot authenticate to WebDAV server with username containing some special characters. 2095
• Bug fix: Checkbox to set permissions recursively on Properties dialog is missing, when changing owner and group is not supported. 2097
• Bug fix: .NET assembly type library cannot be used in WSH. 2098

• Translation completed: Polish.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1p.
• Not offering to create a link to parent directory, when it happens to be selected, when starting to create a link. 2091
• Bug fix: Extension options dialog layout broken on systems with multiple monitors with different text scaling. 2090
• Bug fix: Failure when starting parallel FTP background transfers. 2093
• Bug fix: Directory coloring rules on remote panel do not work. 2094

• Bug fix: Hang when entering small directories with FTP protocol. 2087
• Bug fix: Lag when moving files from remote panel using drag&drop. 2088
• Bug fix: After certain operations, drive that was ever opened in local file panel cannot be safely removed temporarily.

• SSH core and SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.77. It brings the following changes:
  • Pageant: Option --openssh-config to allow easy interoperation with Windows’s ssh.exe. win-pageant-openssh-interop
  • Bug fix: PuTTYgen’s mouse-based entropy collection now handles high-frequency mice without getting confused. win-puttygen-entropy-rate-limit
  • Bug fix: Pageant can now handle large numbers of concurrent connections without hanging or crashing. win-pageant-max-connections-2
  • Bug fix: If Pageant is started multiple times simultaneously, the instances should reliably agree on one of them to be the persistent server. win-pageant-concurrent-startup
• Improved error message when FTP server returns malformed response. 2077
• Translations updated: German and Slovak.
• Not listing remote directory when downloading file using FTP protocol with overwrite confirmations off. 2084
• Workaround for calls to system API failing when used first time against some network shares (Samba) with paths over the legacy Windows limit. 2082
• Workaround for an apparent bug in Windows 11 that prevents WinSCP from stopping Windows going to the sleep mode during transfers. 2083
• Workaround for specific encoding of commas in filenames (and particularly directory names) by OneDrive WebDAV interface. 2085
• Bug fix: When transferring a growing file, after its original size is reached, the Session.FileTransferProgress event starts being triggered continuously. 2078
• Bug fix: Restored pre-5.20.3 behaviour with MVS systems. 2086

• Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian; and updated: Vietnamese
• Streaming support in .NET assembly and scripting for FTP protocol. 1945
• Improved compatibility with MVS systems. 2069
• New .NET assembly method Session.TryGetFileInfo. Thanks to @RachamimYaakobov. 2068
• Expanding environment variables in Open Directory/Location Profiles dialogs in local paths. 909
• Optimized loading of large directories. 1631
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1o.
• Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.2.1.
• When group (Site/Shared) to which new location profile is added is changed, switching the page to the target group.
• Preventing occasional exhaustion of resources while testing WinSCP executable version on repeated use of .NET assembly. 2075
• Bug fix: Capabilities of S3 sessions were not shown.
• Bug fix: Misplaced warning about unused scripting parameters when /rawsettings command-line switch is used. 2070
• Bug fix: File panels malfunction when files are dropped from other application to it. 2071
• Bug fix: When logging transfer statistics, recent transfer speed was logged instead of average speed of whole transfer. 2073
• Bug fix: z/OS PDS members without ISPF statistics are omitted in directory listing. 2076

• Translations updated: German and Vietnamese.
• SSH core upgraded to pre-release build of PuTTY 0.77.
  It brings the following changes:
  • Support for HTTP Digest authentication for proxies. http-digestauth
  • Interactive username/password prompts for proxy authentication. 468 proxy-password-prompt
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1n.
• WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.32.2.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.8.
• Allowed uploading edited files over encrypted session. 1989
• Building .NET assembly in Visual Studio 2019.
• Optionally not flashing taskbar button when WinSCP needs attention while in the background. 2067
• In .NET assembly or scripting with “nul” configuration, when WinSCP registry key does not exist, do not write statistics to INI file. 2066
• New less prominent icon for Quit command.
• Bug fix: Failure when attempting to switch to an unconnected sessions using keyboard shortcuts while another session is being connected.
• Bug fix: Removing all custom commands resets the default ones when INI file is used. 2059
• Bug fix: Failure when changing remote folder using directory tree while previous directory is still loading. 2060
• Bug fix: Drive that was ever opened in local file panel cannot be safely removed until WinSCP is closed. 2061
• Bug fix: “Optimize connection buffer size” checkbox was disabled for S3 although it has effect for the protocol. 2058
• Bug fix: Custom commands menu fail to open. 2062
• Bug fix: Local drive menu does not reflect some changes. 2063
• Bug fix: Using drive menu to change to an invalid drive fails silently.
• Bug fix: Scripting command ls in FTP session displays timestamps without year even if the server (notably IIS) provided the year, if it did not provide seconds. 2065

• File masks relative to the root of an operation. 2052
• Private key can be provided as string in .NET assembly and scripting. 2044
• Support for importing key files that are specified using home ~ prefix from OpenSSH config file. 2053
• Translation updated: German.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1m.
• Commands that do not fit on Custom Commands toolbar are presented in drop down menu, instead of a horizontal bar. 554
• First hiding right-most Custom Commands toolbar commands that do not fit.
• Prevent hang when dragging files without drag&drop shell extensions when some mapped network drive is not available. 2054
• Added new ap-southeast-3 AWS region.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.2.
• Bug fix: When initial remote directory specified in the open command does not exist, the error was silently ignored.
• Bug fix: File color rules with path mask do not work for local files.

• Support for ACL for S3 protocol. 1641
• SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.76. 1984
  It brings the following changes:
  • Support Curve448 key exchange method. curve448
  • Support Ed448 user and host keys. ed448
  • Support rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 SSH public key algorithms. 1952 rsa-sha2
  • Change: SHA-256 fingerprints are not padded anymore.
• It is possible to import sessions from OpenSSH config file. 1896
• Change: Removed support for SSH-1.
• Optionally keeping symbolic link name in path instead of resolving it with SFTP protocol. 81
• Improved shortening long paths, when single level name is too long on its own. 2043
• WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.32.1.
• Allow displaying all VMS file revisions with FTP protocol. 1944
• Support reading S3 credentials from AWS CLI configuration. 1941
• Bytes transferred are recorded in XML log and available in .NET assembly API. 597
• Generating PPK3 keys.
• It is possible to copy information to the clipboard from the Properties dialog.
• Made WinSCP.exe be deployed even when WinSCP NuGet package is included as transitive dependency. 2017
• When performing a single-item atomic operation, displaying indeterminate progress status.
• S3 Security token session option renamed to a more appropriate Session Token.
• Not resetting protocol to WebDAV when S3 protocol is selected and HTTP URL is pasted on the Login dialog. 2045
• Automatically reconnect when FTP server fails to open data connection, if it previously worked. 2046
• Confirm closing when multiple tabs are opened and auto workspace saving is not enabled, even when none of the tabs contain an active remote session.
• Including host key of tunnel session in generated code. 2006
• Support for custom certificate store files with configurable path. 2034
• Allowed providing tunnel private key passphrase in scripting. 2029
• Improved handling of long shell command error messages. 1949
• Considering global passive/active mode settings when importing sessions from FileZilla
• Automatically retry when S3 transfer fails with 503 code (Slow down or Service unavailable). 2047
• Improving formatting of errors displayed after an operation completed in Continue on error mode.
• Shift+Ctrl+R keyboard shortcut for Reconnect Session command.
• Change: Keyboard shortcut for Restore Selection command changed to Shift+Ctrl+S (Shift+Ctrl+R previously).
• Change: Monitoring A: and B: drives. 2014
• Preventing beep when using Alt+Enter to open the Properties dialog.
• When collecting list of files for background transfer, say “Listing” instead of “Calculating” not to give an impression that it is a superfluous operation. 2026
• Checking for too many parameters with /keygen switch.
• PNG code upgraded to PngComponents 1.7.0.
• Warning when selecting too new key file.
• Warning when opening more than 100 tabs. 1997
• Including HTTP message into S3 error message.
• Bug fix: Do not say “Terminated by user” when the session has actually timed out.
• Bug fix: Cannot use passwords and passphrases longer than 255 characters in automation and various other purposes. 1988
• Bug fix: When size of a file downloaded with FTP protocol changes (or when ASCII mode is used) the logged size did not reflect the actual transfer size.
• Bug fix: When connecting disconnected session the directory might be loaded twice.
• Bug fix: Failure when entering directory that contains file with a slash in its name. 2016
• Bug fix: When S3 authentication region changes during session, previously visited buckets from the original authentication region could not be accessed anymore. 2027
• Bug fix: Failure when using multiple connections with local proxy command. 2028
• Bug fix: Configuration import did not remove old sites and did not load all GUI settings. 2040
• Bug fix: When S3 transfer fatally fails, error details were lost.

• Translation updated: German.
• Back-propagated fixes from 5.20–5.20.2 releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1m.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.6.

• Compatibility with Google Cloud S3 API when duplicating files. 2038
• Compatibility with Google Cloud S3 API when deleting implicitly existing directories. 2042
• Translation updated: Turkish.
• Logging a reference to 1952 when an OpenSSH 8.8 (or newer) server refuses the key.
• Bug fix: Crash when new contents is copied to the clipboard while downloading files pasted from the clipboard. 2036
• Bug fix: Browse Remote Directory command on Synchronization checklist did not locate file with spaces.
• Bug fix: Extension ZIP and Upload does not work with files in a drive root. 2039
• Bug fix: Path on Console window was not shortened when it did not fit.

• Translation updated: Hungarian.
• Showing release date on the About dialog.
• Support for custom certificate store files. 2034
• Allow other 2xx responses to PWD command, not only the standard 257. 1768
• Bug fix: When there are both site folder and site with the same name and the site was selected when closing the Login dialog, when reopening, the folder was selected instead.

• Translation updated: French.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1l.
• Using Documents folder when the last used local directory in Explorer interface does not exist anymore. 2011
• Bug fix: TLS session resumption is not working for subsequent FTP transfers with TLS 1.3 when the server requires reuse of the session of the previous transfer. 2018
• Bug fix: Cannot access S3 bucket root when the access policy checks for empty prefix. 2021
• Bug fix: Response from ProFTPD FTP checksum commands is not recognized. 2023
• Bug fix: Failure when submitting prompt with “Never ask me again” selected. 2022
• Bug fix: Panels are drawn incorrectly after toggling Full row select. 2025
• Bug fix: Timeout while uploading files to some FTP servers using TLS 1.3. 2030
• Bug fix: Incomplete listing for S3 servers that indicate truncated listing after the contents and whose pagination is a multiple of 8 (e.g. Backblaze). 2032

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