Recent Version History

• Improvements to official Batch Rename extension:
  • Made GUI refresh optional to allow standalone execution.
  • Not failing when specific file do not require any rename.
  • Bug fix: Rename fails when the filename contain file mask special characters. 2157
• Bug fix: Failure when system settings change after new version message box was displayed. 2148

• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1s.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.5.0.
• Translation updated: German.
• Setting $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing to Legacy in generated WinSCP scripting PowerShell commandline, which is needed for PowerShell 7.3 compatibility. 2134
• Added new ap-south-2, eu-central-2 and eu-south-2 AWS regions and doubling region drop-down height.
• Bug fix: Moving WebDAV transfer to background aborts the transfer if the server commits the interrupted foreground transfer. 2126
• Bug fix: Failure when saving edited file while current tab is not connected. 2139
• Bug fix: When the current session is encrypted, saved edited file was uploaded using the current session instead of its source session. When the current session is not encrypted, edited files opened in any encrypted session was uploaded on the background, possibly leading to data inconsistent files.
• Bug fix: When reattaching edited file to re-connection session, the file was always attached to the current session instead of the possibly non-active re-connected session.

• Translation completed: Brazilian Portuguese.
• 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

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