WinSCP 5.5 Changes

• New toolbar icons and 16×16 icon. 290
• Simplified Transfer options dialog:
  • The dialog is shown only on the first transfer, when using drag&drop, unless user explicitly opts to show it the next time.
  • Moved the New and updated files only option to Transfer settings.
  • Moved the Do not show this dialog box again checkbox below buttons.
  • Hiding Transfer each file individually when not applicable.
  • Icon to distinguish Copy/Move operation.
  • Do not show this dialog box again implies saving transfer settings
• Improved working with transfer settings and presets:
  • Not showing default Text mode file mask in Transfer settings box.
  • Showing even default Binary Transfer type in Transfer settings box.
  • Removed “Exclude temporaries” transfer settings preset.
  • Added “Newer and updates files only” transfer settings preset.
  • Reorganized Transfer settings drop down menu, including new Presets header.
  • Hiding unusable presets from Transfer settings drop down menu.
  • Merged configuration of default transfer settings and transfer settings presets.
• Using “Download” and “Upload” commands to distinguish copying to local and remote directories respectively.
• Using “Download and Delete” and “Upload and Delete” commands instead of “Move” to distinguish moving files to local and remote directories respectively.
• Optionally keeping completed transfers in queue list for configurable period of time. 584
• Replaced file operation toolbar, bottom hot key bar and upload/download toolbar with specialized local and remote file toolbars to allow manipulating local/remote files using mouse, without need to change panel focus (Commander interface only).
• Improved incremental search for sites on Login dialog: 984
  • Text is searched anywhere in the site name, not only at the beginning.
  • Next/previous matching sites can be searched for.
  • Search text is shown below site list.
• Displaying queue status on taskbar button. 151
• Replaced Selection toolbar with specialized local and remote Selection toolbars (Commander interface only).
• Added label to the most important toolbar buttons. They can be optionally hidden including already existing labels like Command-line label (Commander interface), Address label (Explorer interface) and New session tab label.
• Moved Commands toolbar of Commander interface first.
• Find files command moved from Commands toolbar to Remote Navigation toolbar and is now available regardless of focused panel.
• Renamed Add to Bookmarks command to Add Path to Bookmarks.
• Removed Close toolbar button from Editor and Log windows.
• Session menu and toolbar reorganized.
• Increased height of path labels (Commander interface only).
• Single-file queue transfers occupy only single line in background transfer queue list.
• Increased height of background transfer queue list row.
• User interface icons are shown also in Setup.
• Turned off automatic stretching of Transfer settings toolbar.
• Column Attr is hidden by default on local panel.
• Default (installation) width of the Commander interface is larger, if the screen resolution allows it.
• Added Download and Download and Delete buttons on Commands toolbar of Explorer interface.
• Moved Panels node on Preferences dialog to the top-level to reduce nesting.
• Horizontal line above file background transfer queue list splitter to highlight its presence.
• Disabling whole Once Empty submenu, when queue is empty.
• Using own context menu for local files (similar to existing context menu for remote files) by default. 163
• First column in Editor list in preferences is editor name.
• Icons are no longer dimmed with Office XP theme.
• Tab with disconnected session is greyed.
• Removed SSH Protocol version from Site tooltip.
• When file cannot be loaded using selected encoding in Internal editor, error is shown. On error loading default encoding, attempts to load using another encoding. 971
• On main window views without focus respond to mouse wheel. 846
• Export to INI file moved from Preferences to Login dialog.
• In Commander interface, the keyboard shortcuts F3 and F5 can optionally have the same meaning as in Windows Explorer (Find File and Refresh).
• Changing session port number on Login dialog to well know port, updates protocol automatically.
• Additional F5 shortcut to reload file in internal editor. 986

• Using term Site instead of Stored session.
• Site Manager command. 855
• Sites import from Filezilla. 61
• Workspace can be saved. 776
• Whole site folder can be opened at once. 424
• Desktop shortcut to open site folder can be created.

Improved “During and After Installation” Experience

• Only shortcut to WinSCP itself is created in Start menu. 616
• When upgrading, setup offers to restart Windows Explorer (or other applications), when drag&drop shell extension needs to be updated. 686
• While installing, setup offers sites import from PuTTY or Filezilla.
• On first edit, WinSCP offers configuration of user’s custom text editor as default editor.
• Command to Import/restore configuration from INI file.

• Transfer resume support can be controlled in scripting (-resumesupport switch of file transfer commands) and .NET assembly (TransferOptions.ResumeSupport property). 834
• Transfer progress feedback using Session.FileTransferProgress event. 818
• For special cases, it is possible to accept any SSH host key or any TLS/SSL certificate (with warning) using -hostkey=* in scripting and SessionOptions.GiveUpSecurityAndAcceptAnySshHostKey or SessionOptions.GiveUpSecurityAndAcceptAnySshHostKey in .NET assembly. 815
• Before opening session using command-line parameter in scripting, warning is printed, that this is deprecated function.
• Retrospectively logging previous script records when session is starting.
• Printing transfer progress for small files in bytes in scripting. 964

• Change: Session from commandline and/or from jump list is opened by default using existing WinSCP instance. 769
• Writing INI file to user’s profile, if program path is not writable. 817
• Any mouse or keyboard input cancels or resets reconnect countdown.
• Increased default reconnect interval for idle sessions to 9 seconds.
• Reconnect interval for idle sessions can be configured independently.
• Reporting an error when reading of local directory fails during operation. 952
• When SFTP connection is rejected, knock FTP port. If open suggest using FTP protocol.
• Dropped support for Windows 2000. Minimal supported version is Windows XP.
• Using GiB scale for large file sizes. 913
• Option to reconnect disconnected non-active session, when saving file opened from that session. 917
• Use of MLSD FTP command is configurable. 927
• Allowing host key import for SSH protocols only.
• Added larger values to initial offer of speed limits. 987

• Bug fix: Scripting command synchronize sometimes did not announce that there is nothing to synchronize.
• Bug fix: First Authenticate log entry was trimmed temporarily.
• Bug fix: Separators on toolbars were showing “E” hint.
• Bug fix: Incorrect file icon overlay positioning.
• Bug fix: Not drawing own shortcut overlay over shortcut icons.
• Bug fix: Records on Authentication window were temporarily truncated.
• Bug fix: Selection on file panel was not visually updated when panel received/lost focus.
• Bug fix: Panel path label was not deactivated when focus moved from directory tree to file transfer queue.
• Bug fix: Download command was not highlighted as default in remote directory context menu when Operation to perform on double-click was set to Copy.
• Bug fix: Text mode transfers should not be resumed FTP protocol. 965
• Bug fix: No error is shown in Internal editor, when file cannot be loaded using selected encoding. 971