Plugin To Altap Salamander Version History

2010-02-17

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Bug fix: Incorrect handling of URLs with session name inside folder.
• SSH/SFTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.2.5 (not released yet). It brings following changes:
  • Stored session passwords can be encrypted by AES cipher using master password. 273
  • It is possible to change group/owner of a remote file by UID/GID. 333
  • XML logging for more formal and machine-readable representation of operations performed during the session. 95
  • It is possible to schedule computer shutdown at the end of operation or once the background transfer queue is empty. 292
  • New icon by Jonathan Heathcote
  • It is possible to turn off both modification time and file size comparison criteria, synchronizing thus only by file existence. 368
  • For synchronization, when comparison by modification time is disabled, it is possible to turn off preserving of timestamp. 368
  • Speed limit can be set as part of transfer settings. 302
  • It is possible to synchronize remote files with name that is not allowed on Windows. 31
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-09-27, revision 8665). It brings following changes:
    • Empty SSH keyboard interactive prompts are ignored. 388
    • Improved flow control with SSH-2, what improved transfer speed, particularly for downloads. 17 flow-control flow-control-filexfer
    • Support for SSH-2 RSA key exchange. ssh2-rsa-kex
    • Improved robustness when dealing with servers that does not respect WinSCP window size. ssh2-window-overrun
    • Improved robustness when dealing with servers that does not respect WinSCP packet size limit (e.g. GlobalSCAPE). 314 ssh2-bug-maxpkt
    • Switched to PuTTY’s own implementation of Kerberos/GSSAPI. It brings following changes: kerberos-gssapi
      • GSS key exchange algorithms are no longer supported.
      • Session option Service principal name is no longer supported.
    • Bug fix: WinSCP tried password authentication with SSH-1 even if the server says not to. ssh1-no-password
    • Bug fix: In CBC modes, decrypting the packet length could leak information. ssh2-cbc-pktlen-weakness
    • Bug fix: Minor memory leaks.
  • Any file mask can include exclude masks (separated by pipe). 328
  • Workaround for Momentum server limit of 32 KiB for reading/writing. 440
  • Plugin prevents computer from being suspended during operation. 265
  • While downloading trailing dot in filenames is replaced with %2E, as Windows trim them. 452
  • Errors when deleting local files after upload finishes are reported. 462
  • Change: Once dot-only filenames are obscured from Windows, all security checks which hide dot-only filenames from user are removed. 452
  • On download names of files reserved in Windows (such as NUL) are appended with %00 to allow saving them. 58
  • Dialogs are showed on-screen even if center of the main window is off-screen. 360
  • For compatibility with Fedora 11, dot (.) after permissions in directory listing is ignored 436
  • Transfer settings controls reorganized so that Clear ‘Archive’ attribute fits to Upload options. 108
  • In Mirror synchronization mode it is possible to turn off comparison by modification time.
  • File mask hint shows file size mask syntax.
  • Path relative to startup directory can be used in initial session local directory. 492
  • While downloading trailing dot in filenames is replaced with %2E, as Windows trim them. 452
  • WinSCP can load plain text tunnel password from configuration (new attribute TunnelPasswordPlain). If possible, it automatically converts the password to encrypted form. 497
  • SFTP status code is not logged as status/error code anymore. 484
  • Up to 255 characters long SFTP server commands are allowed. 495
  • Bug fix: Overwriting new or updated files only was not working with SFTP when overwrite confirmations were disabled. 408
  • Bug fix: Values were overlapped on progress window when Calculate total size transfer settings was disabled. 456
  • Bug fix: Incorrect calculation of DST start/end date. 504
  • Bug fix: Excluding file from transfer did not prevent access to the file. 514

2009-08-21

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Title of configuration window changed to WinSCP Configuration.
  • Configuration item removed from plugin menu.
  • Security icon is shown on path label.
  • Bug fix: Add to transfer queue note to Transfer on background option was removed as it was misleading. 117
• SSH/SFTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.1.9. It brings following changes:
  • Workaround for problem with Tectia SFTP server corrupting remote file if resumed transfer fails again. 351
  • Timestamps of local and remote file are compared with respect to their precision when transferring updated files only. 409
  • Password for tunnel session is also remembered for background transfers. 400
  • Expanding/collapsing capability of message boxes removed.
  • Transfer mode and resume support status are no longer shown on progress window.
  • Session name can contain special characters like []/. 305
  • Bug fix: When synchronizing timestamps of local files, update of non-existing local files was offered. 346
  • Bug fix: When name of destination remote file was changed on overwrite confirmation dialog, timestamps and permissions were yet set on the original filename (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Change of name of destination remote file on overwrite confirmation dialog was not reflected properly for resumable file transfers (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Incorrectly URL-encoded character in session specification may caused the session to be silently ignored. 373
  • Bug fix: Plugin stopped responding if directory listing with SFTP started with file with suspicious name. 384
  • Bug fix: The Update subdirectories checkbox of Keep remote directory up to date did not apply to synchronization on start. 395
  • Bug fix: Remembered password of main session was in some cases reused to authenticate tunnel session for background transfers. 400
  • Bug fix: Blank lines of command output were not shown in console window. 402
  • Bug fix: Button-like controls disappeared when accelerators were about to be shown on Windows Vista. 329
  • Bug fix: Icon on Properties dialog is shrunk to fit, if shell icon size is too large. 323
  • Bug fix: Controls on some dialogs were occasionally corrupted. 336
  • Bug fix: Alias to directory listing command was not cleared (SCP only). 285
  • Bug fix: Failure when creating directory with SFTP. 307
  • Bug fix: Some administrative restrictions were not being applied. 315
  • Bug fix: Permissions to uploaded directories were set even when Set permissions was off, what caused problems on servers not allowing setting permissions to directories (Serv-U). 268
  • Bug fix: Remote files were incorrectly moved to recycle bin even when alternative resume or append was selected instead of overwrite.
  • Bug fix: Overwritten remote files were not moved to recycle bin during resumable transfers. 272
  • Bug fix: Overwritten remote files were not moved to recycle bin if overwrite confirmations were disabled. 272
  • Bug fix: It was pointlessly offered to alternatively resume transfer when local and remote files had a same size.

2008-07-21

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Bug fix: Plugin occasionally hangs when background transfer have outstanding prompt displayed.
• SSH/SFTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.1.5. It brings following changes:
  • Workarounds for OpenSSH-specific bugs are applied with Sun SSH as well. 228
  • Most lists can be scrolled while item is dragged, particularly stored sessions list. 241
  • More verbose error messages are shown when operation with local file fails.
  • Ignoring less than 2 seconds timestamp difference when synchronizing. 249
  • Bug fix: Failure on tunnel connection termination. 187
  • Bug fix: No help page was associated with Save session dialog.
  • Bug fix: Authentication dialog displayed multiple prompts incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: Authentication prompt for tunnel sessions was not marked properly.
  • Bug fix: Key passphrase prompt was not being localized.
  • Bug fix: Failure when moving files from remote directory with SCP. 206
  • Bug fix: Default log file path still used &s pattern instead of !s. 224
  • Bug fix: Plugin hanged when dummy protocol command was dispatched to keep session alive, while reconnecting.
  • Bug fix: Plugin hanged when server stopped receiving data.
  • Bug fix: Plugin was stealing ports binded to by other applications when setting up SSH tunnel. 188
  • Bug fix: Plugin hanged when change was detected while session is disconnected. 230

2008-04-07

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Bug fix: Plugin occasionally hangs when background transfer finishes.
• SSH/SFTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 4.1 beta. It brings following changes:
  • Plugin can itself setup SSH tunnel to allow indirect connections through proxy SSH host.
  • Stored sessions can be organized into folders. 34
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.60. It brings following changes:
    • Support for “local proxying”, where a network connection is replaced by a local command.
    • Various cryptographic improvements in SSH-2, including SDCTR cipher modes and a workaround for a weakness in CBC cipher modes. Support for Diffie-Hellman group exchange with SHA-256 was not included due to performance problems.
    • Support for the Arcfour cipher in SSH-2.
    • When Pageant is running and an SSH key is specified in the configuration, plugin will now only try Pageant authentication with that key. This gets round a problem where some servers would only allow a limited number of keys to be offered before disconnecting.
    • Support for SSH-2 password expiry mechanisms, and various other improvements and bugfixes in authentication.
    • A change to the SSH-2 password camouflage mechanism in 0.58 upset some Cisco servers, so we have reverted to the old method.
    • Random seed file is being stored to application data folder when possible.
    • Bug fix: SSH-1 connections tended to crash, particularly when using port forwarding.
    • Bug fix: SSH Tectia Server would reject SSH-2 tunnels from plugin due to a malformed request.
    • Bug fix: SSH-2 login banner messages were being dropped silently under some circumstances.
    • Bug fix: IPv6 should now work on Windows Vista.
  • Synchronization enhanced:
    • When option Preview changes is turned on, checklist of synchronization actions is displayed, giving user option to review and confirm them all at once.
    • Option Preview changes works for timestamp synchronization too.
    • When list of directories watched by function Keep Remote Directory Up To Date is changed, new count is shown on log view.
    • Synchronization delay for function Keep Remote Directory Up To Date is configurable (only directly in configuration files).
    • Mirror mode for synchronization, where files are updated on any timestamp difference (i.e. even newer files are updated).
    • Preview changes for synchronization is enabled by default.
    • Bug fix: When list of directories watched by function Keep Remote Directory Up To Date was changed, some of the subdirectories stopped being watched.
    • Bug fix: Option Same size only for timestamp synchronization was not working.
    • Bug fix: When Never ask me again was checked on query for synchronization before starting Keep remote directory up to date, the synchronization was not performed.
  • File checksum can be calculated from Properties dialog (providing the server supports the functionality).
  • The Server/Protocol Information dialog remade. It now also shows space available for current directory.
  • Stored session can be renamed.
  • SFTP uploads optimized.
  • Overwrite configuration message offers possibility to transfer file under different name (SFTP-only).
  • Authentication window introduced. It combines progress display with authentication prompts.
  • Switched to Quest PuTTY implementation of Kerberos/GSSAPI. It brings following changes:
    • Preference of GSS key exchange algorithms can be configured on Key exchange tab of login dialog.
    • Session option Allow Kerberos 5 ticket forwarding in GSSAPI/SSPI obsoleted (was probably useless anyway).
    • Session option Server realm renamed to Service principal name.
  • Speed limit can be actually set in KiB/s.
  • Custom command to execute SFTP server binary may be specified. This allows using su to run SFTP server. 84
  • Transfer settings were removed from transfer options dialog to simplify it. The settings can be changed by invoking custom transfer settings dialog (the same way as for synchronization).
  • Permission errors when setting attributes (permissions and timestamp) of remote file can be suppressed using new transfer option Ignore permissions errors (SFTP-only).
  • New option for handling of remote file timestamps: Preserve remote timestamp.
  • Tabs on Login dialog that have no usable option for current context (e.g. protocol) are hidden.
  • “Host hasn’t answered for X seconds” message disappears itself once the response finally arrives also in scripting.
  • Support for SSPI authentication.
  • System administrators can enforce display of authentication banners.
  • System administrators can restrict connection to servers without having their host keys accepted in advance.
  • Context menu of console output display includes command to resize the console window to fit the command output.
  • Licence of PuTTY updated.
  • Plugin can load plain text password from configuration (new attribute PasswordPlain). If possible, it automatically converts the password to encrypted form.
  • File mask *.* is treated exceptionally, matching all files, even those without dot.
  • Server response timeout can be set up to 6000 seconds.
  • When downloading, up to date remote file modification time is used, instead of cached time shown in file panel.
  • File masks can select files also by their size.
  • Turning off the advanced options on Login dialog hides also some advanced controls on tabs that are otherwise visible.
  • Mere change from Exclude mask to Include mask is not shown in transfer setting overview unless the mask itself is specified too.
  • During authentication, usage of stored password is indicated.
  • Button Cancel is not disabled on message dialogs, when Never ask me again checkbox is checked.
  • Partial files (.filepart) are no longer considered for synchronization (SFTP-only).
  • Permissions input box has the same context menu as permissions popup box.
  • Quick preset buttons for Windows and Unix systems on Environment tab of Login dialog (visible when advanced options are turned off only).
  • It is no longer required to specify username of login dialog. User is prompted for username once required (and only if required).
  • Environment variables can be used in most configurable paths (like path to private key file, etc.). The syntax is %NAME%.
  • Whole authentication prompt is shown, even if it spans multiple lines.
  • Button Load on Stored sessions tab of Login dialog renamed to Edit.
  • F1 opens help for current tab on Login and Preferences dialogs.
  • What’s this button on dialog caption (?) opens help directly.
  • Button Help replaced with Close on Login dialog.
  • Single log file is used for all connections of one session (background transfer connections, secondary shell connection, tunnel connection).
  • Workaround for SSH servers based on cryptlib, which reports invalid files types in response to SSH_FXP_LSTAT request.
  • Context menu of permissions popup and input boxes has clipboard management commands.
  • More internal error messages from PuTTY code are being localized.
  • When saving the edited session under the same name, overwrite confirmation is not requested.
  • Shell options of SCP tab of login dialog redesigned.
  • Detection of OpenSSH sftp-server is more strict, not to apply on other SFTP servers running under OpenSSH.
  • Pattern hint link for log file name added.
  • For fatal errors (e.g. “lost connection”), original cause of the problem is kept as a top message, as opposite to regular errors, where contextual error message is on top.
  • Buttons Login and Save on Login dialog swapped.
  • When Handles SSH-2 key re-exchange badly bug is enabled, the Key exchange tab is hidden.
  • When Session sheet is automatically selected on Login dialog (creation of new session, etc.), the Host name box is focused.
  • For convenience, file mask “*.” matches files without an extension (even if the name does not include the dot at all).
  • Global configuration that can be set on login dialog (user interface style, logging) is saved when session it saved.
  • Mask *.php* in default text file mask is replaced with *.php and *.php3.
  • Increased maximal length of username.
  • Full system error is reported when writing of local file fails.
  • When parsing directory listing, “plus” and “at” signs after permissions, separated by space, are silently ignored.
  • When uploading to symbolic link with SFTP protocol, resuming is disabled to preserve the link.
  • While downloading trailing space in filenames is replaced with %20, as Windows does not allow them. 45
  • More than one host key for a host may be accepted.
  • Saving password to stored session must be explicitly requested using checkbox on save session dialog (replaces previous warning message box). 136
  • During resumable transfers, the destination file is not removed (if present) until the transfer actually finishes.
  • When opening secondary shell session, startup actions like clearing of aliases, unsetting national variables and looking up user groups are not performed.
  • For SCP protocol, listing command can be fully specified to overcome specifics of platform (this obsoletes former option Alias LS to display group name). 142
  • Escaping of special characters is reversed on upload. 32
  • KiB is used instead of KB for kilobyte.
  • Estimated time is shown instead of elapsed time in queue list.
  • Host key confirmation dialog has an option to copy the key into clipboard.
  • Server does not use UTF-8 changed to UTF-8 encoding for filenames and moved to Environment tab.
  • Timezone offset moved to Environment tab.
  • It is possible to optionally overwrite stored password with new one, if authentication with original stored password fails.
  • When saving session with password, option is given not to store the password.
  • Size of directory change cache is limited.
  • Most options on SCP tab of login dialog are disabled, when SCP protocol is not selected, to avoid confusion (although they can actually be used when SCP fallback is administered).
  • Default ping interval session option is not saved anymore.
  • Patterns hint next to proxy telnet/local command on Proxy tab of login dialog.
  • Change: Transfer option Preserve read-only is off by default.
  • On download with LF to CR/LF EOL conversion, CR EOL’s were needlessly removed. 67
  • UTF-8 byte-order-mask is stripped on upload. 82
  • Example for switching user on login added to Shell session option (/bin/bash -c 'sudo su -').
  • Error messages with no explicit help page are at least linked with common error messages.
  • Bug fix: Uploads of files into previously non-existing directory could not be resumed (SFTP-only).
  • Bug fix: Failure when downloading file from different directory than the current one (SCP only).
  • Bug fix: When password storing is restricted, warning that password is being stored is no longer shown.
  • Bug fix: Menus were always shown on primary monitor in multi-monitor environment.
  • Bug fix: Plugin was not reflecting system-wide disabling of menu animations.
  • Bug fix: Menus were not animated on Windows XP.
  • Bug fix: Failure when connecting thru proxy.
  • Bug fix: Major CPU consumption during prompt for password/passphrase.
  • Bug fix: Timestamp synchronisation was not working properly for remote directory synchronisation.
  • Bug fix: Group control caption was truncated on some XP themes.
  • Bug fix: Button Browse on download options dialog was not preserving trailing backslash and operation mask.
  • Bug fix: Failure when last access time of file being uploaded could not be retrieved (typical for uploads from CD).
  • Bug fix: Transfer option New and updated file(s) only was not being saved.
  • Bug fix: Permissions popup box was occasionally dismissed, when its context menu was revealed.
  • Bug fix: Menu item Leave as is of permissions box was visible, even if it made no sense in the context.
  • Bug fix: When recursive setting of permissions was turned off on properties dialog, permissions may have possibly retained undefined state, although no longer allowed.
  • Bug fix: Some dialog labels were not disabled along with associated control.
  • Bug fix: When patterns were used in log file name, the log file was recreated every time configuration has changed.
  • Bug fix: Failure, when remote command had character % in its error output.
  • Bug fix: Infinite loop of error messages when connection was broken while timeout message was being shown.
  • Bug fix: Trailing delimiter text were occasionally left in remote command output.
  • Bug fix: Automatic retry after timeout was not working.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to cancel text mode upload with SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing console window.
  • Bug fix: Octal display of file permissions was not filled if no permissions were set for a file.
  • Bug fix: Failure to change attributes of local files was not reported sometime.
  • Bug fix: SFTP uploads occasionally hanged.
  • Bug fix: Local files excluded from transfer (upload) were indefinitely locked by plugin.
  • Bug fix: Instability the connection was dropped while keep remote directory up to date function was running.
  • Bug fix: Memory leak when SSH connection is refused.
  • Bug fix: When reading of local file failed, while uploading with SFTP protocol, file transfer was interrupted without reporting any error.
  • Bug fix: Workaround for occasional bug when opening some dialogs.
  • Bug fix: Directory content cache was not reset after timestamp synchronization.
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure while closing console window.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to match file/directory in root with file mask. 170
  • Bug fix: When traversing path components in input boxes, input cursor may have ended past the end of text.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to configure Preserve timestamp transfer settings for synchronization, although it is always enabled actually.
  • Bug fix: Pressing Esc while renaming session on Login dialog, closed the dialog instead of cancelling the renaming.
  • Bug fix: When remote file is dropped to place, when dropping is not possible, misleading error message was shown, when drag&drop shell extension was enabled.

2008-03-17

• Altap Salamander.
• New year 2008.
• Ready for localization.
• Links to Purchase License page from About dialog.
• Bug fix: Plugin occasionally hangs when background transfer finishes.

2006-09-04

• Help.
• Column width is remembered.
• Plugin’s Disconnect command is linked to Salamander’s Disconnect command.
• Bug fix: Hints were occasionally left shown indefinitely.

2006-04-26

• Update to new plugin API.

2006-01-27

• New year 2006.

2005-09-25

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Registration of plugin required.
  • Plugin registration data shown in About dialog.
  • For remote duplication/move invoked by drag&drop, small dialog with path only is used.
  • When unloading plugin, pending windows are taken into account.
  • Bug fix: When Preferences dialog was submitted without ever showing the Panel tab, columns configuration was lost.
  • Bug fix: Remote duplication/move was not working when destination in format ./filename.ext was used.
  • Bug fix: Transfer setting Newer only was not working.
• The plugin already includes some features of upcoming WinSCP version:
  • If the SFTP server does not provide file permissions/owner/group in directory listing, WinSCP requests them explicitly before showing Properties dialog.
  • Improved cleaning of directory change cache on symbolic link deletion.
  • Navigation tree on login dialog widened to allow longer translations.
  • When changing file properties, chgrp and chown are called before chmod, because they change file permissions (SCP-only).
  • Only the last @ in connection string is considered as username/hostname separator, making it possible to easier type username and/or password containing @ from command-line.
  • SFTP extension “versions”, specifying list of supported protocol versions, is decoded and logged.
  • SFTP extension “supported” is ignored, when extension “supported2” is also sent by the server.
  • Custom transfer settings dialog disables settings unusable in current context (synchronization mode, server capabilities, etc.).
  • Transfer setting options “Permissions” and “Preserve read-only” are disabled when the server does not support permissions.
  • Transfer setting preset info tip does not show settings unusable in current context (server capabilities, etc.).
  • Bug fix: Fixed resolving symbolic links in sub-directories.
  • Bug fix: SCP fallback for SSH-1 was not working.
  • Bug fix: Crash when re-key occurred on idle background session and the host key was not cached.
  • Bug fix: When the SFTP server does not support permissions, random permissions were used for the files.
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing file properties on SFTP server supporting UTF-8.
  • Bug fix: Incorrectly formatted message “Unknown principal”.
  • Bug fix: Custom transfer settings dialog invoked from context menu on synchronization dialog did incorrectly allowed changing all settings, even when time-stamp-only synchronization was selected.
• SSH/SFTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 3.7.6. It brings following changes:
  • When overwriting of remote file fails, plugin can try to delete file and create new one (SFTP only).
  • Several changes to synchronization:
    • Added new option Selected files only for functions Synchronize and Keep Remote Directory Up To Date. It limits the synchronization to files selected in either panel only.
    • Removed option No confirmations for functions Synchronize and Keep Remote Directory Up To Date. Confirmations are now disabled always.
    • Directory number limit for function Keep remote directory up to date can be overruled.
    • Event log is shown for function Keep remote directory up to date.
    • When synchronizing timestamps, only same-sized files can be affected optionally.
    • For Synchronize timestamps only, not files mode the only item of transfer settings that can be set (and that is displayed) is exclusion/inclusion mask.
    • Bug fix: When time-stamp synchronization was configured as default synchronization action, it was incorrectly inherited by Keep remote directory up to date.
    • Bug fix: Failure when synchronization before Keep remote directory up to date was interrupted.
  • File mask ending with slash matches directories only. This is particularly useful for include mask to match any directories using mask */.
  • User is notified when selected private key file does not contain private key in supported format or when the private key is for different SSH version than preferred one.
  • Context help for authentication banner.
  • Added hint links to several dialogs. They open popup hint describing syntax of masks and custom command patterns.
  • When reading of local file during upload fails, more descriptive error message is shown and Skip button is not offered (SCP only).
  • About dialog redesigned. URL links can receive focus, to allow opening the URL using keyboard. Additional URL link can be associated with translation.
  • When appending (including alternative resume), the target file is not deleted, when transfer is canceled by user.
  • Characters not allowed in Windows file names are now replaced by %XX (where XX is hexadecimal representation of character ASCII code), instead of underscore (_).
  • It is now possible to specify both password and private key on Login dialog (server may require double authentication).
  • Confirmation is required before stored session is deleted.
  • Maximal size of read block as requested by SFTP server using supported2 extension is respected.
  • File masks can be separated also by comma (in addition to semicolon).
  • Increased chance that files information on overwrite confirmation message are properly aligned (English version only).
  • Bug fix: Help button on console window was incorrectly anchored.

2005-06-24

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Remote path can be typed into destination box on Download dialog, changing operation to Duplicate.
  • Plugin utilises online help of WinSCP application (Help button is present on most of dialogs).
  • Disconnect/Keep box unified with FTP plugin.
  • Function Intra-server Move is disabled for SFTP-2 and older.
  • When uploading using drag&drop, destination box of Upload dialog is no longer disabled.
  • Change drive menu item renamed to SFTP/SCP Client (WinSCP).
  • Bug fix: Upload using drag&drop was not working correctly.
  • Bug fix: Solved potential crash when using function Duplicate.
  • Bug fix: Panel content refreshes correctly after background operation finishes.
• The plugin already includes some features of upcoming WinSCP version:
  • Authentication banner, if any, is shown during authentication.
  • Unix-style approach to Daylight saving time (client does adjustment) is made default. This can affect interpretation of timestamps of your files. Use function Synchronize with option Synchronize timestamps only, not files to resolve it.
  • Workaround for OpenSSH limit of 256 KiB for size of SFTP packet. Consequence was occasional interruption of transfer with error “Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 11.”
  • Cache directory changes checkbox is disabled when Cache visited remote directories is unchecked and SCP-only mode is selected.
  • Empty proxy password is not “saved” to reduce session data size.
  • When checking Never ask me again checkbox, all answer buttons are disabled except for the positive one, to avoid confusion.
  • Bug fix: When directory was removed its cache was not, making it possible to enter no longer existing directory by typing its path manually.
  • Bug fix: SCP fallback was not working.
• SSH/SFTP/SCP core upgraded to WinSCP 3.7.5. It brings following changes:
  • File size can be optionally used as comparison criterion for synchronization.
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.58. It brings following changes:
    • Bug fix: Failure when connecting through SOCKS proxy.
  • Error messages have button Skip All to skip all futher errors during batch operation.
  • Server host key fingerprint verification box re-formated. It also shows key type now.
  • When synchronizing, the time difference of one second is ignored (for compatibility with FAT file systems). It is also ignored when transferring newer files only.
  • Exclusion masks can be directory specific. For example mask */public_html/*.php matches only PHP files in directory public_html. It does not matter what slashes are used, the mask always matches both remote and local directories.
  • Logging level can be configured from GUI (on Logging tab of Login dialog).
  • Progress dialog shows Time left instead of previous Time estimated.
  • When changing permissions of one directory, the checkboxes cannot be toggled to “undefined” state unless Recursive options is checked.
  • Fallback to pre-3.7.2 method of detecting existence of remote directory, in case the server does not support SSH_FXP_LSTAT request (FTPshell Server).
  • WinSCP is no longer sending SFTP extensions winscp@winscp.sourceforge.net and software@generic-extensions. Instead vendor-id is used as proposed by SFTP version 6.
  • Session name cannot contain some special characters. Especially slash /, that caused problems when parsing URLs.
  • New No to all button on confirmation message, where user can select between appending source file and alternate method for transfer resuming. It makes WinSCP resume transfer whenever it finds smaller file in target directory with the same name.
  • New No to all button on confirmation message for alternative method of transfer resume.
  • Bug fix: Functions Synchronize and Keep remote directory up to date have ignored file for one minute after the target file was changed just at whole minute (0 seconds).

2005-03-25

• Changes in the plugin itself:
  • Direction of synchronization can be saved to preferences.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to view file excluded by default transfer settings.
  • Bug fix: If the option Preview changes was stored in preferences for Synchronize command, it affected incorrectly the Keep up to date command too.
  • Bug fix: Icon of backgrounsd transfer window did not have transparent background.
• The plugin already includes some features of upcoming WinSCP version:
  • Preferred SFTP protocol version can be set. Particularly useful to workaround bugs in implementation of particular SFTP version (both in WinSCP and the server).
  • Functionality of SFTP server bug Does not use UTF-8 for SFTP4 and newer workaround extended. It is now titled Server does not use UTF-8. By setting it to Off, usage of UTF-8 can be forced even for SFTP3 and older (useful for servers using MBCS natively). Thanks to Tommy Wu.
  • Function Keep remote directory up to date can handle subdirectory addition and removal.
  • Function Keep remote directory up to date can perform full synchronization on start. By default user confirmation is required.
  • Function Synchronize can optionally synchronize timestamps of existing files only, instead of actual files (SFTP only).
  • Files can be excluded from transfer negatively using Include mask.
  • All links now point to winscp.net.
  • SFTP server bug Misinterprets file timestamps prior to 1970 workaround introduced in 3.7.4 can be now configured from SFTP tab of Login dialog.
  • Improved error reporting for Keep remote directory up to date function.

• Single notation consistently used to refer to SSH protocol versions.
• Proxy password is stored encrypted, while maintaining compatibility with older versions and PuTTY.
• Some error messages that were previously tagged as Confirmation are now properly tagged as Error.
• During upload, when overwritting remote file fails and user selects Retry, overwrite confirmation is not requested again.
• Fixed potential security issues when decoding SFTP packets.
• Functions Synchronize and Keep remote directory up to date do not delete files by default. This affects fresh installation only!
• Checkboxes on permissions box toggle in order: unchecked, checked, grayed.
• Confirmation of transfer resume can be suppressed the same way as overwrite confirmation, i.e. by disabling confirmation for synchronization, background transfers or in script.
• Existing target file is removed before resumable transfer to verify that user has sufficient permissions as soon as possible (SFTP-only).
• Bug fix: Random seed file was not saved at all in most cases.
• Bug fix: Misleading error message was shown when file in subdirectory was excluded by filemask (SCP-only).
• Bug fix: Check for suspicious files containing / or \ have not considered Unicode filenames (SFTP-only).
• Bug fix: Shift+Ctrl+Left/Right in path input boxes was not selecting text.
• Bug fix: WinSCP failed when keepalive occured during initialisation of separate shell session.
• Bug fix: Timestamp was incorrectly shown in terminal window.
• Bug fix: cd command in terminal window on separate shell session have not changed path in main SFTP session.
• Bug fix: Function Keep remote directory up to date has watched even directories excluded from transfers.
• Bug fix: Excluding remote files containing colon (:) from transfer have not worked correctly.