May 23rd, 2012Changes:
· When the Date column is selected in a local or remote session window, the sort order is now descending instead of ascending.
Bug fixes:
· SFXCL: When files were transferred using the /Move option, no error was reported if a source file could not be deleted.
May 4th, 2012New features:
· Added a filter control that supports wildcards to the session toolbar, which makes it easier to find specific folders and files in local and remote sessions.
· After a synchronize operation, the synchronize file list is automatically refreshed when changes are made to files on the local system, which allows files to be re-synchronized without having to close the synchronize tab.
· A refresh button was added to the synchronize view, which allows files to be re-synchronized after the initial synchronization.
· Bookmarks can be opened directly from the right-click menu in local and remote sessions and from the "File" menu.
· Added a global option to position the local window at the bottom or right when SecureFX is tabbed horizontally or vertically.
· SFXCL: Added the ability to specify explicit FTPS on the command line as "ftpes://".
· SSH2: Added the ability to skip authentication methods while authenticating.
Changes:
· Improved the performance of synchronization operations involving a large number of files.
· SecureFX will continue connecting when either of the initial PBSZ or PROT commands fails, in compliance with Note 1 in section 12.1 of RFC 4217.
· In the Synchronize view, the information in the "Last Action" column for transfers was changed to specify whether the transfer was an upload or download.
· The synchronize view columns were modified so that the current status and last action are shown.
· It is no longer possible to add duplicate bookmarks.
· The "Open Bookmarks" dialog was renamed "Manage Bookmarks".
· FTPS: SecureFX now logs server-to-server file transfer failures.
· SFXCL: Added a command-line option "/Chmod", which provides the ability to change permissions of remote files.
· SFXCL: SFXCL returns the error code for file not found if a wildcard is specified and there are no matches.
Bug fixes:
· After browsing to a folder with a large number of files (> 35,000) and then cancelling the listing, SecureFX could crash.
· Synchronization operations that accessed UNC shares failed on Windows Server 2008 R2.
· Double-clicking a local file resulted in an error if the file type was associated with an editor such as EmEditor.
· It was not possible to navigate to a remote folder where the group name contained a space.
· If values for "Remote ListView State" were garbage, it caused the columns in the "Details" view to be displayed incorrectly.
· If a transfer that caused the choose transfer type and overwrite prompts to be displayed was started and the network disconnected while the first prompt was displayed and then the session reconnected, the second prompt was not displayed and the file was overwritten.
· The "Quick Connect" dialog sometimes used the default username or previously used username even though the username was empty.
· Double-clicking a bookmark in the "Open Bookmark" dialog did not open the bookmark.
· The DELETE key could not be used to delete a bookmark in the "Open Bookmarks" dialog.
· If more than one instance of SecureFX was running, changes made through the "View" menu were not propagated to the other instance(s).
· SecureFX created a registry structure for configuration information when the configuration folder was specified on the command line using "/F".
· FTP/FTPS: SecureFX file transfer operations stalled if a 526 error was received from the remote system.
· FTP: While attempting to connect to an FTP server using an HTTP proxy and PASV data connections, if SecureFX was unable to obtain the peer address from the control connection, it crashed.
· FTP: When an FTP session connected to 127.0.0.1, the machine's actual IP address was used for the PORT command instead of 127.0.0.1.
· SSH2: Authentication failed when the server requested the keyboard-interactive method more than once.
· SFXCL: On servers that stored timestamps in seconds rather than milliseconds, when the "Overwrite older" flag was specified, identical files were uploaded again.
· Windows: With tabs off, when a local or remote window was minimized and then selected from the Windows 7 task bar, the restored window was not painted correctly.
· Windows: In the Chinese version of Windows XP and Vista, the font used for the title bar, menu, and status bar was smaller than the system font.
February 3rd, 2012Bug fixes:
· SecureFX crashed if files were dragged to a session that was not
· fully connected
· Passwords saved prior to administratively prohibiting saving
· passwords were still present
· The PORT connection (FTP) incorrectly logged port 0 for the
· control connection
November 10th, 2011Changes:
· SFTP/SCP: SecureFX could not connect to a Pragma Fortress SSH server, because this server does not support SFTP extensions. SFTP extensions are now automatically disabled for this server.
Bug fixes:
· When connecting to a session through a firewall, the username and password were prompted for even though they were specified in the proxy setting.
· In the context menu, in the "Go To" pull-right menu, the "Forward" item was never available.
· FTP: Attempting to connect to an FTP session that used PASV data connections through an HTTP proxy could cause SecureFX to crash.
· SFXCL: SFXCL crashed when a /Quicksync mirror operation that deleted a file from the local system was performed.
August 12th, 2011Changes:
· The 32-bit installer can be installed on a 64-bit system.
Bug fixes:
· On a 64-bit machine, if SecureFX was launched from the SecureCRT toolbar and was closed using the red "X", SecureFX could crash.
· The Connect dialog allowed connect attempts to sessions with the protocol set to "None".
· The extend evaluation feature did not work correctly. After the offer was accepted, there was no button to extend the evaluation on the "Enter License" dialog as described in the instructions that had been e-mailed.
· SFXCL: The SFXCL command-line could not contain a ";" character
· in a the destination filename.
June 17th, 2011Bug fixes:
· In the Quick Connect dialog, if the port number was changed to something other than the default, the port number was reset to the default the next time the Quick Connect dialog was opened.
· Windows: When the Windows 7 Areo snap feature was enabled, if the SecureFX window was dragged so that it snapped to the side of the desktop and focus was switched to another application, when SecureFX was restored from the taskbar, it reverted to its previous size.
May 27th, 2011Bug fixes:
· On Windows 7, if the log view for a remote session was resized so that it was not visibile and the remote session window was selected from the Windows taskbar, the log view was restored to its previous size.
· FTP/FTPS: SecureFX crashed when attempting to connect to sessions where PASV connections would be blocked by a firewall.
May 19th, 2011Bug fixes:
· On Windows 7, if Maximize was selected for a SecureFX window displayed in the taskbar popup, a separate window was displayed outside the SecureFX window and SecureFX sometimes crashed.
· During a synchronize operation, the Status information was cleared
· immediately after files were transferred.
· When a folder upload was canceled and the transfer queue was off and a file had been skipped because it already existed on the remote system, if the transfer was later resumed, the first file that had been skipped previously was transferred.
· When tabs were disabled, the icon displayed in the title bar of the windows was a generic icon instead of the SecureFX application icon.
May 5th, 2011Bug fixes:
· If a transfer was cancelled while multiple files were being downloaded and then the session was closed and reconnected, attempting to resume the transfer caused SecureFX to crash.
· SecureFX menu customizations were sometimes not saved.
· When the /F parameter was used on the command line to specify the location of the configuration folder and the menu or toolbar was customized, the changes were not saved.
· FTP: SecureFX could crash when a folder was being uploaded due to the way Send requests were handled.
April 26th, 2011· SecureFX crashed after selecting "Cancel Selected" in the transfer queue if any of the selected items were no longer being transferred.
· If a connection was lost during a transfer and the transfer was cancelled and then focus was set to another window while the session was attempting to reconnect, SecureFX crashed.
· After a transfer progress tab closed, focus was not set to the correct session tab.
· The keyboard accelerator SHIFT+INSERT did not paste text into the session address bar.
· SFTP: SecureFX crashed if an SFTP upload overwrote a file owned by someone else.
April 13th, 2011Bug fixes:
· If the menu items "Add Bookmark" or "Open Bookmark" were added to the toolbar through customization and then were clicked after connecting to a host, SecureFX crashed.
· If a session that used a firewall was connected and disconnected and then the session was modified to use a different firewall and then reconnected, the old firewall was used.
· If the display of the Connect bar was toggled from the View menu and then modified in the Global Options dialog, the change in the Global Options dialog was not honored.
· If files were dragged from Windows Explorer into an empty local folder in SecureFX, the view was updated, but not all the files that had been dragged over were displayed.
· If a synchronize session's direction was set to "Mirror local" and then was changed to "Mirror remote", the direction was not displayed correctly in the Synchronize Session Properties dialog even though the correct direction was used for the synchronize operation.
· After pressing the ALT key and then the ENTER key, SecureFX attempted to connect to a host named "".
March 25th, 2011New time-saving options:
· Bookmarks: Set and reuse bookmarks to save time accessing regularly used directory locations, especially if directories are several levels deep.
· Connect bar: Use a text entry box on the toolbar to quickly connect new sessions without having to open a dialog. The Connect bar supports command-line options for maximum flexibility.
· Logical sort for Connect dialog: Option to sort sessions logically in the Connect dialog, which is useful when session names contain numbers.
SFXCL enhancement:
· /TransferType flag: Specify the transfer type for all the files in an operation.
March 9th, 2011New features:
· Added the ability to set and open bookmarks for frequently used folders.
· Added an optional connect bar, which allows a connection to be made by entering the host on the toolbar.
· Added an option to the Connect dialog to sort sessions logically, which is helpful when session names contain numbers.
· Added the ability to copy and paste files from Eclipse to SecureFX.
· SFXCL: Added a flag "/TransferType" which specifies the transfer type for all the files in the operation.
· SFXCL: Added the ability to specify that the log file should be overwritten.
Changes:
· If the option "Verify status on retrieve" is set, a STAT will always be issued before getting a file. This makes the progress information more accurate for multiple file transfers if a file size changed between the time the transfer was started and the file was transferred.
· SecureFX and SFXCL logs now indicate whether a file was transferred as binary or ASCII.
· A duplicate message that was logged for file transfers statistics in server-to-server transfers was removed.
· Entering the license data now registers the application for all users instead of only for the current user.
· FTP: Changed the default value of the global options "Send Size" and "Receive Size" to 65535 in order to improve FTP transfer speed.
· FTP, FTP/SSL: SecureFX attempts to use the control address for data connections first, which speeds up connection time in most cases. This change is only seen in new sessions.
· FTP/SSL: When attempting to connect, a message showing the remote host is now logged.
· SFXCL: Output is now written to stdout instead of stderr.
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX crashed if a session was reconnected after its protocol was changed from FTP to SFTP.
· SecureFX could crash when a second instance was started.
· If the maximum number of parallel transfers was set to 8, SecureFX became unresponsive when attempting to transfer a large number of files (e.g., 10,000).
· SecureFX was unable to download files from an EldoS server.
· If the option "Disable directory tree detection" was set, file attributes were not set during transfer operations.
· Double-clicking a folder that the current user did not have access to left focus in that folder.
· SFXCL: If the "noprompt" parameter was specified, the invalid public key error was not reported.
February 3rd, 2011Changes:
· When Windows Explorer file types exist, they are used for displaying file icons in the local window and for opening files with the correct application.
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX could crash if a synchronization operation was run and files had changed.
· If a file was transferred using the transfer queue and then "Transfer Selected" was attempted on the file in the transfer queue, SecureFX crashed.
· An IPv6 address could not be entered as a hostname for a session.
· URL syntax was not being honored for the hostname in the Quick Connect dialog.
· SFXCL: If a server-to-server transfer was specified using the /S syntax for the source and destination and the file did not exist on the source, SFXCL hung.
· SFXCL: When incorrect syntax was specified on the command line, SFXCL incorrectly returned 0.
· SFXCL: In a multi-file transfer, if some files transferred successfully, but others did not, SFXCL incorrectly returned 0.
November 5th, 2010· Bug fixes
· If the file being transferred already existed on the destination and rename was selected in the replace prompt, the specified rename file was not on the destination
· The session .INI-file-only option "Disable MLSX" was not being honored when it was on
· The icons on the Window menu for tabbed groups were not correct
October 22nd, 2010· During synchronize operations, transfer operation output is now sent to the log file in addition to the synchronize view's log window.
October 1st, 2010Bug fixes:
· Resuming an interrupted folder transfer could put files in the wrong folder.
· When SecureCRT was also installed, if the Global Options dialog was closed when the Terminal/Advanced category was active and the Global Options dialog was restarted, the active category was File Transfer/Options/Advanced.
· If the transfer queue was enabled, the View menu showed that the transfer queue was disabled when a remote file was being edited.
· SCP: If a file was edited remotely and saved, SecureFX crashed when attempting to upload it.
· SFTP: If a file was edited remotely, when the file was saved and uploaded, the remote file did not have the correct timestamp.
· SFTP: Duplicate messages were logged when transferring files.
The following changes were made to log file output:
· Status text for upload and download transfers changed from "Remote file closed." to "Source file closed." or "Destination file closed."
· "Failed to close remote file." became "Failed to close destination file." or "Failed to close source file."
September 17th, 2010Changes:
· The following changes were made to log file output: - All server-to-server "Skipping file transfer" messages are now tagged with "" rather than "".
· "Source path '' does not exist.\n\nIt will be skipped." became "Failed to retrieve information on the source item (). It will be skipped."
· "Failed to retrieve information on the source item. It will be skipped." became "Failed to retrieve information on the source item (). It will be skipped."
· "Checking remote directory status..." became "Checking destination directory status..."
· "Reading remote site directory..." became "Reading source directory..."
· "Reading local directory..." became "Reading source directory..."
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX could crash during a "mirror both" synchronization operation if more than one directory at a time was being synchronized.
· When connecting to an MVS server that sent characters other than decimal digits for the "Used" field, files could not be listed or downloaded.
· Uploading failed when directory tree detection was disabled.
· When multiple folders were transferred in parallel, if one of the transfers was cancelled, the next transfer started, but so did the previously cancelled transfer, which could no longer be cancelled.
· When multiple files were transferred in parallel, if a file of unknown type was transferred and ASCII was specified to apply to all files of unknown type, it was only honored for the one file.
· When an item in the transfer queue failed to transfer, it could prevent the queue from processing other items.
· The "Choose Transfer Type" dialog was displayed multiple times for files with the same extension after specifying the transfer type to be used for all files.
· When folders were transferred in parallel, if a file collision occurred, the overwrite prompt was displayed twice.
September 17th, 2010Bug fixes:
· When folders were transferred, a single file was transferred at a time regardless of the "Maximum number of parallel transfers" value.
· If an attempt was made to create a new folder in a location where access was denied, SecureFX crashed.
August 18th, 2010Changes:
· SSH2 / SFTP / SCP: Socket write errors are now written to trace output.
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX could crash when a synchronize operation caused files to be deleted on the local machine.
· When files were being transferred in parallel, cancelling out of the Choose Transfer Type dialog caused the remaining files to get stuck at "Checking destination" and they could not be cancelled.
· During synchronization, when the direction was Download, the local path was not displayed.
· The color depth of some of the icons on the toolbar was reduced, which caused them to look pixelated.
· SFXCL: When multiple files were transferred and a file transfer failed, the log reported that all files were transferred successfully.
August 11th, 2010Bug fixes:
· SecureFX could crash when a folder with many subfolders was traversed using the arrow keys.
· Recursive transfers failed when the hierarchy was disabled (e.g., when the "Disable directory tree detection" option was set).
· If a file transfer was interrupted and then later resumed to completion, a failure code was reported.
August 4th, 2010New features:
· Limit or "throttle" the bandwidth used during file transfers to keep from consuming all available bandwidth.
· Specify the number of parallel file transfers and, as transfers are completed, queued files will continually fill available slots.
· Selecting Download on remote files automatically places the files in the local CWD if a different download location has not been specified.
· If a PASV data connection fails, SecureFX automatically tries to reconnect using the original host/IP address.
· Added an Upload button that can be used for menu and toolbar customization.
· The same file size display options that were previously available for the transfer window are now also available for the tree view.
· SSL: Support for RFC 2228 Clear Command Channel (CCC) provides enhanced compatibility with SSL servers.
· FTP/SSL: Available and negotiated SSL algorithms for implicit as well as explicit connections are now logged.
· SFTP: Added the session INI-file-only option "Preferred SFTP Version" that forces SecureFX to use a specific SFTP version.
· SSH2: Added support for the "null" host-key algorithm for GSS-KEX as specified in RFC 4462.
· SFXCL: A password can be specified when using a session with SFXCL.
· SFXCL: Added two new options to the /S switch. The "TransferType" option allows the transfer type to be specified independently of the file type. The "Attr" option allows the file type to be specified independently of the transfer type.
Changes:
· When the "Trace Level" is set to 9, the password is automatically redacted from the trace output.
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX could crash if a file was being edited or transferred and the remote connection was lost.
· SecureFX crashed or hung if the transfer queue refreshed while renaming a previously transferred file.
· If a saved synchronize session that used a session with no file transfer protocol specified was run, SecureFX crashed.
· Files could not be uploaded to a directory that had write access, but not read access.
· SecureFX failed to transfer multiple items in the transfer queue when the connection count was limited.
· When a file was dragged into the queue, the file was not always transferred to the current working directory.
· Direct server-to-server transfers did not update the time remaining and the throughput correctly.
· If the last location in the local window was My Computer or My Network Places (Network Neighborhood), it was not restored when SecureFX was restarted.
· Quick Connect sessions where the host was an IPv6 address could not be saved.
· If a previously failed item in the transfer queue was re-queued in order to wait for a connection to become available, it could potentially get re-queued over and over and display a large number of failed transfer dialogs.
· On Windows, when large font (120 DPI) was used, text on some dialogs was truncated.
· FTP: If a file was downloaded to a local mapped drive, SecureFX reported that 0 bytes were downloaded, even though the file was not empty.
· SFTP: When connection failed, socket-level errors were not reported or logged.
· SFTP: Server-to-server transfers did not log all output for SFTP connections.
· SFXCL: When attempting to authenticate using keyboard-interactive authentication and the password was specified in a URL or a session, there was a password prompt.
May 12th, 2010Bug fixes:
· When SecureFX was integrated with SecureCRT, if a session had a Terminal protocol specified and then a File Transfer protocol was specified, the terminal port was used as the default file transfer port.
· The ClearType Windows system setting was not being honored.
· SFXCL: SCP file transfers using URL syntax failed.
March 11th, 2010Changes:
· The SecureFX version in the Windows uninstall "DisplayVersion" registry key now contains the point release number in addition to the major and minor version numbers.
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX crashed after selecting the right-click menu item"Go To->Home/Root" on a remote session that could not connect.
· Cancelling out of the Choose Transfer Type dialog caused all transfers to go into the pending state rather than cancelling all the transfers as it did in prior versions.
· FTP/SSL: Unencrypted data connections failed when using PORT.
January 22nd, 2010Changes:
· Under Windows 7 and Vista, removed the prompt for making SecureCRT
· the default Telnet application since many applications, such as
· Internet Explorer 8, do not allow Telnet.
Bug fixes:
· If SecureCRT was in the process of closing and the close button
· was pressed again, SecureCRT could crash.
· SecureCRT could crash when printing to an Adobe PDF printer using
· pass-through printing.
· If the global options "Use trackable insertion caret" was set, the
· cursor did not blink.
· If SecureCRT and SecureFX were integrated and the terminal or
· file transfer protocol was changed to "None", the change was not
· saved.
· In the Key Generation wizard, if a key was generated and then the
· user clicked "Back", changed the size of the key, and answered
· "Yes" to the prompt about regenerating the key, the key was not
· regenerated.
· The menu was not expanded when the ALT+ key was pressed.
· If a line of text that contained an end-of-line character was
· copied and pasted, the end-of-line character was not included.
· If a URL contained international characters and the URL was opened
· using "Open URL" or CTRL+, the URL was cut off before
· the first international character.
· On Windows 7 and Vista, if a previous version of SecureCRT was
· running prior to installation and the installation option
· "Automatically close and attempt to restart applications" was
· selected, the previous instance of SecureCRT was not closed and
· could only be closed from the task manager.
· On Windows 7 and Vista with Aero enabled, if a custom menu was
· used, the Close button on the main SecureCRT window appeared to
· be disabled even though it was not.
· Serial: Disconnecting and reconnecting the physical RJ45 cable
· connector caused SecureCRT to crash.
January 22nd, 2010Bug fixes:
· SecureCRT could crash if the application's Close button was pressed more than once.
· If a key was mapped to a string that contained "p" (pause), SecureCRT crashed when the key was pressed in the terminal window.
December 3rd, 2009Bug fixes:
· If a .XML custom menu and toolbar file contained a menu on the toolbar, SecureFX crashed when trying to import it into version 6.5.
· On Windows 7, if the Global.ini option "Disable Aero Peek" was enabled and an Auto session was specified, SecureFX crashed on start up.
November 11th, 2009Changes:
· When a session connects to VShell 2.5.0, it automatically falls ack to SFTP version 4 because, even though VShell 2.5.0 tries to negotiate SFTP version 5 or 6, it does not support those SFTP versions.
· Added a Global.ini-file-only option to disable the Windows 7 Aero task bar peek functionality.
Bug fixes:
· SFXCL: SFXCL could crash when using /Synchronize to do an upload-only synchronize if it needed to stat a remote file during an upload.
October 16th, 2009Changes:
· SSH2: When an RSA key is used for authentication, only the private key is required, which makes it easier to use Amazon EC2 keys.
Bug fixes:
· If SecureFX was minimized, the live preview in the Windows 7 taskbar displayed a busy circle until it eventually failed to get a thumbnail bitmap and displayed a default icon.
· If the tab display was off, the live preview thumbnail in the Windows 7 taskbar did not display the obscured area of the sessions that overlapped or were outside the main window.
October 2nd, 2009New features:
· SecureFX has a tabbed interface option that puts the local window
· and remote sessions into tabbed groups. Grouping options include
· two vertically split groups, two horizontally split groups, and a
· single group.
· Added support for SCP as a file transfer protocol. It can be
· found in the list of file transfer protocols in the Session
· Options dialog and can also be specified in SFXCL.
· To make it easier to navigate to the parent folder, ".." is
· displayed in the local and remote sessions.
· A command-line option /SESSION_FOLDER allows all the sessions
· in a folder to be connected when SecureFX starts.
· In the Open With dialog, an option was added to permanently
· associate an application with a file extension within SecureFX.
· FTP/SSL: Added the FTP/SSL session option “Use unencrypted data
· channel”.
· SFXCL: Added a parameter, /Command, that sends an FTP command prior
· to connecting.
· SFXCL: Added an option to specify that a QuickSync operation should
· not include subdirectories.
Changes:
· The transfer queue automatically scrolls to show the currently
· active transfer.
· The session Operating System setting is used to determine how
· to translate the line ending characters for ASCII transfers.
· The file transfer queue uses the date and time format from the
· regional settings in Windows.
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX crashed if a file in the file view pane was being renamed
· and then the Refresh button on the toolbar was pressed.
· If a transfer was interrupted and the destination file size was
· equal to or greater than the source file size, SecureFX would hang.
· If a session was in the middle of a large download and the server
· disconnected, SecureFX did not attempt to reconnect and retry the
· download.
· If the current folder was deleted outside of SecureFX, it was no
· longer possible to navigate folders in SecureFX.
· If a session without a username was edited while it was connected,
· the username entered during authentication was saved to the
· session.
· If the configuration folder's path had a trailing backslash,
· sessions could not be connected from the Activator or from
· SecureCRT (if it was installed).
· The transfer queue status did not update when a queued transfer
· was cancelled.
· If the installer was run in silent mode and an answer file that
· could not be found was specified on the command line, a dialog
· was displayed.
· FTP: SecureFX crashed if an empty quote command was specified.
· SSH2: If the remote server supported substitute user, after a file
· was downloaded, the "Substitute User..." menu item was disabled.
· SSH2: In the Key Generation wizard, if the specified path for the
· key contained two or more folders that did not exist, the key
· could not be saved.
July 2nd, 2009Changes:
· Added support for administratively prohibiting checking for updates from within SecureFX
Bug fixes:
· SecureFX crashed when an attempt to transfer a file from Internet Explorer was made
· SecureFX crashed if an attempt was made to use a session that had been disconnected by an internal timeout
· SecureFX crashed if "/../.." was entered in the address bar, the root folder ("/") was selected, and then "/../.." was entered in the address bar again
· SecureFX could crash if a session was in the middle of reconnecting when an attempt to navigate to a different folder was cancelled
· Entering a path in the address bar could occasionally cause
· SecureFX to display duplicate entries and crash
· The installer did not honor LICENSE_FILE or CONFIG_FOLDER_PATH entries that were specified in an ANSWERFILE
· Silent installs did not add the program to the Start menu or the list of installed programs in the Windows Control Panel
· SSH2: Previously, the default GEX preferred key size was changed from 2046 to 2048. However, the GSSAPI GEX maximum key size was still 2046, which caused the server to report an error and disconnect the session when GSSAPI GEX was used.
April 29th, 2009Bug fixes:
· SecureFX could not be installed on systems where InstallShield
· custom actions do not work.
· If a license with a maintenance date in the format MM-DD-YY was
· entered, SecureFX crashed.
· In the Synchronize dialog, if the "Download only" or "Mirror
· remote" option was selected, the local and remote paths were
· switched in the dialog. The synchronization operation used the
· correct paths.
· In the Connect dialog, a session that was copied could not be
· pasted more than two times.
· If the Visual Studio 2008 DLLs were not in the side-by-side
· cache, MFC90.DLL errors were written to the event viewer when
· SecureFX ran.
· FTP: File attributes were not shown for FTP servers that used
· UNIX.* file attributes, such as NcFTPd Server.
· FTP: If the default transfer type was set to ASCII, SecureFX
· issued a SIZE command after a LIST of the file, which caused
· some servers to report the error "Failed to retrieve information
· on the source item. It will be skipped."
· SFTP: SecureFX could crash while attempting to transfer a file
· from a security gateway, such as the GENBAND S2(TM) Security
· Gateway.
· SSH2: If an RSA key with a passphrase was added in the Manage
· Agent Keys dialog and the wrong passphrase was entered, the
· incorrect error "The key packet is corrupt, damaged, or
· incompatibly formatted" was reported and was still reported
· after the correct passphrase was entered.
March 19th, 2009· SecureFX crashed if the File menu was selected after the menu
· bar was reset to Default from the Menus tab in the Customize
· menu.
· When generating a public key in the Key Generation wizard, the
· progress bar was not displayed until after the key had been
· generated.
· Three-year licenses were not being honored.
· In the Connect dialog, when a new folder was added, a folder
· called "New Folder" was also added.
· In the Connect dialog, attempting to rename a session to the same
· name as its parent folder reported an error that the name was
· already in use.
· After pasting a copied session into a folder in the Connect
· dialog, the folder was selected.
· SSH2: Attempting to authenticate using GSSAPI with the 64-bit
· MIT Kerberos DLL failed.
February 24th, 2009Bug fixes:
· SFXCL: Attempting to rename a file using /RENAME resulted in a syntax error if the second letter in the file was "s".
February 18th, 2009Bug fixes:
· On a 64-bit machine, Help could not be launched.
· In the Connect dialog, if several sessions were selected and one
· was de-selected, when the mouse was right-clicked to display the
· context menu, the session was selected.
· If the login failed when attempting to connect to an FTP/SSL
· server, the "Login Failed" message appeared after the correct
· password was entered.
· For synchronize operations, the "Include subdirectories" option
· was not being honored.
· The 64-bit combined SecureCRT and SecureFX installer installed
· into the x86 location when run in silent mode.
· In the installer, on the dialog that shows where the
· application is going to be installed, long install location
· paths were cut off.
· The upgrade eligibility date displayed in the installer was not
· correct.
January 30th, 2009New features:
· A native 64-bit Windows version is available.
· Added filter support to Quick Synchronize and Synchronize
· operations. The new functionality supports wildcards and allows
· files and folders to be included or excluded.
· Multiple sessions can be selected and edited from the Connect
· dialog. Only the changed fields will be applied to the
· selected sessions, which allows specific settings to be
· changed for a group of sessions.
· There is a new option to remember which sessions were open the
· last time SecureCRT ran so that they can be launched the next
· time the application runs.
· FTP, FTP/SSL: Added the ability to specify a range of ports for
· SecureFX to use when making an FTP or FTP/SSL data connection.
· FTP/SSL: Added support for generating and using self-signed
· certificates, which allows mutual authentication.
· SSH2: Added support for PKCS#11, allowing a Cryptographic Token
· Interface to be used for smart-card authentication.
· SSH2: In the Activator, agent support has been enhanced by
· allowing keys to be explicitly added and removed.
Changes:
· SFXCL: If a password is specified on the command line, it is not
· written to the log file.
· SSH2: Added support for specifying a password in the Session
· Options dialog.
· SSH2: The default public key generation folder has been changed
· to "My Documents". Only new installations are affected.
· SSH1/SSH2: When creating an identity file, moving the mouse is
· no longer required to generate random data.
· FTP/SSL: Modified the error message reported when SSL-certificate
· negotiation fails to give more information about what the problem
· might be.
Bug fixes:
· When the screen reading software JAWS 8 was running, SecureFX
· could crash or report an "out of memory" error.
· When using the transfer queue, if multiple files were uploaded to
· a server that used a SecurID token, the password had to be entered
· for each file.
· In the Global Options dialog, changes to options were saved when
· the dialog was cancelled.
· When the remote server was PureFTPd, the file permissions
· attributes value shown in the Properties dialog was "0" even
· though the log showed a non-zero value.
· If a firewall was specified on the command line and the firewall
· name contained a space, it was not used.
· SFXCL: Under certain circumstances, if a public key or passphrase
· was specified on the command line, SFXCL crashed.
· SFXCL: Under certain circumstances, transferring files to MVS
· servers did not work even though they worked in SecureFX.
· SFXCL: If a firewall was specified using the /FIREWALL parameter,
· it was not used.
December 3rd, 2008· SSH2: The default cipher list has been modified to prefer the AES
· ciphers in CTR mode. This change was made to address a potential
· vulnerability. See the following web page for more information.
November 7th, 2008· SecureFX crashed after connecting to a session if SecureFX was unable to bind the port sent by the server.
· If the system color quality was changed to 16 bit, SecureFX's address bar text became bold.
· SFTP: Under certain circumstances, if a refresh was done on a connection that had disconnected, SecureFX crashed.
October 3rd, 2008· SecureFX 6.1 could not connect to VShell versions 2.3.x through 2.4.3.
· In the Connect dialog, doing a Find Next after deleting a session that had been found using Find caused SecureFX to crash.
· In the Global Options dialog, on the Advanced category under File Transfer, an "Invalid Octal digit" message was displayed even though the values were valid.
· Global Secure Shell configuration information was not being migrated.
· If two sessions had the same name, hostname, and username, they were combined during migration, but only the terminal protocol was set.
August 22nd, 2008· Under certain circumstances, SecureFX did not preserve the timestamp on an uploaded file.
· When Windows was configured to use large fonts (120 DPI), some text in the Session Options dialog did not fit in the dialog.
July 31st, 2008· Under certain circumstances, launching SecureFX caused MFC80U.dll errors to be reported in the Windows Event Viewer.
July 25th, 2008· Under certain circumstances, files that should have been displayed sometimes were not displayed.
· When the SecureFX window regained focus, sometimes it was not repainted.
· The installer did not handle the answer file option INSTALLATION_PROFILE.
July 18th, 2008· Under Windows 2000, a KERNEL32.dll error was reported when SecureFX started.
· SecureFX crashed if a synchronize session's .INI file contained a blank line.
· For files larger than 4GB, the Local window showed an incorrect file size.
· File listings were not shown when connecting to a SurgeFTP server.
· The Activator used a different configuration folder than SecureFX when SecureFX specified the /F command-line option.
July 3rd, 2008· Under Vista, when a new synchronize session was created, garbage was displayed in the "Last Synchronized" column in the Synchronize dialog
· FTPS sessions incorrectly honored the "Directory listing options" when connecting to a server that supported MLSD
· If SecureFX was running during an upgrade install, the installer continued to report that a file was in use after SecureFX was closed and Retry was selected
· The installer did not handle the answer file option INSTALLATION_PROFILE
June 20th, 2008New features:
· Added support for saving, editing, and executing synchronize
· operations, which makes it easier to keep multiple sites
· synchronized.
· The Quick Synchronize and Synchronize dialogs optionally use the
· paths from the active sessions for the synchronize operation,
· reducing synchronize set up time.
· Added folder operations which make it easier to navigate folders
· in SecureFX. The new context menu items are: Back, Forward,
· Parent, Home, Root, and Folder in Explorer (local session only).
· Added the ability to search sessions and folders in the Connect
· dialog, which supports searching for a session name, hostname,
· folder name, or a keyword in the description.
· SSH2: The username and password can be saved when using keyboard-
· interactive authentication, streamlining the logon process.
· SFTP: If the remote server is VShell 3.5 or later, there is a
· context menu item that allows you to become a different user.
Bug fixes:
· Under certain circumstances, when uploading multiple files through
· the Transfer Queue, the transfer hung on the second file.
· When the "Save expanded folder state in connect dialog" option was
· set and a session in a folder was renamed in the Connect dialog,
· it caused other folders to be expanded.
· SFTP: If the contents of a folder could be viewed, but not listed,
· SecureFX got an unknown application error when attempting to
· change to the folder.
· U3: Configuration settings were uninstalled when the U3 version
· was uninstalled.
April 25th, 2008Changes:
· Dot files, such as ".svn", that are in the configuration folder are no longer displayed in the Connect dialog.
Bug fixes:
· If the SecureFX command line specified a configuration folder that did not contain a default session, it crashed on startup.
· If SecureCRT and SecureFX were installed separately but used the same configuration folder, when a session was created or modified, the protocol for the other application was set to None.
· Under certain circumstances, the installer incorrectly reported a "file in use" error, which prevented the application from being installed.
· Under Vista, if an MSI installer was used, the default installation folder was in "Application Data" instead of "Program Files".
· FTP: Folders were sometimes not displayed for some FTP servers,such as NcFTPd and Serv-U.
· SFTP: When downloading files using multiple buffers, some servers did not honor SecureFX's buffer size request, which resulted in files not being transferred correctly.
February 21st, 2008· When using a U3 smart drive, valid license data was not saved if the first attempt to enter the license had invalid data.
· SSH2: When an attempt to upload a public key from the Quick
· Connect dialog was made and the hostname had not been specified, SecureFX crashed.
· SSH2: After changing the password on an OpenSSH 3.6 server,
· SecureFX crashed when attempting to logon.
January 9th, 2008· File browser dialogs could not be resized.
· SSH2: When the path for the identity file contained anenvironment variable, the Public Key Properties dialog could not display the fingerprint, upload the key, or change the passphrase.
· SSH2: In the Public Key Properties dialog, if the key file path was blank, it was filled in after cancelling out of the file browser.
December 18th, 2007· SecureFX crashed if a remote session was closed while a file listing was in progress.
· The recent session list wasn't updated when a session was selected from the Activator.
· SFXCL: An incorrect error code was returned for the "No configuration is specified" error.
December 7th, 2007· The installer no longer requires a reboot upon completion.
· The U3 installer is now packaged as a .exe instead of a .u3p. This prevents it from being downloaded as a .zip.
· Quick Connect did not work when the "Save session" check box was unchecked.
· When a recently used session path was too long to fit in the menu, the path was truncated before the session name.
November 16th, 2007· Added an address bar to the local and remote session windows that contains a history of folders that have been navigated to and allows a path to be entered manually.
· Quick Synchronize now supports mirroring with delete, which makes the contents of the destination folder exactly the same as the source folder.
· Enhanced portability by making a U3 installer available. Installing SecureFX on a U3 drive makes it easier to use on any machine.
· Added MSI installer support.
· Added support for several Windows themes, which give the user interface a more modern appearance.
· Added support for customizing the toolbar and menu by dragging and dropping items while in the Customize dialog.
· Added an option to resolve symbolic links automatically.
· Environment variables can be used in all paths specified in global and session options, which allows configuration files to be used by more than one person and makes it easier to move configuration files to other machines.
· Improved speed of local window file listings for folders that contain a large number of files.
· The queue overwrite prompt now has "Yes to all" and "No to all" options.
· If a transfer type is "Unknown", the default transfer type is used.
· The standard toolbar icons have been updated to use Windows Vista icons.
· SecureFX dialogs now use the font specified by the Windows display properties.
· Added optional monthly pop-up dialog that offers to check for product updates.
· Improved the error message that is displayed when attempting to give a session a name that is already being used.
· Added a command-line flag "/S:i", which specifies that the session's initial directory should be used.
· FTP/SSL: The list functions MLST/MLSD are used by default when they are supported by the server.
· SFXCL: Added the /F command-line option to the usage message.
· Fixed: On an MVS system, when uploading a file to a directory that contained a "." in the name, the path of the uploaded file was not correct.
· Fixed: SFTP: If the connection was lost during an upload, the transfer continued, which caused the entire file to be loaded into memory.
· Fixed: FTP/SSL: Connecting to a server that was using a certificate with a large key size, could have resulted in the following error: "The buffers supplied to a function was too small".
· Fixed: SFXCL: A prompt was displayed in noprompt mode if the logon failed for an FTP or FTP/SSL session.
May 18th, 2007· If the connection was lost during an upload and the session automatically reconnected and resumed the upload, the file was uploaded to the wrong folder.
· The Activator no longer worked when launched directly (e.g., from a desktop shortcut).
· SSH2: SecureFX crashed when attempting to convert an SSH1 key pair to OpenSSH format. Only SSH2 key pairs can be converted.
· SSH2: When converting an SSH key to OpenSSH format, if the filename for the converted key was not changed and "No" was selected at the overwrite prompt, it was not possible to enter a new name
May 25th, 2006· SFTP: SecureFX no longer reports a confusing trace output message about an unexpected packet size because it was not an error.
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