SecureFX Changelog

What's new in SecureFX 9.5.0 Build 3182 Beta 1

Nov 2, 2023

New Features:
For FTPS and HTTPS sessions, added TLS certificate validation options "Revocation checking enabled" and "Revocation checking only uses cache".
Added a compatibility mode for Azure Blob SFTP servers, which automatically disables SFTP extensions.
Passwords for saved credentials can be updated more easily via the Tools menu.
Changes:
Hostnames containing multiple "@" characters are now supported, which allows jump hosts (e.g., CyberArk) to be specified in the hostname.
For failed SCP connections, the log message was changed from "The remote execute operation has been aborted." to "The operation was aborted because the channel closed."
Log messages for HTTPS connections no longer show the protocol as being HTTP.
When standalone SecureFX is installed, the button to launch SecureCRT is not shown on the toolbar.
SFXCL: When logging to a file, if authentication failed, the actual cause of the authentication failure would not have been logged to the file.
SFXCL: When a move is executed and /tracelevel is set to 2 (or higher), the log includes the attempt to delete the file and whether or not it succeeded.
Windows: When opening the Session Manager, performance may have been impacted due to the protocol-specific session icons.
A "Use Old Session Manager Icons" global INI-only option has been added to allow the use of the old generic icons.
Windows: The USERNAME environment variable can be embedded within a string in the Username field (e.g., %USERNAME%.admin).
Bug Fixes:
If a malformed key file was specified as the global public key, opening the Global Options dialog resulted in a crash.
The "Accept and Save" button was not available when connecting to a session with multiple host keys for the same host, which resulted in the prompt to accept the host key being displayed every time the session connected.
When an open session was disconnected and reconnected, the directory listing for the current directory was not refreshed.
When a cross-platform substitution variable (e.g., VDS_CONFIG_PATH) was used as part of the path to a key to load into agent at startup, the variable was replaced with the actual path.
If SecureFX was opened from the command line with the /Firewall option and an instance of SecureFX was already running, the specified firewall was not used.
When the configuration path was specified on the command line via the "/F <config path>" option, SecureFX did not honor the option.
When opening a SecureCRT session from SecureFX, the "Open in a tab" option was not honored.
If a session was configured to authenticate with a certificate from CAPI or a smartcard and authentication failed, the dialog to select a public-key file was displayed instead of the dialog to select a certificate.
When creating a folder in the Session Manager, if the folder was renamed as part of the addition, a secondary folder with the original "New Folder" name was also added.
When debug logging level 9 was enabled and the Cisco SCP shell enable password was entered, the password was not obscured in the log output.
With a new configuration, both the Quick Connect dialog and the Session Manager could have be shown at startup.
When SecureCRT and SecureFX were installed integrated and the terminal protocol for a session was changed to "Local
Shell" then back to SSH2, the SSH2 session options page could have appeared twice.
Windows: When SecureFX was running within SecureCRT's process, the applications could have crashed after waking the computer from sleep.
Windows: If the evaluation period ended and a license was applied from the expired license dialog, the application did not start automatically when the license wizard was dismissed.
Windows: When using SFXCL to connect to an FTPS or HTTPS host, if the connection resulted in a certificate validation prompt, the save certificate option was unexpectedly allowed.
Windows: If the session database contained a very large number of sessions and the Session Manager filter field was used to filter the session list, a long delay may have occurred.
Windows: When focus was within the Session Manager session view or filter field, pressing the Tab key unexpectedly moved focus to the local window.
Windows: When the Session Manager and Command Manager were docked within the same window as tabs, selecting the tab that did not have focus may have caused the tabs to switch position.

New in SecureFX 9.3.0 Build 2905 (Nov 4, 2022)

New in SecureFX 9.2.3 Build 2829 (Aug 3, 2022)

New in SecureFX 9.3.0 Build 2803 Beta (Jun 29, 2022)

New Features:
Added an option to check for updates automatically at startup.
Added the ability to duplicate a session in the Session Manager or Connect dialog.
Added an option that forces a prompt for the hostname when the session connects.
Added the ability to use the algorithms [email protected] and [email protected] as OpenSSH certificate types.
SSH2: Added support for using the x509v3-rsa2048-sha256 algorithm for authentication (RFC 6187).
Windows: Added support for using rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 public-key algorithms as raw SSH2 keys for CAPI certificates (RFC 8332).
Windows: Added support for using x509v3-ecdsa-sha2* algorithms from RFC 6187 for keys in the CAPI store and as raw SSH2 keys.
Windows: Added an administrative option that suppresses the prompt for a configuration passphrase the first time the application runs.
Changes:
For new installations, the Session Manager is on by default.
The number of sessions that can be opened simultaneously before a warning is displayed can now be configured.
SSH2: Trace output for the host key now includes the type and size.
SSH2: The View Host Key dialog now includes the type and size for the selected host key.
Bug Fixes:
When connecting to an Arista switch, the file listing may not have been displayed as expected.
Windows: When selecting a recent session from the SecureFX taskbar icon, the session did not open as expected.
Windows: When selecting the "Connect..." or "Quick Connect..." options from the SecureFX taskbar icon, the expected dialog was not displayed.
Windows: When authenticating with a certificate from the personal CAPI store, if the "Use certificate as raw SSH2 key" option was enabled, the key was not correctly added to agent and a subsequent connection could fail with an agent signature error.
Windows: Multiple CAPI errors could have been reported when attempting to display a certificate fingerprint if the fingerprint for any certificate could not be obtained.
Windows: If the signature failed to verify for the protocol or Python DLLs, the file path displayed on the warning dialog may have been cut off.
Mac: If a network connection was unavailable while checking for an update via "Update Now", the error displayed did not report a helpful message.
Mac/Linux: When an SFTP session was connected to a remote UNIX server, uploading a file that contained a colon character as part of the filename would have been uploaded to the remote user's home directory instead of the current working directory.

New in SecureFX 9.2.2 Build 2794 (Jun 29, 2022)

New in SecureFX 9.2.0 Build 2755 (Apr 27, 2022)

New in SecureFX 9.2.0 Build 2693 Beta 2 (Feb 4, 2022)

New in SecureFX 9.2.0 Build 2659 Beta 1 (Jan 4, 2022)

New Features:
Added a Credentials Manager that allows SSH2 and SFTP authentication credentials to be saved and used for multiple sessions, which makes it easier to change saved passwords or other credentials.
Added the ability to issue a sudo command when connecting to an SCP session.
SSH2: When attempting an SSH2 connection, if the Cipher or MAC algorithm negotiation fails, SecureFX offers to enable a supported algorithm and try again.
SSH2: Added the ability to use PPK3 files for public-key authentication.
SSH2: Added support for PPK keys that use the -cert-v01@openssh algorithm.
Changes:
For newly-generated RSA host keys, the minimum size is now 1024 bits.
Windows: In FIPS mode, digital signatures that use SHA-1 as the hashing algorithm can no longer be used because they are not allowed by the upgraded version of the FIPS library module.
The Properties dialog shows the size of the selected files or folder.
Modified the Quick Connect dialog so that the "Show quick connect at startup" option can be saved without having to connect.
Windows: When SecureCRT and SecureFX are integrated, if a scratchpad or script editor is active when SecureFX is launched from SecureCRT, SecureFX will not attempt a connection.
Bug Fixes:
Attempting to use an ecdsa-sk or ed25519-sk type public key resulted in a crash.
Under certain scenarios, file transfers and synchronize operations involving FTPS or HTTPS sessions could hang.
When authenticating with a 512-bit RSA key, if the rsa-sha2-512 signature algorithm was used, authentication failed.
When connecting to an MVS system, if a relative path was specified for the initial remote directory, SecureFX may not have been able to determine the fully-qualified path, causing the initial directory change to fail.
If the configuration was located on a network share, using the session filter search within the Session Manager could have caused a momentary hang.
Under unique circumstances, when connected to an OpenSSH server that had the MaxSessions option set to 1, directory browsing could have failed with a channel open error.
After a synchronize operation completed, the transaction statistics displayed in the log reported an incorrect number of file transfers and did not report the number of files that were deleted.
Under certain scenarios, firewall name changes were not immediately reflected in the Session Options dialog for sessions that used the firewall.
If a Putty-generated private-key file (.ppk format) was specified as the session public-key file, the "Upload" button was unexpectedly disabled.
Windows: When closing SecureFX after certain synchronize operations, a crash could occur.
Windows: When authenticating with an OpenSSH Trusted Certificate, if the private key was in the agent, authentication failed.
Windows: If the application was under heavy load, drop down and context menus could be slow to display.
Windows: On certain option fields that could display a horizontal scroll bar (e.g., GlobalSSH2 Fingerprint field), if the display was scaled above 100%, the scroll space was not calculated correctly.
Mac/Linux: If a file transfer was in progress when the network connection was interrupted, that transfer could not be manually cancelled.
Mac/Linux: If a session name included multiple ampersand characters ("&") in sequence, not all of the ampersand characters appeared on the session tab label.

New in SecureFX 9.1.1 Build 2638 (Dec 5, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.1.0 Build 2571 Beta 5 (Aug 25, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.1.0 Build 2560 Beta 4 (Aug 16, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.1.0 Build 2544 Beta 3 (Jul 23, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.1.0 Build 2525 Beta 2 (Jun 30, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.1.0 Build 2507 Beta (Jun 3, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.0.1 Build 2451 (Mar 18, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.0.0 Build 2422 Beta 6 (Feb 10, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.0.0 Build 2411 Beta 5 (Jan 28, 2021)

New in SecureFX 9.0.0 Build 2359 Beta (Nov 22, 2020)

New Feature:
Linux: Added support for Ubuntu 20.04.
Changes:
The prompt for keys that are pre-loaded into agent now shows the filename associated with the key.
SSH2: When attempting an SSH2 connection, if KEX algorithm negotiation fails, SecureFX offers to try again by enabling a supported algorithm.
The SHA-2 base64 hash of the public-key fingerprint is now displayed in the Public Key Properties and trace output.
Bug Fixes:
When connected to an Amazon S3 session, "pseudo" folders did not appear in the file listing. A new session INI-file-only option ("AWS Allow Pseudo Directories") has been added to allow pseudo folders to appear in the file list.
When the initial local window directory was a network share, there may have been a long delay at startup.
Windows: When connected to an Amazon S3 instance, certain object types may not have been displayed in the file view.
Windows: When SecureCRT and SecureFX were installed as a combined installation (integrated) and the TFTP server had been disabled via the Administrative Template, the TFTP options page was still displayed in the SecureFX Global Options dialog.
Mac: When SecureFX and SecureCRT were both installed, opening the terminal font dialog for a session from within SecureFX caused a hang.
Mac: Attempting to authenticate using a YubiKey smart card with the "opensc-pkcs11.so" library specified as the PKCS#11 provider resulted in an error, because the library could not be loaded.
Mac: When connecting to a FTPS or HTTPS server in which the SSL certificate was expected to validate on the local system, the connection only succeeded if the "Disable certificate validation" option was disabled.
Mac: When Dark Mode was enabled and the system highlight color was set to graphite, hovering over the list view in the local or remote window resulted in a white highlight color.
Mac: When using the built-in trackpad on a MacBook to drag a session to a different location in the Session Manager, auto- scroll and folder auto-expand did not work consistently.
Mac: When attempting to open a remote file using Visual Studio Code, if VS Code was already running on the system, the remote file was not opened.
Mac: If the Session Manager was docked and in auto-hide mode, a "<>" text artifact appeared on the Session Manager tab when expanded.
Mac/Linux: If the remote directory specified for a synchronize operation already existed, certain servers returned a "File not found" error instead of a "File exists" error when SecureFX attempted to create the remote directory. This caused SecureFX to terminate the synchronize operation. SecureFX now checks to see if the remote directory already exists and continues with the
synchronize operation.
Mac/Linux: When a public key that had a comment specified in the key data was added to the agent, the Manage Agent Keys dialog did not display the comment.
Mac/Linux: Text displayed on the Keyboard Interactive and View Host Key dialogs could not be selected and/or copied.
Mac/Linux: When attempting to create a QuickSync or Synchronize session to a PureFTPd server, if the remote path specified was "/", the configuration failed due to a directory creation error.
Linux: When using SFXCL for an HTTP operation, the process could hang or crash on exit.
Linux: When connected to an Amazon S3 session, buckets in certain regions may not have been accessible.

New in SecureFX 9.0.0 Build 2336 Beta (Oct 21, 2020)

New in SecureFX 8.7.3 Build 2279 (Aug 11, 2020)

New in SecureFX 8.7.2 Build 2214 (May 14, 2020)

New in SecureFX 8.7.1 Build 2171 (Mar 17, 2020)

New in SecureFX 8.7.0 Build 2143 (Feb 11, 2020)

New in SecureFX 8.7.0 Build 2109 Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2020)

New in SecureFX 8.7.0 Build 2079 Beta (Nov 21, 2019)

New features:
Added support for the HTTPS (WebDAV) file transfer protocol.
Added support for remote server file copies. This feature allows a remote file to be copied to another location on the same server without a download-upload sequence. This feature works with SFTP servers that have implemented the "copy-file" SFTP extension, HTTP WebDav servers, and some SCP servers.
Added the ability to open multiple local windows within SecureFX. A session that is doing synchronized browsing has its own local window.
The Session Manager and Connect dialog session filter fields now have the ability to filter sessions based on the top level folder the sessions reside in. When filtering, the folder name must be followed by the forward slash character in order to list the sessions within that folder.
SSH2: Added support for the diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512, and diffie-hellman-group18-sha512 key-exchange algorithms.
SSH2: Added support for x509v3-ecdsa-sha2 algorithms per RFC 6187 for PKCS #11.
Added support for the FTP MFF, MFMT, and SITE UTIME commands. These commands allow the timestamp to be set on a remote file that has been uploaded to the FTP server.
Added support for the FTP MFF Unix.Mode command. This command allows folder and/or file permissions to be set on the remote FTP server.
Added a "Use Copy to Preserve Permissions" global INI-file-only option that allows remote file copy operations to preserve the target file's permissions when being overwritten. This feature works with servers that support remote file copies.
Added the ability to use URLs in synchronize operations in both SecureFX and the SFXCL command-line utility.
SFXCL: Wildcards can be used with the /CHMOD command-line option.
Mac: Added support for Dark Mode on macOS 10.14 and later.
Mac: Added a session option "Move deleted local files to the Trash" that specifies whether or not local files deleted during transfer and synchronize operations should automatically be put in the system Trash folder.
Windows: Added a new firewall type "Proxy command" which allows a local proxy command to be run when connecting to a remote server.
Windows: Added a global option for specifying which TLS versions are allowed.
Linux: Support for Ubuntu 19.04 has been added.
Changes:
Mac: macOS installers are now notarized by Apple. This tells Gatekeeper on the system that the software has been scanned by Apple for malicious software and is trusted.
It is now possible to save sessions that were created using Quick Connect, the Connect bar, or the command line.
If a firewall name is changed, any sessions using that firewall are updated with the new firewall name.
If a session is renamed or moved, any sessions using that session as a dependent session firewall are updated with the new session name or location.
When deleting a synchronize session, a confirmation dialog is displayed before the synchronize session is deleted.
When deleting a key from agent, a confirmation dialog is displayed before the key is deleted.
With smart card authentication, the presence of the private key is verified before attempting to use the corresponding public key.
When generating a new RSA key, the default size is now 3072 bits.
SSH2: If a session's username is empty and the saved password is empty or incorrect, the username is now saved when it is entered in the Enter Secure Shell Password dialog and the "Save password" option is checked. Previously, the username could be entered in the dialog, but was not saved to the session.
Added VxWorks to the list of FTP/SFTP operating systems in the Session Options dialog.
The product version is now shown in the expired license dialog.
SecureFX now logs when the SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_PK_OK response is received from the server during public-key authentication.
TLS session context information, including whether TLS session resumption was used, is now logged.
For FTP and SCP connections, the operating system for the remote machine or device is now logged.
When the logging verbosity is set to level 8 or higher, SecureFX logs the PGP commands executed.
Removed a "SUMMARY:" tag from several log lines that summarized the transfer results.
Windows: The VanDyke Update utility now reports the actual error text, rather than just an error number, when checking for updates fails.
Bug fixes:
If an SFXCL connection that was using an HTTP or Generic proxy was closed before the proxy command was sent, the application could have crashed.
Canceling an SFXCL synchronize operation could cause the application to crash.
If the SecureFX main window was closed while a synchronize comparison operation was in progress, the application could crash.
In certain scenarios, SecureFX could crash after initiating a transfer using drag and drop.
Under certain circumstances, when re-prompting for authentication credentials after a failed authentication attempt, SecureFX could crash.
When uploading a large number of files to certain FTP servers, the transfer could fail, and in rare circumstances, SecureFX could crash.
If a string greater than 5000 characters in length was entered in certain fields (Connect Bar, Search Filter, etc.), SecureCRT could freeze.
When the remote directory specified for a synchronize session already existed on the remote server as a file, this was not recognized as an error and the Synchronize dialog could not be dismissed.
If the network connection was interrupted during a synchronize operation, the state of the operation could become invalid.
The remote file path browse button in the Quick Synchronize and Synchronize Session Properties dialogs did not work if the remote system was a VShell for Windows FTP server.
When connected to a server that did not include file attributes in directory listings, the transfer window displayed downloaded files with a size of 0 and transfer progress did not update.
When using the personal data configuration option, it was possible to get into a situation where both the main configuration folder and the personal data folder were pointing at the same location, which could have caused the personal data (e.g., usernames, passwords, etc.) to be lost.
When an invalid or expired license was encountered at startup, SecureFX failed to look in other locations for a valid license.
When an FTPS or HTTPS connection was interrupted during a file transfer, the connection did not attempt to reconnect and resume the transfer.
In rare circumstances, an FTP transfer could appear to fail if a read request occurred after all of the data had been received and processed.
If the tree view was off and a remote session tab (or the local tab) was closed and re-opened, the tree view was half the width of the session view.
When configuring a dependent session as a firewall (jump host), a session that was invalid for the current session could have been selected by double clicking the invalid session.
When the Session Manager or Connect dialog tree was arranged manually, folders may not have been displayed in the expected order.
When using the Session Manager, changes made to existing sessions by a configuration import were not shown until SecureFX restarted.
When SecureCRT and SecureFX were installed as a combined installation (integrated) and a configuration import or export operation was performed from SecureFX, SecureCRT's button bar configuration was not included in the import/export.
If an invalid initial remote directory was specified for a session, the error was logged with unexpected blank lines.
When the logging verbosity was set to level 9 (packet trace), lines that exceeded a certain length were not displayed in the log view as expected.
Windows: On some Windows operating systems, starting SecureCRT could cause all desktop icons to refresh.
Mac/Linux: Connecting to a server that was configured with a 4096-bit DSA host key could result in an unsupported bit size error.
Mac/Linux: Creating a synchronize session in which the remote session was using the SCP protocol could have failed with a create directory error.
Mac/Linux: FTPS data connections failed to reuse the TLS session context negotiated for the control connection.
Mac/Linux: For certain FTP servers, when attempting to configure a synchronize session, if the specified remote path already existed, the synchronize session properties could not be saved.
Mac/Linux: When clicking the "View Host Key" button on the New Host Key dialog, the host key was rejected instead of being displayed.
Mac/Linux: Under certain circumstances, the expanded/collapsed state of the folders in the Session Manager could reset to the state they were in at application startup.
Mac: Under certain circumstances, if multiple parallel transfers were started and exactly one transfer failed, SecureFX could crash.
Mac: When the VoiceOver accessibility option was enabled on the system, SecureFX could crash when certain dialogs were opened.
Mac: SecureFX could crash on macOS 10.13 if a synchronization operation was cancelled while a transfer was in progress or pending.
Mac: On macOS 10.14, certain drag and drop operations (e.g., dragging a session within the Session Manager) could have resulted in a system accessibility dialog requesting additional access be granted to the application.
Mac: If the system launched SecureFX automatically (e.g., after a system reboot or user logon), a "-psn_<serial #>" parameter may have been included by the system as an option to the SecureFX process, causing SecureFX to attempt to connect to that parameter as a host. SecureFX now ignores the "-psn_" system parameter.
Mac: Dragging a session or folder into another folder caused that session or folder to be hidden from view. The moved session or folder was displayed correctly after SecureFX restarted.
Linux: On Ubuntu 19.04, when running SecureFX on certain older hardware, the application could crash at startup.

New in SecureFX 8.5.3 (Feb 13, 2019)

New in SecureFX 8.5.2 (Nov 16, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.5.1 (Sep 28, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.5 (Aug 29, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.5 Beta 5 (Aug 17, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.5 Beta 4 (Aug 10, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.3.4 (Jul 13, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.5.0 Build 1689 Beta 1 (Jun 28, 2018)

NEW FEATURES:
The Manage Bookmarks dialog allows bookmarks to be edited, copied from another session, added, and deleted.
When "Open Bookmarks" is selected from the File menu or file view context menu, all the bookmarks are shown. If there a lot of bookmarks, the list may have to be scrolled to see all of them.
Added a global INI-file-only option called "SecureFX Single Instance", which is on by default. If SecureFX is already running and a new SecureFX session is launched from SecureCRT, from the system desktop, or from the command line, the new session will open in the existing SecureFX application window.
Added support for the SHA2-512-EtM and SHA2-256-EtM MACs.
Added a global option to make the default action "Transfer" when a file is double-clicked or is selected and ENTER is pressed.
Sorting on columns is supported in all list controls that have columns.
Added a session INI-file-only option "Keyboard Interactive Prompt" that allows the expected prompt for keyboard-interactive authentication to be specified.
SFXCL: Added a /ReconnectCount flag to SFXCL that specifies the number of times to try to reconnect after a disconnect occurs during a transfer operation.
SFXCL: Added a /Parsable option to the /List command, which forces the list output to be displayed in MLSD/MLST format.
SFXCL: Added command-line option /MaxParallel that allows the maximum number of parallel transfers to be specified for transfer operations.
SFXCL: Added command-line option /TraceLevel that allows the trace output verbosity to be specified for all file operations.
CHANGES:
Improved the responsiveness of the user interface when multiple files are being transferred simultaneously.
The default action for pressing ENTER or double-clicking a file is transfer. This setting can be changed in the Global Options dialog.
In the Public Key Properties dialog, the "Use identity or certificate file" field can be left blank.
Because of an update to a cryptographic library used by SecureFX, newly generated DSA keys are now restricted to 1024 bits.
Preceding and trailing whitespace is removed from hosts entered in the Connect bar.
The Manage Bookmarks dialog is resizable.
The keyboard shortcut ALT+N brings up the Session Manager or Connect dialog.
Migrated trace level option for sessions to a higher number because most of the messages that were previously traced at level 1 were moved to level 2.
The session option "Disable initial SFTP extensions" can now be configured in the GUI.
Windows: Improved transfer speeds by more than 25% when thousands of files are transferred in parallel using the transfer queue.
Windows: For the VS2018 Dark theme, the active tab's color was lightened and the highlight outline color for selected options on the toolbar was changed to orange.
Windows: The close button for the "Native" display theme is now a plain "X".
BUG FIXES:
SecureFX crashed after closing a remote session tab and then entering text in the Session Manager's filter bar.
SecureFX could become non-responsive after uploading thousands of files listed individually using the transfer window instead of the transfer queue.
In the Session Manager or Connect dialog, if a folder was renamed to have a name that was too long for the local system, the sessions contained in the folder were deleted.
On case-sensitive file systems, synchronize operations could incorrectly match or miss entries where the file or folder names only differed by case.
On case-sensitive file systems, the entry selected in the tree view after a file operation could be incorrect if the operation involved folders or files with names that only differed by case from other folders or files.
Remote edit would not upload files when changes were made without exiting the editor.
Files could not be uploaded to a folder that did not already exist on a Titan server when SFTP version 6 was used.
SFXCL: Usernames, passwords, and configuration passphrases containing non-ANSI characters could not be entered at an interactive prompt.
SFXCL: If "/S:i" was specified on the command line, the remote initial directory was ignored if the destination filename was different from the source filename.
Windows: If a file on the remote system had a timestamp with a year beyond 9999, SecureFX could crash when the folder containing that file was viewed.

New in SecureFX 8.3.3 Build 1646 (May 3, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.3.2 Build 1584 (Feb 8, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.3.1 Build 1537 (Feb 8, 2018)

New in SecureFX 8.3.0 Build 1509 Beta 4 (Nov 2, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.3.0 Build 1491 Beta 3 (Oct 12, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.3.0 Build 1474 Beta (Sep 22, 2017)

New features:
Improved the performance of synchronization operations involving large numbers of files and folders.
Improved the performance of listing large local directories. SFXCL now returns the following exit codes:
0 (SUCCESS)
100 (Network error)
200 (Source file system error)
300 (Target file system error)
400 (General failures)
Added autocomplete to the Connect bar in the toolbar, which makes finding and connecting to saved sessions easier.
Multiple sessions can be dragged and dropped or copied and pasted in the Session Manager and Connect dialog.
A new global option "Sort folders at top" forces the folders always to be sorted at the top of the local and remote windows regardless of which column is used for sorting and whether the order is ascending or descending. This option is on by default for new installations.
SSH2: Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 cipher.
SSH2: Added support for the AES-GCM cipher.
SSH2: Added support for the UMAC-128 MAC algorithm.
Added the ability to use OpenSSH certificates for authenticating SFTP sessions.
SSH2: Added a new session option "Use a separate transport for every connection," which establishes a new SSH2 transport for every parallel SFTP transfer.
SFXCL: Added a new option /ReconnectDelay, which allows the number of seconds between losing a connection and the initial reconnect attempt to be specified.
Windows: Added an Administrative Policy option to disconnect sessions authenticated using CAPI/PKCS#11 when the corresponding smart card is removed.
Changes:
Filtered searches in the Session Manager and Connect dialog could be very slow when the session database contained thousands of sessions.
In the Transfer queue, when the filename or destination is a remote system, the hostname is prepended.
The option for displaying hidden files in the local window can be toggled from the View menu.
If the global option "Show Session Manager or Connect dialog on startup" is set, the Session Manager is displayed when SecureFX starts. Previously, only the Connect dialog honored this option.
SSH2: Modified the default authentication order to be PublicKey, Keyboard Interactive, Password, and GSSAPI. This only affects new installations.
The default session filter delay has been changed from 500 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds. This only affects new installations.
Up to 20 sessions can be included on the recent session list.
SSH2: If a session is using public-key authentication and the key file has not specified, the user is no longer prompted to specify the file.
SSH2: When importing an SSH2 host key, if it's possible to extract the hostname, IP address, and port from the filename, those values will be used as the default values. Otherwise, the default value for port will be set to 22 and the other values will be left blank.
SSH2: Pressing the SHIFT key in the New Host Key dialog allows a host key to be saved once.
SSH2: In the dialogs that prompt to accept the host key, the SHA-2 fingerprint is also displayed in base64.
In the View Host Key dialog, SHA-2 fingerprints are displayed in base64 in addition to hexadecimal.
When being prompted to accept an SSH2 host key, the fingerprints are now shown in a separate dialog.
SSH2: The trace output shows the SHA-2 host key fingerprint as base64 in addition to hexadecimal.
The username used for authentication is now logged in the trace output.
SecureFX uses a templated path, which gets modified to an appropriate path on each platform, for the global option "Log File V2".
If SecureFX is launched using the -F command-line parameter or is on a USB drive, the actual configuration path being used is shown in the Global Options dialog.
Bug fixes:
In the New Session wizard and the Quick Connect dialog, once a session was selected as the Firewall, "Select Session..." was no longer in the Firewall dropdown list.
When uploading a file to a Cisco iOS device, a prompt was displayed if the file did not exist in the target folder.
File transfers to a Cisco ASR9K router using SCP failed because SecureFX sent an extra "cd" command, which made the wrong directory the current directory.
The transfer queue displayed "Could not retrieve error text for error code 0xe000001c" when an upload failed due to a disk space error.
A session that contained spaces could not be connected from the Connect bar using the /S flag.
Windows: If the Connect bar was showing a dropdown list, pressing ALT+Q displayed the Quick Connect dialog, but did not put focus there.
Windows: On high-DPI monitors, the EULA dialog in the installer did not display correctly.

New in SecureFX 8.1.4 Build 1443 (Aug 10, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.1.3 Build 1382 (Aug 10, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.1.2 Build 1362 (Apr 28, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.1.1 Build 1319 (Feb 28, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.1 Beta 5 (Jan 18, 2017)

New in SecureFX 8.1 Beta 4 (Dec 20, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.4 Build 1252 (Dec 6, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.1 Beta 3 (Dec 2, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.1 Beta 2 (Dec 2, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.1 Beta (Oct 28, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.3 Build 1183 (Sep 9, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.1 Build 1082 (Apr 26, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.0 Build 1063 (Mar 31, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.0 Build 1055 Beta 5 (Mar 22, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.0 Build 1045 Beta 4 (Mar 21, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.0 Beta 2 (Feb 25, 2016)

New in SecureFX 7.3.7 Build 1034 (Feb 25, 2016)

New in SecureFX 8.0.0 Build 1011 Beta 1 (Jan 29, 2016)

New features:
Windows: Added the ability to schedule transfer and synchronize operations. The frequency can be once, daily, weekly, or monthly and SecureFX does not need to be running
Windows: The user interface has new themes and new toolbar icons
Windows: Updated the icons used in the remote view
Added the ability to create a file on a remote system
Added the ability to use and generate ECDSA (RFC 5656) and Ed25519 keys
Added the ability to generate keys in the new OpenSSH format
SSH2: PuTTY PPK keys can be used for public-key authentication
SSH2: On Windows, enhanced public-key authentication to allow a public key to be specified from the CAPI or PKCS #11 store
SSH2: On Windows, public keys can be exported in OpenSSH format and can be exported from PKCS #11
SSH2: On Windows, added support for X.509 authentication using the x509v3-ssh-rsa and x509v3-ssh-dss algorithms as specified in RFC 6187
SSH2: On Windows, certificates can be used as a raw key for public-key authentication
SSH2: On Windows, X.509 v3 keys can be added to the SSH agent
Changes:
The ability to use a session as a firewall has been added to the Quick Connect dialog and the Session wizard
Quick Connect sessions that are saved are put in the current folder in the Session Manager
ID numbers shown in the log file for transfer, synchronize, and file operations are now unique
The format of some log messages was changed as shown below "Session established for synchronize with " changed to "Operation established for synchronize with "
"Synchronize(): sfxcl version ()" changed to "sfxcl version ()"
"Session established for session " changed to "Session window established for session "
"Session established for address " changed to "Session window established for address "
"Session(00000000): sfxcl version ()" changed to "sfxcl version ()"
Changed the SSL GUI protocol names to "FTP/TLS (implicit)" and "FTP/TLS (explicit)" to reflect that TLS is supported
Added "Contact Support" to the Help menu
SSH2: If host key authentication fails with the ssh-dss algorithm the ssh-rsa algorithm is preferred on subsequent attempts to reconnect the session
SSH2: It's now possible to specify the minimum group exchange prime size in the Session Options dialog
SSH2: The "diffie-hellman" key exchange algorithm is off for the default session. This change only affects new installations
SSH2: SHA-1 and SHA-2 fingerprints are displayed for public keys in addition to MD5
SSH2: In all places where the host key fingerprint is displayed the SHA-2 fingerprint is also displayed
SFXCL: Host key messages are now logged
SFXCL: When the remote server is WS_FTP and the protocol is SFTP trailing slashes are stripped from paths
Windows: If the administrative policy "Enable Check For Updates" is set to false, "Update Now" is not allowed
Bug fixes:
Attempting to delete a session without a name caused every session in the session database to be deleted
SecureFX could become unresponsive when settings were being imported or exported, especially when the configuration was large e.g., lots of sessions)
SecureFX could not connect to an FTPS server that requested a client certificate without specifying a client certificate, which is allowed by SSL and TLS
SFTP: If a binary file was transferred to a Globalscape server with compression set to zlib, the file could be corrupted
SFTP: Files could be corrupted when multiple files were downloaded from an SFTP server if the maximum number of parallel transfers was set to a value larger than 1 and the transfer queue was being used
SFTP: SecureFX did not work with MikroTik routers running RouterOS
SSH2: If the host key database was on an offline cached network drive, SecureFX was not able to save new host keys
SSH2: The cached session password was not updated after a password change was forced by the remote system
SFXCL: If multiple files were transferred and one or more files failed to transfer, but one or more files transferred successfully
SFXCL returned a success exit code
Windows: When the session database contained folders and one of those folders was deleted in the Session Manager, if a session was created using the Quick Connect dialog, the session was not saved in the selected folder and any expanded folders were collapsed
Windows: On high-DPI monitors with scaling enabled, folders in the Session Manager and local and remote windows could not be expanded or collapsed

New in SecureFX 7.3.6 Build 963 (Dec 2, 2015)

New in SecureFX 7.3.5 Build 903 (Sep 11, 2015)

New in SecureFX 7.3.4 Build 839 (Jun 17, 2015)

New in SecureFX 7.3.3 Build 779 (Apr 1, 2015)

New in SecureFX 7.3.2 Build 752 (Feb 26, 2015)

New in SecureFX 7.3.1 Build 685 (Dec 5, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.3.0 Build 657 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.3.0 Build 642 Beta 5 (Oct 3, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.3.0 Build 633 Beta 4 (Sep 24, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.3.0 Build 622 Beta 3 (Sep 10, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.3.0 Build 611 Beta 2 (Sep 5, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.2.6 Build 606 (Aug 20, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.3.0 Build 597 Beta 1 (Aug 8, 2014)

New features:
Added support for exporting and importing SecureFX settings to and from XML, which makes it easier to copy settings from one machine to another.
Added a search filter to the session manager, which helps find sessions quickly, especially when a large number of sessions have been saved.
Added the ability to specify that PGP encryption should be used for file transfers, including synchronize operations. A third-party library such as GnuPG is required for this feature.
Added the ability to specify the substitution parameter %USERNAME% as a session username.
Added a new session option "Display Filenames using UTF-8 encoding" that specifies that files should always be displayed in UTF-8.
SFXCL: Added "resume" as a possible argument to the "Overwrite" option, which allows an interrupted transfer to be resumed.
Changes:
Added the ability to store keys larger than 2048 bits in agent.
Added the ability to generate keys larger than 2048 bits.
When connecting a session, if there's an agent key associated with the session, it is tried first. This can help prevent a session from failing to connect because the maximum number of authentication retries was exceeded.
The MD5 and SHA-1 fingerprints are now displayed in dialogs that show host key information.
The parallel transfers setting now applies to all transfers in SecureFX and SFXCL. Previously, the setting only applied to the transfer queue and synchronize operations.
The local path can now be specified as a UNC path.
Font information was added to the information stored in the personal data folder.
Bug fixes:
SecureFX could crash if multiple sessions specified the same session as a firewall (i.e., jump host).
SecureFX did not upload the remote file when it was changed in certain editors, such as UltraEdit and Notepad++.
SFXCL: If multiple paths were specified for the /List command, a transfer operation was performed instead of a list operation.
Windows: SecureFX could crash when doing multiple large server-to-server transfers using SFTP.
Windows: Deleting the same session from multiple instances of SecureFX using the session manager could cause all the sessions to be deleted.
Windows: When using the session manager, if the default session was changed to include a username and a session was connected, SecureFX prompted for the username.

New in SecureFX 7.2.5 Build 550 (Jun 6, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.2.4 Build 524 (May 2, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.2.3 Build 500 (Apr 2, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.2.2 Build 491 (Mar 20, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.2.1 Build 443 (Jan 17, 2014)

New in SecureFX 7.2.0 Build 415 (Dec 23, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.2 Beta 5 (Dec 23, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.2 Beta 4 (Dec 23, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.2 Build 384 Beta 3 (Nov 7, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.2 Build 372 Beta 2 (Oct 23, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.2 Build 359 Beta 1 (Oct 23, 2013)

New features:
Added a Session Manager that can be used in place of the modal Connect dialog. The Session Manager can be in a pane in the SecureFX window or can be an undocked modeless dialog.
Added SCP support for Cisco and Juniper devices.
Added a global option to store personal data such as usernames and passwords in a location separate from the rest of the session data, which allows personal data to be kept private while other configuration data is stored on a network drive or on the cloud so that it can be used on different systems or shared with colleagues.
Added a new synchronization option called "Automatically transfer files", which causes files to be synchronized automatically when the Synchronize dialog/tab is opened. The files will also be monitored and transferred automatically while the Synchronize dialog/tab is open.
Added a global option "Use this type for all files", which allows ASCII or binary to be forced for every transfer.
Added a right-click menu item "Add Bookmark", which provides a quicker way to bookmark folders.
Added a right-click menu item that creates a new folder in the current folder.
In order to comply with Section 508 Accessibility, there are two new ways to access the transfer queue: Added the accelerator ALT+G and added an item to the Edit menu that toggles between "Go To Transfer Queue" and "Go To Session Window".
SSH2: Added support for SHA-2 MAC algorithms.
Changes:
The authentication banner is now displayed in the log view instead of in a pop-up dialog.
Error dialogs are no longer displayed in the transfer queue when a transfer fails.
Added "Copy Filename" to the right-click menu.
Bug fixes:
If a new session was created and the password was saved, the password had to be re-entered if the session was connected again without disconnecting the original session.
In the Synchronize tab/window, the right-click menu items "Synchronize Source-Only Items", "Synchronize Target-Only Items", etc. were not being honored.
If the keyboard was used to bring up the Transfer Queue context menu, the menu was displayed in the upper left corner of the monitor.
SSH2: If a server was configured to require multiple authentication methods and the server did not update the continuations list after a partial success, SecureFX did not move on to the next authentication method.

New in SecureFX 7.1.2 Build 316 (Aug 9, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.1.1 Build 264 (May 31, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.1.0 Build 244 (May 3, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.1.0 Build 230 Beta 4 (Apr 12, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.0.4 Build 537 (Apr 4, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.1.0 Build 208 Beta 2 (Mar 15, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.1.0 Build 195 Beta (Mar 15, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.0.3 Build 480 (Jan 18, 2013)

New in SecureFX 7.0.2 Build 418 (Oct 26, 2012)

New in SecureFX 7.0.1 Build 374 (Aug 30, 2012)

New in SecureFX 7.0.0 Build 307 Beta 3 (Jun 6, 2012)

New in SecureFX 7.0.0 Build 295 Beta 2 (May 23, 2012)

New in SecureFX 7.0.0 Build 281 Beta 1 (May 4, 2012)

New 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.

New in SecureFX 6.7.4 Build 354 (Feb 3, 2012)

New in SecureFX 6.7.3 Build 292 (Nov 10, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.2 Build 229 (Aug 12, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.1 Build 188 (Jun 17, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.0 Build 172 (May 27, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.0 Build 164 Beta 5 (May 19, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.0 Build 153 Beta 4 (May 5, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.6.3 Build 412 (Apr 26, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.0 Build 137 Beta 3 (Apr 13, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.0 Build 123 Beta 2 (Mar 25, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.7.0 Build 110 Beta (Mar 9, 2011)

New 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.

New in SecureFX 6.6.2 Build 350 (Feb 3, 2011)

New in SecureFX 6.6.1 Build 289 (Nov 5, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.6.0 Build 278 (Oct 22, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.6.0 Build 257 Beta 5 (Oct 1, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.6.0 Build 247 Beta 4 (Sep 17, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.6.0 Build 232 Beta 3 (Sep 17, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.6.0 Build 222 Beta 2 (Aug 18, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.5.4 Build 555 (Aug 11, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.6.0 Build 206 Beta 1 (Aug 4, 2010)

New 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.

New in SecureFX 6.5.3 Build 490 (May 12, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.5.2 Build 446 (Mar 11, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.5.1 Build 410 (Jan 22, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.5.0 Build 400 (Jan 22, 2010)

New in SecureFX 6.5.0 Build 371 Beta 5 (Dec 3, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.5.0 Build 358 Beta 4 (Nov 11, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.5.0 Build 335 Beta 2 (Oct 16, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.5.0 Build 324 Beta 1 (Oct 2, 2009)

New 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.

New in SecureFX 6.2.2 Build 263 (Jul 2, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.2.1 Build 115 (Apr 29, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.2.0 Build 183 Beta 3 (Mar 19, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.1.4 Build 489 (Feb 24, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.2.0 Build 162 Beta 2 (Feb 18, 2009)

New in SecureFX 6.2.0 Build 147 Beta 1 (Jan 30, 2009)

New 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.

New in SecureFX 6.1.3 Build 423 (Dec 3, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1.2 Build 409 (Nov 7, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1.1 Build 383 (Oct 3, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1.0 Build 349 (Aug 22, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1 Beta 4 (Jul 31, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.0.3.311 (Jul 25, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1 Beta 3 (Jul 18, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1 Beta 2 (Jul 3, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.1 Beta 1 (Jun 20, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.0.2 (Apr 25, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.0.1 (Feb 21, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.0.0.168 Beta 5 (Jan 9, 2008)

New in SecureFX 6.0 Beta 4 (Dec 18, 2007)

New in SecureFX 6.0.0.151 Beta 3 (Dec 7, 2007)

New in SecureFX 6.0.0.129 Beta 1 (Nov 16, 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.

New in SecureFX 4.5.1 (May 18, 2007)

New in SecureFX 3.1.2 (May 25, 2006)