WinSCP Changelog

What's new in WinSCP 6.3.2

Mar 13, 2024
  • Translation update: Belarusian.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.6.1.
  • Optimized startup when right panel local directory tree is not visible.
  • Workaround for SFTP servers (Cisco) which omit message field from status response. 2272
  • Bug fix: Password pipe cannot be used to open a session in an existing instance. 2265
  • Bug fix: Hang when canceling connection while reading remote directory. 2266
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling FTP connection while reading remote directory. 2267
  • Bug fix: Cannot start on Windows XP. 2268
  • Bug fix: Installation hangs when adding installation path to search path when executed in session 0. 2270
  • Bug fix: Misplaced stored site use warning in scripting when session name is specified. 2271
  • Bug fix: Correcting neon version in About box and logs.

New in WinSCP 6.3.1 (Feb 22, 2024)

  • Translation completed: Norwegian.
  • Bug fix: Badly encoded SFTP packet when renaming a file using SFTP version 5 and newer. 2259
  • Bug fix: Failure when trying to synchronize files by checksum on server that does not support it. 2260
  • Bug fix: Random hang/failure when closing FTP TLS 1.3 connection. 2261
  • Bug fix: Cannot use IPv6 literal as hostname on Login dialog. 2263

New in WinSCP 6.3 (Feb 16, 2024)

  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.6.0.
  • Bug fix: Hang when prompt pops up while SFTP session is being reconnected. 2258

New in WinSCP 6.2.4 RC (Feb 5, 2024)

  • Translations completed: Farsi, French, Japanese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 3.2.1.
  • WebDAV/HTTP core upgraded to neon 0.33.0.
  • Bug fix: Failure when trying to upload file using double-click over disconnected session. 2254
  • Bug fix: Failure after long frequent use of session tabs. 2255
  • Bug fix: New tab icon is drawn incorrectly on Explorer interface with Show selective text labels turned off. 2257
  • Bug fix: Failure when switching to another application while new session is being opened using New Tab tab. 2251

New in WinSCP 6.2.3 RC (Jan 23, 2024)

  • Added new ca-west-1 AWS region.
  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Turkish and Tamil; and updated: Japanese.
  • When cleaning up application data, deleting even Martin Prikryl and WinSCP 2 root keys, if they remain empty.
  • Ignoring attempts to directly move/duplicate file over itself, as if protocol requires deleting, the file would be lost.
  • Configurable FTP TLS shutdown procedure. 2250
  • Not failing connection when FTP server responds to CSID command with an error. 2253
  • Bug fix: Certificate authority cache was not copied to new configuration storage nor cleaned up with other caches.
  • Bug fix: ssh protocol URL handling was not completely unregistered.
  • Bug fix: Reported transfer size is rarely incorrect during FTP downloads.
  • Bug fix: Failure after connecting to server. 2251
  • Bug fix: FTP CSID command does not end with semicolon. 2252

New in WinSCP 6.2.2 Beta (Dec 24, 2023)

  • SSH core and SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.80.
  • It brings the following change:
  • Mitigations for SSH protocol “Terrapin” vulnerability. 2246 vuln-terrapin
  • Support for Include directive when importing sites from OpenSSH. 2239
  • Change: .NET assembly collections are tagged with ClassInterfaceType.None to avoid warnings from regasm.
  • Not using directory listing to keep FTP session alive by default. 2244
  • Windows Store installation on Windows 11 was incorrectly using INI file for configuration storage by default. 2245
  • Bug fix: Find dialog file list is scaled incorrectly on some multi monitor systems with different scaling. 2241
  • Bug fix: Cannot browse long local paths. 2242

New in WinSCP 6.2.1 Beta (Dec 6, 2023)

  • File hash can be used as criterion for synchronization. 52
  • Consistent behavior across protocols and protocol capabilities when duplicating remote files. 2233
  • Columns > Reset Layout command added to Explorer interface too.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 3.2.0.
  • Support for “Requester pays” S3 buckets. 2213
  • Optional more prominent active session tab. 2229
  • Optionally not shortening tab titles. 2202
  • New winscp.net root certificate.
  • Restored support for legacy version of the Digest algorithm specified in RFC 2069. 2109
  • Restored consistent behavior of failing, between duplicating and moving/renaming files over existing file with WebDAV protocol in scripting and .NET assembly.
  • When moving a folder by drag&drop to a path that already contains a subfolder with the same name, the existing folder is overwritten.
  • Shorter and more friendly formatting of long time intervals. 2236
  • When typing ambiguous port numbers in Login dialog, keeping the current protocol, even if it is not the default protocol for the port.
  • Bug fix: Failure when New Tab is clicked while another session is still being loaded.
  • Bug fix: Corrected some painting artifacts on session tabs, particularly on Windows 11.
  • Bug fix: Shift+F5 shortcut operated with a focused file, rather than with selected files.
  • Bug fix: OpenSSL version in About dialog was not up to date.
  • Bug fix: Cannot leave directory entered via cache with SCP protocol if it was deleted meanwhile. 2234
  • Bug fix: Failure when connection is lost while reading remote directory with SFTP protocol. 2235
  • Bug fix: Multipart upload to Cloudflare R2 S3 interface fails due to too long upload ID. 2237
  • Bug fix: Panel focus was lost in some situations.
  • Bug fix: When S3 or WebDAV server did not provide file timestamp, downloaded file was set to oldest possible timestamp.
  • Bug fix: When session URL is typed into Host name box or pasted using context menu of the box and the Login dialog is submitted using Enter key, the URL is not parsed correctly.
  • Bug fix: Failure when saving edited file over reconnected session after previous reconnect attempt was aborted. 2238

New in WinSCP 6.2 Beta (Oct 6, 2023)

  • Single large file can be downloaded using multiple SFTP connections. 513
  • Support for OpenSSH certificates for host verification. Sponsored by Teleport. 2145
  • SSH core and SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.79.
  • It brings the following change:
  • Support for HMAC-SHA-512. hmac-sha2-512
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 3.1.3.
  • Allowed S3 connection with IAM role instead of credentials. 2089
  • Command to open the same folder as in the other panel in local file manager mode. 2189
  • Support appending when streaming file contents to remote server. 2214
  • Commands to reset layout of file panels and background transfer queue list columns.
  • Change: SSL (3.0) is no longer supported. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are disabled by default, to match the OpenSSL 3 defaults.
  • Using optimized OpenSSL implementations of some algorithms.
  • Command to automatically size file panel columns. 2196
  • Allowed browsing a source folder/file instead of downloading when handling a download URL. 2211
  • Passing password to PuTTY using named pipe instead of commandline.
  • Made it harder to mis-click “never show this again” checkboxes. 2217
  • winscp.net root certificate is always trusted when checking for updates, even when (corporate managed) Windows certificate store does not trust it. 2212
  • Not browsing a source folder when handling a download URL when a download dialog is canceled.
  • Recognizing CertificateFile directive when importing sites from OpenSSH. 2220
  • Restored ability to duplicate remote folders using cp command in secondary shell session even when the SFTP server supports copy-file/copy-data extension. 2227
  • https:// URL with r2.cloudflarestorage.com hostname is interpreted as S3 protocol, instead of WebDAV.
  • Recognizing path in Host name box on Login dialog. 2219
  • Improved behavior when moving/renaming over an existing folder. 2209
  • Improved OpenSSH config file parsing, particularly quoted and escaped values. 2206
  • Support for ProFTPD command OPTS REST STOR to query if upload restart is possible. 2194
  • Not showing a filter mask on a disconnected panel.
  • Implemented generic ICollection implicitly by .NET assembly collections. 2187
  • ProxyMethod raw session setting supports symbolical value names.
  • Ignoring disconnects from the server while closing the connection. 2195
  • Translations updated: Danish and Traditional Chinese.
  • Preventing background transfer queue list columns width to shrink too much. 2208
  • Not forcing text mode for edits with Windows Notepad on Windows 10 1809 and newer, as it already supports non-Windows line endings.
  • Allowed disabling SFTP extension use. 2222
  • Using packet size limit announced by OpenSSH [email protected] extension.
  • Improved HTTP error reporting and logging.
  • With application logging enabled, automatic updates installation is started with logging too.
  • Throwing an exception when Session.SessionLogPath is set to a path with invalid .xml extension. 2215
  • Recognizing IP addresses starting with zero in FTP PASV response as unroutable. 2224
  • When there is both administrative and non administrative installation, automatic update automatically selects the the correct one for update.
  • Not displaying Administrator shield icon on Upgrade button, when Administrator permissions are not needed for the upgrade.
  • More meaningful error message when credentials are missing in scripting and .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: WebDAV or S3 certificate that is recognized by Windows Certificate store, but have other issues, cannot be marked trusted by the user. 2191
  • Bug fix: Localized HTTP connection error messages are incorrectly decoded. 2197
  • Bug fix: Special characters in directory names were not correctly restored when uploading on background with multiple connections for single transfer enabled.
  • Bug fix: Master password prompt was not added to taskbar when opening session from commandline or when automatically loading workspace to yet invisible main window.
  • Bug fix: Handling download URL does not work when another idle instance is running. 2203
  • Bug fix: TLS session resumption is not working for subsequent FTP data connections with TLS 1.3 with some servers. 2210
  • Bug fix: Failure when using /browse= switch and a file panel is empty.
  • Bug fix: Correcting default OpenSSL configuration paths.
  • Bug fix: Potential failure when opening unencrypted HTTP/WebDAV connection.
  • Bug fix: When second local panel tree view has focus, some keyboards shortcuts still operated on the first local panel.
  • Bug fix: Local file panel malfunctions when it starts on a drive hidden by Explorer’s policy. 2216
  • Bug fix: When opening UNC path, the network drive is not added to the other local panel directory tree.
  • Bug fix: When opening the UNC path on the second local panel, the network drive is not added to drive drop-down menus.
  • Bug fix: Script sometimes does not abort after receiving no answer for prompt, when running in batch mode.
  • Bug fix: Configuration reading was broken after an attempt to access a non-existing sub-section within a section existed in raw configuration only.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP could ask the server to return more data during SFTP download than it can process. 2218
  • Bug fix: Renaming tab invalidated remembered password.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP loses focus after custom command is executed. 2221
  • Bug fix: Some DLLs were not protected against hijacking. 2223
  • Bug fix: Failure when error occurs on secondary shell session with Continue on error option enabled. 2226
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnect on edited/opened file save is canceled. 2228

New in WinSCP 6.1.2 (Sep 20, 2023)

  • MSI installer is not localized anymore to avoid problems with GPO. 2200
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1w.
  • Translations updated: Catalan, Danish, Russian and Turkish.
  • Added new il-central-1 AWS region.
  • Bug fix: Typo in GPL license in installer. 2201
  • Bug fix: Check for application updates was limited to TLS 1.2

New in WinSCP 6.1.1 (Jun 22, 2023)

  • Translations completed: Brazilian Portuguese, Farsi and Portuguese; and updated: French and Italian.
  • Support for file masks in Keep local directory up to date extension. 1892.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1u.
  • Bug fix: Patterns in default values of extension options were escaped in an extension tooltip.
  • Bug fix: Calculate Directory Sizes command was redundantly in all local panel column context menus.
  • Bug fix: Thanks and transitioning help toolbar message in Store installation was not readable in Dark theme. 2198
  • Bug fix: MSI installer runs in Catalan language (or possibly fails) when used in GPO. 2199

New in WinSCP 6.1.0 (May 23, 2023)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Swedish.
  • Consistently open the nearest existing parent folder when the current local panel directory is deleted. 2182
  • Visual feedback when control (drop down list particularly) is focused via keyboard accelerator.
  • Building .NET assembly in Visual Studio 2022.
  • Bug fix: Remote file pasted to an external HDD is downloaded twice. 2183
  • Bug fix: Callstack debug logging in .NET assembly was broken.
  • Bug fix: Corrected hint for Default session color command.
  • Bug fix: When reading input Stream in .NET assembly upload fails in 64-bit process, the transfer is not interrupted.
  • Bug fix: Failure when application log cannot be opened. 2186
  • Bug fix: Work around key algorithm naming change in OpenSSH 7.7 and older (from pre-release of PuTTY 0.79). 2188
  • Bug fix: With debug logging enabled, the echoed script commands and XML log group names miss the command name.

New in WinSCP 6.0.2 Beta (Apr 19, 2023)

  • When saving edited/opened file, optionally warning if it was modified meanwhile externally. 99
  • Autoreconnecting a disconnected session when saving an edited file. 1858
  • Even user-disconnected sessions can be reconnected when saving files opened from them.
  • Allowed reads with non-zero offsets with stream returned by Session.GetFile. 2181
  • puttygen switches –new-passphrase and –old-passphrase are recognized.
  • Bug fix: When switching from a remote tab to a local tab, the “right” status bar does not show correct information.
  • Bug fix: Edit Link command in Explorer interface has incorrect name Link.
  • Bug fix: Mark > Select/Unselect command was behaving incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: HTTP proxy authentication prompt was not localized.
  • Bug fix: Directory tree does not adjust line height to custom panel font size. 2172
  • Bug fix: Green artifacts at partial file icon overlay.
  • Bug fix: The first copy&paste of remote files to other application might fail in Explorer interface. 2175
  • Bug fix: Temporary directory is left behind when WinSCP is closed while it has some remote files copied to the clipboard. 2176
  • Bug fix: Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles does not work correctly when the mask includes brackets and other symbols. 2177
  • Bug fix: Location profiles should not be used unless the session is connected.

New in WinSCP 5.21.8 (Apr 11, 2023)

  • Back-propagated fixes from 6.0 beta release:
  • Translations updated: German, Hungarian and Russian.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1t.
  • Updated links to online help.

New in WinSCP 6.0.1 Beta (Mar 8, 2023)

  • Compare Directories command is available in local file manager mode.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.2.2.
  • Translations updated: German and Hungarian.
  • Renamed File menu in Explorer interface to Files for consistency with Commander interface.
  • Using plural Tabs for consistency with other menus.
  • Using the same timestamp format in local and remote file panels.
  • Option to allow box-drawing characters to render correctly in an Internal editor. 2169
  • Bug fix: Failure when selecting S3 protocol in Login dialog with non-existing .aws/credentials file. 2166
  • Bug fix: Tab close button of new session was drawn as clicked, if it was opened from Login dialog popped up after the last session was closed by clicking its close button.
  • Bug fix: Rename tab dialog still says “Rename session”.
  • Bug fix: Generated code uses obsolete SessionOptions.WebdavSecure property instead of current SessionOptions.Secure.
  • Bug fix: Generated code for unsecure S3 protocol does not include SessionOptions.Secure property.
  • Bug fix: Separation of Tab and Session menus was unintentionally not reverted for Explorer interface.
  • Bug fix: Wrong behaviour when trying to open a workspace that does not contain any valid session.
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+T opens the wrong type of tab.
  • Bug fix: The !K and ! custom command and PuTTY patterns were not included in syntax hint.
  • Bug fix: Hang when FTP directory listing contains nul character. 2167
  • Bug fix: Parent directory command was missing its keyboard shortcut in the menu.
  • Bug fix: Workspace could not be saved when the active tab was not connected or was local.
  • Bug fix: Some control labels were showing keyboard accelerators without keyboard intervention.
  • Bug fix: Pressing Alt with some combo boxes focused did not show keyboard accelerators.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting with colored session.

New in WinSCP 6.0 Beta (Feb 9, 2023)

  • Local file manager mode (two local panels). 1893
  • Windows 11 flat style graphics.
  • SSH core and SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.78. It brings the following changes:
  • Support for OpenSSH certificates (for user authentication keys). 1873 ssh2-openssh-certkeys
  • Support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange. ntru
  • Support for AES-GCM (in the OpenSSH style rather than RFC 5647, without hardware acceleration). aes-gcm
  • Support for more forms of Diffie-Hellman key exchange: new larger integer groups (such as group16 and group18), and support for using those and ECDH with GSSAPI. rfc8268-dh-groups gss-key-exchange-more-algs
  • Ongoing delete operation can be moved to background queue. 194
  • New DigiCert EV code signing certificate valid until February 2026 is used for signing binaries.
  • Showing directory size in file panel. 41
  • MSI installation package. 83
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1t.
  • Translations updated: German and Russian.
  • File checksum calculation support for SCP protocol and SFTP protocol via secondary shell session using shell commands like sha256sum.
  • Tab titles are shortened to fit window width as needed. 1423
  • AWS S3 profile selection. 2057
  • Consistent behavior across protocols when renaming/moving remote files: 2120
  • Asking before overwriting existing files, both for renaming/moving.
  • Allowing overwriting existing files even with protocols that require deleting the existing file first and with WebDAV.
  • Change: In scripting and .NET assembly, moving a file over an existing file will overwrite the existing file.
  • Using SFTP copy-data extension to duplicate remote files with servers that do not support copy-file extension (OpenSSH)
  • Allowed scrolling of background transfers queue list view while dragging a transfer. 2154
  • Tabs show tooltips with full session name, username, hostname and paths.
  • Displaying thanks and transitioning help toolbar message after Store installation over classic installation.
  • Remembering remote directory tree nodes state when switching sessions. 1057
  • Progress animations for Duplicate and Move To operations.
  • Download edited/opened files with up-to-date timestamps. 2122
  • Displaying current version on the New version notification. 2125
  • Support for S3 servers without TLS encryption. 1995
  • Support for redirected WebDAV downloads (even to other hosts). 1667
  • Optionally reading password from a file. 2102
  • Input files can be read from named pipes. 2118
  • Shift-clicking New Session command opens the Login dialog in new WinSCP instance, instead of possibly opening new instance of workspace.
  • Option to always sort directories by name. 1024
  • Bookmark drop-down menu in Explorer interface. 2127
  • Preserving changed passwords of ad-hoc sessions in workspace. 2128
  • In file panel, file sorting by date and size is by default descending even when initiated by menu, toolbar or keyboard shortcut, consistently with sorting by clicking panel column header.
  • Allowed opening all sites in a folder in PuTTY. 2079
  • Allowing environment variables in custom INI file path. 2105
  • Private key pattern !K in PuTTY command-line and custom commands. 2107
  • Automatically reconnect when FTP server fails to open data connection with 426 code, if it previously worked. 2110
  • Cleaning up temporary WinSCP PuTTY sessions.
  • Clearing environment variables BLOCK_SIZE and LS_BLOCK_SIZE. 2129
  • Added import from KiTTY directly to the Import dialog. 1551
  • Warn when user selects too verbose logging level that degrades performance. 2155
  • Contents of About dialog can be copied to the clipboard using Ctrl+C.
  • Blocking Windows Rich Edit formatting keyboard shortcuts in Internal editor. 2108
  • WebDAV/HTTP core upgraded to neon 0.32.5.
  • PNG code upgraded to PngComponents 1.9.0.
  • When switching tabs, prevent visibly scrolling the panels when focusing the last selected file.
  • Removed the “compression” indicator from the status bar.
  • Added GSSAPI key exchange algorithms to /info.
  • Allowed normal behavior of double-click on a file even when resolving of symlinks is disabled. 2037
  • Change: SessionOptions.WebdavSecure renamed to SessionOptions.Secure (and applies to S3 protocol too).
  • Session.ExecutablePath returns detected or actual executable path when not set. 2055
  • Change: Keyboard shortcut for Command Line command changed to Shift+Ctrl+M (Shift+Ctrl+N previously).
  • Do not overwrite existing local file when FTP download fails to start. 2132
  • Preventing construction of .NET assembly internal collection classes, what avoids them being unnecessarily registered for COM.
  • Hidden configuration option to increase maximal number of transfer at the same time. 2117
  • Not animating task bar button, when items are queued, but processing is disabled
  • Removed gap in initial toolbar layout.
  • Better formatting of feature list on Interface page of Preferences dialog.
  • Optimizing adjusting to updated system font. 2149
  • Consistency with loading icons synchronously and on the background. 2161
  • Added new ap-southeast-4 AWS region.
  • Selecting the best language with each installation. 2160
  • Workaround for using /ini=nul on systems when reading nul file fails. 2163
  • Support for FTP CSID command.
  • Not logging supported SFTP extensions included directly in SSH_FXP_VERSION response as unknown.
  • Bug fix: Failure when trying to switch session tabs while previous switch did not complete yet.
  • Bug fix: When importing from FileZilla with KiTTY selected as SSH terminal, host keys were imported from KiTTY instead of FileZilla/PuTTY.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect escaping of values in single-quoted patterns in custom commands.
  • Bug fix: Configuration does not load when using /rawconfig command-line switch and read-only configuration sections.
  • Bug fix: When file rename fails, wrong part of filename might be selected in the inline filename editor.
  • Bug fix: Mouse cursor flickers while retrieving remote file properties.
  • Bug fix: Using any keyboard shortcut with Alt key shows menu keyboard accelerators permanently.
  • Bug fix: Session tabs cannot be dragged when the user has mouse buttons swapped.
  • Bug fix: The “Keep temporary copies of remote files in deterministic paths” option applied when duplicating remote files via a local temporary copy and with custom commands, breaking their functionality. 2140
  • Bug fix: S3 credentials checkbox on Login dialog had wrong tab order.
  • Bug fix: Turned-off keepaliaves are not propagated to PuTTY. 2141
  • Bug fix: With password storing administratively disabled, the /rawsettings switch cannot be used to set passwords. 2142
  • Bug fix: Focus was lost after checking for updates.
  • Bug fix: Failure on startup fatal error.
  • Bug fix: Error when uploading file sized just below 32 kB boundary to FTP server over TLS 1.3. 2019
  • Bug fix: Failure when doing agent forwarding with Pageant 0.74 or older. 2162
  • Bug fix: Pressing Tab during incremental search on Login dialog never look into collapsed folders when more than one visible node matched the search.
  • Bug fix: File on local network share treated as folder when uploading. 2056
  • Bug fix: Failure when parsing FTP checksum response misses the actual response.

New in WinSCP 5.21.7 (Jan 23, 2023)

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

New in WinSCP 5.21.6 (Nov 28, 2022)

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

New in WinSCP 5.21.5 (Oct 7, 2022)

  • Translation completed: Brazilian Portuguese.
  • WebDAV/HTTP core upgraded to neon 0.32.4.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.9.
  • Preventing opening tunneled sessions in PuTTY from Login dialog as it cannot work. 2116
  • Bug fix: Agent forwarding does not work. 2113
  • Bug fix: Stall when new folder is detected and the drive contains folders with numerical names. 2114
  • Bug fix: New version notification is not displaying.

New in WinSCP 5.21.3 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • Translation updated: Ukrainian.
  • Added new me-central-1 AWS region.
  • Bug fix: Site with a stored password protected by master password cannot be opened from command-line. 2101
  • Bug fix: Opening session in new window fails. 2104

New in WinSCP 5.21.2 (Aug 9, 2022)

  • Translation completed: Farsi.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1q.
  • Bug fix: “Hidden files showing toggled” message displays opposite status.
  • Bug fix: Cannot authenticate to WebDAV server with username containing some special characters. 2095
  • Bug fix: Checkbox to set permissions recursively on Properties dialog is missing, when changing owner and group is not supported. 2097
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly type library cannot be used in WSH. 2098

New in WinSCP 5.21.1 (Jun 24, 2022)

  • Translation completed: Polish.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1p.
  • Not offering to create a link to parent directory, when it happens to be selected, when starting to create a link. 2091
  • Bug fix: Extension options dialog layout broken on systems with multiple monitors with different text scaling. 2090
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting parallel FTP background transfers. 2093
  • Bug fix: Directory coloring rules on remote panel do not work. 2094

New in WinSCP 5.21 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • Bug fix: Hang when entering small directories with FTP protocol. 2087
  • Bug fix: Lag when moving files from remote panel using drag&drop. 2088
  • Bug fix: After certain operations, drive that was ever opened in local file panel cannot be safely removed temporarily.

New in WinSCP 5.20.4 RC (Jun 8, 2022)

  • SSH core and SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.77. It brings the following changes:
  • Pageant: Option --openssh-config to allow easy interoperation with Windows’s ssh.exe. win-pageant-openssh-interop
  • Bug fix: PuTTYgen’s mouse-based entropy collection now handles high-frequency mice without getting confused. win-puttygen-entropy-rate-limit
  • Bug fix: Pageant can now handle large numbers of concurrent connections without hanging or crashing. win-pageant-max-connections-2
  • Bug fix: If Pageant is started multiple times simultaneously, the instances should reliably agree on one of them to be the persistent server. win-pageant-concurrent-startup
  • Improved error message when FTP server returns malformed response. 2077
  • Translations updated: German and Slovak.
  • Not listing remote directory when downloading file using FTP protocol with overwrite confirmations off. 2084
  • Workaround for calls to system API failing when used first time against some network shares (Samba) with paths over the legacy Windows limit. 2082
  • Workaround for an apparent bug in Windows 11 that prevents WinSCP from stopping Windows going to the sleep mode during transfers. 2083
  • Workaround for specific encoding of commas in filenames (and particularly directory names) by OneDrive WebDAV interface. 2085
  • Bug fix: When transferring a growing file, after its original size is reached, the Session.FileTransferProgress event starts being triggered continuously. 2078
  • Bug fix: Restored pre-5.20.3 behaviour with MVS systems. 2086

New in WinSCP 5.20.3 RC (May 18, 2022)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian; and updated: Vietnamese
  • Streaming support in .NET assembly and scripting for FTP protocol. 1945
  • Improved compatibility with MVS systems. 2069
  • New .NET assembly method Session.TryGetFileInfo. Thanks to @RachamimYaakobov. 2068
  • Expanding environment variables in Open Directory/Location Profiles dialogs in local paths. 909
  • Optimized loading of large directories. 1631
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1o.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.2.1.
  • When group (Site/Shared) to which new location profile is added is changed, switching the page to the target group.
  • Preventing occasional exhaustion of resources while testing WinSCP executable version on repeated use of .NET assembly. 2075
  • Bug fix: Capabilities of S3 sessions were not shown.
  • Bug fix: Misplaced warning about unused scripting parameters when /rawsettings command-line switch is used. 2070
  • Bug fix: File panels malfunction when files are dropped from other application to it. 2071
  • Bug fix: When logging transfer statistics, recent transfer speed was logged instead of average speed of whole transfer. 2073
  • Bug fix: z/OS PDS members without ISPF statistics are omitted in directory listing. 2076

New in WinSCP 5.20.2 Beta (Apr 6, 2022)

  • Translations updated: German and Vietnamese.
  • SSH core upgraded to pre-release build of PuTTY 0.77.
  • It brings the following changes:
  • Support for HTTP Digest authentication for proxies. http-digestauth
  • Interactive username/password prompts for proxy authentication. 468 proxy-password-prompt
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1n.
  • WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.32.2.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.8.
  • Allowed uploading edited files over encrypted session. 1989
  • Building .NET assembly in Visual Studio 2019.
  • Optionally not flashing taskbar button when WinSCP needs attention while in the background. 2067
  • In .NET assembly or scripting with “nul” configuration, when WinSCP registry key does not exist, do not write statistics to INI file. 2066
  • New less prominent icon for Quit command.
  • Bug fix: Failure when attempting to switch to an unconnected sessions using keyboard shortcuts while another session is being connected.
  • Bug fix: Removing all custom commands resets the default ones when INI file is used. 2059
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing remote folder using directory tree while previous directory is still loading. 2060
  • Bug fix: Drive that was ever opened in local file panel cannot be safely removed until WinSCP is closed. 2061
  • Bug fix: “Optimize connection buffer size” checkbox was disabled for S3 although it has effect for the protocol. 2058
  • Bug fix: Custom commands menu fail to open. 2062
  • Bug fix: Local drive menu does not reflect some changes. 2063
  • Bug fix: Using drive menu to change to an invalid drive fails silently.
  • Bug fix: Scripting command ls in FTP session displays timestamps without year even if the server (notably IIS) provided the year, if it did not provide seconds. 2065

New in WinSCP 5.19.6 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • Translation updated: German.
  • Back-propagated fixes from 5.20–5.20.2 releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1m.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.6.

New in WinSCP 5.20.1 Beta (Jan 11, 2022)

  • File masks relative to the root of an operation. 2052
  • Private key can be provided as string in .NET assembly and scripting. 2044
  • Support for importing key files that are specified using home ~ prefix from OpenSSH config file. 2053
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1m.
  • Commands that do not fit on Custom Commands toolbar are presented in drop down menu, instead of a horizontal bar. 554
  • First hiding right-most Custom Commands toolbar commands that do not fit
  • Prevent hang when dragging files without drag&drop shell extensions when some mapped network drive is not available. 2054
  • Added new ap-southeast-3 AWS region.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.2.
  • Bug fix: When initial remote directory specified in the open command does not exist, the error was silently ignored.
  • Bug fix: File color rules with path mask do not work for local files.

New in WinSCP 5.20 Beta (Dec 2, 2021)

  • Support for ACL for S3 protocol. 1641
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.76. 1984
  • It brings the following changes:
  • Support Curve448 key exchange method. curve448
  • Support Ed448 user and host keys. ed448
  • Support rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 SSH public key algorithms. 1952 rsa-sha2
  • Change: SHA-256 fingerprints are not padded anymore.
  • It is possible to import sessions from OpenSSH config file. 1896
  • Change: Removed support for SSH-1.
  • Optionally keeping symbolic link name in path instead of resolving it with SFTP protocol. 81
  • Improved shortening long paths, when single level name is too long on its own. 2043
  • WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.32.1.
  • Allow displaying all VMS file revisions with FTP protocol. 1944
  • Support reading S3 credentials from AWS CLI configuration. 1941
  • Bytes transferred are recorded in XML log and available in .NET assembly API. 597
  • Generating PPK3 keys.
  • It is possible to copy information to the clipboard from the Properties dialog.
  • Made WinSCP.exe be deployed even when WinSCP NuGet package is included as transitive dependency. 2017
  • When performing a single-item atomic operation, displaying indeterminate progress status.
  • S3 Security token session option renamed to a more appropriate Session Token.
  • Not resetting protocol to WebDAV when S3 protocol is selected and HTTP URL is pasted on the Login dialog. 2045
  • Automatically reconnect when FTP server fails to open data connection, if it previously worked. 2046
  • Confirm closing when multiple tabs are opened and auto workspace saving is not enabled, even when none of the tabs contain an active remote session.
  • Including host key of tunnel session in generated code. 2006
  • Support for custom certificate store files with configurable path. 2034
  • Allowed providing tunnel private key passphrase in scripting. 2029
  • Improved handling of long shell command error messages. 1949
  • Considering global passive/active mode settings when importing sessions from FileZilla
  • Automatically retry when S3 transfer fails with 503 code (Slow down or Service unavailable). 2047
  • Improving formatting of errors displayed after an operation completed in Continue on error mode.
  • Ctrl+Shift+R keyboard shortcut for Reconnect Session command.
  • Change: Keyboard shortcut for Restore Selection command changed to Ctrl+Shift+S (Ctrl+Shift+R previously).
  • Change: Monitoring A: and B: drives. 2014
  • Preventing beep when using Alt+Enter to open the Properties dialog.
  • When collecting list of files for background transfer, say “Listing” instead of “Calculating” not to give an impression that it is a superfluous operation. 2026
  • Checking for too many parameters with /keygen switch.
  • PNG code upgraded to PngComponents 1.7.0.
  • Warning when selecting too new key file.
  • Warning when opening more than 100 tabs. 1997
  • Including HTTP message into S3 error message.
  • Bug fix: Do not say “Terminated by user” when the session has actually timed out.
  • Bug fix: Cannot use passwords and passphrases longer than 255 characters in automation and various other purposes. 1988
  • Bug fix: When size of a file downloaded with FTP protocol changes (or when ASCII mode is used) the logged size did not reflect the actual transfer size.
  • Bug fix: When connecting disconnected session the directory might be loaded twice.
  • Bug fix: Failure when entering directory that contains file with a slash in its name. 2016
  • Bug fix: When S3 authentication region changes during session, previously visited buckets from the original authentication region could not be accessed anymore. 2027
  • Bug fix: Failure when using multiple connections with local proxy command. 2028
  • Bug fix: Configuration import did not remove old sites and did not load all GUI settings. 2040
  • Bug fix: When S3 transfer fatally fails, error details were lost.

New in WinSCP 5.19.5 (Nov 26, 2021)

  • Compatibility with Google Cloud S3 API when duplicating files. 2038
  • Compatibility with Google Cloud S3 API when deleting implicitly existing directories. 2042
  • Translation updated: Turkish.
  • Logging a reference to 1952 when an OpenSSH 8.8 (or newer) server refuses the key.
  • Bug fix: Crash when new contents is copied to the clipboard while downloading files pasted from the clipboard. 2036
  • Bug fix: Browse Remote Directory command on Synchronization checklist did not locate file with spaces.
  • Bug fix: Extension ZIP and Upload does not work with files in a drive root. 2039
  • Bug fix: Path on Console window was not shortened when it did not fit.

New in WinSCP 5.19.4 (Oct 25, 2021)

  • Translation updated: Hungarian.
  • Showing release date on the About dialog.
  • Support for custom certificate store files. 2034
  • Allow other 2xx responses to PWD command, not only the standard 257. 1768
  • Bug fix: When there are both site folder and site with the same name and the site was selected when closing the Login dialog, when reopening, the folder was selected instead.

New in WinSCP 5.19.3 (Oct 11, 2021)

  • Translation updated: French.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1l.
  • Using Documents folder when the last used local directory in Explorer interface does not exist anymore. 2011
  • Bug fix: TLS session resumption is not working for subsequent FTP transfers with TLS 1.3 when the server requires reuse of the session of the previous transfer. 2018
  • Bug fix: Cannot access S3 bucket root when the access policy checks for empty prefix. 2021
  • Bug fix: Response from ProFTPD FTP checksum commands is not recognized. 2023
  • Bug fix: Failure when submitting prompt with “Never ask me again” selected. 2022
  • Bug fix: Panels are drawn incorrectly after toggling Full row select. 2025
  • Bug fix: Timeout while uploading files to some FTP servers using TLS 1.3. 2030
  • Bug fix: Incomplete listing for S3 servers that indicate truncated listing after the contents and whose pagination is a multiple of 8 (e.g. Backblaze). 2032

New in WinSCP 5.19.2 (Jul 21, 2021)

  • Translation completed: French.
  • Restored compatibility with FTP servers that return malformed cdir and pdir entries in directory listing.
  • Fix from PuTTY 0.76: Avoid crash in MIT Kerberos for Windows on session restart.
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.76. It brings the following change: After 30 or so simultaneous sessions, Pageant stops working. win-pageant-max-connections
  • Bug fix: Empty local drive could not be entered.
  • Bug fix: TLS settings in default site settings is not restored when opening Login dialog in some cases.
  • Bug fix: Memory leak when deleting completed background transfers.
  • Bug fix: Hang when running under Task Scheduler or a similar service with session logging enabled.

New in WinSCP 5.19.1 (Jun 30, 2021)

  • Translation updated: Italian.
  • Considering global passive/active mode settings when importing sessions from FileZilla
  • Incrementing port numbers for secondary connections of tunneled sessions with fixed forwarding port number.
  • Bug fix: Failure when automatically opening a workspace on startup with too many sessions.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reading a key file without a trailing newline.
  • Bug fix: Failure when SFTP server resolves . path to an empty string.

New in WinSCP 5.19.0 (Jun 18, 2021)

  • WinSCP 5.19 is a major application update. New features and enhancements include:
  • A complete list of files that are part of a background transfer can be shown.
  • Support for PPK version 3 keys from PuTTY 0.75.
  • Stream interface in .NET assembly.
  • With SFTP protocol files can be streamed to stdout and from stdin in scripting.
  • Support SHA-256 fingerprints of TLS/SSL certificates.
  • Extension Synchronize with another remote server.
  • Improved FTP support for VMS servers (and potentially for other non-Unix-like systems).
  • Compatibility with Google Cloud Storage when using S3 protocol to access the buckets.

New in WinSCP 5.18.6 RC (Jun 10, 2021)

  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.1.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.2.0.
  • Using multipart uploads with S3 protocol on Google Cloud as it is supported there now.
  • Bug fix: Broken layout of Properties dialog when opening on a secondary display with high DPI primary display. 1990
  • Bug fix: The “Drag & drop shell extension” installation component was not showing its size.
  • Bug fix: When saving a local file, the “Saving” status on the Internal editor status bar is never cleared.
  • Bug fix: No error message is sometimes shown when SFTP server disconnects.

New in WinSCP 5.18.5 RC (May 20, 2021)

  • Translation updated: Farsi.
  • Support for PPK version 3 keys from PuTTY 0.75. 1986 ppk3
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.75. It brings the following changes:
  • Pageant now supports loading a key still encrypted, and decrypting it later by prompting for the passphrase on first use. pageant-deferred-decrypt
  • Upgraded default SSH key fingerprint format to OpenSSH-style SHA-256.ssh-fingerprint-formats
  • PuTTYgen now supports alternative provable-prime generation algorithm for RSA and DSA.
  • Replaces Windows Pageant’s IPC with named pipes. pageant-named-pipe
  • Bug fix: PuTTYgen mis-writes OpenSSH private key format for some Ed25519 keys. openssh-ed25519-corrupt-private-key
  • Bug fix: Moving a transfer to background just in between two individual file transfers cancels the transfer. 1983
  • Bug fix: Files saved in external editors are not uploaded in timezones behind UTC. 1985
  • Bug fix: Sort > By Type icon for was still incorrect

New in WinSCP 5.18.4 RC (May 6, 2021)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1k.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.3.0.
  • The enumerable returned by Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles implements the interface implicitly to allow access to the interface method (GetEnumerator) from late-bound languages, like PowerShell.
  • Disabling multipart uploads with S3 protocol on Google Cloud they are not supported there. 1972
  • Allow downloading a file from an FTP server via a symbolic link in scripting or when handling a URL. 1973
  • Allowing use of the stream returned by Session.GetFile from a different thread. 1978
  • Workaround for specific encoding of special characters in filenames by OneDrive WebDAV interface. 1824
  • https:// URL with known S3 API hostname (s3.amazonaws.com, digitaloceanspaces.com, storage.googleapis.com) is interpreted as S3 protocol, instead of WebDAV.
  • Automatically resume transfer when TLS re-key fails. 1982
  • Translation updated: German.
  • Bug fix: Ignoring disconnect messages from the server while closing the connection. 1977
  • Bug fix: Preventing another application (or WinSCP instance) stealing the selected tunnel port. 1971
  • Bug fix: Hang after receiving multiline response from FTP server. 1963
  • Bug fix: Sort > By Type icon for was incorrect.
  • Bug fix: Keyboard cues were shown in toolbar buttons drop down menus even when the menu was dropped down with mouse.
  • Bug fix: Failure when connecting to FTPS server that supports client certificates with translation that uses multi byte encoding. 1966
  • Bug fix: Remembered password is forgotten after the first failed (re)connect, even if the failure did not involve the password. 1967
  • Bug fix: Problems with port forwarding are not detected. 1970
  • Bug fix: Potential failure when waiting for a command executed from Console window is aborted.
  • Bug fix: When saving a site with a slash in the username, it is misinterpreted as a site folder.
  • Bug fix: DST start or end causes edited/opened files to be uploaded. 1974
  • Bug fix: Failure when retrieving a directory listing from an FTP server when the data are transmitted in huge amount of tiny chunks. 1976
  • Bug fix: Some operations with relative paths (notably creating and deleting a subdirectory) were failing on encrypted session.
  • Bug fix: Local > Go to > Explore Directory was not working with focused remote panel.
  • Bug fix: A workspace session opened from a stored site could not be used for operation in a new window or duplicated.
  • Bug fix: Error when uploading an empty folder in the foreground or any folder in the background to an FTP server with permissions configured.
  • Bug fix: Adding new background transfer while queue processing is disabled and some parallelized transfer was already started results in “waiting” items being endlessly added to the queue list.

New in WinSCP 5.18.3 RC (Mar 18, 2021)

  • Translations completed: Korean and Romanian.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1j.
  • When opening or switching to a session whose local directory does not exist, open the nearest existing parent directory. 1951
  • Switch-like raw session settings can be configured using on/off/auto keywords.
  • Improving validation of port numbers in scripting and .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Parsing of multiline VMS FTP listing entries is broken. 1950
  • Bug fix: When moving files to an unvisited folder in an encrypted session, the folder contents is cached as before the move.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping files to a disconnected tab or duplicating to a disconnected session.
  • Bug fix: Failure when duplicating a not-yet-connected session.
  • Bug fix: Canceled or failed FTP transfer caused connection loss.
  • Bug fix: Some errors and information while opening a session in scripting were not logged. 1956
  • Bug fix: SFTP uploads are slow. 1957
  • Bug fix: Failure when S3 bucket contains a subfolder with an empty name. 1958
  • Bug fix: Cannot enter an S3 folder that only contains a subfolder with an empty name. 1959
  • Bug fix: Error when moving or copying file with non-ASCII file name using S3 protocol. 1960
  • Bug fix: Timezone is not correctly reflected in S3 timestamps.

New in WinSCP 5.18.2 Beta (Mar 18, 2021)

  • Compatibility with Google Cloud Storage when using S3 protocol to access the buckets. 1939
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing with no tab. 1947
  • Bug fix: Debug information is printed at the end of the scripting session when debug logging level is set even if logging is turned off. 1948

New in WinSCP 5.18.1 Beta (Mar 18, 2021)

  • Improved FTP support for VMS servers (and potentially for other non-Unix-like systems). 49
  • Translations completed: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian and Turkish.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1i.
  • Preserve file permissions when overwritten files are recycled and transfer resume is disabled. 1929
  • Keyboard-interactive authentication challenges can be copied to the clipboard and links contained in the challenges can be opened. 1930
  • Added method RemotePath.EscapeOperationMask to .NET assembly.
  • Added method ComparisonDifference.Reverse to .NET assembly.
  • Implemented method ComparisonDifference.ToString in .NET assembly.
  • Write, CanWrite, Length and Position methods and properties of the Stream returned by the Session.GetFile behave as expected for a read-only steam.
  • Allowed using SFTP servers that have problems with SSH_FXP_REALPATH requests. 1933
  • Bug fix: Target file name with escaped operation mask special symbols was incorrectly interpreted as an actual operation mask on some dialogs (upload, duplicate, etc), resulting in misplaced warnings
  • Bug fix: Local path argument of Session.PutFileToDirectory is incorrectly escaped. 1931
  • Bug fix: Path argument of Session.PutFile is incorrectly escaped.
  • Bug fix: Failure when using from single-file bundle. 1932
  • Bug fix: Session.GetFile can fail, if the server responds too quickly.
  • Bug fix: Failure when S3 bucket contains a folder with an empty name. 1934
  • Bug fix: When the active tab was disconnected, closing window with another active session did not require a confirmation.
  • Bug fix: Setting the logging level to -1 (Reduced) does not work in .NET assembly. 1936
  • Bug fix: Ellipses from German command names are not stripped from toolbar buttons.
  • Bug fix: Hang when the stream returned by Session.GetFile is closed before the download finished.
  • Bug fix: Failure when looking for PuTTY key tools and the PATH contain invalid paths. 1942
  • Bug fix: Prevent loading session settings that can lead to remote code execution from handled URLs. 1943
  • Bug fix: Hang when S3 server returns a truncated listing with folders only. 1946

New in WinSCP 5.18.0 Beta (Mar 18, 2021)

  • A complete list of files that are part of a background transfer can be shown. 1785
  • Stream interface in .NET assembly. 1738
  • With SFTP protocol files can be streamed to stdout and from stdin in scripting.
  • Support SHA-256 fingerprints of TLS/SSL certificates. 1842
  • Extension Synchronize with another remote server.
  • When connecting to new SSH host, its host key can be automatically accepted in scripting and .NET assembly.
  • Optional case-sensitive synchronization. 71
  • Enabled TLS 1.3 by default.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.10.
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.74. It brings the following change:
  • Security fix: If an SSH server accepted an offer of a public key and then rejected the signature, WinSCP could access freed memory, if the key had come from an SSH agent. vuln-agent-keylist-used-after-free
  • Resume transfer when FTP data connection disconnects. 1878
  • Support for curve25519-sha256 KEX. 1865
  • Support for authentication using temporary credentials from AWS Security Token Service (STS). 1839
  • Support for SNI with FTP. 1895
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.1.2.
  • Change: Installer needs Windows 7 SP1/2008 R2 SP1.
  • Alternative way to provide credentials in scripting/command-line without URL-encoding. 1821
  • Compatibility with WebDAV servers that incorrectly encode file URL. 1876
  • Optimizing S3 connection buffers for speed. 1732
  • Edited/opened files from a disconnected session can now be attached to new session even if its username was entered only during authentication instead of directly on the Login dialog. 1890
  • Returning to Login dialog, when ad-hoc connection fails. 1909
  • Local ports for active FTP mode can be limited. 958
  • Allow explicit navigation to a hidden local folder by enabling showing of hidden files and folder, if not enabled yet. 1905
  • Added full Go To submenu to context menu of panel path label
  • Automatically restore external editor defaults when changing editor command from Notepad to 3rd party editor. 1872
  • Suppress errors when opened/edited files are locked. 1832
  • Support clearing GID/UID flag on directories with new versions of GNU coreutils. 1850
  • Added /nointeractiveinput to usage screen.
  • List encrypt-then-MAC algorithms in /info listing. 1917
  • Not using a transfer via temporary file for files that would exceed system length limit with the temporary extension. 1922
  • Automatically closing timed out Session. 1923
  • Logging IANA encryption algorithm names. 1886
  • Displaying, what directory is being read at the end of login to a server, in a tooltip. 1916
  • Use dark window title for the main window in the dark mode on Windows 10 2004. 1920
  • Clarified that WinSCP may crash in the warning message when trying to load too big file into the internal editor. 1847
  • Do not prevent WinSCP from working when jump list cannot be updated. 1857
  • Allow forcing use of LIST command to retrieve file information in scripting for FTP servers that has broken support for MDTM/SIZE commands. 1921
  • Duplicate and Rename commands work even for disconnected sessions.
  • IPv6 literals with scope or literals that are already escaped in square brackets are formatted standardly in session URL (instead of URL-encoding them).
  • Allowed longer input on Edit file input box. 1911
  • Added help link to Add extension box and making the box wider.
  • GSSAPI key exchange authentication can be turned on. 1863
  • When trying to open an inaccessible local directory, display an error message, instead of silently doing nothing.
  • Cleanup application data dialog labels cache cleanup checkbox label updated to reflect previously updated functionality.
  • Disabling tips controls until some tips are actually available.
  • Optionally disable moving using drag&drop. 1884
  • Main window follows Login dialog to another monitor, when switched using keyboard shortcuts Shift+Win+Left/Right. 1907
  • When path to an existing local directory is specified on the Download options dialog without an operation mask, a noop operation mask is implied.
  • Workaround for wrong description of Num * keyboard shortcut in menus with German keyboard. 1889
  • Files with the same name except for a letter case are sorted deterministically. 1894
  • Not offering pasting from clipboard on the file panels if the clipboard contains multi-line text.
  • Extending transfer dialog drop down menu size to 16 entries.
  • Bug fix: Local file panel ignored changes in latter case of files and folders. 1885
  • Bug fix: Local custom commands that need session but no remote files were not disabled when session was not connected.
  • Bug fix: Correct letter case variant of remote directory in directory tree was not always selected. 1891
  • Bug fix: With no connected session, shared bookmarks modifications are not preserved.
  • Bug fix: Using list header color appropriate for the actual light/dark column background color (list headers are not dark, unless system wide app dark mode is enabled).
  • Bug fix: Session.ParseUrl cannot accept fingerprint parameter for sessions over TLS. 1925
  • Bug fix: Custom command patterns !S/!E do not include fingerprint of TLS certificate.
  • Bug fix: Cannot work with filenames ending with space with FTP protocol. 1900
  • Bug fix: Canceling remote path drop down did not reset it back to the current path.
  • Bug fix: Folders in a drive root showed incorrect type name sometimes.
  • Bug fix: Customizing custom commands from Synchronization checklist window was not working. 1908
  • Bug fix: Whole local drive could have been scanned when trying to browse to non-existing or hidden folders.
  • Bug fix: Timed out status bar note was not added to history popup box, while a session is disconnected.
  • Bug fix: Duplicate command in remote file context menu operated over selected files instead of the focused file.
  • Bug fix: *nix shell special characters were unintentionally escaped in PuTTY/SSH terminal command patterns. 1906

New in WinSCP 5.17.10 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • Back-propagated security fixes from 5.18.1 release:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1i.
  • Bug fix: Prevent loading session settings that can lead to remote code execution from handled URLs. 1943

New in WinSCP 5.17.9 (Nov 21, 2020)

  • Translation updated: German.
  • Bug fix: Failure when using S3/AWS access ID or region longer than 32 characters. 1914
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening some menus while having long text of specific length copied to the Clipboard. 1915
  • Bug fix: Failure when directory contains a file with too long name. 1924

New in WinSCP 5.17.8 (Oct 15, 2020)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1h.
  • Allow using Windows Store apps aliases as terminals (particularly Windows Terminal). 1901
  • Limiting error report and message search URLs to 4 KB, as larger URLs fail to open in some browsers.
  • Bug fix: Session.CompareDirectories handles incorrectly files with names containing reserved XML characters. 1897
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.74.
  • Bug fix: Keep local directory up to date extension fails if error occurs before session URL is parsed.
  • Bug fix: SFTP uploads started over already disconnected session do not reconnect automatically. 1913

New in WinSCP 5.17.7 (Jul 24, 2020)

  • WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.31.2.
  • Security fix from PuTTY 0.74: If an SSH server accepted an offer of a public key and then rejected the signature, WinSCP could access freed memory, if the key had come from an SSH agent. vuln-agent-keylist-used-after-free
  • Displaying progress of synchronization in Keep local directory up to date extension. 1887
  • Displaying session name and operation status in console title of Keep local directory up to date extension. 1888
  • Translation updated: German.
  • Removed workaround for lack of support for max-keys parameter in Backblaze S3 API, as it is supported now. 1871
  • Bug fix: Failure while changing path using path label while another command was executing already. 1877
  • Bug fix: Failure when system settings change during synchronization. 1879
  • Bug fix: Failure when trying to close WinSCP while reading a remote directory. 1880
  • Bug fix: Failure after using files from a disconnected session (for example saving an edited file). 1881
  • Bug fix: Directory reading cannot be cancelled for SFTP servers that provide optional end-of-list field. 1883
  • Bug fix: Going to root folder in the local panel does not update selection in the directory tree.

New in WinSCP 5.17.6 (May 28, 2020)

  • Added new af-south-1 and eu-south-1 AWS regions. 1864
  • Translation updated: Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Not defaulting to Documents folder on a network drive even if it is mapped. 1869
  • Workaround for lack of support for max-keys parameter in Backblaze S3 API. 1871
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.0.5.
  • Bug fix: Transfer settings are not preserved when starting synchronization in new window.
  • Bug fix: Keep remote directory up to date window cannot be restored after it was minimized to tray using Minimize to System Tray command, when the window was opened from command-line or using Start in New Window command. 1868
  • Bug fix: Starting synchronization in a new window should be disabled when Selected files only option is selected, as that combination is not implemented. 1870
  • Bug fix: Starting a synchronization in a new window does not work if the remote path consist of one level only.
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling an authentication of an ad-hoc session from a workspace opened from command-line. 1875
  • Bug fix: GSSAPI key exchange authentication is off by default as it caused failures when old version of MIT Kerberos was installed on the machine. 1874

New in WinSCP 5.17.5 (Apr 27, 2020)

  • Translations completed: Brazilian Portuguese; and updated: German and Russian.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting fresh installation on high DPI displays

New in WinSCP 5.17.4 (Apr 24, 2020)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1g.
  • WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.31.1.
  • Local file panel honors preferred drop action of source application. 1848
  • Increased maximal length of proxy and tunnel credentials. 1849
  • Truncating too long directory names in session tab title.
  • Optionally do not distinguish multiple sessions opened to the same site by current path. 1734
  • Bug fix: Failure when fallback SSH channel fails to open. 1845
  • Bug fix: Failure when creating shortcut for jumplist fails. 1846
  • Bug fix: Window position is not restored, if its left or top edge was aligned to monitor edge. 1852
  • Bug fix: Wrong layout of Login dialog on monitors with low vertical resolution. 1463
  • Bug fix: FTP file uploads are interrupting with TLS 1.3. 1834
  • Bug fix: Empty directories are not uploaded to FTP server when transferring in background. 1859
  • Bug fix: Percent sign (%) in PuTTY session settings (such as IPv6 scope syntax) is misinterpreted when importing. 1860
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting with automatic workspace opening when none of the workspace sites exist. 1861

New in WinSCP 5.17.3 (Apr 1, 2020)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1f.
  • WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.31.0.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.0.4.
  • Translation updated: French.
  • Importing site-specific key files from FileZilla. 1841
  • Showing session name in Synchronization checklist and Keep remote directory up to date windows, when the operation was executed in a new window/from a command line. 1838
  • Session.ScanFingerprint now works even for Amazon S3 protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure after resuming system from sleep. 1829
  • Bug fix: Option to disconnect a session was available even while deleting local files, and caused failure when selected while no session was actually opened. 1836
  • Bug fix: Failure when primary SSH channel fails to open. 1837
  • Bug fix: SHA-1 fingerprint of TLS/SSL certificate was incorrectly presented as MD5 by Session.ScanFingerprint.
  • Bug fix: When dragging file via temporary directory it is deleted too early. 1844

New in WinSCP 5.17.2 (Mar 9, 2020)

  • Disabling TLS 1.3 by default until it is better tested. 1835
  • Bug fix: Cannot connect to SSH-1 servers. 1833
  • Bug fix: TLS session resumption is not working for FTP transfers with TLS 1.3. 1831

New in WinSCP 5.17.1 (Feb 27, 2020)

  • Bug fix: Confirmation to close WinSCP does not have a help page associated (to explain the workspace). 1825
  • Bug fix: Failure when loading extension with filename containing some special characters (like a dash). 1826
  • Bug fix: SCP fallback is no longer working. 1827
  • Bug fix: Path on Address bar of Explorer interface cannot be submitted. 1828
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing directory using tree after resuming system from sleep. 1829
  • Bug fix: Cannot use TLS/SSL client certificate. 1830
  • Bug fix: TLS/SSL client certificate could be configured for S3 protocol even though it is not supported.

New in WinSCP 5.17 (Feb 18, 2020)

  • Optionally using Ctrl+F4 to close session tab.

New in WinSCP 5.16.7 RC (Feb 13, 2020)

  • Includes translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • In addition to installing application executable file, it can install public key tools (Pageant, PuTTYgen) and create start menu items, desktop icons etc.
  • Also includes Windows shell extension for direct drag&drop downloads, console interface tool for running scripts from command-line and various WinSCP extensions

New in WinSCP 5.16.6 RC (Jan 21, 2020)

  • When creating WinSCP shortcut, make it use the same configuration as the creating instance. 941
  • Translation updated: French.

New in WinSCP 5.15.9 (Dec 5, 2019)

  • MD5: 7b6d42d58d4bdfcf8d9606085acc4be4
  • SHA-1: b48aa16823e6114891dabe8b7ab8a4362ef9dd3f
  • SHA-256: 9ea6e0c215cb883e6ef2cf428531bbd48f9e74d363b4eb041125130fd10dafba
  • Installation package
  • Includes translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • In addition to installing application executable file, it can install public key tools (Pageant, PuTTYgen) and create start menu items, desktop icons etc.
  • Also includes Windows shell extension for direct drag&drop downloads, console interface tool for running scripts from command-line and various WinSCP extensions

New in WinSCP 5.16.4 RC (Dec 4, 2019)

  • Bug fix: Version check did not work with five digit build number.

New in WinSCP 5.16.3 RC (Dec 4, 2019)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.
  • New DigiCert code signing certificate used for signing binaries valid until February 2023.
  • Not defaulting to Documents folder on a network drive. 1809
  • Bug fix: Failure when change in subfolder is detected while keeping remote directory up to date. 1807
  • Bug fix: Failure when synchronizing directories after they were previously synchronized while being empty. 1808
  • Bug fix: Name of the selected directory in tree is dark on dark background in dark mode. 1810
  • Improvements to cleaning up application data:
  • Cleanup application data dialog shown only data what exists.
  • Uninstaller does not offer to delete application data, where are not any.
  • Bug fix: Cleaning up cached SSH host keys did not work.
  • Bug fix: Cleaning up configuration did not remove jumplist.
  • Bug fix: Running WinSCP for a maintenance task unintentionally creates a random seed file.
  • Bug fix: Failure when cleaning up sites from Login dialog.

New in WinSCP 5.15.7 (Nov 27, 2019)

  • Translation completed: Russian.
  • New DigiCert code signing certificate used for signing binaries valid until February 2023.
  • Back-propagated fixes and changes from 5.16.1–5.16.2 releases:
  • Toggling between light and dark interface theme is faster.
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly does not have a digital signature. 1800
  • Bug fix: Corrected some help links.
  • Bug fix: Occasional hang when loading file icons. 1803
  • Bug fix: Failure while closing application and suspending computer after operation completion. 1804
  • Bug fix: Failure when switching between light and dark interface themes. 1805

New in WinSCP 5.16.2 RC (Nov 9, 2019)

  • Looking for WinSCP.exe also in entry .NET assembly folder.
  • Support for IBM z/OS Tape files.
  • Bug fix: Occasional hang when loading file icons.
  • Bug fix: Failure while closing application and suspending computer after operation completion.
  • Improvements to dark theme:
  • Dark theme for column headers. 1776
  • Toggling between light and dark interface theme is faster.
  • Bug fix: Failure when switching between light and dark interface themes. 1805
  • Bug fix: Disconnected remote panel background color does not reflect theme change.

New in WinSCP 5.16.1 Beta (Oct 23, 2019)

  • Sorting find results. 902
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.73. It brings the following changes:
  • Security fix: On Windows, other applications were able to bind to the same TCP port as a WinSCP local port forwarding. vuln-win-exclusiveaddruse
  • Bug fix (possibly security-related): An SSH-1 server sending a disconnection message could cause an access to freed memory. ssh1-disconnect-use-after-free
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.9.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.0.3:
  • Checkboxes displayed by lists now look better on high DPI systems.
  • Allow configuring additional PuTTY settings (e.g. terminal settings) to be used when opening a session in PuTTY. 1798
  • NuGet package updated to the latest format with an included icon and framework dependencies.
  • Allow empty password authentication with FTP servers that prompt for empty passwords. 1796
  • Bug fix: Edited path was hidden behind a browsing button on file/directory path selection boxes. 1791
  • Bug fix: Start menu and Task bar icons are too small when installed from Microsoft Store. 1793
  • Bug fix: After directory comparison before synchronization finishes, task bar button still shows a progress bar.
  • Bug fix: Failure when authentication with keyboard interactive authentication with specified prompt title. 1794
  • Bug fix: Stored password is not used for keyboard interactive authentication prompt with specified prompt title. 1795
  • Bug fix: Settings with an empty default value were not listed in Add Raw Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: State of Allow agent forwarding checkbox was not updated when toggling Attempt authentication using Pageant.
  • Bug fix: When starting private key upload from Advanced Site Settings dialog, changed settings were preserved even if the dialog was later canceled.
  • Bug fix: SFTP only options were shown for SCP sites on Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: Master password prompt unintentionally appears when selecting site folder with a site with an encrypted password. 1799
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly does not have a digital signature. 1800
  • Bug fix: Corrected some help links.

New in WinSCP 5.15.5 (Oct 16, 2019)

  • Includes translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • In addition to installing application executable file, it can install public key tools (Pageant, PuTTYgen) and create start menu items, desktop icons etc.
  • Also includes Windows shell extension for direct drag&drop downloads, console interface tool for running scripts from command-line and various WinSCP extensions

New in WinSCP 5.16 Beta (Sep 24, 2019)

  • Improvements to sessions and workspace management, so that WinSCP can now easily restore tabs that were open when it was last closed:
  • Login dialog can be configured not to automatically pop up, when starting WinSCP and when closing the last session. 1771
  • When Login dialog is configured not to pop up automatically on start and workspace was saved in the previous run, the workspace is automatically restored when WinSCP starts.
  • A session can be disconnected, without closing its tab, and later reconnected.
  • Tabs of sessions opened with a workspace or a folder that fails to connect and tabs of all sessions that fail to reconnect are not closed.
  • Option “Keep main window open when the last session is closed” is enabled by default.
  • User is offered to save a workspace, even when only one session is opened.
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.72. It brings the following changes:
  • Major rewrite of the crypto code to remove cache and timing side channels.
  • Hardware-accelerated AES. 1769 cpu-crypto-accel
  • Support for GSSAPI key exchange. gss-key-exchange
  • Server and protocol information dialog now shows a more detailed information about the cipher in use.
  • Extension Archive and Download to archive remote files and download the archive. 1773
  • Improvements to Synchronization checklist window:
  • Estimating time to finish directory comparison before synchronization based on previous comparisons of the same folders.
  • Allowed opening the local or remote file from synchronization checklist in Windows Explorer or WinSCP, respectively. 1784
  • Hints for synchronization action icons on synchronization checklist window. 1786
  • Command-line switch /browse to either force opening the main window when a file URL is specified or to explicitly select a specified file in both file panels.
  • Convenience methods Session.PutFileToDirectory, Session.PutFilesToDirectory, Session.GetFileToDirectory and Session.GetFilesToDirectory.
  • Selection of network interface for SSH and IPv4 using raw session setting SourceAddress. 416
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1d. It brings TLS 1.3 support among other changes.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.0.2:
  • User can choose between installation for all users and the current user only.
  • Modern style of the installer wizard.
  • Raw site settings editor.
  • Copy (to clipboard) command in file context menu. 1758
  • Automatically reconnecting when FTP data connection cannot be opened, if it previously worked. 1767
  • Host key and certificate fingerprint verification improvements:
  • When verifying a host key using an expected fingerprint, it is possible to use an expected fingerprint with a checksum only (with both key type and bit count omitted).
  • When verifying a host key or a certificate using an expected fingerprint, the comparison is case-insensitive (with an exception of SHA-256 checksum).
  • When verifying a host key using an expected fingerprint, a padding (=) in SHA-256 checksum is not required.
  • Change: TLS/SSL certificate fingerprints in generated URL use dashes (-) instead of colons (:), while colons are still accepted.
  • Change: SHA-256 fingerprints in generated URL use dashes (-) and underscores (_) instead of pluses (+) and slashes (/), while pluses and slashes are still accepted.
  • Support S3 servers with Path URI style (like Minio). 1632
  • S3 Default region can be configured on Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Support for non standard ports with S3 protocol. 1780
  • Not showing remote custom commands and local custom commands working with remote files in local file context menu.
  • Custom command pattern !E preserves session name.
  • Added SessionOptions.Name and SessionOptions.ToString (returning the .Name).
  • Change: Removed option to create Quick Launch icons (Windows Vista and older only).
  • Change: Consider size of linked file when transferring/synchronizing symbolic link. 1747
  • Individual configuration storage sections can be set read-only.
  • Switch /defaults accepts an optional delay in seconds to start the operation.
  • Resolving local environment variables in initial session local path. 150
  • Keep trying to save configuration for up to 2 seconds when INI file is locked by another process. 1775
  • Change: RemoteFileInfo.FileType now consistently returns L for symlinks as was always documented. RemoteFileInfo.FileType now consistently returns uppercase value as was always documented.
  • Configurable S3 root path/bucket in .NET assembly. 1778
  • Indicating in an Internal editor that the file is new and preventing actions that does not make sense for non-existing files. 1752
  • Persisting custom command toolbar buttons visibility. 1788
  • Fallback to default ANSI encoding, when known_hosts file is not in UTF-8. 1789
  • /passphrase command-line switch is now documented.
  • When uploading file to a symbolic link with enabled remote recycle bin, the symbolic link is not moved to the recycle bin. 1759
  • Speed box in Progress window responds to mouse wheel.
  • Updates page of Preferences dialog replaced with simpler Statistics page for Store installations.
  • Configurable console/terminal font. 1774
  • Better error message when writing INI file fails. 1787
  • Session.DisableVersionCheck will not be obsoleted. 1777
  • When using a scripting console interactively, not warning about opening a session from a command-line or using a stored site.
  • Allow turning off asynchronous loading of icons. 1783
  • Using only extension/custom command name without any qualifiers in some contexts.
  • Improved formatting of some messages.
  • Small improvements of layout for longer translations.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting (local) custom command with no session opened.
  • Bug fix: Errors while mass-modifying sites were displayed in message box instead of console window.
  • Bug fix: When only encrypted session setting (like passwords) were changed during mass-modification, changes were not saved.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to mass-modify stored sites, when a master password was set.
  • Bug fix: Directory changes cache is not case sensitive when resolving symbolic links. 1739
  • Bug fix: Some cached SSH and TLS/SSL fingerprints were not preserved when exporting/importing the configuration.
  • Bug fix: Validation of input boxes prevented cancelling dialogs using Cancel button. 1763
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to overwrite remote file, when moving of overwritten files to remote recycle bin was configured, but the file could not be moved. 1766
  • Bug fix: Files larger than 0.5 GB are never uploaded in ascii/text mode with SCP protocol as it would fail anyway due to memory issues. 1770
  • Bug fix: Lower-than (<) and greater-than (>) symbols are not escaped in an output of RemotePath.EscapeFileMask .NET method and in a script generated by the GUI. 1781
  • Bug fix: Error when reopening a remote file whose local temporary copy has been deleted. 1790

New in WinSCP 5.15.4 (Sep 16, 2019)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2t.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.8.
  • Official extension Batch rename prints more information about its progress.
  • Small improvements of layout for longer translations.
  • Translation updated: Italian.
  • Bug fix: Cannot switch back to English after changing language on non-US English system. 1779
  • Bug fix: Deleting temporary local copy of remote file caused errors and invalid attempts to upload the nonexisting file. 1782

New in WinSCP 5.15.3 (Jul 22, 2019)

  • Back-propagated SSH security fixes from PuTTY 0.72:
  • Integer underflow parsing SSH-1 packet length. vuln-ssh1-buffer-length-underflow
  • Buffer overflow in SSH-1 if server sends two tiny RSA keys. vuln-ssh1-short-rsa-keys
  • Windows Pageant client code does not check response length field. vuln-win-pageant-client-missing-length-check
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.72.
  • Using recommended sizes of icons when installed from Microsoft Store. 1754
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.7.
  • Translations updated: Hungarian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.
  • File panel incremental search can be disabled using raw configuration setting. 1742
  • Retrying deleting fake temporary folder created when pasting remote files to Windows File Explorer. 1765
  • Bug fix: With every start on a monitor with different DPI than the primary monitor, dimensions of the window and some of its components change slightly. 1750
  • Bug fix: Speed limit does not work with S3 protocol. 1755
  • Bug fix: Site folder loses names of its sites. 1756
  • Bug fix: Compare Files extension cannot handle paths with spaces. 1760
  • Bug fix: Local recycle bin is unintentionally scanned, slowing down browsing. 1761
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly debug log file timestamps shows as GMT, while they are actually local times. 1762
  • Bug fix: Cannot upload files over 50 GB to S3. 1764
  • Bug fix: When using a local custom command from Synchronization checklist window, opened from a command-line, the connection was closed.
  • Bug fix: When saving an edited site or default settings, WinSCP prompted for the master password, even when the site does not have any password to protect.
  • Bug fix: When opening a connection from a command-line, which does not have a local directory set yet, local panel is opened empty.

New in WinSCP 5.15.2 (May 29, 2019)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2s.
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2019-05-13.45be166). It brings the following change:
  • Bug fix: Crash when adding an ECDSA key to Pageant. pageant-ecdsa-assert-fail
  • Translations updated: Dutch and Polish.
  • Not scanning unvisited network folders to speed up start up and browsing. 1737
  • Starting main window with the last user local folder instead of always starting in Documents folder. 1740
  • When renaming an ad-hoc site, using a generated friendly name as a start.
  • Bug fix: Some numerical folders are duplicated in remote directory tree. 1736
  • Bug fix: Ad hoc site opened from a workspace showed its internal number a name instead of a friendly generated name.
  • Bug fix: Failure in .NET assembly when ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable is not set and WinSCP executable cannot be found anywhere. 1741
  • Bug fix: Keyboard accelerator for Octal box on Properties dialog does not work. 1743
  • Bug fix: Failure when .NET assembly times out waiting for WinSCP to start. 1744
  • Bug fix: Failure when shutting down Windows. 1746
  • Bug fix: Two consecutive different file mask delimiters are processed incorrectly. 1745
  • Bug fix: Failure when undocking toolbar on a system with multiple monitors with different DPI. 1748
  • Bug fix: Failure after a session lost while in Console dialog is reconnected. 1749

New in WinSCP 5.15.1 (Apr 11, 2019)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1b.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.0.1:
  • User can choose between installation for all users and the current user only.
  • Modern style of the installer wizard.
  • Change: Removed option to create Quick Launch icons (Windows Vista and older only).
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting (local) custom command with no session opened.
  • Bug fix: Errors while mass-modifying sites were displayed in message box instead of console window.
  • Bug fix: When only encrypted session setting (like passwords) were changed during mass-modification, changes were not saved.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to mass-modify stored sites, when a master password was set.

New in WinSCP 5.15.0 (Mar 27, 2019)

  • Translations updated: Brazilian Portuguese, Farsi, French, German and Icelandic.
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.71.
  • Bug fix: Back-propagated SSH security fixes from PuTTY 0.71. 1729 vuln-rng-reuse vuln-rsa-kex-integer-overflow
  • Bug fix: Reloading file in internal editor can cause unwanted upload of partially reloaded file. 1728
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting any (local) batch file operation with no session opened.
  • Bug fix: Command to create/edit a local shortcut was disabled with no session opened.

New in WinSCP 5.14.5 RC (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2r.
  • Allowing localization of extension option values in drop down lists.
  • Bug fix: Renaming site on Login dialog cannot be committed using Enter key when it was started using Manage > Rename command. 1718
  • Bug fix: After canceling a confirmation to install a public key to a non-OpenSSH server, a message about a successful key installation was displayed nevertheless.
  • Bug fix: Pressing Alt with combo box focused did not show keyboard accelerators.
  • Bug fix: Background transfers queue list font color does not reflect dark theme. 1721
  • Bug fix: Directory is not reloaded, when focusing newly created file from Find dialog. 1722
  • Bug fix: Local directories with path long between 248 and 259 characters could not be created. 1725
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping down bookmark menu with no session opened. 1726
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting GUI. 1727

New in WinSCP 5.13.9 (Mar 19, 2019)

  • Back-propagated fixes and changes from 5.15 release:
  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.71.
  • Bug fix: Back-propagated SSH security fixes from PuTTY 0.71. 1729 vuln-rng-reuse vuln-rsa-kex-integer-overflow
  • Bug fix: Reloading file in internal editor can cause unwanted upload of partially reloaded file. 1728

New in WinSCP 5.13.8 (Feb 27, 2019)

  • Back-propagated a fix from 5.14 beta – 5.14.5 RC releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2r.
  • Bug fix: Prevent SCP server sending files that were not requested.
  • Bug fix: Local directories with path long between 248 and 259 characters could not be created.

New in WinSCP 5.14.4 RC (Jan 11, 2019)

  • Prepared for translations.
  • Updated NuGet package description and icon.
  • Fixed some typos.

New in WinSCP 5.14.3 Build 9131 RC (Jan 9, 2019)

  • Suspending workaround 1644 for a bug in Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 update), fixed in version 1809 (October 2018 update), that caused drag&drop downloads to Windows Explorer end in a wrong folder.
  • Control labels do not show keyboard accelerator cue, until Alt key is pressed.
  • Bug fix: Mouse range selection does not start from the file focused by an incremental search. 1714
  • Bug fix: Incremental search in Explorer-selection mode does not select the found file. 1713
  • Bug fix: The last file transfer before creating a remote directory during synchronization is not reported with .NET assembly. 1715
  • Bug fix: Properties dialog shows “1 file/folder”, instead of a name, even when a single entry was selected only.
  • Bug fix: When an ancestor directory cannot be read, its child files and subdirectories are incorrectly assumed to be encrypted. 1716
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting GUI. 1717

New in WinSCP 5.14.2 Build 9097 Beta (Dec 20, 2018)

  • Compare Files extensions (obsoletes File Compare custom command).
  • Dark theme. 1696
  • Coloring files in file panels based on a file mask. 1574
  • Improved incremental search in file panels. 1711
  • Synchronization preview in .NET assembly. 1371
  • Allowed dropping remote files to network drives. 1701
  • Synchronization can be started in a new window. 327
  • Command to un/check all files in a folder on Synchronization checklist window. 1705
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2q.
  • /rawtransfersettings command-line switch to configure any transfer settings using a raw format as in an INI file.
  • Command-line switch /comregistration for inspecting and clearing broken COM registrations. 1706
  • Optionally failing synchronization in scripting when there are no changes. 1707
  • Ctrl+Enter tries to enter even a file. 1704
  • Adding “Open Directory/Bookmark” command to bookmark drop down menu.
  • Change: Renamed RemotePath.CombinePaths to RemotePath.Combine.
  • Showing a progress while executing a local custom command with a set of files.
  • Loading .exe (and similar) file icons asynchronously
  • Allowed excluding certain drive letters from monitoring for dropped files.
  • Better error message when drop target cannot be detected and drag&drop shell extension is not available.
  • Flashing taskbar button, when synchronization checklist window shows with found changed files, while WinSCP is on background.
  • Custom font colors history.
  • When switching colored sessions, file panels were temporarily drawn using a color of a previous session.
  • Not offering name of selected subfolder as a name of new file and not downloading the folder if it by coincidence matches with name of the new file.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping down bookmark menu while no bookmark is saved. 1697
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling connection attempt. 1698
  • Bug fix: With themes disabled, an empty space is reserved for and working as a close button on a session tab even though the button is not drawn. 1699
  • Bug fix: GUI freezes while executing an extension with ShowResultsInMsgBox or CopyResults flags.
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+? keyboard shortcuts for custom commands and extensions were not working. 1700
  • Bug fix: User name edit box on Login dialog in some cases does not include modification commands (like Paste). 1702
  • Bug fix: Opening context menu of a file in a local panel locks a parent folder of the file. 1703
  • Bug fix: Bug fix: Ampersand (&) from the last custom command was not shown in menu.
  • Bug fix: Remembered private key passphrase is not passed to PuTTY. 1708
  • Bug fix: Crash on start while loading local file icons. 1709
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling connection attempt started from command-line. 1710
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to access a bucket, if the user does not have permissions to list its root folder.

New in WinSCP 5.13.6 Build 9061 (Dec 12, 2018)

  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684
  • Bug fix: Remembered private key passphrase is not passed to PuTTY. 1708
  • Bug fix: Crash on start while loading local file icons. 1709

New in WinSCP 5.13.5 Build 8967 (Nov 21, 2018)

  • Translations updated: Dutch, Hungarian, Kabyle, Korean, Polish and Spanish.
  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.14-5.14.2 beta releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2q.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.6.
  • Bug fix: Using /ini=nul in GUI shows an error.
  • Bug fix: Sort arrow is not shown on start up.
  • Bug fix: When dragging files to other session tabs, drag cursor could change to “Move”, although only “Copy” is possible.
  • Bug fix: Remembered passphrase is used as a password in generated script/code. 1687
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling session reconnect. 1684
  • Bug fix: GUI freezes while executing an extension with ShowResultsInMsgBox or CopyResults flags.
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+Shift+Alt+? keyboard shortcuts for custom commands and extensions were not working. 1700
  • Bug fix: User name edit box on Login dialog in some cases does not include modification commands (like Paste). 1702
  • Bug fix: Opening context menu of a file in a local panel locks a parent folder of the file. 1703

New in WinSCP 5.14.1 Build 8909 Beta (Oct 26, 2018)

  • Support OpenSSH AES-256-CTR-encrypted keys. PuTTYgen updated to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2018-10-22.1806b71). 1692
  • Allow connecting to Amazon S3 using non-default endpoints. 1695
  • With parallel background transfers, it is not possible to disable size calculation, which effectively prevented parallel transfers from working. 1691
  • Low logging level implemented also for S3 and partly for WebDAV protocols. 1637
  • Optionally consider exit code 1 an error when executing a shell command on a server. 1694
  • Middle mouse click closes session without activating its tab.
  • Choosing right color for background of calculated checksum on Properties dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing the main window with a colored session. 1693
  • Bug fix: Confirmation of copy&paste transfers between panels was incorrectly controlled by drag&drop confirmation preference option.
  • Bug fix: Background transfer settings are not preserved. 1690
  • Bug fix: Resolving file move from synchronization checklist, invoked from command-line, closes a connection.
  • Bug fix: Generated code included redundant PortNumber raw settings settings setter for all sessions not using port 22.

New in WinSCP 5.14 Build 8871 Beta (Oct 15, 2018)

  • Files can be optionally encrypted when storing them on SFTP server 1653
  • Local UNC paths can be browsed 133
  • Files can be copied to the clipboard 316
  • Empty directories can be excluded from transfer and synchronization 207
  • Files can be downloaded directly to an external drop location even without a loaded drag&drop shell extension
  • It is always possible to use drag&drop to move remote files to external applications, while copy is always the default operation
  • Improvements to directory synchronization:
  • Synchronization runs on top of Synchronization checklist window for easier overview of the process
  • Showing overall synchronization progress on progress window and taskbar 598
  • File/directory rename can be resolved on Synchronization checklist window
  • Size of directories can be calculated on Synchronization checklist window
  • Synchronization summary is shown at the end of the operation 1680
  • Function “Keep remote directory up to date” can be started in a new window
  • During synchronization transfer speed limit is preserved across set of synchronized directories
  • Larger default size of Synchronization checklist window on larger screens
  • Not showing “Operation was successfully completed” when canceling Synchronization Checklist window opened from command-line
  • Not showing “Operation was successfully completed” message, after command-line synchronization operation, where there were no files to be synchronized
  • Once Finished option now applies to whole synchronization operation, not only to the current particular synchronization sub-operation
  • Preventing artifacts on Synchronization checklist window
  • Bug fix: When synchronization changes preview is turned off, and changes are found, but none of them match synchronization options, no feedback is provided
  • Bookmark drop down menu 1127
  • Added Generate button to SSH > Authentication page of Advanced Site Settings dialog, that starts PuTTYgen and detects a private key file generated by it 386
  • Command to install public key in available both on main window and on Advanced Site Settings dialog 386
  • Close button on session tab 1393 Using it, a non-active session can be closed, as well as disconnected session without a need to reconnect it
  • When a path entered in Open Directory dialog or Address toolbar cannot be opened, retry an entry to allow user to correct it 1673
  • Public key can be displayed in Advanced Site Settings dialog
  • Session tab can be renamed 1183
  • Save as Preset command in transfer settings drop down menu 892
  • Improved design of About window
  • Build of NET assembly that targets NET Standard 20 is provided 1640
  • NET Assembly now targets NET Framework 40
  • Support for long local paths with FTP protocol 1337
  • PowerShell script that runs WinSCP scripting commands can be generated on Generate Code dialog
  • Transfer settings that do not have a dedicated scripting switch or a NET TransferSettings property can be set using -rawtransfesettings switch or TransferSettingsAddRawSettings method
  • Toolbar buttons can be hidden 582
  • Found files can be edited from the Find dialog 1634
  • Hidden files can be excluded from transfer/synchronization 209
  • Session URL can contain any raw session settings using connection parameter New custom command pattern !E can generate such URL for use in WinSCP extensions
  • Session name specified by /sessionname command-line switch is preserved in workspace
  • Time constraints can be set to a start of an interval
  • Configuration can be saved to read-only INI file by holding down Shift key while closing WinSCP or submitting Preferences dialog
  • Change: Do not match URL after stripping protocol against stored site name in scripting/automation 1647
  • today and yesterday time constraint aliases
  • Configurable keyboard shortcuts for extensions 1613
  • When opening a session in PuTTY, exporting also cached host keys
  • Low logging level 1637
  • It’s possible to limit number of command line parameters used for open-ended switches like -rawconfig, -rawsettings and -rawtransfesettings using syntax -switch[count]
  • Optionally create background queue connection right after session starts (hidden settings) 1681
  • Natural order numerical sorting for directory tree 1685
  • Distinguishing multiple sessions opened to the same site by current path 1635
  • Change: Keyboard shortcut for Download command in Explorer interface changed to Ctrl+T (Ctrl+C previously)
  • Change: Keyboard shortcut for Open Terminal command changed to Shift+Ctrl+T (Ctrl+T previously)
  • Silently ignore errors writing a read-only INI file when automatically saving a workspace when exiting
  • Do not show an error when remembered last used directories do not exist anymore 1616
  • Not failing transfer if file selected for transfer, but excluded by file mask, is deleted during operation 1677
  • Optimized loading time in scripting/NET assembly mode 1621
  • Use remembered private key passphrase in generated script/code 1688
  • Generated code does not include fingerprints of TLS certificates signed by a trusted authority
  • Preventing session tabs flicker with large number of sessions
  • Moving session Color submenu to Session menu
  • Not reloading site list when opening Login dialog/Site menu/etc where there is too many sites 1658
  • Allow authentication with empty passwords in scripting 1638
  • Preventing stall on startup when updating jumplist 1625 or resolving icons of common file types 1649 takes too long
  • Ctrl+A is working in file/directory path selection boxes
  • Parsing file modification time from display string if not provided explicitly in SFTP packet 1665
  • Operation status is shown on task bar button and tray icon title also for command-line operations
  • Not showing an estimated time left till the end of an operation for the first few seconds
  • Hidden option to generate WebDAV URLs with http:// protocol prefix 1668
  • Removed (non-working) panel loading animation
  • Workaround for problems when uploading files from symlinked location (such as deduplicated drive) 1355
  • History of edit boxes can be deleted using Ctrl+Del keyboard shortcut 1686
  • Bug fix: Hangs when clicking directory tree while inline editing file name 1618
  • Bug fix: Failure when NET assembly starts reading an XML log file in a short moment when it’s empty yet 1619
  • Bug fix: Ad-hoc sessions opened with workspace duplicated into a new window had a wrong name
  • Bug fix: When editing multiple files, opening ends on the first file that is already opened
  • Bug fix: When minimizing command-line operation, task bar button was hidden
  • Bug fix: Hint popup on too long transfer settings panel was truncated on separator (|) of exclude masks
  • Bug fix: WinSCP instance without main window (opened from command-line) could incorrectly accept session opened from another instance
  • Bug fix: Generated code included PortNumber property setter for all non-SSH protocols, even when the default port number of a respective protocol was used
  • Bug fix: Prevent SCP server sending files that were not requested 1675
  • Bug fix: Hang when doing an operation on FTP connection that disconnected on a background 1679
  • Bug fix: Failure or delay when NET assembly timeouts waiting for WinSCP process 1683
  • Bug fix: When dropping files on another session tab, the target path was not set to the working directory of that session
  • Bug fix: Orphaned hidden temporary folders were not being deleted

New in WinSCP 5.13.4 Build 8731 (Aug 31, 2018)

  • Passing private key to PuTTY when installed from Microsoft Store. 1654 Passing also other options that PuTTY can accept on its command-line, like “Attempt authentication using Pageant”, “Allow agent forwarding”, “Enable compression”, “SSH protocol version”, “Logical name of remote host” and “Internal protocol version”.
  • WinSCP installed from Microsoft Store can be executed from command-line. 1662
  • Translation updated: Icelandic.
  • With logging level 1 and higher, printing scripting exit debug information on an output too.
  • Hidden configuration option to disable running shell operations on a separate thread. 1666
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
  • Bug fix: When system theme changes, path labels lose their background color.
  • Bug fix: File mask is not considered when calculating total file transfer size when deleting original files. 1656
  • Bug fix: When canceling connection, mouse cursor sometimes stay “busy”. 1657
  • Bug fix: Relative long paths are not handled correctly. 1659
  • Bug fix: Error when closing edited/opened files with “Keep temporary copies of remote files in deterministic paths” option enabled. 1660
  • Bug fix: It is not possible to open S3 folder from command-line/URL or in scripting when path ends with slash. 1661
  • Bug fix: File panel columns do not have a width constraints. 1663
  • Bug fix: Update information window layout is broken in some situations. 1664
  • Bug fix: Timezone autodetection failed if timestamp of file cannot be retrieved. 1672
  • Bug fix: Wrong error message when attempting to rename an S3 folder. 1674

New in WinSCP 5.13.3 Build 8565 (Jun 18, 2018)

  • Generated session URL for opened FTP/WebDAV session over TLS/SSL with invalid certificate includes its fingerprint. 1646
  • Generated session URL has colons in TLS/SSL fingerprint unnecessarily URL-encoded. 1645
  • Bug fix: It is not possible to delete symlink pointing to a directory with “Follow symbolic links to directories” session settings being on. 1648
  • Bug fix: Scripting command ln does silently nothing when the server does not support creating symlinks, instead of reporting that.
  • Bug fix: Error when downloading file to a temporary filename with a long path with SFTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Keywords that link to help page are underlined in generated code on Windows 10 version 1803. 1650
  • Bug fix: Start of file drag from remote panel stalls on some systems with floppy drive. 1652
  • Bug fix: Path argument in lcd command in generated script has to end with backslash, if it points to a root folder.
  • Kabyle translation removed.

New in WinSCP 5.13.2 Build 8455 (May 11, 2018)

  • Workaround for a bug in Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2018 Update), causing drag & drop downloads to Windows Explorer end in a wrong folder (computer restart required). 1644
  • Translations completed: Croatian, Farsi and Russian; and updated: Dutch, French, German and Polish.
  • Bug fix: ssh:// URL is handled once for every opened instance of WinSCP too much. 1627
  • Bug fix: Icons for local files do not show on some systems. 1628
  • Bug fix: Failure when binary file is attempted to be opened in an internal editor on system with multibyte legacy encoding. 1629
  • Bug fix: Login dialog opens slowly, when there is a lot of stored sites with a color. 1630
  • Bug fix: Extensions were not loaded when configuration is empty.
  • Bug fix: Starts slowly on some systems. 1633
  • Bug fix: Failure when uploading a file larger than 2GB using S3 protocol. 1636

New in WinSCP 5.13.1 Build 8265 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • Translations completed: Kabyle, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian; and updated: Bahasa Indonesia.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2o.
  • Treating a star as an unset permission for compatibility with Win32-OpenSSH.
  • Bug fix: /refresh parameter with sftp:// URL was not working for SFTP sessions with enabled fallback to SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Simple input boxes (like “Edit File” dialog) are broken on multi monitor systems with different DPI. 1614
  • Bug fix: HTTP proxy responses for FTP protocol are logged char by char. 1615
  • Bug fix: Port number box was visible for S3 protocol, even though its value has no effect.
  • Bug fix: Hang when opening a menu with any Paste command, while clipboard contains a large amount of text. 1620
  • Bug fix: Slashes in SHA-256 fingerprints are not encoded in generated URLs. 1622
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing a session with a local proxy command. 1623
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing Find window while finding files. 1624

New in WinSCP 5.13 Build 8172 (Feb 19, 2018)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
  • Better error message when trying to upload a file to virtual S3 root “folder”.
  • Displaying server name in network drive label. 1607
  • When using session name as a part of a path to a temporary directory, replace a slash separating a session folder from a session name with a dash instead of %2F. 1608
  • Configurable path to XML log file for the .NET assembly. 942
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening context menu of edit boxes on Login dialog. 1605
  • Bug fix: Failure when processing FileTransferProgress event. 1606
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to open workspace with special characters from a desktop shortcut. 1610
  • Bug fix: Failure when focused panel is changed, while double-clicking a file to edit it. 1611

New in WinSCP 5.12.2 Build 8117 RC (Feb 2, 2018)

  • Multiple levels of directories can be created, while synchronizing browsing to a non existing directory. 1601
  • Setting Content Type of files uploaded to S3. 1602
  • Configurable mapping from file extension to Content-Type (using hidden setting). 1604
  • Bug fix: Local directory tree cannot be controlled using keyboard. 1599
  • Bug fix: Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut executed/opened selected file, instead of opening Properties dialog.
  • Bug fix: Session hangs when QueryReceived is set while session is already opened. 1600
  • Bug fix: QueryReceivedEventArgs.Message is empty.
  • Bug fix: Parallel background connections are never started, when queue processing is disabled.
  • Bug fix: Panel column context menus were working incorrectly when panel was horizontally scrolled.
  • Bug fix: Failure when processing results of upload during synchronization in .NET assembly when a directory was created with explicitly set permissions as the first operation. 1603

New in WinSCP 5.12.1 Build 8076 Beta (Jan 16, 2018)

  • Custom error handling instead of default abort can be optionally implemented for batch operations in .NET assembly. 1594
  • Change: .NET assembly instance methods Session.EscapeFileMask, Session.CombinePaths, Session.TranslateLocalPathToRemote, Session.TranslateRemotePathToLocal, Session.AddDirectorySeparator, Session.GetDirectoryName, and Session.GetFileName replaced by static methods of the same name in class RemotePath.
  • Change: Session.ScanFingerprint has a new mandatory algorithm parameter.
  • Displaying both SHA-256 and MD5 fingerprint of SSH host key on Server and protocol information dialog.
  • Choosing right color for background of “selectable” labels.
  • All read-only edit boxes/selectable labels have user friendly context menu for copying contents.
  • Bug fix: Setting hidden raw session setting for “Configurable priority of host key types” overrides host key.
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly methods GetFileName and GetDirectoryName did not behave correctly when provided a filename without any path.
  • Bug fix: Backtick (`) and dollar ($) signs are not escaped in generated PowerShell code. 1590
  • Bug fix: Failure when error occurs while another error is already being handled.
  • Bug fix: When connection is lost while deleting source remote file during “Download and Delete” operation, downloaded file may be deleted once connection is resumed. 1592
  • Bug fix: Hidden session settings S3DefaultRegion to create an S3 bucket in a non-default region was not working.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to work with S3 buckets with a dot in their name. 1597
  • Bug fix: S3 temporary redirect was not handled (consequently it was not possible to work with newly created S3 buckets)
  • Bug fix: HTTP error was displayed instead of a more specific S3 error message in some situations.
  • Bug fix: When viewing stored S3 site with a non-default hostname, the default Amazon S3 hostname was shown instead.
  • Bug fix: Failure when updating jumplist. 1591

New in WinSCP 5.12 Build 8006 Beta (Dec 20, 2017)

  • Amazon S3 protocol support.
  • Bug fix: Stalled connection attempts can be canceled promptly.
  • SHA-256 host key fingerprints are used.
  • SSH host key can be verified by pasting the expected key or its fingerprint from the clipboard.
  • Option to turn off Natural order numerical sorting.
  • Wider range of Unicode characters is supported in internal editor.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.5.
  • Skipping loading of files icons when it takes too long.
  • Hidden option to configure priority of host key types.
  • Ctrl-number custom keyboard shortcuts work on numeric keypad too.
  • Allowing download from MVS server using fully qualified dataset name.
  • Optionally displaying authentication banner in a monospaced font.
  • Bug fix: Per-session default encoding configuration for internal editor.
  • Log more information about loading a custom GSSAPI library.
  • Commands to copy hostkey/certificate fingerprint to clipboard has a form of a link, instead of a message button.
  • Changed appearance of background confirmation options link.
  • Logging a complete SSH host key only on Debug log level.
  • Change: Last access time of downloaded files is no longer preserved.
  • Bug fix: Command-line is disabled even for a local panel, if no session is connected or the connected session does support executing remote commands.
  • Bug fix: SSH hostkey/TLS certificate verification prompt in scripting in interactive mode was showing zero timeout.
  • Bug fix: Leaving a folder with a large amount of files takes long. 1565
  • Bug fix: Timeout of auxiliary requests for Microsoft Passport authentication was not set correctly.
  • Bug fix: Operation symbol column on Synchronization checklist does not scale with font size/DPI.
  • Bug fix: Cannot enter subfolders of local drive mapped to WebDAV folder.
  • Improvements and changes to .NET assembly and scripting:
  • Remote file duplication in scripting, .NET assembly and XML log.
  • Support for PackageReference package management in NuGet package. 1581
  • Help for script commands specifies unit for -speed switch.
  • A SecureString can be used provide a private key passphrase in .NET assembly via property SessionOptions.SecurePrivateKeyPassphrase. 1557
  • Added methods Session.GetDirectoryName, Session.GetFileName and Session.AddDirectorySeparator methods to .NET assembly.
  • Extensions metadata can span multiple lines.
  • Change: XML log tags <modification> and <permisssions> are absent, if their values are not known. Previously they would have value of 1899-12-30T01:00:00.000Z and --------- respectively. Consequently the .NET assembly RemoteFileInfo.LastWriteTime and RemoteFileInfo.FilePermissions have values DateTime.MinValue and null, respectively.
  • File owner and group, if available, are recorded in <stat> tag of XML log and consequently .NET assembly Session.GetFileInfo method is able to retrieve them.
  • .NET assembly timeout for waiting for WinSCP response is always at least as long as session timeout.
  • Scripting command mv and .NET assembly function Session.MoveFile report, when the server does not support file renaming/moving.
  • Masking out passwords in raw settings (proxy and tunnel) when logging command-line. 1578
  • Change: Scripting command mv and .NET assembly function Session.MoveFile tests, if a source file exists, before trying to rename. Consequently, an error message reported has changed significantly, if the source file does not exist.
  • Putting WinSCPnet.dll to net framework subfolder of NuGet package.

New in WinSCP 5.11.3 Build 7995 (Dec 14, 2017)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2n.
  • Translations added: Korean; and updated: Bahasa Indonesia, Finnish and Spanish.
  • Bug fix: Official extension Generate HTTP URL cannot copy multiple URLs to clipboard.
  • Bug fix: Parent directory icon broken on 250% scaling and higher. 1570
  • Bug fix: Resizing of Synchronization checklist window does not stop when mouse button is released.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to answer prompts with non-ascii answers in winscp.com.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting with window position configuration, saved on lower DPI, that does not fit anymore on lower resolution caused by higher DPI.
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing remote working directory using directory tree.
  • Bug fix: XML log and .NET assembly API does not use an absolute path for source of SCP download.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP .NET assembly hangs when the XML log cannot be parsed. 1582
  • Bug fix: WinSCP .NET assembly cannot work with files containing control characters.
  • Bug fix: Failure when coping local custom command that works with remote files to clipboard.
  • Bug fix: Failure when using Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut with no session opened.
  • Bug fix: When parsing MLSD listing, file name was incorrectly tried to be interpreted against various rare path syntaxes, leading to wrong name being displayed.

New in WinSCP 5.11.2 Build 7781 (Oct 10, 2017)

  • Translations added: Russian; and updated: Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian and Spanish.
  • Panel font sample on Preferences dialog is wrapped.
  • Stopping monitoring a drive when a drive removal is announced, to allow removing the drive (particularly required for VeraCrypt drives). 1560
  • Official extension Generate HTTP URL URL-encodes special characters in path.
  • Bug fix: Wrong position of an icon on Login button, when Login dialog monitor DPI does not match system DPI. 1555
  • Bug fix: Failure when creating local directory or deleting local files, while no session is connected. 1558
  • Bug fix: Mouse selection is sometimes incorrectly initiated after inline remote file renaming. 1559

New in WinSCP 5.11.1 Build 7725 (Sep 8, 2017)

  • This version fixes some bugs

New in WinSCP 5.11 Build 7715 (Sep 5, 2017)

  • Improved performance of large queued batch transfers by using multiple connections even for a single transfer
  • Support for multiple monitors with different DPI/resolutions
  • Support for Microsoft OneDrive
  • Better support for sharing WinSCP configuration between computers using cloud

New in WinSCP 5.10.4 Build 7694 RC (Aug 16, 2017)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.3.
  • Preference option Roll log files after reaching renamed to Rotate log files after reaching.
  • Bug fix: Hang when showing overwrite confirmation prompt if GUI font has zero-width tab character.

New in WinSCP 5.10.3 Build 7655 Beta (Jul 23, 2017)

  • SSH core and private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.70. It brings the following change: fixed yet another instance of Windows DLL hijacking.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.2
  • Hidden configuration option for SSH bug Replies to requests on closed channels
  • Do not display error message on start when user documents folder cannot be resolved.
  • Bug fix: SSH bug Replies to requests on closed channels was always enabled
  • Bug fix: Clicking root folder in path label opens home folder instead of root folder.
  • Bug fix: Unchecking Update subdirectories for Keep remote directory up to date function was not fully working.

New in WinSCP 5.10.2 Build 7621 Beta (Jun 28, 2017)

  • Host keys can be imported from OpenSSH known_hosts file. 1542
  • Cached host keys are unconditionally imported with PuTTY and FileZilla sites.
  • Cached host keys can be imported from PuTTY/FileZilla even when using INI file as configuration storage.
  • Better error reporting when winscp.com fails to execute winscp.exe.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.1.
  • Avoiding a short hang of GUI, when waiting for edited file to be saved.
  • On VMS servers, do not use absolute paths with FTP DELE command. 1546
  • Bug fix: Site lists stops working when import source is changed on Windows XP.
  • Bug fix: Generated code uses TransferOptions.Speed instead of TransferOptions.SpeedLimit. 1543
  • Bug fix: Editor font too large on high DPI screens. 1544
  • Bug fix: Uploads of saved edited files can rarely stop working. 1545

New in WinSCP 5.9.6 Build 7601 (Jun 21, 2017)

  • German translation updated.
  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.10-5.10.2 beta releases:
  • SSH core and private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.69. It brings the following change:
  • WinSCP should work with MIT Kerberos again, after DLL hijacking defences broke it.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2l.
  • Allow using 64-bit version of PuTTY (and its tools), when available. 1522
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.1.
  • Bug fix: Scripting open command without arguments issued irrelevant warning about use of stored site.
  • Bug fix: Generated code uses TransferOptions.Speed instead of TransferOptions.SpeedLimit. 1543

New in WinSCP 5.10.1 Build 7579 Beta (Jun 9, 2017)

  • Official extension Generate HTTP URL displays a generated URL in a message box.
  • Supporting Migrated datasets in IBM z/OS MVS FTP server. 1540
  • Bug fix: Copying extension command with ShowResultsInMsgBox flag to clipboard was not working.
  • Bug fix: Last download target folder in Explorer interface is not remembered when transferring on background. 1538
  • Bug fix: Failure when using parallel background transfers. 1541

New in WinSCP 5.10.7561 Beta (May 31, 2017)

  • Background transfer operations can use multiple connections
  • Support for multiple monitors with different DPI/resolutions
  • Find dialog does not block main window and found files can be downloaded and deleted on the Find dialog
  • Support for Microsoft OneDrive
  • Numerous improvements to custom commands/extensions and .NET assembly

New in WinSCP 5.9.5.7441 (Apr 19, 2017)

  • The most important changes/additions are:
  • Upgrade to PuTTY 0.68
  • Traditional Chinese translation completed.

New in WinSCP 5.9.4.7333 (Feb 15, 2017)

  • The most important changes/additions are:
  • Portuguese translation completed.
  • Fixes various OpenSSL vulnerabilities.
  • Lots of usability improvements and bug fixes.

New in WinSCP 5.9.3.7136 (Nov 30, 2016)

  • Progress windows can be controlled using keyboard again.
  • Scaling combo box drop down menu.
  • Change: Not updating last access time of uploaded files with SFTP protocol to avoid problems with servers that do not support it.
  • Bug fix: Failure when moving Download and Delete operation to background.
  • Bug fix: Found folders were focusing incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: Command-line toolbar command can be executed while another command was executing already.
  • Bug fix: Wrong layout of Login dialog on monitors with low vertical resolution.
  • Bug fix: Session instance could not be reused for multiple ScanFingerprint calls.
  • Bug fix: Custom commands submenu with the other custom command type was not disabled when there was no such custom command.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to load again the first extension in an extension folder.
  • Bug fix: Failure when logging fails for background session or during log in. 1483
  • Bug fix: Failure when pressing Calculate button on Properties dialog, while another calculation is already in progress.
  • Translation completed: Croatian.
  • Support for non-ASCII passphrases to client certificate files (.pfx/.p12 format). 1461
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
  • Improvements to custom commands/extensions:
  • New official extensions “Generate HTTP URL” and “Batch Rename”.
  • The official extensions are compatible with PowerShell 2.0.
  • The official extension “Find Duplicates” re-implemented using the Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles and the RemoteFileInfo.FullName.
  • Site-specific extension options.
  • Increased length limit for custom command and console.
  • Allowing tabs in addition to spaces in extension file.
  • Specific error messages about extensions are presented without irrelevant HTTP status code.
  • Bug fix: Tab order on extension options dialog was broken, if the extension mixed options in and out of group box.

New in WinSCP 5.9.2.6898 (Sep 14, 2016)

  • Translations completed: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, Kabyle and Ukrainian.
  • Moving main window with Login dialog.
  • Expanding patterns in default value of extension options.
  • Paste command in panels context menu.
  • When upgrading the drag&drop shell extension, silently postpone replacement until the next system restart, unless the new extension is incompatible.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.2.0.
  • Not showing password in full open command syntax suggestion.
  • Using !P pattern in PuTTY command implies that password should be remembered.
  • Not importing the Disable Nagle’s algorithm (TCP_NODELAY option) from PuTTY as it has a different default due to its interactive nature.
  • More detailed error message when fatal error (such as inability to write an XML log file) occurs while .NET assembly is starting winscp.exe.
  • Skip loading icons from .exe (and similar) files when it takes too long.
  • Bug fix: Long (or multiline) authentication prompts are truncated.
  • Bug fix: Failure during WebDAV SSPI authentication.
  • Bug fix: Directory listing lacks attributes on MVS systems.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to set site name empty.
  • Bug fix: Error opening data connection over proxy server when the server supports EPSV command.
  • Bug fix: Ad-hoc and Last custom commands were always executed for selected files, even when executed from a context menu of a focused file.
  • Bug fix: Custom command patterns were replaced in values of extension options.
  • Bug fix: Downloads by drag&drop were randomly defaulted to background queue.

New in WinSCP 5.9.1.6885 (Aug 12, 2016)

  • Translations completed: Catalan, Swedish and Polish.
  • Several files can be opened in editor at once using their paths.
  • Change: Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles does not throw when reading subdirectory fails
  • Implemented Beep when work finishes also for Keep remote directory up to date.
  • Tunnel inherits SSH options from the main session.
  • Custom command and PuTTY patterns are case-insensitive.
  • Custom sound for Beep when work finishes.
  • Make WinSCP default handler command opens Set Program Associations for WinSCP even on Windows 10.
  • Informing, when the script file is not in supported encoding.
  • Handling directory listing entries with question marks.
  • Bug fix: Failure when user’s Documents folder cannot be loaded on start.
  • Bug fix: GSSAPI authentication is not working in tunneled session.
  • Bug fix: Some scripting commands or command-line switches were not recognized on some locales (like Welsh) when used or defined with a mixed case (like /XmlLog vs. /xmllog).
  • Bug fix: When a passive file panel is focused after reload, the panel is scrolled to show the previously focused file, what can cause unintended behavior.
  • Bug fix: When the current console font (e.g. raster) does not support Unicode, some console output might be lost.
  • Bug fix: Command-line toolbar was not disabled for WebDAV sessions.
  • Bug fix: The -pw argument is added to PuTTY command-line, even when !P pattern is used.
  • Bug fix: Certificate validation fails on Windows Vista and older.
  • Bug fix: Ordering of columns that are invisible by default is not preserved. 1446
  • Bug fix: UTF-16 script files cannot be loaded.

New in WinSCP 5.9 Build 6786 (Jul 22, 2016)

  • SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY.
  • Bug fix: Failure due to a disconnected session being left behind after opening a secondary shell session fails.
  • Bug fix: GSSAPI authentication is not working in tunneled session.
  • Bug fix: An URL in extension “option” with format - link caption http://softpedia.com/ is ignored.

New in WinSCP 5.8.4 Build 6736 RC (Jun 16, 2016)

  • Includes translations:
  • Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • In addition to installing application executable file, it can install public key tools (Pageant, PuTTYgen) and create start menu items, desktop icons etc.
  • Also includes Windows shell extension for direct drag&drop downloads, console interface tool for running scripts from command-line and various WinSCP extensions

New in WinSCP 5.8.3 Build 6701 RC (May 23, 2016)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
  • Dynamically increase TCP send buffer on fast connections.
  • Removed log window.
  • With synchronized browsing on, the Home Directory command opens home directory in both panels.
  • The Follow symbolic links to directories session option is disabled with WebDAV protocol as it has no effect.
  • When detecting timezone difference of FTP server, ignoring files with timestamp in the future, as they have high probability of being wrongly interpreted.
  • Preventing mouse cursor flashing while deleting remote files or changing their properties over SFTP protocol.
  • Change: Consider port number for site-specific caches and bookmarks.
  • Indenting Allow GSSAPI credential delegation checkbox to make it clear it is an suboption of Attempt GSSAPI authentication
  • Disabling Username and Password boxes on a Login dialog when Bypass authentication entirely is enabled.
  • Considering items out of the current view when sizing dialogs list columns.
  • Ignoring blank lines in ls command output.
  • Installing PuTTY help file in modern .chm format.
  • Showing details about TLS handshake errors.
  • Use seconds in *nix-like LIST FTP listing, if the server provides them.
  • The lls command shows timestamps in respect to DST the same way as local file panel (and Windows Explorer).
  • Bug fix: Downloads by drag&drop were randomly defaulted to background queue.
  • Bug fix: Using precise timestamp of the uploaded file version was not working when a relative path was used in automation.
  • Bug fix: Authentication parameters options were not disabled when Bypass authentication entirely is enabled.
  • Bug fix: In rare cases a Download and Delete operation might have been incorrectly used instead of Download when dropping files to Windows Explorer with drag&drop shell extension enabled.
  • Bug fix: Failure when system-wide settings change while panel is being reloaded.
  • Bug fix: Support for FTP servers with Windows-like paths (fixed again after broken in 5.8.2).
  • Bug fix: When user profile is stored on UNC path and the first drive is hidden, local panel starts empty.
  • Bug fix: Failure when disconnecting the last drive while the previous drive is not ready.
  • Bug fix: Command syntax suggestion, when using saved site in batch script, included RTF code.
  • Bug fix: The stat command on FTP server may return wrong times, if the ls command was used before.
  • Bug fix: Transferring newer files only did not work with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Autodetected timezone difference for servers not supporting MLST command was not taken into account for time on overwrite confirmation dialog.
  • Bug fix: When dropping files on another session tab, the Duplicate via local temporary copy option could be unchecked (and was initially unchecked), leading to the file being duplicated incorrectly within the current session.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dragging a symlink to a directory between sessions.
  • Bug fix: When parsing timestamps in MDTM command response, second and minutes after zero hour (or minute) were ignored.
  • Bug fix: Detect symbolic link loops when finding files (improved to cover more complex symlink structures).
  • Improvements to .NET assembly:
  • Added Session.TranslateLocalPathToRemote to .NET assembly to generate a remote path equivalent of a local path, given root paths.
  • Change: A complete remote error message is stored into a single instance of SessionRemoteException, instead of separating error details into an inner exception.
  • Preventing .NET assembly from timing out during lengthy file transfers.
  • Preventing winscp.com and .NET assembly timing out waiting for winscp.exe when the system is temporarily busy.
  • Bug fix: Session instance could not be used anymore after calling ScanFingerprint.
  • Bug fix: Failure when Session.MoveFile source file is not existing and its name has file mask-like syntax.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP .NET assembly cannot find WinSCP executable in its installation folder not the default installation folder when used in 64-bit process.
  • SSH core and private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2016-04-17, commit b22c0b6). It brings following changes:
  • Promoting ChaCha20 cipher above Blowfish (below AES).
  • Change: Fallback between SSH versions is not supported anymore.
  • Change: By default, warning is issued when using Diffie-Hellman group 1 key exchange algorithm.
  • Improvements to custom commands:
  • Extensions are configurable.
  • Local path pattern (!\) for custom commands.
  • All custom command prompts are entered on one dialog box.
  • Separating custom commands that do not operate with files to a separate submenu of Commands menu.
  • Holding down Ctrl and Shift keys while running a local custom command copies the command to clipboard instead of executing it.
  • Displaying full command name in custom command preferences list. The keyboard shortcut now displays in a hint only.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 5.5.9.
  • Further installer protection against potential DLL preloading attacks.

New in WinSCP 5.8.2 Build 6284 Beta (Mar 15, 2016)

  • SSH core and private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2016-03-05, commit 8e41e0a)
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
  • When FTP server does not provide precise timestamp, but the timestamp otherwise matches timestamp of the last uploaded version of the file, using precise timestamp of the uploaded version instead. 1395
  • Improvements to code/script generation:
  • Script or .NET assembly code can be generated for file transfers.
  • Suggesting command-line to use to execute generated script.
  • Using -Property switch to initialize SessionOptions properties in PowerShell.
  • Not using my prefix for VB.NET variables.
  • No redundant declaration of instantiated object variables type in VB.NET.
  • Not highlighting script strings.
  • Larger initial size of Generate URL/Code dialog, when starting on Script/Code page.
  • Bug fix: Session timeout was incorrectly set in seconds, instead of milliseconds.
  • Bug fix: Generate Code dialog could not be closed with Esc key.
  • Improvements to the installer:
  • The installer requests UAC elevation when started non-elevated. 646
  • When the UAC elevation is denied by the user, the installer defaults installing to the user profile folder.
  • The installer is not showing Select Setup Language dialog when it supports the current Windows UI language.
  • Individual help link for each installer page.
  • Correcting layout of the Finished page.
  • Not warning on incomplete translation during silent installation.
  • Bug fix: Wrong message shown in an installer when it cannot continue because previous installation/uninstallation was not completed.
  • Improvements to custom commands:
  • Custom commands can be distributed in a form of WinSCP extension.
  • Distributing Verify Checksum, Search Text and ZIP and Upload .NET assembly examples as official WinSCP extensions.
  • Including .NET assembly to the deployment to support these extensions.
  • Local custom commands for local files. 1396
  • Change: Remote custom commands cannot be executed with focus on local panel.
  • Removed D/R column from Commands page of Preferences dialog to save space for Name and Command columns.
  • Hint displays Commands page of Preferences dialog with full custom command name, keyboard shortcut and command.
  • Local custom commands that work with list of files do not block the interface.
  • Bug fix: Local custom commands that do not work with files froze the interface.
  • Tooltips display for 20 seconds.
  • Enhanced tooltips (aka ScreenTips).
  • Retrieving seconds-precision timestamps using MDTM command, if the server provides them. 1221
  • Improvements to .NET assembly:
  • Method Session.ScanFingerprint to scan server’s hostkey or certificate fingerprint. 1394
  • TransferOptions.ResumeSupport is settable and TransferResumeSupport is constructable.
  • Setting TransferResumeSupport.Threshold automatically sets State to Smart.
  • Application update information window has title Check for Updates instead of generic Information.
  • Free bytes for user can be displayed for IIS FTP server with FTP Directory Browsing > Directory Listing Options > Available bytes option enabled.
  • Preventing interruption of file renaming by automatic operations (such as an automatic remote panel refresh). 1399
  • Compatibility with FTP servers whose path does not start with a slash (such as IBM VMS or MVS). 1400
  • Support for FTP directory listings with name only. 1401
  • Verify TLS certificate against cached fingerprints before Windows certificate store. 1402
  • Optionally following symbolic links to directories during file operations. 51
  • The Make WinSCP default handler command opens Set Default Programs page in Control Panel.
  • Returning an error exit code (1) when user aborts the script. 1404
  • Returning an error exit code (1) when watching for directory changes fail (keepuptodate).
  • Logging that user aborted the script in XML log. 1406
  • Remembering a password for a duration of a session by default. 1409
  • Right justifying hidden and filtered counters on Commander interface.
  • Not showing 0% percent hint on the Progress dialog while calculating a transfer size.
  • Linking background confirmations options from the generic options. 1408
  • Transfer settings and path label hint popups use the same font as the underlying label and align with it.
  • Bug fix: Error when accessing a local directory junction on Windows XP/2003. 1392
  • Bug fix: The /loglevel switch did not apply when used with pre-configured log file
  • Bug fix: SSPI/NTLM/Negotiate authentication is endlessly retried with WebDAV protocol. 1397
  • Bug fix: User is not informed when SSPI/NTLM/Negotiate authentication fails.
  • Bug fix: Remote panel refresh interval could be set to zero.
  • Bug fix: SFTP/SCP sessions cannot be connected to over proxy. 1405

New in WinSCP 5.7.7 Build 6257 (Mar 7, 2016)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1s
  • Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.67
  • Dual code signing binaries with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
  • Bug fix: Failure when Progress window closes (transfer finishes) while Once done drop down menu is opened.
  • Bug fix: Too long automatic bug reports were rejected
  • Bug fix: File masks with time constraints do not work with remote WebDAV files.
  • Bug fix: Installation fails when there is no user Start menu.

New in WinSCP 5.8.1 Build 6144 Beta (Jan 20, 2016)

  • Support for DER encoded binary certificates.
  • Correcting DST adjustments of FTP timestamps by IIS FTP server.
  • Dual code signing binaries with both SHA-1 and SHA-256.
  • Using actual system language name on About dialog if the name is not provided by a (uncomplete) translation.
  • Closing application when Login dialog opened after handling URL with “save” extension is canceled.
  • Change: Deprecating Session.IniFilePath in favor of Session.AddRawConfiguration.
  • Prolonging countdown only after mouse moves substantially over message box with “timeout” button.
  • More user-friendly error message when a wrong passphrase is used for a client certificate.
  • When a passphrase for a client certificate is not provided, the authentication continues.
  • Identifying as WinSCP (including version) in FTP CLNT command
  • Sending FTP CLNT command even to FileZilla FTP server.
  • Smarter merging of new encryption and KEX algorithms to existing preference lists.
  • Change: Not allowing SSH-1 by default.
  • Moving SSH-1-only options to less prominent positions on Advanced Site Settings dialog and removing SSH-2-only designations of session options.
  • Refreshing download link when automatic update fails.
  • Closing update window after displaying error message for automatic update.
  • Bug fix: When opening ssh:// URL in PuTTY or handling URL with a save extension, a main window was opened.
  • Bug fix: Missing help link for Internal Editor page of Preferences dialog.
  • Bug fix: Alt+D and Ctrl+L keyboard shortcuts on Commander interface in Location profiles bookmark mode do not focus the Local directory box, when a local panel has focus.
  • Bug fix: Script and .NET assembly code tabs were not hidden on Generate file URL dialog.
  • Bug fix: Timeout when uploading to FTP over TLS and proxy when the FTP server responds with 1xy before proxy connection is processed.
  • Bug fix: Failure when displaying hint on color menu.
  • Bug fix: Failure when transferring files from command-line.
  • Bug fix: Failure on exit.
  • Bug fix: Wrong background color of some progress windows parts when system themes are disabled.
  • Bug fix: Failure when displaying hint on floating toolbar.
  • Bug fix: Failure when connecting using FTP with empty password.
  • Bug fix: Too long automatic bug reports were rejected.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reading a private key from a .pem file fails.
  • Bug fix: An open scripting command for FTP session with encrypted client certificate without passphrase but with password is silently ignored.
  • Bug fix: Assertions in Pascal code were present in release binaries.
  • Bug fix: “Browse for folder” icon in installer overlaps labels on high DPI.
  • Bug fix: Installer images did not scale correctly
  • SSH core and private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2015-12-22, commit 51465fa). It brings the following changes:
  • Support for ChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption.
  • Support for Curve25519 key exchange.
  • Support for ECDSA keys in PuTTY and PuTTYgen.
  • Support for Ed25519 user and host keys.
  • WinSCP prefers host-key types it already has cached or configured (in scripting).
  • Support for OpenSSH encrypt-then-MAC scheme.
  • Support using public-only key files.
  • Support for OpenSSH’s new key format.
  • Improvements to code/script generation:
  • Syntax highlighting for generated code.
  • Command-line switches, script commands and their switches, and .NET assembly classes, methods and properties in generated code link to online documentation.
  • Warning when a server hostkey is not known when generating a code.
  • Not including the /console switch in a generated command-line.
  • Separate display for an executable path, when generating a command-line.
  • Using # for comments as on the Wiki.
  • Made it obvious that a path to log file in generated code needs to be set to a real writable path.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 5.5.8:
  • A Welcome Screen has been removed.

New in WinSCP 5.8.0 Build 6030 Beta (Dec 16, 2015)

  • Authentication with TLS/SSL client certificates.
  • Redesigned Progress and Synchronization progress windows.
  • WebDAV file locking.
  • Opening the initial Login dialog over the main window.
  • Automatic updates (for donors only).
  • Updates are checked over an encrypted HTTPS connection.
  • Showing tips on using the application.
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.66.
  • Optionally not closing the application after the last session closes.
  • Optionally preserve timestamps of directories with SFTP protocol.
  • Change: Interface theme is not configurable anymore. Only single theme is supported.
  • Selected private key files in OpenSSH or ssh.com format can be automatically converted to PuTTY format.
  • Allowing selection to start in the first column of file panel.
  • Change: Change of language on run-time is not supported anymore.
  • Session name (!N) and port number (!#) patterns for custom commands and terminal client path.
  • Configurable internal editor font color and default background color.
  • Change: Using UTF-8 for strings (such as password) with SSH protocol.
  • Using REST command to resume upload with FTP protocol.
  • Incremental site search can be restricted to the beginning of site name only or expanded to other site fields.
  • Files can be dropped on queue list.
  • Including all at least 80% translations into installer. Informing user when incomplete language is selected when installing.
  • Displaying Owner file property with WebDAV protocol.
  • Save All function in Internal editor.
  • Masking out passwords when logging command-line.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.2e.
  • Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 5.5.6.
  • Enabled IPv6 with FTP by default.
  • Support for long local paths when deleting local file.
  • Animation on Find dialog and Authentication progress window.
  • Displaying mod_dav executable property.
  • Reloading site list when opening Login dialog to open additional session.
  • Handling ssh:// URLs and opening them in PuTTY.
  • Optionally trimming VMS version numbers from filenames during transfer.
  • Caching fingerprints of last verified host keys so they can be used in Generate URL function on Login dialog already.
  • Download/Upload and Delete command moved to Download/Upload submenu 1279 and Edit With menu moved to Edit submenu. Edit With submenu is newly available on Edit toolbar button.
  • Added Download/Upload in Background commands to respective menus.
  • Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+L and Alt+D to focus Address toolbar (Explorer interface) or open bookmarks (Commander interface). Change: Shortcut of command Clear Selection changed to Shift+Ctrl+L.
  • Commands to select/unselect all files with the same extension.
  • Inserting -load argument of PuTTY before custom user arguments.
  • New icon for Find command and dialog.
  • About dialog lists all current and past translators.
  • Warning when transferring multiple files to same name.
  • Hint user about possible reasons of SFTP code 4 error.
  • Platform SDK is no longer required to build 64-bit drag&drop shell extension.
  • Increasing initial/minimal SFTP transfer packet size.
  • Improving layout of installer Completing page of for long translations.
  • Display parent directory in file panel even if the server does not include it in directory listing.
  • Showing only folder, not files, on Progress window, when calculating transfer size.
  • Avoid flickering busy mouse cursor while calculating transfer size or collecting changes for synchronization.
  • Showing localized language name on description of Typical installation.
  • Added icon for Cancel All queue command.
  • Correcting labels and hints for color commands in an internal editor.
  • Session color can be set to black.
  • Not showing percentage progress for indeterminate Directory size calculation.
  • Preferences window opens with focused navigation tree.
  • When Cancel is pressed on Progress window before moving transfer to background finishes, transfer is canceled.
  • Disabling Proceed to Background once Cancel is pressed on Progress window.
  • Added icon for queue Speed command.
  • Desktop icons created by an installer show application description.
  • Not showing details about retrieving timezone information on Authentication progress window.
  • Using delete icon on site/site folder/workspace delete confirmation prompts.
  • Showing error message when neon library initialization fails.
  • Prompt for username even with GSSAPI authentication enabled.
  • Providing error details when deleting a local file fails.
  • Using printenv instead of echo to obtain a value of the LANG environment variable.
  • Logging clear Authorization header when password logging is enabled.
  • Explaining that certificate cannot be verified against hostname if IP address is used to connect to the server.
  • Updated to JCL library 2.7.
  • Using Save dialog instead of Open for selecting log file and random seed file paths.
  • Icon on New version message.
  • Minimize buttons on Console and Synchronization checklist windows enabled.
  • Informing the user when a connection fails because an FTP connection was attempted to an SFTP server.
  • Increase length limit of site note to 4000.
  • Wrapping too long entries in authentication log to avoid horizontal scrollbar.
  • Disambiguated commands in Once Done/Empty menus.
  • Failure when using Close all windows taskbar function with opened and active internal editor.
  • Encoding all non-ASCII characters in URLs to allow posting bug report and searching for message using web browsers that do not default to UTF-8 encoding for URLs (like Internet Explorer).
  • Wider menu spacing.
  • Bug fix: Speed limit history is not relocalized when language is changed.
  • Bug fix: Not showing symlinks to directories as a difference on synchronization checklist as they are not synchronized anyway.
  • Bug fix: When restoring an application from minimization, progress windows did not get activated.
  • Bug fix: Preventing active window title flickering before opening Preferences dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening WebDAVS session, if SSPI initialization failed (such as when running under Wine).
  • Bug fix: When window is closing, its icon is hidden momentarily.
  • Bug fix: WebDAV redirect loop was not detected on the first redirect.
  • Bug fix: Error when SFTP server responds to upload (write) requests out of order.
  • Bug fix: Duplicated ad-hoc session from workspace is wrongly named.
  • Bug fix: Cannot work with filenames starting or ending with space with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure or broken synchronized browsing when changing directory while another command was executing already.
  • Bug fix: Showing a command of a custom command in status bar.
  • Bug fix: Commander panel ratio lost after swapping panels.
  • Bug fix: Minimize buttons on Login and Find windows did not minimize the application.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing window while some command was executing.
  • Bug fix: When Authentication window is resized smaller, prompts get truncated.
  • Bug fix: URL is generated incorrectly for a file with a space in a path.
  • Bug fix: Failure when a local drive is removed.
  • Bug fix: For a stored site with special characters, it was not possible to open/duplicate a session in a new instance, desktop shortcut had wrong name and desktop shortcuts/jump list entries were not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure when the current local directory is deleted while session is disconnected and synchronized browsing is enabled.
  • Improvements and fixes for large font/high DPI environments:
  • Toolbar, menu and dialog images for 125%, 150% and 200% zooms (120, 144, and 192 DPI respectively).
  • Scaling toolbar drop downs.
  • Scaling menu and toolbar details (submenu arrows, drop down arrows, drag handles, checkmarks, radio-button marks, color palettes).
  • Scaling status bars on Synchronization checklist and Find windows.
  • Scaling drop down button arrows.
  • Correctly scaling file icon on Properties dialog.
  • Scaling application icon on About dialog.
  • Scaling images in installer.
  • New application icon sizes.
  • New installer icon sizes.
  • New desktop icon sizes for site, site folder and workspace.
  • New Console, Editor, Log, Find and Synchronization checklist windows icon sizes.
  • Scaling icon overlays.
  • Own scaled icons for message boxes.
  • Using scalable system window resize grip.
  • Preventing system from scaling windows when moving them between displays with a different DPI.
  • Scaling Synchronization checklist action column.
  • Scaling menu lists.
  • Scaling hint window.
  • Scaling Up/Down buttons width on numerical inputs.
  • Improved transfer speed:
  • with SFTP and SCP protocols when CPU is limiting factor.
  • with SFTP on high latency connections.
  • Improvements to scripting, command-line and .NET assembly:
  • Change: Script file has to be in UTF-8 encoding.
  • Command-line interface for converting and editing private keys.
  • Script or .NET assembly code template can be generated in GUI.
  • Allowing manual verification (with timeout) of SSH hostkey/TLS certificate in batch mode in scripting.
  • Added Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles method that can enumerate remote files and directories recursively.
  • Switch -latest for get and put commands to transfer the latest file only.
  • Added a FullName property to the RemoteFileInfo class.
  • Resume and Append (TransferOptions.OverwriteMode) in .NET assembly.
  • The open command in scripting can open FileZilla stored site.
  • Showing full open command syntax suggestion, when using saved site in batch script.
  • Change: The RemoteFileInfo.Name now contains a name only, even for a RemoteFileInfo instance returned by the Session.GetFileInfo.
  • Added properties IsThisDirectory and IsParentDirectory to RemoteFileInfo class.
  • Added Session.CombinePaths utility method as remote path equivalent of Path.Combine.
  • Added Session.TranslateRemotePathToLocal to generate a local path equivalent of a remote path, given root paths.
  • Supporting impersonated IIS environment with .NET assembly.
  • Protocol prefix ftpes:// for FTP over explicit TLS/SSL.
  • Change: Deprecating Session.DefaultConfiguration in favor of Session.AddRawConfiguration.
  • Not re-reading XML log when end of the file is reached to optimize performance.
  • Parameter /loglevel documented in usage.
  • Removed deprecated .NET assembly options FtpSecure.ExplicitTls and FtpSecure.ExplicitSsl.
  • Warning when useless command-line parameters are specified in scripting.
  • Not offering host key verification in scripting if configuration is not persistent.
  • Suggesting use of -hostkey switch in host key verification prompt in scripting.
  • Session can be named using /sessionname= command-line switch.
  • Resetting 10 seconds input timeout every time a key is pressed in scripting batch mode.

New in WinSCP 5.7.6 Build 5874 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • Translation completed: Spanish.
  • Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.65.
  • Workaround for ProFTPD using cdir type in MLST response when retrieving listing for a current working directory.
  • Workaround for FTP servers that incorrectly use RFC 2228-style response to MLST command.
  • Perform TLS/SSL handshake on transfer connection immediately when connected to Idea FTP server (home.pl).
  • Recognize WebDAV folder by trailing slash in its path, if the server does not provide DAV:collection tag.
  • Bug fix: Failure when spinning a mouse wheel over a Find/Replace dialogs of Internal editor.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping files from application that fails to provide CF_HDROP.
  • Bug fix: Failure when Windows session is closing while no session is connected.
  • Bug fix: Cannot download root folder from an FTP server that does not support MLSD or SIZE and MDTM commands.
  • Bug fix: Queue setting on Copy dialog is lost when different transfer setting preset is selected.
  • Bug fix: File timestamps are incorrectly adjusted for autodetected positive timezone difference.

New in WinSCP 5.7.5 Build 5665 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Translation completed: Catalan.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1p.
  • Supporting the RFC 4419 revision to Diffie-Hellman group exchange.
  • Workaround for Cerberus SFTP server incorrectly indicating end of directory listing.
  • SHA-256 hash of binaries provided in release notes.
  • Aligning Save button with Edit button on Login dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure or timeout when Execute button on Console window was clicked while another command was executing already.
  • Bug fix: Switches do not work with aliases to scripting commands.
  • Bug fix: Failure when trying to manipulate files in nonexisting directory in “batch continue” scripting mode.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to configure Timezone offset for SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: When timezone difference is autodetected with legacy FTP server, timestamp precision is not taken into account when comparing timestamps (e.g. for synchronization).

New in WinSCP 5.7.4 Build 5553 (Jun 17, 2015)

  • Translations completed: French and Ukrainian.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1o.
  • Not using directory include masks recursively when finding files.
  • Recognizing UTF-8 encoded localized German month names in FTP LIST command results.
  • Bug fix: Relative path of find results is shown incorrectly when finding from root folder.
  • Bug fix: Failure when switching sessions with session log window opened.
  • Bug fix: Session and log file information on Log window is not updated when switching session.
  • Bug fix: Reference to parent WebDAV directory shows incorrectly when a name of the current folder includes special characters.
  • Bug fix: History of some inputs is not saved.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect behavior when retrying connection after listing of initial remote directory fails.

New in WinSCP 5.7.3 Build 5438 (May 13, 2015)

  • Using FTP command SIZE in binary mode. 1292
  • Optionally determining local file icon by extension only. 1325
  • Ensuring that sessions to be opened in a new window does not get actually opened back in the existing window.
  • Bug fix: SFTP transfers fail occasionally. 1321
  • Bug fix: Controls occasionally do not align correctly after restoring maximized window from minimization. 1309
  • Bug fix: Embedded session is not opened. 1311
  • Bug fix: SCP session breaks when an output includes a null character. 1313
  • Bug fix: Error retrieving file attributes with FTP protocol when the path is given with trailing slash. 1314
  • Bug fix: Sort arrow was shown on unsortable Find dialog.
  • Bug fix: File mask with size constraint over 4 GB does not work. 1318
  • Bug fix: When dragging files from local panel to local tree, status bar is not updated. 1319
  • Bug fix: Local directory tree does not show newly created folder. 1320
  • Bug fix: Local directory tree stops reflecting changes after creating new folder.
  • Bug fix: Failure when HTTPS WebDAV URL redirects to HTTP. 1323
  • Bug fix: Certificate validation fails, when HTTP WebDAV URL redirects to HTTPS.
  • Bug fix: Some redirected WebDAVS connection error messages show original host name instead of the actual host name.
  • Bug fix: WebDAVS certificate failure override for redirected session is stored for original host name.
  • Bug fix: During file transfers on FTP servers that do not support MLSD command, file details are not provided on overwrite confirmation prompt and transfer progress is not shown correctly. 1324
  • Bug fix: Edit commands on all Internal editors reflect state of the currently focused editor, instead of their editor.

New in WinSCP 5.7.2 Build 5316 (Apr 14, 2015)

  • Reporting relative addresses in stack trace.
  • Bug fix: SFTP/SCP transfers occasionally time out. 1306
  • Bug fix: Fail gracefully when internal command generated by WinSCP .NET assembly is too long.
  • Bug fix: Failure when “downloading and deleting” an empty remote directory with .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: When overwriting configuration export, new configuration is appended, instead of replacing the previous export.
  • Bug fix: When listing WebDAV directory using relative path, the listing includes a reference to the directory itself.
  • Bug fix: Failure when pressing help icon while no control has focus.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing log window during activity.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect encoding of SSH_FXP_REALPATH.

New in WinSCP 5.7.1 Build 5235 (Mar 25, 2015)

  • Translations added: Croatian, Finnish, Korean and Polish.
  • Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.64.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1m.
  • Not requiring confirmation when canceling an operation.
  • Import of Base64-encoded passwords from FileZilla.
  • Progress window uses Skip button instead of Cancel when calculating transfer size.
  • Workaround for ProFTPD/mod_sftp bug in SSH_FXP_REALPATH handling with SFTP version 6.
  • Not asking for master password repeatedly when opening Generate URL dialog. Not asking at all unless user chooses to include password into URL.
  • More space for information about translators.
  • Bug fix: Back-propagated SSH security fixes from PuTTY 0.64.
  • Bug fix: Failure when working with stored sites when a temporary hidden site for interprocess communication is not properly removed.
  • Bug fix: Overwrite confirmation prompt displays name of source file instead of target file, when file name changes, with SFTP, SCP and WebDAV protocols.
  • Bug fix: Transfer was not resumed after moving the transfer to the background when source and target file name differs with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when trying to open another externally initiated session while externally initiated session is opening.
  • Bug fix: It is not possible to configure certificate accepting with WebDAV protocol in .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: User and group name is not decoded properly from UTF-8 encoding with SFTP version 3 and older.
  • Bug fix: When calculating size of files to transfer is canceled, not using the incomplete results to estimate transfer progress.
  • Bug fix: When local custom command is applied to a remote folder, it is unconditionally uploaded back after the command finishes.
  • Bug fix: Calculation of transfer size could not be moved to background.

New in WinSCP 5.7 Build 5125 (Feb 20, 2015)

  • Requesting FTP directory listing fields using OPTS MLST, if the server does not provide all needed fields by default.
  • Support for MD5 FTP command.
  • Executable winscp.exe is included in .NET assembly package.
  • Logging level and password logging can be set on command-line using /loglevel switch.
  • Logging parsed command-line and script command parameters on Debug 1 level.
  • Size of connection receiving buffer increased.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1l.
  • Reducing amount of detailed information shown on Authentication Progress window for FTP sessions.
  • Adjusting message box size for icons scaled on Windows 8.1 and newer.
  • Not using drag images.
  • Logging processes and performance counters in .NET assembly debug log, only when Session.DebugLogLevel is 1.
  • Not logging value of -passphrase switch of open command.
  • Bug fix: After several unsuccessful reconnects a resumed FTP file download starts from an initial remote folder, instead of correct source folder.
  • Bug fix: When sorting local files modified at the same time by modification time, sort direction is not considered when falling back to sorting by filename.
  • Bug fix: Command could be invoked in the middle of creating directory or navigating.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to drop on a file with drop handler in local panel with enabled drag&drop shell extension, although it cannot work with drop handlers.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping on a file with drop handler in local panel with disabled drag&drop shell extension.
  • Bug fix: Failure when running in a restricted environment.
  • Bug fix: Confirmation button on Read to Install and Finished installing installer screens was incorrectly labeled Next.
  • Bug fix: Order of sessions in workspace with more than 10 sessions is not preserved.

New in WinSCP 5.6.5 Build 4982 RC (Jan 13, 2015)

  • Local custom commands can optionally be executed with remote file paths.
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1k. Fixing several security defects.
  • Change: Session.CalculateFileChecksum method returns a byte array instead of a string to match .NET framework cryptography functions.
  • Never doing transfer via temporary file when overwriting a file known to be owned by another user. 1260
  • Never automatically refresh a file panel while menu is opened or file is being dragged. 1262
  • Loading files ownership before showing Properties when connected to Bitvise SFTP server.
  • Meaningful error message when a cipher or a key-exchange algorithm is not verified.
  • Using term “Sleep” instead of “Suspend” as used by Windows Vista and newer.
  • Bug fix: Location profile folders are duplicated. 1259
  • Bug fix: Command could be invoked while keeping session up to date. 1263
  • Bug fix: Wrong syntax of SHA-1 cipher name in checksum command help.
  • Bug fix: Default configuration was recreated after user chose to cleanup configuration during uninstallation.
  • Bug fix: Failure in scripting one some rare prompts. 1264
  • Bug fix: Failure when file panel autorefresh is triggered while directory is being read. 1265
  • Bug fix: Could not connect to FTP server over a proxy with Force IP address for passive mode connections set to On. 1266

New in WinSCP 5.6.4 Build 4913 RC (Dec 18, 2014)

  • Automatic reconnect during listing of remote directory.
  • Remembering the last working directories in a workspace.
  • Improvements to calculating remote file checksum:
  • Checksum support for FTP using HASH/XSHA1/XSHA256/XSHA512/XMD5/XCRC commands.
  • File checksum can be calculated in scripting (checksum command and XML log entry) and .NET assembly (Session.CalculateFileChecksum method).
  • Using IANA checksum algorithm names
  • Calculate checksum button on Properties dialog becomes the default button when Algorithm box has focus.
  • Supporting AVBL and XQUOTA commands to retrieve information about space available of FTP server.
  • Home path can be resolved in .NET assembly using Session.HomePath.
  • Site tree on Login dialog responds to mouse wheel even when not focused.
  • Custom command pattern !S that expands to session URL.
  • SessionOptions.ParseUrl method in .NET assembly.
  • Cancel all command for Background transfer queue list.
  • Supporting IIS WebDAV Translate header to allow downloading source files and files with unknown MIME type.
  • Supporting FTP HOST command (RFC 7151).
  • Keep remote directory up to date dialog can be minimized to tray, even when minimizing to taskbar is used for the application.
  • Prolonging countdown instead of suspending it when moving mouse over message box with “timeout” button.
  • File ownership in available in .NET assembly and XML log.
  • Improved automatic sizing of columns in various lists.
  • Items with unknown value on Space available tab of Server and protocol information dialog are shown dimmed.
  • Change: Considering directories to have zero size, when matching file masks or sorting by size, even when the server reports size for the directory, to achieve consistent behavior.
  • Further compatibility improvements with FTP servers:
  • Workaround for malformed FEAT response of older versions of IIS FTP Server and WS_FTP server.
  • Bug fix: Cannot upload file to directory when FTP server returns 4xx/5xx response to directory listing request after allowing (typically empty) listing transfer (old versions of IIS FTP server).
  • Replaced FtpSecure.ExplicitTls .NET assembly option with FtpSecure.Explicit and deprecated FtpSecure.ExplicitSsl.
  • Using Yes/No, instead of OK/Cancel on sites import confirmation during installation not to make an impression that rejecting the import cancels the installation.
  • Logging when a symlink to a directory is skipped while downloading.
  • Using standard formatting of IPv6 literals in session URL (instead of URL-encoding them).
  • Displaying hint when F5 keyboard shortcut is used for the first time on Commander interface.
  • Bug fix: Parameters /help and /batchsettings were not working with winscp.com.
  • Bug fix: Command could be invoked using keyboard shortcut in the middle of reloading directory.
  • Bug fix: Reason not given when FTP upload fails because local file attributes cannot be retrieved.
  • Bug fix: FTP upload fails when volume information for local drive cannot be retrieved.
  • Bug fix: Size of directories was reported as -1 for some FTP servers.
  • Bug fix: Invalid stored FTP password was tried indefinitely in a loop.
  • Bug fix: Ad-hoc session duplicated to a new window had no name.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping files to an external application via a temporary directory with an automatic refresh of a remote directory enabled.
  • Bug fix: Pasting permissions when Octal box has focus does not update the box itself.
  • Bug fix: Mouse cursor is hidden when hovering over progress window during download via temporary directory.

New in WinSCP 5.6.3 Build 4824 Beta (Nov 13, 2014)

  • Improved GUI responsiveness (with SFTP, SCP and FTP protocols).
  • Sites can be mass-modified using /batchsettings command-line parameter.
  • Use default transfer mode for edited files, except when using Notepad.
  • Added method Session.AddRawConfiguration to configure any global configuration option.
  • Optionally logging even sensitive information (such as passwords).
  • Consistently logging transferred bytes for every transferred file.
  • Improving protection from undesired modifications of local files when handling URLs from browser while relieving restriction on combining URLs on command line with some switches, such as /log, /xmllog and /defaults.
  • The failonnomatch option applies also to ls and lls command.
  • Replaced -explicittls command-line parameter and switch of open command with -explicit and deprecated -explicitssl.
  • Change: lls by default only displays a notification that no matching file is found, instead of failing.
  • Differentiating unknown private key format and non-existing/non-readable private key file errors.
  • Bug fix: Session cannot be opened when Session.AddRawSettings is used.
  • Bug fix: Failure when connecting to WebDAV server not supporting persistent connections.
  • Bug fix: Keepalives were turned off when overriding site settings with raw settings
  • Bug fix: Parameter /rawconfig was not documented in usage.
  • Bug fix: The Use default system editor button is misplaced on (ad-hoc) Editor dialog.
  • Bug fix: Synchronization checklist window could be resized too small not to fit Custom button.
  • Bug fix: The last file upload before creating a remote directory is not reported with .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Progress bar not appearing on task bar when main window is not visible.
  • Bug fix: Overwrite confirmation was required when changing case of site name.
  • Bug fix: Failure when copying multiple files checksum results to clipboard.
  • Bug fix: Large sizes are displayed incorrectly.

New in WinSCP 5.6.2 Build 4756 Beta (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Computer can be suspended when operation completes.
  • Uploading back files modified by local custom command.
  • UTF-8 support for SCP.
  • Defaulting Session.ReconnectTime to 120 seconds to match the new actual default. Setting the property to TimeSpan.MaxValue removes any limit.
  • Improved detection if user shall be offered external editor auto configuration.
  • Checkbox to exclude all directories as a shortcut and hint to * mask on Edit file mask dialog.
  • Improved Synchronization checklist window:
  • Synchronization direction can be reversed for individual files.
  • Showing total size of files selected for synchronization.
  • Custom commands are available in context menu.
  • Labeling custom commands drop down menu Commands only to fit the label to the button.
  • Bug fix: Icon was misplaced when columns order was changed.
  • Advertisements:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1j. Fixing several security defects.
  • Rounding file sizes up.
  • Global configuration options can be set on command-line.
  • Command to copy find results to clipboard.
  • Optimized startup time. Sponsored by Alan Irwin.
  • Improved compatibility with antiquated FTP servers, like IIS:
  • Using CWD/SIZE/MDMT to retrieve information about file when MLST is not supported.
  • Non-standard use of MDTM to modify remote file timestamp.
  • Auto-detecting timezone difference when MLST is not supported.
  • Natural order numerical sorting of file names and sites.
  • Support for ProFTPD FTP extensions SITE COPY/CPFR/CPTO to duplicate a remote file, and SITE SYMLINK to create a symbolic link.
  • Configurable file panel font size.
  • Moved mask hint below directory mask boxes on Edit file mask dialog to make it obvious it applies to those masks too.
  • Edit With menu (previously Edit (alternative) added to file panel context menu.
  • Added New (> File/Directory) menu to local panel context menu. 1227
  • Added “Exclude directories” transfer settings preset.
  • When FTP MLSD listing does not include Unix.mode fact, presenting at least a Perm fact, if available.
  • Merging TLS and SSL encryption options for FTP into one, trying AUTH TLS first, falling back to AUTH SSL.
  • Timestamp variable in scripting.
  • Auto-detecting when SFTP server does not use UTF-8 encoding with SFTP-3 and older.
  • Removed Ext sub-caption from Name columns on file panels (since Windows Vista, it is no longer possible to distinguish sorting by name and extension in column header).
  • Configurable WebDAV root path in .NET assembly.
  • Change: A .NET assembly method Session.ExecuteCommand does not throw an exception on error. Instead a CommandExecutionResult now descends from a OperationResultBase (use it’s Check method to reproduce the previous behavior).
  • An ExitCode property added to CommandExecutionResult in .NET assembly and an exitcode tag added to XML logging.
  • A SecureString can be used provide password in .NET assembly via property SessionOptions.SecurePassword.
  • Allow accessing RemoteFileInfo length via IDispatch on 32-bit systems.
  • Masking out password in .NET assembly debug log.
  • Not considering directory name “extension” when sorting file panel by file type.
  • Not popping up a message box, when fatal startup error occurs in scripting with /nointeractiveinput switch (including runs by .NET assembly). If XML logging is enabled, the fatal error is recorded in the log (and promoted to .NET assembly).
  • Improving GUI responsiveness when finishing uploads with SFTP protocol.
  • Button to use system editor on Editor Preferences dialog.
  • Optionally not honoring system NoDrives policy.
  • Trying to use cp -T when duplicating remote files.
  • Optionally using deterministic paths to temporary mirrors of remote files.
  • WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.30.1.
  • License in setup can be accepted simply by pressing Accept button.
  • Supporting Unicode characters in private key file path.
  • Disabling permissions controls on Create directory dialog if protocol does not allow changing permissions.
  • Disabling Terminal window with WebDAV protocol.
  • Failing scripting commands call and chmod with WebDAV protocol.
  • Improving workaround for Gallery2 WebDAV server that incorrectly fail PROPFIND requests for non existing files with 401 (authentication failure) code.
  • Showing error details when logging to a file fails.
  • Showing error details when opening/creating a local file with FTP protocol fails.
  • Display progress window earlier when transfer start is taking long with SFTP protocol.
  • SSL 3.0 disabled by default, to protect from SSL vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2014-3566 (POODLE).
  • Changed default checksum algorithm to “sha1”.
  • Added Session.ReconnectTimeInMilliseconds as an alternative to Session.ReconnectTime that can be used from COM hosts not supporting 64-bit integers (such as VBA).
  • Added alternative private key file filter that selects other key file formats in addition to .ppk.
  • Enabling Import Sites command even when no site is found and showing reason later.
  • Terminating the last line of console output, if it was progress line.
  • Preventing “Pick an app” being offered as an external editor when the last editor was uninstalled.
  • Displaying notification when source file mask in script matches no file.
  • More tolerance to invalid modification time format with WebDAV protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when error occurs while working with local files.
  • Bug fix: Keyboard accelerators to mask boxes on Edit file mask dialog were not working.
  • Bug fix: Not possible to select/enter file name with Unicode characters in filename input boxes.
  • Bug fix: Wrong “Timeout detected” message when FTP control connection is closed while transferring a file.
  • Bug fix: Cannot retrieve file from root folder of FTP server.
  • Bug fix: Mouse cursor of file list/directory tree splitter is not adjusted when Show directory tree left of file list preference option is enabled.
  • Bug fix: Sort column header caption was truncated too much on Windows Vista and later.
  • Bug fix: Hint for making tree sizes equal is not generic enough to cover “Tree on left” option.
  • Bug fix: OpenSSL was built without optimizations.
  • Bug fix: When opening a session from command-line in scripting failure is randomly reported.
  • Bug fix: Part of interface description is obscured in installer when themes are turned off.
  • Bug fix: On the first authentication failure, message “Access without password denied”, even when password was actually used.
  • Bug fix: When any default settings are saved, logged source of ad-hoc sites is wrongly identified as modified site.
  • Bug fix: Cannot retrieve file from current folder of FTP server in scripting.
  • Bug fix: When failonnomatch is enabled, script does not fail when multiple source masks are used, and the second and later mask matches no file.
  • Bug fix: SSL 2.0 use could be configured, despite not actually supporting the protocol.
  • Bug fix: Hidden columns, including otherwise not-displayable internal column Ext, are shown when Ctrl-+ shortcut is used.
  • Bug fix: Cannot rename directory on WebDAV servers that insist on source path ending with slash.
  • Bug fix: Session class properties could not be set over IDispatch without exact types (particularly boolean properties could not be set with integer value).

New in WinSCP 5.6.1 Build 4547 Beta (Oct 23, 2014)

  • SFTP version 6 supported:
  • Hardlinks can be created.
  • Optimized directory reading and file downloading.
  • Allowed stored sites, including their names and initial directories, to preserve Unicode characters.
  • Workaround for Vandyke VShell incorrect announcement of checksum calculation support.
  • Workaround for Bitvise WinSSHD lack of SFTP extensions announcement.
  • Support for proprietary OpenSSH extension [email protected] for creating hardlinks.
  • Open command can open directories.
  • WinSCP can register to handle WinSCP-specific WebDAV URL addresses (winscp-http:// and winscp-https://).
  • Improved stack trace reporting for internal errors.
  • No showing suggestion to delete file in error when overwriting file on non-interactive displays.
  • Workaround for FTP servers that do not enclose path in response to PWD command in quotes.
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening SCP session.
  • Bug fix: Missing help link for Note page of Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure when processing results of upload in .NET assembly when a directory was created with explicitly set permissions as the first operation.
  • Bug fix: Wrong formatting of some error messages on log view of Keep remote directory up to date dialog with Continue on error option enabled.
  • Bug fix: Modified edited/opened remote files are incorrectly uploaded using an active session, instead of their original session.

New in WinSCP 5.5.6 Build 4746 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.6.2 beta release
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1j. Fixing several security defects
  • Bug fix: When opening a session from command-line in scripting failure is randomly reported. 1210
  • Bug fix: Cannot retrieve file from current folder of FTP server in scripting. 1222
  • SSL 3.0 disabled by default, to protect from SSL vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2014-3566 (POODLE)

New in WinSCP 5.5.5 Build 4605 (Aug 21, 2014)

  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.6 - 5.6.2 beta releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1i. Fixing several moderate severity security defects.
  • Workaround for ProFTPD/mod_sftp bug in SFTP space-available packet. 1184
  • Using Reverses Order of Symlink Command Arguments workaround for ProFTPD/mod_sftp.
  • Workaround for Vandyke VShell incorrect announcement of checksum calculation support.
  • Improved detection if user shall be offered external editor auto configuration.
  • Showing error details when logging to a file fails.
  • Bug fix: If an INI file name is exactly winscp.ini, an INI file path on Preferences dialog is shown incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: Failure when processing results of upload in .NET assembly when a directory was created with explicitly set permissions as the first operation.
  • Bug fix: Keyboard accelerators to mask boxes on Edit file mask dialog were not working.
  • Bug fix: Not possible to select/enter file name with Unicode characters in filename input boxes.
  • Bug fix: Wrong “Timeout detected” message when FTP control connection is closed while transferring a file.
  • Bug fix: Cannot retrieve file from root folder of FTP server.
  • Bug fix: Mouse cursor of file list/directory tree splitter is not adjusted when Show directory tree left of file list preference option is enabled.

New in WinSCP 5.6.1 Build 4547 Beta (Jul 22, 2014)

  • SFTP version 6 supported:
  • Hardlinks can be created.
  • Optimized directory reading and file downloading.
  • Allowed stored sites, including their names and initial directories, to preserve Unicode characters.
  • Workaround for Vandyke VShell incorrect announcement of checksum calculation support.
  • Workaround for Bitvise WinSSHD lack of SFTP extensions announcement.
  • Support for OpenSSH extension for creating hardlinks.
  • Open command can open directories.
  • WinSCP can register to handle WinSCP-specific WebDAV URL addresses (winscp-http:// and winscp-https://).
  • Improved stack trace reporting for internal errors.
  • No showing suggestion to delete file in error when overwriting file on non-interactive displays.
  • Workaround for FTP servers that do not enclose path in response to PWD command in quotes.
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening SCP session.
  • Bug fix: Missing help link for Note page of Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure when processing results of upload in .NET assembly when a directory was created with explicitly set permissions as the first operation.
  • Bug fix: Wrong formatting of some error messages on log view of Keep remote directory up to date dialog with Continue on error option enabled.
  • Bug fix: Modified edited/opened remote files are incorrectly uploaded using an active session, instead of their original session.

New in WinSCP 5.6 Build 4526 Beta (Jul 15, 2014)

  • WebDAV support
  • Ongoing foreground transfer can be moved to background transfer queue
  • Note field for site
  • Improvements to scripting, command-line and .NET assembly
  • Improved working with session URL

New in WinSCP 5.5.4 Build 4433 (Jun 10, 2014)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1h. It fixes CVE-2014-0224 vulnerability among other.
  • Added SessionOptions.TimeoutInMilliseconds as an alternative to SessionOptions.Timeout that can be used from COM hosts not supporting 64-bit integers (such as VBA).
  • Support for size and time constraints in wildcard parameter of ls command.
  • Using Documents and Desktop subfolders of home directory, if exist, as “Document” and “Desktop” folders under Wine.
  • Incremental site search is case sensitive when search text includes any capital letter.
  • Support OS.unix=symlink designation of symbolic links in MLSD listing.
  • Bug fix: Show inaccessible directories option was incorrectly hiding folders from root.
  • Bug fix: Sorting by type is not consistent between local and remote panel.
  • Bug fix: Passphrase prompt is missing an option to remember it for the duration of a session.
  • Bug fix: During command-line operation, hidden main window is incorrectly shown when restoring application from tray.
  • Bug fix: Mouse range selection does not start from focused file after passive panel directory reload.
  • Bug fix: SynchronizationCriteria.None and SynchronizationCriteria.Either are not working.
  • Bug fix: Invalid proxy autodetection when system Internet Option Use the same proxy for all protocols is turned off.
  • Bug fix: Error when using source path ending with backslash with put command.
  • Bug fix: Some certificate errors did not show any description.
  • Bug fix: When remembering session password is enabled, stored password is used twice, even for two distinct consecutive keyboard-interactive prompts.
  • Bug fix: FTP proxy session setting is not logged.
  • Bug fix: Failure when current local directory is deleted while no session is opened.
  • Bug fix: Connection attempt could not be canceled.
  • Bug fix: Tree of current directory on network drive is not refreshed.
  • Bug fix: Number of filtered local directories were not shown in status bar.
  • Bug fix: Wrong reason is given when checking for application updates fail.

New in WinSCP 5.5.3 Build 4214 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1g. It fixes CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability among other.
  • Auto-recognition of RSA padding bug for ProFTPD.
  • On Windows XP, Save As button replaced with Save when editing site.
  • Alternate delete on Shift-Click on Delete command in file context menu.
  • Bug fix: Directory reading progress is not shown on taskbar button.
  • Bug fix: Hint was popping up on file panel path label even when full path was visible whenever filter was active.
  • Bug fix: Site colors were lost on Login dialog after language change.
  • Bug fix: New site data were not reset after saving.
  • Bug fix: Server hostname is not verified against certificate common name (or subject alternative name).
  • Bug fix: Help page was not defined for Panels > Local page of Preferences dialog.
  • Improvements for running under Wine:
  • Using Wine home (Z:\home\%USERNAME%\) as documents folder.
  • Hiding stub animation on Progress window on Wine.
  • Workaround for list view bug in Wine.

New in WinSCP 5.5.2 Build 4130 (Mar 20, 2014)

  • Cloning site without hostname when Enter key is pressed.
  • Preventing “Message too long to send to external console” error.
  • When listing files during operation fails, including path into error message.
  • NuGet package for .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Prompt to import sites was not skipped during silent install.
  • Bug fix: Transfer settings speed limit does not apply.
  • Bug fix: Edited file is reloaded from active session, not from original session.
  • Bug fix: Caption of New Site node on Login dialog is not translated when language is changed.
  • Bug fix: Error on every even opening/editing of remote file while having New and updated files only option set as default.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect Login dialog placement when application was closed on non-primary monitor above or to the left of primary monitor.
  • Bug fix: In countries that changed timezone, file times before the change were set wrong for downloaded files.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect handling of remote files ending with dot with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Speed limit of waiting background transfer shows incorrect value and cannot be changed.
  • Bug fix: Selecting private key file with space in path yields error message when submitting Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: .NET assembly Session.FileTransferProgress is not included in COM event sink.
  • Bug fix: When main window was restored from notification area while message box was displayed, main window could receive focus.
  • Bug fix: Notification balloons showing transfer configuration/error were showing ** markup.
  • Bug fix: When minimized, message boxes were popping up on foreground.
  • Bug fix: Main menu accelerators are not working.
  • Bug fix: Scaled-down version of 32×32 icon was used in task bar notification area instead of 16×16 icon.
  • Bug fix: Failure when ending Windows session when main window is minimized.
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure when run from Session 0.
  • Bug fix: Timeout while trying to resume upload with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: With FTP protocol Set permissions transfer setting was incorrectly enabled for synchronization in Both mode.

New in WinSCP 5.5.1 Build 3970 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1f.
  • Showing delayed Progress window before any message box is displayed
  • Usability improvements to new Login dialog:
  • Consistently using Save caption for save button, even for new sites.
  • Using de-facto standard accelerator A for Save As command (also removes duplicity with Save command).
  • Explicit keyboard shortcut Alt+A for Save As command.
  • When saving cloned site, offer folder and name (with unique suffix) of original site.
  • Cloning to a new site when double-clicking site without host name specified.
  • Selecting tab to the right after closing tab.
  • When externally opening additional session in existing instance of WinSCP, bringing its window to front.
  • Using same accelerator for Upload and Download commands
  • Default transfer setting preset can be duplicated.
  • Temporarily suspending countdown when moving mouse over message box with “timeout” button.
  • Showing name of folder being calculated on Progress window before the calculation starts, not only after it has finished.
  • Widening default Progress column of background transfer queue list to fit “Connecting…” and “Calculating…” states.
  • Bug fix: Progress window is not shown for custom command launching long-lasting external process.
  • Bug fix: Swapped local and remote Root directory command buttons.
  • Bug fix: Drag&Drop menu on local panel loses focus when a change is detected in local drive.
  • Bug fix: Duplicate accelerator between Edit and Download and Delete commands and Download and Delete.
  • Bug fix: Repeated attempt to immediately start “Keeping remote directory up to date” when prompt to perform prior full synchronization is canceled with /keepuptodate /defaults.
  • Bug fix: Preferred main window size is lost after command-line operation.
  • Bug fix: Invalid decoding of session URL with sequence of encoded characters that includes + or % encoded character on second or later place in the sequence.
  • Bug fix: Background transfer queue progress was shown on main window title, when a dialog box was opened on top of it.
  • Bug fix: Some hint labels did not fit their caption, particularly with long translations.
  • Bug fix: Compare directory criterions do not save.

New in WinSCP 5.5.0 Build 3839 (Dec 19, 2013)

  • Distinguishing main question/information of even more messages.
  • Detecting symbolic link loops when finding files.
  • Remembering Synchronized browsing state with site only when Remember last used directory is enabled.
  • New installer icon.
  • Visualizing instant operations (such as copying data to clipboard or creating a desktop shortcut) with hourglass mouse cursor.
  • Showing full path to an INI file on Preferences dialog.
  • Not allowing to switch from /ini=nul configuration storage to avoid data loss.
  • Improved display of lists on Server and protocol information dialog.
  • Bug fix: During reconnect user was prompted with password even when password was remembered already.
  • Bug fix: Option to remember password for session was not working for authentication of background transfers and separate shell sessions.
  • Bug fix: Removing BOM on text mode FTP uploads was unconditional.

New in WinSCP 5.1.8 Build 3799 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • Logging warning when system option Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time is disabled.
  • Reduced chance of collision in .NET assembly session instance name in multi-threaded applications.
  • Bug fix: Console input/output was not using UTF-8 encoding on Windows 8.
  • Bug fix: Connection gets aborted when TLS/SSL certificate uses ASN.1 GeneralizedTime format.
  • Bug fix: Connection gets aborted without any feedback when TLS/SSL certificate cannot be decoded.
  • Bug fix: Failure when send buffer of FTP connection is temporarily full.
  • Bug fix: External changes to local directory are sometimes not shown on the local panel.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP child process was not terminated when process using WinSCP .NET assembly crashed.
  • Bug fix: For various errors when cleaning up application configuration, a resource number was shown instead of an actual error message.
  • Bug fix: Directory listing was included in transfer error messages with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure while (or after) creating directory during synchronized browsing.
  • Bug fix: Directory masks in autoselection rule of transfer settings preset were not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure when manipulating location profiles folders.
  • Bug fix: Up to one second delay for transfer of every file with FTP over TLS/SSL.
  • Bug fix: Rare incorrect conversion of line endings.
  • Bug fix: Timestamps of local files are not shifted when DST starts/finishes on Windows 2008 R2.
  • Bug fix: File name was not shown on Progress window when deleting local files.
  • Bug fix: Error when downloading empty file/directory using FTPS via proxy.
  • Bug fix: Suspend All and Resume all queue commands were not working unless any queue item had focus.
  • Bug fix: Color of a directory tree border was not updated in some cases.
  • Bug fix: Size of externally removed local selected files is detracted twice from total file size of selected files shown on status bar.
  • Bug fix: Failure when disconnecting a session.
  • Bug fix: FTPS upload over proxy truncates files.

New in WinSCP 5.2.7 Build 3780 RC (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Support for proprietary SFTP extension [email protected] to check disk space usage.
  • Not requiring Windows nor Windows Explorer restart when new version uses the same or older version of Drag&Drop shell extension than existing one.
  • It’s possible to Login/Open a site in PuTTY in a new window without closing Login dialog.
  • Using theme instruction font for message texts.
  • Listing new/empty site folders on Save session as site dialog.
  • Increasing number of items shown in drop down lists of some combo boxes.
  • Consistently logging modification time and size of every transferred file.
  • System error message is shown when changing local working directory fails in scripting.
  • Added host name to some connection related error messages.
  • Canceling site editing when the site is dragged.
  • Allowing Enter and Esc keys on site list of folder/workspace view on Login dialog.
  • Improved error messages related to drag&drop shell extension.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing Windows session.
  • Bug fix: Environment variables were not expanded in site hostname and username in rare cases.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to skip error listing local directory during operation.
  • Bug fix: Some messages containing & were shown incomplete.
  • Bug fix: FTPS upload over proxy truncates files.

New in WinSCP 5.2.6 Build 3743 Beta (Nov 14, 2013)

  • New icons for Move to and Duplicate commands and dialogs.
  • Keyboard shortcut to open site in PuTTY on Login dialog.
  • When saving session opened from SFTP/SCP URL with host key fingerprint, the hostkey is saved to cache.
  • Improved distinguishing main question of master-password related message boxes.
  • Removed icon from Quit command in menus.
  • Not adding UTF-8 BOM to files edited in an Internal editor.
  • For FTP sessions over implicit TLS/SSL, Copy URL to Clipboard command uses ftps:// protocol.
  • Support FTP servers that require TLS/SSL handshake on transfer connection before responding 1yz to STOR/APPE.
  • Bug fix: Failure when connecting through SSH tunnel.
  • Bug fix: Failure on start when any site has proxy or tunnel password protected with master password.
  • Bug fix: Failure when disconnecting a session.
  • Bug fix: Failure during some operations in FTP over TLS/SSL session.
  • Bug fix: When saving site from SFTP/SCP URL, the saved site was not pre-selected on the Login dialog, unless the URL contained host key fingerprint.
  • Bug fix: Failure when selecting SSH private key.
  • Bug fix: Time-based SSH key re-exchange does not work.
  • Bug fix: Passwords are lost when any raw session settings is specified in scripting or command-line.
  • Improved registration for URL protocols:
  • WinSCP registers itself with Default Programs control panel for protocol URLS sftp://, scp://, ftp:// and ftps:// on Windows Vista and newer.
  • WinSCP handles application specific protocol URLs winscp-sftp://, winscp-scp://, winscp-ftp:// and winscp-ftps://.
  • It is possible to remove protocol registration from Preferences.
  • It is possible to open Default Programs control panel for WinSCP from Preferences.
  • When registering machine-wide, current-user-specific registration that would shadow it is removed

New in WinSCP 5.2.5 Build 3686 Beta (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Distinguishing main question of a message box.
  • Session can be opened in PuTTY from Login dialog.
  • Improved working with session colors:
  • Better standard color set (16 less saturated colors).
  • Remembering recently used custom colors.
  • Drop down color selector on Advanced site settings dialog.
  • Custom colors can be modified on standard Color dialog.
  • Option Default (color) renamed to No Color.
  • Bug fix: Color of a directory tree border was not updated in some cases.
  • Change: Using UTF-8 for strings (such as file names) with SFTP protocol by default even for version 3 and lower.
  • Offering to upload edited/opened file using another session to the same site, if original session was closed.
  • Support for FTP servers with Windows-like paths.
  • Option to create a site desktop shortcut on Save Session as Site dialog.
  • Verifying TLS/SSL certificates against system Trusted Root Certification Authorities.
  • Command to clone site settings to a new site.
  • Automatically saving opened workspace.
  • Not showing Progress window for operations shorter than 200ms.
  • Change: Removing BOM/EOF marks on text mode uploads is configurable and disabled by default.
  • Showing total progress for non-recursive transfers even when Calculate total size transfer settings is turned off.
  • Support for Diffie-Hellman group exchange with SHA-256.
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.63 and further to the latest development snapshot (2013-10-09, r10049). It brings following changes:
  • SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED in response to SSH_MSG_KEXINIT is ignored. kexinit-unimplemented
  • Support for HMAC-SHA-256 as an SSH-2 MAC algorithm (hmac-sha2-256).
  • Bug fix: If the host key isn’t saved, rekeys cause another warning. hostkey-rekey
  • Many other small bug fixes.
  • New Site icon on Login dialog and Session tabs.
  • New Open Directory/Location profiles dialog icons.
  • Command to delete all completed queue items.
  • Improvements to session URL syntax:
  • Support for SSH hostkey fingerprint specification in session URL using connection parameter fingerprint defined by draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri.
  • URL session parameter save to initiate site saving.
  • Change: Symbol ; has special meaning in session URL (due to the above changes) and has to be URL-encoded when used as a literal.
  • Change: UTF-8 encoded characters in session URL are supported.
  • Detecting Drag&drop shell extension on 64-bit systems.
  • Logging warning when system option Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time is disabled.
  • Bringing an application into foreground, when opening session from commandline and/or from jump in existing WinSCP instance.
  • More command and dialog icons.
  • Showing window and application name on Internal editor window caption.
  • Improved layout of message boxes.
  • Showing tree lines on site tree on Login dialog.
  • Tolerating invalid local file timestamps.
  • Pattern !U in Custom command and PuTTY path works even with password entered only during authentication.
  • Do not include information about inability to test, if server IP address is routable, into error messages.
  • Warning that editing is in progress when double-clicking edited site on Login dialog.
  • Drop down menu is never not narrower than its button.
  • Not allowing operations on focused-only file, when focus is not visible (application does not have focus).
  • Bug fix: Failure to run WinSCP or open session with .NET assembly after frequent scheduled use.
  • Bug fix: Up to one second delay for transfer of every file with FTP over TLS/SSL.
  • Bug fix: Rare incorrect conversion of line endings.
  • Bug fix: Timestamps of local files are not shifted when DST starts/finishes on Windows 2008 R2.
  • Bug fix: Failure when validating/executing custom command ending with ! pattern.
  • Bug fix: File name was not shown on Progress window when deleting local files.
  • Bug fix: Stray folders on initially inactive page of Location profiles dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure when excessive session timeout or keepalive interval is configured.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect Login dialog placement when application was closed on non-primary monitor.
  • Bug fix: When saving new site with the same generated name as an existing saved site, an overwrite configuration was not requested.
  • Bug fix: Error when downloading empty file/directory using FTPS via proxy.
  • Bug fix: Wrong icon for Enable Queue Processing command.
  • Bug fix: Suspend All and Resume all queue commands were not working unless any queue item had focus.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to drag a site to a root folder on Login dialog.
  • Bug fix: Wrong check for presence of GSSAPI/SSPI on Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: When remote directory was not opened using directory tree, a node of the opened directory was not expanded.
  • Bug fix: Local custom commands working with both local and remote files were disabled when file in passive panel was focused only (not selected).
  • Bug fix: Size of externally removed local selected files is detracted twice from total file size of selected files shown on status bar.
  • Bug fix: When some of master-password protected passwords became undecryptable, Sites and Workspaces menus could not be opened.

New in WinSCP 5.2.4 Build 3548 Beta (Sep 16, 2013)

  • Improved and fixes for large font/high DPI environments:
  • Windows and panel size configuration (including default configuration) scales with DPI.
  • Using native “Segoe UI” dialog font in Windows Vista and later.
  • Changing Internal editor and Console window font to “Lucida Console” (Windows 7 and older) or “Consolas” (Windows 8 and newer).
  • Using icon font for file panels/lists, directory trees, path labels, status bars, message boxes and other controls throughout the application.
  • Saving preferred editor font in points, rather than pixels.
  • File panels respond to changes of system icon font.
  • Using native scaling even for scales above 120%/125 DPI.
  • Using Windows native scalable mouse cursors for splitters.
  • Bug fix: Path labels on Commander interface were using different font than the rest of the window.
  • Bug fix: Status bars on some windows did not resize for large fonts.
  • Bug fix: Some images were not centered.
  • Bug fix: Many dialogs were incorrectly resized for large fonts.
  • Redesigning message boxes after Windows task dialogs.
  • Reusing TLS/SSL session ID is configurable.
  • Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.63.
  • Not allowing operations on focused-only file, when focus is not visible (panel does not have focus).
  • Aligning file information on Overwrite confirmation dialog.
  • Improved placement and effects of drop down menus.
  • Showing Proxy settings box on Advanced Site Settings dialog for SFTP/SCP protocols only.
  • Empty queue notification can be clicked to restore/activate application, respective session and transfer queue list
  • Showing file name in error message when deleting of auxiliary local files fails.
  • Configuration is saved after submitting Preferences dialog (this among other warns user when configuration stored is not writable).
  • Opening update information, when clicking update notification balloon.
  • Widening default Changed columns width to accommodate AM/PM suffixes.
  • Hiding Group column by default also in Explorer interface.
  • Not asking for exit confirmation when Windows session is closing.
  • Reporting connection errors on FTP transfer failure.
  • Do not include confusing FTP server’s intermediate and success responses into error messages.
  • Ctrl+Space shortcut for toggling selection of focused file works in Commander-style selection mode.
  • Message box width is limited.
  • Widened some forms and controls to make space for translation into languages with longer words, such as German.
  • Reduced chance of collision in .NET assembly session instance name in multi-threaded applications.
  • Allowing button selection using Left/Right keys on message boxes with drop down menus.
  • Bug fix: Back-propagated SSH security and memory-leak fixes from PuTTY 0.63.
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening the first session with Automatically open new session in PuTTY enabled.
  • Bug fix: Login dialog got corrupted when changing language on systems with Windows XP style font scaling enabled. Worked-around by disabling runtime language change on such systems.
  • Bug fix: Dialog boxes were incorrectly considered as submitted when Windows session was closing, causing failures or validation errors, preventing the Windows session from actually closing.
  • Bug fix: On failure to overwrite local file (e.g. due to permissions), error “The system cannot find the file specified” was shown instead of the actual cause.
  • Bug fix: Console input/output was not using UTF-8 encoding on Windows 8.
  • Bug fix: Connection gets aborted when TLS/SSL certificate uses ASN.1 GeneralizedTime format.
  • Bug fix: Connection gets aborted without any feedback when TLS/SSL certificate cannot be decoded.
  • Bug fix: Failure when send buffer of FTP connection is temporarily full.
  • Bug fix: External changes to local directory are sometimes not shown on the local panel.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP child process was not terminated when process using WinSCP .NET assembly crashed.
  • Bug fix: Edit toolbar buttons were not disabled when only directories were selected.
  • Bug fix: When changing configuration storage failed (such as when an INI file could not be removed), storage state on Preferences dialog is not rolled back and some of the other changes to preferences were lost.
  • Bug fix: For various errors when cleaning up application configuration, a resource number was shown instead of an actual error message.
  • Bug fix: Failure while (or after) creating directory during synchronized browsing.
  • Bug fix: Context menu was popping up after new session was opened when New Session tab was right-clicked.
  • Bug fix: Notification about empty transfer queue was not shown.
  • Bug fix: Wrong detection of Windows Server 2008 R2 for purposes of timestamp conversion in respect to DST.
  • Bug fix: Directory listing was included in transfer error messages with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Directory masks in autoselection rule of transfer settings preset were not working.
  • Bug fix: “Never show again” checkbox on information only messages boxes was wrongly labeled “Never ask again”.
  • Bug fix: Failure when manipulating location profiles folders.
  • Bug fix: Allow SCP fallback session option was not preserved.

New in WinSCP 5.1.7 Build 3446 (Aug 14, 2013)

  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.2.3 beta and 5.2.4 beta releases:
  • Upgraded private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) to 0.63.
  • Bug fix: Back-propagated SSH security and memory-leak fixes from PuTTY 0.63. 1039 vuln-modmul vuln-bignum-division-by-zero private-key-not-wiped
  • Bug fix: Not allowing search path to exceed system limit of 2048 characters.
  • Bug fix: No error is displayed and session is not immediately closed when detecting variable containing command return code fails with SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: On failure to overwrite local file (e.g. due to permissions), error “The system cannot find the file specified” was shown instead of the actual cause.

New in WinSCP 5.2.3 Build 3436 Beta (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Synchronization preview in scripting.
  • Showing number of active and pending transfers on queue label.
  • Configurable minimal and maximal supported TLS/SSL version.
  • Information about TLS/SSL version and cipher used in available on Server and protocol information dialog and main window status bar.
  • Ctrl+W shortcut for closing tab (session).
  • Bug fix: Local directory box was missing on Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Bug fix: Redundant reading of directory contents before file download when MLSD is in use.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect encryption of passwords protected with master password, potentially leading to loss of stored passwords.
  • Bug fix: When adding password to existing site, new password can possibly be unprotected with master password.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting with default session settings having a password set protected with master password.
  • Bug fix: Not allowing search path to exceed system limit of 2048 characters.
  • Bug fix: Pending queued transfers were omitted from queue status display on taskbar button.
  • Bug fix: No error is displayed and session is not immediately closed when detecting variable containing command return code fails with SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when using context menu of disconnected session tab.
  • Bug fix: Failure when right-clicking empty area on site tree.
  • Convenience and robustness improvements for working with master password:
  • Avoiding repetitive master password prompts, when editing site.
  • Detect and warn when trying to set/clear master password while another instance of WinSCP is running.
  • Saving configuration, including master password, immediately after setting/clearing one.
  • Not prompting for master password for read-only site view.
  • Hiding an actual password length from read-only site view.
  • When setting/changing/clearing master password, collecting errors while recrypting passwords individually, not to abort whole process on a single error.
  • Gracefully handling stray encrypted passwords, when master password is actually not enabled or different.
  • Feedback and repeated prompt on incorrectly entered master password in scripting mode

New in WinSCP 5.1.6 Build 3394 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.2.2 beta and 5.2.3 beta releases:
  • Help border button is available on message boxes.
  • Suppressing critical error popups when creating jumplist.
  • Saving configuration, including master password, immediately after setting/clearing one.
  • Bug fix: Fragments in Help links were not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure when pressing Shift key in console prompt with winscp.com.
  • Bug fix: Cannot open context menu on another list or tree entry or different view location, while another context menu of the same view is already opened.
  • Bug fix: SSH vulnerability.
  • Bug fix: Timeout prompt sometime never dismisses, even when host finally replies, with SFTP/SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Redundant reading of directory contents before file download when MLSD is in use.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting with default session settings having a password set protected with master password.

New in WinSCP 5.2.2 Build 3365 Beta (Jul 18, 2013)

  • Performance improvement.
  • Custom command pattern !`command` that expands to output of local command.
  • Subset of custom command patterns can be used in PuTTY path, including !/, !@, !U, !P, !?prompt?! and !`command`. This among other allows opening PuTTY in the same directory as current WinSCP working directory; or using different SSH client, such as KiTTY.
  • Buttons that open drop down menu are marked with an arrow.
  • New icons for Console, Find and Synchronization Checklist windows.
  • Session settings can be exported also to KiTTY, when opening session in PuTTY/KiTTY.
  • Configurable registry key for exporting sessions to PuTTY(-like) clients.
  • Suppressing critical error popups.
  • New shell icons for site, site folder and workspace.
  • Relevant help is available for more error messages.
  • Renamed Login and Preferences dialogs’ “tabs” to “pages”.
  • Help border button is available on message boxes.
  • Prompt answers Yes to All/No to All moved closer to the primary Yes/No answers.
  • Internal error message boxes feature Report button to directly report the error on support forum.
  • Allowing filtering subdirectories.
  • Event `Session.FileTransferProgress` is always raised when file transfer completes.
  • Bug fix: Remote panel state is lost after closing Console window.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reading file into internal editor.
  • Bug fix: Fragments in Help links were not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure when disposing Session of .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Failure when pressing Shift key in console prompt with winscp.com.
  • Bug fix: Constant CPU usage when queue is empty.
  • Bug fix: Missing labels for some answers in scripting (such as Yes to All/No to All on overwrite confirmation prompt).
  • Bug fix: Option Support for listing if hidden files is not working.
  • Bug fix: Cannot open context menu on another list or tree entry or different view location, while another context menu of the same view is already opened.
  • Bug fix: SSH vulnerability.
  • Bug fix: Mismatched warnings about accepting any SSH hostkey and SSL certificate respectively.
  • Bug fix: Timeout prompt sometime never dismisses, even when host finally replies, with SFTP/SCP protocol.
  • Simplified Login dialog:
  • Both site tree and basic session controls are visible at the same time.
  • Login dialog is resizable.
  • Modal editing of sites.
  • Advanced session controls moved to a separate dialog Advanced Site Settings dialog.
  • Context menu for site tree.
  • Site name and path are specified separately when saving site.
  • Separate entry for New Site in site tree.
  • Global settings such as Interface and Logging removed from Login dialog.
  • Language selection moved from Languages button of Login dialog to Languages page of Preferences dialog.
  • Display of sessions in workspace.
  • SSH Private key file box moved to SSH tab of Advanced Site Settings dialog.

New in WinSCP 5.1.5 Build 3261 (May 20, 2013)

  • New !P pattern to include process ID into session log path.
  • Logging file timestamps when transferring using SFTP protocol.
  • Workaround for servers that do not acknowledge file transfer.
  • Logging parsed directory listing on Normal logging level (previously on Debug 1 level).
  • Bug fix: Failure when disposing Session of .NET assembly in process running with restricted privileges.
  • Bug fix: open command record in logs with masked-out password did not contain the command name.
  • Bug fix: Pointless attempt to update source file timestamp, when uploading with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Preserve timestamp checkbox was not available for uploads with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when server does not acknowledge file upload with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when creating local directory.
  • Bug fix: When user cancels connection, authentication window is not closed.
  • Bug fix: Build script was not working on 64-bit.
  • Bug fix: Build script was calling non-existing target clean.
  • Bug fix: Taskbar button does not flash, when message pops up, while WinSCP is on background.
  • Bug fix: Custom command pattern !/ had incorrect value when executed on existing secondary shell session just after directory change. 989
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnecting session with automatic remote panel refresh enabled.
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling FTP password prompt.
  • Bug fix: When Change stored password to this one option is checked on password prompt, password is not updated for current session.
  • Bug fix: Mouse range selection does not start from focused file after directory reload.
  • Bug fix: IP address range 172.16-172.31 was not detected as unroutable for FTP passive mode. 1
  • Bug fix: Remote panel state is lost after closing Console window.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reading file into internal editor.

New in WinSCP 5.2.1 Build 3231 Beta (May 8, 2013)

  • Not showing disconnect error message before reconnecting inactive session to upload edited file.
  • Changing default tab size to 8.
  • Renamed WinSCP .NET assembly to winscpnet.dll to avoid conflicts with winscp.exe.
  • Command Clear caches clears also cache of secondary shell session.
  • Change: Not trying to kill WinSCP process from .NET assembly Session finalizer.
  • Calculating hot track color of path label to be in contrast with background.
  • Simplifying overwrite confirmation prompt:
  • Grouping advanced commands to drop down menu under button with related common command.
  • Added thousands separators to sizes.
  • Offering to remember password for duration of session on password prompt (when preferences Remember password for duration of session is turned off).
  • File sizes on Synchronization Checklist and Find dialogs are optionally shown using short format.
  • Swapped order of Use MLSD command for directory listing and Support for listing of hidden files FTP session options. Also disabling the latter unless the first is set to Off.
  • Not allowing Timezone offset session setting with FTP protocol, while MLSD listing command is used.
  • Not opening session from jumplist in existing instance, if it is showing error.
  • Logging parsed directory listing on Normal logging level (previously on Debug 1 level).
  • Moved option to remember session password from Background to Security tab of Preferences dialog
  • Cached SSH host keys are imported by default
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to pass sequence of consecutive delimiters when skipping to the next “word” in path input boxes.
  • Bug fix: Opened/Closed folder icons on Location profile dialog were swapped.
  • Bug fix: Build script was not working on 64-bit.
  • Bug fix: Build script was calling non-existing target clean.
  • Bug fix: Taskbar button does not flash, when message pops up, while WinSCP is on background.
  • Bug fix: Custom command pattern !/ had incorrect value when executed on existing secondary shell session just after directory change.
  • Bug fix: Wrong background of path labels with disabled themes.
  • Bug fix: Cannot import FileZilla sites in folders.
  • Bug fix: FileZilla site logon type is not imported.
  • Bug fix: Installer was asking for name of program menu folder, although no folder is created anymore.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnecting session with automatic remote panel refresh enabled.
  • Bug fix: Failure when using mouse wheel with mouse cursor outside of WinSCP window.
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling FTP password prompt.
  • Bug fix: When “Change stored password to this one” option is checked on password prompt, password is not updated for current session.
  • Bug fix: Mouse range selection does not start from focused file after directory reload.
  • Bug fix: IP address range 172.16-172.31 was not detected as unroutable for FTP passive mode.
  • Bug fix: Opening session in PuTTY does not work.

New in WinSCP 5.2.0 Build 3157 Beta (Apr 8, 2013)

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

New in WinSCP 5.1.4 Build 3020 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1e.
  • Not requiring the .NET assembly to exist in file.
  • Not considering 3xx error code an error for post-login FTP commands.
  • Workaround for servers that do not acknowledge file transfer.
  • Bug fix: Failure after system-wide change.
  • Bug fix: Issuer and Subject were swapped on Certificate verification prompt.
  • Bug fix: Traversed subfolders are incorrectly included in find results.
  • Bug fix: Wrong color indicator on session tab when session was not switched by clicking on the tab.
  • Bug fix: Failure when auto remote directory refresh was triggered during operation initiated by drag&drop.
  • Bug fix: Wrong timezone offset was applied with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to preserve timezone offset of 24 hours and greater in stored session.
  • Bug fix: Wrong timestamp conversion with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Error in .NET assembly when temporary path contains exclamation mark.
  • Bug fix: Indefinite chain of errors when XML logging fails.

New in WinSCP 5.1.3 Build 2881 (Jan 7, 2013)

  • Masking out password in open command in logs.
  • Location of XML log file can be configured in .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Several flaws in file mask validation on Edit mask dialog.
  • Bug fix: Selecting and filtering files using exclude mask only was not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure to open session in scripting from command line was not reported in exit code.
  • Bug fix: Session settings TunnelHostKey was not working.
  • Bug fix: Path word-breaking was not working on most dialogs.
  • Bug fix: Timeout while waiting for user to enter password with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Newly created local directory is not opened with synchronized browsing.
  • Bug fix: Cannot change local folder anymore after system-wide change, when local tree is hidden.
  • Bug fix: Failure in Session.Open on x64 systems.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting as user without desktop

New in WinSCP 5.1.2 Build 2816 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Not poping up progress window when application is minimized.
  • Ensuring uniqueness of the XML logging path in .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Never create Quick Launch icon on Windows 7 and newer also from Preferences dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnecting main session while transferring files in the background.
  • Bug fix: Hangs when stopping watching for changes in local folder.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reporting usage statistics.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing application, while checking for application updates.
  • Bug fix: Session settings TunnelHostKey was not working.
  • Bug fix: Session and directory information was not shown on tray icon tooltip.

New in WinSCP 5.1.1 Build 2735 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • New VeriSign publisher certificate used for signing binaries.
  • Including timezone information in a session log file.
  • Installer creates desktop icon for all users by default.
  • On Windows 8, installer creates only main icon on the Start screen.
  • Added commands to execute PuTTYgen and Pageant to Tools menu on Login dialog.
  • Allowing multiple fingerprints in SessionOptions.SshHostKeyFingerprint and SessionOptions.HostSslCertificateFingerprint.
  • Logging FTP raw directory listing on Normal logging level.
  • Raw session setting TunnelHostKey to verify tunnel session hostkey.
  • Bug fix: Failure when saving file opened from closed session.
  • Bug fix: Invalid executable signature.
  • Bug fix: Never create Quick Launch icon on Windows 7 and newer.
  • Bug fix: Notifications of completed operation (such as balloon notifications), when application is minimized, were not working.
  • Bug fix: Hangs when showing Log windows while logging in.
  • Bug fix: Retrieving file stats using non-absolute path may fail with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Error retrieving file stats using full path with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Treat timestamps in FTP MLSD/MLST results as UTC.
  • Bug fix: Failure when FTP server returns “parent” directory is MLSD directory listing.
  • Bug fix: Background transfer queues were not re-arranged with the sessions, when changing session tab order.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect file was renamed when changing remote directory using directory tree while renaming file.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect file list/directory tree splitter color (with themes turned off).
  • Bug fix: Command on Console windows is not saved to history, when executed using Enter key.
  • Bug fix: Could not use .NET assembly from path with special characters (like #).
  • Bug fix: On re-installation, drag&drop shell extension was sometime not activated.
  • Bug fix: Hangs when stopping watching for changes in local folder.
  • Bug fix: Failure when canceling password prompt with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Empty directory listing was loaded twice with MLSD with FTP command.

New in WinSCP 5.1.0 Build 2625 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Bug fix: Local file/folder got recycled when dropped on folder on the same panel

New in WinSCP 5.0.9 Build 2578 RC (Sep 5, 2012)

  • When saving current session over the original stored session, save password by default unless it changed and do not prompt for overwrite.
  • Values of .NET assembly properties Session.SshHostKey and Session.SslCertificate are validated for correct syntax.
  • Change: Not keeping name of an original stored session for edited ad-hoc sessions.
  • Change: In .NET assembly SessionOptions class property SshHostKey renamed to SshHostKeyFingerprint, SshPrivateKey to SshPrivateKeyPath and SslCertificate to SslHostCertificateFingerprint.
  • Values of .NET assembly SessionOptions class properties Timeout and PortNumber are validated.
  • If FTP connection requires password, prompt immediately, without reconnecting. 653
  • Session log includes all script console output, including local errors. 910
  • Method Session.EscapeFileMask added. 901
  • Bug fix: Ad-hoc sessions were added to the jump list. 894
  • Bug fix: Icon on properties dialog was rendered with session color on background.
  • Bug fix: Failure after system wide change. 899
  • Bug fix: Tray icon was not restored after explorer/taskbar restart. 898
  • Bug fix: Session.ListDirectory did not report fatal errors. 900
  • Bug fix: External IP address of the server is not used when provided IP address is automatically detected as unroutable. 904
  • Bug fix: Error connecting over SOCKS proxy with FTP protocol. 907
  • Bug fix: Failure when exiting with default configuration. 908
  • Bug fix: Error when listing file with MLST FTP command failed. 905
  • Bug fix: Error retrieving file stats, if FTP server returns full file path in MLST response. 906

New in WinSCP 5.0.8 Build 2438 RC (Aug 3, 2012)

  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1c.
  • Drag & drop to re-order session tabs.
  • Local files can be dragged to session tabs for upload.
  • Remote files can be dragged to session tabs for duplication.
  • Color icon on session tab.
  • FTP passive mode IP address is substituted with connection address automatically when passive mode address is unroutable.
  • Contents of opened internal editors is automatically backed up, when application is abruptly closed.
  • Session color menu is available on session tab context menu.
  • Filter command added to address toobars and context menu of file panels.
  • Lock toolbars command added to context menu of file panel toolbars.
  • Added Session.CreateDirectory and Session.RenameFile methods to .NET assembly.
  • Added Session.Abort method to .NET assembly.
  • Change: Scripting command rm and .NET assembly Session.RemoveFiles method can remove directories as well.
  • Postponing upload of modified edited remote file to allow the editor finish saving of the file.
  • When transfer settings preset selected for transfer or synchronization is changed, the transfer settings are updated to the new preset configuration.
  • Support for directory listing with timestamp format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm with SCP protocol.
  • With scripting exit code is recorded in the session log file.
  • Properties of Session class that cannot be changed after session starts, throw an exception when set.
  • It is possible to set limit to try reconnecting broken sessions using Session.ReconnectTime.
  • Change: Remote files are never recycled, unless explicitly enabled.
  • UTF-8 byte-order-mask is stripped on FTP upload.
  • Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F4 for internal editor in Commander interface.
  • Keyboard shortcut Alt+Up for opening parent directory.
  • Taking tabs into account when calculating column position in an Internal editor.
  • Double buffered drawing of session tabs to prevent flicker.
  • Windows 8 compatibility and certification:
  • Not saving random seed file, when run for maintenance task, e.g. during installation/uninstallation, to comply with Windows 8 certification.
  • Other compatibility improvements.
  • Using name of focused file as initial name for a new file.
  • When generation of temporary file for .NET assembly fails, meaningful exception is thrown and status of temporary folder is logged to help troubleshooting.
  • Falling back to Virtual folder when looking for an INI file to maintain compatibility with WinSCP 4.x on Windows Vista and newer.
  • Parsed directory listing is logged.
  • AES is preferred encryption cipher again.
  • Directory listings lacking inode column are supported.
  • Dialogs are placed in the center of their parent window.
  • Improved debug logging of .NET assembly.
  • Logging collection of files for synchronization.
  • Beta versions always check for beta versions updates.
  • Bug fix: Restore selection command shortcut changed to Shift+Ctrl+R (it used to have the same shortcut as Automatically refresh directory after operation).
  • Bug fix: “Operation aborted” messages were not suppressed.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnect failed (generalizing fix).
  • Bug fix: Missing icons in jumplist. 854
  • Bug fix: Session.FileExists was failing with “Recursive calls not allowed”.
  • Bug fix: Some UTF-8 encoded files were incorrectly loaded into an Internal Editor.
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing active session while background transfer queue list was being updated.
  • Bug fix: Main window was not restoring from system tray sometimes.
  • Bug fix: Failure was not reported, when opening of secondary shell session to execute remote command failed.
  • Bug fix: Hidden files were not dimmed, when Name column was not the first one (including the hidden columns).
  • Bug fix: Instruction-only authentication prompts were failed, when predefined password was used in prior prompt already.
  • Bug fix: Error when connecting to FTPS servers not supporting SSL session resuming.
  • Bug fix: Occasional hang when dialog was opened from an internal editor window.
  • Bug fix: Bugs and other three-state session options were logged incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: Switch /xmllog was not working in GUI sessions.
  • Bug fix: Could not connect to SSH server without storing hostkey fingerprint. 889
  • Bug fix: Support for MLSD FTP command was not detected.
  • Bug fix: File permissions were not retrieved from MLSD FTP directory listing.
  • Bug fix: Searching messages without associated help page on documentation site was not working.
  • Bug fix: Warning about overriding script options include and exclude by -filemask switch was sometimes shown incorrectly.

New in WinSCP 4.3.9 Build 1817 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • FTP passive mode IP address is substituted with connection address automatically when passive mode address is unroutable.
  • Postponing upload of modified edited remote file to allow the editor finish saving of the file.
  • Parsed directory listing is logged.
  • Bug fix: Instruction-only authentication prompts were failed, when predefined password was used in prior prompt already.
  • Bug fix: Error when connecting to FTPS servers not supporting SSL session resuming.
  • Bug fix: Bugs and other three-state session options were logged incorrectly.

New in WinSCP 4.3.8 Build 1771 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1c
  • Embedded GPL licence text did not contain instructions for how to use GPL on your own programs. 800
  • Full row select is by default turned ‘off’ to allow easier selection of files by mouse
  • Support for directory listing with timestamp format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm with SCP protocol. 853
  • With scripting exit code is recorded in the session log file
  • Bug fix: Fallback to registry storage, when implicit INI file storage was not writable, was not working. 801
  • Bug fix: Incorrect Base64 encoding in HTTP Basic authentication with FTP protocol. 804
  • Bug fix: Could not select files by dragging selection marquee. 778
  • Bug fix: Shut down once operation completes was blocked by confirmation prompt. 811
  • Bug fix: Failure on SSL session resuming. Thanks to Michael Lukashov. 668
  • Bug fix: Command lls showed incorrect size for files over 2 GiB. 819
  • Bug fix: Failure when generating valid local file name from name containing more than one invalid character. 836
  • Bug fix: Authentication prompts with no actual prompt were always failed in scripting. 820
  • Bug fix: Default session settings were not preserved, when set based on loaded stored session. 839
  • Bug fix: Keepalives cause timeouts with FTP protocol. 847
  • Bug fix: Incorrect timestamp timezone in XML log and .NET assembly. 843
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing active session while background transfer queue list was being updated. 864

New in WinSCP 5.0.7 Build 2268 Beta (May 8, 2012)

  • Using MLSD/MLST to list directory with FTP protocol, when supported. Thanks to Michael Lukashov
  • UTF-8 support in an internal editor
  • Optionally refreshing file panel in regular intervals
  • If password is not specified on Login dialog with FTP protocol, connection is first tried without password
  • WinSCP can now optionally collect and send to WinSCP team non-personal usage statistics.
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1b.
  • IDE upgraded to Embarcadero C++ Builder XE2.
  • Warning is printed on console, when user combines -filemask switch with obsoleted exclude or include options.
  • Embedded GPL licence text did not contain instructions for how to use GPL on your own programs
  • .NET assembly description and consequently type library name modified to start with “WinSCP” for easier look up.
  • Remembering the last selected stored session on the Login dialog
  • When waiting for external console redirected to a pipe times out, it is suggested to check, if the pipe is being read from.
  • Transfer settings panel moved from Preferences dialog into separate dialog.
  • Layout of Transfer settings dialog improved.
  • Split button is used for Transfer Settings button on Transfer, Synchronize and Keep remote directory up to date dialogs (Windows Vista and newer only).
  • Set defaults command of Login dialog placed more intuitively on drop down menu of Save button (On Windows Vista and newer only).
  • .NET assembly Session class public methods are explicitly locked against concurrent and recursive access.
  • Silently ignoring errors, when implicitly preserving permissions of overwritten file after resumable file upload
  • File mask on Find file window can be edited in Edit mask dialog.
  • Files in directory excluded from file search are excluded from search too
  • Change: Blowfish is preferred encryption cipher
  • Fixed mistakes in MFC building readme file in source code package.
  • 256px icon embedded directly in the executable file.
  • Not considering 3xx error code an error for custom remote commands
  • Double buffered drawing of file panels to prevent flicker
  • Alpha-blended marquee selection on file panels.
  • Hidden columns are reordered to the front, not to interfere with resizing of visible columns.
  • Full row select is by default turned ‘off’ to allow easier selection of files by mouse.
  • Optional full row select in Explorer interface
  • Increased minimal height of directory tree item.
  • On Login dialog, Save button is disabled on Logging tab and Preferences tab and Login button is disabled on Preferences tab, to avoid confusion.
  • Bug fix: When downloading file with SFTP protocol, overwrite confirmation dialog showed cached timestamp of source remote file instead of actual one
  • Bug fix: Shut down once operation completes was blocked by confirmation prompt
  • Bug fix: Redirected output of console interface lacked CR
  • Bug fix: Window flickered when application was activated.
  • Bug fix: Main menu did not open when application was not activated
  • Bug fix: When selecting files by mask, all directories were implicitly selected
  • Bug fix: When finding files, all directories were implicitly found
  • Bug fix: winscp.com did not restore console codepage on exit
  • Bug fix: Failure on SSL session resuming. Thanks to Michael Lukashov
  • Bug fix: Failure on second failed call to Session.Open of .NET assembly.
  • Bug fix: Information about dragged files was generated incorrectly
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnect failed
  • Bug fix: Exclusion-only file mask on Edit mask dialog was formatted incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: Unicode console output was displayed incorrectly on Windows XP and earlier.
  • Bug fix: Failure when generating valid local file name from name containing more than one invalid character
  • Bug fix: Path label disappears when clicked
  • Bug fix: Authentication prompts with no actual prompt were always failed in scripting
  • Bug fix: Default session settings were not preserved, when set based on loaded stored session
  • Bug fix: When mask wrapped in Edit file mask dialog, it was split into multiple masks.
  • Bug fix: The .NET assembly could not find winscp.exe, when run from network path
  • Bug fix: Incorrect timestamp timezone in XML log and .NET assembly
  • Bug fix: Rare incorrect conversion of line endings
  • Bug fix: Keepalives cause timeouts with FTP protocol
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure while authentication prompt is idle
  • Bug fix: Selected note in directory tree was drawn incorrectly, when not focused in Explorer interface.
  • Bug fix: Temporary file with XML log is not removed with .NET assembly
  • Bug fix: Rare incorrect EOL conversion.

New in WinSCP 5.0.6 Build 2074 Beta (Mar 1, 2012)

  • Prototype of .NET assembly built around WinSCP scripting interface. 147
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.0g.
  • SFTP status packets with missing language tag are accepted. 770
  • Disabling session option Optimize connection buffer size disables unlimited SSH window to overcome bugs in some older version of OpenSSH. 635
  • When Optimize connection buffer size is enabled, also FTP socket internal buffer size is increased. Thanks to tteras. 787
  • Added workaround for Chokes on SSH-2 ignore messages SSH server bug. 577
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.62. It brings following changes:
  • Security fix: WinSCP no longer retains passwords in memory by mistake. password-not-wiped
  • Bug fix: Spurious “Access denied” printed in the authentication window after GSSAPI failure. gssapi-access-denied
  • Bug fix: 0.61-style Pageant did not work with 0.60-style WinSCP. pageant-backwards-compatibility
  • Several changes to enhance and simplify file masks:
  • Convenient dialog for setting file masks. 98
  • Change: File mask that does not end with slash matched only files, not directories anymore.
  • Change: Include directory masks are recursive.
  • Include directories checkbox on Select mask dialog was replaced with Apply to directories checkbox that suspends the above change.
  • Change: Include file mask that does not contain any directory mask matches any directory.
  • Change: Include/Exclude mask in transfer settings replaced with File mask, what is equivalent of Include mask (as supported already previously, it can contain exclude mask after |).
  • Change: Script options exclude and include deprecated in favor of -filemask= switch of get, put, synchronize and keepuptodate commands.
  • Change: Special characters ;,| in file masks can be used as literals by doubling them.
  • File masks can select files also by their modification timestamp. 672
  • Change: Escaping new lines in attribute values in XML log (particularly useful for attribute value of output and erroroutput).
  • Change: Script option transfer deprecated in favor of -transfer switch of get, put, synchronize and keepuptodate commands.
  • Added scripting command stat to retrieve attributes of remote file, along with associated stat XML log element.
  • Added /xmlgroups command-line parameter that causes XML log file generated while scripting, to group elements corresponding to the same script command under group element.
  • Added /nointeractiveinput command-line parameter that makes scripting fail all prompts, except for prompts for commands.
  • It is enough to click (as opposite to previous double-click) Transfer settings box on Transfer, Synchronize and Keep remote directory up to date dialogs to open Transfer settings dialog.
  • Change: Session option Remember last used directory is enabled by defaut.
  • Error when looking up user groups are by default suppressed.
  • Timeout prompt suggests turning off Optimize connection buffer size as workaround for some problems.
  • Host key not verified” error messages includes host key fingerprint.
  • Host keys (both actual and configured) are recorded in session log.
  • Directories in file panel are never sorted by an extension.
  • Embedded GPL licence text did not contain instructions for how to use GPL on your own programs. 800
  • When checking for updates, version of winscp.com and .NET assembly is also reported.
  • When downloading file with SFTP protocol, first open source remote file before deleting original contents of target local file. 803
  • Bug fix: Failure when connection is lost while retrieving file attributes with FTP protocol. 771
  • Bug fix: Failure on reconnects. 772
  • Bug fix: State of Synchronize on start of Keep remote directory up to date dialog was not preserved. 774
  • Bug fix: Operation progress was not shown on taskbar button. 777
  • Bug fix: Could not edit files over 64 KiB in an internal editor. 763
  • Bug fix: With FTP, particularly in scripting, files could be uploaded to wrong directory. 780
  • Bug fix: Could not select files by dragging selection marquee. 778
  • Bug fix: “Chokes on SSH-2 ignore messages” SSH bug was always on. 767
  • Bug fix: File list flickered on every focus move on Windows XP with Explorer-style selection disabled. 783
  • Bug fix: Could not search for +/-/* in filename in file panel by typing. 784
  • Bug fix: Failure when cancelling authentication prompt of background transfer. 785
  • Bug fix: Password was not remembered for background transfers and/or PuTTY sessions. 786
  • Bug fix: Progress window was incorrectly placed when reloading remote file opened in an Internal editor.
  • Bug fix: File was uploaded after closing an internal editor even when not changed, but reloaded. 790
  • Bug fix: Mask hint for transfer settings preset rules included file size mask.
  • Bug fix: With FTP protocol touch element was not generated in XML log file.
  • Bug fix: Could not handle less common formats of passive connection data response from FTP server. 793
  • Bug fix: Failure exit code always reported when reading script from standard input. 794
  • Bug fix: Cannot create desktop shortcut for session with special characters in name. 795
  • Bug fix: Progress bar tooltip is not hidden once the progress window disappears. 796
  • Bug fix: Failure on fatal script error.
  • Bug fix: SFTP file handle is written incorrectly when reading properties of remote file being overwritten. 798
  • Bug fix: Undisplayable information were logged/displayed incorrectly
  • Bug fix: Output/input from winscp.com is converted to/from Ansi encoding.
  • Bug fix: Fallback to registry storage, when implicit INI file storage was not writable, was not working. 801
  • Bug fix: Incorrect Base64 encoding in HTTP Basic authentication with FTP protocol. 804
  • Bug fix: Could not drop files on file panel (unless started and kept in report view). 806

New in WinSCP 4.3.7 Build 1679 (Feb 20, 2012)

  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.0.6 beta release:
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.0g.
  • Bug fix: State of Synchronize on start of Keep remote directory up to date dialog was not preserved.
  • Bug fix: Progress window was incorrectly placed when reloading remote file opened in an Internal editor.
  • Bug fix: File was uploaded after closing an internal editor even when not changed, but reloaded.
  • Bug fix: With FTP protocol touch element was not generated in XML log file.
  • Bug fix: Could not handle less common formats of passive connection data response from FTP server.
  • Bug fix: Failure exit code always reported when reading script from standard input.
  • Bug fix: File list flickered on every focus move on Windows XP with Explorer-style selection disabled.
  • Bug fix: Progress bar tooltip is not hidden once the progress window disappears.

New in WinSCP 4.3.6 Build 1655 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • Bug fix: “Chokes on SSH-2 ignore messages” SSH bug was always on. 767
  • Back-propagated some improvements and fixes from 5.0.3 - 5.0.6 beta releases:
  • All binaries are signed with Martin Prikryl publisher certificate. 505
  • When script is aborted by the user, error exit code is used.
  • Connect timeout is configurable.
  • When renaming a folder within file panel, whole filename (including an extension) is always selected. 737
  • In-application license text updated to GPLv3. 751
  • Change: In mouse-only Explorer-style selection mode, single-file implicit mouse-selection is not preserved, when focus/selection is subsequently changed using keyboard.
  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.62. It brings following changes:
  • Security fix: WinSCP no longer retains passwords in memory by mistake. password-not-wiped
  • Bug fix: Spurious “Access denied” printed in the authentication window after GSSAPI failure. gssapi-access-denied
  • Bug fix: 0.61-style Pageant did not work with 0.60-style WinSCP. pageant-backwards-compatibility
  • Bug fix: Fixed parsing owner/group with modified ID on Properties dialog.
  • Bug fix: When switching between session and shared bookmarks, path was not updated on the Open directory dialog.
  • Bug fix: Internal “Operation aborted” errors were not suppressed for background transfers.
  • Bug fix: Path label was not resized with larger shell font size.
  • Bug fix: Default permissions for new remote directory did not include Execute right. 762
  • Bug fix: Duplicate reconnect prompt when connection is lost, while transferring file in subdirectory.
  • Bug fix: Error was signaled from script when connection stalled even when it was reconnected. 731
  • Bug fix: Failure to locate GetUserNameEx. 734
  • Bug fix: Records of files transferred within subdirectory were written at once, not continuously, in XML logging. 739
  • Bug fix: In mouse-only Explorer-style selection mode, selection was not cleared after clicking outside of selection, after focus/selection was previously changed using keyboard.
  • Bug fix: Session name was not preserved when duplicating session into a new window.
  • Bug fix: Installer was not removing translations of previous versions on Windows 7.
  • OpenCandy advertising module reintroduced to the installer. There’s also ad-free alternative installer available.

New in WinSCP 5.0.5 Build 1782 Beta (Nov 9, 2011)

  • Connection attempt can be cancelled. 757
  • After cancelling authentication prompt, error message is no longer displayed.
  • Bug fix: Failure while logging off the Windows.
  • Bug fix: Fixed parsing owner/group with modified ID on Properties dialog.
  • Bug fix: Missing animations on Progress window on Windows Vista/7.
  • Bug fix: When switching between session and shared bookmarks, path was not updated on the Open directory dialog.
  • Bug fix: Internal “Operation aborted” errors were not suppressed for background transfers.
  • Bug fix: Path label was not resized with larger shell font size.
  • Bug fix: Pageant authentication was not working on x64. 764
  • Bug fix: Failure on startup when master password is set. 765
  • Bug fix: Upload of non existing file in script using put command did not trigger error.

New in WinSCP 5.0.4 Build 1772 Beta (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Icon is assigned to all top-level windows, in particular to initial Login dialog, so that there’s always WinSCP icon in the Alt+Tab view.
  • Bug fix: Synchronization check list view was corrupted.
  • Bug fix: Failure when changing view style in Explorer interface.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to drag more than one file.
  • Bug fix: Default permissions for new remote directory did not include Execute right.

New in WinSCP 5.0.3 Build 1758 Beta (Oct 22, 2011)

  • Recently used sessions are added to taskbar jump list on Windows 7.
  • Queue processing can be disabled.
  • Tab selector for sessions.
  • Change: Synchronized browsing state is stored with stored session, not in preferences.
  • Stored session folder opened/closed state is remembered.
  • Change: In mouse-only Explorer-style selection mode, single-file implicit mouse-selection is not preserved, when focus/selection is subsequently changed using keyboard.
  • Change: All fatal errors (those that cause exit code of WinSCP to be 1) in scripting are recorded in new subtag failure of root tag session. This includes connection errors, replacing previous recording in result tag.
  • Change: Value both of synchronize command switch criteria renamed to either to avoid confusion (both is still recognized for backward compatibility).
  • Increased socket internal buffer size for SSH with option to disable it. It improves transfer speed. Thanks to ultramage.
  • File sizes in file panel are optionally shown using short format (KiB, MiB, etc).
  • All binaries are signed with Martin Prikryl publisher certificate.
  • Automatic reconnect, when server stopped responding.
  • When script is aborted by the user, error exit code is used.
  • Explicit control for specifying anonymous FTP login on Login dialog.
  • FTP account can be specified on Login dialog.
  • MFC building readme file in source code package has wrong content.
  • When saving opened session, password saving is enabled, when master password is in use.
  • Connect timeout is configurable.
  • Information window about updates show times of the last and the next check for updates.
  • Increased height of Login dialog to fit more stored sessions.
  • Description of rawsettings script added to command-line help screen and open command help.
  • Change: Silently ignoring, when local file mask in put command matches no file.
  • Added mget alias for get script command and mput alias for put command.
  • Added echo script command.
  • URL of Getting started webpage opened from installer includes previously installed version, so that hints specific to upgrades from the version can be displayed.
  • Installer starts WinSCP minimized, when it also opens Getting started webpage.
  • Session option Allow GSSAPI credential delegation is now configurable on the Login dialog.
  • When renaming a folder within file panel, whole filename (including an extension) is always selected.
  • In-application license text updated to GPLv3.
  • Bug fix: Default session log file path was missing slash before filename.
  • Bug fix: Duplicate reconnect prompt when connection is lost, while transferring file in subdirectory.
  • Bug fix: Error was signaled from script when connection stalled even when it was reconnected.
  • Bug fix: Help > Contents command was not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure to locate GetUserNameEx.
  • Bug fix: Records of files transferred within subdirectory were written at once, not continuously, in XML logging.
  • Bug fix: Switch -rawsettings of open command was not working.
  • Bug fix: In mouse-only Explorer-style selection mode, selecting was not cleared after clicking outside of selection, after focus/selection was previously changed using keyboard.
  • Bug fix: Mouse cursor stayed “busy” forever after drag&drop operation.
  • Bug fix: Main window was not restoring from system tray sometimes.
  • Bug fix: Session name was not preserved when duplicating session into a new window.
  • Bug fix: Failure when using an INI file.
  • Bug fix: Installer was not removing translations of previous versions on Windows 7.

New in WinSCP 5.0.2 Build 1456 Beta (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Any session configuration option can be set on command line and/or scripting in raw format using /rawsettings switch.
  • Change: Binary transfer mode is default.
  • Change: Connection error is recorded in XML log in new subtag result of root tag session.
  • Change: With FTP protocol, passive mode is used by default.
  • Environment variables are resolved in session hostname and username.
  • Installer without OpenCandy does not include OpenCandy licence anymore.
  • Option to enable active mode with FTP protocol in scripting.
  • Both session (text) and XML log can be produced at the same time.
  • Bug fix: Failure when cancelling login dialog.
  • Bug fix: Failure to locate GetTimeZoneInformationForYear.
  • Bug fix: Check for application updates was not working.
  • Bug fix: Duplicate shortcut key in local Open directory window.

New in WinSCP 5.0.1 Beta (Sep 20, 2011)

  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.0e.
  • Support for different DST boundaries in the past.
  • Starting renaming the next file after confirming rename with Tab key.
  • External IP address for FTP active mode is configurable.
  • Logging local account into session log.
  • Setup informs at the end about reason restart is required (when it is) and that it does not prevent WinSCP from functioning, apart from the drag&drop shell extension.
  • Setup optionally opens Getting started webpage.
  • Prevented file virtualization.
  • F10 key closes an internal editor.
  • Error when opening FTP active mode connection, has explicit help link.
  • Bug fix: Cannot drag&drop files from local file panel.
  • Bug fix: Directory listing was shown as part of the file transfer error message with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Missing application icon.
  • Bug fix: Internal editor window is not restored when minimized when editing the already file again.
  • Bug fix: Missing build.bat from the source code package.
  • Bug fix: Windows button on taskbar was not hidden when minimizing to tray.
  • Bug fix: Auto arranging of WinSCP window by Windows (and other applications) did not work.
  • Bug fix: Improved compatibility with MSVDM.
  • Bug fix: Opening session in PuTTY was not working.
  • Bug fix: Failure to store passwords encrypted with master password.
  • Bug fix: Link to a parent directory is not read in an empty remote root folder.

New in WinSCP 5.0 Beta (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Unicode support.
  • Explorer-style file selection with mouse is enabled by default in Commander interface.
  • Bug fix: Buttons on Login dialog sometimes got hidden.
  • Bug fix: ? at the end of file mask did not enforce presence of character.
  • Bug fix: Failure when session is closed unexpectedly in scripting.

New in WinSCP 4.3.5 Build 1463 (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Bug fix: Translations were not included in setup.
  • Bug fix: Versions of 3rd party components were not updated in translations.
  • Back-propagates some improvements and fixes from 5.0 - 5.0.2 beta releases:
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.0e.
  • Explorer-style file selection with mouse is enabled by default in Commander interface.
  • Starting renaming the next file after confirming rename with Tab key.
  • Logging local account into session log.
  • F10 key closes an internal editor.
  • Installer without OpenCandy does not include OpenCandy licence anymore.
  • Bug fix: Directory listing was shown as part of the file transfer error message with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Internal editor window is not restored when minimized when editing the already file again.
  • Bug fix: Link to a parent directory is not read in an empty remote root folder.
  • Bug fix: Failure when session is closed unexpectedly in scripting.
  • Bug fix: Duplicate shortcut key in local Open directory window.

New in WinSCP 4.3.4 Build 1428 (Jul 28, 2011)

  • SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.61. It brings following changes:
  • When WinSCP fails to get a response from Pageant, it logs the fact.
  • Bug fix: Workaround for some servers blithely responding to [email protected] with SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_SUCCESS despite probably having no idea what it means. winadj-success
  • Bug fix: Pageant authentication was not working.
  • The command list -a is stopped being used when returned listing is empty.
  • Using HTTP/1.1 when checking for application updates.
  • Bug fix: Unwanted auto-completion in comboboxes when resizing the window.
  • Bug fix: Arguments (passwords in particular) passed to PuTTY were not escaped correctly.
  • Bug fix: Special permissions were not preserved correctly in configuration.
  • Bug fix: Another invalid timezone shifting of file timestamps with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when connection closes with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP was hanging when FTP directory listing connection was closed without response to LIST command.
  • Bug fix: Slow startup when there are disconnected network drives.
  • Bug fix: Notification balloon was displayed after finishing of every queue task.
  • Bug fix: No fallback to IPv4 with SSH.

New in WinSCP 4.3.3 Build 1340 (May 26, 2011)

  • Rolled back increase of socket internal buffer size for SSH.
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2011-03-04, revision 9120). It brings following changes:
  • Support for “[email protected]” compression.
  • Small performace improvements.
  • On Windows 7 progress of operation is shown on the taskbar button.
  • URLs with IPv6 address are supported.
  • Removed length limit for FTP Post login commands.
  • Colon in stored session name and IPv6 addresses is escaped when used for generated name of session log file.
  • State of Advanced options checkbox is always remembered.
  • Source of the configuration is stored into session log.
  • Navigating back/forward with synchronized browsing enabled affects both panels.
  • When renaming a file during transfer, only filename (without an extension) is optionally selected.
  • File renaming is not started, when only focusing application.
  • Session colors are used on stored session list.
  • Setup will default to use the same language as the last time.
  • Setup will not try to replace the drag&drop shell extension unless newer version is included. This prevents setup from requiring restart in many cases.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect conversion of timestamps between local and remote systems with respect to DST on Windows 2008 R2.
  • Bug fix: Failure on transfer error with SCP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Invalid timezone shifting of file timestamps with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Pageant authentication was not working on x64.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnection fails with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Failure when reconnecting with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: chmod command was not skipped with SCP protocol, when changing file properties but not changing permissions.
  • Bug fix: Error when uploading file with specific size with FTP protocol.

New in WinSCP 4.3.2 Build 1201 (Feb 23, 2011)

  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.0d.
  • Enabled TLS extensions in OpenSSL, what resolves problems with some FTP servers.
  • Change: Compare directories command uses Shift+F2 shortcut instead of Ctrl+C. Added support for dragging files from WinRAR.
  • Default ascii file mask extended with *.js.
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2011-02-21, revision 9101).
  • Bug fix: Check for application updates was not working.
  • Bug fix: Error response to SFTP initialization request was sometimes parsed incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to skip errors during some operations.
  • Bug fix: Home directory was incorrect after reconnect with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: It was sometimes not possible to initiate file renaming.

New in WinSCP 4.3.1 Build 1099 Beta (Dec 13, 2010)

  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.0c.
  • File renaming is not started, when only focusing file panel.
  • Bug fix: Failure when logging in ad-hoc session.
  • Bug fix: Failure when directory is reloaded while renaming file.
  • Bug fix: Values with special characters were not exported correctly to PuTTY.
  • Bug fix: Invalid DST handling in the Southern hemisphere.
  • Bug fix: Synchronized browsing was not preserved, when restarting application.

New in WinSCP 4.3.0 Build 1029 Beta (Nov 8, 2010)

  • Increased socket internal buffer size for SSH. It should improve transfer speed.
  • Environment variables are resolved in path to external editor.
  • Include/exclude masks can be used when moving files between local and remote directories.
  • Add to Bookmarks and Refresh commands added to context menus of panel path labels.
  • Change: With FTP protocol, passive mode is used by default.
  • Change: Links to website and help are no longer created in start menu folder.
  • Autocomplete disabled for most of the combo boxes.
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2010-09-27, revision 9010). It brings following changes:
  • Improved port forwarding robustness.
  • When disconnected because there are no supported authentication methods left to try, the error message contains the list of methods sent by the server.
  • Standard GSS libraries are now loaded from standard locations rather than using the default DLL search path.
  • Other small bugs fixed.

New in WinSCP 4.2.9 Build 938 (Sep 24, 2010)

  • Never try to rename file to the very same name. 604
  • Bug fix: Failure when executing custom command and not capturing its output. 587
  • Bug fix: GSSAPI/Kerberos was not working. 590
  • Bug fix: Local file timestamp was interpreted incorrectly for synchronization on Windows 7. 591
  • Bug fix: Failure on close scripting command. 599
  • Bug fix: Edited file was reloaded from active session, not from original session. 603
  • Bug fix: Path history was mixed among sessions. 607
  • Bug fix: Session closed after operation completes was automatically reconnected. 608
  • Bug fix: Check for application updates was hanging. 611
  • Bug fix: Missing content on OpenCandy screen. 600

New in WinSCP 4.2.8 Build 818 (Jul 15, 2010)

  • File size masks are allowed in script commands. 555
  • Conversion of timestamps between local and remote systems with respect to DST follows changes introduced in Windows 7. 564
  • Installation package includes development versions of PuTTYgen and Pageant applications. It brings following changes:
  • PuTTYgen supports importing of new-style OpenSSH private keys (encrypted by AES rather than 3DES).
  • Advertisements:
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2010-05-19, revision 8952). Improving GSSAPI support.
  • Script commands and output are included into session log. 547
  • Bug fix: IPv6 support was broken. 556
  • Bug fix: Protocol ftps was ignored in session URL when port number was also specified. 558
  • Bug fix: Suggested session path was duplicated when saving new session. 562
  • Bug fix: SFTP packet counter overflow. 565
  • Bug fix: Sorting by owner/group was broken. 571
  • Bug fix: Failure when opening session protected with master password from command-line in console. 573
  • Bug fix: Saving password in default session settings did not force prompt for master password, allowing the password being stored unecrypted.
  • Bug fix: Missing OpenCandy DLL on Windows startup. 579
  • Bug fix: Hangs when changing directory using directory tree after toggling showing of hidden files. 580
  • Bug fix: !.! was suggested as name of executable when browsing for previously undefined executable.
  • Bug fix: Failure when running multiple instances of console interface tool in parallel. 581

New in WinSCP 4.2.7 Build 758 (Mar 5, 2010)

  • Increased maximal size of accepted SFTP packet. 548
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing connection after another failed connection. 547
  • Bug fix: Root path was not remembered as last working path on a drive. 549
  • Bug fix: Hang-up after closing connection. 550

New in WinSCP 4.2.6 Build 721 (Feb 17, 2010)

  • ZIP archive with both executables is released instead of just compressed EXE. 523
  • Automatically named session is renamed when hostname and/or username is modified. 532
  • When reading of file to be edited fails, empty internal editor is no longer shown.
  • Forcing width of message box not to exceed screen width.
  • Environment variables in path to private key file are resolved before passing it to PuTTY to open the session. 524
  • WinSCP name is included in balloon notifications. 533
  • Timezone offset can be set up to +/-25 hours. 534
  • Setup does not query OpenCandy for ads when running silent install.
  • Small visual changes for Windows 7.
  • Being tolerant to FTP servers enclosing path in 257 response to single quotes. 541
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2010-01-17, revision 8846). Fixing memory leak.
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 0.9.8l.
  • Bug fix: Bookmarks with equal sign in their name were not preserved when using INI file. 522
  • Bug fix: Synchronize browsing failed, when entering local directory, while current remote path was root. 525
  • Bug fix: Having higher logging level set decreased performance even when logging itself was disabled. 526
  • Bug fix: Error when running ad hoc custom command. 529
  • Bug fix: Tray icon was sometimes not removed when application closed.
  • Bug fix: Navigation tree on Preferences dialog was corrupted sometimes. 539
  • Bug fix: Memory leak while authenticating with private key.
  • Bug fix: System date/time format was not followed on Windows 7. 537
  • Bug fix: On some systems winscp.com did not find winscp.exe when executed from search path. 542
  • Bug fix: Failure when connection was closed while Console window was opened. 544

New in WinSCP 4.2.5 Build 624 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • Environment variable WINSCP_PATH pointing to path, where WinSCP executable file is located, is set on startup, so it can be used to configure portable paths relative to the WinSCP executable file. 311
  • It is not possible to cancel master password prompt anymore, when saving session with passwords.
  • Slash added to names of directories in search results to distinguish them from files.
  • Keyboard shortcut for finding files changed to F3 in Explorer interface.
  • Path is recorded in history after changing directory in console window. 518
  • Replacing characters not allowed in local file names is taken into account with synchronized browsing. 512
  • Merged error message and directory creation confirmation box into one, when synchronized browsing cannot find corresponding opposite directory. 347
  • Synchronized browsing can handle change to different directory branch. 101
  • Placed Use same options next time on synchronization dialog above transfer settings box to make it clear that transfer settings are not saved. 519
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-11-22, revision 8755). It does not bring any notable change.
  • Bug fix: When master password changing was canceled, message informing about successful change appeared anyway.
  • Bug fix: No help was associated with Security tab of Preferences dialog.
  • Bug fix: Passwords in default session settings were not re-encrypted when master password was changed.
  • Bug fix: Empty session password were in rare situation encrypted using master password, what caused seemingly useless prompts for master passwords.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP did not offer to unset read-only flag when overwriting local files anymore.
  • Bug fix: Error when downloading remote files from root directory into temporary local directory. 502
  • Bug fix: Failure when retrying connect attempt after host is not resolved. 503
  • Bug fix: Incorrect calculation of DST start/end date. 504
  • Bug fix: Session data on Login dialog were overwritten when locale is changed. 508
  • Bug fix: Error when moving local directory to remote side. 509
  • Bug fix: Help for put scripting command incorrectly claimed that -append switch is valid for FTP protocol only.
  • Bug fix: Ampersands (&) in names of transfer settings presets and custom commands were handled inconsistently. 506
  • Bug fix: Excluding file from transfer did not prevent access to the file. 514
  • Bug fix: Error when daylight saving is not properly configured in Windows. 519
  • Bug fix: Shell icon for stored session in folder could not be created. 515

New in WinSCP 4.2.4 Build 610 Beta (Oct 27, 2009)

  • File search.
  • Stored session passwords can be encrypted by AES cipher using master password.
  • Path relative to startup directory can be used in initial session local directory. Up to 255 characters long SFTP server commands are allowed.
  • Value off of reconnecttime script option is case-insensitive.
  • SFTP status code is not logged as status/error code anymore.
  • While downloading trailing dot in filenames is replaced with ., as Windows trim them.
  • WinSCP can load plain text tunnel password from configuration (new attribute TunnelPasswordPlain). If possible, it automatically converts the password to encrypted form.
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-09-27, revision 8665). It brings following changes:
  • Bug fix: Minor memory leaks.
  • Bug fix: Uploads of large files with FTP were restarting.
  • Bug fix: Error when opening separate shell session.
  • Bug fix: Backslash in remote path broke path label.
  • Bug fix: Using passive mode was suggested when connection fails even when used already.
  • Bug fix: Operation hanged for a while when transfer of file was skipped with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Operation hanged occasionally when both control and transfer connection were closed at the same time with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Quote escaping did not work with console interface tool.
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+C in console windows occasionally interrupted more than one prompt.
  • Bug fix: Failed connection in script closed last active session simultaneously.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to copy remote files using drag&drop within remote panel with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Problem minimizing progress windows while performing operation executed from command-line.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP hanged on some systems, when remote file with name reserved on Windows appeared in directory listing.
  • Bug fix: Backslash was inserted to remote path when running custom command from synchronization checklist dialog.

New in WinSCP 4.2.3 Build 494 Beta (Aug 19, 2009)

  • Configurable keyboard shortcuts for custom commands and shared bookmarks.
  • FTP proxy support.
  • FTPS server certificate is shown on Server and protocol information dialog.
  • Existing remote file can be opened in editor by typing its name.
  • Workaround for Momentum server limit of 32 KiB for reading/writing.
  • Added missing descriptions of certificate, implicit, explicitssl and explicittls switches for command-line and scripting.
  • Empty SSH keyboard interactive prompts are ignored.
  • 256×256 icon is deployed with WinSCP.
  • WinSCP prevents computer from being suspended during operation.
  • It can be configured how long WinSCP should keep trying reconnect broken sessions.
  • Change: Double double-quote is treated as a single double-quote within value of command-line parameter.
  • For FTP servers know not to support LIST -a command (Personal FTP server), LIST only is used by default.
  • While downloading trailing dot in filenames is replaced with ., as Windows trim them.
  • Errors when deleting local files after upload finishes are reported.
  • Pressing Enter, while having selected an open session without hostname, loads the session.
  • Session name can be optionally used as part of the path to temporary copies of remote files.
  • Remote path may optionally not be as part of the path to temporary copies of remote files.
  • Option for substituting FTP passive mode IP address with connection address.
  • Change: Once dot-only filenames are obscured from Windows, all security checks which hide dot-only filenames from user are removed.
  • Bug fix: Overwrite confirmations were shown even when target file did not exist when uploading with SFTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Mask hints label on transfer settings dialogs was improperly placed when localized.
  • Bug fix: Failure when closing session while having log window opened and custom commands toolbar displayed.
  • Bug fix: Passive FTP transfers with IPv6 did not work.
  • Bug fix: Ctrl+R in the internal editor opened Replace dialog instead of reloading current document.
  • Bug fix: Meaning of UTF-8 encoding for filenames option was reversed for FTP.
  • Bug fix: Skipped files are shown in progress list on console.
  • Bug fix: Values were overlapped on progress window when Calculate total size transfer settings was disabled.
  • Bug fix: “There is no disk in drive” message was sometimes shown on startup.
  • Bug fix: Failure when configuration was changed, while file from closed internal editor was still being uploaded.
  • Bug fix: Failure when file was opened in editor while still being uploaded after closing editor.
  • Bug fix: Transfer progress was not shown on console when moving files to local directory.
  • Bug fix: Error when uploading empty folder that already existed on the server with FTP.
  • Bug fix: Failure when FTP data connection was lost.
  • Bug fix: Memory leak in drag&drop shell extension.
  • Bug fix: Failure when installing on Windows 2000.
  • Bug fix: OpenCandy DLL was installed even if user chose not to use it.
  • Bug fix: Icon was not displayed properly on Windows 2000.
  • Bug fix: Timeout may occurred earlier that configured with FTP.

New in WinSCP 4.2.2 Build 480 Beta (Jun 28, 2009)

  • Each selected file/directory can be optionally added individually to background transfer queue. 97
  • It is possible to schedule computer shutdown at the end of operation or once the background transfer queue is empty. 292
  • New switches -append and -resume to scripting commands put and get to append file/resume transfer respectively. 298
  • Added switch /certificate to command-line and open script command to automatically accept SSL certificate with given fingerprint. 430
  • Change: SSH host key or SSL/TLS certificate can no longer be automatically verified using scripting batch mode. 411
  • When renaming a file within file panel, whole filename (including an extension) can be optionally selected again. 255
  • In Commander interface the directory tree can be optionally shown left of file list. 5
  • Broken idle sessions are optionally automatically reconnected. 30
  • Local custom commands that work both with remote and local file (diff-style) can be executed from synchronization checklist for pairs of files. 54
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-04-26, revision 8519). It brings following changes:
  • Empty SSH keyboard interactive prompts are ignored. 388
  • SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 0.9.8k.
  • FTPS session can be opened from script explicitly. 396
  • It is possible to turn off both modification time and file size comparison criteria, synchronizing thus only by file existence. 368
  • List of parameters can be passed to script using /parameter command-line parameter. The parameters are resolved in the script using %N% pattern. 197
  • For synchronization, when comparison by modification time is disabled, it is possible to turn off preserving of timestamp. 368
  • Empty password can be specified explicitly on command-line and in script to allow password-less authentication with FTP. 428
  • Speed limit can be set as part of transfer settings. 302
  • It can be configured how long script should keep trying reconnect broken sessions. 367
  • On download names of files reserved in Windows (such as NUL) are appended with to allow saving them. 58
  • Appending to log file with XML format is disallowed.
  • Dialogs are showed on-screen even if center of the main window is off-screen. 360
  • Changed usage to discourage specification of session on command-line for console use.
  • Console interface tool usage shows only command-line parameters relevant for console use.
  • Limited number of HTTP redirects when checking for updates.
  • When opening connection in FTP active mode fails, using passive mode is suggested.
  • Workaround for Windows 7 incompatibility, preventing loading translation plugins. 423
  • For compatibility with Fedora 11, dot (.) after permissions in directory listing is ignored 436
  • Transfer settings controls reorganized so that Clear ‘Archive’ attribute fits to Upload options. 108
  • In Mirror synchronization mode it is possible to turn off comparison by modification time.
  • It is not possible to change XML log file name in middle of session. 393
  • Bug fix: Failure when downloading file from non-current directory with FTPS protocol. 390
  • Bug fix: Edit With dialog had wrong layout.
  • Bug fix: Overwriting new or updated files only was not working with SFTP when overwrite confirmations were disabled. 408
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure when closing commander window. 419
  • Bug fix: Local shortcuts were not followed. 420
  • Bug fix: Commander tab of Preferences dialog did not have help screen associated.
  • Bug fix: Selection did not follow focus after reloading of directory. 432
  • Bug fix: Stray empty line was printed on console on failed connections.

New in WinSCP 4.1.9 Build 416 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • Workaround for problem with Tectia SFTP server corrupting remote file if resumed transfer fails again. 351
  • Errors while keeping session alive with FTP protocol are ignored.
  • Bug fix: When synchronizing timestamps of local files, update of non-existing local files was offered. 346
  • Bug fix: When name of destination remote file was changed on overwrite confirmation dialog, timestamps and permissions were yet set on the original filename (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Change of name of destination remote file on overwrite confirmation dialog was not reflected properly for resumable file transfers (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Failure during dummy listing of remote directory with FTP as form of keepalive, while error message of failed regular directory listing was shown.
  • Bug fix: Failure after closing internal editor. 349
  • Bug fix: Infinite loop when FTP directory listing with -a switch fails. 352
  • Bug fix: Paste in an internal editor could not be undone. 354
  • Bug fix: Script switch -preservetime did not work. 361
  • Bug fix: Repetitive prompts for adding bookmark when switching between “bookmark” and “location profile” mode.
  • Bug fix: Suspending background transfer was not working with FTP. 341
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure when showing main window. 369
  • Bug fix: Status bar on log file window always indicated no log file. 370
  • Bug fix: Just leaved directory was not focused in file panel when paths as reported by remote server ended with slash. 371
  • Bug fix: Opening session in PuTTY was not working for ad-hoc sessions. 372
  • Bug fix: Incorrectly URL-encoded character in session specification may caused the session to be silently ignored. 373
  • Bug fix: Failure of authentication was not shown on authentication dialog with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Directories with no transferred files were not created on upload with FTP. 137

New in WinSCP 4.2.1 Build 428 Beta (Feb 27, 2009)

  • Bug fix: It was not possible to open Preferences dialog. 381
  • Bug fix: Error message was appearing during installation. 382

New in WinSCP 4.2.0 Build 427 Beta (Feb 27, 2009)

  • FTPS (FTP over TLS/SSL) support using OpenSSL 0.9.8j. 36
  • It is possible to change group/owner of a remote file by UID/GID. 333
  • XML logging for more formal and machine-readable representation of operations performed during the session. 95
  • Filter for file panel. 56
  • New set of bookmarks/location profiles that is shared between all sessions. 284
  • Timestamps of uploaded files are preserved with FTP. 293
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-02-23, revision 8461). It brings following changes:
  • Improved flow control with SSH-2, what improved transfer speed, particularly for downloads. 17 flow-control flow-control-filexfer
  • Support for SSH-2 RSA key exchange. ssh2-rsa-kex
  • Improved robustness when dealing with servers that does not respect WinSCP window size. ssh2-window-overrun
  • Improved robustness when dealing with servers that does not respect WinSCP packet size limit (e.g. GlobalSCAPE). 314 ssh2-bug-maxpkt
  • Switched to PuTTY’s own implementation of Kerberos/GSSAPI. It brings following changes: kerberos-gssapi
  • GSS key exchange algorithms are no longer supported.
  • Session option Service principal name is no longer supported.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP tried password authentication with SSH-1 even if the server says not to. ssh1-no-password
  • Bug fix: In CBC modes, decrypting the packet length could leak information. ssh2-cbc-pktlen-weakness
  • When checking for updates, beta versions are by default not reported.
  • Any file mask can include exclude masks (separated by pipe). 328
  • Position of internal editor window is remembered. 317
  • It is possible to synchronize remote files with name that is not allowed on Windows. 31
  • Console window of .exe can be minimized to task bar status area. 243
  • For external editors, WinSCP no longer waits for editor process to be closed by default. It keeps edited remote file in temporary directory until WinSCP closes instead. Previous behavior can be forced using editor preference option External editor opens each file in separate window (process). 334
  • In editor preferences list, editing certain files with an associated application can be configured. 283
  • It is possible to edit files in ad hoc selected editor. 291
  • Using of switch -a with FTP LIST command is configurable. 275
  • For messages without associated help page, WinSCP can initiate search of whole documentation site.
  • File mask hint shows file size mask syntax.
  • Number of not shown hidden files is indicated on status bar.
  • Expanding/collapsing capability of create directory dialog removed.
  • Workaround for problem with Tectia SFTP server corrupting remote file if resumed transfer fails again. 351
  • Errors while keeping session alive with FTP protocol are ignored.
  • Bug fix: File externally hidden was not removed from file panel.
  • Bug fix: When synchronizing timestamps of local files, update of non-existing local files was offered. 346
  • Bug fix: When name of destination remote file was changed on overwrite confirmation dialog, timestamps and permissions were yet set on the original filename (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Change of name of destination remote file on overwrite confirmation dialog was not reflected properly for resumable file transfers (SFTP only).
  • Bug fix: Failure during dummy listing of remote directory as form of keepalive, while error message of failed regular directory listing was shown.
  • Bug fix: Failure after closing internal editor. 349
  • Bug fix: Infinite loop when FTP directory listing with -a switch fails. 352
  • Bug fix: Paste in an internal editor could not be undone. 354
  • Bug fix: Script switch -preservetime did not work. 361
  • Bug fix: Repetitive prompts for adding bookmark when switching between “bookmark” and “location profile” mode.
  • Bug fix: Suspending background transfer was not working with FTP. 341
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure when showing main window. 369
  • Bug fix: Status bar on log file window always indicated no log file. 370
  • Bug fix: Just leaved directory was not focused in file panel when paths as reported by remote server ended with slash. 371
  • Bug fix: Opening session in PuTTY was not working for ad-hoc sessions. 372
  • Bug fix: Incorrectly URL-encoded character in session specification may caused the session to be silently ignored. 373
  • Bug fix: Failure of authentication was not shown on authentication dialog with FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: Directories with no transferred files were not created on upload with FTP. 137

New in WinSCP 4.1.8 Build 415 (Dec 2, 2008)

  • Expanding/collapsing capability of message boxes removed.
  • Bug fix: Icon on Properties dialog is shrunk to fit, if shell icon size is too large. 323
  • Bug fix: Dragging of item in editor list was not correctly stopped.
  • Bug fix: Error when moving current remote directory to different location (e.g. by dragging tree node). 330
  • Bug fix: Duplicating session in new window was not working. 332
  • Bug fix: Color of file panel border was not updated in some cases.
  • Bug fix: Error on startup when initial local directory as reported by Windows starts with lowercase drive letter. 319
  • Bug fix: Size of externally removed local files was not detracted from total file size shown on status bar.
  • Bug fix: File statistics on status bar was not updated with automatic update of local file panel on external change.

New in WinSCP 4.1.7 (Sep 29, 2008)

  • Output from console interface tool is no longer buffered.
  • System error message is shown when FTP connection is refused.
  • Transfer mode and resume support status are no longer shown on progress window.
  • Internal editor is opened faster.
  • It is possible to reference session in folder from command line and script.
  • Session name can contain special characters like []/.
  • In scripting on session start local working directory is set to the one saved in stored session.
  • Bug fix: Wrapping of long files were not applied to newly opened internal editors.
  • Bug fix: Alias to directory listing command was not cleared (SCP only).
  • Bug fix: Failure when creating directory with SFTP.
  • Bug fix: “List index out of bounds (-1)” error on startup with Explorer interface and Show full path on address bar option disabled.
  • Bug fix: Transfer progress indication was not completed with FTP protocol. Bug fix: Paste in an internal editor lost final new line.
  • Bug fix: Dialogs opened from Preferences dialog opened from internal editor are properly placed over them.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dragging item in editor list.
  • Bug fix: Internal editor status bar was not updated after reload.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP closed without warning even when internal editor with modified local file was opened.
  • Bug fix: Changes to internal editor configuration were not applied to opened editors with local files.
  • Bug fix: Random pieces of log were duplicated in log window.
  • Bug fix: Log window was not updated while connecting.
  • Bug fix: Some administrative restrictions were not being applied.

New in WinSCP 4.1.6 (Jul 31, 2008)

  • Bug fix: Failure when skipping error during ls command in scripting. 269
  • Bug fix: Unix-style paths on command-line were ignored. 267
  • Bug fix: Permissions to uploaded directories were set even when Set permissions was off, what caused problems on servers not allowing setting permissions to directories (Serv-U). 268
  • Bug fix: Misplaced sorting arrow was shown when file panel was sorted by hidden column.
  • Bug fix: Remote files were incorrectly moved to recycle bin even when alternative resume or append was selected instead of overwrite.
  • Bug fix: Overwritten remote files were not moved to recycle bin during resumable transfers. 272
  • Bug fix: Overwritten remote files were not moved to recycle bin if overwrite confirmations were disabled. 272
  • Bug fix: It was pointlessly offered to alternatively resume transfer when local and remote files had a same size.
  • Bug fix: Refreshing large remote directory tree took too long. 279
  • Bug fix: Workaround for failure on startup. 140

New in WinSCP 4.1.5 (Jul 14, 2008)

  • For internal directory listings with FTP protocol LIST is used unless LIST -a was already proven to work. 263
  • Bug fix: .. directory become visible eventually in Explorer interface. 259
  • Bug fix: Open session in new window was not working for stored sessions in folders. 266
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to permanently select English language, when default system language was different (and that language for WinSCP was installed).
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to move files by drag&drop to other applications when using drag&drop shell extension. 261
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting console interface tool. 260

New in WinSCP 4.1.5 Beta (Jul 13, 2008)

  • For internal directory listings with FTP protocol LIST is used unless LIST -a was already proven to work.
  • Bug fix: .. directory become visible eventually in Explorer interface.
  • Bug fix: Open session in new window was not working for stored sessions in folders.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to permanently select English language, when default system language was different (and that language for WinSCP was installed).
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to move files by drag&drop to other applications when using drag&drop shell extension.
  • Bug fix: Failure when starting console interface tool

New in WinSCP 4.1.4 Beta (Jun 25, 2008)

  • More verbose error messages are shown when operation with local file fails.
  • Improved detection of Vista for workaround for bug in it preventing selection of files with keyboard.
  • Ignoring less than 2 seconds timestamp difference when synchronizing.
  • Improvements to setup: Improved support for installation by non-privileged users. / User preferences set in installer are used as defaults for all users, not only the one that has installed it / Option to add WinSCP path to search path is not offered if installer is not run by administrator / Bug fix: Installed WinSCP uses by default registry to store configuration for all users, not only the one that has installed it.
  • When winscp.com is forcefully terminated, winscp.exe is not left running behind anymore.
  • Most lists can be scrolled while item is dragged, particularly stored sessions list.
  • Whitespace is no longer required after comment line in scripting.
  • Workarounds for OpenSSH-specific bugs are applied with Sun SSH as well.
  • Bug fix: Drag&drop with shell extension did not work if temporary path was set in short form.
  • Bug fix: Automatic reconnect during transfer did not work occasionally.
  • Bug fix: Local proxy was not working at all.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP hanged when dummy protocol command was dispatched to keep session alive, while reconnecting.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP hanged when server stopped receiving data.
  • Bug fix: Improved compatibility with MSVDM. Maximized main window no longer minimize into small window caption.
  • Bug fix: Scripting command call tried to interpret command switches.

New in WinSCP 4.1.1 Beta (May 5, 2008)

  • Speed limit of background transfers can be set also from the main menu.
  • Descriptive hints are shown also on status bar of internal editor.
  • Error messages with no explicit help page are at least linked with common error messages.
  • Error code is reported from scripting also when file overwriting is denied. 210
  • FTP tab of Login dialog is shown only with advanced options enabled.
  • Change: Text files are not converted to canonical format with FTP protocol. 204
  • When checking for updates, only one request is sent to the server.
  • Bug fix: Error when trying to download non-existing file in scripting with FTP. 212
  • Bug fix: Failure on attempt to keepalive while operation is in progress (FTP). 185
  • Bug fix: Failure on tunnel connection termination. 187
  • Bug fix: No help page was associated with Save session dialog.
  • Bug fix: Error while changing language. 217
  • Bug fix: Authentication dialog displayed multiple prompts incorrectly.
  • Bug fix: Error �List index out of bounds� while opening a main window. 178
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to drop files from other application on system with multi-byte character set. 181
  • Bug fix: Authentication prompt for tunnel sessions was not marked properly.
  • Bug fix: Key passphrase prompt was not being localized.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP failed to quit because of stalled check for updates. 198
  • Bug fix: Failure when moving files from remote directory with SCP. 206
  • Bug fix: Error on opening main window. 218
  • Bug fix: Error when unsupported command is used for keepalive with FTP. 208
  • Bug fix: Defaul log file path still used &s pattern instead of !s. 224

New in WinSCP 4.1 Beta (Mar 20, 2008)

  • Support for �local proxying�, where a network connection is replaced by a local command.
  • Various cryptographic improvements in SSH-2, including SDCTR cipher modes and a workaround for a weakness in CBC cipher modes. Support for Diffie-Hellman group exchange with SHA-256 was not included due to performance problems.
  • Support for the Arcfour cipher in SSH-2.
  • When Pageant is running and an SSH key is specified in the configuration, WinSCP will now only try Pageant authentication with that key. This gets round a problem where some servers would only allow a limited number of keys to be offered before disconnecting.
  • Support for SSH-2 password expiry mechanisms, and various other improvements and bugfixes in authentication.
  • A change to the SSH-2 password camouflage mechanism in 0.58 upset some Cisco servers, so we have reverted to the old method.
  • Random seed file is being stored to application data folder when possible.
  • Bug fix: SSH-1 connections tended to crash, particularly when using port forwarding.
  • Bug fix: SSH Tectia Server would reject SSH-2 tunnels from WinSCP due to a malformed request.
  • Bug fix: SSH-2 login banner messages were being dropped silently under some circumstances.
  • Bug fix: IPv6 should now work on Windows Vista.
  • Stored sessions can be organized into folders
  • Preference of GSS key exchange algorithms can be configured on Key exchange tab of login dialog.
  • Session option Allow Kerberos 5 ticket forwarding in GSSAPI/SSPI obsoleted (was probably useless anyway).
  • Session option Server realm renamed to Service principal name
  • Added switch /hostkey to command-line and open script command to automatically accept host keys with given fingerprint.
  • Environment variables can be used in scripting commands. The syntax is %NAME%
  • Command Duplicate can transfer files in between different opened sessions (via local temporary copy). It can also be used to duplicate the file within the session, if the protocol does not allow direct duplication
  • In file panel, file sorting by date and size is by default descending.
  • Speed limit can be actually set in KiB/s.
  • Speed limit can be set for background transfers.
  • Custom command to execute SFTP server binary may be specified. This allows using su to run SFTP server
  • Transfer settings were removed from transfer options dialog to simplify it. The settings can be changed by selecting transfer settings preset or by invoking custom transfer settings dialog (the same way as for synchronization).
  • More than one host key for a host may be accepted.
  • It is possible to cancel connection attempts of background transfer.
  • Proxy settings to check for updates can be automatically detected from system and IE settings.
  • Improved keepalive mechanism of FTP sessions by listing current directory in regular intervals.
  • On upgrade, setup informs if there are installed translations that are not present in new release anymore.
  • Setup removes obsolete translations from previous installations.
  • When synchronized browsing is on and entered directory does not exist in an opposite directory, WinSCP offers to create it.
  • Saving password to stored session must be explicitly requested using checkbox on save session dialog (replaces previous warning message box).
  • Transfer options dialog can be suppressed
  • Change: Removed One file only editing mode.
  • During resumable transfers, the destination file is not removed (if present) until the transfer actually finishes.
  • When opening secondary shell session, startup actions like clearing of aliases, unsetting national variables and looking up user groups are not performed.
  • For SCP protocol, listing command can be fully specified to overcome specifics of platform (this obsoletes former option Alias LS to display group name).
  • New patterns for custom commands: !/ expands to current remote path, !@ expands to current session hostname. !u expands to username, !p expands to password
  • Escaping of special characters is reversed on upload
  • Custom FTP commands can be executed after login
  • Transfer and session toolbars automatically stretches to right window edge.
  • Command line panel is toolbar (can be docked elsewhere).
  • Address and command line drop down boxes follow the toolbar style.
  • On Explorer-like interface, path on address toolbar is editable.
  • KiB is used instead of KB for kilobyte.
  • Estimated time is shown instead of elapsed time in queue list.
  • Open in PuTTY makes PuTTY use Telnet or SSH session for FTP sessions in WinSCP.
  • Host key confirmation dialog has an option to copy the key into clipboard.
  • Server does not use UTF-8 changed to UTF-8 encoding for filenames and moved to Environment tab, as it is used also by FTP protocol.
  • Timezone offset moved to Environment tab, as it is used also by FTP protocol.
  • Shift-Del deletes to recycle bin, if deletion to recycle bin is disabled, and vice versa.
  • Opening bookmarks and home directory do not trigger synchronized browsing anymore.
  • Drive drop down menu shows My documents when current local directory is below �My documents� folder.
  • It is possible to optionally overwrite stored password with new one, if authentication with original stored password fails.
  • When renaming a file within file panel, only filename (without an extension) is selected.
  • When storing remote file to local temporary directory, full remote path is recreated locally to make identification of file easier (particularly in external editor).
  • Several improvements to internal editor: Search direction can be specified / Support for multiple undoes and redo / Tab size can be defined / Improved toggling of word wrapping.
  • Print command added to default custom command examples.
  • When operation finishes while minimized, window is no longer restored. Instead taskbar balloon is shown.
  • When saving session with password, option is given not to store the password.
  • Changed default local tunnel port number range to �IANA Dynamic and/or Private Ports range�.
  • Change: File path patterns changed to match those of custom commands.
  • WinSCP starts on the same monitor is was closed the last time.
  • Notification balloon is not displayed after background upload of edited/opened file is finished
  • Edit link function is available in context menu of remote symbolic links.
  • Size of directory change cache is limited.
  • Error messages of background transfer are actually presented as errors.
  • Initial size of Commander-like window is increased.
  • Improved initial placing of Commander-like window.
  • Improved call command description with respect to FTP protocol.
  • ftp protocol added to command-line syntax help.
  • Most options on SCP tab of login dialog are disabled, when SCP protocol is not selected, to avoid confusion (although they can actually be used when SCP fallback is administered).
  • Cleaned icons for Open in PuTTY and Log Window.
  • Default ping interval session option is not saved anymore.
  • Patterns hint next to proxy telnet/local command on Proxy tab of login dialog.
  • Change: Transfer option Preserve read-only is off by default.
  • On download with LF to CR/LF EOL conversion, CR EOL�s were needlessly removed.
  • UTF-8 byte-order-mask is stripped on upload
  • Example for switching user on login added to Shell session option (/bin/bash -c 'sudo su -').
  • Better error reporting when contacting winscp.net to check for application updates fails.
  • When script output is redirected to file, filename in transfer progress report is not truncated
  • Names of directories being compared during synchronization in scripting are echoed.
  • Bug fix: It was not possible to match file/directory in root with file mask.
  • Bug fix: Failure when dropping file to .. link (particularly with FTP).
  • Bug fix: Incorrect handling of certain errors while connecting.
  • Bug fix: Ping interval of the first opened FTP session was preserved for all later sessions.
  • Bug fix: When traversing path components in input boxes, input cursor may have ended past the end of text.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to configure Preserve timestamp transfer settings for synchronization, although it is always enabled actually.
  • Bug fix: Bottom-aligned components of login and preferences dialog may have been positioned (partially) off-screen.
  • Bug fix: Main window was opened on primary monitor even if login dialog was moved to other monitor.
  • Bug fix: Pressing Esc while renaming session on Login dialog, closed the dialog instead of cancelling the renaming.
  • Bug fix: When remote file is dropped to place, when dropping is not possible, misleading error message was shown, when drag&drop shell extension was enabled.

New in WinSCP 4.0.7 (Mar 3, 2008)

  • While downloading trailing space in filenames are replaces with , as Windows does not allow them.
  • Bug fix: Occasional failure while closing console window.
  • Bug fix: Empty directories were not created on upload with FTP.
  • Bug fix: Choosing between opening session in current or new window using Shift key was not working properly.
  • Bug fix: When cancelling moving of local file to remote directory with FTP protocol, local source file was removed.
  • Bug fix: Overwrite confirmations could not be suppressed for FTP protocol.
  • Bug fix: It was possible to import �WinSCP temporary session� back to WinSCP.

New in WinSCP 4.0.6 (Jan 3, 2008)

  • U3 version launches by default PuTTY for U3 and saves settings to its registry key.
  • Access denied errors upon implicit writing to an INI file are ignored (it is expected that user made the file read-only deliberately).
  • Drag and drop on 64-bit systems is working (was actually implemented for testing purposes in 4.0.5 already).
  • When parsing directory listing, �at� sign after permissions is silently ignored
  • INI file is being saved only when there was a change made.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP has not allowed ending of Windows session (Log off, Shut down, etc.).
  • Bug fix: Last line of authentication banner may have been incorrectly listed on authentication window.
  • Bug fix: When prompt was displayed while reconnecting session with internal editor focused, it was not possible to focus the prompt input box.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP was ignoring external requests to resize its window (particularly Cascade, Tide Horizontally and Tide Vertically taskbar commands).
  • Bug fix: WinSCP hanged when authentication prompt was displayed while �timeout� message was shown.
  • Bug fix: With some servers, it was not possible to remove a directory because WinSCP made the directory current before deletion.
  • Bug fix: INI file was uselessly being saved also when opened for reading only.
  • Bug fix: Improved compatibility with MSVDM. Main window no longer minimize into small window caption.
  • Bug fix: Quotes around string options saved to an INI files were duplicated.
  • Bug fix: Reference to dragext.dll was not released once not used.
  • Bug fix: Directory content cache was not reset after timestamp synchronization.
  • Bug fix: When specifying session using ftp:// URL, correct port 21 is used by default.
  • Bug fix: When URL of translator was not specified, stray URL was used instead.

New in WinSCP 4.0.4 (Sep 3, 2007)

  • Fallback to simple FTP LIST command, when LIST -a fails.
  • Workaround for bug in Windows Vista preventing selection of files with keyboard.
  • Offline network drives are not scanned on startup to prevent long delays before a main window is shown.
  • Improved security when handling URL�s (from web browser).
  • Bug fix: When connection was broken during automatic transfers, program stalled for few seconds.
  • Bug fix: Instability the connection was dropped while keep remote directory up to date function was running.
  • Bug fix: Malformed prompt for username in scripting.
  • Bug fix: Second opened session with enabled SSH tunnel (with automatic selection of tunnel port) actually used the existing tunnel of first session.
  • Bug fix: Memory leak when SSH connection is refused.
  • Bug fix: When username is not specified on login dialog, password typing is revealed on authentication dialog.

New in WinSCP 4.0.3 (Jul 13, 2007)

  • 2007-07-12Mask *.php* in default text file mask is replaced with *.php and *.php3.
  • Subdirectories of current directory are not scanned for purpose of displaying in tree view when the tree view is hidden.
  • Bug fix: Once any transfer is done while keep remote directory up to date is running, its dialog cannot be minimized anymore.
  • Bug fix: Failure when automatically reconnecting the session from script with option batch continue.

New in WinSCP 3.8.330 (Mar 8, 2007)

  • Change to overcome URL handler vulnerability: When protocol (sftp:// or scp://) is provided on command line (possible execution from web browser/Windows Explorer), all command-like parameters that cause any automatic action are ignored, including /defaults, /log, /script and /command.
  • Function Copy path to clipboard has keyboard shortcut Shift-Ctrl-P in Explorer-like interface.
  • Address bar of Explorer-like interface has dedicated context menu, with option to Copy path to clipboard.
  • Partial files (.filepart) are no longer considered for synchronization (SFTP-only).
  • Permissions input box has the same context menu as permissions popup box.
  • In scripting mode, the WinSCP can read commands from redirected standard input.
  • UTF-8 encoded script files are supported (byte-order-mask is required).
  • Bug fix: Sorting arrows on synchronization checklist were corrupted on Windows 2000 and older.
  • Bug fix: Permissions popup box was occasionally dismissed, when its context menu was revealed.
  • Bug fix: Menu item Leave as is of permissions box was visible, even if it made no sense in the context.
  • Bug fix: When recursive setting of permissions was turned off on properties dialog, permissions may have possibly retained undefined state, although no longer allowed.
  • Bug fix: Path labels were redrawn each time mouse was moved over them, causing unnecessary flickering.
  • Bug fix: Some dialog labels were not disabled along with associated control.
  • Bug fix: Log window was showing log file name with patterns, instead of actual current log file name.
  • Bug fix: When patterns were used in log file name, the log file was recreated every time configuration has changed.