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- bagwaa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+81Putty, the best SSH client :-)
- jonathanbull, on 10/12/2007, -12/+39List of updates made:
* PuTTY can now connect to local serial ports as well as making network connections.
* Windows PuTTY now supports "local proxying", where a network connection is replaced by a local command. (Unix PuTTY has supported this since it was first released in 0.54.) Also, Plink has gained a "-nc" mode where the primary channel is replaced by an SSH tunnel, which makes it particularly useful as the local command to run.
* Improved speed of SSH on Windows (particularly SSH-2 key exchange and public-key authentication).
* Improved SFTP throughput.
* Various cryptographic improvements in SSH-2, including SDCTR cipher modes, a workaround for a weakness in CBC cipher modes, and Diffie-Hellman group exchange with SHA-256.
* Support for the Arcfour cipher in SSH-2.
* Support for sending terminal modes in SSH.
* When Pageant is running and an SSH key is specified in the configuration, PuTTY 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.
* The Windows version now comes with documentation in HTML Help format. (Windows Vista does not support the older WinHelp format. However, we still provide documentation in that format, since Win95 does not support HTML Help.)
* On Windows, when pasting as RTF, attributes of the selection such as colours and formatting are also pasted.
* Ability to configure font quality on Windows (including antialiasing and ClearType).
* The terminal is now restored to a sensible state when reusing a window to restart a session.
* We now support an escape sequence invented by xterm which lets the server clear the scrollback (CSI 3 J). This is useful for applications such as terminal locking programs.
* Improvements to the Unix port:
o now compiles cleanly with GCC 4
o now has a configure script, and should be portable to more platforms
* Bug fix: 0.58 utterly failed to run on some installations of Windows XP.
* Bug fix: PSCP and PSFTP now support large files (greater than 4 gigabytes), provided the underlying operating system does too.
* Bug fix: PSFTP (and PSCP) sometimes ran slowly and consumed lots of CPU when started directly from Windows Explorer.
* Bug fix: font linking (the automatic use of other fonts on the system to provide Unicode characters not present in the selected one) should now work again on Windows, after being broken in 0.58. (However, it unfortunately still won't work for Arabic and other right-to-left text.)
* Bug fix: if the remote server saturated PuTTY with data, PuTTY could become unresponsive.
* Bug fix: certain large clipboard operations could cause PuTTY to crash.
* Bug fix: SSH-1 connections tended to crash, particularly when using port forwarding.
* Bug fix: SSH Tectia Server would reject SSH-2 tunnels from PuTTY due to a malformed request.
* Bug fix: SSH-2 login banner messages were being dropped silently under some circumstances.
* Bug fix: the cursor could end up in the wrong place when a server-side application used the alternate screen.
* Bug fix: on Windows, PuTTY now tries harder to find a suitable place to store its random seed file PUTTY.RND (previously it was tending to end up in C: or C:WINDOWS).
* Bug fix: IPv6 should now work on Windows Vista.
* Numerous other bugfixes, as usual. - Recursiveness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21It's the best windows ssh client. Especially since with the full putty toolchain you can get an ssh-agent-like program, and import your DSA/RSA keys from openssh.
But openssh still holds the crown for "best". - pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Sweet! It connects to serial ports ... I was waiting for the day I could kill hypertrm :)
- Kickm3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16For those who use putty for win32 + screen + irssi (irc bliss...), you may want to check Putty Tray : http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/ . I'm not involved in this software (this is not interested advertising), but I love some of the extra features :
* New icon. The old one was, well uh, old.
* Minimize to the system tray (on CTRL+minimize, always or directly on startup)
* Customizable (tray) icon
* Blink tray icon when a bell signal is received
* Configurable window transparency
* URL hyperlinking
* Reconnect when PC wakes up from stand-by - M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13nice to see it's still being developed!
- florin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@Pilgrim
Yes, I just tried that, it works. - Pilgrim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9" PuTTY can now connect to local serial ports as well as making network connections."
Does this mean I can stop using Windows HyperTerminal to connect via console to the Cisco Routers that I work on? - clubmasta2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I use this at work, glad it made it to the front page :D
- DownSyndrom3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I love PuTTY.
- Tweidle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm all excited for the Serial support. I now NEVER have to use hyperterm ever again!
- rjgrel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11heh welcome to the retardedness that is digg :)
- tpink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8With Microsoft removing HyperTerminal from Vista, the ability to connect to local serial ports is killer.
- RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's the best Telnet client as well, IMO.
- urpwnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5it's a lot more than an SSH client! it does Telnet too, as well as xterm emulation. and if you add all the other stuff in the windows installer (as opposed to just downloading the exe) you get other cool stuff in one handy package, including SCP and SFTP, and a ssh authentication agent.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5squizz: there are no binaries because putty on a *nix system is next to pointless.
- heycasey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Someone mentioned it above, but I agree that SecureCRT is an excellent terminal program for Windows. Supports SSH, telnet, serial, etc. and also does tabbed sessions. I find myself needing to make the same config change on several servers or switches, so it's a matter of connecting to all the devices at once and sending the same command to all the open sessions via their "Chat window". It's pricey, but it pays for itself in time saved.
- Tweidle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Doh you beat me to it!! Its a happy day indeed!
- atlantean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@yvovandoorn: As much as I like iTerm too, its a terminal, not an SSH client. SSH in OS X is done using OpenSSH.
$ ssh -v
OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 - jaredvolkl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dugg because I didn't even know putty was in active development.
- bart9h, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I use cygwin's rxvt, running bash.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Because for those of us with a clue, it's nice to know what new features PuTTY now supports.
- sincewednesday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I wish they would integrate the Cygwin patch ( http://web.gccaz.edu/~medgar/puttycyg/ ), which lets you use PuTTY to connect to your local Cygwin shell.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does anyone know a way to use PuTTY in place of cmd.exe? The few times I need to use cmd it's horrible - Need to go though the properties panel to resize it, the copy/paste is annoying, the linewrap is copied when copy/pasting, among other annoyances.
Preferably a way that doesn't involve an SSH server to be running on Windows, since the ones I've tried I dislike, and it's slightly pointless running SSH only for use locally
- Ben - KoZo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I always use PuTTY to access Linux servers from my Windows box but one of the things that annoys me is that it doest support tabs, I don't know if this is doable but it's nice feature.
- JonLatane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to use WinSCP and PuTTY for managing my UNIX servers. However, since switching to Linux, I must say things are even easier. With SSH and GNOME's support for SFTP, I don't see myself ever going back to WinSCP.
- OnipSemaj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are you a n00b? How could you hate PuTTY with a *passion*? Perhaps you don't understand what its is for...
PuTTY is a Godsend for non-Linux environments. It is especially useful in conjunction with Exceed or other x-terminal emulators. - TheSavageNation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Look into this: http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For what it's worth, the "local proxying" bit is explained here: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.59/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-proxy-type I *think* it's the same sort of thing that lets you hook up OpenSSH to Corkscrew to tunnel SSH through corporate HTTPS firewalls (something Putty natively does, but it gives you flexibility to tunnel over other protocols as well).
- M2Ys4U, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yes
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice, thanks!
- thepurplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Really. I was just using hyperterm last week on a switch after looking (and not finding) Serial as an option in .58. Glad they added it.
- aaroncampbell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use PuTTY everyday. I have 2 sessions open at the moment. What I need is a good SSH that works on my Moto Q. Anyone know of any? I tried the PuTTY Portable, but couldn't get it to work right on the Q.
- mptolman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.freesshd.com is a good, lightweight SSH server for Windows that you can use PuTTY to connect to.
- Snakedal337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What do you prefer on windows?
- bmauter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Let's hear it for
"* Bug fix: PSFTP (and PSCP) sometimes ran slowly and consumed lots of CPU when started directly from Windows Explorer."
Man, that drove me crazy. I think "consumed lots of CPU" was an understatement. More like near box lockup...
Thanks a bunch!
-Brian - ohstoopid1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good to see an upgrade! I use it daily, it's my path to the internet/IM at work.
I connect to our freeswan vpn box on our DMZ to bypass our firewall/proxy via dynamic socks tunneling. All 2 of our network admins are clueless to it. - Vouksh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@KickM3:
THANK YOU! Now I can minimize putty at school without my teacher noticing it. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes, for Windows. I still preferred SecureCRT more, but then it is not free. :(
- cgruber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cool serial port access.. I've been waiting for that one FOREVER. hyperterm blows, although I've been typically using secureCRT only for serial use.
Now it needs TABS! :) - thechitowncubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@mcwizard
From changelog:
"PuTTY can now connect to local serial ports as well as making network connections." - derekivey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems a lot faster :).
- OnipSemaj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Running PuTTY to ssh or telnet into windows doesn't make sense, unless you have an ssh server running. PuTTY assumes the target host is a Unix/Linux environment. I think what you may be after is something like MSH: http://www.developer.com/net/article.php/3286851
- apecat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why on earth is URL highlighting/detection still not in the official release?
- mptolman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know if portaPuTTY (http://socialistsushi.com/portaputty) will be updated with the new version?
- kdtop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love PuTTY. I use it daily. It's hard to believe that it is still version 0.x. I would say it is stable enough to be a version 1.0 or greater... Keep up that good work!
- prophase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used it before I got comfortable with putty. It only does SSH 1 so i had to ditch it as i didn't want to enable that on my servers just for my own terminal access.
- codmate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Am I the only person in the universe using Tera Term? ;)
- jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To get PuTTY to work like HyperTerminal, with serial ports,
for backspace, Terminal | Keyboard | The Backspace key: Control-H;
and for line ascii, Window | Translation | Character set translation on received data | Received data assumed to be in which character set: Use font encoding. - talso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Putty Session Manager is awesome for those with lots of hosts, the saved sessions list hasn't improved in the new version.
It's nice to get things a bit more organized. I could use one more hotkey though ;)
http://puttysm.sourceforge.net/ -
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