Software update: PuTTY 0.54 beta

PuTTY, one of the most popular telnet/SSH clients for Win32 systems, has welcomed a new version. The biggest change for the release, which has been given the version number 0.54 beta, is that the software is now also ported to Unix. That’s not all though, the complete changelog looks like this:

• Port to Unix!
• Dynamic SSH port forwarding.
• Ability to leave DNS lookups to the proxy, when using a proxy.
• Sped up PSFTP.
• Fixed various bugs, notably one which was impeding port-forwarding of SMB.
• Some default settings changes: SSH and SSH2 are now default, BCE is off.

[break]The new version of the program is for Windows users here to find, Unix lovers can here find a tarball with the source so they can compile the program themselves.