Software Update: PuTTY 0.76

A new release of PuTTY has become available. PuTTY is one of the most popular telnet and ssh clients, which makes it possible to remotely manage a computer over a secure connection. Originally, the program was only available for Windows, but today there are also clients for the various Unix platforms. The changelog for version 0.76 can be found below.

New:

• New option to abandon an SSH connection if the server allows you to authenticate in a trivial manner.

bug fix:

• Windows PuTTY crashed when the ‘Use system colours’ option was used.
• Crash on Windows when using MIT Kerberos together with ‘Restart Session’.
• Windows PuTTY leaked named pipes after contacting Pageant.
• Windows PuTTY didn’t update the window while you held down the scrollbar arrow buttons long enough to ‘key-repeat’.
• User color-palette reconfiguration via ‘Change Settings’ were delayed-action.
• Server color-palette reconfigurations were sometimes lost.
• A tight loop could occur on reading a truncated private key file.
• The Windows Pageant GUI key list didn’t display key lengths.