Software Update: WinSCP 4.2.6

A new stable version of WinSCP was released on Tuesday. Released under an open source license, this program can securely copy files between two computers. The program supports ftp, secure ftp and the older secure copy (scp) protocol. WinSCP is not only available as a standalone program, but is also available as plugin available for the file management programs FAR and Altap Salamander. It changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Changes in version 4.2.5:

• 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