Software Update: WinSCP 5.17

After a long development process, version 5.17 of WinSCP has finally appeared. This open source program allows files to be copied between two computers in a secure way. The program supports ftp, secure ftp and the older scpprotocol. WinSCP is not only available as a standalone program, but also as plugin for the FAR and Altap Salamander programmes. The most important changes and improvements made in version 5.17 are listed below.

New features and enhancements include:

• Improvements to sessions and workspace management, so that WinSCP can now easily restore tabs that were open when it was last closed.
• Hardware accelerated AES.
• Extension Archive and Download to archive remote files and download the archive.
• Improvements to Synchronization checklist window.
• Allowed sorting of find results.
• SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.73.
• The binaries are signed with new EV certificate valid until February 2023.
• List of all changes.