SecureCRT(R) 6.2.3 (Official) -- September 10, 2009 Copyright (C) 1995-2009 VanDyke Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This file contains a SecureCRT product history. It includes lists of new features, changes, and bug fixes sorted by release. For a product description, installation notes, registration information, and contact information, please refer to Readme.txt (downloaded with this installation). Changes in SecureCRT 6.2.3 (Official) -- September 10, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - SecureCRT uses the Microsoft developer libraries that contain the 07/28/2009 ATL update. - The global value for the maximum number of columns can be set to a value as small as 132. Bug fixes: - SecureCRT 6.2.2 could get into a state where it attempted to connect to a session that did not exist, which caused a crash. - If a custom .mnu file that contained a syntax error was specified, it could cause multiple SecureCRT.exe processes to be started and then SecureCRT crashed. - If text was being output and the session was scrolled up using the mouse wheel, text selected using the mouse was not selected correctly. - In version 6.2.2, if a session that used ANSI colors and the color scheme was modified so that it no longer used the color scheme, the session display was not refreshed. - TAPI: Phone numbers could not be saved for TAPI sessions. Changes in SecureCRT 6.2.2 (Official) -- July 2, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Added support for administratively prohibiting checking for updates from within SecureCRT. Bug fixes: - SecureCRT could crash if a session showing elapsed time was connected and the Windows system date or time was set to a value in the past. - If a session that required a password was cloned, the password had to be entered again. - When the session option "Use Windows copy and paste hotkeys" was set, the hotkeys for Find and Select All did not work. - If the path in the "Select File to Send as ASCII" dialog was changed, it was not remembered the next time that dialog was displayed. It is now remembered until SecureCRT exits. - The installer did not honor LICENSE_FILE or CONFIG_FOLDER_PATH entries that were specified in an ANSWERFILE. - Silent installs did not add the program to the Start menu or the list of installed programs in the Windows Control Panel. - Telnet: If a logon script that did not send an initial carriage return was specified for a session, a carriage return (OxOD) was sent in a separate packet during authentication, which caused authentication to fail if the server used line mode. - SSH2: Previously, the default GEX preferred key size was changed from 2046 to 2048. However, the GSSAPI GEX maximum key size was still 2046, which caused the server to report an error and disconnect the session when GSSAPI GEX was used. Changes in SecureCRT 6.2.1 (Official) -- April 28, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------- Bug fixes: - SecureCRT could not be installed on systems where InstallShield custom actions do not work. - If a license with a maintenance date in the format MM-DD-YY was entered, SecureCRT crashed. - Under Vista, the mouse wheel did not scroll if the system used the MS Explorer Mouse driver. - Function and arrow keys did not work correctly with servers that expect all the characters in escape sequences to be sent in the same packet. - In a session with the "Retain size and font" option set, if the window was resized so that it was smaller than the logical rows and columns, the wrong text was highlighted during a find operation. - If a session was opened in a new window and the window was closed prior to authentication completing, authentication prompts continued to be displayed. - In the Keymap Editor, if a key was selected and a keymap that mapped that key was loaded, the keymap assignment display was not updated. - In the Connect dialog, a session that was copied could not be pasted more than two times. - If the Visual Studio 2008 DLLs were not in the side-by-side cache, MFC90.DLL errors were written to the event viewer when SecureCRT ran. - SSH1/SSH2: If an RSA key with a passphrase was added in the Manage Agent Keys dialog and the wrong passphrase was entered, the incorrect error "The key packet is corrupt, damaged, or incompatibly formatted" was reported and was still reported after the correct passphrase was entered. Changes in SecureCRT 6.2 (Official) -- March 31, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------- No changes. Changes in SecureCRT 6.2 (Beta 3) -- March 19, 2009 --------------------------------------------------- Bug fixes: - SecureCRT crashed if a session was disconnected before the shell request succeeded. - SecureCRT crashed if the File menu was selected after the menu bar was reset to Default from the Menus tab in the Customize menu. - When some escaped ASCII characters such as "\200" were sent to the remote system from a script or a mapped key, they were transformed first. - With the "Retain size and font" option set, the PageUp and PageDown keys scrolled a different amount than when using the mouse to page up and page down. - The trace output displayed garbage for an "Unknown CHANNEL_REQUEST" message. - When generating a public key in the Key Generation wizard, the progress bar was not displayed until after the key had been generated. - Three-year licenses were not being honored. - In the Connect dialog, when a new folder was added, a folder called "New Folder" was also added. - In the Connect dialog, attempting to rename a session to the same name as its parent folder reported an error that the name was already in use. - After pasting a copied session into a folder in the Connect dialog, the folder was selected. - SSH1: When SecureCRT was installed on a U3 drive, public-key authentication always failed for SSH1 sessions. - SSH2: Attempting to authenticate using GSSAPI with the 64-bit MIT Kerberos DLL failed. - SFTP: If a transfer operation was cancelled using CTRL+C, the SFTP tab became unresponsive. Changes in SecureCRT 6.2 (Beta 2) -- February 17, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------ Bug fixes: - Under Vista, selecting a file using "Zmodem Upload List..." from the Transfer menu caused SecureCRT to crash. - If the "Clear on disconnect" option was set and SecureCRT went into full screen mode after disconnecting from a session that had more than a page of output, SecureCRT crashed. - SecureCRT could crash after attempting to connect to a host that was not responding. - Under certain circumstances, SecureCRT could crash after scrolling back and then attempting to select some text. - If a session setting was changed in the Session Options dialog and then the Session Options dialog was re-opened, SecureCRT sometimes crashed. - If the X/Y/Zmodem upload and download folders did not exist and a Zmodem download was started and the "Browse for Folder" dialog was used after the transfer had timed out, SecureCRT crashed. - If the command line specified a path for a script, the script was not launched. - On a 64-bit machine, Help could not be launched. - With the "Retain size and font" option set, under certain circumstances, data displayed in the session window could not be selected. - If a Zmodem transfer was started and the download directory was not valid, if the "Browse for Folder" dialog was cancelled after the transfer timed out, garbage characters were sent to the server. - In the Connect dialog, if several sessions were selected and one was de-selected, when the mouse was right-clicked to display the context menu, the session was selected. - New color schemes added to an active session were not saved to the configuration file. - The 64-bit combined SecureCRT and SecureFX installer installed into the x86 location when run in silent mode. - In the installer, on the dialog that shows where the application is going to be installed, long install location paths were cut off. - The upgrade eligibility date displayed in the installer was not correct. Changes in SecureCRT 6.2 (Beta 1) -- January 29, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------- New features: - A native 64-bit Windows version is available. - Multiple sessions can be selected and edited from the Connect dialog. Only the changed fields will be applied to the selected sessions, which allows specific settings to be changed for a group of sessions. - There is a new option to remember which sessions were open the last time SecureCRT ran so that they can be launched the next time the application runs. - Added an option to create a new log file at midnight, which can be used to do automatic log rotation. - Added support for creating folders when a log file path is specified that does not already exist, which allows parameter substitutions to be used in folder names for log file paths. - Added a command-line parameter /LOG, which allows a log file to be specified on the command line. - A blank password can be used to lock a session, which makes it easier to prevent accidental typing in sessions. - SSH2: Added support for PKCS#11, allowing a Cryptographic Token Interface to be used for smart-card authentication. - SSH2: In the Activator, agent support has been enhanced by allowing keys to be explicitly added and removed. - SFTP: Added support for recursive remove (rm -r). - SFTP: Added support for the flags -a and -d to the ls and lls commands. Changes: - Empty cells are not stored in the scrollback buffer, which in most cases, significantly reduces the amount of memory used by a session. - The default Maximum columns setting has been increased to 256. - The default download, upload, and public key generation folders have been changed to "My Documents". Under Vista, the default download folder is the user's Download folder. Only new installations are affected. - When SecureCRT and SecureFX are integrated, if the SecureFX button on the SecureCRT toolbar is pressed and the current session does not have a valid file transfer protocol specified, a more informative message is displayed. - Serial: Added support for changing the baud rate of a connected session. - SSH1/SSH2: Added support for specifying a password in the Session Options dialog. - SSH1/SSH2: When creating an identity file, moving the mouse is no longer required to generate random data. Bug fixes: - A script that called crt.Close immediately after calling crt.Screen.Send could cause SecureCRT to crash. - Connecting multiple sessions in tabs from a script sometimes did not work correctly and some sessions hung or did not connect. - If the first tabbed session used the vt100 font, a session that used UTF-8 encoding could not be cloned. - The terminal dimensions were not updated when tabs were dragged between windows of different dimensions. - After exiting a session of vi that changed the foreground and background colors, the foreground and background colors were not restored correctly. - In some cases, the scrollbar was in the wrong position after switching between tabbed sessions. - When downloading a file that contained an illegal character such as ":" using Zmodem or Ymodem, the file name was truncated at the illegal character. Illegal characters are now replaced with "_". - If a firewall was specified on the command line and the firewall name contained a space, it was not used. - If the "Auto Save Options" setting was off and a value was changed in the Global Options dialog, if the Global Options dialog was re-opened, the change was not reflected in the dialog. - SecureCRT had to be restarted in order for changes made to the Default session to be honored in Quick Connect. - If a session was deleted while it was connected, the session was added to the session database after it was disconnected. - If the "Retain size and font" option was set and the window was resized, under certain circumstances, some lines did not have the correct background color. - If a firewall failed to connect and the "Auto reconnect" option was set, a new firewall authentication dialog was displayed every second.