A minor update has been released for Vandyke SecureCRT 5.1, the highly acclaimed security and remote administration suite. SecureCRT 5.1.1, which includes GUI and command line tools for connecting to servers via SSH (v1 and v2), Telnet, Rlogin and other communication protocols, has been further improved with new features and a few bugfixes.

Please see below for more details.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN SECURECRT 5.1.1 ***

Changes:

- For new installations, the default local directory for SFTP tabs
is now “My Documents”. The SFTP local directory can be set
through a session INI-file only option called “Sftp Tab Local
Directory”.

Bug fixes:

- There were problems with line drawing characters and menu
positions when running dellmgr.
- On 64-bit systems, pressing “8″ brought SecureCRT to the
foreground.
- In some cases, when the SecureCRT window was maximized, the
arrow control was placed in the tab bar even though it was
not necessary.
- SSH2: Under certain circumstances, SecureCRT crashed when
attempting to start an X client using SSH2 X11 forwarding.
- SSH2: The trailing slash was no longer being appended during
local file completion. This was a change in behavior from 5.0.
- SSH2: It was not possible to change the passphrase of a public
key through the Public Key Properties dialog.
- SSH2: When initiating an SSH2 password change from the Password
Properties dialog and multiple authentications were selected,
misleading errors were displayed.

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

VanDyke Homepage
Download SecureCRT 5.1.1 (.exe - 8.91MB)
SecureCRT Product Page
General What’s New page for VanDyke products

This just in: Nero 7 Premium 7.2.0.3 has just been uploaded on the company’s FTP servers. The official Nero Product release notes page mentions the new version, but there is no information on the actual changes included in this release.

(Note: A new version, 7.2.3.2b, has been released on the 23rd of June 2006.)

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Download Nero 7.2.0.3 All languages (No Yahoo Toolbar, .exe - 568MB)
Download Nero 7.2.0.3 English (No Yahoo Toolbar, .exe - 128MB)
Download Nero 7.2.0.3 German (No Yahoo Toolbar, .exe - 133MB)
Download Nero 7.2.0.3 Russian (No Yahoo Toolbar, .exe - 133MB)
Other languages and versions (FTP Directory)
Full changelog information
Nero 7 Product Page

The second beta of WinRAR 3.60 has found its way to the ‘net and our hungry hard disks a few minutes ago. The changelog is very poor in information regarding new features… this seems more like a bugfix release (Rarlab doesn’t take on Microsoft’s practice and strives to continue to support Windows 98). See below for yourself.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN WINRAR 3.60 BETA 2 ***

- Improved Unicode support in the folder tree panel
- Fixed a bug with incorrect font in the volume size list in Japanese Windows 98

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

WinRAR Review
Download WinRAR 3.60 Beta 2 for Windows (.exe - 1MB)
Download RAR 3.60 Beta 2 for Mac OS X (.tar.gz - 357KB)
Download RAR 3.60 Beta 2 for Linux (.exe - 734KB)
Download WinRAR 3.60 Beta 2 for Pocket PC (.exe - 259KB)

The 13th of April seems to have had a special effect on 7-Zip’s development cycle - we got two betas, released about two hours apart.

The second beta, 4.39, is again a bugfix release, but this time we get to know the bug fixed, check below.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 4.39 BETA ***

Bug in versions 4.33b to 4.38b was fixed:
* 7-Zip could not correctly compress files larger than 2 GB to 7z archive in fast/fastest modes (HC4 match finder).

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Full 7-Zip Review
Download 7-Zip 4.39 Beta for Windows (.exe - 805KB)
Download 7-Zip 4.39 Beta for Windows (MSI - 860KB)
Download 7-Zip 4.39 Beta for Windows x64 (MSI - 1.2MB)
Download p7zip 4.39 for Linux (1.7MB)

Igor Pavlov has just unleashed a fresh 7-Zip beta: 4.38. It appears to be mostly a bugfix release, since the changelog is not very generous in terms of details (see below).

*** WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 4.38 BETA ***

- Some bugs were fixed

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Full 7-Zip Review
Download 7-Zip Beta 4.38 for Windows (.exe - 805KB)
Download 7-Zip Beta 4.38 for Windows (MSI - 860KB)
Download 7-Zip Beta 4.38 for Windows x64 (MSI - 1.2MB)
Download p7zip for Linux (1.7MB)