Vandyke Releases SecureCRT 5.1.3 (Build 281). Download now!

A new bugfix update has been released for Vandyke SecureCRT 5.1, the highly acclaimed security and remote administration suite.

SecureCRT 5.1.3, which includes GUI and command line tools for connecting to servers via SSH (v1 and v2), Telnet, Rlogin and other communication protocols, has been improved with fixes that affect several aspects of the GUI (graphical user interface), some terminal emulation options and parts of the SSH1 protocol implementation.

Other minor changes include removal of older SecureCRT versions from the Control Panel "Add/Remove Programs" appliance and small changes to the Quick Connect dialog.

A significant change regarding SSH1 is that compression is now turned off by default for newly created connections that use this protocol.

Check the full changelog below for more details.

*** WHAT'S NEW IN SECURECRT 5.1.3 ***

Changes:
- SSH1: Compression is now off by default.

Bug fixes:
- Reduced the time it takes for the Connect dialog to display, which was noticeable on a network or USB drive.
- Running a script that modified the ANSI colors caused SecureCRT to crash.
- When CTRL+TAB was used to switch between tabs, the scrollbar had the position of the most recently active tab rather than the previous position for that tab.
- The keymap assignments changed when there were multiple tabs and a session in a tab other than the first tab was reset.
- It was not possible to specify a UNC path (Samba) for a log file as it was in versions prior to 5.0.
- In SecureCRT 5.1.2, it was not possible to disable "Send initial carriage return" in Logon Scripts as in previous versions.
- Upgrading to a newer version of SecureCRT did not remove the old entry in Add/Remove programs.
- SSH1: Under certain circumstances, SSH1 port forwarding ended abruptly.
- SSH1: When generating an RSA key for an SSH1 session, if the user did not have write permissions for the specified save folder, SecureCRT crashed.
- SSH1: The NO-OP anti-idle option caused random characters to be sent to Cisco ISR routers. The "Send protocol NO-OP" session option can now be turned off for SSH1 sessions.
- SSH1: It was not possible to specify the DES cipher from the command line for SSH1 sessions.
- VSFTP: If the "version" command was issued when VSFTP was not connected to a session, VSFTP crashed.


*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

VanDyke Homepage
Download SecureCRT 5.1.3 (.exe - 8.91MB)
SecureCRT Product Page
General What's New page for VanDyke products