SecureCRT 5.2 Final is out!

What comes following SecureCRT 5.2 Beta 4? Well, of course, it's SecureCRT 5.2 FINAL; as I suspected back then, we were really close to the final version, actually just a week away.

Vandyke did not publish much info about the changes since Beta 4, only a minor bugfix was mentioned.

The complete list of new features, changes and bug fixes for 5.2 is quite long, so I've included it below.


Here's a few highlights for the impatient/lazy:

- Several new networking features (support for unauthenticated/basic HTTP proxies, support for telnet over SSL)
- Improvements to the scripting system (allows interaction with tabs)
- A few user interface related niceties (option to make CTRL-TAB switch to the most recently used tab, paste on right click, display session connected time in status bar)
- Various SSH1/SSH2 protocol implementation improvements

Read on if you want more... or click to jump to the download section.


*** WHAT'S NEW INVANDYKE SECURECRT 5.2 ***

Changes in SecureCRT 5.2 (Official) -- October 10, 2006

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Bug fixes:
- Blank lines could not be used to end the header in a script.


Changes in SecureCRT 5.2 (Beta 4) -- October 3, 2006

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Bug fixes:
- SecureCRT crashed when cycling through tabbed sessions if one of
the tabs had been disconnected and was in the process of
connecting to a different server.
- When SecureCRT was integrated with SecureFX, double clicking a
transfer-only session in the Connect dialog did not launch
SecureFX.
- RLogin: RLogin connections failed if the Log File option "Prompt
for filename" was set.
- SSH2: SecureCRT crashed if the Public Key Assistant was launched
before the connection had completed.


Changes in SecureCRT 5.2 (Beta 3) -- September 21, 2006

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Changes:
- Added the script property Tab.Caption, which allows getting and
setting a tab's caption.
- Increased the size of the authentication, key exchange, ciphers,
and MACs list boxes in order to eliminate the scrollbars.
- Added a maximize button to the Connect dialog.

Bug fixes:
- Toggling the ANSI Color option did not immediately take effect
like it did in previous versions.
- If SecureFX was integrated with SecureCRT, SecureCRT crashed if a
file type that did not have an associated extension was edited.


Changes in SecureCRT 5.2 (Beta 2) -- September 7, 2006

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Changes:
- The Session Options dialog was made larger so that there are
no scrollbars in the Category tree.
- SSH2: Changed the default compression to "None". This only
affects new installations.

Bug fixes:
- SecureCRT crashed on Windows 2003 after connecting to a group
of sessions and then quickly closing the sessions.
- Newly created sessions launched in a new window had 16 rows
instead of 24 rows, which is the default.
- The SecureCRT 5.1 entry was not removed from the Start menu
after upgrading to 5.2.
- If the tab name was set from the tab context menu, it was not
possible to set the tab name from a script.
- Clicking the toolbar with both the left and right mouse buttons
simultaneously caused SecureCRT to stop responding to mouse
clicks.
- SSH1: SSH1 sessions were disconnected after issuing an "ls"
command and over 150 files were listed.


Changes in SecureCRT 5.2 (Beta 1) -- August 22, 2006

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New features:
- Added support for unauthenticated and basic HTTP proxies.
- Added script functions to support working with tabs. These
functions allow scripts to connect tabs, connect SFTP tabs,
clone tabs, activate tabs, and close tabs.
- Added a /T command-line option that supports launching sessions
in tabs. This flag can be used with /S and with sessions that
are not in the session database, such as URLs.
- Added a global option to have CTRL+TAB switch to the most
recently used tab.
- Tab control displays tooltips (or hover text) to show the full
tab label.
- Added support for Telnet over SSL.
- Added a global option to paste on right mouse click.
- Added a global option to display the elapsed time for connected
sessions in the status bar.
- Added a session option to translate incoming CRs to CRLF.
- Added a session option to map ANSI line drawing characters to
"+", "", etc. when they are copied to the clipboard.
- Added a global INI-file only option "ZModem Force All Caps
Filenames to Lower Case on Upload", which specifies whether or
not all caps filenames should be converted to lowercase during
a Zmodem upload.
- SSH2: Enhanced X.509 host-key support by validating X.509 host-
key certificates.
- SSH1/SSH2: Added /ACCEPTHOSTKEYS command-line parameter to
SecureCRT, which causes host keys to be automatically accepted.

Changes:
- Removed the command-line clients VSH, VCP, VSFTP, VPKA, and
VKEYGEN from the installer. These clients will be available as
a separate package.
- If the global setting "Show connection closed dialog" is off,
the reconnect dialog will not be displayed when the network is
disconnected.
- Added a global and session printing option to force black on
white printing.
- SecureCRT handles ] R in Linux terminal mode.

Bug fixes:
- If an HTTP proxy was being used and the session was disconnected
before the hostname was resolved, CPU usage went up to 100%.
- Changing a session's protocol from Telnet to SSH2 did not change
the port number like it did in SecureCRT 5.0 and prior versions.
- The "Color Schemes.ini" file could get corrupted when multiple
instances of SecureCRT were launched.
- If display changes were made, such as showing or hiding the tab
bar or chat window, the window size was incorrect when subsequent
session windows were launched.
- If SecureFX was integrated with SecureCRT and the SecureFX path
specified in the Global.ini file pointed to a 2.x version or an
invalid path, the error "Show Terminal Only session while running
SecureFX" was displayed.
- When editing the default session and a tab other than the first
tab was active, the "Apply change to all sessions?" prompt was
displayed even if no changes were made.
- When Midnight Commander was running and the session was using
Xterm emulation, clicking the mouse beyond the 80th column
generated garbage.
- SecureCRT was inaccessible if it was minimized from a script
when a dialog, such as the Connect dialog, was being displayed.
- Cancelling a script did not report the line number where the
script was cancelled like it did in versions prior to 5.0.
- Fixed the following tests in vttest that SecureCRT had been
failing.
- Line-drawing tests in "Test of double-sized characters" set.
- Request terminal parameters test in "Test of terminal
reports" set.
- Scrolling region and column mode escape sequence test in
"Test of known bugs" set.
- Upgrading to a newer version of SecureCRT did not remove the
old entry in Add/Remove programs.
- SSH2: SecureCRT could not validate the server's x.509 DSA host
key when the key was not encoded using ASN.1 (F-Secure and SSH
Communications servers).
- SSH2: SecureCRT could not validate the server's X.509 RSA host
key if the server used the SHA-1 hash (later versions of
F-Secure and SSH Communications servers).
- SSH2: If an incorrect username was entered in the username
prompt dialog and the "Save username" check box was unchecked,
this check box was incorrectly checked when re-prompting for
the username.
- SFTP: SecureCRT crashed when using tab to complete a filename
in an SFTP tab.

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Download SecureCRT 5.2 Final (.exe installer - 7.44MB)
Check out the SecureCRT product page
Visit the VanDyke homepage