Versie 0.78 van PuTTY is beschikbaar gekomen. PuTTY is een van de populairste telnet- en ssh-clients, waarmee het mogelijk is om een computer over een beveiligde verbinding op afstand te beheren. Oorspronkelijk was het programma alleen beschikbaar voor Windows, maar er zijn tegenwoordig ook clients voor de diverse Unix-platforms. Wegens een probleem wordt Windows-gebruikers aangeraden eerst de oude versie te verwijderen. De changelog voor deze uitgave kan hieronder worden gevonden.
Changes in version 0.78:
- Support for OpenSSH certificates, for both user authentication keys and host keys.
- New SSH proxy modes, for running a custom shell command or subsystem on the proxy server instead of forwarding a port through it.
- New plugin system to allow a helper program to provide responses in
keyboard-interactive
authentication, intended to automate one-time password systems.- Support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange,
- Support for AES-GCM (in the OpenSSH style rather than RFC 5647).
- Support for more forms of Diffie-Hellman key exchange: new larger integer groups (such as group16 and group18), and support for using those and ECDH with GSSAPI.
- Bug fix: the 32-bit Windows build now runs on Windows XP again.
- Bug fix: server-controlled window title setting now works again even if the character set is ISO 8859 (or a few other affected single-byte character sets).
- Bug fix: certain forms of OSC escape sequences (sent by some real servers) could cause PuTTY to crash.
- Bug fix: the
-pwfile
/-pw
options no longer affect local key passphrase prompts, and no longer suppress Plink's anti-spoofing measures.Note: installing the 0.78 or later Windows installer will not automatically uninstall 0.77 or earlier, due to a change we've made to work around a bug. We recommend uninstalling the old version first, if possible. If both end up installed, uninstalling both and then re-installing the new version will fix things up.