WinSCP 6.2 beta

• Translation completed: Brazilian Portuguese.
• WebDAV/HTTP core upgraded to neon 0.32.4.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.9.
• Preventing opening tunneled sessions in PuTTY from Login dialog as it cannot work. 2116
• Bug fix: Agent forwarding does not work. 2113
• Bug fix: Stall when new folder is detected and the drive contains folders with numerical names. 2114
• Bug fix: New version notification is not displaying.

• Translation updated: Ukrainian.
• Added new me-central-1 AWS region.
• Bug fix: Site with a stored password protected by master password cannot be opened from command-line. 2101
• Bug fix: Opening session in new window fails. 2104

• Translation completed: Farsi.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1q.
• Bug fix: “Hidden files showing toggled” message displays opposite status.
• Bug fix: Cannot authenticate to WebDAV server with username containing some special characters. 2095
• Bug fix: Checkbox to set permissions recursively on Properties dialog is missing, when changing owner and group is not supported. 2097
• Bug fix: .NET assembly type library cannot be used in WSH. 2098

• Translation completed: Polish.
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1p.
• Not offering to create a link to parent directory, when it happens to be selected, when starting to create a link. 2091
• Bug fix: Extension options dialog layout broken on systems with multiple monitors with different text scaling. 2090
• Bug fix: Failure when starting parallel FTP background transfers. 2093
• Bug fix: Directory coloring rules on remote panel do not work. 2094

• Bug fix: Hang when entering small directories with FTP protocol. 2087
• Bug fix: Lag when moving files from remote panel using drag&drop. 2088
• Bug fix: After certain operations, drive that was ever opened in local file panel cannot be safely removed temporaril

• SSH core and SSH private key tools (PuTTYgen and Pageant) upgraded to PuTTY 0.77. It brings the following changes:
  • Pageant: Option --openssh-config to allow easy interoperation with Windows’s ssh.exe. win-pageant-openssh-interop
  • Bug fix: PuTTYgen’s mouse-based entropy collection now handles high-frequency mice without getting confused. win-puttygen-entropy-rate-limit
  • Bug fix: Pageant can now handle large numbers of concurrent connections without hanging or crashing. win-pageant-max-connections-2
  • Bug fix: If Pageant is started multiple times simultaneously, the instances should reliably agree on one of them to be the persistent server. win-pageant-concurrent-startup
• Improved error message when FTP server returns malformed response. 2077
• Translations updated: German and Slovak.
• Not listing remote directory when downloading file using FTP protocol with overwrite confirmations off. 2084
• Workaround for calls to system API failing when used first time against some network shares (Samba) with paths over the legacy Windows limit. 2082
• Workaround for an apparent bug in Windows 11 that prevents WinSCP from stopping Windows going to the sleep mode during transfers. 2083
• Workaround for specific encoding of commas in filenames (and particularly directory names) by OneDrive WebDAV interface. 2085
• Bug fix: When transferring a growing file, after its original size is reached, the Session.FileTransferProgress event starts being triggered continuously. 2078
• Bug fix: Restored pre-5.20.3 behaviour with MVS systems. 2086

• Translations completed: Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian; and updated: Vietnamese
• Streaming support in .NET assembly and scripting for FTP protocol. 1945
• Improved compatibility with MVS systems. 2069
• New .NET assembly method Session.TryGetFileInfo. Thanks to @RachamimYaakobov. 2068
• Expanding environment variables in Open Directory/Location Profiles dialogs in local paths. 909
• Optimized loading of large directories. 1631
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1o.
• Installer upgraded to Inno Setup 6.2.1.
• When group (Site/Shared) to which new location profile is added is changed, switching the page to the target group.
• Preventing occasional exhaustion of resources while testing WinSCP executable version on repeated use of .NET assembly. 2075
• Bug fix: Capabilities of S3 sessions were not shown.
• Bug fix: Misplaced warning about unused scripting parameters when /rawsettings command-line switch is used. 2070
• Bug fix: File panels malfunction when files are dropped from other application to it. 2071
• Bug fix: When logging transfer statistics, recent transfer speed was logged instead of average speed of whole transfer. 2073
• Bug fix: z/OS PDS members without ISPF statistics are omitted in directory listing. 2076

5.20.2 beta - 2022-04-06

• Translations updated: German and Vietnamese.
• SSH core upgraded to pre-release build of PuTTY 0.77.
  It brings the following changes:
  • Support for HTTP Digest authentication for proxies. http-digestauth
  • Interactive username/password prompts for proxy authentication. 468 proxy-password-prompt
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1n.
• WebDAV core upgraded to neon 0.32.2.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.8.
• Allowed uploading edited files over encrypted session. 1989
• Building .NET assembly in Visual Studio 2019.
• Optionally not flashing taskbar button when WinSCP needs attention while in the background. 2067
• In .NET assembly or scripting with “nul” configuration, when WinSCP registry key does not exist, do not write statistics to INI file. 2066
• New less prominent icon for Quit command.
• Bug fix: Failure when attempting to switch to an unconnected sessions using keyboard shortcuts while another session is being connected.
• Bug fix: Removing all custom commands resets the default ones when INI file is used. 2059
• Bug fix: Failure when changing remote folder using directory tree while previous directory is still loading. 2060
• Bug fix: Drive that was ever opened in local file panel cannot be safely removed until WinSCP is closed. 2061
• Bug fix: “Optimize connection buffer size” checkbox was disabled for S3 although it has effect for the protocol. 2058
• Bug fix: Custom commands menu fail to open. 2062
• Bug fix: Local drive menu does not reflect some changes. 2063
• Bug fix: Using drive menu to change to an invalid drive fails silently.
• Bug fix: Scripting command ls in FTP session displays timestamps without year even if the server (notably IIS) provided the year, if it did not provide seconds. 2065

• Translation updated: German.
• Back-propagated fixes from 5.20–5.20.2 releases:
  • TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1m.
  • XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.6.

5.20.1 beta - 2022-01-07

• File masks relative to the root of an operation. 2052
• Private key can be provided as string in .NET assembly and scripting. 2044
• Support for importing key files that are specified using home ~ prefix from OpenSSH config file. 2053
• TLS/SSL core upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1m.
• Commands that do not fit on Custom Commands toolbar are presented in drop down menu, instead of a horizontal bar. 554
• First hiding right-most Custom Commands toolbar commands that do not fit
• Prevent hang when dragging files without drag&drop shell extensions when some mapped network drive is not available. 2054
• Added new ap-southeast-3 AWS region.
• XML parser upgraded to Expat 2.4.2.
• Bug fix: When initial remote directory specified in the open command does not exist, the error was silently ignored.
• Bug fix: File color rules with path mask do not work for local files.