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- SecureFX« 1.9.2 (Official) -- March 21, 2001
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- Copyright ⌐ 1995-2001 by Van Dyke Technologies, Inc.
- All rights reserved.
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- This file contains a SecureFX product history. It includes lists of
- new features, changes, and bug fixes sorted by release. For a product
- description, installation notes, registration and contact information,
- please refer to Readme.txt (downloaded with this installation).
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- Changes in SecureFX 1.9.2 (Official)
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- New features:
- - Added support for AES and Blowfish ciphers
- - Added support for generating and using RSA public keys
- - Added support for accepting RSA host keys when authenticating
- - Added global "Host Key Algorithms" registry parameter to
- specify the order in which host keys will be used to
- authenticate. The default is DSA then RSA. The option can also
- be used to limit which type of host key will be accepted
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- Bug fixes:
- - The Key Generation wizard would exit when a problem occurred
- creating public-key pair files. Now, an error is displayed and
- control is returned to the "Finish" page instead
- - Upload transfers of large files using SFTP could terminate
- prematurely when compression was enabled
- - Authentication banners did not display when connecting to an
- SSH2 server
- - Viewing the Session Configuration dialog for a session could
- cause a GPF if the last selected page was not visible for the
- chosen protocol
- - The default "anonymous" username could appear with a capital
- "A" when configuring a session
- - Importing CuteFTP 4.x databases could cause a GPF
- - Upload transfers on systems using LANBridge sockets would
- upload data indefinitely
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- Changes in SecureFX 1.9.1 (Official)
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- New features:
- - The New Host Key dialog now displays an MD5 fingerprint of
- the SSH2 server's host key for easier verification
- - Added support for one-time passwords that use MD4 or MD5
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- Bug fixes:
- - Manual upload and remote edit operations could cause a GPF
- after the upload completed
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- Changes in SecureFX 1.9 (Official)
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- Bug fixes:
- - Failed to automatically detect "dss F-SECURE SSH" ident string
- as an SSH Communications 2.1.0 server
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- Changes in SecureFX 1.9 (Beta 3)
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- Changes:
- - SFTP sessions now display folder listings as results return
- rather than waiting until the listing is complete
- - Under Windows 2000, when the application is run for the first
- time, the application prompts the user to create the application
- data folder
- - Changed the maximum delay time between connection retries from
- 60 seconds to 9 hours
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- Bug fixes:
- - Disconnecting FTP over SSH2 and SFTP connections now completely
- disconnects from the SSH2 server
- - Reconnecting a failed SFTP connection could cause a GPF when
- closing the session window
- - Canceling an upload transfer on a slow SFTP connection could
- cause a GPF
- - Improved download speed of SFTP and FTP over SSH2 connections
- - Multiple simultaneous downloads on a single SFTP connection
- would transfer slowly or appear to stall
- - Multiple simultaneous transfers on a single SFTP connection
- could terminate prematurely
- - Login scripts that generate a lot of output could cause an
- "Out of memory" error message
- - The SSH2 address field on the Session Configuration SSH2 page
- could be incorrect after a login attempt failed using the
- FTP settings
- - The username field on the SSH2 page could display the anonymous
- username when clearing the "Use FTP settings" check box
- - A "bad channel" error could occur when reconnecting a session
- after the SFTP channel had been closed
- - Quick Connect dialog would clear entered data when the protocol
- was changed
- - Pressing the Help button on the License Wizard would cause an
- error message
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- Changes in SecureFX 1.9 (Beta 2)
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- New features:
- - Added protocol selector to the Quick Connect dialog
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- Changes:
- - Session Configuration dialog always displays the Public Key
- category for secure (SSH2) protocols
- - About Box dialog now displays license data and provides
- shortcuts to Van Dyke Technologies support e-mail address and
- Web address
- - Moved the Session Configuration options "Disable directory tree
- detection" and "Verify file status on retrieve" to the Options
- category
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- Bug fixes:
- - Attempting more than one SFTP operation simultaneously could
- cause a GPF if one prompted for user input
- - The Connect dialog would display an incorrect hostname in the
- tooltip for SFTP sessions
- - Filenames appended with an asterisk ('*') returned by SFTP
- servers could not be used
- - The Session Configuration dialog would display the FTP topic
- for SFTP sessions
- - The Session Configuration dialog did not disable the "File
- creation mask" option for SFTP sessions
- - Quick Synchronize could use an incorrect local path under
- Windows 2000
- - Some files (e.g., .CAB) could appear as folders in the tree
- view and fail to transfer properly under Windows 2000
- - The Session window would not display the initial directory
- when using Reconnect to establish a connection to a server
- that failed initially
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- Changes in SecureFX 1.9 (Beta 1)
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- New features:
- - Added support for "hmac-sha1-96" and "hmac-md5-96" MACs
- - Added support for SFTP
- - Added support for servers that require both password and
- public-key authentication
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- Changes:
- - The New Session wizard now prompts for the protocol prior to
- the hostname and port information
- - The session window will no longer close on connection failure
- if the "Close window on disconnect" Global Configuration
- option is not checked
- - Ctrl+Tab now changes pages in the Session and Global
- Configuration dialogs
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- Bug fixes:
- - A memory leak could occur when an SSH2 server failed to
- establish a connection to the FTP server
- - Key re-exchange could fail on SSH2 servers that support it
- - Dragging a folder from secondary root items in the tree view
- was not possible
- - Using Change Directory to change hard drive roots on a remote
- system could cause the drive to appear under another folder
- - Some poorly formatted directory listing entries could cause
- a GPF
-