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SecureCRT History


          SecureCRT(R) 9.3.2 (Official) -- February 7, 2023

            Copyright (C) 1995-2023 VanDyke Software, Inc.
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This file contains the SecureCRT product history.  It includes lists 
of new features, changes, and bug fixes sorted by release.  For a 
product description, installation notes, registration information,
and contact information, please refer to SecureCRT_README.txt
(downloaded with this installation).


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3.2 (Official) -- February 7, 2023
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Bug Fixes:

  - When using "Receive ASCII" to capture data from the remote
    system, the captured data may have been corrupt.

  - When keyword highlighting was enabled, not all phrases were
    highlighted as expected.

  - Windows: When using the JAWS screen reader, characters displayed
    in the terminal were sometimes not read as expected.

  - Mac: When updating the application on macOS Ventura via
    "Update now...", the installation may have been corrupted.

  - Mac: If the application path specified for a "Launch
    Application" action contained four or fewer characters,
    SecureCRT could have crashed when that action was launched.

  - Mac/Linux: When using OpenSSH trusted certificates for
    authentication, if the rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com
    algorithm was used, authentication could have failed.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3.1 (Official) -- December 6, 2022
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Bug Fix:

  - When authenticating using an OpenSSH trusted RSA certificate,
    authentication failed with OpenSSH version 7.7p1 and earlier.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3 (Official) -- November 3, 2022
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Vulnerability addressed:

  - An external report claims that when using a brute-force attack,
    sensitive data, such as passwords, stored in the SecureCRT or
    SecureFX configuration without a configuration passphrase or with
    a weak configuration passphrase can be cracked in a relatively
    short amount of time.  Direct access to the configuration data is
    required in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Change:

  - Windows: When the command-line utilities are installed with the
    SecureCRT standalone installer, the install path is added to
    the PATH environment variable.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3 (Beta 5) -- October 25, 2022
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Changes:

  - Windows: Allow the use of ssh-rsa and ssh-dss algorithms for
    signature verification when FIPS mode is enabled.

Bug Fixes:

  - When authenticating with a public key that was invalid for the
    remote host, the key was retried twice before falling back to
    the next authentication method.

  - If a session file was renamed or deleted on disk while the
    application was running, raising the context menu for the
    session from within the Session Manager could have resulted
    in a crash.

  - If the scrollback buffer size was set to zero, attempting to
    extend a text selection into the non-existent scrollback
    resulted in a crash.

  - When an existing configuration was migrated to the new
    encryption standard, Session Logon Actions may have failed to
    migrate and could have been reset to default settings.

  - Keyword highlighting changes for a connected session were not
    applied to the current session view.

  - Windows: When connecting to an RDP host from a script and an
    invalid credentials file was referenced, the RDP tab could not
    be closed.

  - Command-line tools: If the host key algorithm preference list
    was specified on the command line, the algorithm order was not
    always honored.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3 (Beta 4) -- September 29, 2022
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Bug Fixes:

  - When merging a personal data configuration folder back into the
    main configuration, the operation could have failed due to a
    mismatch of session files that should have been ignored.

  - When SecureCRT was started from the command line with a script
    that automatically reconnects the session, an error stating "Only
    one script can be run at a time" would be displayed if the session
    was disconnected.

  - Windows: Under certain circumstances, if a script was cancelled
    during a sleep operation, SecureCRT could have crashed once the
    sleep operation completed.

  - Windows: When running grep with color options enabled on a large
    amount of output, the SecureCRT UI could have been slow to respond.

  - Windows: When multiple top-level SecureCRT windows were open, if
    the Command Window was toggled on in one of the windows, the
    right-click context menu could have failed to display in various
    locations.

  - Windows: If a large number of tabs were open, causing the tab
    widths to be truncated, renaming a tab label via a script could
    have resulted in the tab size expanding to full width, then
    resizing to the correct truncated size.

  - Windows: When moving the position of an authentication method
    using keyboard shortcuts, if the up or down button became
    disabled (due to the method being the topmost or bottom most
    position), the dialog itself lost keyboard focus.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3 (Beta 3) -- August 16, 2022
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Bug Fixes:

  - Under certain cases, if a script was cancelled during a sleep
    operation, SecureCRT could crash once the sleep completed.

  - If the "Preserve window size when opening sessions" option was
    enabled, connecting to a session that reused a disconnected tab
    caused the window to unexpectedly resize.

  - When launching the application with a new configuration, the
    Quick Connect dialog was not displayed at startup as expected.

  - If there were a large number of tabs open, causing the tab
    widths to be truncated, renaming a tab label via a script could
    have resulted in the tab size expanding to full width, then
    resizing to the correct truncated size.

  - When the application license was stored in a license file (.lic)
    and the license data was included in a configuration export,
    importing the license on another machine may not have worked as
    expected.

  - Windows: When starting the application using an alternate
    configuration path (via the /F command-line option), if the
    Global.ini file in the alternate location was incomplete, the
    Global.ini file in the default configuration location would have
    been reset.

  - Mac: When "Scale the font" resize method was configured for a
    session, the text displayed in the terminal view could become
    unreadable with certain window sizes.

  - Mac: On Monterey and later systems, if the application crashed
    and produced a core dump, the crash reporter dialog reported that
    no core dump was available.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3 (Beta 2) -- July 19, 2022
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New Feature:

  - Windows: The Global Options and Session Options dialogs can be
    resized and the size is remembered.

Changes:

  - In the Session Options dialog, the column widths for the Keywords
    table in the Keyword Highlighting category are remembered.

  - The Manage Agent Keys dialog can be resized and the size is
    remembered.

Bug Fixes:

  - Windows: The Help Search tab did not work.

  - Windows: When running a Perl script, setting the Screen object's
    IgnoreCase property to true had no effect.

  - Windows: When running a Perl script, the IgnoreCase parameter in
    the ReadString and WaitForString methods was interpreted as the
    timeout parameter.

  - Windows: If the "Enable alternate screen switching" option was
    disabled while the "Add alternate screen output to scrollback"
    sub-option was enabled, the sub-option was shown as enabled after
    re-opening the Session Options dialog.


Changes in SecureCRT 9.3 (Beta 1) -- June 28, 2022
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New Features:

  - Added an option to check for updates automatically at startup.

  - Added the ability to specify saved credentials in "Send" Logon
    Actions.

  - Added a global option that preserves the application window
    size when a session is opened.

  - For keyword highlighting, the "Match case" option can now be
    specified per keyword.  Previously, it could only be specified
    for the entire keyword list.

  - For keyword highlighting, attributes such as bold and reverse
    video can now be specified for individual keywords.

  - Added the ability to resize the Keyword List Properties dialog.

  - Added an option that forces a prompt for the hostname when the
    session connects.

  - Added the ability to disable individual local and remote port
    forwards.

  - Added the ability to duplicate a session in the Session Manager
    or Connect dialog.

  - Added the ability to duplicate local and remote port forwards.

  - Added the ability to correlate a PKCS#11 private key to an
    OpenSSH Trusted Certificate for public-key authentication.

  - Added the ability to configure the session font from the tab
    right-click menu.

  - Added a global INI-file-only option to disable tooltips for
    tabbed sessions.

  - Added the ability to use the algorithms
    rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com and
    rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com as OpenSSH certificate types.

  - SSH2: Added support for using the x509v3-rsa2048-sha256 algorithm
    for authentication (RFC 6187).

  - Windows: Added support for using rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512
    public-key algorithms as raw SSH2 keys for CAPI certificates
    (RFC 8332).

  - Windows: Added support for using x509v3-ecdsa-sha2* algorithms
    from RFC 6187 for keys in the CAPI store and as raw SSH2 keys.

  - Windows: Added the ability to import RDP sessions using the Text
    Import wizard.

  - Windows: Added an administrative option that suppresses the
    prompt for a configuration passphrase the first time the
    application runs.

  - Windows: Added an administrative option that disables Expect/Send
    logon actions and logon scripts.

  - Windows: Added an administrative option for disabling non-secure
    file transfers.

  - Windows: Added the ability to pass command-line arguments to the
    shell for local shell sessions.

  - Windows: Added an icon for the "Keyword Highlighting" menu item,
    which can also be used when customizing the toolbar.

  - Windows: A suite of separate command-line utilities (formerly
    the VanDyke ClientPack) for securely automating file transfer,
    shell, and public-key administration tasks is included with
    SecureCRT.

  - Mac/Linux: The tarball installer includes a suite of separate
    command-line utilities (formerly the VanDyke ClientPack) for
    securely automating file transfer, shell, and public-key
    administration tasks.

Changes:

  - Improved speed of terminal output display when the host sends
    screen changes that do not cause scrolling.

  - Increased the character limit for keywords from 246 to 2048,
    which allows more complex regular expressions to be specified
    for keyword highlighting.

  - In the Edit Keyword dialog, the keyword text box is larger,
    which makes it easier to edit complex regular expressions for
    keyword highlighting.

  - The session option "Alternate Screen Output Added To Scrollback"
    can now be set in the Session Options dialog.

  - The "New Input" connection status indicator can be turned off.

  - The number of sessions that can be opened simultaneously before
    a warning is displayed can now be configured.

  - The session name is now included in the trace output.

  - SSH2: Trace output for the host key now includes the type and
    size.

  - SSH2: The View Host Key dialog now includes the type and size
    for the selected host key.

  - Windows: If there's a signature failure when attempting to load
    a Python DLL, a prompt is displayed, which allows the signature
    failure to be ignored once or always, or disable Python scripting.

  - Windows: When the Quick Connect dialog is displayed, initial
    focus is placed in the Protocol field when the global option
    "Use trackable insertion caret" is checked.  Otherwise, initial
    focus is placed in the Hostname field.

  - Windows: Added the ability to set the "Close on disconnect"
    option for RDP sessions.

  - Windows: Added "Find" to the right-click menu for the scratchpad
    and script editor.

  - Windows: The default search direction is down when doing a find
    in a scratchpad or script editor.

  - Mac/Linux: When the Quick Connect dialog is displayed, initial
    focus is placed in the Hostname field.

Bug Fixes:

  - Under unknown conditions, a TFTP transfer from a Cisco device
    could have resulted in a crash.

  - If a script referenced a tab object for a tab that had been
    closed, SecureCRT could have crashed.

  - Modifying keyword highlighting settings could have caused
    SecureCRT to go unresponsive.

  - When connecting to multiple sessions sequentially, if the "Exit
    when last session is disconnected" option was enabled and the
    first session failed to connect, the application window closed,
    preventing subsequent sessions from connecting.

  - When resizing the window while there was text selected in the
    terminal view, the selection would not be cleared, resulting in
    the selection moving to a different block of text.

  - If keyword highlighting was disabled for a connected session, the
    highlighting was not cleared in the scrollback buffer.

  - When using the "Retain size and font" or "Scale the font" session
    resize options and all text in the view was selected, the
    selection may not have been cleared when the session window was
    resized.

  - When a YModem transfer over a serial connection between two
    paired COM ports successfully completed or was canceled, the
    Transfer menu items remained disabled.

  - Under certain scenarios, when using public-key authentication
    with agent forwarding enabled, keys were added to the remote
    agent.

  - If a session was disconnected while an alternate screen
    application (e.g., screen, mc) was running, the scrollback
    buffer was disabled if another session re-used the disconnected
    tab.

  - When setting the tab caption via a script, the window title was
    updated when the tab running the script did not have focus.

  - When a newly connected session re-used a disconnected tab, the
    "Add alternate screen output to scrollback" option state for
    the disconnected tab was used.

  - Windows: Under rare circumstances, when closing the application
    while an RDP session was connected, a crash could have occurred.

  - Windows: If the "Connect to multiple sessions sequentially" option
    was enabled and multiple RDP sessions attempted to connect at once,
    only one session connected.

  - Windows: If a Local Shell session was disconnected or closed
    while processing a large amount of scrolling data, SecureCRT
    could have become unresponsive.

  - Windows: When authenticating with a certificate from the
    personal CAPI store, if the "Use certificate as raw SSH2 key"
    option was enabled, the key was not correctly added to agent
    and a subsequent connection could have failed with an agent
    signature error.

  - Windows: When connecting to a server that used an X.509
    certificate for the host key and the certificate met all
    requirements for automatic acceptance of the host key by the
    client, the application still prompted the user to manually
    accept and save the key.

  - Windows: When a Python 2 script was run from the Button Bar or
    Command Manager and the script was sent to multiple connected
    sessions, a dialog reporting a "Codec Registry" error may have
    been displayed.

  - Windows: When searching for text within a scratchpad or script
    editor session, the view did not scroll with the search.

  - Windows: When the "Single Instance" option was enabled, opening
    the "Connect..." or "Quick Connect..." options from the SecureCRT
    taskbar icon failed. 

  - Windows: Multiple CAPI errors could have been reported when
    attempting to display a certificate fingerprint if the
    fingerprint for any certificate could not be obtained.

  - Windows: If the signature failed to verify for the protocol or
    Python DLLs, the file path displayed on the warning dialog may
    have been cut off.

  - Mac: When "Scale the font" resize method was configured for a
    session, the text displayed in the terminal view could have
    become unreadable with certain window sizes.

  - Mac: When the abbreviated SecureCRT menu bar was displayed (e.g.,
    when the SecureCRT main window was closed to the dock), the
    "Update Now..." menu item failed to launch the update utility.

  - Mac: If a network connection was unavailable while checking for
    an update via "Update Now", the error displayed did not report a
    helpful message.

  - Mac/Linux: If the Command Manager was pinned or floating,
    sending a command to a session did not move focus to the
    terminal view.

  - Mac/Linux: When connected to a remote UNIX server using the
    SFTP tab, uploading a file that contained a colon character as
    part of the name would have been uploaded to the remote user's
    home directory instead of the current working directory.

  - VSFTP (Mac/Linux): When connected to a remote UNIX server,
    uploading a file that contained a colon character as part of the
    filename would have been uploaded to the remote user's home
    directory instead of the current working directory.