SecureCRT(R) 9.4 (Beta) -- May 2, 2023
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All rights reserved.
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 9.4 (Beta 3) -- May 2, 2023
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Bug Fix:
- When certain options that should not have affected the window
size were changed, the window unexpectedly resized.
Changes in SecureCRT 9.4 (Beta 2) -- April 13, 2023
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Change:
- Added a session INI-file-only option that allows the maximum
RDP version to be specified for an RDP session so that
connecting and resizing work correctly if the remote system is
running an older version of RDP.
Bug Fixes:
- When SecureCRT was launched from the command line with just the
/Script option, the specified script did not run.
- When raw logging was enabled, data shown in the view may have
been duplicated in the log file.
- Mac: When opening the built-in SecureCRT help, the help content
failed to load.
- Linux: When attempting to print or view the printer configuration
page, SecureCRT may have disabled all printing even when a valid
printer was configured on the system.
Changes in SecureCRT 9.4 (Beta 1) -- March 28, 2023
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New Features:
- Added a system color scheme, which uses a light or dark color
scheme for the session depending on whether the system is using
Light Mode or Dark Mode.
- Added support for Python 3.11.
- An optional description can be added to a button on a button bar
or a command in the Command Manager. The description is shown
in the status bar and hover text.
- Added the ability to specify saved credentials, a port number,
and a session description when doing a text file import.
- Added the ability to rename a keyword list for keyword
highlighting.
- Added a session option to suppress the expired certificate
warning.
- Added a session option to ignore bracketed paste mode.
- Windows: Added a "System" display theme, which uses a light or
dark display theme depending on whether the system set to Light
or Dark Mode.
- Windows: The icons used for sessions in the Session Manager and
Connect dialog reflect the session's protocol.
- Windows: Added the ability for RDP sessions to redirect the
following: audio, printers, clipboard, keyboard shortcuts.
- Windows: Added support for using x509v3-ecdsa-sha2* algorithms
from RFC 6187 for keys stored in a .pfx or .p12 file.
- Windows: Added an administrative option that prevents host keys
from being saved.
- Windows: Added an administrative option that disallows the
anti-idle capabilities.
- Windows: Added an administrative option to migrate silently when
the configuration settings need to be migrated.
- Windows: For Windows 11, FTP/TLS, and HTTPS sessions now support
TLS 1.3.
- Linux: Added support for Python 3.10.
Changes:
- If an ad hoc session launched from Quick Connect, the connect
bar, the command line, etc. prompts for a username, saved
credentials can be used in the prompt.
- The Text Import Wizard dialog can be resized and the size is
remembered.
- The Button Bar and Selected Key dialogs can be resized and the
size is remembered.
- The Map Selected Key, Map Button, and Command Properties dialogs
can be resized.
- It's now possible for a script to close the tab that started
the script.
- In the Global Options dialog, the options for setting the tab
width are more intuitive.
- The TFTP server now validates the upload and download folder
paths when it starts and displays a prompt if the folders don't
exist.
- When a TFTP upload or download folder path is being validated,
the prompt that asks if the folder should be created can be
canceled, allowing the folder path to be changed.
- When a folder that doesn't exist is specified as the TFTP upload
or download folder, the user is given the option to create it.
- Parameter substitutions are supported in the TFTP server log
file name.
- If the system blink rate is set to None, the cursor is displayed
regardless of the value of the session option "Blinking".
- The option to ignore shift out (\016) escape sequences can be
set in the Session Options dialog.
- For new installations, the global option "Preserve window size
when opening sessions" is on by default.
- If a script attempts to connect an RDP session, an error is now
reported.
- OpenSSH keepalive messages are only displayed in trace output
when the trace level is greater than or equal to 3.
- The license serial number is now included in trace output.
- Windows: If the global option "Use trackable insertion caret" is
set, when "Enter Passphrase" dialog is opened, focus is placed
on the first radio button.
- Mac: The command-line tools are now included in the DMG
installer.
- Linux: The command-line utilities are now included in the
installer.
Bug Fixes:
- When using the "New Session Wizard" to create a local shell
session, the name of an existing session could have been
specified, causing the existing session to be overwritten.
- When SecureCRT and SecureFX are integrated, if the "Store personal
data separately" option was toggled, the configuration could have
been migrated while one of the applications was still running.
- When connecting to an OpenSSH server, if the password contained
Unicode characters, authentication may have failed.
- If the Command Window's send mode was set to "Visible Sessions"
and SecureCRT is started in tiled mode, the send mode was changed
to "Send commands to active session".
- When modifying the Default session and choosing to apply the
change to all saved sessions, the change was unexpectedly
applied to the default local shell session.
- The Default session was loaded as a session if its Terminal
protocol did not require a hostname and an invalid session
was specified on the command line.
- When keyword highlighting was enabled, words were not
highlighted when they scrolled past the current view.
- When keyword highlighting was enabled, not all phrases were
highlighted as expected.
- When a large amount of data was scrolling in the terminal view,
the data flow may have appeared jumpy.
- When attempting to send "\\w" or "\\s" strings from a logon action,
if a saved credential was in use, incorrect data was sent.
- If a blinking cursor was disabled at the system level, text
that would have been shown blinking may not have been visible.
- When downloading a file using ZModem, the terminal prompt may not
have been shown after the transfer completed.
- When importing sessions from a file, if an unknown protocol and
Credentials were specified, the import had indeterminate results.
- If a script was run with arguments from the Button Bar or
Command Manager, running the same script from the Script menu
did not clear the previously specified arguments.
- When a disconnected session tab was reused by a different
session, the font from the disconnected session was used.
- When SecureCRT was launched from the command line with a save
session, if any other options were specified along with the
session name (e.g., /P ), SecureCRT displayed an error
about a hostname being required.
- VSFTP: If file locking failed when referencing a public-key file
on an NFS mount, the key would not have been used.
- Windows: If an RDP session that was connected via a script was
closed and a non-RDP session was then connected, SecureCRT could
have crashed.
- Windows: When importing settings from a text file, if the Text
Import Wizard dialog was closed during the import, SecureCRT
could have crashed.
- Windows: Under unknown circumstances, when attempting to use a
button on the Button Bar, SecureCRT could have crashed.
- Windows: Under rare circumstances, when launching SecureFX from
a SecureCRT window, SecureFX could have crashed.
- Windows: When using the JAWS screen reader, characters displayed
in the terminal were not always read as expected.
- Windows: When launching from the command line with the /S session
option, if the "Default" session was specified, a hostname prompt
was displayed and the hostname entered was unexpectedly saved to
the default session configuration.
- Windows: When a remote server rejected a shell request, SecureCRT
displayed an error dialog and if that dialog was not dismissed,
subsequent connections stalled during authentication.
- Windows: If the customize toolbar dialog was opened while there
were multiple top-level windows, SecureCRT could have hung.
- Windows: When FIPS mode was enabled, sessions that were migrated
from an older version of the application may not have had the
AES-CTR ciphers enabled.
- Windows: After upgrading from SecureCRT 9.2 to SecureCRT 9.3,
attempting to connect a session that uses CAPI or PKCS#11 for
public-key authentication may have reported an error that the
specified certificate was not found.
- Windows: If there were multiple certificates in CAPI that
originated from smart cards and at least one of those smart
cards was not available to the system, authenticating with a
specific certificate in which the smart card was available
could have resulted in an error requesting the selection of a
different smart card device.
- Windows: When connecting to a Pragma Fortress server that was
configured to use a X.509 host key, the connection failed due
to a host key validation error.
- Windows: If the "Use Windows copy and paste hotkeys" option was
enabled for the Default session, using "Ctrl+v" to paste into
the connect bar stopped working after an initial paste operation.
- Windows: The "Answerback" and "Terminal type" session options
could never be enabled.
- Windows: When connected to an xrdp server on certain Linux
distributions (e.g., Debian 11), resizing the window could have
resulted in SecureCRT becoming unresponsive for several seconds.
- Windows: When the mouse-over pop-up was displayed for a session
while an auto-hidden Session Manager was expanded, the pop-up
was not dismissed after connecting to the session.
- Windows: On the session options Logon Actions page, using the
mnemonic for the "Arguments" field when the field was disabled
could have caused the dialog to unexpectedly close.
- Windows: When certain dialogs were displayed for a connected
session, output within that session stalled until the dialog
was dismissed.
- Windows: When using the backspace key in a Local Shell session,
whole words were deleted at a time instead of single characters.
- Windows: When opening SecureFX from a connected local shell
session within SecureCRT, an error was displayed by SecureFX
regarding the local shell session being invalid.
- Windows: If the toolbar item "Connect Bar" was resized, the new
size was not saved and the old size was used when the application
restarted.
- Windows: When moving the position of a list item (e.g., Cipher,
MAC) using keyboard shortcuts, if the up or down button became
disabled (due to the item being at the top most or bottom most
position), the dialog itself lost keyboard focus.
- Windows: If the digital signature failed to verify when
launching the application, the error dialog displayed may not
have shown the actual error.
- Mac/Linux: If the "Initial send commands to" global option was
set to "Visible Sessions" and SecureCRT started in tiled window
mode, sending a command from the Command Window could have
resulted in a crash.
- Mac/Linux: Under certain circumstances, when checking if there
was a crash to report at startup, the application could have
hung.
- Mac/Linux: When authenticating using an OpenSSH trusted
certificate with the rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com
algorithm, authentication could have failed.
- Mac/Linux: When the default Local Shell session was configured
to automatically open at startup, the Local Shell session was
not opened.
- Mac/Linux: When using the Session Manager, if a change to the
session database was made on disk, closing and re-opening the
Session Manager did not show those changes.
- Mac: When multiple SecureCRT windows were open and one of the
windows was closed while the toolbar was toggled on or off,
SecureCRT could have crashed.
- Linux: When the operating system was suspended while there were
connected sessions, the sessions' connection state did not update
as expected.
- Linux: When creating a TLS certificate, the Select Certificate
File dialog appended both file extensions (*.pfx, *.p12) listed
in the filter list to the base filename.
