SecureCRT(R) 8.3 (Beta) -- October 12, 2017
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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 8.3 (Beta 3) -- October 12, 2017
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Change:
- The button bar now uses a templated path, which gets modified to
an appropriate path on each platform, for script paths.
Bug fixes:
- When the script function WaitForKey was called with a timeout
value, it always returned False.
- The Move up and Move down icons in dialogs did not display
correctly on high-DPI monitors.
- Windows: SecureCRT crashed in the Windows 10 Creators Update
when a smart card (PIV/CAC) was used.
- Mac: The menu bar contained two Help menus.
- Linux: The Table of Contents was missing from the online Help.
Changes in SecureCRT 8.3 (Beta 2) -- October 3, 2017
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Change:
- Mac/Linux: Added "Open SecureFX" to the tab context menu when
SecureFX is integrated with SecureCRT.
Bug fixes:
- Windows: The File menu in the default.mnu file did not contain
"Hex View".
- Mac: If SecureCRT was maximized on a second monitor and closed
using the red "X": button, it was not maximized the next time it
was launched.
Changes in SecureCRT 8.3 (Beta 1) -- September 21, 2017
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New features:
- Added several new built-in color schemes, including the Solarized
color schemes. There is a variety of light and dark color
schemes, all of which have coordinated background, foreground,
and ANSI color combinations.
- Multiple global ANSI color palettes can be defined and a specific
color palette can be specified for a color scheme.
- Added autocomplete to the Connect bar in the toolbar, which makes
finding and connecting to saved sessions easier.
- When the SecureCRT window is resized, the text in the terminal
area is rewrapped if the "On resize" option is set to "Synchronize
view to size".
- A paste confirmation dialog option allows you to preview the
contents of the paste buffer before pasting multiple lines of text
into a session.
- Multiple sessions can be dragged and dropped or copied and pasted in
the Session Manager and Connect dialog.
- SSH2: Added support for the ChaCha20/Poly1305 cipher.
- SSH2: Added support for the AES-GCM cipher.
- SSH2: Added support for the UMAC-128 MAC algorithm.
- SSH2: Added the ability to use OpenSSH certificates for
authenticating SSH2 sessions.
- SSH2: If a session cannot be cloned or connected using SFTP on the
existing SSH connection, SecureCRT will create a new connection.
- Added a tab context menu item that closes all sessions in the
current tab group.
- Added the ability to script session locking from the Session
object.
- Added a substitution parameter %F that can be used to specify the
session's subfolder in a log filename.
- Added a command-line option /FORWARDX11PACKETS to enable X11
forwarding.
- Platform-specific configuration settings such as font and window
position are now stored separately for each platform which is
helpful if settings are saved on a network drive and used on
different platforms.
- Windows: Added an Administrative Policy option to disconnect
sessions authenticated using CAPI/PKCS#11 when the corresponding
smart card is removed.
- Windows: Added the ability to hide the title bar for the Command
window.
- Mac: Added an "Update Now" menu item to see if a new version of
SecureCRT is available and if there is, clicking a button downloads
and installs it.
- Mac: Arguments can now be passed to a local application that is
launched when a tunnel is established.
Changes:
- Up to 20 sessions can be included on the recent session list.
- Middle clicking on the title bar of a tiled session closes the
session.
- Added a global INI-file-only option to specify the script path.
- The session level ANSI colors were removed since multiple global
ANSI color palettes can be created.
- SSH2: Modified the default authentication order to be PublicKey,
Keyboard Interactive, Password, and GSSAPI. This only affects
new installations.
- The session option "Minimize drawing (faster)" is now on by
default. This change only affects new installations.
- The default session filter delay has been changed from 500
milliseconds to 250 milliseconds. This only affects new
installations.
- For SSH1 and SSH2 sessions, if the session option "Backspace sends
Delete" is set, the opcode for Erase is set to ^? (delete), which
results in stty -a reporting erase = ^? and tells the terminal that
the erase character is Delete.
- The keyboard accelerators ALT+1 through ALT+0 only operate on the
current tab group.
- Added support for the %P logging substitution for Serial sessions.
- If the global option "Show Session Manager or Connect dialog on
startup" is set, the Session Manager is displayed when SecureCRT
starts. Previously, only the Connect dialog honored this option.
- If SecureCRT is launched using the -F command-line parameter or
is on a USB drive, the actual configuration path being used is
shown in the Global Options dialog.
- When saving a recorded script, if the file extension is blank, the
appropriate .vbs or .py extension is used.
- SSH2: If a session is using public-key authentication and the key
file has not been specified, the user is no longer prompted to
specify the file.
- SSH2: When importing an SSH2 host key, if it's possible to extract
the hostname, IP address, and port from the filename, those values
will be used as the default values. Otherwise, the default
value for port will be set to 22 and the other values will be
left blank.
- SSH2: When being prompted to accept an SSH2 host key, the
fingerprints are now shown in a separate dialog.
- SSH2: Pressing the SHIFT key in the New Host Key dialog allows a
host key to be saved once.
- In the View Host Key dialog, all the fingerprints can be
selected at once.
- In the View Host Key dialog, SHA-2 fingerprints are displayed
in base64 in addition to hexadecimal.
- SSH2: In the dialogs that prompt to accept the host key, the
SHA-2 fingerprint is also displayed in base64.
- SSH2: The trace output shows the SHA-2 host key fingerprint as
base64 in addition to hexadecimal.
- The username used for authentication is now logged in the trace
output.
- Trace output now includes printer initialization information.
- The Send String field in the Map Button and Map Selected Key
dialogs was made larger vertically and horizontally.
- The X11 forwarding display option can now be configured in the
Session Options dialog.
- Mac: For new installations, the global option "Use keychain" is
off by default.
- Mac/Linux: A custom baud rate for Serial sessions can be entered
by typing into the Baud rate field in the Session Options dialog.
- Mac/Linux: In the Session wizard, the Port name can be entered
manually by typing into the Port field.
Bug fixes:
- SecureCRT crashed when the system time went to midnight if the
logging option "Start new log at midnight" was set and the log
file name contained the substitution parameter %D.
- Windows: SecureCRT crashed if a session was being configured
and the protocol was changed while a TAPI system prompt was
displayed.
- A session could become slow or non-responsive if another session
was receiving and logging a lot of output.
- Filtered searches in the Session Manager and Connect dialog could be
very slow when the session database contained thousands of sessions.
- Using Quick Connect to connect to a Serial session did not work.
- TFTP transfers failed when an IPv6 address was used for the remote
system (macOS Sierra uses IPv6 addresses by default.)
- When an illegal character, such as a colon, was used in a log file
name, logging failed silently. Illegal characters can no longer be
used in a log file name.
- In the New Session wizard and the Quick Connect dialog, once a
session was selected as the Firewall, "Select Session..." was no
longer in the Firewall dropdown list.
- If a session was configured to start logging upon connect and
"Log Session" or "Raw Log Session" was selected from the File menu
before connecting to that session, logging was turned off.
- If a button bar name was empty or contained a quote character ("),
the button bar was not available after SecureCRT restarted. Button
bar names can no longer be empty or contain quote characters.
- Long button bar names were not completely visible in the button bar
dropdown list.
- If a value larger than 32,000 was entered as the maximum number
of columns in the Global Options dialog, no error was reported and
a smaller value was used.
- Attempting to modify protocol-specific options after changing the
protocol for a SessionConfig object in a script did not work.
- If the protocol options /SSH2, /SSH1, or /TELNET were specified on
the command line or in the Connect bar without specifying a host, an
error was reported.
- Windows: If a session tab had focus or the mouse hovered over a
session tab, pressing ALT+ did not bring up the Windows
system menu.
- Windows: If the Connect bar was showing a dropdown list,
pressing ALT+Q displayed the Quick Connect dialog, but did not
put focus there.
- Windows: Some printer setting changes made from the Print Setup
dialog were not saved.
- Windows: On high-DPI monitors, the EULA dialog in the installer did
not display correctly.
- Linux: In Ubuntu 16, toolbar icons and dialog fonts were not
displayed properly with high-DPI settings.
