SecureFX(R) 9.6.3 (Official) -- May 8, 2025
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This file contains the SecureFX 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 SecureFX_README.txt (downloaded with this
installation).
Changes in SecureFX 9.6.3 (Official) -- May 8, 2025
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New Feature:
- Windows: SecureFX officially supports Windows Server 2025.
Bug Fix:
- Converting a VanDyke-format SSH keypair to OpenSSH format used
the old OpenSSH format instead of the new format.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6.2 (Official) -- February 20, 2025
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Bug Fixes:
- Options for a currently open session that were changed from the
Session Manager were not saved or applied.
- Importing credentials that were exported from a configuration
using a personal data folder into a configuration using a single
folder could have resulted in empty credential entries.
- Some global and session options were not saved when imported from
an XML file.
- Invalid global and session option integer values could have been
imported from an XML file.
- Windows: Upgrading SecureFX via a silent install with an answer
file could have failed to upgrade protocol DLLs, causing the
upgraded version to fail to start.
- Windows: When using one of the legacy display themes, an
unexpected lag may have been present when scrolling through
sessions in the Session Manager.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6.1 (Official) -- December 17, 2024
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Bug Fixes:
- When authenticating with an OpenSSH Trusted Certificate, if the
.pub file was specified as the public key, authentication failed.
- Global SSH2 settings were not updated after being imported from an
XML file.
- Under certain circumstances, some global and session options were
not updated after being imported from an XML file.
- Values for custom filetypes were not imported correctly from an
XML file.
- Windows: When importing a configuration that changed the protocol
for an existing session, the icon displayed in the Session
Manager indicating the session protocol was not updated.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6 (Official) -- November 19, 2024
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No changes.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6 (Beta 5) -- November 12, 2024
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Bug Fixes:
- When importing FTPS or HTTPS sessions, the FTPS/HTTPS-specific
session options were not imported correctly.
- When firewall configurations were included in an XML file
import, existing firewalls with the same name were not updated
with the new settings.
- Windows: When using a legacy theme (e.g., Shaded), certain
toolbar buttons may have used the incorrect icons.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6 (Beta 4) -- October 24, 2024
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Changes:
- Mac/Linux: Proxy commands specified in firewalls will use the
user's shell environment.
- Mac: When switching the window format from tabs to tiles, an
icon is no longer shown on the tiled window title bar.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6 (Beta 3) -- October 1, 2024
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Changes:
- When using a personal data folder, if the configuration path is
changed in the Global Options dialog, the personal data folder
will be updated to match only if it has the same path.
- The Bookmarks address bar button now displays a popup tooltip
and a status bar tip.
Bug Fixes:
- If TLS certificate validation was disabled, certificate revocation
checking may have still been performed.
- Mac/Linux: When the "Bandwidth limit" option was configured, the
actual bandwidth limit imposed was much lower than the limit set.
- Mac: When using a PKCS #11 library to access certificates on a
smart card, the Select Certificate dialog did not display the
certificates on the smart card.
- Mac: PKCS #11 provider libraries with a .so extension were not
selectable from the Public Key Properties dialog.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6 (Beta 2) -- August 28, 2024
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Bug Fixes:
- When connecting to an AWS S3 host, certain regions (e.g.,
us-isob-east-1) failed to connect.
- When selecting a certificate using PKCS #11 in the Public Key
Properties dialog, the "Get username from certificate" option
was unselectable.
- Windows/Linux: When running synchronization operations in SFXCL,
the values specified for the "Retry Attempts" and "Retry Delay"
options in the Global.ini file were ignored.
Changes in SecureFX 9.6 (Beta 1) -- August 15, 2024
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New Features:
- Added a button to the address bar that makes it easier to access
bookmarks.
- Added SCP support for NetMRI devices.
- Added support for POSIX renames (posix-rename@openssh.com).
- Added the ability to accept OpenSSH trusted certificates as host
keys.
- Added support for SSH private keys encrypted with the AES-256-CBC
cipher.
- Initial filters can be specified for a session's local and remote
directories.
- Specific folders and sessions can be selected and exported to an
XML file.
- Added the ability to prevent sensitive data such as passwords
and usernames from being included in an XML export.
- Added the ability to include the sensitive configuration data
contained in the personal data folder when doing an XML export.
- Added the ability to change the hostname (or IP address) for
multiple sessions at the same time.
- SFXCL: Added wildcard support to file listings (/LIST).
- SFXCL: On Windows and Linux, added support for /LIST with local
file paths.
- Mac/Linux: Added a new Firewall type "Proxy command" which
allows a local proxy command to be run when connecting to a
remote server.
- Linux: Added support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
- Linux: The system appearance Light or Dark setting is honored by
the SecureFX application window.
Changes:
- For new configurations, the default value for the receive and send
buffers is "Use system default size".
- SecureFX no longer puts quotes around the comment when
generating keys.
- For XML exports, the hostkey database is only included by
default when "Global Options" is selected.
- Public-key information is now stored in the personal data folder
if it is being used.
- When enabling a personal data store, the personal data folder
path must now be an empty directory.
- When using a personal data store, the personal data folder path
will update to match any changes made to the public configuration
folder.
- The Hostname can now be modified when editing multiple sessions.
- The Manage Agent Keys dialog now supports multi-selection and
bulk removal of keys.
- Added a global INI-file-only option "SFXCL Honor Unescaped
Wildcards" to set SFXCL to interpret unescaped '?' characters as
wildcards.
- Windows: The installer is now compliant with Microsoft guidelines
for Single Package Authoring (dual-purpose package), which allows
per-machine and per-user installations.
- Windows: For new installations, the taskbar thumbnail preview
now shows a single thumbnail of the application window.
- Windows: When adding a new credential, the Public Key Properties
dialog can now be opened before a credential title and username
have been specified.
- Mac: The correct icon is now shown in the File Types page in the
Global Options dialog.
- Mac: Title bars, toolbars, and status bars no longer have a
gradient style.
Bugs Fixes:
- When connecting to an AWS S3 host and the "us-gov-*" region was
specified, the connection failed.
- When using PGP to decrypt downloaded files, PGP armored files
(.asc extension) were not decrypted.
- When the SecureFX log file was changed to include an environment
variable (e.g., %USERPROFILE%), the environment variable was not
expanded and a folder with the name of the variable was created.
- When importing sessions from an XML file, the session options
not specified in the XML file did not inherit from the Default
session as expected.
- When the "Show Session Manager or Connect dialog on startup"
option was enabled and there were no saved sessions, the
Session Manager or Connect dialog were not shown at startup.
- When using OpenSSL for TLS connections (the default on macOS and
Linux), the available client-side TLS protocols were not logged
correctly.
- When using the New Session wizard to create a session, the
firewall dropdown listed each configured firewall twice.
- When prompted with certain SSH1/SSH2 host key acceptance dialogs,
the text on the dialog may have been malformatted.
- When the license data copied to the clipboard stripped the
newlines (i.e., license data was on a single line), the License
wizard was not been able to parse the data.
- Windows: When the VANDYKE_SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable was
used to specify a different SSH agent to use, SecureFX did not
honor the setting.
- Windows: When a SecureFX window was shared within a Microsoft
Teams meeting, certain actions could cause the window to appear
frozen to the meeting attendants.
- Windows: When the Enter key was pressed to connect to a session
or host from the Connect Bar, a bell sound was unexpectedly
played.
- Windows: With FIPS mode enabled, attempting to change an RSA
private-key passphrase failed.
- Windows: The SecureFX application window could have been
displayed off screen if the system display settings were changed.
- Windows: If the system text size was increased, the text
displayed on various dialogs was not scaled as expected.
- Windows: When navigating the Firewall selection dropdown via the
keyboard, when the "Select Session..." option was highlighted,
the Select Session dialog was automatically opened.
- Windows: On some dialogs, the label was not displayed when the
mouse hovered over a button.
- Windows: Importing from an XML file failed silently if an
imported session's name contained illegal characters.
- Windows: When launching the Connect dialog from a docked
SecureCRT taskbar icon, then choosing to open a session in
SecureFX, both SecureCRT and SecureFX opened.
- Windows: When using the OpenSSH agent, if an error occurred when
a key was added to the agent, the error message may not have been
displayed as expected.
- Windows: When focus was in the Connect Bar and the Enter key was
pressed without entering a hostname or session, a connection was
attempted using the "" hint text as the hostname.
- Windows: When SecureCRT and SecureFX were integrated and the
terminal protocol was changed to one that does not allow a file
transfer protocol to be set, the file transfer pages may not have
been hidden.
- Windows: On Windows 11, the application window did not have
rounded corners when the "VS2013 Blue", "VS2013 Dark", or
"Office 2013" display theme was selected.
- Mac: When updating the applications using "Update Now", if
elevating to an administrator account was required, the
installation of the new version may have failed.
- Mac: When the system color mode changed from Light to Dark or
Dark to Light, the color of some items in the Global and
Session options dialogs did not update.
- Mac: When SecureFX was launched for the first time with a new
configuration, both the Session Manager and Quick Connect dialog
were displayed. This resulted in focus being placed in the Quick
Connect dialog with no visible cursor.
- Mac: The SecureFX icon appeared blurry on some Retina displays
when using Command+Tab to switch applications.
- Mac/Linux: When connecting to a session that had an IP address
specified for the hostname, an unnecessary name lookup was
performed on the IP, which could result in the connection
failing.
- Mac/Linux: When opening SecureFX from a connected SecureCRT
session tab, the session did not open after SecureFX launched.
- Linux: When SFXCL was exiting from an operation, a crash could
have occurred.
- Linux: When using SFXCL for an FTPS connection, TLS-related log
messages may not have been displayed as expected.
- Linux: The Help button in the Connect dialog could not be
pressed.
