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PuTTY 0.61 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the what's-old-is-new dept.

drmacinyasha writes "Simon Tatham announced Tuesday the official release of PuTTY 0.61 after four years of development. It brings a number of bug fixes and improvements, such as GSSAPI SSH-2 authentication, significantly faster SSH key exchanges, and even support for Windows 7's jump lists. Downloads are available from the project's homepage."

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  1. Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The authors would be millionaires if they charged for this. I see this software used many many places, so thanks.

    1. Re:Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      ... or it could be so frequently used just because it's free and open? There are plenty of commercial SSH alternatives if you want those.

  2. nice by hey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    putty makes the world work. I spend 90% of my day in putty... ssh-ed from a Windows box to various Linux boxes. It has never crashed.
    I also love the download page where you can grab just the .exe by http or ftp. If only everything else could be so perfect and simple.

  3. Puzzles by gringer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And for those people who don't have the intellectual desire to tinker away at a shell, Simon Tatham has a few puzzles for you:

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

    I accept no responsibility for loss of work months due to the use of these puzzles.

    --
    Ask me about repetitive DNA
  4. Re:Four years by mcvos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's what I thought. Wasn't PuTTY release-ready 10 years ago? At this pace, by the time they make an official 1.0 release, it's already obsolete.