PuTTY 0.61 Released

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."

Comments

Re:Link

[bamf]

Use Kitty instead. Having said that, clickable links don't always work correctly.

Thanks!

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Thanks!

[Anonymous Coward]

... 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.

Re:PowerShell Integration?

[TheRaven64]

Why not just install OpenSSH? Then you can run the ssh and scp command-line tools as normal. If you install Cygwin, they're probably there already. The advantage of PuTTY is that it includes its own terminal emulator, which is important because the Windows one sucks (or, did when I last used Windows - Win2K - it may be better now).

I have no problem try this

[NSN A392-99-964-5927]

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Re:PowerShell Integration?

[bmo]

The thing about Putty is that it's a self contained executable, which means you can throw it on the flash drive that's already hanging from your key ring. No need for cygwin or whatever. Nothing to install on the host system.

Some of us have full Linux distributions there and various Windows tools for fixing busted Windows machines.

Where's yours?

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BMO

nice

[hey]

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.

Re:PuTTY Tray FTW.

[Any Web Loco]

Doesn't look like it will be sadly. From the download page:

Please note: I have decided to stop development of the PuTTY Tray patch, and I have no plans to resume it at any point in the future.

Puzzles

[gringer]

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.

Re:Four years

[mcvos]

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.

Re:Link

[arglebargle_xiv]

Use Kitty instead. Having said that, clickable links don't always work correctly.

That is, unfortunately, true of pretty much everything that Kitty provides as a value-add for Putty. Everything almost, but not quite, works. I really, really wanted to like Kitty (it adds a ton of neat features to Putty), but after about two weeks of frustration I went back to Putty.

Re:Self-deprecating version numbers are the suck

[CrazyBusError]

I believe there are other reasons for not going to version 1.

Hopefully the esteemed Mr Tatham won't mind if I quote him directly, but in 2007 he wrote this about why puTTY wasn't version 1 yet:

But that's not primarily what's holding back a 1.0 release. The real thing I want to do first is to sort out the data storage: there are quite a few features on the wish list which would require a revamp of that, such as

- ability to store some settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and others in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so that a sysadmin could set up some default saved sessions and a default host key cache which would then be the starting point for each user's personal configuration

- inheritable saved sessions (so that when I change, say, my font preference in Default Settings it automatically propagates to all my other sessions _except_ those in which I've specifically asked for a non-default font)

- storing configuration in a disk file as an alternative to the registry (so that people can carry around PuTTY plus their config file on a USB stick)

- ability to configure all PuTTY's options from the command line (rather than having to do a lot of them by the cumbersome method of creating a saved session and using -load).

Now I'm not saying I want to have _implemented_ all those features before 1.0, but I want to have made a commitment to a data storage format which is capable of supporting them. Currently PuTTY's data storage only tries to be upward- compatible, meaning that you can upgrade PuTTY and it'll still work with your old settings. Use an older PuTTY with newer settings, and you're on your own. My goal is that within the 1.0 series, the data storage should be compatible in _both_ directions. (Not because I anticipate people deliberately downgrading PuTTY, although it's been known occasionally, but because I can easily imagine people using different versions on two machines which happen to be sharing a network-stored configuration.)