SecureCRT(R) 7.0 (Official) -- July 3, 2012
Copyright (C) 1995-2012 VanDyke Software, Inc.
All rights reserved.
This file contains a 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 Readme.txt (downloaded
with this installation).
Changes in SecureCRT 7.0 (Official) -- July 3, 2012
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Bug fixes:
- SSH1/SSH2: When a window decoration such as the chat window or
button bar was toggled, or the Session or Global Options dialog
was closed, IPv6 listening ports being used for tunneling were
closed.
- Windows: When the mouse hovered over the button bar field in the
button bar, SecureCRT could crash.
- Mac/Linux: If the tab status indicators were set to "Colored
rectangles", SecureCRT crashed when trying to lock a tabbed
session.
Changes in SecureCRT 7.0 (Beta 4) -- June 19, 2012
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Changes:
- Windows: In the File menu, "Connect in Tab..." was changed to
"Connect in Tab/Tile...".
- Windows: In the Connect dialog, when in tiled mode, the "Open in a
tab" option is called "Open in a tiled window".
- Windows: The limit on the number of menu items that can be in a
custom .MNU file was increased from 2000 to 8000.
Bug fixes:
- If a script issued an "exit" command to an SFTP session, SecureCRT
crashed.
- If a script issued an "ls" command to an SFTP session, SecureCRT
hung.
- When multiple tabs were open, sometimes the leftmost tab was
shifted over such that the status indicator icon was partially
obscured.
- When multiple tabs were open, if a tabbed session was closed, the
tab to the left of the closed tab was activated instead of the
tab to the right.
- If the global option "Confirm when closing multiple tabbed or
tiled sessions" was on and the global option "Show confirm
disconnect dialog" was off, when a single tabbed session was
connected and SecureCRT was closed, the confirm disconnect dialog
was displayed.
- Windows: If the tab status indicator style was set to "Background
colors" and a session was disconnected while in tiled mode, the
status indicator was incorrect after switching to tabbed mode.
- Mac: When the Quick Connect dialog was displayed, the previous
hostname was not highlighted.
Changes in SecureCRT 7.0 (Beta 3) -- June 5, 2012
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Changes:
- Windows: The "Window" menu was changed so that it always contains
the following items: Tabs, Tile Vertically, Tile Horizontally,
Cascade, and the list of open sessions.
- Windows: If the sessions are tiled and a new session is opened,
all the sessions are automatically re-tiled.
- Windows: When a tiled session is closed, the remaining sessions
are automatically re-tiled.
- Windows: When the sessions are tiled and the SecureCRT window is
re-sized, the sessions are automatically re-tiled.
Bug fixes:
- Authentication banners were sometimes displayed at the logon
prompt.
- Unicode and combining characters (Korean in particular) were
sometimes rendered incorrectly.
- SecureCRT failed to clear all tabstops when the escape sequence
to clear all tabstops was processed.
- Windows: SecureCRT could hang when used in a Webex session.
- Windows: After SecureCRT had been sitting idle for many hours,
the interface could become unresponsive.
- Windows: SecureCRT could crash if the application window was
resized a lot or a lot of tab switching was done.
- Windows: SecureCRT crashed when attempting to record a script if
no sessions were open.
- Windows: SecureCRT crashed if a script was launched from a button
or mapped key and no sessions were open.
- Windows: If a mapped key or button used "\v" to paste clipboard
data, the data pasted was not correct.
- Windows: If a session had the "Scale the font" option set, when
switching between tabbed and tiled sessions, that session's font
could become extremely large.
- Windows: The tab titles of cloned sessions did not contain the
number indicator (e.g., "(1)", "(2)", etc.).
- Mac: If the left margin was increased, selections were offset by
the amount of the margin.
- Mac: After using COMMAND+W to close SecureCRT, it could not be
launched from the dock icon.
Changes in SecureCRT 7.0 (Beta 2) -- May 22, 2012
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Changes:
- Custom log data is no longer inserted into raw logs.
- Mac/Linux: Added support for the "Display logon prompts in
terminal window" option.
- Mac: The history, readme, and EULA files are now installed in
/Applications/SecureCRT.app/Contents/Resources instead of
/Library/Application Support/VanDyke/SecureCRT.
Bug fixes:
- When the option "Scroll to clear screen" was off in a session, if
the same session was opened again in another tab or cloned, the
option was on in the new sessions.
- SecureCRT did not log Korean characters correctly.
- The lock icon was not displayed for locked sessions when the tab
appearance was set to "Background colors". The tab is now changed
to gray when it's locked.
- When the option to show the vertical scroll bar was off, if the
application window was maximized and a session was opened in a tab
and cloned, the cloned session was blank.
- If a tab title was changed via an xterm escape sequence and then
the "Session Options" dialog was opened and closed, the tab title
was changed to the session name.
- Windows: If the toolbar was hidden or the Connect bar was removed
from the toolbar, SecureCRT would crash when attempting to display
the "View" menu.
- Windows: After sending a tiled session to a new window, switching
to tabbed mode, and then dragging the session back to the original
window, the session name was not displayed.
- Windows: If the "Default" session was configured with an incorrect
password and the option "Display logon prompts in terminal window"
was set, the session failed to connect instead of prompting for
the correct password.
- Mac/Linux: Attempting to input Korean characters with the IME did
not work correctly when one multi-byte character was entered
immediately after another multi-byte character.
- Mac/Linux: If multiple sessions were connected in tabs at the same
time from the "Connect" dialog, the non-active tabs did not have a
cursor in them when they activated.
- Mac: SecureCRT was not compatible with window managers such Divvy
and Deskovery.
- Mac: Underscores were displayed as spaces in sessions that used
the "Andale Mono" or "Courier New" fonts.
Changes in SecureCRT 7.0 (Beta 1) -- May 3, 2012
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New features:
- Windows: Added the ability to tile sessions within the
SecureCRT application window. Sessions can be tiled vertically,
horizontally, or cascaded. Scripts can use the "Tab" object to
work with tiled sessions.
- Added the ability to start a built-in TFTP server when a session
connects.
- SSH2: Added the ability to skip authentication methods while
authenticating.
- When the mouse hovers over a button, the command the button is
mapped to is shown as hover text.
- Added the ability to map the items on the "Tools" menu to a button
or key.
- Added the ability to map "Always on Top" to a key.
- Added support for the "Insert" key to the Wyse 50/60 emulation.
- Windows: Adde