
            SecureCRT(R) 8.0 (Official) -- March 31, 2016

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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 Readme.txt (downloaded 
with this installation).


Changes in SecureCRT 8.0 (Official) -- March 31, 2016
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Change:

  - Windows: Added the ability to lock and unlock all the sessions in
    a tab group at once.

Bug fixes:

  - Mac: In the Session Manager and Connect dialog, it was not possible
    to select multiple sessions using COMMAND+<click>.
  - Mac: When outputting a large file with the "cat" command to a
    session with column width of 256 or larger, the output was
    noticeably slow.


Changes in SecureCRT 8.0 (Beta 5) -- March 22, 2016
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Bug fixes:

  - SecureCRT could crash when keyword highlighting was being used for
    a session and the session was scrolling output.
  - Zmodem uploads of large files (e.g., 30 MB) could hang.
  - If the configuration paths were set up so that a personal data
    folder was being used and the configuration folder was read-only,
    settings could not be saved in the personal data folder even
    though it was writable.
  - If the configuration paths were set up so that a personal data
    folder was being used and the configuration folder was read-only,
    attempting to merge the configuration data failed and the personal
    data was deleted.


Changes in SecureCRT 8.0 (Beta 4) -- March 10, 2016
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Changes:

  - The Session Manager's "auto hide" option is on by default.

Bug fixes:

  - If there was text in the scrollback buffer and the session was
    scrolled all the way back and then the size of the scrollback
    buffer was decreased in the Session Options dialog, SecureCRT
    crashed.
  - Files uploaded using Zmodem did not have the correct date and
    permissions.
  - The progress output from X/Y/Zmodem transfers was formatted
    incorrectly.
  - When there was a large amount of text in the scrollback buffer and
    the session window was scrolled all the way back, it was not
    possible to scroll all the way back down.
  - With the "Office 2013" display theme, if the Session Manager was
    docked and the SecureCRT application window was maximized and
    moved to a secondary monitory, the Session Manager could
    disappear.
  - With the "VS2013 Blue", "VS2013 Dark", and "Office 2013" display
    themes, if the computer had two monitors and SecureCRT was
    maximized, the application window extended to the other monitor.
  - The context menu items "Connect in New Tab Group" and "Connect in
    Tabs" should not have been enabled for tiled sessions.
  - Windows: When a session was launched from the Activator, focus
    remained in the Session Manager instead of being put in the
    session.
  - Windows: When the mouse hovered over menu items, the status bar
    sometimes contained incorrect informational text.
  - Mac: The Zmodem Upload dialog did not display the upload options
    by default.
  - Linux: SecureCRT could crash after issuing the "rz" command to do
    a Zmodem file transfer.
  - Linux: it was not possible to use the Input Method Editor (IME).


Changes in SecureCRT 8.0 (Beta 3) -- February 18, 2016
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Changes:

  - Windows: The global option "Disable session zooming with keyboard
    shortcuts" is on by default if the system keyboard is not
    English (US, Canada, or UK).  This change only affects new
    installations.

Bug fixes:

  - If the global option "Only show tabs when there are more than one"
    was set and two or more sessions were connected, the tab for the
    first session was not shown.
  - The SetOption script function did not work correctly with the
    option "User Button Bar Name".
  - Windows: When connecting to a Windows system through RDP with the
    color depth set to less than 32-bit, the icons in the Session
    Manager and Connect dialog were not displayed correctly.
  - Mac: Pressing COMMAND+F to search the scrollback buffer could
    cause SecureCRT to crash.


Changes in SecureCRT 8.0 (Beta 2) -- February 9, 2016
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Changes:

  - The default character encoding is UTF-8.  This change only
    affects new installations.
  - In the Keyword List Properties dialog, the character limit for
    keywords that are not regular expressions was increased to 256.
  - Added support for the Modify field order in TN3270 emulation.

Bug fixes:

  - When editing the Default session's Color Scheme, the "Normal"
    widget flickered.


Changes in SecureCRT 8.0 (Beta 1) -- January 28, 2016
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New features:

  - Windows: Added support for tab groups, which provides another
    option for organizing connected sessions and doing side-by-side
    comparisons of session output.  
  - Windows: The user interface has new themes and new toolbar
    icons.
  - Windows: Buttons on the button bar can be arranged by dragging
    and dropping when the ALT key is pressed.
  - Windows: Added support for high-DPI monitors.
  - Added support for TN3270 emulation.
  - Added support for the VT320 status line.
  - Added a "Send Characters Immediately" mode to the Command window,
    which makes it possible to do the following in one or multiple
    sessions: stop commands using CTRL+C, edit files using an editor
    such as vi, send escape sequences, and do tab completion.
  - Added the ability to start the TFTP server when SecureCRT starts,
    when any session connects, and manually.
  - Added the ability to use and generate ECDSA (RFC 5656) and
    Ed25519 keys.
  - Added the ability to generate keys in the new OpenSSH format.
  - SSH2: PuTTY PPK keys can be used for public-key authentication. 
  - SSH2: On Windows, enhanced public-key authentication to allow
    a public key to be specified from the CAPI or PKCS #11 store.
  - SSH2: On Windows, public keys can be exported in OpenSSH
    format and can be exported from PKCS #11.
  - SSH2: On Windows, certificates can be used as a raw key for
    public-key authentication.
  - SSH2: On Windows, added support for X.509 authentication using
    the x509v3-ssh-rsa and x509v3-ssh-dss algorithms as specified in
    RFC 6187.
  - SSH2: On Windows, X.509v3 keys can be added to the SSH agent.
  - SSH2: Added an SSH INI-file-only option called "Automatically
    Accept Host Keys", which allows host keys to be accepted
    automatically.  Note: Enabling this option is not considered
    a security best practice.
  - SSH2: Added a session INI-file-only option "Ident String" that
    allows the SecureCRT identity string to be specified.
  - Added a "Close All Not Connected" item to the tabbed/tiled session
    right-click menu, which makes it easy to close all sessions that
    are not currently connected.
  - Added a menu item to the Zoom pull-right menu in the View menu that
    allows a session to be restored to its original size if it has been
    zoomed.
  - Added an option for disabling session zooming with keyboard
    shortcuts to the Global Options dialog.
  - Added support for Xterm OSC escape sequences to change background
    and foreground colors.
  - In the Session Manager and Connect dialog, it's now possible to
    connect a session or sessions in a new window without changing the
    option that specifies whether or not sessions should be opened in
    a tab.
  - The connection status icons were updated.
  - Windows: Updated the icons in the Session Manager and Connect
    dialog.
  - Windows: Added the ability to make SecureCRT the default
    application for the URI "ssh://".
  - Mac/Linux: The button bar can now be positioned at the top of the
    SecureCRT window.

Changes:

  - By default, SecureCRT now listens for port forward requests only
    on 127.0.0.1.
  - Improved the drawing performance of keyword highlighting.
  - Quick Connect sessions that are saved are put in the current folder
    in the Session Manager.
  - Added a keyboard shortcut for the "Reconnect All" menu item.
  - The ability to use a session as a firewall has been added to the
    Quick Connect dialog and the Session wizard.
  - The escape sequence "CSI ?3l" is ignored when the SecureCRT
    window is maximized or full screen.
  - Added the ability to map a key or button to display the Global or
    Session Options dialogs.
  - In the Session Manager, when a folder or multiple sessions are
    selected, selecting the new menu item "Connect in Tabs in New
    Window" opens the selected sessions in tabs in a new SecureCRT
    window.
  - Changed the SSL GUI protocol name to "Telnet/TLS" to reflect
    that TLS is supported.
  - Added "Contact Support" to the Help menu.
  - SSH2: If host key authentication fails with the ssh-dss algorithm,
    the ssh-rsa algorithm is preferred on subsequent attempts to
    reconnect the session.
  - SSH2: It's now possible to specify the minimum group exchange prime
    size in the Session Options dialog.
  - SSH2: SecureCRT can now connect to Cisco devices that send the
    incorrect identity string "SSH-2.99-Cisco-1.25".
  - SSH2: The "diffie-hellman" key exchange algorithm is off for the
    default session.  This change only affects new installations.
  - SSH2: SHA-1 and SHA-2 fingerprints are displayed for public keys
    in addition to MD5.
  - SSH2: In all places where the host key fingerprint is displayed,
    the SHA-2 fingerprint is also displayed.
  - Windows: Updated the included Python library to version 2.7.
  - Windows: The background color for the selected theme is used as
    the background for the terminal area when SecureCRT starts and
    no sessions are connected.
  - Windows: If there is nothing in the clipboard that can be pasted
    into SecureCRT, all paste operations are either disabled or
    ignored, which eliminates the "General clipboard failure" error
    message.
  - Windows: If the administrative policy "Enable Check For Updates"
    is set to false, "Update Now" is not allowed.
  - Windows: Only PNG files can be used as images in custom menu
    (.MNU) files.
  - Mac: The font dialog now shows only fixed-width fonts that can
    be used with SecureCRT.
  - Mac: Improved the docking interface for the Session Manager.

Bug fixes:

  - Attempting to delete a session without a name caused every session
    in the session database to be deleted.
  - If SecureCRT had insufficient permissions to access a configuration
    folder located on OneDrive, SecureCRT crashed.
  - SecureCRT could become unresponsive when settings were being
    imported or exported, especially when the configuration was large
    (e.g., lots of sessions).
  - SecureCRT could hang or display output incorrectly when the output
    contained OSC RGB color substitution escape sequences.
  - When upgrading from a version of SecureCRT prior to 6.1, session
    logon actions were not migrated.
  - In the Quick Connect dialog, if all authentication methods were
    disabled for SSH2 and then an attempt was made to change the protocol
    to Telnet, a warning was displayed and the protocol was not changed.
  - When the session options "Shift forces local mouse operations" and
    "Send scroll wheel events to remote" were set, scroll wheel events
    with SHIFT pressed were sent to the remote system.
  - It was not possible to drag the file separator in vim.
  - The selection in a session could be lost when switching between
    tabbed sessions or when the cursor was repositioned to the same
    row as the selection.
  - If the Session Manager had "Auto Hide" set and focus was in an
    application other than SecureCRT, if the mouse was moved over the
    Session Manager, it appeared to be activated, but clicking in the
    Session Manager did nothing.
  - If the global options "Reuse disconnected tabs" and "Connect
    sessions in tabs" were off and the SecureCRT window contained a
    disconnected tab, when a new session was connected, it was opened
    in a new tab.
  - A highlight keyword list with the name "New..." could not be
    edited or deleted.  The name "New..." is no longer allowed.
  - If a disconnected tab was reused and the new session had a different
    value specified for the scrollback lines, the value from the old
    session was used.
  - When the narrow font was being used, pressing the "Font" button for
    the Normal font showed the wrong font in the Font dialog.
  - SecureCRT did not produce the correct result for the vttest test
    "Test of autowrap, mixing control and print characters."
  - If SecureCRT started in tiled mode and then was switched to
    tabbed mode, the "Show button bar" session option was not
    honored.
  - If the windows transparency settings were change to values other
    than 255 (opaque), the settings were not honored when SecureCRT
    restarted.
  - Pass-through printing did not print Unicode characters correctly.
  - SSH2: If the host key database was on an offline cached network
    drive, SecureCRT was not able to save new host keys.
  - SSH2: The cached session password was not updated after a password
    change was forced by the remote system.
  - SSH2: The SHA-2 fingerprint of the public key was not correct when a
    .pfx file was used as the public key.
  - SSH2: When attempting to connect to a session that specified
    PKCS #11 public-key authentication using the ActivClient DLL, the
    connection failed due to an error creating the signature during
    public-key authentication.
  - Windows: On a high-DPI (e.g., 4k) monitor, font scaling and session
    zooming did not work correctly.
  - Windows: On high-DPI monitors with scaling enabled, folders in
    the Session Manager could not be expanded or collapsed.
  - Windows: The Keymap Editor did not work correctly on high-DPI
    monitors.
  - Windows: The INI-file-only option to limit the taskbar preview
    thumbnails was not being honored.
  - Windows: If a session that toggled the display of the button bar
    or Command window was connected, the SecureCRT window resized and
    changed the session's geometry.
  - Windows: When using the Windows Classic theme, if the terminal
    window contained scrollback data, moving the Find dialog over it
    caused sections of the terminal window to be erased.
  - Windows: When the session database contained folders and one
    of those folders was selected in the Session Manager, if a
    session was created using the Quick Connect dialog, the session
    was not saved in the selected folder and any expanded folders
    were collapsed.
  - Windows: Attempting to set the port forward table using an array in
    a VBScript script failed.
  - Mac: If multiple tabbed sessions were connected and one of the
    sessions was scrolled back, when switching between the tabs, part of
    the terminal window could be missing.
  - Mac: COMMAND+V could not be used to paste into dialogs.
  - Mac: Local shell sessions opened in a tab when the "Open in a tab"
    setting was off.
  - Mac: If SecureCRT was in full-screen mode and three sessions were
    connected, the wrong menu was displayed when the center tab was
    right clicked.
  - Mac: When using an Apple Magic Mouse, doing a side-swipe on the mouse
    after or while double clicking caused focus to be put in the Session
    Manager.
  - Mac: If the SecureCRT window was maximized after connecting to a
    session and the toolbar was hidden, the SecureCRT window resized
    and changed position.  Then if the SecureCRT was maximized again
    and the same session was connected again or closed, the SecureCRT
    window resized and changed position again.
  - Mac: If the SecureCRT application window was closed, nothing
    happened when "Import Settings..." or "Export Settings..." was
    selected from the Tools menu.
  - Mac/Linux: When connecting to an SSH2 server with "ssh1" in the
    hostname, the host key was prompted for even if it had been
    accepted.
  - Mac/Linux: If the option "Open Sessions in a Tab" was disabled in
    the Session Manager and the sessions in a folder were connected
    using "Connect in Tabs", all subsequent sessions were opened as
    tabs in the same window.
  - Mac/Linux: The Session Manager could not be docked by double-
    clicking its title bar.
  - Mac/Linux: When focus was in the Command window, and the shortcut
    key ALT+<0-9> was entered, the number was sent to the Command
    window and the specified tab was not activated.
  - Mac/Linux: If multiple sessions were open in tabs and one tab had
    some text selected and the other tab was activated, the selection in
    the original tab was lost.
  - Mac/Linux: If multiple sessions were selected in the Session Manager
    or Connect dialog, using the context menu could change the selection
    to contain only a single session.
