Putty 0.61 Released

PuTTY 0.61 is out, after over four years, with new features, bug fixes, and compatibility updates for Windows 7 and various SSH server software.

Features are new in beta 0.61 (released 2011-07-12) include:

• Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication in SSH-2.
• Local X11 authorisation support on Windows. (Unix already had it, of course.)
• Support for non-fixed-width fonts on Windows.
• GTK 2 support on Unix.
• Specifying the logical host name independently of the physical network address to connect to.
• Crypto and flow control optimisations.
• Support for the [email protected] SSH-2 compression method.
• Support for new Windows 7 UI features: Aero resizing and jump lists.
• Support for OpenSSH AES-encrypted private key files in PuTTYgen.
• Bug fix: handles OpenSSH private keys with primes in either order.
• Bug fix: corruption of port forwarding is fixed (we think).
• Bug fix: various crashes and hangs when exiting on failure,
• Bug fix: hang in the serial back end on Windows.
• Bug fix: Windows clipboard is now read asynchronously, in case of deadlock due to the clipboard owner being at the far end of the same PuTTY’s network connection (either via X forwarding or via tunnelled rdesktop).

The stand-alone executable can be downloaded from the snap-shot store here and the full package (which includes pscp, plink, psftp, pageant etc) here. As always, I recommend verifying the checksums using the MD5 list available here.