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Do you use PuTTY on a regular basis? Have you tried ExtraPuTTY? How do they compare? Can you suggest a better tool?
The version of Putty this ships with is .60 - current version is .62 - see below from the Putty site. Am I missing something here?
These features are new in beta 0.62 (released 2011-12-10):
Security fix: PuTTY no longer retains passwords in memory by mistake.
Bug fix: Pageant now talks to both new-style clients (0.61 and above) and old-style (0.60 and below).
Bug fix: PuTTY no longer prints a spurious "Access denied" message when GSSAPI authentication fails.
Bug fix: PSCP and PSFTP now honour nonstandard port numbers in SSH saved sessions.
Bug fix: Pageant no longer leaks a file handle when an authentication fails.
Bug fix: PuTTYtel no longer crashes when saving a session.
Bug fix: PuTTY now draws underlines under the underlined text instead of sometimes putting them somewhere off to the right.
Bug fix: PuTTY now should not draw VT100 line drawing characters at the wrong vertical offset.
These features were new in beta 0.61 (released 2011-07-12):
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 zlib@openssh.com 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).
These features were new in beta 0.60 (released 2007-04-29): ...
These features are new in beta 0.62 (released 2011-12-10):
Security fix: PuTTY no longer retains passwords in memory by mistake.
Bug fix: Pageant now talks to both new-style clients (0.61 and above) and old-style (0.60 and below).
Bug fix: PuTTY no longer prints a spurious "Access denied" message when GSSAPI authentication fails.
Bug fix: PSCP and PSFTP now honour nonstandard port numbers in SSH saved sessions.
Bug fix: Pageant no longer leaks a file handle when an authentication fails.
Bug fix: PuTTYtel no longer crashes when saving a session.
Bug fix: PuTTY now draws underlines under the underlined text instead of sometimes putting them somewhere off to the right.
Bug fix: PuTTY now should not draw VT100 line drawing characters at the wrong vertical offset.
These features were new in beta 0.61 (released 2011-07-12):
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 zlib@openssh.com 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).
These features were new in beta 0.60 (released 2007-04-29): ...
Though I believe most of these fixes were countered by the dev with the fork, despite it being based on 0.60. That is a very good point you raise however and I should probably ask the author about this.
The author got back to me and said an update to PuTTY 0.62's code was in the works and should be out imminently.
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From ExtraPuTTY web site:
"ExtraPuTTY new release May-9-2012
The merge with the Putty 0.62 is in progress and will be available in 2 weeks."
"ExtraPuTTY new release May-9-2012
The merge with the Putty 0.62 is in progress and will be available in 2 weeks."
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