WinSCP 5.9 – What’s New?

A lot of things! WinSCP 5.9 is a major application update focused on improving user experience!

New features and enhancements, many of them inspired by WinSCP community, include:

• Significantly improved WinSCP look and feel in large font / high DPI environments; toolbar, menu, icons and dialog images now support 125%, 150% and 200% zooms
• Improved transfer speed with SFTP and SCP protocols when CPU is limiting factor; and with SFTP on high latency connections
• Automatic WinSCP updates (only for donors)
• Support for authentication with TLS/SSL client certificates
• Configurable internal editor font color and default background color, added Save All function in internal editor
• Dual code signing binaries with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
• Custom commands can be distributed in a form of configurable WinSCP extension; distributing Verify Checksum, Search Text and ZIP and Upload .NET assembly examples as official WinSCP extensions
• Many improvements to scripting, command-line and .NET assembly, e.g.,
  • WinSCP script template or WinSCP .NET assembly code template can be generated in GUI
  • Switch -latest for get and put commands to transfer the latest file only
  • Added Session.EnumerateRemoteFiles method that can enumerate remote files and directories recursively
  • Command-line interface for converting and editing private keys
  • Resume and Append (TransferOptions.OverwriteMode) in .NET assembly
• Incremental site search can be restricted to the beginning of site name only or expanded to other site fields
• Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+L and Alt+D to focus Address toolbar (Explorer interface) or open bookmarks (Commander interface)
• Including all at least 80% translations into WinSCP installer and informing user when incomplete language is selected when installing

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Thank you!

As usual, you can obtain WinSCP 5.9 from the official WinSCP download page.