Apologies, I guess I was lumping the IDE and the Compiler into one, if the Object Pascal programming language is still needing to be used, that is somewhat unfortunate... (due to the costs required), but I guess somewhat understandable.

I'm just moving to a new compiler. But I do not think the compiler is the problem. It's rather the IDE/libraries used. And that's unlikely to change any time soon, sorry.

Thanks for taking a look! Glad to see that you may think that you have a potential solution :)

P.S. Any chance of moving away from needing to use that specific compiler? I would think it could help better maintain things from a long term perspective.

I have added this issue to the tracker:
Issue 2388 – Dropbear SSH server on some devices rejects connection – possibly due to new KEX algorithms

Possibly the same issue as here:
WinSCP fails SSH connection due to "Unsupported" Key exchange algorithm
The same SSH server ("dropbear").

When attempting to open a tunnel-ed SCP protocol connection, starting with WinSCP 6.4.2 Beta, I immediately receive a "Server unexpectly closed network connection".

I can successfully connect with previous version of WinSCP, I can also connect on the latest version of WinSCP, if I change the Protocol to SFTP (but would highly prefer to have SCP working again).

Tested on the following Portable versions:

6.3.1 | works
6.3.7 | works
6.4.0 (beta) | works
6.4.1 (beta) | works
6.4.2 (beta) | does not work
6.4.3 | does not work
6.5.1 | does not work
6.5.2 | does not work

Attached some logs of the attempts on both 6.4.1 (working) and 6.4.2 (not working)

I even tried compiling the WinSCP 6.4.2 Beta version to attempt to add additional debugging messages, but I'll be damned if I am paying $2400 to simply compile WinSCP (...and yes, I even tried with the latest Community Version 23.0 and ran into compatibility issues while compiling)