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PuTTY 0.61 released
- liquid_x 15y ago* Support for Windows 7's new user interface features. Working with jumplists
- unwind 15y agoSomehow I'm comforted that there's still room in the open source universe for a project that hasn't released an update in four years. It's oddly comforting, and serves as a nice change of tone from the common "release early, release often" mantra. I'm all for releasing early, but for many open source developers (myself included) life has a tendency to get in the way sometimes, causing focus to move away from one's projects. Of course, I haven't looked up the details of the PuTTY folks now, but from the release notes it sounds as if they at least aren't getting paid do to PuTTY.
- thirsteh 15y agoIt's just one guy's hobby project, or at least Simon (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/) does 99% of the work.
- rpedroso 15y agoThat's part of the reason for the KiTTY fork: http://kitty.9bis.com/ http://kitty.9bis.com/
- encoderer 15y agoI've used KiTTY but I'm going to have to switch back now: Jumplists are nice, but playing nice with the Windows 7 split-screen/tiling/etc shortcuts is just glorious.
- javanix 15y agoWhoa! It does finally pay attention to my resize bindings, even in Vista. Awesome!
- darklajid 15y agoI've never heard about that before, but checking the site.. - Windows only? - Features like 'Protection against unfortunate keyboard input', 'Transparency', 'Background image', 'Send to tray' sound like useless gimmicks to me. Not even mentioning the 'bonus features'. Protection against unfortunate keyboard input is especially weird and seems to be targeted at root users that have cats and no clue about programs like vlock.
- bdunbar 15y agoWindows only? Sure. Putty is for Windows to allow a user to connect to a real computer, running a unix-y operating system. Except you see a place for Putty in Linux (I guess) and by extension Solaris, HP-UX and etc. I don't see the point - those already _have_ terminal emulation. It's baked in. Can you educate me?
- darklajid 15y agoI'm not sure if there's a misunderstanding here. Let me approach both possible interpretations I can think of: 1) You're saying that PuTTY is Windows only, and then go on explaining what it is for and why that might be okay. If that's what you think, that'd be wrong. PuTTY is available on a number of platforms, even on Linux. The port mentioned above though limits itself to Windows. I find that, plus the roadmap, weird & unfortunate to put it politely. 2) But that wasn't your point and you tried to make the point that PuTTY doesn't make _sense_ on platforms that already have a decent terminal emulator, ssh support etc. In that case: Fair enough. I'd even agree. But I know a lot of happy PuTTY Linux users. It's the old discussion about using native but different clients on a number of platforms or going for a (decent) cross-platform solution. I think it's great to have the choice to use software on a multitude of systems - even if I'm not an active user/see no need for myself.
- sbierwagen 15y agoBut I know a lot of happy PuTTY Linux users. Really? Who? Why? I cannot possibly think of any reason to use PuTTY in linux.
- nodata 15y agoBut he does release early and often doesn't he? He just didn't give out a new version number for a while.
- mikemaccana 15y agoReally? I've seen GSSAPI patched versions of Putty for two years at least, but never an official version with those patches included.
- nodata 15y agoI've used one of the nightlies with GSSAPI for at least a year.
- aculver 15y agoFlashback! Is PuTTY still standard issue for folks on Windows?
- wladimir 15y agoYes. It's still by far the most popular SSH client for Windows.
- buro9 15y agoThe few times I touch Windows, it's pretty much the most used program alongside Chrome and Sublime Text 2.
- wildmXranat 15y agoI have it installed on every windows box I have, and that includes recent windows 7 desktop.
- Scaevolus 15y agoI prefer PuTTYtray, it includes URL hyperlinking, tray minimization, and a few other nice features.
- alimbada 15y agoI prefer it too. Shame it isn't updated anymore and the author has no plans to resume updating it.
- jpitz 15y agoPuTTY and Cygwin are still the most popular ways to get an SSH client on Windows, so far as I'm aware.
- kahawe 15y agoI prefer PuTTy a hell of a lot more for the wonderful copy+paste right-clicks. Luckily there is puttycyg!!
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- Garbage 15y agoDirect link to download page - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h...
- Radim 15y agoDuke Nukem Forever has been released. PuTTY has been updated. A memorable year!
- Garbage 15y agoI have downloaded the latest version zip. When I am clicking on putty.exe icon, Putty screen doesn't come up. I can see the process running in taskbar, but no window is shown. However, if I start putty.exe using command line with parameter <host_name> I can see the window. I am using 32 bit Windows XP SP3 on Intel x86 Strange, because previous version was working perfectly fine! Anybody experiencing same?
- omh 15y agoI'm using the new version on the same (32-bit x86 XP SP3) and I don't see the issue. Everything works as expected.
- throwaway32 15y agonot to sound snarky, but you should file a bug report so this can be addressed.
- guelo 15y agoPuTTY is so much better just at the UI level than Window's command prompt that I wish stuff like Cygwin and msysgit could use it instead. Unfortunately it doesn't seem the code is very modular.
- rfrey 15y agoThis isn't perfect, but it's what I use and it works well. http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/ http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/
- roadnottaken 15y agoI use this, too, and it's excellent with cygwin. Also if you use Puttygen to generate RSA keys you can set-up easy one-click access to your favorite servers.
- andrewaylett 15y agoHave you tried MinTTY? It's based on PuTTY's terminal emulation code, and provides shells for Cygwin and MSys. http://mintty.googlecode.com/ http://mintty.googlecode.com/
- lzm 15y agoHas anyone ever tried to use mintty with msysgit? I couldn't get ssh and vim to work.
- acqq 15y agoMaybe it sounds like overkill, but I use SSH to localhost to access the cygwin, as I typically need functioning SSH anyway. Combined with Pageant, I don't have to type login and I type pageant password only once after the boot and it just works. It's all the stuff I need anyway so I don't have to use any patched version of something.
- th0ma5 15y agoi've done this for years, and it isn't entirely ideal, but i really really like it
- pavpanchekha 15y agoYou know, PuTTY has always been one of those tools I never consciously considered as being "developed". In the same way as the "mv" command never was. Maybe I'm being naive. But PuTTY has always done exactly what I ask of it, without fail, and my complaints about it are few and trivial. So what if it has not been updated in four years? It's not like the SSH standard changes often. Personally, I am proud of the PuTTY folks for creating a product that did not need a release for four years.
- matthavener 15y agoI always hated having to copy/paste URLs from PuTTY, so I started using PuTTY Tray (http://haanstra.eu/putty/ http://haanstra.eu/putty/) It highlights URLs, reconnects on failure, and does a few other nice things
- dholowiski 15y agoI agree - copy and paste on putty drove me crazy enough to switch to a Mac for development work. "copy all to clipboard"?? I'll have to check out putty tray.
- conductor 15y agoCopy and paste is the easiest thing in Putty! Just select anything and it is in your clipboard. To paste in Putty use Shift+Insert or just the right button of your mouse. So what are you talking about?
- dholowiski 15y agoWhat? After all these years. Runs off to try it...god damn... all the time i've wasted i could have written a book.
- seabee 15y agoI have to ask - how did you do it before?
- TeMPOraL 15y agoFrom changelog: - On Windows: the Appearance panel now includes a checkbox to allow the selection of non-fixed-width fonts(...) Thanks to Randall Munroe for a serious suggestion that inspired this. This Randall Munroe? I guess the word "serious" is not by accident there :D.
- forza 15y agohttp://xkcd.com/840/ http://xkcd.com/840/ (title text of the image)
- lightweb 15y agoMy most favorite sysadmin tool on Windows is mRemoteNG (http://www.mremoteng.org/ http://www.mremoteng.org/). It integrated Putty for SSH, but also gives you RDP, Citrix, FTP, HTTP, etc, all integrated with tabs and passwords automatically sent for login. It's the one Windows-only tool that I wish worked cross-platform.
- mrspandex 15y agoI just downloaded this tool and it is incredible. Thank you for the suggestion!
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- magoon 15y agothis is a huge deal for me. i've been waiting/hoping for these two changes: "Windows 7 jump lists are now supported so you can launch saved sessions directly from the taskbar." "Corruption of data transferred over port forwardings is _probably_ fixed "
- figital 15y agoI love you PuTTy. Even though I haven't used Windows in a few years I occasionally have to sit down at someone else's machine and .... there you are! :)
- darklajid 15y agoAwww.. I was reading the list of new features and on ever 'Windows:' my heart stopped a beat. Unfortunately no cookie for me.. I was really hoping for a way to have a windows equivalent of ssh controlmaster. On the bright side: PuTTY is part of my toolbelt for ages and I cannot live without it. I'm glad to read that it's still alive and being developed.
- initself 15y agoI don't understand what you are saying. What were you hoping for?
- logic 15y agoHe's looking for the equivalent of openssh's "ControlMaster" functionality; essentially, you establish a single (master) session to a remote machine, incurring the key negotiation penalty once, and then multiplex later sessions over that master connection. It's a fairly effective way of getting around situations where the up-front cost of establishing the connection is high (high-latency remote connections, in particular).
- ajross 15y agoI have this in Linux with a dozen lines of scripting or so. An outbound connection get made (via port 443) to a known host, over which I run a SOCKS proxy for future connections (not just ssh, it's my session proxy for everything). Check docs on ProxyCommand and the -D argument. Not sure this is really something that rises to the level of "must have GUI feature" ...
- darklajid 15y agoYou're not getting the point. You _can_ create tunnels via ssh, even with PuTTY. You _cannot_ use the feature I'm looking for. Tongue in cheek I'd say check the docs on the ControlMaster feature, but this is what it boils down: Terminal 1: ssh someHostThatYouNeedForLotsOfThings [options here] (.. wait for the negotiation, connect. Good) Terminal 2 to N ssh thatVerySameHost [options here] (reuses the handshake, is _much_ faster to connect) Why do I want that? Couldn't I just use one connection and start tmux/screen? Turns out, no, I cannot. As soon as you have anything that actually needs to send data from your machine to the target host (i.e. nothing interactive. Think scp. git.) you need to open a new connection - and that's when I'm hoping for this feature on Windows.
- jwarzech 15y agoOne of the first things I put on any new flash drive: http://code.google.com/p/portaputty/ http://code.google.com/p/portaputty/ (Portable version of putty)
- WalterGR 15y agoSSH-2 window management has also been revised to reduce round trip delays during any large-volume data transfer (including port forwardings as well as SFTP/SCP) Doing a quick test, I'm seeing that PuTTY 0.61 speeds up SFTP downloads of already compressed data by a factor of 4 compared to PuTTY 0.60. Fantastic!
- natmaster 15y agoWhere can I find a 64-bit installer?
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoWhat actual benefit will 64-bit get you here? If you are starting to hit the 32-bit memory limit with a terminal emulator, said terminal emulator is probably broken.
- blinkingled 15y agoPutty is far too simplistic on its own and the various mods and addons don't really work that well. I switched to TeraTERM recently and it solves most of my problems - remembers sessions, passwords, has tabs and is stable enough.
- alkavan 15y agodamn, Pageant stopped working or something? anyone have an issue with Pageant? do i need to restart again?
- elliottcarlson 15y agoWhile PuTTY is a great lightweight application, I tend to use Penguinet for all my Windows based SSHing needs. Not free like PuTTY but well worth the ±$24 (GBP 15) - http://www.siliconcircus.com/ http://www.siliconcircus.com/
- doodyhead 15y agoAlternative download link here: http://www.filehippo.com/download_putty/ http://www.filehippo.com/download_putty/