Download PuTTY 0.60 beta

Yesterday a new beta release of PuTTY was released, version 0.60. PuTTY is one of the most popular telnet and SSH clients, which makes it possible to remotely manage a computer over a secure connection. Originally, the program was only available for Windows, but today there are also clients for the various Unix platforms. The changelog of this release mainly shows bug fixes, but there are also some minor updates:

These features are new in beta 0.60:

• Pressing Ctrl+Break now sends a serial break signal.
• Serial ports higher than COM9 now no longer need a leading \\.\.
• You can now store a host name in the Default Settings.
• Bug fix: serial connections and local proxies should no longer crash all the time.
• Bug fix: configuring the default connection type to serial should no longer cause the configuration dialog to be skipped on startup.
• Bug fix: “Unable to read from standard input” should now not happen, or if it still does it should produce more detailed diagnostics.
• Bug fix: fixed some malformed SSH-2 packet generation.
• Other minor bug fixes.

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