Download SecureCRT 7.3.1

VanDyke Software recently released version 7.3.1 of SecureCRT. SecureCRT is, simply put, a extensive version of Putty. Slightly less simple, it is a client for remote control, file transfers and data tunneling using ssh. Ssh is a method of establishing a secure connection between two computers, in which both the data and part of the IP traffic is encrypted. SecureCRT is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and the price of a license starts at one hundred dollars. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes:

• In order to address the POODLE attack, SSL 3.0 is disabled by default.
• SSH2: When using public-key authentication, if the .PUB file is not present, it is created automatically so that agent will work.

Bug fixes:

• SecureCRT could hang when attempting to stop using a personal data folder.
• Quotes were not supported in regular expressions used for keyword highlighting.
• If the global option “Exit when last session is disconnected” was set and the session option “Clear on disconnect” was set for a session and that session was connected twice, if one of the sessions was disconnected, it was not cleared.
• It was possible to activate the menu bar using a keyboard accelerator when the menu bar was disabled.
• Windows: The 32-bit version of SecureCRT could crash when the “Prompt send delay” option was set for the session and text was pasted into the session.
• Windows: The “Default.mnu” file did not include “Update Now” in the Help menu.
• Mac: SecureCRT crashed when attempting to create a Telnet session that used an SSH1 or SSH2 session as a firewall.
• Mac: X11 forwarding did not work with XQuartz on Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite).
• Mac/Linux: After dragging a tabbed session within the application window to change its order, it was no longer possible to drag a tabbed session to a different window.
• Mac/Linux: SecureCRT did not honor the shell setting for a local shell when it was set by the “chsh” command.
• Mac/Linux: If focus was in the session manager when it was closed, it remained there.