0.74 Release

0.74 Release

We're working towards a 0.74 release. Pre-release builds are available, and we'd appreciate people testing them and reporting any issues.

0.74 will be a feature release. The biggest changes all relate to Pageant and/or SSH public keys. User-visible behaviour changes include:

  • Pageant now allows you to load a key without decrypting it, in which case it will wait until you first use it to ask for the passphrase.
  • We've switched to the modern OpenSSH-style SHA-256 style of key fingerprint.

Back-end changes that affect compatibility:

  • We've added support for the rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 signature methods, which some servers now require in order to use RSA keys.
  • We've introduced a new version of the PPK format for private key files, to remove weak crypto and improve password-guessing resistance.
  • We've introduced a new method for applications to talk to Pageant on Windows, based on the same named-pipe system used by connection sharing instead of window messages.