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
andrsa-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.