MobaXterm Xserver with SSH, telnet, RDP, VNC and X11

Version 24.3 (2024-10-30)

New feature: added "graphical macros" that can record your mouse and keyboard inputs and replay them later
Improvement: you can now put your macros into folders and organize them using drag-and-drop
Improvement: added IPv6 support to VNC sessions (using the new VNC engine)
Improvement: added a new security setting in the Professional Customizer to disable the "list open network ports" tool
Improvement: added a new security setting in the Professional Customizer to disable the "admin command prompt" tool
Improvement: when the "Disable X11 autostart" security setting is set in the Professional Customizer, the option is disabled in the global settings window
Improvement: when the "Disable X11 remote access" security setting is set in the Professional Customizer, the option is disabled in the global settings window
Improvement: macros that are embedded into sessions are now encrypted by default
Improvement: delayed some checks at startup to improve overall performances
Improvement: improved macro recording by catching more keyboard events than before
Improvement: added a right-click option on tabs that allows to close all inactive tabs
Improvement: focus is sent to the terminal just after running a macro
Improvement: switched the date format in the Bash prompt from "(day)/(month)/(year)" to "(year)-(month)-(day)" by default
Improvement: improved the tooltip shown when the mouse cursor is over the sessions tree
Improvement: added some more debugging information during startup, especially for the Slash folder identification
Improvement: switched local terminal to 64-bit by default for new MobaXterm users
Bugfix: after disabling the "reconnect RDP" feature in the Professional Customizer, a "Reconnect" button was still available in the RDP top bar
Bugfix: the "WaitFor" condition in macros now properly handles spaces at the beginning and at the end of the expected pattern
Bugfix: suppressed a popup console window flashing during the installation process (fixes CVE-2024-48200 reported by Ahmed Sherif)
Bugfix: the macro list in the sidebar was not refreshed after changing the master password

Version 24.2 (2024-07-02)

New feature: added a new "Expert RDP settings" window where you can set advanced settings for your RDP connection
Improvement: moved the RDP CredSSP and RDP gateway settings to the "Expert RDP settings" window
Improvement: you can now specify a different login for the RDP gateway and the session itself
Improvement: you can set the RDP gateway authentication to use a smartcard
Improvement: added the "Restricted Admin" feature to RDP sessions
Improvement: added an option for using the local Windows credentials in "Restricted Admin" mode
Improvement: added the "Remote Credentials Guard" feature to RDP sessions
Improvement: the new "Multi-monitors" setting in RDP sessions allows you to expand the remote desktop to all your local monitors
Improvement: you can now auto-detect RDP bandwidth to adapt the remote graphics level accordingly
Improvement: added an option that allows you to put any tab in fullscreen across all available monitors
Improvement: you can now use a web account to connect to RDP sessions (useful for Azure Virtual Desktop)
Improvement: you can now set the "automatic reconnection" RDP feature
Improvement: you can now tune the graphics settings for each RDP session
Improvement: removed the "High DPI adaptation for legacy servers" feature, and replaced it with the "Zoom" feature in RDP sessions
Improvement: you can force magic cookies for X11 localhost connections by turning on the new "X11MCAuth" experimental setting in the "Misc" section of the INI file
Improvement: better detection of the current monitor when launching the "Find" window from MobaTextEditor
Improvement: added a new right-click option in "MultiExec" mode that allows to synchronize mouse scrolling
Improvement: added a new set of right-click options in "MultiExec" mode that allow to activate or deactivate all terminals
Improvement: you can now have SSH logins composed of a fixed part and a credential in square brackets
Improvement: reset the current path and other environment variables before restarting MobaXterm after changing the terminal type
Improvement: if the SCP browser fails to connect, try to restart it in multiplex mode by using the terminal session channel
Bugfix: fixed a graphic glitch when switching a browser session from a high DPI monitor to a low DPI monitor
Bugfix: fixed the position of the "Find" dialog after 2 consecutive searches in MobaTextDiff
Bugfix: prevent MobaXterm Professional Customizer from adding an extra line at the end of the profile script

Version 24.1 (2024-04-26)

Improvement: the embedded Xorg server has been updated to version 21.1.12
Improvement: the X11 "on-demand" setting from the Customizer cannot be superseded with the "xhost" command anymore
Improvement: the embedded terminal and X server no longer use the Windows UAC virtualization technology
Improvement: the Ed25519 SSH keys in PuTTY format are now properly managed by the command-line SSH client
Improvement: added a new "PingCmd" ini setting under the "Misc" section to modify the ping command available from the session context menu
Improvement: added a minor RSA-SHA2 kex workaround for not-entirely-compliant servers in SFTP sessions
Improvement: improved the embedded X server decompression at MobaXterm startup
Security fix: 521-bit ECDSA keys (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) are not signed using a deterministic nonce anymore (fixes CVE-2024-31497)

Version 24.0 (2024-03-08)

New feature: a new "Expert terminal settings" button has been added to the global settings
New feature: a new "Expert terminal settings" button has been added in each session settings
Improvement: the keyboard shortcuts used in the terminal disconnection message are now configurable
Improvement: the delimiters that are used when selecting a word in the terminal using double-click are now configurable
Improvement: you can now define the maximum number of scrollback lines for each terminal
Improvement: you can now enable or disable the terminal alternate screen
Improvement: the local echo feature can be forced on or off for each terminal
Improvement: application cursors and application keypad features can be forced on or off and can also be activated by default for each terminal
Improvement: you can now decide whether "Ctrl+Alt" keys act as "AltGr" key
Improvement: the "Answerback" string is now configurable for each terminal
Improvement: you can now disable the "Auto-copy selected text" feature
Improvement: each terminal can now add a "CR" or "LF" at each new line if necessary
Improvement: tuned TLS settings for better support of AWS S3 servers
Improvement: removed some unnecessary checks during MobaXterm startup
Improvement: updated MobaXterm embedded help with the latest features additions
Improvement: the DNS query for the SFTP browser has been improved for better performances
Improvement: modified the MSI installer to ensure that the installation folder contains a "MobaXterm" subdirectory
Improvement: added many more items in the default syntax, especially for network equipment and shell scripts
Improvement: a new prompt allows you to accept a new server host key if the SFTP browser fails to connect because of an invalid stored host key
Bugfix: adjusted the macro title length when it was too long to be displayed
Bugfix: adjusted the width of some checkboxes in the global settings window to fit monitors using 175% DPI
Bugfix: fixed an issue with credentials used in jump hosts when no session was configured with these credentials
Bugfix: the "edit session presets" setting was not working when launched from the "Compact Mode" menu
Bugfix: fixed a graphical SFTP browser connection issue when using server names without their FQDN

Version 23.6 (2023-12-30)

Improvement: updated the SSH and terminal emulator engine with the latest improvements from the PuTTY project to address Terrapin issue
Improvement: updated the command-line SSH client based on OpenSSH to the latest version to address Terrapin issue
Improvement: updated OpenSSL in the 64-bit local terminal environment
Improvement: the "Publisher name" field is not emp ty anymore in the embedded X11 server
Improvement: after having modified a remote file, the confirmation popup now contains buttons with borders
Improvement: updated some packages available through the "apt" command in the 64-bit local terminal environment

Version 23.5 (2023-12-01)

Improvement: updated the SSH and terminal emulator engine with the latest improvements from the PuTTY project
Improvement: added support for SSH MAC algorithm "hmac-sha2-512"
Improvement: updated Toybox to the latest version in the 64-bit terminal environment
Improvement: added some new embedded commands in the 64-bit local terminal: file, getopt, hexdump, iconv, sha256sum, sha512sum
Improvement: upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.0 in the 64-bit local terminal environment
Improvement: improved the speed of the "apt" command in the 64-bit local terminal environment
Improvement: updated all the packages available through the "apt" command in the 64-bit local terminal environment
Improvement: the MobApt package manager displays a prompt to allow the local terminal to be switched to 64-bit
Improvement: better detection of small changes in "MobaTextDiff" graphical diff and merge tool
Improvement: added a check for empty file names in the SSH browser, before removing color sequences
Improvement: improved completion of plugin names in the new "apt plugin" command
Improvement: many new packages are now available in the "apt plugin" command
Improvement: improved conversion of Unix to Dos files paths for "ldd" and "open" commands
Improvement: better detection of the proper monitor for terminal popup messages placement
Improvement: updated the embedded X11 server based on Xorg to version 21.1.8
Improvement: added a way to disable SSH, Serial, Browser, Shell, and WSL sessions in the Professional Customizer
Improvement: added syntax highlighting for Cmake files in the MobaTextEditor and MobaTextDiff
Improvement: modified the mechanism used for 64-bit binaries located in a read-only folder
Bugfix: prevented the command line SSH client from breaking the tty when exiting on error
Bugfix: the basic telnet server used to freeze a few seconds during client disconnection

Version 23.4 (2023-11-01)

Improvement: improved the overall speed of the new "apt plugin" command
Improvement: better detection of escape color codes in the graphical SSH browser
Improvement: better compatibility with specific GSSAPI implementations in the graphical SSH browser
Improvement: added a new "TFTP buffer size" setting in the embedded TFTP server configuration
Improvement: added a time delay when entering wrong master passwords several times
Improvement: the tabs bar can now be scrolled using the mouse wheel
Improvement: all tabs can now be pinned to the left of the tabs bar
Improvement: prevent MobaXterm from doubling the path backslashes in tab titles
Improvement: 2 sessions to the same server with the same login can now use different credentials
Improvement: increased the speed of authentication using credentials
Improvement: the popup terminal now uses the global default shell, even if this default shell is WSL, CMD, Powershell, Git-Bash, Msys, or Cygwin
Security fix: updated Curl to the latest version (fixes CVE-2023-38545)

Version 23.3 (2023-09-29)

New feature: you can now create your own plugins for MobaXterm local terminal by using the "createplugin" command
Improvement: added many new fonts in the embedded X server
Improvement: you can now disable the "Wake On Lan" feature from the Professional Customizer program
Improvement: added some specific patterns for log parsing in the syntax highlighting feature
Improvement: implemented a workaround in order to prevent Caffeine from writing unwanted characters onto the terminal
Improvement: when clicking on the "Stay on top" button in a detached tab, the window now stays in the same position
Improvement: the XWin executable is removed after disabling the X11 server from the Professional Customizer program
Improvement: the SSH engine has been set to "New" by default in the Professional Customizer program
Improvement: some basic telnet options are now available in the Live terminal configuration settings
Improvement: updated the embedded OpenSSH to version 9.4p1
Improvement: added some more Windows commands to the 64-bit terminal (nslookup, ...)
Improvement: you can now force Telnet to send "control-M" instead of "new line" when pressing the "Return" key
Improvement: added a way to force Telnet negotiation to "Passive" mode if the server needs it
Improvement: improved the Unix to Windows path conversion functions
Improvement: added a new Telnet "KeepAlive" setting that allows to regularly send data through idle connections
Improvement: implemented a better detection of IPv6 hosts for SFTP browser and SFTP sessions
Improvement: the remote monitoring bar is now able to display more than 16 network interfaces
Bugfix: fixed a potential race condition when browsing for a folder in the TFTP service settings
Bugfix: removed multiple error messages when transferring files through SFTP to folders without proper permissions
Bugfix: removed the "Terminal settings" section from VNC sessions

Version 23.2 (2023-06-25)

Improvement: added support for NTRU Prime post-quantum key exchange in the expert SSH settings
Improvement: added support for AES-GCM cipher in the expert SSH settings
Improvement: you can now set the minimum master password complexity in the Customizer to "standard" (8 characters minimum) or "strong" (12 characters minimum)
Improvement: updated the MoTTY engine with the latest improvements from the PuTTY project
Improvement: the "MobaSSHTunnel" button now brings any existing window to the front, even if it was minimized
Improvement: merged fonts locations "/usr/share/fonts" and "/usr/share/X11/fonts" into a single one
Improvement: added a new setting in MobaDiff in order to highlight small text changes with a different color
Improvement: the X server is not moved anymore to the top left corner once it is started
Improvement: the "screen" parameter in "XWinSwitches" overloads the existing one instead of being added to the X11 command line
Improvement: you can now go to the parent directory in the SSH browser by clicking on the 4th mouse button
Improvement: improved compatibility of the terminal with the "tsh" Teleport client
Improvement: you can now close a tab by using middle-click on the corresponding top-right popup menu item
Improvement: when closing a tab, other remaining tabs are now immediately replaced
Bugfix: in MobaDiff, the "Find" dialog theme was incorrect when the dialog was spawned twice on 2 different files
Bugfix: when MobaXterm is hidden and an SSH session without a login is launched, the characters in the login prompt are not masked anymore
Bugfix: deleted an error message when starting a 64-bit local terminal with the agent enabled and an RSA key present in the home directory
Bugfix: prevented renaming of a sessions folder when dragging a session over that folder
Bugfix: there was an overlap issue when the Home tab was set to be replaced when starting a terminal and the tabs were set to be opened beside the current tab
Bugfix: when a local WSL terminal was launched just after a WSL session containing a command, the shell command was executed in the local WSL terminal
Bugfix: under some specific circumstances, the passphrase for SSH keys was asked twice in 64-bit mode

Version 23.1 (2023-04-01)

New feature: it is now possible to modify directly shared sessions that are stored in a network folder, as long as you have write access to this folder
New feature: it is now possible to automatically refresh shared sessions that are stored in a network folder
Improvement: added a new security setting in the Customizer program in order to disallow the "Remember master password" feature
Improvement: updated the interface for creating shared sessions and for managing existing shared sessions
Improvement: a folder of shared sessions can now display a green "Refresh" icon when the shared sessions are updated by someone else
Improvement: updated OpenSSL library and OpenSSH command line client to the latest version
Improvement: added a message in the command line SSH client in case you are trying to connect to an old SSH server with legacy algorithms
Improvement: improved MOSH sessions compatibility with remote TCSH, CSH, and FISH shells
Improvement: improved MOSH sessions compatibility with legacy SSH servers that use outdated algorithms
Improvement: added mouse wheel scrolling feature in the MobaSSHTunnel list and in the sessions SSH jump hosts list
Improvement: the file extension is now automatically appended when exporting a color theme
Improvement: create files /etc/passwd and /etc/groups at first start for proper names resolution in the "ls" commands in 32-bit terminals
Improvement: improved switching to MobaSSHTunnel window to prevent potential focus loss
Improvement: you can now use double quotes around the full "File/Folder" sessions parameters
Improvement: do not display font ligatures in the terminal and the text editor by default (the feature remains available in the global settings, terminal tab, font selection)
Bugfix: fixed the "Soliterm" game display that was scrambled in the latest release
Bugfix: when searching for a session in the "Quick Connect" field, the results list was not resized properly when resizing the sidebar
Bugfix: refreshing shared sessions stored on an HTTP backend did not work properly when the session was cached by the browser
Bugfix: the tab color selection button was hardly visible when the tab color was white
Bugfix: in the Customizer program, the custom toolbar buttons were not always refreshed
Bugfix: fixed a race condition when starting a very slow SSH session, and stopping it immediately, while another one is already started
Bugfix: with the "Deep" skin, the "Recent sessions" list was hardly readable on light background
Bugfix: detached tabs were sometimes sticking to the borders of the screen in a multi-monitor environment
Bugfix: fixed a potential race condition when using the mouse wheel in the sessions SSH jump hosts list

Version 23.0 (2023-01-27)

Improvement: added a new web browser engine based on Microsoft Edge WebView
Improvement: added a new RDP "Zoom" feature that allows you to specify a Zoom level for your remote RDP session
Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Authentication level" that is useful when you use RDP over SSL
Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Color depth" in order to specify the desired color depth on the client side
Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Redirect smartcards" that allows using local smartcards on the server side, even for authentication
Improvement: arranged RDP advanced settings in a more convenient fashion
Improvement: added proxy support in browser sessions based on Edge/WebView
Improvement: improved VNC sessions overall speed with embedded engine
Improvement: increased the width of port fields for better reading of port numbers greater than 9999
Improvement: added a new setting in the professional Customizer program to disable the Remote Monitoring feature
Improvement: it is now possible to select a 64-bit terminal from the Customizer program
Improvement: the plugins are now unpacked after installation when the Slash directory is set to the "Program Files" folder
Improvement: you can now include 64-bit plugins in MobaXterm Customizer
Bugfix: fixed an issue with the SSH command line client when a jump host was set and the Slash directory was set to the "Program Files" folder
Bugfix: fixed a potential crash on VNC sessions when the new embedded engine and an SSH gateway were set
Bugfix: the local terminal setting was not properly restored when importing an old customization file into the Customizer program
Bugfix: fixed the OpenSSH daemon start-up when the slash directory was set to "same as application" in the customizer
Bugfix: fixed Unicode characters display in the SSH key sessions fields
Bugfix: fixed Unicode characters display in the start-up folder sessions fields
Bugfix: fixed Unicode characters display in the persistent Home and persistent Slash folders fields

Version 22.3 (2022-12-12)

Improvement: increased the maximum number of tabs per instance from 36 to 100
Improvement: you can now paste some files to the SSH browser using Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Improvement: you can now paste some files to the FTP, SFTP or S3 sessions using Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Improvement: the 3 INI configuration settings TermReconnectKey, TermSaveKey, and TermExitKey can now be set to special keys (e.g. "Return", "F4", "Backspace", ...)
Improvement: improved the embedded VNC viewer speed
Improvement: the VNC passwords are now identified by using the server address and port
Improvement: the VNC passwords are saved with the proper server name, even when using an SSH gateway or jump host
Improvement: added several new authentication methods to the embedded VNC viewer (Plain, SSL, TLS, X509Vnc, and X509Plain)
Improvement: added SSL tunnel connection feature in the embedded VNC viewer
Improvement: added Unix authentication support with login and password in the embedded VNC viewer
Improvement: added SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy support in the embedded VNC viewer
Improvement: you can now choose to position a duplicate tab beside the current tab (in the "Misc" global settings section)
Improvement: you can now choose to position every new tab beside the current tab
Improvement: added a new "OpenVMS2" terminal type that adds application keypad feature and PF1-PF4 keys
Improvement: when using the "-exitwhendone" command line parameter, the terminal does not prompt for reconnection
Improvement: increased the color saturation of inactive tabs
Improvement: when MobaXterm is started in hidden mode, password prompts are no more printed into the hidden terminal
Bugfix: fixed an issue with SSH sessions to AWS when using the AWS SSM plugin as a local proxy
Bugfix: in split mode, the main window title is now properly updated when the first terminal title is updated
Bugfix: in split mode, the active vertical tab is now properly updated when a non-focused terminal is selected

Version 22.2 (2022-11-15)

Improvement: updated the local terminal environment to the latest version
Improvement: updated packages downloaded through "apt"
Improvement: increased the speed of "apt" and "MobApt" packages managers
Improvement: better detection of special Unicode characters in Windows console applications
Improvement: set "MSYSTEM" variable to "MINGW64" for Git-Bash sessions
Improvement: set preferred PATH to /usr/bin instead of /bin by default
Improvement: unified profile scripts in order to have similar features in all local shells
Improvement: removed the MobaSendMsg binary which is no longer needed
Improvement: removed "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" which are no longer needed for faster startup
Improvement: you can now choose precisely the local terminal shell and distribution
Improvement: you can now choose an external distribution for MobaXterm local terminal
Improvement: added ZSH support in the local terminal environment and "Shell" sessions
Improvement: several speed improvements when dealing with many sessions (more than 1000)
Improvement: you can now scroll the remote monitoring status bar when it is larger than the window
Improvement: you can now choose to display NFS mounted partitions in the remote monitoring status bar
Improvement: disabled the "Redirect drives", "Redirect printers" and "Redirect ports" by default for RDP sessions
Improvement: added 3 INI configuration settings for terminal reconnection hotkeys, TermReconnectKey, TermSaveKey, and TermExitKey
Improvement: added default security presets in the Professional Customizer program
Improvement: added a new setting to disable "MobApt" package manager from the Professional Customizer program
Improvement: added a new setting to disable "RDP Reconnect" feature from the Professional Customizer program
Improvement: in portable mode, the agent keys paths automatically use variables for "CurrentDrive" or "CurrentFolder"
Improvement: you can now select the SSH protocol version for each SSH session
Improvement: you can now sort the key exchange algorithms list for each SSH session
Improvement: you can now sort the host key algorithms list for each SSH session
Improvement: you can now sort the ciphers algorithms list for each SSH session
Improvement: you can now choose to prevent MobaXterm from advertising the host key algorithm it already knows to the server
Improvement: you can now choose to enable or disable agent authentication and agent forwarding for each SSH session
Improvement: improved support for multi-monitors with different DPI settings
Improvement: improved support for changing Windows resolution while MobaXterm is open
Improvement: prevented MobaXterm from being blurry when started on a secondary 4K monitor
Improvement: improved MobaXterm and MobaTextEditor icons sharpness
Improvement: prevented RDP sessions from being blurry on the secondary monitor
Improvement: improved speed of embedded resources decompression
Bugfix: removed the password prompt when starting a tunnel with a proxy connection without authentication
Bugfix: underscores were not properly rendered in the "paste confirmation" dialog when Windows DPI was set to 125%
Bugfix: expanding a sessions folder using double-click could lead to launching the first session in some specific circumstances
Bugfix: fixed some download issues in the SCP browser when the SSH connection password was not stored into MobaXterm
Bugfix: X11-forwarding was failing under specific circumstances in SSH sessions with proxy
Bugfix: fixed a connection issue with SSH sessions, when a SOCKS proxy and a jump host were configured in the same session
Bugfix: after clicking "Cancel" in SFTP sessions authentication prompts, the connexion is properly aborted
Bugfix: properly check for the remote server host key when starting SFTP sessions (fixes CVE-2022-38336 reported by Manfred Kaiser from Austrian MilCERT)
Bugfix: when an SFTP session is aborted, the "canceled" password is no more sent to the server (fixes CVE-2022-38337 reported by Manfred Kaiser from Austrian MilCERT)

Version 22.1 (2022-06-26)

New feature: you can now activate font ligatures from MobaXterm font settings or from the terminal contextual menu
New feature: you can now choose between 3 included terminal fonts from MobaXterm font settings or from the terminal contextual menu
New feature: you can now activate font ligatures into MobaTextEditor
New feature: you can now choose between 3 included fonts for MobaTextEditor
New feature: you can now save your proxy passwords in MobaXterm secure vault
New feature: you can now add, import, or export the terminal color themes
Improvement: improved default terminal font for better readability
Improvement: better detection of pending transfers when SSH connections are closed
Improvement: make SFTP sessions work even if a remote login script writes some output to the terminal
Improvement: improved SCP and SFTP transfer speed by improving hardware-accelerated encryption, especially on AMD Ryzen CPUs
Improvement: improved MobaXterm startup and MobaXterm main window activation speed
Improvement: better detection of extended characters for password storage and SSH authentication
Improvement: upgraded the terminal engine to the latest PuTTY release
Improvement: added a new "Monochrome" colors scheme, for users who do not want colors in their terminal
Improvement: added a new "Local" proxy type that allows specifying an arbitrary command on the local machine to act as a proxy
Improvement: added detection and storage for local proxy passwords
Improvement: cleaned up the terminal settings section for better readability
Improvement: better detection of available RAM in the remote monitoring bar by using the recent "MemAvailable" Linux kernel entry
Improvement: the text files encoding is set to ANSI by default when opening them in MobaTextEditor
Improvement: the "Adapt remote DPI" setting is now faster and does not require the live creation of a specific executable
Improvement: transfers using Z-modem do not output the transferred file to the terminal anymore
Improvement: improved speed of the "Find existing session" feature of the home page
Improvement: added the ability to use a SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy for localhost connections
Improvement: the content of the "Quick Connect" field is automatically copied if you start a new session
Improvement: decreased MobaXterm memory usage, especially when a "Persistent Slash directory" is set
Improvement: you can now send Alt+Tab through the new VNC engine by pressing "Alt+PageDown"
Improvement: renamed the "Use smartcard for login" RDP option to "Native authentication"
Improvement: added a submenu called "Import sessions from external programs" in the sessions tree
Improvement: support for "Diff/Patch" syntax highlighting added to MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
Improvement: if your SSH authentication uses an ECDSA, ED25519, or RSA-SHA2 key, the SSH-browser can now use the SFTP protocol
Improvement: you can now trust and store multiple host keys for the same hostname or IP address (it can be useful for load-balancing)
Bugfix: the version number was partly hidden at the bottom of the splash screen when the Windows DPI value was "150"
Bugfix: in the SSH browser, the permissions of an edited file were sometimes lost when the "Preserve files dates" setting was checked
Bugfix: fixed an issue with a PyCharm popup window that immediately disappeared after calling it with Ctrl+F12
Bugfix: fixed an error with the X11 server when the "Xfixes" extension was disabled
Bugfix: removed some potential "Access denied" messages from the Remote monitoring module
Bugfix: fixed an issue with the X11 server blocking the arrow keys in Matlab command window history
Bugfix: when 3 sessions are selected in the sessions tree, the selection is no longer cleared when you click on one of them
Bugfix: when selecting files in the SSH-browser, the selection is refreshed when you change the browser sort order
Bugfix: proxy passwords in SSH tunnels were incorrectly decrypted and sometimes asked twice at tunnel startup
Bugfix: prevented a startup failure when the Slash directory was set to a folder called "MobaXterm" in the root of a partition
Bugfix: prevented issues with SFTP sessions authentication when many different SSH keys were used for previous connections

Version 22.0 (2022-03-04)

New feature: you can apply some specific settings to multiple sessions by right-clicking on a session, copying its settings, and pasting them to a group of sessions
New feature: you can now define your own default presets for sessions by right-clicking on a session and choosing "Save session settings as default presets"
New feature: you can now edit your own default presets for sessions by clicking on the "Edit my sessions presets" button in the general settings window
New feature: in MobaXterm Professional Edition, you can now edit MobaXterm default presets for new sessions in the Customizer program
New feature: there is a new "Bash (external)" shell session that can be used in order to start an external (Git-Bash, Msys2, Cygwin, ...) distribution in a MobaXterm terminal tab
New feature: if MobaXterm detects an external bash installation (Git-Bash, Msys2, or Cygwin), it will propose it in the homepage right-click menu
New feature: the graphical browsers (SSH, SFTP, FTP, S3) now remember the folders you browsed in each session and allow you to jump directly to them using the top address bar
New feature: you can now start or pause the recording of the terminal output to a file using a new option available in the terminal contextual menu (Ctrl + right-click on the terminal)
Improvement: switched to the latest Xorg server version 21.1.3 (the previous Xorg version 1.20.4 is still available in the general settings) (fixes CVE-2021-4008, CVE-2021-4009, CVE-2021-4010, CVE-2021-4011)
Improvement: suppressed the 2 seconds latency that was encountered the first time an application was run over X11-forwarding
Improvement: you can now select multiple files or folders in MobaDiff and perform actions (copy/delete) on all of them at once
Improvement: you can now search for some text in all the files listed in MobaDiff
Improvement: added Go and Json syntax highlighting in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
Improvement: the custom icons for your sessions can now be imported from png, ico, bmp or exe files
Improvement: added a "refresh file" feature in MobaTextEditor (this can be triggered with the "F5" shortcut)
Improvement: the session tree which pops up when clicking on the "Sessions" top button now handles mouse wheel events
Improvement: added TLS 1.3 support in FTP sessions
Bugfix: the terminal title was not updated when the title length was only 1 character (like "/" or "~")
Bugfix: the top toolbar buttons in MobaTextEditor were bright when they were pushed in dark mode
Bugfix: removed a "Clipboard not available" message in MobaTextEditor when the copy/paste operation was too fast
Bugfix: properly reset the proxy settings after editing a session that contains SOCKS parameters
Bugfix: the "Open with" contextual menu entry now works properly in FTP and SFTP sessions
Bugfix: the graphical SSH-browser used to display several empty entries when the "MaxSessions" parameter on the server was set to "1"
Bugfix: with some SFTP servers, uploading a file immediately after connecting used to fail
Bugfix: the terminal scrollbar was sometimes hidden before resizing the terminal
Bugfix: better detection of files with spaces in the WSL graphical browser in "Localhost connection" mode
Bugfix: the "Save terminal output" dialog could be hidden behind a detached window
Bugfix: the menu bar was sometimes partly white in dark mode, with a high-resolution monitor

Version 21.5 (2021-11-25)

New feature: added an option to choose between 2 SSH engines, "legacy" (for better compatibility with old servers) or "new" (for latest security features)
Improvement: the new SSH engine supports the rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 signature methods, which are required by some recent servers in order to use RSA keys
Improvement: added support for the rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 signature methods in SFTP sessions
Improvement: the new SSH engine and SFTP sessions now support the new PuTTY keys format (PPK v3)
Improvement: added a new SSH agent setting in order to prompt the user before using an agent key
Improvement: in "MultiExec" mode, the terminal title is written in the "Exclude" checkbox under each terminal
Improvement: better detection of URLs delimiters and URLs that contain a port number
Improvement: improved terminal syntax highlighting speed, especially on long lines
Improvement: improved FTP sessions compatibility with recent FTPS servers
Improvement: enhanced validation of FTP TLS certificates and allow users to trust self-signed certificates
Improvement: added some warning messages in the SSH-browser (SCP mode) after a transfer error
Improvement: characters are now properly displayed in sessions tooltips, even if they use "special" character encodings
Improvement: you can now force log files to be created for every terminal-based session from the Customizer program
Improvement: many visual controls have been improved for a better rendering on Windows 11
Improvement: in VNC sessions with the new VNC engine, you can now type Ctrl+Alt+End to simulate the remote Ctrl+Alt+Del key sequence
Improvement: in VNC sessions with the new VNC engine, the "Win" key is now forwarded to the remote server
Improvement: in SFTP sessions, you can now authenticate with an ED25519 SSH key retrieved from MobAgent
Improvement: in MultiExec mode, the paste confirmation popup is now managed once for all terminals (when using the new SSH engine mode)
Bugfix: using the "Connect as" option for a session did not work with SSH jump hosts configured
Bugfix: removed some flickering issues on the persistent Home and Slash directory fields
Bugfix: the "Sample entries" text was truncated in the syntax highlighting settings window
Bugfix: the RDP "autoscale" setting was not adapting remote DPI if the local DPI was set to 150
Bugfix: fixed the "tabs to space" setting which was not properly applied in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
Bugfix: fixed the "tabs width" setting which was not properly applied in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
Bugfix: in some specific circumstances, the MobaTextEditor caret was hidden at first start
Bugfix: the "Save password" dialog window can no more disappear behind a fullscreen RDP session
Bugfix: the "browse for folder" dialog can no more disappear behind the MobaXterm window
Bugfix: when resizing the main window in "MultiExec" mode with High DPI enabled the "Exclude from MultiExec" checkbox was truncated
Bugfix: MobaTextEditor no longer opens a new tab for an already open file
Bugfix: the "Fit to window size" button was closing RDP sessions when the RDP setting "Do not show reconnect message" was activated
Bugfix: when a VNC server is closed and immediately respawned, MobaXterm VNC client sessions do not generate an exception anymore
Bugfix: the vertical tabs tooltips were not properly closed in some specific circumstances
Bugfix: avoiding name collisions when defining 2 sessions with the same name, but with different cases for some characters
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue when the "CygUtils64" and "CygUtils" plugins are used at the same time
Bugfix: the "Log filename" field tooltip is now properly shown in the Customizer
Bugfix: when the slash folder is set to "same as application" into the Customizer, the Cygwin X11 server now works properly

Version 21.4 (2021-10-07)

New feature: you can now directly edit text files using MobaTextEditor by right-clicking on the files in Windows Explorer
New feature: you can now directly compare text files or folders using MobaDiff by right-clicking on the files/folders in Windows Explorer
Improvement: you can edit Windows right-click menu entries from MobaXterm global settings
Improvement: automatic detection of Windows ransomware protection in order to set MobaXterm working directory accordingly
Improvement: changed some icons of the graphical interface for better legibility
Improvement: enhanced the documentation and added a navigation bar for better browsing
Improvement: improved live screenshots creation for inline documentation
Improvement: automatic creation of log file output folder when it does not exist
Improvement: added a way to select the "Local Applications Data" folder in the Customizer as the default user profile directory
Bugfix: the "Log filename format" tooltip was not properly printed (the ampersand was not visible in the variables names)

Version 21.3 (2021-08-27)

New feature: added a new "Read-only" feature in the terminal right-click menu
New feature: added the ability to compare text files directly from the SSH browser, SFTP, FTP, and S3 sessions with the new "MobaDiff" tool
New feature: added syntax highlighting in MobaDiff
New feature: added recursive comparison in MobaDiff
New feature: added character by character comparison for each text line in MobaDiff
New feature: added ability to open and save GZip compressed text files (with ".gz" extension) in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff
Improvement: added "Ignore timestamps" setting in MobaDiff in order to compare 2 files with different timestamps at the beginning of each line
Improvement: added Alt+arrows keyboard shortcuts to the MobaDiff tool
Improvement: added dark mode in MobaDiff
Improvement: added undo and redo features in MobaDiff
Improvement: increased MobaDiff folders comparison speed by using multi-threading listing
Improvement: added more information for each directory or file listed in MobaDiff (size, date)
Improvement: the lines that contain differences are now clearly highlighted with different colors in MobaDiff
Improvement: the format of text files (Dos, Unix, or Mac) and the charset are now automatically recognized in MobaDiff
Improvement: removed the vertical tab titles (use the "Toggle sidebar title" menu option to modify this)
Improvement: increased the width of the paste confirmation dialog for better compatibility with Wine under MacOS and Linux
Improvement: added an inline message after RDP disconnection with a "Reconnect" button
Improvement: improved buttons painting speed by using full caching
Improvement: improved the graphical interface by removing unused borders and by improving elements alignment
Improvement: added a setting for choosing light or dark theme for MobaXterm graphical interface
Improvement: added a setting for choosing the style of tabs on the left (with or without titles)
Improvement: improved OpenSSH terminal commands speed
Improvement: MobaTextEditor "Find" feature now searches from the current position
Improvement: you can select a word in MobaTextEditor and hit "F3" to quickly find other occurrences of this pattern
Improvement: improved the files/folders comparison tools with several ergonomics enhancements
Improvement: removed the "CygwinPort" packages option in the MobApt package manager
Improvement: replaced the "CWD" operation with "NOOP" in the FTP client for better compatibility with old FTP servers
Improvement: do not attempt GSSAPI key exchange anymore when GSSAPI setting is unchecked
Improvement: eliminated flickering when starting FTP, SFTP, and S3 sessions
Improvement: removed a spurious "Unbound variable" error message when using "set -u" into bash
Improvement: increased switching speed between standard Windows light theme and standard Windows dark theme
Improvement: added detection of Unix symlinks in FTP sessions with ProFTPD server, whether the "UseSlink" directive is on or off
Improvement: better detection of server messages encoded in UTF-8 for FTP sessions
Improvement: better detection of UTF-8 encoding when showing sessions tooltips
Improvement: better detection of potential FTP disconnections during file transfers
Improvement: removed the dotted focus rectangle on focused buttons with the light theme
Improvement: removed the glowing effect when the mouse hovers a title menu entry that is not selectable
Bugfix: in dark mode, the "Services" window title bar was white
Bugfix: prevented top toolbar buttons from overlapping each other when the main window width was too small to display all buttons
Bugfix: the "MobApt" package manager was not properly updated using ZSH (64 bits) mode
Bugfix: fixed some potential issues when editing several files at once from the SSH browser in SCP mode
Bugfix: fixed an error when launching the "rxvt" or "xterm" commands from the portable version of MobaXterm
Bugfix: prevented the scrollbar in the macros sidebar to appear when there was no need for it
Bugfix: in the sessions tree, when some nodes were selected, the selection was not cleared after right-clicking on another node
Bugfix: fixed a shift in macros hotkeys list that had been introduced in previous version 21.2
Bugfix: after copying a shared session to the "Users sessions" tree, the source session was not properly refreshed
Bugfix: fixed a "space" character that was added at the end of the "Comments" section after editing a session
Bugfix: when Windows was set to 125% DPI, the "General" tab was hidden in the Professional Customizer "Settings" section

Version 21.2 (2021-06-14)

New feature: added a simple "Wake On Lan" feature which sends a magic packet to the given MAC address
Improvement: SSH tunnels can now be defined with a private SSH key located on a network UNC path
Improvement: the "Save terminal text to file" feature is now supported under Linux (Wine) and MacOS (PlayOnMac)
Improvement: the terminal "zoom/unzoom font" feature is now mapped to a configurable keyboard shortcut
Improvement: WSL sessions now use a login shell by default in order to be consistent with Windows Terminal
Improvement: better detection of UTF-8 encoding in the remote-monitoring bar hints
Bugfix: fixed the "Use font encoding" setting which was not fully working
Bugfix: input dialogs are not closed anymore when you hit Ctrl+C
Bugfix: in the Customizer, some checkboxes were overlapping each other with specific DPI settings
Bugfix: fixed some typos, especially on the "connection" word

Version 21.1 (2021-04-20)

Improvement: you can now select a custom log file name with several variables available
Improvement: enhanced syntax highlighting speed, the terminal is now 16x faster when processing colored patterns
Improvement: added basic SSH certificate support, you can now define a CA-signed OpenSSH user key in your SSH sessions
Improvement: enhanced overall terminal rendering speed and decreased CPU consumption when refreshing, especially on High DPI monitors
Improvement: better support for mouse "infinite scrolling mode" into terminals
Improvement: decreased the SSH connection time, especially when using private keys with more than 2048 bits
Improvement: support for ECDSA private keys with "aes-256-ctr" cipher in "OpenSSH_v2" format into SFTP sessions
Improvement: support for RSA private keys with a passphrase in "OpenSSH_v2" format into SFTP sessions
Improvement: it is now possible to clear the startup folder of a WSL session that had been previously chosen
Improvement: when remote monitoring items are disabled, the remote command is adjusted accordingly
Improvement: better detection of any process which is running from outside the slash folder
Improvement: disabled background color changes in the terminal when special UTF-8 characters were used
Improvement: better detection of the previous running sessions when clicking on the "Recover previous sessions" button
Improvement: when shared sessions are defined, the "Sessions" top button now expands all sessions folders accordingly
Bugfix: the remote monitoring was incomplete when there were too many entries into the server output of "netstat" command
Bugfix: when duplicating a session that uses an SSH jump host, the duplicated session will not close anymore after the initial session is closed
Bugfix: prevented the SSH sessions to try to use Pageant keys when MobAgent and Pageant were disabled in global settings
Bugfix: prevented the "View log file" button text to be wrapped onto 2 lines
Bugfix: prevented MobaXterm from removing the "COM" pattern when using serial console sessions with named pipes
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with the remote permissions editor when the remote ls command displays permissions in an unusual format
Bugfix: in case a terminal line was wrapped exactly at the beginning of a highlighted word, the syntax highlighting was disabled in the lines below
Bugfix: the "Recover previous sessions" button used to start only one session when the "Home tab is replaced" setting was checked
Bugfix: fixed SSH and WSL banners that wrongly identified MobaXterm Personal Edition as being "Professional" edition
Bugfix: the output of "ls" command on some system was blue on green background for folders with 777 permissions, so it was hardly readable

Version 21.0 (2021-03-06)

New feature: you can now select "PowerShell 7" or "Windows PowerShell" in Shell session settings
New feature: added a new "Import/Export configuration" feature in the "Settings" menu which allows you to backup or share your MobaXterm configuration as a single file
New feature: added a new "Reset configuration" feature in the "Settings" menu which allows you to reset the entire MobaXterm configuration or only reset some specific defaults
Improvement: the Professional Customizer is now compatible with Wine, under Linux and Mac OsX
Improvement: improved several components design in dark mode (checkboxes, comboboxes, ...)
Improvement: many components have been themed for a better look under Wine
Improvement: added support for SSH keys with ED25519 algorithm in SFTP sessions
Improvement: filtered out several useless entries from the remote monitoring "disk space" section
Improvement: the Professional Customizer is now able to embed big plugin files into the generated ZIP archive
Improvement: the Professional Customizer can now extract the main executable properly, even if the Windows installer is disabled by some third-party software
Improvement: the Professional Customizer allows you to edit all the banners of sessions that rely on a terminal (SSH, WSL, local terminal, telnet, rlogin)
Improvement: you can now define the default font charset and select "Use font encoding" as terminal charset (useful for special character encodings)
Improvement: you can now define a specific terminal font charset for each terminal-based session
Improvement: the local terminal prompt is now adapted when the current path is too long to fit into the terminal width
Improvement: the SSH-browser header has been adapted to the dark theme
Improvement: an enhanced tooltip and a right-click menu with a list of listening DISPLAYS have been added to the "X" button in the top toolbar
Improvement: when the X server is off, its DISPLAY is now reserved in order to prevent sessions that have been started with a specific DISPLAY to lose it
Improvement: if the X server is off and an application tries to access it, a popup dialog informs you and allows you to start it
Improvement: better detection of each X server and Remote monitoring instances ownership when MobaXterm is launched in "Multi-instances" mode
Improvement: the detection of running X server instances has been improved in order to prevent MobaXterm from slowing down
Improvement: added a "Start Windows Powershell as admin" menu entry in the "Tools" section
Improvement: added a specific icon for imported PuTTY sessions folder
Improvement: added an entry in the sessions right-click menu which allows to autodetect and import WSL sessions
Improvement: added a right-click menu in the tabs bar which allows to quickly start a specific shell (Bash, Cmd, Powershell, Wsl) or jump to a specific tab
Improvement: a check at MobaXterm startup verifies if the CygUtils plugin is obsolete
Improvement: better detection of the OneDrive folder when its name is in 8.3 format
Improvement: shared sessions with SFTP backend can now use passphrase protected SSH keys
Improvement: better auto-detection of the default shell for each WSL session
Improvement: better identification of external programs windows that overlap RDP sessions when they are "always on top"
Improvement: added some information concerning the currently active network connections in SSH remote monitoring bar
Improvement: broken text files with UTF-8 BOM header but ANSI encoding are now automatically identified
Improvement: improved the "RemoteMonitoringCompatibleMode" configuration setting which allows the remote monitoring feature to work properly with the Fish shell
Improvement: adapted the width of the multi-execution message to the width of the main window
Improvement: many tooltips have been added in order to display contextual help when your mouse cursor is over a component
Improvement: when you use the search feature of MobaTextEditor and hit the end of the file, searching now continues from the beginning of the file
Improvement: the terminal now supports many more font icons for better compatibility with enhanced shell prompts like oh-my-zsh and Powerlevel10K
Improvement: the TCPCapture tool can now be started with another user account if the current user account is not an administrator
Improvement: better identification of the AltGr key in order to prevent AltGr+Space to be treated as the Ctrl+Space ("Quick macro menu") keyboard shortcut
Improvement: added a new "lsfont" tool which prints the complete font character set into the terminal
Improvement: added some information about apt-get in case you try to start yum, urpmi, or emerge command in the local terminal
Improvement: the "Documents" folder can now be selected under the "Libraries" folder in the file picker
Improvement: better detection of all the partitions with their corresponding sizes in the remote monitoring bar
Improvement: you can now change text files encoding in MobaTextEditor or convert text files encodings
Improvement: the application title is now set after a few milliseconds in order to prevent MobaXterm from being flooded with tab title change requests (fixes CVE-2021-28847)
Improvement: the %USERNAME% variable is now resolved to the local user name in SSH remote command
Improvement: improved startup speed and removed some small visual glitches in dark mode
Bugfix: fixed the tab order in the global settings and sessions windows
Bugfix: when using the "Quick search" feature and clicking on the blank part under the "New session" icon, the "New session" window was started
Bugfix: in the SSH-browser and FTP/SFTP sessions, when editing a file and simultaneously clicking on another one resulted in a popup asking if you wanted to rename the file
Bugfix: in the global settings window, scrollbars no longer lose their dark theme when switching focus with the "TAB" key
Bugfix: right-clicking on a folder to open MobaXterm terminal in that folder did not work if the default shell was WSL and MobaXterm was already running
Bugfix: the tab titles were sometimes incorrect when extended characters were used in conjunction with a specific Windows language configuration
Bugfix: fixed a tab moving issue when "focus follows mouse" was set in Windows
Bugfix: corrected a slowness issue when browsing for plugins in the Customizer
Bugfix: the "Terminal type" setting was not properly refreshed the first time a session was edited
Bugfix: the Display resolution setting of RDP sessions was not taken into account when starting an RDP session just after MobaXterm startup
Bugfix: fixed a potential redirection ambiguity in the ServersListToMxtSessions.sh script
Bugfix: fixed a potential missing library file in ZSH shell (64 bit) which prevented Cmd or Powershell from starting properly
Bugfix: after having selected a file to upload in the explorer dialog, the parent folder is no longer locked by MobaXterm
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue when reconnecting or duplicating a telnet or rsh session which uses an SSH gateway
Bugfix: when closing several terminals at the same time, sometimes some of them were missing from the prompt dialog list
Bugfix: duplicate tab feature now works properly when you duplicate a WSL tab that uses a localhost connection
Bugfix: removed a small glitch with the "Deep" skin when clicking on the "View" menu item
Bugfix: removed a casual issue with file sizes greater than 4 GB in the SSH-browser when the SSH-browser mode is set to SCP
Bugfix: in "Split mode", when cycling through tabs using a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+arrow or Ctrl+Tab), the focus can no more be assigned to an invisible tab
Bugfix: the Slash directory can now be set to the same folder as the application, even if the CygUtils plugin is disabled
Bugfix: the macros combobox in terminal sessions was out of bounds when Windows DPI setting was at 125%
Bugfix: when selecting several sessions and launching one of them from the "Recent sessions" panel, all the selected sessions were launched

Version 20.6 (2020-11-29)

Improvement: MobaTextEditor can now auto-detect UTF-8 text files which do not contain any BOM ("Byte Order Mark") header
Improvement: MobaTextEditor auto-detects encoding when opening a file and will use it when saving the file if the encoding has not been changed manually in the meantime
Improvement: you can now search backward in files by using Shift+F3 keyboard shortcut in MobaTextEditor
Improvement: increased speed of search in MobaTextEditor, especially when you choose to highlight all results
Improvement: MobaTextEditor can now be closed with the ESCAPE key
Improvement: added support for v4 signatures for Amazon AWS S3 sessions
Improvement: added support for buckets regions auto-detection for Amazon AWS S3 sessions
Improvement: the "Browse for folder" feature speed has been improved in MobaTextEditor
Bugfix: removed an "unspecified error" which occurred in RDP sessions under Windows 7
Bugfix: fixed an incorrect remote desktop resolution in RDP sessions, when "Adapt remote DPI" setting was checked
Bugfix: when creating or duplicating a macro, the macros list was not properly refreshed

Version 20.5 (2020-11-01)

Improvement: suppressed the confirmation message when you close the local terminal under Wine
Improvement: several small speed improvements at startup, but also in secondary windows
Bugfix: typing ESCAPE key in a detached window no longer closes the window
Bugfix: in split mode, resizing an SSH session terminal had no effect if the remote monitoring was enabled

Version 20.4 (2020-10-25)

Improvement: improved detection of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) distributions, even with multiple versions of the same distribution
Improvement: allow manual selection of any WSL1 or WSL2 distribution and manual selection of its connection type
Improvement: allow manual selection of the username for WSL1 and WSL2 distributions instead of using the default one
Improvement: improved Wine compatibility for Linux and Mac users, many MobaXterm features now work under Linux or Mac, thanks to Wine, PlayOnMac, PlayOnLinux or Crossover
Improvement: graphical applications can now be displayed directly without any extra step needed, on WSL1 and WSL2 distributions
Improvement: when running WSL2 applications, a graphical browser allows you to easily browse the distribution filesystem
Improvement: when running WSL2 applications, you can use the "remote monitoring" bar to monitor your WSL2 distribution
Improvement: improved remote monitoring toolbar compatibility with systems where the "sleep" command does not work
Improvement: improved SCP browser compatibility with systems where the "ls" command displays "?" when it cannot list a file
Improvement: in WSL, the TERM variable is now set to "xterm-256color" for compatibility with extended terminal color schemes
Improvement: checking "Adapt remote DPI" setting in RDP sessions will no longer open the session fullscreen but in a detached window instead
Improvement: your DPI settings are now automatically adapted when you connect to a remote Windows 10 desktop using RDP, even when you switch to another monitor
Improvement: added the "autoscale" setting in RDP sessions which allows to automatically adapt the remote desktop to local resolution
Improvement: added the "redirect microphone" setting in RDP sessions which allows redirecting the default local audio capture device to the remote server
Improvement: added support for link-local IPv6 addresses with specified network adapter in SSH sessions with jump hosts
Improvement: for PRO users, the customizer program is now able to import your "*.mxtpro" files, in order for you to easily apply any previous customization
Improvement: for PRO users, there are now tooltips on each security settings in order to give more details about each option
Improvement: for PRO users, there is a new "disable X11 remote access" setting which allows forcing X11 server to be bound to localhost (loopback) network only
Improvement: added a right-click menu on the remote monitoring bar in order to select the items to monitor (CPU, RAM, Partitions, File descriptors, ...)
Improvement: added 2 options into the remote monitoring right-click menu in order to copy or save the remote server information as text
Improvement: added a menu entry in order to disable Forced-ASLR on MobaXterm local terminal tools and utilities
Improvement: improved the speed of the "Quick connect" feature, especially when you have many sessions (more than 1000)
Improvement: added some more checks at startup in case the "Documents" folder is a network path which is not immediately available
Improvement: a new configuration setting "RemoteMonitoringCompatibleMode" (in the "SSH" section) allows the remote monitoring feature to work properly with FISH shell
Improvement: the local GIT prompt is now in blue by default instead of red for better readability
Improvement: inform the user in the terminal that a workaround exists when a graphical application fails to start because it was run using "sudo" or "su"
Improvement: improved some of the MobaFont glyphs for better readability on HD and High DPI monitors
Improvement: the "MobaXterm" folder is no more created into "MyDocuments" at MobaXterm startup if you choose the "AppData" folder for MobaXterm profile
Improvement: startup speed has been slightly improved by avoiding some useless disk access, threading access to plugins, and setting main form DPI earlier
Improvement: improved creation speed of SpinEdit and WebLabel graphic components
Improvement: improved speed of upload and download transfers in SFTP sessions
Improvement: modified X server startup command when MobaXterm runs into App-V in order to prevent a shell console from being created
Improvement: removed the green highlighting color when the prompt is just a "#" character
Improvement: added a new "UseOriginalSshAgent" setting in the "SSH" section of the configuration file, in order to use OpenSSH agent instead of Pageant
Improvement: added some more icons for sessions and folders
Bugfix: in some specific conditions, pressing the "ESCAPE" key to close some dialog windows sometimes did not work
Bugfix: when opening twice the same SSH session with SSH-browser set to SCP, the "Follow terminal" feature used to follow only the 1st opened session
Bugfix: after having copied a session from the "CUSTOM" tree to the "USER" tree, the new session is immediately saved in case MobaXterm is closed after that
Bugfix: fixed some issues when MobaXterm is run from a Unicode PATH or when the profile directory is set to a Unicode PATH
Bugfix: in MOSH sessions, the "Charset" and "Prediction type" settings were incorrect when the session was created using the Customizer
Bugfix: fixed an "assertion failed" error message if the "Answerback" feature was manually modified by the user and was set to an empty string
Bugfix: fixed an "assertion failed" error message when starting 2 SSH tunnels configured as remote port forwarding on the same SSH gateway
Bugfix: after clicking on "Refresh shared sessions", the shared sessions defined into the professional customizer were not taken into account
Bugfix: when a WSL distribution was chosen as default shell, right-clicking on a Windows folder and choosing "Open MobaXterm here" did not open MobaXterm into that folder
Bugfix: the macro popup menu was sometimes hidden behind the terminal in detached window mode
Bugfix: Xdmcp failed to start with some specific monitor DPI configurations
Bugfix: in dark mode, the SSH key selection dialog box in the SSH tunnels window was sometimes hidden behind the main window
Bugfix: when right-clicking on a folder and choose "Open MobaXterm here", if the default shell was Cmd or Powershell, the session was not opened into the selected folder
Bugfix: starting a session by typing its name in the terminal sometimes failed when the session definition contained a UTF-8 character
Bugfix: in WSL, the default LOCALE variable was sometimes not set to the chosen default WSL value

Version 20.3 (2020-07-19)

New feature: a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+SPACE by default) allows you to quickly choose and run a macro directly from the terminal
New feature: you can now define multiple SSH jump hosts (or SSH "gateways") for SSH, Telnet, VNC and RDP sessions
Improvement: default syntax highlighting definition for terminals (local or remote) has been greatly improved with enhanced support for shell scripts and network devices
Improvement: added dark mode to MobaTextEditor
Improvement: macros are now encrypted using your Master Password, in order to keep sensitive information confidential
Improvement: added a way to set a named pipe instead of a real COM port in Serial sessions (useful for connecting to virtual COM ports)
Improvement: added an experimental setting in browser sessions in order to choose "Firefox" or "Chrome" browser engines
Improvement: improved detection of running MobaXterm sub-processes in order to increase startup speed
Improvement: decreased embedded resources size by compressing them with a better algorithm
Improvement: options set in MobaTextEditor are now remembered after MobaXterm restart
Improvement: added a new syntax for log files in MobaTextEditor
Improvement: MobaTextEditor window size and position is properly reset if a change in monitors configuration is detected
Improvement: when recording a macro, if you paste some text, it is now recorded into the macro
Improvement: better support for "docker" with bash completion, automatic terminal and DISPLAY setting
Improvement: better support for kubernetes "kubectl" command when run from local terminal
Improvement: added a link to the "winpty" tool, which allows running commands in "DOS-mode"
Improvement: the "Use Windows PATH" and "Use icons cache" options are now set by default
Improvement: added 2 new fun terminal games, soliterm and termwalk
Improvement: increased speed of shared sessions refresh
Improvement: improved SCP transfer speed by disabling compression when the file to be transferred is already compressed
Improvement: increased stored credentials retrieval speed, which leads to faster SSH authentication
Improvement: added a new setting in "File/folder" sessions in order to add command-line switches to the external program
Improvement: added some more information to the hint which is displayed when the mouse cursor is over a session
Improvement: when a SSH connection is made on a disabled tab, automatic switch to this tab after successful SSH connection is now disabled
Improvement: added more information like stack trace into MobaXterm log file in case of unhandled exception
Improvement: when you start a Windows command in ZSH (64 bits) shell (e.g. ping or ipconfig), special characters are now properly displayed
Improvement: you can now start PowerShell 7 from the local terminal by typing the "pwsh" command if you have it in your Windows PATH
Improvement: in CMD sessions, the Ctrl+C character is no more displayed in the terminal
Improvement: user keyboard shortcuts are now displayed in terminal right-click menu
Improvement: removed executable link to the deprecated Windows library "version.dll"
Improvement: autodetection of buggy SSH servers which send inconsistent ED25519 hostkey signatures and automatically switch to RSA hostkey
Improvement: changed executable SHA1 signature algorithm to dual signature (SHA1 / SHA256)
Improvement: improved some icons for better compatibility High-DPI monitors
Improvement: when you launch PowerShell from within MobaXterm terminal, the keyboard and colors configuration are automatically set
Bugfix: fixed some connections errors when using an SSH jump host to connect to an IPv6 SSH server
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue when checking the "Remember me" setting in the Master Password dialog box
Bugfix: when the "cache icons" setting was enabled, icons colors were not changed when modifying black intensity in dark mode
Bugfix: syntax highlighting was disabled on the first visible line of the terminal
Bugfix: free memory earlier after unpacking resources (instead of waiting for the end of the whole unpacking process)
Bugfix: when you close a popup window using Escape key, the key sequence is no more transferred to the terminal
Bugfix: fixed issues during folders conversions to "CurrentPath" or "MyDocuments" folders
Bugfix: the title bar was white when dark mode was activated on latest Windows 10 update of May 2020

Version 20.2 (2020-04-10)

Improvement: better detection of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) when authentication code is requested before password
Improvement: the download location of SSH-browser is now remembered after restarting MobaXterm
Improvement: the screensaver has been updated in order to decrease CPU consumption
Improvement: the penguins of the screensaver have been updated for HighDPI monitors support
Improvement: improved compatibility with screen and tmux by specifing a proper default folder for their socket
Improvement: added a new "Use icons cache" setting in order to improve MobaXterm graphical interface speed
Bugfix: when upgrading, the MSI installer sometimes deleted old files without installing new ones
Bugfix: fixed a crash in remote monitoring bar which occured when messages received from remote server were too long
Bugfix: fixed a leap year bug in FTP/SFTP sessions which occured only on 29th of february
Bugfix: the dropdown session tree (under the yellow "Sessions" button) was sometimes not updated after a session modification

Version 20.1 (2020-02-28)

Improvement: fixed some slowness issues when a stored SSH key is located on a network share that no more exists
Improvement: SSH connections to inconsistent servers that send improper SSH signature are tried in SSHv2 by default
Improvement: added some more supported screen resolutions for RDP sessions
Improvement: use a light color by default in Powershell sessions for command line switches, in order to make them more readable
Bugfix: a master password was requested at each startup when passwords were stored in MobaXterm whereas the option to store passwords was set to "never"
Bugfix: fixed the display of serial (COM) sessions speed which could be wrong when switching between different sessions with different speeds
Bugfix: fixed a typo in the master password window ("loose" instead of "lose")
Bugfix: fixed a connection issue with SSH keys, when inconsistent passphrase was stored into MobaXterm

Version 20.0 (2020-02-15)

Improvement: by default, MobaXterm autodetects if Windows is in bright or dark mode and adapts its default settings accordingly
Improvement: increased MobaXterm startup speed and removed splash screen when using an installed version or a persistent slash folder
Improvement: increased MobaXterm closing speed, by replacing a very slow Windows folder cleanup function by some enhanced code
Improvement: added an option in the "Display" tab of global settings window in order to choose if you want to round out borders for tabs
Improvement: MobaXterm now allows you to use a Master Password even on Home Edition
Improvement: use of Master Password is now mandatory for your stored passwords
Improvement: added a "Remember me on this computer" option in the Master Password prompt at MobaXterm startup
Improvement: when setting a graphic theme in the Customizer, the chosen theme is previewed in the Customizer itself
Improvement: enhanced tabs bar (paint speed, antialiased rendering) and macros sidebar (paint speed, antiflickering)
Improvement: added a new setting in macros edition in order to select the delay which will be used between each simulated keystroke
Improvement: when recording a new macro, MobaXterm now tries to detect the command you typed and propose a macro title accordingly
Improvement: several small improvements in macros edition window: decreased default delay, minified text for INI storage
Improvement: added a new "apt-get" command which is faster and easier to use
Improvement: if you type an unknown command in local BASH terminal, MobaXterm detects if it can be installed using apt-get
Improvement: when dark mode is activated, SFTP and FTP sessions now use dark theme for graphic widgets
Improvement: added a small border around the terminal in order to ease mouse selection
Improvement: better detection of minimum window width in order to set the terminal size to 80 columns and 24 lines by default
Improvement: decreased CPU consumption of terminals, especially when syntax highlighting is turned on
Improvement: upgraded MoTTY by backporting the latest PuTTY modifications
Improvement: improved speed of shared sessions refresh, especially when there are many saved sessions
Improvement: improved speed of new session creation, especially when there are many saved sessions
Improvement: improved speed of session name change, especially when there are many saved sessions
Improvement: auto-detection of UTF-8 character set in FTP sessions
Improvement: prevented some incompatibilities when running MobaXterm from Dropbox or Google Drive folder with multiple accounts
Improvement: enhanced auto-detection of Cisco/HPE/Comware network devices in order to adjust SSH session settings
Improvement: default GIT_EDITOR variable has been set to MobaTextEditor (this can be changed in user ".profile" script)
Improvement: added native support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on ARM computers
Bugfix: username of SSH sessions was not properly reset to default after editing a session and selecting saved credentials
Bugfix: when the prompt for saving passwords was shown and if you hit "RETURN" the prompt dialog was canceled instead of being acknowledged
Bugfix: fixed an issue which occurred during the "Save terminal text to file", when the file format was TXT
Bugfix: when typing "tcpdump" or "wireshark" commands in the local terminal, MobaXterm now starts TCPCapture instead
Bugfix: the "Close" button of MobaXterm embedded SSH agent process does no longer quit the process but hides it instead
Bugfix: in some cases, passphrases for SSH keys were not saved after starting SSH tunnels or gateways
Bugfix: fixed a crash error message when a session uses an SSH gateway which does not exist or is unreachable
Bugfix: fixed an issue with the font selection combobox which was not displayed properly with Asian languages
Bugfix: properly detect UTF-8 characters encoding when setting terminal tab titles
Bugfix: in dark mode, the "OpenFile" and "SaveFile" dialog windows can no longer be hidden behind MobaXterm main window
Bugfix: in dark mode, a memory device context which was used for painting main menu was not properly released after use
Bugfix: a double-update issue occurred on terminals when switching from/to MultiExec mode
Bugfix: fixed a dependency issue on the "kinit" local command
Bugfix: fixed an error in Powershell sessions when several commands and a startup directory with spaces were set
Information: changed versions numbering to "year . release_number_in_that_year . maintenance_release_for_this_version . build_number"

Version 12.4 (2019-12-01)

New feature: added a new "dark theme" which is much more reactive than the old skins as it is based on Windows native controls
Improvement: increased the SSH-browser sorting speed, in order to avoid MobaXterm slowdowns when listing folders contents
Improvement: color of the "+" button on the tabs bar changes when mouse hovers it
Improvement: themes can now be applied from the global settings window without restarting MobaXterm
Improvement: enhanced drawing speed of files and folders icons into SSH-browser
Improvement: improvements in popup windows for better compatibility with multiple monitors
Improvement: enhanced graphical controls painting speed when their background is not transparent
Improvement: better detection of core files which had been created with another account and are not writable
Improvement: eliminated some flickering effects from the tabs-based graphical components
Bugfix: prevented SSH-browser to switch to SCP mode when using keyboard-interactive authentication without 2 factor authentication
Bugfix: prevented some issues when running MobaXterm from OneDrive folder and using it with several different computers or accounts
Bugfix: when ctrl+clicking on an URL into the terminal, the URL was not properly detected if its last character was a slash

Version 12.3 (2019-10-08)

Security fix: prohibited the use of URL which do not correspond to a MobaXterm session (fixes CVE-2019-16305)
Security fix: added a comprehensive warning message when opening a session from an URL. This message contains details about the session to be launched and a warning concerning the URL provider.
Bugfix: in the password management window, after showing passwords and closing the form, the password fields are now automatically hidden
Bugfix: RDP size was not calculated properly when launching a remote desktop session while the SSH remote monitoring toolbar was active

Version 12.2 (2019-09-17)

Improvement: slightly modified foreground text color for ls results in order for the text on green background to be readable
Improvement: improved speed of command line SCP and SFTP clients
Improvement: better detection of /tmp folder for SSH random seed temporary file
Improvement: added a Customizer parameter which allows to disable X11 auto-start feature
Improvement: added a Customizer parameter which allows to disable X11 server feature completely
Improvement: improved multi-monitor support with enhanced "save window position" feature
Improvement: added an error message when a connection through a gateway fails because of network failure between client and gateway
Improvement: brought back the "backspace sends Ctrl+H" global setting as many users need it when SSHing from local terminal
Improvement: added some additional checks in order to prevent remote monitoring from being launched several times if SSH connection is too slow
Bugfix: fixed some SSH agent failures with commandline SSH client and SSH key encryption size greater than 2048 bits
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with some antivirus programs when running CMD or POWERSHELL session within MobaXterm terminal
Bugfix: fixed a bug with RDP sessions, when "HighDPI adaptation" mode and SSH gateway options were set
Bugfix: fixed a status line length bug with Byobu on Ubuntu 18.04
Bugfix: removed the limit in paste buffer, huge paste operations are now performed by chunks to prevent pipes overflows
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with window closed unexpectedly during Browser sessions
Bugfix: fixed tunnels auto-reconnection feature which failed after network connection cut
Bugfix: fixed crash issues with SSH tunnels and gateways, especially after waking up Windows from sleep/hibernate mode
Bugfix: fixed a connection issue with some Huawei routers which require RSA hostkey first in hostkeys list

Version 12.1 (2019-08-05)

Bugfix: corrected SSH connection failures caused by hardware accelerated encryption
Bugfix: in some specific cases, local terminal output was garbled after a commandline SSH connection and a network error during SSH communication
Bugfix: fixed "ldd" command which was missing some DLLs in its listing
Bugfix: fixed an issue in Windows colors selection dialog resulting in black color being applied in case of dialog failure
Bugfix: fixed an issue with the "cmd" command when it was started from a local terminal
Bugfix: fixed an issue with backslash characters being duplicated in SSH sessions "Execute command" field
Bugfix: fixed an issue with backslash characters being duplicated in SSH sessions "Username" field

Version 12.0 (2019-07-28)

New feature: added a new prompt for local terminal with GIT branch and other useful information
Improvement: added support for ECDSA and ED25519 keys for SSH tunnels and gateways
Improvement: embedded X server updated to latest Xorg source code
Improvement: X11 applications have a new default icon which is different from MobaXterm main icon
Improvement: X server speed has been improved using unused features clean up
Improvement: embedded terminal has been rebuilt from latest PuTTY source code
Improvement: new setting allows to set X server DPI or to set it to "stretch mode" on High DPI displays
Improvement: when pasting multiple lines, a popup window allows you to edit the clipboard content
Improvement: multiple gateways or tunnels connected to the same host use the same SSH connection transport for single authentication
Improvement: increased startup speed by deferring creation of "Settings" and "Sessions" windows
Improvement: when checking "KeepAlive" option, it activates SshKeepAlive but not TCPKeepAlive by default in SSH sessions, tunnels and gateways
Improvement: improved compatibility of MobaXterm terminal with WSL distributions
Improvement: added a new X11 DPI setting in order to force X server DPI value (useful for HighDPI monitors)
Improvement: added YAML syntax coloration in MobaTextEditor
Improvement: added KDE and GNOME in the list of desktop environments for WSL
Improvement: auto-detection of any desktop environment you may have installed in WSL (WFCE4, LXDE, MATE, KDE, ...)
Improvement: added a Customizer setting in order to choose the same folder as application for slash/home directories
Improvement: WSL distributions can now run even if MobaXterm is started from a USB thumb drive
Improvement: after installing a package using apt-get, the man pages can now be rendered using the built-in "man" command
Improvement: improved compatibility of MobaTextEditor with HighDPI monitors
Improvement: improved terminal support for Powershell and Cmd
Improvement: improved man pages for tools downloaded using apt-get
Improvement: better integration of GIT and CURL commands into the local terminal
Improvement: slightly modified default terminal theme, colors have been softened for a modernized look and feel
Bugfix: Gnome3 and latest version of KDE now start properly with latest Xserver update
Bugfix: prevented tunnels from starting twice when pressing "Start all tunnels" while some tunnels have "Connecting" status
Bugfix: fixed a potential bug which could prevent MobaXterm from stopping when a SSH tunnel is in "not-fully-started" state
Bugfix: tried to avoid garbled graphics in "Sessions" and "Params" windows and to be robust to potential graphic adapters or graphic drivers failures
Bugfix: limited paste buffer size to prevent terminal from crashing if the paste buffer is too big
Bugfix: avoided a potential issue when closing MobaXterm while a Web Browser session is running
Bugfix: the HTTP or SOCKS proxy type was not properly saved in Telnet sessions
Bugfix: fixed an issue with tab colors which occured when unselecting a color or duplicating an existing colored tab
Bugfix: fixed a potential bug which could prevent connecting to FTPS server with TLS enabled
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with macros containing "percent" character, when macro was created in "Sessions" window
Bugfix: in WSL sessions, the "USER" environment variable was incorrectly set to the distribution name instead of the user name
Bugfix: main window had some random issues with borders being shifted by a few pixels instead of sticking to Windows desktop edges
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with a window displayed when no SSH server name or IP address was provided
Bugfix: fixed a display issue when editing a SSH tunnel with a username containing "@" characters
Bugfix: fixed the CURL command with https websites
Bugfix: fixed completion for GIT commands in the ZSH 64-bits package
Bugfix: you can now select and edit multiple files in the SSH-browser
Bugfix: fixed an issue with FVWM2 startup and X server
Security fix: fixed a potential vulnerability with MobaXterm URI handler which could allow to execute some arbitrary commands in MobaXterm when clicking on a URL link (fixes CVE-2019-13475)
Security fix: fixed a potential issue when a SSH key was used, the SSH key and passphrase could stay in memory during the life of MobaXterm process instead of being deleted immediately (fixes CVE-2019-7690)

Version 11.1 (2019-01-20)

Improvement: eliminated flickering effects in remote monitoring bar
Improvement: improved MobaXterm startup speed by decreasing resources size
Improvement: improved size of main executable by increasing compression of embedded resources
Improvement: Windows PATH is now appended to the terminal PATH in the dropdown terminal (Ctrl+Alt+M)
Improvement: you can now manually select COM interface speed for Serial sessions
Improvement: you can now manually type a path in folder selection dialogs
Improvement: improved "ShiftFnKeys" terminal type with proper key sequences for Shift+F9 and Shift+F11
Improvement: in TCPCapture tool, a new interactive console menu allows you to choose which network adapter to use for capture
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with AltGr key into RDP sessions
Bugfix: fixed checkboxes which were not properly painted when using very high DPI (more than 250%)
Bugfix: typing the first character of a file/folder in SSH-browser now gets you to that file/folder
Bugfix: files and folders were displayed twice when pressing F5 without releasing the key in SSH-browser (SCP mode)
Bugfix: fixed a potential freeze issue when trying to connect to a SFTP session and authentication fails 3 times
Bugfix: middle-click on an SSH-browser element copies full path to the terminal
Bugfix: fixed setxkbmap command which was not working in local terminal
Bugfix: prevented MobaXterm for asking twice to close open sessions when closing MobaXterm

Version 11.0 (2018-11-01)

New feature: native integration of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) into MobaXterm - run WSL into MobaXterm advanced terminal instead of Windows console and run graphical applications thanks to MobaXterm X server
New feature: new experimental local terminal package "CygUtils64.plugin" comes with ZSH shell, 64-bit console utilities and improved apt-get packages manager - activate it from global settings, "terminal" tab
New feature: added a new global setting in order to choose which local shell to use (Bash, ZSH (64-bits), Cmd, Powershell, or one of the Linux WSL distributions)
Improvement: enhanced the Remote Monitoring bar to display information in red or orange when the values reach critical levels
Improvement: improved SSH-browser performances, especially when remote folder contains many files/folders
Improvement: improved sessions tree performances, especially when number of sessions is greater than 100
Improvement: reworked the global settings window for easier settings identification
Improvement: improved compatibility of "Follow terminal folder" feature with remote Unix/Linux environments
Improvement: added a prompt dialog in order to assign right-click action (context menu or paste) the first time you right-click into the terminal
Improvement: updated OpenSSH client to version 7.5 when the new local terminal package is selected
Improvement: updated "top", "ps", "ldd", "kill", and other core commands when the new local terminal package is selected
Improvement: you can now specify the color of each tab by right-clicking on the tab or by specifying a custom tab color for each session
Improvement: improved MobaXterm startup speed by using lazy loading for resources which may be unused
Improvement: prevent the remote monitoring bar from disappearing temporarily when switching between tabs
Improvement: updated icons for files/folders in SSH-browser and (s)FTP sessions
Improvement: updated tray icon to the new MobaXterm flat logo
Improvement: after choosing Bash or Zsh terminal in global settings, if you do not have the CygUtils plugin on your computer, a popup window prompts you to download it
Improvement: updated PuTTY-based SSH engine to the latest version
Improvement: adapted default settings to Brocade switches on SSH sessions
Improvement: updated terminal smart selection to better detect URLs and delimiters when using default settings
Improvement: added 5 manual Ini settings under the "Misc" section in order to control smart selection behavior (ForcedLeftDelimChars, ForcedRightDelimChars, DisabledLeftDelimChars, DisabledRightDelimChars and SmartDelimsForUrls)
Improvement: with default syntax, URLs are now underlined - remember that you can ctrl+click them to open in default browser
Improvement: improved size of main executable by removing unused code and optimizing several subfunctions
Improvement: decreased latency when navigating through tabs, especially for SSH sessions
Improvement: tooltips in the Remote Monitoring bar are now displayed using fixed font if necessary
Improvement: disk usage tooltip values are displayed in human-readable format
Improvement: try to detect Nexus devices and to avoid startin SCP when connecting through SSH
Improvement: improved SFTP / FTP / S3 sessions performances, especially when remote folder contains many files/folders
Improvement: after terminal has been paused (Ctrl+S), any key will "unfreeze" it. Many users thought that terminal was frozen after accidentally hitting Ctrl+S
Bugfix: after setting the graphical interface elements size from global settings, modifications are properly applied at first MobaXterm restart
Bugfix: fixed detection of disk space in remote monitoring when "df" returns results splitted across multiple lines
Bugfix: when hitting "R" to reconnect a SSH session, if the gateway had been disconnected, MobaXterm will try to reconnect it first
Bugfix: fixed some checkboxes placements, elements sizes and placements for High-DPI monitors
Bugfix: fixed syntax highlighting which was disabled when running systemctl commands
Bugfix: fixed VNC connections issues through SSH gateway (jump host) when new VNC engine was selected
Bugfix: fixed an issue with hidden sidebar when it was set to the right and monitor DPI was above 144 pixels per inch
Bugfix: MobaXterm now handles properly pipes characters in sessions folders names
Bugfix: MobaXterm now handles properly arobase characters in tunnels usernames
Bugfix: MobaXterm now handles properly arobase characters in stored passwords usernames
Bugfix: fixed some visual flickering effects which occured on some buttons when mouse was over them
Bugfix: the SSH-browser no longer follows the wrong terminal when the same SSH session is connected twice
Bugfix: removed an unnecessary delay when waiting for the X server to start up
Bugfix: passwords defined for VNC, telnet or FTP services were sometimes lost after restarting MobaXterm
Bugfix: fixed some flickering effects which occured into Home tab after MobaXterm startup
Bugfix: upload of multiple files in SSH-browser no longer gets stuck when "SSH preserve files dates" setting is activated
Bugfix: fixed remote edition of multiple files in SSH-browser when remote files had the same names
Bugfix: aligned sessions tree to the left at start up
Bugfix: fixed some issues with MobApt when downloading old packages
Bugfix: disabled "Remote monitoring" feature for SSH connections to Cisco routers
Bugfix: "MobaFoldersDiff" tool has been re-added, after fixing the startup issue
Bugfix: added "VISUAL" environment variable in order to fix potential issues with "crontab" command

Version 10.9 (2018-08-02)

Improvement: when SSH-browser is disabled, remote-monitoring feature is now also disabled, in order to avoid issues on Cisco routers
Improvement: the experimental CygUtils64 plugin can be used with MobaXterm. If you want to test it, you can download it at https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/CygUtils64.plugin
Bugfix: fixed the "live-unpack" mechanism for local terminal plugins - some plugins were not working properly in "installed mode" or when using "persistent root"
Bugfix: fixed some issues with X server detection which led to the "X" icon to stay red whereas X11 server was started
Bugfix: fixed some issues with "Follow terminal folder" when remote monitoring was enabled

Version 10.8 (2018-07-07)

Bugfix: fixed the error message which occured when running the graphical package manager "MobApt"

Version 10.7 (2018-07-01)

Improvement: updated "mobapt" package manager with new versions of downloadable tools and a fix for the "package not found" errors
Improvement: X11 programs are now shown in front of MobaXterm window, you do not need to click on the taskbar button in order to bring these windows to the front
Improvement: backup of MobaXterm.ini file is now created faster and more securely, write operations are verified to ensure that the file is properly created on disk
Bugfix: fixed height of elements in SSH keys list in High-DPI mode
Bugfix: fixed remote inspector elements sizes in High-DPI mode
Bugfix: backup of MobaXterm.ini file is now compatible with any archiver, even 7-zip

Version 10.6 (2018-05-27)

New feature: "Remote Monitoring": continuous display of your server resources usage (CPU, RAM, NET, Disk, ...) in a small bar below SSH terminal. This feature is experimental and does not work with any Unix system
Improvement: enhanced browse-for-folder dialogs and prevent them from freezing
Improvement: enhanced local folders browsing in FTP/SFTP sessions and prevent them from freezing
Improvement: new "DisableAccountsLookup" option in MobaXterm.ini file prevents MobaXterm from building Unix-like "/etc/passwd" file at start-up
Improvement: Pro edition only: added new customizer settings in order to disable Aws S3, Sftp or Mosh sessions
Improvement: Pro edition only: added new customizer settings in order to disable Iperf or Cron services
Improvement: new "MacrosDelay" option in MobaXterm.ini file allows to tune delay (in milliseconds) between each keystroke when running macros
Improvement: added the "-justunpack -quiet" commandline switches which prevent MobaXterm from showing a popup window after unpacking core files
Improvement: new global setting: "Preserve files dates during SSH-browser transfers"
Improvement: new setting for SFTP sessions: "Preserve files dates"
Improvement: better detection of GMT time for files/folders displayed in SSH-browser
Improvement: show information message if trying to run local terminal while ASLR is forced
Improvement: the paste confirmation popup now shows the text which is about to be pasted
Improvement: added "Do not show again" checkbox in the paste confirmation popup message
Bugfix: when a folder is uploaded through SSH-browser (SCP) over an existing folder with same name, folders contents are now merged

Version 10.5 (2018-01-07)

Improvement: new experimental embedded VNC engine for VNC sessions with improved rescaling, speed, keyboard and clipboard handling
Improvement: slightly improved overall speed by removing some regular checks on MobaXterm main interface
Improvement: added password authentication for the embedded basic telnet server (fixes CVE-2017-15376)
Improvement: added a popup warning when starting clear-text embedded services such as telnet, ftp, tftp or vnc
New feature: added a confirmation popup message for each connection on telnet or ftp services
Improvement: updated documentation with latest features and frequently asked questions
Improvement: added a workaround for long startup on computers with slow or broken AD users/groups listing
Improvement: improved documentation generation feature by taking fast screenshots of program windows
Improvement: improved professional generator tool on computers where MSI packages extraction is disabled
Improvement: better detection of pre-configured persistent folders on custom version, in order to display a popup when trying to modify them
Improvement: better detection of network equipments in order to automatically enable/disable supported features in SSH sessions (X11-forwarding, SSH-browser)
Improvement: improved rendering of icons and buttons, especially with High DPI monitors
Improvement: added F2 shortcut for quick rename of sessions, but also files and folders in SSH-browser
Improvement: added a workaround for the "missing wfapi.dll" message at MobaXterm startup which occurs with old Citrix installations
Bugfix: session edition was disabled when session tree sidebar was on the right side
Bugfix: removed a bug on drag and drop operations in RDP sessions
Bugfix: after choosing a skin in the customizer, MobaXterm welcome message is no more broken
Bugfix: bookmarks saved to .moba files were not started correctly with previous version
Bugfix: corrected a potential issue with the "grep" command with Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Bugfix: corrected a potential issue with custom session icons with a resolution lower than 48x48
Bugfix: if MobaTextEditor last instance was moved to 2nd monitor and you run it again with a single monitor, it will be moved to 1st monitor
Bugfix: in settings section of customizer program, the main window was blurried in some specific cases when a skin was used
Bugfix: fixed a potential scroll issue with mouse wheel in SFTP or FTP sessions
Bugfix: after disabling tools from the customizer program, MobApt is properly disabled

Version 10.4 (2017-08-24)

New feature: added support for shared sessions files: you can export some sessions to a file, put it in a shared location, and share it among your team members
New feature: added import from SuperPuTTY: you can now right-click on the session tree and choose "Import SuperPuTTY sessions"
New feature: added experimental support for Amazon AWS S3 sessions: you can browse your S3 buckets using this graphical session type
Known issue: session edition is disabled when session tree sidebar is on the right side. Workaround: move sessions tree to the left and restart MobaXterm
Improvement: a confirmation message can be displayed before pasting multiple lines to the terminal, in order to avoid unexpected lines execution in interactive shell
Improvement: if a commandline tool is installed using mobapt and provided by busybox at the same time, MobaXterm shell now chooses the non-busybox tool
Improvement: added a right-click menu in the password manager in order to copy entry content
Improvement: modified the embedded FTP server for better compatibility with clients and enhanced transfer speed
Improvement: improved syntax coloration of standard keywords (OK/warning/error/...)
Improvement: Windows 10 "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" feature is now supported
Improvement: added host fingerprint to "remote host identity changed" warning message for SSH sessions
Improvement: added a new setting which allows to validate host identity at first SSH connection
Improvement: added "SpectrWM" to the list of available remote desktops in SSH sessions
Improvement: added new setting which allows to hide the popup terminal instead of closing it in order to avoid losing previous terminal commands
Improvement: a "permission denied" error message is now displayed when modifying a remote file through SCP without proper permissions on file/folder
Improvement: improved IPv6 support for SSH, SFTP, FTP sessions, and for SSH gateway servers (jump hosts)
Improvement: improved IPv6 support for SSH tunnels created in MobaSSHTunnel tool
Improvement: improved fonts rendering and hinting, especially on progress bars
Improvement: enhanced mouse scroll detection in MobaXterm graphical interface and terminals
Bugfix: fixed HOME and END keys not working properly in MOSH session
Bugfix: fixed show/hide hotkey (Ctrl+M) which did not work if another application was displayed on top of screen Z-order
Bugfix: fixed some dialog windows which were displayed on the wrong screen in multi-monitors mode
Bugfix: fixed popup console which was displayed on the wrong screen in multi-monitors mode
Bugfix: fixed taskbar button for MobaXterm application which was displayed on the wrong screen in some specific cases on Windows 10
Bugfix: fixed shell scripts sourcing in /etc/profile.d folder at shell startup
Bugfix: fixed a persistent Windows warning message if CapsLock is activated in Master Password popup window
Bugfix: embedded FTP server does not allow users to retrieve a file outside chosen root directory anymore
Bugfix: fixed MobaXterm window not starting on 2nd monitor if it was maximized during previous stop
Bugfix: fixed "Size" and "Last modified" columns which were not resizeable in SFTP sessions
Bugfix: fixed some missing entries in "ascii" command
Bugfix: fixed some issues with mobapt postinstall scripts
Bugfix: fixed keyboard shortcuts "F1" to "F12" which were not working properly
Bugfix: main window dimensions were not restored when MobaXterm graphical interface was set to "Compact mode"
Bugfix: fixed a scroll bug with some laptop touchpads

Version 10.2 (2017-03-20)

Vulnerability fix: embedded TFTP server does not allow users to retrieve a file outside root directory anymore: fixes CVE-2017-6805

Version 10.1 (internal release)

Improvement: created MobaXterm Generator program for professional edition: it is now easier to generate MSI installer or portable package for Pro users
Improvement: took professional customization settings out of MobaXterm executable, in order to keep pro executable and MSI installer signed
Improvement: merged MobaXterm and Customizer executables: the customizer can now be tested from "Help" menu in Home edition
Bugfix: the manual "check for update" feature was always detecting an outdated version, even when MobaXterm version was up to date
Bugfix: after zooming/unzooming terminal font, the terminal window was not placed properly
Bugfix: fixed the "RDP for High-DPI" feature

Version 10.0 (2017-02-18)

New feature: added new "Flat design" icons theme, for a simple and clear look and feel
New feature: you can now select one of the 2 icon themes from MobaXterm global settings: "Flat design" (new theme) or "Crystal" (old theme)
New feature: you can now set your own custom session icons for each entry in the "Saved sessions" tree
New feature: you can now increase MobaXterm graphical interface elements size from global settings window for better readability
New feature: easily show/hide MobaXterm using a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+M by default): let MobaXterm run hidden and instantly show it when you need it using a single keystroke
New feature: added a simple semi-transparent popup terminal which can be shown/hidden using a simple keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+M by default), like the great "Guake" top-down console
Improvement: enhanced transfer speed for SSH-browser, when "SCP (enhanced speed)" setting is chosen in session parameters
Improvement: added identification of Cisco devices which do not support SSH-browser for automatic override
Improvement: new global setting under "Terminal" tab allows to log terminal content with a timestamp for each line
Improvement: enhanced Byobu terminal type support by properly handling Shift+F9, Ctrl+F9, Shift+F11 and Ctrl+F11 sequences
Improvement: added "Print" feature with syntax coloration for MobaTextEditor
Improvement: improved graphical interface for advanced terminal settings section, in session editor
Improvement: when clicking on the "Credentials" button in session settings, the "credentials" section is displayed by default
Improvement: improved mouse input handling for RDP sessions (move windows and drag/drop operations now work in any session)
Improvement: improved custom logo drawing when logo file is in PNG format with alpha transparency enabled
Improvement: added the "GIT_EDITOR" environment variable set to "/bin/vim"
Improvement: improved interface speed when "Track terminal changes" is enabled
Improvement: improved overall SSH speed by modifying RX/TX buffers handling
Improvement: ctrl+end now works properly in "less" program
Improvement: files containing ":" on remote Linux servers can now be downloaded (":" characters are replaced by "_")
Improvement: added a new undocumented INI setting "MobaNoAclForDrives": if set to "1", local terminal will not use ACLs under /drives
Improvement: new setting to allow or disallow multiple MobaXterm instances
Improvement: added a basic "Ping host" menu entry on sessions
Improvement: added 230400 speed setting for serial (COM ports) connections
Improvement: on 64-bit systems, Powershell sessions no longer use 32-bit version of Powershell, but 64-bit version instead
Improvement: added the "png2ico" terminal tool
Improvement: improved MobaXterm start up speed
Improvement: decreased MobaXterm executable size
Improvement: redesigned MobaXterm logo
Bugfix: eliminated some potential flickering effects or visual glitches on tabs and buttons when no skin was selected
Bugfix: at MobaXterm startup focus is set to the master password popup window, even if another window was focused before
Bugfix: fixed file dates in SSH-browser with SCP protocol enabled: in some specific cases, the year was not displayed properly
Bugfix: fixed an unexpected error message in SSH-browser, with SCP protocol enabled, when file path length is more than 128 characters
Bugfix: fixed a potential file corruption when downloading files in ASCII mode from some Unix servers using SFTP protocol
Bugfix: fixed SSH-browser download of multiple folders, when some sub-folders are hidden
Bugfix: when session username contained a backslash, session logs were created under a subdirectory
Bugfix: eliminated a potential freeze after restarting a terminal session
Bugfix: reconnection message was sometimes displayed even if "Display reconnection message" box was unchecked in the session settings
Bugfix: removed unexpected error message when cancelling master password after resuming from standby mode
Bugfix: eliminated some potential flickering effects or visual glitches into VNC sessions when skins were enabled
Bugfix: fixed a bug with the "Delete all passwords" button: when no username was specified, some passwords were not deleted
Bugfix: fixed Socks5 proxy connections for FTP sessions which were using SOCKS4 protocol instead of SOCKS5
Bugfix: fixed some popup windows which sometimes went behind main window
Bugfix: fixed the "tput" commandline tool which failed when using "tput cup 1" for instance
Bugfix: in some specific cases, sessions did not start and "New session" window was shown after scrolling down sessions tree and starting the top entry
Bugfix: fixed display glitch with residual text in the bottom and right margins of terminals after resize
Bugfix: credentials can no longer be created with "@" character in their names, in order to avoid conflicts
Bugfix: under Windows XP, checkboxes under the "Terminal" tab of global settings were grey
Bugfix: replaced ":" character in session log file names for sessions using IPv6
Bugfix: multi-selection in sessions tree was not properly rendered when a skin was active

Version 9.4 (2016-10-26)

New feature: MobaXterm supports native Windows GSSAPI authentication in SSH-browser, SSH-Gateway (jump hosts), SSH-tunnels, SSH and SFTP sessions, when GSSAPI is checked in MobaXterm global settings
New feature: a new button in MobaXterm home page allows you to recover sessions which had been opened in previous instance of MobaXterm
New feature: it is now possible to assign comments to sessions and to use them in the "Quick connect" field in order to find a session
Improvement: added support for the third-party "MIT Kerberos" library for GSSAPI authentication in SSH sessions, SSH-browser, SSH-Gateway, SSH-tunnels and SFTP sessions
New feature: a new button in MobaXterm SSH-browser allows you to switch to "SUDO" mode in the SSH-browser (this button is available only if "Use SCP protocol" is checked in session settings)
Improvement: improved default keywords, unix and cisco network syntax coloration definitions with many new patterns detected
Improvement: the "new session" window is now displayed when double-clicking on the "Saved sessions" tree node
Bugfix: with some specific devices, the port scanner indicated port 5632 as being open whereas it was not
Improvement: ssh stored passwords now use port number in order to allow different ssh passwords on different network ports
Improvement: added "curl" commandline tool for client-side url transfers
Improvement: improved SSH, SSH-browser, SSH-gateway and SFTP compatibility with regard to different server-side GSSAPI implementations
Bugfix: when starting a session as a detached form, the new window was sometimes created off screen
Improvement: improved accuracy of tabs drag and drop actions to avoid detaching tab instead of moving it
Improvement: columns in the SSH-browser can now be sorted in reverse order
Improvement: sort preferences in the SSH-browser are now saved in MobaXterm preferences
Improvement: slightly improved startup speed by removing some needless files decompression
Improvement: choosing "Properties" in the SSH-browser now displays filesizes in Bytes
Improvement: added a "Stay on top" button for fullscreen windows in order to toggle "window always in foreground" mode
Improvement: added a new "iperf" daemon in the servers list
Bugfix: fixed some issues with apt-get on Windows platforms newer than Windows XP
Improvement: files and folders permissions can now be changed in SFTP sessions by right-clicking on files/folders
Improvement: it is now possible to disable "MobaSSHTunnel" from the professional "Customizer" program
Improvement: it is now possible to force users to set up a "Master Password" from the professional "Customizer" program
Improvement: when you right-click on a folder and start MobaXterm from here, the session opens up in a new tab instead of starting a new MobaXterm instance

Version 9.3 (2016-09-19)

Bugfix: fixed an issue with SSH sessions using SCP protocol and SSH agent: in some specific cases, sessions were closed just after authentication
Improvement: added some enhancements to the embedded SSH agent in order to support some newer key algorithms
Improvement: enhanced SSH-browser transfer speed when using SCP protocol

Version 9.2 (2016-09-18)

New feature: you can now create your own custom syntax highlighting definitions for the terminal, using the embedded syntax customization tool
New feature: added line delay option while pasting to the terminal. This gives some time for slow remote systems to handle pasted text properly
Improvement: enhanced startup speed when many sessions are present
Improvement: enhanced "network" syntax highlighting
Improvement: added a graphical editor for files/folders permissions through SSH, SFTP or SCP
Bugfix: corrected SSH-browser display of "special files" (block device, ...) when SCP protocol is checked
Improvement: users are now prompted for master password when resuming from a locked screen (for better security)
Improvement: enhanced SSH-browser display of "parent folder"
Bugfix: Mosh sessions are forced to IPv4 only (IPv6 is not yet supported by Mosh client/server)
Improvement: hidden files/folders are now faded out in SSH-browser
Improvement: added 1920x1200 RDP resolution setting
Improvement: added "PERL" and "SQL" terminal syntax colorations
Improvement: added "i3" and "wmii" remote desktops in SSH advanced settings
Improvement: "Ubuntu Bash 4 Windows" sessions now start in the proper "HOME" folder
Improvement: backup archive for configuration files now stores the last 16 configurations (instead of 8)
Bugfix: fixed a potential tabs drag/drop issue when "mouse follows focus" feature was activated in Windows Accessibility settings
Bugfix: fixed some issues with html web page generation from sessions list
Improvement: properly support "special" characters in Ubuntu Bash for Windows (WSL): now Home, End, Insert, Delete, F1 - F16 and Ctrl+A - Ctrl+Z keys are properly handled

Version 9.1 (2016-07-01)

Improvement: added automatic scrolling of the sessions tree: you can now move a session to a folder which is not reachable without scrolling
Improvement: added new "Monokai" color scheme for terminal emulator
Improvement: better detection of non-writeable configuration file
Bugfix: fixed a focus issue with RDP sessions when switching from another application to MobaXterm
Bugfix: fixed some small issues when selecting/moving/duplicating sessions from the sessions tree
Bugfix: fixed default home symbolic links which occured when targets are on a shared folder
Improvement: added "MATE desktop" to the list of remote desktop managers in SSH session settings
Improvement: added some more debugging information for INI file detection, localisation and update
Bugfix: fixed a "freeze" issue which occured when attempting to perform the "ls -al /usr//../" command
Improvement: added a "-nomultitaskbar" commandline option (in order to force MobaXterm to the first taskbar)
Bugfix: fixed an issue when starting a new PowerShell or Cmd session in "C:": session did not start in "C:", but in default directory instead
Bugfix: resized some folder icons in order for all folder icons to have the same size
Improvement: improved logging information concerning SSH host keys
Bugfix: MobaXterm used to take SSH hosts keys from PuTTY if available, with some potential issues if a host key was modified in MobaXterm but not in PuTTY
Improvement: escape sequence sent when pressing alt+arrow keys in terminal are the same as in standard xterm terminal emulator
Bugfix: in some specific cases, tab titles were displayed in red after disconnection/reconnection
Bugfix: suppressed a transient visual "glitch" on the top buttons bar when a new session was started
Improvement: added a new setting in RDP sessions in order to enable or disable Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) for authentication
Improvement: the embedded SSH agent is now launched before SSH tunnels
Improvement: when MobaXterm starts and a tunnel is slow to connect, startup continues without waiting for tunnel connection to terminate
Bugfix: function keys now work properly in "MultiExec" mode
Improvement: SSH-browser with SCP protocol now preserves files permissions after a direct file edition
Bugfix: fixed an issue with "Store password" window which could be activated twice with RDP session
Improvement: enhanced macros at sessions start: now macros can be executed simultaneously when you start multiple sessions
Bugfix: improved SSH tunnels closing function (in some rare cases, some tunnels could leave MobaXterm in a pending state after closing it)
Improvement: number of terminal lines when printing is limited to the last terminal lines in order to save the environment
Bugfix: suppressed an incorrect warning concerning host identification verification when SSHing through a gateway server (SSH jump host)
Improvement: MobaXterm start up speed has been slightly improved
Bugfix: fixed a maximize/restore issue on Windows 10 when multiple monitors are present and a specific taskbar is affected to each monitor
Bugfix: fixed a typo in the Home page on "Professional" word (thanks to Dewi for reporting it)

Version 9.0 (2016-05-04)

New feature: added support for the new "Ubuntu Bash on Windows" feature (introduced in latest Windows 10 builds). In "Shell" sessions, you can choose between native Bash, Cmd, Powershell and "Ubuntu bash"
New feature: added terminal activity tracking: icon of terminal tab is displayed with a blue dot if some activity is detected
New feature: added terminal modification tracking: title of inactive terminal tab is displayed using blue color if something occured in the terminal
New feature: added terminal disconnection tracking: title of inactive terminal tab is displayed using red color if session has been disconnected
New feature: added a new experimental setting in the "File" session type, which allows you to open any file/folder directly into MobaXterm tabbed interface
New feature: you can now specify a start up macro for SSH, Telnet, RSH, Mosh, Serial (COM) and Shell sessions
New feature: you can now specify pattern conditions in macros (wait for a pattern before following up with macro execution)
New feature: added new browser session setting which allows to emulate older IE versions, from IE7 to IE11
Improvement: you can now specify the COM port to use for serial connection at session start (useful if you use a USB/COM adapter which can be attached to random COM ports numbers)
Improvement: enhanced macro editor: you can now type some text directly into the macro editor instead of editing each keystroke
Improvement: you can now use the following variables in macros: $MobaDisplay and $MobaIP
Improvement: terminal syntax highlighting feature (a.k.a. keyword coloration) is no more tagged as "experimental"
Improvement: enhanced terminal speed when syntax highlighting is enabled: the terminal no longer suffer from slower speed when syntax highlighting is active
Improvement: added a new "Byobu" terminal type in sessions which is compatible with Byobu escape sequences (Ctrl+Fn and Shift+Fn keys)
Improvement: added "R" programming language in MobaTextEditor syntax list
Improvement: when you save terminal output to file, the file format you choose (RTF or TXT) is now saved
Improvement: added /dev/shm directory structure (especially useful in order to use Ansible on Windows with MobaXterm)
Improvement: added a new "Duplicate macro" feature for existing macros
Improvement: enhanced saving speed when dealing with huge terminal output
Improvement: added a new "Hide toolbar" button in detached windows
Improvement: added a refresh feature for local folders for FTP/SFTP sessions, by pressing "F5" key
Improvement: implemented 2 undocumented settings "AllowBlinking" and "CtrlAltIsAltGr" ( more info on https://blog.mobatek.net )
Improvement: MobaXterm is now displayed on the proper taskbar with multiple monitors
Improvement: when saving huge terminal output, a prompt now allows you to choose whether to limit the number of lines to save
Improvement: added the iperf3 tool in the CygUtils plugin
Improvement: updated the "Default (OK/warning/error keywords)" terminal syntax highlighting with new patterns detection
Improvement: updated the "Unix shell script" terminal syntax highlighting with new patterns detection
Improvement: added new manual INI setting "AllowLegacyAlgos" under the "SSH" section (set to "0" by default), which allows to activate legacy protocols and keys for SSH client
Improvement: improved Ctrl+C and arrows handling in Dos and PowerShell sessions
Improvement: added basic keywords coloration (Ok/warning/error) as default global setting
Bugfix: TFTP server (embedded TFTP daemon) can now handle folders structure in order to upload/upload files
Bugfix: corrected typo in syntax highlighting: the keyword "successful" is now properly detected
Bugfix: added Windows path environment variable to RDP sessions for proper Smartcards authentication
Bugfix: the "SSH-browser" label in MobaXterm global settings was not displayed entirely
Bugfix: commandline SSH client was missing support for GSSAPI authentication in previous version
Bugfix: the /registry symlink was incorrect on some Windows systems
Bugfix: terminal scrollback was erased when telnet or rlogin sessions were reconnected
Bugfix: fixed libraries incompatibilities with the "findutils" package downloaded using "apt-get"
Bugfix: a "reconnection message" was displayed on CMD or POWERSHELL sessions types, even if the setting was unchecked
Bugfix: "Quick search" menu was displayed in the wrong place when sidebar was docked to the right
Bugfix: with Pro Edition, the separation line was shown even if it was unchecked in global settings
Bugfix: corrected a freeze issue in MultiExec mode, when connecting several SSH sessions to the same host and using Keyboard-interactive authentication
Bugfix: removed an error message when starting a beta version with Compact mode enabled
Bugfix: removed an error message when starting a Powershell session with a command and no home folder specified
Bugfix: fixed file access rights issues in HOME folder

Version 8.6 (2016-01-20)

New feature: added terminal syntax coloration in global and sessions settings
New feature: added experimental support for Z-modem transfers in MobaXterm terminal if you have the CygUtils plugin installed: you can now transfer files directly through the terminal by launching sz, rz, lsz or lrz on your remote host and choosing "Z-modem send" or "Z-modem receive" in terminal right-click menu
Bugfix: updated OpenSSH to version 7.1p2 in order to fix CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778 bugs. Note that this fix is for manual SSH connections from local terminal commandline only: "normal" MobaXterm SSH sessions are not concerned by the OpenSSH CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778 bugs
Bugfix: corrected the "search" feature which was not properly reset when closed
Improvement: added another check for master password in passwords management, when showing stored passwords
Bugfix: terminals in detached windows no longer loose focus when spawning SSH connections
New feature: added xrdb and setx11dpi tools: useful for retrieving/modifying Xserver settings, especially Xserver DPI value
Improvement: allowed log files to be written to UNC network paths
Improvement: added new available keyboard shortcuts combinations: WindowsLogo + F1-F12 and WindowsLogo + 0-9

Version 8.5 (2015-12-19)

Security fix: in previous releases, when opening a session with a configured SSH gateway (jump host), the gateway connection was bound to any local network adapters. This has been changed in current version by only binding SSH gateway connections to loopback network interface. Thanks to thomas (at) bleier.at for reporting this issue.
New feature: added basic syntax coloration (right-click on the terminal and choose "Syntax highlighting" sub-menu). Currently 3 syntax types are available: keywords, shell script and Cisco (network configuration)
Improvement: added automatic detection and fix for buggy Cisco SSH servers which do not properly handle "Winadj" SSH message
Improvement: added automatic basic import feature for Exceed sessions (xs files)
Bugfix: some third-party software installed with "MobApt" package manager were unable to start properly
Bugfix: MobaXterm used to eat a huge amount of CPU while displaying the "reconnection" message and waiting for user input
Bugfix: when checking the "FlickerFree" setting in "Display" section, MobaXterm displays a prompt message before restarting the application
Bugfix: bookmarks from the top menu were not ordered and started properly in a border case related to using special characters in sessions
Bugfix: when saving terminal output to RTF file, text font in the RTF file is set to "Courier New" for proper fixed-width text rendering
Bugfix: some graphical corrections have been performed for proper High DPI display on 4K (HDPI) monitors.
Bugfix: fixed an "Assertion failed" error message when connecting to a SSH server with "KexAlgorithms" set to "diffie-hellman-group14-sha1"

Version 8.4 (2015-11-20)

New feature: added "SCP" protocol for the graphical SSH-browser: MobaXterm can now use SCP in order to browse your remote server content. This experimental feature can be activated from your SSH session settings.
Improvement: accelerated terminal display even in TrueColors mode
Improvement: with SCP protocol, SSH-browser does not open a new SSH connection anymore, but makes use of the existing terminal connection instead (SSH multiplexing)
Improvement: with SCP protocol, SSH-browser is not "connected" anymore and thus it stays alive as long as the terminal SSH connection is enabled
Improvement: greatly improved SSH-browser transfer speed when using the new SCP protocol
Improvement: if SSH-browser cannot connect using SFTP protocol, it will try SCP protocol instead
Improvement: renamed "SFTP browser" to "SSH-browser"
Improvement: added a "Flicker Free" setting for MobaXterm main window
Improvement: added color support to "less" and "git" commands
Improvement: improved detection of running sub-process when starting or stopping MobaXterm
Improvement: starting a session from a file now opens it in a new tab if an existing instance of MobaXterm already exists
Improvement: added "OpenIniFile" command which allows to directly open MobaXterm.ini file from local terminal
Improvement: you can now clear the screen AND the scrollback buffer by using the "Clear scrollback" right-click menu entry on any terminal
Improvement: using the "newtab" commandline switch now sets MobaXterm running instance to foreground
Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with open remote files through SSH when multiple instances of MobaXterm were opened and a file with same name is open on 2 different remote servers
Bugfix: fixed a vulnerability in "MoTTY" PuTTY-based terminal (CVE-2015-5309)
Bugfix: fixed the filter field in "MobApt" package manager which displays "Filter packages" instead of "Filter sessions"
Bugfix: fixed log file names which did not properly mention remote hostname in case a SSH gateway has been defined
Bugfix: fixed fullscreen mode on multi-monitors environment when 2nd monitor coordinates were negative
Bugfix: fixed bug on "paste" command which did not work properly with Windows files
Bugfix: fixed a bug with commandline SSH when default SSH username chosen in global settings contains special characters
Bugfix: fixed an issue in FTP sessions: when removing a folder, MobaXterm tried to perform a CWD in the removed folder after its deletion

Version 8.3 (2015-10-31)

Security fix: in previous releases, some remote users could spy on X11 connections when Access Control was turned off. This has been changed in current version by activating Access Control by default with an authorization prompt when a remote program requests local display connection (fixes CVE-2015-7244)
New feature: added full TrueColor (24 bit) support in MobaXterm terminal (can be tested using the "lscolors" command)
New feature: added a tooltip containing columns / rows values when resizing a terminal
Improvement: xterm-256color is now properly supported with a proper 256 colors palette
Improvement: when "User" field is left blank for SSH gateway, MobaXterm will use the default username configured in your global settings
Improvement: improved focus behaviour with RDP sessions: clicking on RDP session when another window overlaps it should raise MobaXterm
Improvement: added a new option to leave audio at remote computer in RDP sessions
Improvement: pressing RETURN key while browsing sessions now starts the selected session
Improvement: you can now press RETURN key in the "store password" prompt in order to quickly accept
Improvement: added some more inline information and tooltips
Improvement: added sessions details in tooltips when hovering nodes in the main sessions tree
Improvement: disabled automatic completion for DLL libraries
Improvement: improved resize function in "MultiExec" mode
Improvement: MobaXterm now detects at startup if another different version of MobaXterm is running and shows a warning in this case
Bugfix: Alt+Tab now brings focus to MobaXterm even when a modal window is in foreground
Bugfix: in RDP sessions, the "Disconnect" button now performs a proper RDP disconnection instead of killing RDP session
Bugfix: paste shortcut was sent to the incorrect terminal when used in a detached form with another tabbed terminal active
Bugfix: with some specific folder priviledges, Mosh session did not start properly
Bugfix: some checkbox settings in RDP sessions were overlapped on high DPI monitors
Bugfix: added a workaround in order to avoid a warning message caused by an old install of "MIT Kerberos" application
Bugfix: ssh agent forwarding was not properly disabled when "Forward agents" was unchecked in global settings
Bugfix: bash completion (using tab key) for ssh commands deleted @ character

Version 8.2 (2015-09-12)

New feature: added a new "inline search" feature which allows you to highlight search terms directly into the terminal itself
New feature: added an internal SSH agent "MobAgent" which allows you to automatically load SSH keys at MobaXterm startup and to forward them
Improvement: the keyboard shortcut for "Paste inside terminal" can now be modified (default: Shift+INSERT). Remember that there is no shortcut for "COPY" as copying is performed automatically when you select some text.
Improvement: you can now scroll in Tmux using Shift+MouseWheel if you have the "set-window-option -g mode-mouse on" feature enabled in your ".tmux.conf" file
Improvement: enhanced compatibility with Emacs in terminal mode (better scrolling, better selection using shift+arrows, better home/end/arrows keys handling, better Ctrl+Alt shortcuts handling)
Improvement: added "Pageant" support for SSH tunnels and SSH gateways
Improvement: if you use a laptop and sometimes connect it to an external monitor, MobaXterm will automatically store 2 independant graphical configuration profiles (window position/size, sidebar visibility) for each configuration.
Improvement: you can now select terminals for writing in "MultiExec" mode
Improvement: you can now force terminal font antialiasing even if ClearType is disabled in your Windows configuration
Improvement: better URL detection for Ctrl+click on the terminal
Improvement: improved GSSAPI authentication for the SFTP browser
Improvement: added a new global setting which allows to disable SSH banner
Improvement: the terminal popup menu can be displayed using Ctrl+right-click or Shift+right-click when using right-click to paste
Improvement: enhanced compatibility with Byobu (Ctrl+function keys)
Improvement: telnet escape sequence was not handled correctly on German and French keyboards
Improvement: when using "-newtab" command with MobaXterm minimized, the application is properly restored
Improvement: you can now navigate in the SFTP browser using arrows, return and back keys
Improvement: added some more debugging information in log for failed SFTP connection attempts
Improvement: HOME and END keys now work properly in "less" command
Bugfix: main window size/position were not automatically saved after MobaXterm was closed with some particular Windows configuration
Bugfix: Sidebar visibility and "compact mode" were not automatically saved after MobaXterm was closed with some particular Windows configuration
Bugfix: corrected some issues when pasting to all terminals (in MultiExec mode): some terminals were not updated in some specific conditions
Bugfix: corrected a "freeze" issue when closing SSH tab with SFTP browser and "follow SSH path" checked, in some particular cases
Bugfix: corrected a "freeze" issue when resizing MobaXterm while a CMD or POWERSHELL session is running on Windows 10
Bugfix: corrected some issues with flashing taskbar or focus loss at terminal startup
Bugfix: disabled GSSAPI authentication attempt when it is unchecked in global settings
Bugfix: corrected the erroneous "closewhendone" mention in the documentation (the correct commandline parameter is "exitwhendone")
Bugfix: the "newtab" command was not starting a new tab properly for ssh commands
Bugfix: fixed "Decrease font size" menu entry which resized the terminal window instead of changing columns/rows number
Bugfix: you can now extend selection using Shift+left-click
Bugfix: HOME and END keys did not send correct key codes in some applications
Bugfix: Shift+Arrow keys did not work properly in some applications

Version 8.1 (2015-08-03)

Bugfix: corrected the SFTP browser which was not displayed if you used a private SSH key with no passphrase
Bugfix: advanced terminal settings were not accessible for telnet sessions
Bugfix: corrected an issue with Powershell and Cmd sessions when a startup folder was specified
Bugfix: the "duplicate tab" feature did not work in previous version
Bugfix: SSH keys in a shared folder with UNC path were not handled correctly
Bugfix: terminal resize was not handled correctly when asked by "screen", "tmux" or "reset" programs
Bugfix: corrected the SFTP browser which did not work with GSSAPI SSH connections
Bugfix: corrected an issue with "ascii" command which exited without displaying ascii table
Bugfix: removed some code which made some antivirus detect games executable as false-positive
Bugfix: the "-exec" feature was not working correctly with ssh commands in previous version
Improvement: improved the KeepAlive function by enabling/disabling the application-level keepalive feature AND the TCP keepalive feature simultaneously
Improvement: added some debugging information for MoTTY connections (right-click on the terminal and choose "Event log" to show it)
Improvement: popup windows for fatal connection errors are now printed to the terminal output
Improvement: display SSH banner before the remote server banner for better readibility
Improvement: replaced Ctrl+Insert shortcut by Ctrl+Shift+Insert for pasting in the terminal
Improvement: added Ctrl+0 shortcut for resetting fonts size to default
Improvement: added the Ctrl+Left_arrow / Ctrl+Right_arrow keyboard shortcuts for "forward-word" / "backward-word" in terminal
Improvement: increased startup speed especially if you have many sessions folders
Improvement: you can now save your SSH keys passphrases the same way as you save passwords if you activate the setting in "Manage passwords" window
Improvement: a middle-click on a SFTP browser item copies the item path to the SSH session
Improvement: added the VAGRANT_DETECTED_OS environment variable which allows Vagrant to work correctly inside MobaXterm
Improvement: if SFTP browser does not work because your remote server echoes some text, an explicit warning message is displayed in MobaXterm log file
Improvement: added a new script which allows to create MobaXterm sessions from a plain text list of servers: "ServersListToMxtSessions.sh"

Version 8.0 (2015-07-20)

New feature: MobaXterm is now able to create shared credentials for multiple sessions
Improvement: SSH, telnet, rlogin and serial sessions are now powered by a faster native Windows engine based on the efficient PuTTY tool by Simon Tatham
New feature: Added "MobaKeyGen": a graphical SSH keys generator based on the great "PuTTYgen" tool by Simon Tatham
Improvement: Default X server is now a native Windows port of Xorg with no wrapper (compiled using MinGW)
Improvement: The embedded terminal is now based on a plain PuTTY engine
Improvement: Re-organized session settings for better usability
Improvement: MobaXterm is now able to retrieve/store SSH password, even in "keyboard-interactive" mode
New feature: Dragging using Alt+drag performs a rectangular selection
New feature: Right-click menu now allows to reconfigure many options on the current terminal for the current running session
New feature: Added a "home page" at MobaXterm startup with recent sessions, a quick search bar and a button to start a new terminal. You can disable this home page from the global settings and choose to start a local terminal instead.
Improvement: New keyboard configurations added
Improvement: SFTP browser now works in keyboard interactive mode
Improvement: Double-click selection in the terminal is now smarter when determining if a character is a separator or not
Improvement: Local Unix utilities based on Cygwin are now in a separate plugin file. If you only need basic MobaXterm features like SSH, X11, Rlogin, Telnet, Serial or RDP, you do not need this plugin
Improvement: MobaXterm startup speed has been improved
Improvement: Banner message is now adapted to the session you launched. For SSH sessions, it displays some useful information about X11-forwarding, DISPLAY, SFTP browser and compression features
Improvement: Added new proxy settings for SSH connections
Improvement: Added some new charsets for remote sessions
Improvement: Better SSH keys support (OpenSSH / PuTTY / SSH.com types are seamlessly managed)
New feature: Added some cool puzzle games from Simon Tatham
New feature: You can now select a terminal size (number of rows/columns) and keep it while resizing MobaXterm by increasing/decreasing font size
Improvement: Added new SSH KEX algorithms for the SFTP browser (DH_GROUP_EXCHANGE256, RSA1024_SHA1, RSA2048_SHA256, GSS_GROUP_EXCHANGE, GSS_GROUP, GSS_GROUP_14)
New feature: Added uptime, shred, truncate, nl, link, free, factor, compress, count, paste, nc (netcat) and host tools (thanks to Toybox: https://landley.net/toybox/ )
Improvement: Log file name is now automatically based on the session protocol, remote host, username and date/time
New feature: You can now choose disable completely OpenGL rendering support in X11 server
Improvement: Updated Cygwin version to version 2.0.4 in CygUtils plugin
Bugfix: Corrected a bug with libopenssl, grep and bash update from apt-get
Bugfix: Prevented Windows taskbar from being raised with fullscreen VNC sessions
Improvement: Improved CMD sessions by using the "winpty" tool: Ctrl+C and TAB completion should work on any environment now
New feature: Added Powershell to the "Local terminal" session type (experimental)
New feature: Added TWM window manager as an option for X11 sessions
Improvement: Added a Paste button on the MultiExec top toolbar
New feature: Added a new tool entry in order to start a CMD window as admin
Improvement: Added an explanation message when sub processes fail to start because of a group policy
Bugfix: Corrected some issues when MobaXterm is installed in a Windows path containing unicode characters
Bugfix: Corrected an issue with tab integration of XDMCP sessions
Bugfix: Corrected an issue with tabs numbering when a VNC session was started but the remote host did not exist
Bugfix: Prevented Windows taskbar from being raised with fullscreen RDP sessions
Bugfix: Desktop shortcuts did not work on some Windows version because of truncated command line
Bugfix: fixed a bug with PuTTY sessions import at first start
Bugfix: Prevented MobaXterm slash directory from being set to the root of a drive or to a directory with other programs already present
Bugfix: Corrected some focus issues in RDP sessions

Version 7.7 (2015-03-31)

Bugfix: apt-get (MobApt) has been updated for compatibility with the new Cygwin checksums
Improvement: MobaXterm is now compatible with Windows 10 build 10041
Improvement: MobaXterm can now import PuTTY Connection Manager (PuttyCM) sessions
Improvement: MobaXterm now keeps folders structure when importing Mremote, PuTTY and SCRT sessions
Improvement: You can now choose between X11 server version 1.16.3 and 1.14.5 for better compatibility with your environment
Improvement: Recompiled Xorg version 1.16.3 with latest OpenGL libraries
Improvement: Selected a more compatible list of ciphers by default for SSH
Improvement: Added CP1251 (Cyrillic) codepage to terminal sessions
Bugfix: the "bc" command was not working correcly when launched from interactive shell in version 7.6
Bugfix: the "List running process" tool was not working when launched from the sidebar button
Bugfix: some users were shown an "Unknown+user" prompt instead of their standard username
Improvement: Protocols which have been disabled from the customizer are no longer available in interactive terminals
Bugfix: The main menu bar is now correctly repainted after maximizing the main window with a skin

Version 7.6 (2015-02-16)

Improvement: Updated "ssh-copy-id" tool in order to handle new SSH keys (ed25519)
Bugfix: SSH connections with a SSH gateway were not working correctly in v7.5
Bugfix: SSH user config files were not correctly handled in v7.5

Version 7.5 (2015-02-15)

Improvement: MobaXterm is now compatible with Windows 10 Technical Preview build 9926
Improvement: Upgraded OpenSSH to version 6.7 with new ed25519 (curve25519) SSH keys support
Improvement: MobaXterm is now compatible with 4K (Ultra-HD / High-DPI) monitors. Native HDPI mode has been added
Improvement: Added a new RDP setting in order to automatically adapt the remote desktop size to the current DPI size of the screen
Improvement: Increased font size for X server on 4K (UHD) screens
Improvement: You can now select the scaling factor of MobaXterm interface using the "-dpi" command line parameter
Improvement: Switched from Heimdal to MIT implementation of Kerberos for SSH
Bugfix: Terminal lines were truncated after minimizing MobaXterm terminal
Bugfix: TAB key was not correctly recorded in macros
Bugfix: SFTP sessions through a web or socks proxy did not work with some proxy configurations
Bugfix: In the SFTP browser, setting an empty file name is not allowed anymore
Bugfix: With some skins, the "Quick connect" button was not displayed correctly
Improvement: Added a tooltip with the full tab title when mouse hovers a tab with shrinked title
Improvement: Added a setting in the "Terminal" section for hiding terminal scrollbar
Improvement: Added a setting in the "Terminal" section for hiding the separation line between each command in local terminal
Bugfix: The "X11 compatible keyboard" setting is now applied without restarting MobaXterm
Bugfix: In compact mode, main window state (maximized or normal) is now correctly applied at MobaXterm startup
Improvement: It is now possible to leave the "remote user" field blank in order to use the default SSH user in MobaSSHTunnel
Improvement: Added new shortcuts for increasing/decreasing font sizes: Ctrl+Minus_Key and Ctrl+Plus_Key
Improvement: Added "Toggle scrollbar" option to the right-click menu on a terminal
Improvement: Added "Flip screen" option to the right-click menu on a terminal which allows toggling primary/alternate screens (useful when using VIM in order to display underlying shell output)
Improvement: Improved the "apt-get" feature (a.k.a. "MobApt") in order to allow downloads using default Windows internet connection settings
Improvement: Added beep (bell feature) to MobaXterm terminal as a new setting under the "Terminal section" in global configuration
Improvement: Added "beep" terminal command for use in shell scripts
Improvement: Updated X server to version 1.16.3 (enhanced OpenGL support)
Bugfix: X server sets a default keyboard layout when no keyboard has been automatically detected
Improvement: The "Auto-reconnect" button now allows SSH tunnels to reconnect even after a network failure
Bugfix: Using web browser sessions, on some websites, the return key was not handled correctly

Version 7.4 (2015-01-01)

Improvement: MobaXterm is now compatible with Windows 10 "Technical Preview"
Improvement: upgraded X server to version 1.16.2
Improvement: upgraded bash to version 4.1.17
Improvement: added a "Reconnect" button for SFTP (allows you to reconnect the SFTP browser in case of a network failure or a firewall disconnection)
Bugfix: when exiting "Compact mode" on professional edition, the "Unregistered" bar is not displayed anymore
Improvement: improved "Compact mode" (settings and menus improvements)
Improvement: improved scrolling in the left sidebar using mouse wheel, even when the focus is set to the terminal
Improvement: The main window title and the taskbar title are automatically changed to the active tab name
Improvement: MobaXterm can now import mRemoteNG sessions
Bugfix: corrected a bug in "Nimesweeper" (arrow keys were not working correctly)
Improvement: improved main window for high DPI monitors
Improvement: improved OpenGL support in X server
Improvement: added a new setting in VNC and RDP sessions in order to disable the settings bar
Improvement: Added a "ASCII" button in the SFTP browser in order to toggle ASCII/Binary mode for file transfers
Improvement: Added a new button in the SFTP browser in order to toggle show/hide hidden files
Bugfix: in some cases, the "Ctrl" key was incorrectly detected as pressed after using the "New tab" shortcut
Improvement: COM ports are detected automatically each time you go to the "Serial" session manager (not only at MobaXterm startup)
Improvement: MobApt is now able to force the installation of Cygwin tools
Bugfix: Corrected a recurrent issue with private SSH keys rights
Improvement: Added a graphical warning when the remote host identification has changed with a tool to reset the alarm
Improvement: Added keyboard interactive authentication type for SSH gateway
Bugfix: corrected a graphical bug in the graphical SSH tunnels tool: start buttons were not drawn correctly in skinned mode
Improvement: Added an automatic detection of any deleted file in the temp folder during execution
Improvement: Added the "showkey" tool
Improvement: Added the "killX" tool
Improvement: MobaTextEditor can now indent/unindent blocks with Tab/Shift+Tab
Improvement: Updated documentation with new features
Improvement: Added the "glxgears" and "glxinfo" tools for Xserver OpenGL tests
Improvement: Added a new "AutoReconnect" setting in MobaSSHTunnel which automatically reconnects SSH tunnels after a network failure
Improvement: Improved the way MobaXterm is started in order to avoid issues with sandboxes
Improvement: Added some warnings when using a non-persistent HOME directory and using ssh-keygen

Version 7.3 (2014-09-28)

Bugfix: updated bash to version 4.1.13 to fix "shellshock" vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169)
Improvement: added a "compact mode" in the "View" menu in order to save screen real estate
Bugfix: on German and French keyboards, the AltGr+] escape sequence was not working correctly
Bugfix: if Persistent Root folder has been set to a network share, a FAT16 or ExFAT filesystem, an error message was displayed at X server startup
Bugfix: on Windows 2000 and XP, MobaXterm logo background was not transparent
Bugfix: with persistent root folder, new customizations were sometimes not applied correctly
Improvement: the embedded browser now emulates the most recent engine available
Improvement: added a "tweet" button in the "About" window (please send a tweet about MobaXterm if you like it)
Improvement: added the "xauth" command for the embedded X server
Bugfix: MobaSwInfo now lists install software correctly on Windows 8/8.1 64 bit
Bugfix: Corrected the "Shift+Tab" shortcut in OpenSuse "Yast" installer
Improvement: improved the way symlinks are handled via SSH or SFTP
Bugfix: Corrected the Gnome session environment which did not start correctly through SSH when remote user had TCSH as default shell
Bugfix: fixed a potential indexing issue when deleting a SSH tunnel
Improvement: added a new telnet setting which prevents MobaXterm from closing when a telnet session is active
Bugfix: corrected resizing issues with RDP sessions
Improvement: added a new commandline setting in order to allow MobApt to work with local Cygwin repositories (e.g. MobApt -l /drives/c/MyCygwinRepository)
Bugfix: corrected an issue with tar and hardlink decompression
Improvement: added 2 more sections to the embedded documentation with detailed explanations about global settings and sessions settings
Improvement: added a lot of new questions/answers in the FaQ section

Version 7.2 (2014-08-04)

New feature: Added "MobApt", a new package manager based on the great "apt-cyg" tool, for automatic installation of Cygwin utilities through internet.
New feature: Added CRON service and "crontab" tool
New feature: You can now specify a persistent root folder ("/"). This is especially useful if you want to install packages using "MobApt" and you want to keep them across MobaXterm restarts.
New feature: You can now specify an INI file using the "-i" commandline parameter. You can use a local path (C:\some\place\MobaXterm.ini), a network share (\\MyServer\shared\MobaXterm.ini) or an URL (https://mywebserver/MyConfigFile.ini)
Improvement: Multi-selection is now enabled in sessions tree.
Bugfix: Reconnection message window height has been increased
Bugfix: the clipboard is no longer flushed when trying to find text in the terminal
Improvement: Added RDP gateway feature in RDP sessions
Improvement: Cygwin library has been updated to latest version (1.7.31)
Improvement: Default tab size has been increased for high-DPI monitors
Bugfix: Tab title was not correctly updated when connecting to SSH with the SFTP browser disabled
Improvement: New variables are now available for folders selection (for logs folder, home directory, INI file folder, ...): %CurrentFolder%, %CurrentDrive%, %UserDir%, %UserName%, %ComputerName%, %TempDir%, %DesktopDir%, %ProfileDir%.
Bugfix: SSH tunnels are now started one by one to prevent compatibility issues between tunnels
Improvement: Configuration settings have been sorted by categories
Improvement: FTP is now automatically reconnected after server disconnection or timeout
Improvement: You can now specify the persistent HOME (/home/mobaxterm) and SLASH (/) folder paths in MobaXterm customizer
Improvement: You can now specify the default text editor in MobaXterm customizer
Improvement: Updated busybox to version 1.22.1
Bugfix: the "pipe" key was not recorded into macros with French and German keyboards
Improvement: Tried to implement a workaround for the GbpSv rootkit which kills MobaXterm randomly on Brazilian computers
Improvement: Added the "sshpass" tool for ssh sessions automation
Improvement: Hitting "Esc" now closes dialog boxes
Improvement: SFTP browser now follows symbolic links
Bugfix: the "new folder", "new file" and "rename" dialog windows were sometimes hidden behind main MobaXterm window
Improvement: Telnet sessions can now be tunneled through SSH

Version 7.1 (2014-04-12)

Feature addition: Added a new (experimental) MOSH session type
Feature addition: Added a new (experimental) BROWSER session type
Security fix: Updated OpenSSL library to 1.0.1g (for "Heartbleed Bug" correction)
Improvement: Added a SSH setting in order to prevent "connection reset by peer" error with old SSH servers
Improvement: Added SOCKS/WEB proxy support in SSH tunnels
Improvement: It is now possible to hide the "Quick connect" bar when sidebar is disabled
Improvement: "SSH keepalive" setting has been disabled by default
Improvement: RDP connection resolution is no longer cropped in order to fit into the terminal
Bugfix: SSH using Kerberos authentication did not work correctly when SFTP browser was enabled
Bugfix: XDMCP sessions were sometimes not closed correctly
Bugfix: MobaTextEditor now remembers correctly its main window size and position
Bugfix: "grep" command was sometimes not working when invoked from a script after MobaXterm startup
Bugfix: sorting by dates in FTP sessions now works correctly
Improvement: SSH ECDSA keys are now correctly handled by MobaXterm
Bugfix: Dialog windows can no more be hidden behind MobaXterm main window
Bugfix: MobaXterm now handles correctly Windows usernames with SPACE characters
Bugfix: Files owners and groups are now correctly displayed in FTP sessions
Bugfix: In some particular environments, sessions were not correctly ordered in main menu
Bugfix: X server had troubles starting with some keyboard models
Bugfix: a problem with an increasing number of GDI handles has been fixed
Improvement: when sessions edition is disabled in the Customizer, PuTTY and SCRT sessions are not imported anymore
Bugfix: in some particular environments, an exception was raised when closing the last tab of MobaXterm
Improvement: sidebar has now a minimum width
Bugfix: in FTP sessions, hitting "Cancel" during a file transfer does not disconnect the FTP session anymore
Bugfix: Escape sequence for telnet should now be handled by MobaXterm
Improvement: MobaXterm font size is now adjusted automatically on high resolution monitors
Improvement: Each time MobaXterm configuration file is updated, a backup file is now created in the "MobaXterm backup.zip" archive. This can be disabled in MobaXterm settings window.

Version 7.0 (2014-02-18)

Improvement: MobaXterm graphical interface has been reworked (removed useless widgets, re-organized functions) in order to make it cleaner and easier to use
Improvement: Chinese, Japanese and Korean keyboard are now fully managed using Input Method Editor (IME)
Feature addition: The left sidebar can now be automatically shown/hidden by overlapping terminal, without resizing it
Feature addition: A new "network scanner" tool allows you to search for computers in your network with listening services (can be disabled in PRO edition)
Feature addition: A new "ports scanner" tool allows you to scan a computer in order to list open ports (can be disabled in PRO edition)
Bugfix: Permission problems on SSH keys on Windows 8/8.1 have been fixed
Feature addition: You can now specify terminal colors in global settings or per session
Bugfix: Removed unwanted delay when changing from a tab to another one with an active SSH session and inactive SFTP
Improvement: Changed terminal default charset to UTF-8 for better compatibility (you can change back to ISO-8859-1 in order to restore old charset behavior)
Improvement: You can now specify a default login name for SSH sessions
Improvement: SFTP upload speed is now 8 times faster on recent OpenSSH servers
Feature addition: you can now specify a local folder for FTP and SFTP sessions
Improvement: Updated X server to version 1.14.5 (some small fixes, especially for copy/paste operations)
Bugfix: in SSH sessions, when a command was specified and the SFTP browser was enabled, it was not displayed
Feature addition: A new "Quick connect" bar has been added in order to launch your saved sessions easily
Bugfix: corrected a terminal problem on Windows 8.1 which resulted in a hidden cursor after resizing window
Improvement: FTP passwords can now be saved
Bugfix: Using FTP session, some files were incorrectly detected as "character devices" and thus were not editable
Bugfix: Using FTP or SFTP sessions, some files were incorrectly detected as DOS/UNIX/MAC format in MobaTextEditor
Improvement: After performing a "find" command in the terminal, the clipboard is now flushed
Bugfix: In some very particular cases, the master password was asked although no master password was set
Improvement: On the SFTP browser frame, the tooltip is now displayed after a short delay
Bugfix: When password saving function had been disabled in the customizer (PRO edition), SSH gateway was not working correctly
Improvement: COM ports are no longer tested at startup in order to increase startup speed
Feature addition: 3 new X server modes available: these modes allow you to launch a transparent X server with window borders from fvwm, or even the full fvwm desktop
Bugfix: The "follow SSH folder" feature did not work on old Solaris remote connections
Bugfix: On German keyboard, AltGr+A now works correctly
Improvement: Automatically set the correct charset for DOS commands (ipconfig, ping, ...)
Improvement: Automatically set the correct charset for CMD sessions
Improvement: Changed default sessions name

Version 6.6 (2013-11-11)

Improved SFTP browser (increased performance, added new CTR cipher, automatic reconnection on session lost)
Improved RDP sessions by putting each RDP tab in a separate process
Added Pageant support (Settings --> Configuration --> SSH tab --> Use Pageant)
Added dynamic SSH tunnels (this allows you to easily run SOCKS proxy!)
When session logs are enabled, 2 files are now created: "<filename>.log" will contain everything that was typed into the terminal (including special characters and escape sequences) and "<filename>.txt" will contain only printable output
Improved SSH gateway connections (increased performances, added new CTR cipher, automatic reconnection on session lost)
Improved SSH tunnel connections (increased performances, added new CTR cipher, automatic reconnection on session lost)
Corrected some small RDP focus bugs (especially with RDP sessions contained in detached windows)
SFTP operations have been made asynchronous in order not to block other MobaXterm features when establishing SFTP connection, downloading file or changing directory
Improved MobaTextEditor sessions by putting each MobaTextEditor tab in a separate process
SFTP file dates are now displayed using local time and not GMT time
Added ASCII mode support for SFTP sessions
Corrected a bug: ssh-agent and ssh-pageant were not correctly restarted if MobaXterm process was killed before
Added keyboard interactive authentication for SFTP browser
Disabled "Follow SSH path" feature when SFTP browser is inactive
MobaXterm now preserves directory structure when importing Scrt sessions
Corrected a bug: when closing a tab with confirmation message disabled, in some cases the close button did not work at first time
Removed user name from MobaXterm temp directory so that firewall rules for X11 server could be set up easily (in order to allow X11 server, add program "%tempfolder%\MobaXterm%Version%\bin\XWin.exe" to the firewall whitelist)
Improved ergonomics of settings tabs
SFTP browser now displays useful hints when mouse cursor is over a remote file
Corrected a bug: when downloading files using the SFTP browser, empty directory were not downloaded
Auto-detect FVWM2 version (if you are using FVWM2 plugin, this version is automatically selected)
Added commandline parameter "-noX" for disabling X server at startup
Added "Connect as..." right-click option on sessions
Modified default shortcuts for "Find" (Ctrl+Alt+F) and "Find next" (Ctrl+F3)
Updated documentation (New articles added in the FAQ section)
Added "disable tools" setting in the customizer
Added "disable macros" setting in the customizer
Added "force access control" setting in the customizer
Added macros import/export feature
Added names for SSH tunnels
Added new setting for X11 clipboard "disable copy-on-select": this setting prevents X11 clipboard from crashing when displaying some buggy applications
Added new menu entry "Take a screenshot"
Added new menu entry "View log file"
Added new RDP setting "enable/disable clipboard redirection"
Added private key setting for SFTP sessions
Several cosmetic bugs corrected
Added sorting feature for local browser in SFTP and FTP sessions
Added a new option for saving a session to a file. Double-clicking on this file on another computer will allow you to launch the session.
Added ASCII mode support for FTP sessions
Added proxy support for FTP sessions
Added FTPS support (FTP over SSL) for FTP sessions
Updated Nc and Connect tools in order to allow SSH connections over SOCKS/HTTP proxies
Added SOCKS/HTTP/Telnet proxy capabilities for SSH sessions (with SFTP browser!)

Version 6.5 (2013-07-25)

New (experimental) feature: SFTP browser can now follow SSH terminal PATH: when you perform a "cd /tmp" in your terminal, SFTP browser will list /tmp content
The buttons toolbar can now be customized
Added vertical tabs: you can show/hide them by right-clicking on the tab bar and choose "Show/hide vertical tabs"
Improved terminal speed by copying in TXT format by default (you can still copy with text formatting by using the terminal right-click menu)
Corrected a fullscreen problem when using 2 monitors
Added the "Ctrl+Shift+Tab" for reverse-cycling into tabs. As usual, this keyboard shortcut can be modified in the "Settings" window
Removed "minimize/minimize to tray" menu
Added more termcap definitions (vt100, vt200, xterm-256colors, etc...)
Corrected some RDP tab closing bugs with slow RDP servers
Implemented a more reliable network adapters detection
Added the "ifconfig" command
Fullscreen mode now displays the top toolbar for 2 seconds before closing it
Serial connections can now be made using either minicom or microcom
Telnet connecitons can now be made using either standard-telnet or busybox-telnet
Updated Xorg to version 1.14.2 (corrected a bug with keyboard input in recent Java graphical applications)
Corrected backspace key handling inside terminal when "Unix compatible keyboard" is unchecked
Improved startup speed and CPU consumption while MobaXterm is running
Added ssh private key connection mode for graphical tunnels
Added an option for selecting the local network adapter for SSH tunnels
Corrected a bug with XDMCP sessions not being started correctly at second launch

Version 6.3 (2013-05-09)

Added new master password feature (secure passwords saving with strong encryption) - PRO EDITION ONLY
Added an embedded NFS server
Added an embedded VNC server
Added a new option to set default text editor
Improved serial connections and added some more options by replacing the "microcom" serial client by "minicom"
MobaXterm speed has been increased by putting configuration (INI) file parsing in memory
Re-enabled aero "glass" effect in the title bar when using "No skin" mode
Added new skins
Increased SFTP browser speed by increasing default buffer size
Corrected a bug: buttons were not placed correctly in some forms with some graphic adapters
Added CDE as remote desktop for SSH sessions
Added "paste" command
Corrected a bug: tab size after detaching is now the same as it was before detaching
Corrected some typos in documentation
Corrected issues when using 2 SFTP browsers with same SSH gateway
Corrected a repainting problem with multi-desktops applications like VirtuaWin or Dexpot
Changed embedded telnet client for better compatibility
Added a way to launch macros at startup or to create desktop shortcuts for macros
Improved tabs controls
Added some inline help when mouse hovers components
Created a "reset master password" tool that can be downloaded in order to reset a master password
Default X11 font path has been set to take new fonts (from font plugins) into account
Sessions can now be named using special characters like []
Fixed persistent home directory detection when home directory has been set in the customizer
Enabled fullscreen and detached tabs transparency
Fixed OpenGL acceleration on computers which do not support HW OpenGL: you can uncheck the "HW OpenGL acceleration" from the "Settings" window in order to use safer SW OpenGL acceleration
Many minor improvements
Improved documentation

Version 6.2 (2013-02-25)

Added new advanced tabs with move, detach, pin, rename and scroll features (thanks to the great component TChromeTabs)
You can now launch MobaXterm sessions from a web page: this allows Sysadmins to publish shortcuts to pre-defined sessions (SSH, XDMCP, telnet, rlogin, SFTP, FTP, ...) on the company intranet
Improved context-sensitive help by adding many tooltips, especially for SSH, RDP and X11 session settings
MobaXterm now remembers the last launched session and automatically selects it on startup
Added the "ttySxx" device name at microcom startup for easy file transfers using lrzsz
Reverted to the previous way of managing SSH passwords and passphrase: the popup asking for password is now only displayed if MobaXterm is started hidden, or if it is needed for the gateway SSH server
Added 2 new options for reconnecting or saving session after it stopped
Added the "balance" load balancer application
The "newtab" command can now take arguments in order to launch commands in the new tab
The SFTP browser is no longer launched when using scp, sftp or ssh with a non-interactive command
Added a button for importing PuTTY and SCRT sessions
Added a new tab menu entry for going fullscreen on the 2nd monitor
Corrected Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut for pasting into the terminal
Corrected some other keyboard shortcuts (especially Alt+character or Ctrl+character)
Corrected non-printable characters in some man pages
Corrected a bug: Ssh-agent was not working properly
Corrected a bug: rsync did not worked correctly with ssh client
Added a new right-click option in SFTP browser for opening files with the default associated program
Added new X11 fonts for very big and very small text
Added a "check for updates" option in the "About" window

Version 6.1 (2013-01-07)

Added new feature: it is now possible to launch a full remote desktop (Gnome, Kde, Lxde, Fvwm2, Openbox, ...) through a SSH secure connection.
SSH password prompt is now asked in a popup window in order for SSH connections to work even if MobaXterm is started minimized
Added a new "Check for updates" menu entry
Added some speed improvements (at startup and during SSH/SFTP transfers) by optimizing program multi-threading
Added a simple SSH/SFTP server
Added a simple telnet server
You can now use PuTTY private keys (PPK files) in SSH sessions
Added automatic PuTTY connections importation at MobaXterm startup with automatic conversion of PuTTY private/public key files
You can now specify a SSH private key for SSH connection
You can now specify a SSH private key for boucing gateway authentication
Added GSSAPI (Kerberos5) authentication support (experimental)
Corrected passwords saving for connections when using SSH bouncing
Added a dropdown sessions list on the right of the sessions tab bar
Added a new keyboard shortcut for filtering sessions (Ctrl+S by default)
Added a short explanation of plugins creation in the documentation
Added a short tutorial in the documentation explaning how to launch MobaXterm from a BATCH script and use advanced command line parameters
Added network servers in the "tools" menu
Network servers can now be started from the terminal (for instance, you can type: "service ssh restart")
Added new options to the right-click menu of the terminal (Search in terminal, Save terminal output, print terminal output, set terminal title, fullscreen, start new macro)
Corrected macros hotkeys which did not work in MultiExec mode
Corrected a bug: renaming a session by left-clicking on it in the left sidebar now works correctly (new session name was not saved in version 6.0)
Added a timestamp to history commands
Increased minimum size for tabs
Corrected passwords retrieving from configuration file when using MobaXterm on another computer
Added new topics in the HowTo and the embedded documentation
Corrected a bug: macro recording did not work in MultiExec mode

Version 6.0 (2012-10-11)

Added a TFTP server (useful for connecting to network equipments such as routers)
Added a FTP server
Added a HTTP server with a simple directory browsing feature
Added macros support: you can now record a macro (all your keystrokes to the terminal are being saved) or play a saved macro. This can be used for interactive scripting, such as telnet/rlogin passwordless login and automation
Added a new search feature inside terminals
Fixed a problem with usernames that contain a "." character
Removed typespeed game that could cause some freezes
Fixed a problem at startup caused by wrong Windows version detection
Added a new option for setting terminal type string (vt100, vt220, vt900, xterm, ...)
Added keyboard shortcuts for playing macros

Version 5.1 (2012-09-11)

Corrected serial connection issues with incorrect numbering of COM ports
Corrected fullscreen RDP issues with mouse cursor incorrect positions
Added quick access settings to the right-click menu on tabs
Bug correction: modal dialogs were sometimes disapearing behind MobaXterm main window
Corrected "Access violation" bug at MobaXterm startup
Corrected ssh-agent bug: when using a domain user, ssh-add was working on 1st tab but not on others
Added debug information for bug reports
Bug correction: pasting to multiple terminal at once using Ctrl+Shift+Insert
Bug correction: session type "local terminal" did not correctly remembered the shell type (bash or cmd)
It is now possible to launch sessions from command line again

Version 5.0 (2012-07-17)

Added a graphical port forwarding editor called "MobaSSHTunnel": this tool makes it easy for anyone to create SSH tunnels using a graphical tunnel builder
Added a quick search field on top of the save sessions list in order to quickly find a session using a short pattern
Added an option for enabling/disabling the SFTP browser
Added the FVWM2 window manager in the tools list and as an X11 parameter in the settings window
Added a new "MobaWMIRequest" commandline tool for executing WMI request and print output into MobaXterm (e.g. you can try to run the following command: MobaWMIRequest "SELECT * FROM Win32_BaseBoard")
Bug correction: when using the "TCPCapture" packet capture tool, priviledges are automatically detected and TCPCapture asks user for higher priviledges if necessary
The "Esc" key was incorrectly used for leaving fullscreen mode, even when another shortcut key was defined
With some screen configuration, MobaXterm default placement was not correctly centered
Improved settings window with a tabbed interface
Bug correction: When a modal dialog window was opened (Settings, or Session Settings), Windows did not display MobaXterm in the list of running apps (Alt-Tab)
Bug correction: Modal dialog boxes were sometimes disappearing under the main window
Added the "bc" command line calculator
The default for "multimonitors" option has been set to "checked" in order to avoid issues with X11 programs on 2nd monitor
The "Cursor type" label was invisible in the Settings section
Bug correction: an error message was sometimes displayed when closing the application
Improved the consolesaver performances on slow computers
Improved startup speed by loading sessions into memory before reading them from the INI file.
Added an option for enabling/disabling SSH "ServerAlive" setting (this setting is useful for keeping SSH connections persistent)
Added the ability to use SmartCards authentication with RDP client
Added an undocumented INI parameter for specifying the TEMP directory for MobaXterm files: "MobaTempDir" (into "Misc" section)
Added an undocumented commandline parameter for starting MobaXterm in a pre-defined directory: "-openfolder"
Updated OpenSSL to version 0.9.8x (security issues fixed)
Updated bash to version 4.1.10 (fixed some random STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION issues)
Improved embedded documentation and added a helpful F.A.Q. section
Added a new option in "Settings window", "Misc" which allows you to put a "Start MobaXterm here" entry to the right-click menu of folders inside Windows explorer
Added UTF-8 printing capabilities in the terminal: you can now configure your chaset to UTF-8 for printing non-English characters (e.g. Korean) and perform the "ls" command: it will show you the correct file names.
Added new options for enabling/disabling X11 extensions (advanced users only)
Added a new option for starting the X server in a container window. This can be useful for starting a full desktop in the X server (e.g. ssh myserver "gnome-session")
Added the "newtab" command for launching a new tab from within terminal
Added an new option for choosing the screen you want to run X11 server on
Added a new Ssh option "prompt for username" in order to act like PuTTY by default (prompt for login at ssh connection)
Improved rxvt/xterm keypad handling: now the keyboard numeric keys are handled correctly inside rxvt
Bug correction: MobaXterm startup was freezing on some configurations with huge number of users or groups
Bug corrected with RDP not saving passwords correctly
SSH connection to Ericsson RedBack Routers has been corrected
New syntax highlighting language in MobaTextEditor added: Cisco IOS
It is now possible to set the X11 display offset for opening X11 server on another display than :0

Version 4.5 (2012-05-02)

New feature added: you can now "detach" any MobaXterm tab to an independant window. This window can be "pinned" in order to stay always on top of all other windows or to be displayed in "real" fullscreen (without displaying the task bar or title bar)
Improved startup speed when using plugins: first time you start MobaXterm, a plugin index is created (file "MobaXterm.idx"). This speeds up MobaXterm plugins enumeration at startup
You can now open an X11 tab. This allows X11 windows to be displayed into a single MobaXterm tab instead of being displayed outside MobaXterm, thanks to the powerful DWM window manager. This is also a replacement for the old Openbox feature that had disapeared since v4.0
XDMCP sessions are now displayed into a MobaXterm tab: XDMCP windows are now managed as a standard MobaXterm tab. If you want to display your Xdmcp sessions outside MobaXterm, you can still "detach" the corresponding tab
New session settings for starting in normal tab, detached tab, maximized detached tab or fullscreen
RDP features have been added such as full NLA protocol compliance, an improved toolbar and a new fullscreen mode
Added tab title "hints" displayed when mouse goes over a tab whose name is truncated
Corrected a bug when switching to "no skin" mode: in some cases, the new skin setting was not correctly saved
Corrected a bug with the "chmod" and "chown" commands not setting file access permissions correctly. This also solves an old bug with "ls -al" not displaying the correct permissions on some filesystems.
Corrected a RDP focus bug
Added basic SSH command completion (based on known hosts and users list)
New setting for saving passwords to MobaXterm ini file and transfer previously saved passwords to the INI file (useful for transferring passwords from a computer to another)
Corrected bugs when connecting to switch and router equipments using SSH
Corrected a bug with terminal that did not render fonts correctly in some special cases and displayed only pink wide lines with nothing else written (this one was hard to find...)
Improved fonts detection and choice: now the default MobaXterm font is not unpacked anymore before use, it is mapped in memory
The X11 server now shows its DISPLAY as a small hint when you put the mouse cursor over the green "X" button
Corrected a "File access denied" message that was displayed at MobaXterm startup when MobaXterm was previously started with admin priviledges
Corrected a bug that occured at MobaXterm startup, when program was updated from a version older than v3.2
Terminal logging can now be configured per session
New keyboard shortcut for cycling through tabs (Ctrl+TAB by default)
New "Duplicate tab" option
Added a new command line option "-exec" for executing a command into MobaXterm bash shell (you can call for instance MobaXterm.exe -exec "date; sleep 1; echo 'This is a test'; echo 'Press any key to exit MobaXterm'; read i")
PRO EDITION ONLY: Added a new button for showing stored passwords
PRO EDITION ONLY: Added a new button for exporting stored passwords to a text file

Version 4.4 (2012-03-19)

Increased start up speed, especially when using an antivirus (start up duration 12s --> 5s on a 4 years old computer)
Added automatic RDP over SSH capabilities
Added automatic VNC over SSH capabilities
Added a new option for working with SSH gateway server (use an intermediate SSH server in order to reach the desired server)
Added an option for launching a remote command when starting an SSH session without exiting this session when the command finishes
RDP update for dealing with NLA security protocol (for Windows 2008 server compatibility)
New RDP option "redirect audio"
Improved RDP automatic password saving that did not work with very slow connections
Improved RDP console connections detection on XP SP3 and higher (switched to the "ConnectToAdministerServer" RDP option instead of "ConnectToServerConsole")
Corrected a bug: when one changed the name of a tab and pressed ENTER, the tab name was effectively changed but the active terminal also interpreted the ENTER command
New commands: "ssh-copy-id" (copy your SSH public keys to remote servers for passwordless authentication) and "Rainbowizer"
MobaXterm is now fully compatible with Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Version 4.2 (2012-01-23)

Plugin libraries are now rebased on-the-fly in order to avoid some occasional errors inside bash
Focus issues with VNC and RDP have been fixed
New command added: "clearall" (Clears all screen but also the scrollback buffer)
Disabled the TTY allocation by default for SSH connections
Corrected a bug: when saving the output from a terminal in RTF format, the last lines were occasionally missing
When you double-click on a session bookmark, the keyboard focus is automatically set to the new terminal
SSH manpage has been corrected (the minus character was missing)
OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8t (many vulnerabilities fixed)
MobaXterm log files can now be re-opened using the "more" command, but also inside MobaTextEditor

Version 4.0 (2011-12-15)

General modification:

New session type: VNC (connect to your remote Windows desktop directly from a MobaXterm tab)
New session type: RDP (Microsoft Terminal Services: allows you to access your remote Windows desktop directly from a MobaXterm tab)
New session type: FTP (File Transfer graphical client with a \"remote edit\" function)
New session type: SFTP (Secure File Transfer graphical client with a \"remote edit\" function)
New session type: Serial (COM) communication (Administer equipments such as switch/router directly from the MobaXterm terminal)
New session type: Local Shell (start a local shell with embedded Unix commands (\"bash\") or DOS (\"cmd\") directly in a MobaXterm terminal)
Sessions can now be created and managed easily from the new session sidebar
Several sessions can be started at MobaXterm startup or by right clicking on a session folder. This can be useful for restoring a complete environment with many open tabs
The main window, tabs and icons have been redesigned in order to look better and to be more ergonomic
You can now set different advanced terminal options for each single session you create (colors, fonts, charsets, ...)
Added an option for closing all tabs except the current one
The X11 server (Xorg) has been updated to its latest version
A lot of X11 server options have been added in order to fine tune the Xorg server at MobaXterm startup (OpenGL support, drawing engine, keyboard type, clipboard integration, ...)
A lot of XDMCP server options have been added in order to deal with every kind of remote OS (Solaris, HP-Ux, AIX, GNU/Linux, ...)
You can now export/import your sessions or only some of your sessions to/from a file
MobaXterm documentation has been updated
MobaTextEditor can now start instantly for editing your remote files via SFTP or FTP.
Several instances of MobaXterm can now be launched simultaneously
MobaXterm is now fully compatible with Windows 8 Developer Preview

Unix Terminal Modifications:

The ForwardX11Trusted ssh option (SSH X11-forwarding) is now enabled by default: you do not have to specify manually the \"ssh -X\" or \"ssh -Y\" command in order to activate X11-forwarding in MobaXterm
The Compression ssh option is now enabled by default if the server supports it: you do not have to specify manually the \"ssh -C\" command anymore.
Added 5 network daemons: telnetd, ftpd, tftpd, httpd and dnsd. These daemons can be started using the \"service start\" command. Be careful: these daemons do not use any authentication at all and allow any user to connect anonymously.
After each command, a new indicator tells you if the previous command failed (x) or succeeded (v)
Prompt (PS1) has been updated in order to display the current date, time, folder, user and computer name with colors
Terminal locale is now autodetected from your Windows environment
The startup message has been cleaned in order to be more explicit. The DISPLAY variable now uses your IP address instead of your host name.
If you use a light background colour in your terminal, the fonts colors are darkened
Added 2 new options in the right-click menu: zoom-in and zoom-out
Terminal default size is now 80x24 characters
Matches highlighting has been added in \"grep\"
Colors (syntax highlighting) have been added in man pages
A new option allows you to choose whether to paste using middle or right click
When closing multiple terminals with a running process inside, now only one warning dialog is displayed
A new option allows you to disable the warning which is displayed when closing a terminal with a running process inside
You can now directly run a session by typing its name inside a terminal

Professional edition related modifications:

MobaXterm customization settings are now directly saved into MobaXterm executable
MobaXterm professional customizer is now licensed on a per-user and per-device basis
Added new security restriction options for disabling unsafe protocols (RSH, telnet, FTP, XDMCP, VNC), disabling changing settings or disabling saving passwords
Disabling games now deletes the embedded games from the menus and the MobaXterm executable
New options and settings for editing your MobaXterm banner
You can now use pre-defined environment variables such for displaying IP address, computername, username, version and DISPLAY
The custom profile script is now executed after other necessary profile scripts
Added new settings: paste using right-click, use Windows path environment, enable/disable SSH compression, ...
Your custom logo is now displayed on MobaXterm splash screen and in the About window
Bookmarks are now saved directly into MobaXterm executable file
You can now import your MobaXterm bookmarks instead of creating them one by one in the customizer
Several new bookmarks options have been added

Bug fixes:

Games and screensaver were not correctly disabled in Pro version
Some terminal characters were lost upon terminal resize/split
The XDMCP command now includes the \"from\" command switch which can be necessary when you have more than one NIC in your computer
Tab names are now locked when you renamed them manually
When editing remote files using MobaTextEditor, the save window sometimes disapeared under terminals
The \"minimize to tray\" button did not work after changing application skin
Fixed bugs with MobaXterm X server (Xorg) running in a multi-screens environment
Correcting some bugs when moving bookmarks to another folder
Corrected many bugs in the embedded X11 server
Corrected the black \"I\" mouse cursor when the terminal background is black
Fixed some bugs with MobaXterm X11 server (Xorg) and Windows 7
Fixed the warning message \"No xauth data\" when using ssh with X11 Forwarding

Version 3.2 (2011-05-30)

New options for the Customizer: "Disable games"
Improved the bookmarks interface (bookmarks folders, better edition, custom icon, ...)
Added an option to hide/show the SSH graphical browser dynamically
Added a new button for bookmarking a running SSH session
Terminal tabs can now be moved using drag n'drop
Compression has been enabled by default for SSH --> it allows big speed improvements, especially across slow networks or the Internet
Big improvements on skins (no more flickering or slow effects)
Corrected some multi-screens bugs
Big improvements on the graphical interface, especially in "no-skin" mode
New command available: "ssh-noencryption"
No more settings are written to the registry so that MobaXterm is now fully portable (thanks to portablefreeware.com)
There is now no skin by default at first startup
Corrected the MobaControl[...] tools
Updated many tools (rsync, etc...)
Added the Stty tool
Added the glxgears, glxinfo, glxheads and glxdemo tools
Added the typespeed tool
Some improvements in the splash screen
A double-click on the tab bar now opens a new tab
Corrected a problem with the SFTP upload progressbar with big files
MobaTextEditor now remembers its previous window size
The address bar in the SFTP graphical browser is now editable
Added a screensaver for Home users that can be disabled by the customizer
Corrected a problem with Backspace not correctly erasing letters on old Unixes and on some terminal applications
Corrected a window resizing bug when the sftp browser was closed
Corrected a tab button placement bug when switching from a SSH tab to a local tab
Corrected some bugs with the rxvt terminal under Openbox
Corrected a bug that prevented the terminal from launching in some particular cases
The "minimize to tray" button is now available, even in "no skin" mode
You can now specify the sender IP address in the Xdmcp chooser
Several internationalization issues, especially in X server and in the SSH / SFTP clients
The SFTP graphical transfers are now non-blocking and multi-threaded
Added some new plugins (Expect, TCL/TK, Corskrew, ...)

Version 3.0 (2010-08-20)

Added a very cool graphical browser when connecting to a remote host using ssh or sftp
Dramatically improved the startup speed (no need to display a progress bar anymore?)
Dramatically improved the plugins activation
Added a main menu (you can choose to show only the main menu, only the buttons toolbar or both in the settings window)
Added a very cool option called "Multi-execution mode": this option allows you to execute a single command on all the opened terminals
Added customizable keyboard shortcuts
Added a new "top" implementation that shows many useful information about processes
Ctrl + Clic on a file name, on a link or on a directory name inside the terminal will open it in the Windows explorer
Improved greatly Windows interaction
Added many new customization options
Corrected many display bugs with Windows
Added ssh-agent with its options
Improved the main window design
Improved the Text Editor toolbar design
PRO VERSION ONLY: Added a "MSI creator" that allows professional users to create and customize their own MSI installer packages
PRO VERSION ONLY: Added many new options to the customizer in order to customize deeply MobaXterm
Added a new option for showing/hiding the main menu
Added a new option for showing/hiding the buttons toolbar
Added a new option for creating a shortcut to your bookmark on the desktop
Added a new "Minimize to tray" option
Added a fullscreen mode option
Added a new option for selecting a font path
New option for sending ^H when pressing the backspace key
Added UTF-8 support
Added drag and drop support (you can now drag a file and drop it onto the terminal)
Updated all tools
Added Midnight Commander, ncdu, autossh, fdupes, iperf, full vim, rsync
New accelerated X server (with OpenGL support)

Version 2.2 (2009-10-14)

Added some new plugins
Added an HTML documentation in the About window You can also type "help" in the terminal
Improved the default console font
Improved copy/paste when pasting to an external program
Improved startup speed
Added a great integrated picture viewer called "ShowImage"
Added a great integrated text editor with development and diff features called "MobaTextEditor"
Added a port monitoring program
Added fdupes -a duplicate files finder (and optionally remover)
When closing a remote ssh/telnet/rlogin/rsh connection, the tab title is set to the original tab title instead of "$HOSTNAME"
Corrected a bug when in installed mode, the home directory was not correctly mounted
The MobaConsole default font has been modified in order to better support antialiasing in Windows Vista and Windows Seven
The default window size is now adapted to your resolution
Changed the error message when using the "Create shortcut" button in the bookmarks editor without any bookmark selected
Added FTP capabilities for bookmarks creation
In the bookmarks creation dialog, there is a little red star for indicating required fields
The bookmarks are now editable by double-clicking on them
You can now select your home directory location, even in portable mode, so that you can keep your home files persistent
You can now use small buttons for the MobaXterm menus
You can now start an X-Win session with a light Window Manager ("Openbox")

Version 2.1 (2009-07-16)

Added a "print" button
When the current tab is over the tab limits, it is now displayed at the middle of the tabs bar. 2 arrow buttons allow users to browse the entire tab bar,even if the tabs are hidden.
Corrected a bug when using Vista's screenlock feature
Corrected a bug when resizing a terminal with multiple tabs (the new size values were not kept correctly)
Enlarged the resize area in the bottom-right corner
Added an information icon to the balloon tips
Corrected a bug: in some cases the X server fonts were not completely loaded at startup
Corrected a bug: in some cases, the Vista firewall was blocking the X server and an error could occur
When the program is installed, the "Install" button is now disabled in the options window

Version 2.0 (2009-06-08)

Changed name from "MobaXVT" to "MobaXterm"
Dramatically speeded-up the startup time, especially when an antivirus is present (up to 420% faster!)
Completely redesigned the terminal interface using native Windows widgets
Added a very useful "Multi-Split View" option for displaying 1, 2 or 4 terminals at once (also called "dual-panel view" and "4-panel view")
Removed the first screen (selection of X session mode)
Added an option for saving all the terminal output to a text file
Added an option for choosing your font (name, size, antialiasing, parameters, ...)
Added an option for choosing the terminal colors
Added a "clear screen" button
Added a right-clic menu on the terminal with the following options: Select all, Copy, Paste
Added a status bar for monitoring the X server and the clipboard
Added a right-clic menu on tab and an option for closing tab with a middle-clic
Added some documentation
Added new unix commands like bzcat, dd, diff, du, ed, expand, ftpget,ftpput, hexdump, ipcrm, killall, lpr, md5sum, mkfifo, nice, nohup, od, patch,printf, renice, sendmail, setsid, sha1sum, strings, sum, sync, tac, tee, telnet,tftp, uname, unzip, uudecode, uuencode, watch, wc, wget, which, zcat
Added some very light servers like httpd, tftpd, telnetd, dnsd
Your parameters are now saved to an INI file which makes MobaXterm fully portable

Version 1.0 (2008-04-16)

Initial release

MobaXterm Home Edition

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