MindTerm 3.2 released

maf at appgate.com maf at appgate.com
Wed Mar 5 13:29:41 MET 2008


MindTerm 3.2 is now finally available for download from
http://www.appgate.com/mindterm. The main changes in this version are:

* Kerberos authentication
  MindTerm can now use local Kerberos tickets to authenticate to the
  server (gssapi-with-mic authentication).

* Handle literal IPv6 addresses
  It is now possible to enter literal IPv6 addresses enclosed in
  brackets. For examples [2001:db8::1428:57ab]:2022 will contact an
  ssh server listening on port 2022 on host 2001:db8::1428:57ab.

* NTLM proxy authentication
  Added NTLM (LM/NTML and NTLM2) authentication to proxies. That is
  MindTerm can now use proxies which demand NTLM authentication.

* Improvements for remote commands
  Arnaldo Zimmermann and Avocent provided some enhancements for how
  remote commands are handled.
   * the ability to get the exit code from remote commands
   * capture stderr from remote commands
   * timeouts for remote commands

* Drag and drop in file transfer dialog
  This release adds drag and drop support in the file transfer
  dialog. This code was contributed by Dino Klein.

* Mouse wheel scrolling in terminal window
  Dino Klein also contributed a patch which adds support for mouse
  wheel scrolling in the terminal window.
  
* Added MD4  hash algorithm
  A side effect of adding NTLM authentication was that we had to add
  the MD4 hash algorithm.

* Bug-fix: Use utf-8 in authentication phase
  User names and passwords are now encoded in utf-8 when sent over the
  wire in the authentication phase.

* Bug-fix: Use the password property if present
  The password applet property was never used when authenticating.

* Bug-fix: Do not replace hostname in connect dialog
  The connect dialog could replace the hostname entered immediately
  after leaving that field.

* Bug-fix: Only close current window when exiting
  Earlier versions would close all running applet instances when the
  user did exit in one of them.

* Bug-fix: Make right-click menu work
  The right-click menu did not work in embedded applet windows.

* Bug-fix: Terminal update
  The terminal window sometimes entered a state where it did not
  update the display until the window lost focus.

* Bug-fix: Internal error
  The internal packet buffer was too small in some circumstances so
  the user could get an "Internal error" message.

* Bug-fix: Use 3DES to encrypt RSA1 keys
  The wrong encryption algorithm was used when type 1 RSA keys were
  generated and stored on disk.

* Bug-fix: Tandem 6530
  Fixed various bugs in the Tandem 6530 terminal emulator.

* Bug-fix: SFTP file transfer
  Handle remote-to-local transfers with unknown file size.

I would specially like to thank those who have contributed code to this
version.

	/MaF
-- 
Martin Forssen <maf at appgate.com>              Development Manager
Phone: +46 31 7744361                         AppGate Network Security AB


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