Old Change Log

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February 6, 2001 (Release 1.1.1)

Fix error message handling. In some cases PortForwarder would fail to show error messages and die unexpectedly. Now, fixed. Bug report from Seiichi Nakashima(nakasei @ msynet . gr . jp). Thank you very much for all the help for debugging and patience!!
Support H/PC 2000.
Allow "Port" keyword in configuration file. Now, you can connect to sshd which is listening on another port than 22. Bug report from Toshiharu Mizuno(tmizuno @ tmizuno . dyn . to) and Masahiro Kikuchi(m-kikuchi @ works . illusion . ne . jp). Thanks!

Now we have PF-keygen. Yes, it's a tool for generating and managing authentication keys for ssh. You can generate your identity file with this tool.
Clicking PortForwarder icon in taskbar status area, you will see a small menu. This solves some problems related to other applications in taskbar status area.
You will see more detailed massages when asked for passphrase or password.
PortForwarder exits more silently.
There were some cases that PortForwarder would exit without any messages on errers. Now fixed.

In addition to most-currently-used hosts, you will see the hosts in your configuration file in "Host" combo box.
You might have seen some unexpected popup menues of other applications when clicking PortForwarder icon in taskbar status area. Now fixed.
You will not see "Message from server" dialogbox when disconnecting any more. Many people said that was just annoying.
Sometimes PortForwarder did not exit correctly. Now fixed.

GUI redesigned. Please refer to How To Use page.
Password authentication supported.
Now, works on Windows 95/NT3.51.
Doesn't work on WindowsCE 2.00 nor Palm-size PC 1.2 any longer. If you want to run PortForwarder on those devices, please use 0.5.11.
Needs registry no more. Uses ini file instead. If you are using 0.5.11 or an older release and decided to update, you can remove:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\toh\PortForwarder
If you don't know what "registry" means, you don't have to do anything. It's not a problem.
"Message from server" (or "TTY message") dialog box implemented far better. A message won't be split into several pieces any more. You may be able to execute some commands on a remote server with this dialog box.
Supports command line arguments no more (this feature was added when 0.5.10 was released).
Compilers for WindowsCE binaries changed. Please refer to How To Build for Windows CE page.

Cancel dialog shows up while connecting.
You can use '/' instead of '\' as a delimiter for file paths in your configuration file when spicifying identity files. This is good for those who are using the same configuration file as they use on Unix.

Add a new function. You can specify the host as an argument. You don't have to see main window everytime you start PortForwarder.

Now you can also build binary file for WindowsCE with SH3 out of the source code. There is almost no defference between binary files with version 0.5.8 and version 0.5.9. The only difference is the version number on the title bar of the application. So if you are using 0.5.8, you do not have to update to 0.5.9. Thanks for your corporation, Yukinori Maeda(yuki @ myu . org) and Katsuhiro Suto(stowe @ cc . hirosaki-u . ac . jp).

[openssh/packet.c]
There was a bug that PortForwarder would not receive debug messages (SSH_MSG_DEBUG) from server and would die unexpectedly. Fixed this. Report from Yukinori Maeda(yuki @ myu . org).

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