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WinSCP is a small, free, open-source file transfer client for Windows that uses Secure Shell (SSH) technology to enable the safe copying of files between a local and a remote PC using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), SSH
FTP, or SCP (Secure Copy) protocols, as well as offering some basic file management features.
This small tool's full-featured installer includes additional, optional software called Jing, but you have to select it; the default installation omits Jing. The installer also presents a choice between two different main interface styles, a full-featured Commander interface with panels for local and remote directories and a scaled-down Explorer interface that only accesses remote directories. The Commander interface is a small dialog with a navigation pane and places to enter host and user names, a password, and a private key file. An About button links to an extensive Web-based Help site. You can select between SFTP, SCP, and FTP transfers and several languages, but not much more, though, in this case, less is more since the program's goal is simplicity. One feature we did like a lot is the ability to Export the program's complicated preference settings with a click. Of course, nothing matters if the program doesn't deliver, but WinSCP transferred files quickly and securely in testing.
Martin Prikryl's
WinSCP is freeware. We tested it in Vista and Windows 7, but it works in most versions of Windows back to Win95. Its ability to securely transfer files between far-flung PCs using several protocols earns our recommendation.
WinSCP is a freeware SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure Copy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure Shell). Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic function, WinSCP manages some other actions with files.
What's new in version of WINSCP
- Reduced chance of collision in .NET assembly session instance name in multi-threaded applications.
- Bug fix: Console input/output was not using UTF-8 encoding on Windows 8.
- Bug fix: Connection gets aborted when TLS/SSL certificate uses ASN.1 GeneralizedTime format.
- Bug fix: Connection gets aborted without any feedback when TLS/SSL certificate cannot be decoded.
- Bug fix: Failure when send buffer of FTP connection is temporarily full.
- Bug fix: External changes to local directory are sometimes not shown on the local panel.
- Bug fix: WinSCP child process was not terminated when process using WinSCP .NET assembly crashed.