Changelog — Dshh

v1.3.6latest

oct 2026

Ctrl+scroll goes to the VNC machine

On a VNC screen, Ctrl+scroll now goes to the remote machine, so its own zoom works — even when you haven't clicked into the screen first. The Fit button switches between fit-to-tab and actual size
A scroll on a VNC screen reaches the machine in one piece, so a held Ctrl can no longer land after the wheel

v1.3.5

oct 2026

VNC copy text keeps tables in rows

Copy text on VNC lays the text out as the screen shows it: a table comes back row by row with its columns lined up, instead of one column after another, and blank lines stay where they were. A zero read as the letter O inside a number (73/O/8) is put back
One full-screen button, at the right end of the tab bar, instead of one there and another in each toolbar
When a server turns a password down, the retry box just says the password was wrong

v1.3.4

oct 2026

Full screen, text in and out of VNC consoles, a group picker and Help

Full screen for every kind of session — terminal, file browser, VNC — and for a split view, both halves at once. Press Ctrl+Alt+Enter or the new button in the tab bar; the sidebar, tabs and bottom bar step aside and the window covers the whole monitor. Touch the top edge to slide the tab bar down. Ctrl+Alt+Enter never reaches the terminal or the VM
A VNC screen goes edge to edge in full screen; its controls slide down with the tab bar
Copy text: drag over any part of the remote screen and Dshh reads the text with Windows' built-in OCR, so you can copy from a BIOS, a Linux console or a login screen that has no clipboard. You check and edit what was read before it goes on your clipboard
Paste now opens your clipboard in an editable box first: fix it up, see how many Enters it will press and which characters a US keyboard can't type, then type it in or send it as the remote clipboard. Nothing leaves your PC on its own any more — clicking into the screen no longer pushes your clipboard to the machine
Groups are easier: hover a saved session and click the folder button to move it into a group — pick one from the list, or type a new name and create it. The connection form's Group field is the same picker, with a No group option
Help: Settings has a new Help button that explains every feature and how to use it, with a search box and the keyboard shortcuts

v1.3.3

oct 2026

VNC consoles stay open, even untouched

Some console proxies hang up on a session nobody has used for a while, however much traffic it carries. A console left alone for a minute now gets its last mouse position sent again — nothing moves or clicks, but the proxy sees input
The VM may count that as input too, so its own screen lock won't start while the console tab is open

v1.3.2

oct 2026

VNC consoles stay open

An open VNC console no longer times out when left idle: Dshh now sends a little traffic at least every 20 seconds, so console proxies don't drop it as idle, and the short-lived console token isn't needed again while the tab stays connected
If a console drops anyway — a network blip, a proxy restart — Dshh reconnects on its own with the same token while the proxy still accepts it, and only asks for a fresh link once it doesn't
Fixed: the local terminal menu could be cut off at the window's edge when the sidebar was narrow

v1.3.1

oct 2026

Copy files straight between two servers

The split view's second pane can now show another saved server instead of your disk — pick it from the new source menu. Drag files and folders between the two panes, or select them and press Copy
The copy runs on the server itself: Dshh starts OpenSSH's sftp there (or curl when the other server is FTP), so the data goes from server to server and never through your PC. Progress shows as usual, and Stop really ends it on the server
The other server's password is typed into the prompt, never put on a command line or written to disk; a key-based login is lent for the length of the copy through agent forwarding, so the key file stays on your PC
When a server reaches the other one at a different address than your PC does — a private IP, an internal name — set it once from the pane's footer and it is remembered
Fixed: in development builds, SSH terminal tabs could stay stuck on “connecting”

v1.3.0

oct 2026

VNC remote desktop, bulk file actions and Ctrl+scroll zoom

A new VNC tab shows the remote screen with keyboard, mouse and clipboard, scaled to fit or at 1:1, plus view-only and a Ctrl+Alt+Del button. Like every other protocol it runs inside dshh.exe — no viewer to install
Logs in with a VNC password, VeNCrypt over X509 TLS (with a username and password where the server wants one) or Apple Remote Desktop for macOS Screen Sharing. A rejected password asks again instead of leaving a dead tab
Paste an OpenStack or Huawei FusionSphere console link (vnc_auto.html?token=…) and the VM's console opens straight in Dshh. Save the console proxy as a connection and only the short-lived token is asked for each time; its host can be picked from a saved SSH session
Route any VNC connection through a saved SSH session, so the unencrypted VNC stream never crosses the network bare
Type clipboard keys text into consoles that have no clipboard — BIOS screens, KVM consoles, login prompts. On QEMU/KVM it sends physical key codes, so the guest's own keyboard layout applies
Select files and folders in the SFTP and FTP browser — checkboxes, click, Ctrl+click, Shift+click or Ctrl+A — then download, delete, change permissions or change owner in one go. Folders come with everything inside, and a folder download recreates the tree on your disk
Delete asks first and counts what the selected folders hold before the button arms. Symlinks are never followed, so a link can't drag something outside the selection along
Permissions as an rwx grid or octal, optionally into folders — with folders kept openable when you apply something like 644. SFTP also changes owner and group by name; FTP uses SITE CHMOD. A new perms column shows each entry's rights
Ctrl+scroll zooms the terminal font, the file list and the VNC screen. Each connection remembers its own zoom; Ctrl+0 resets

v1.2.0

sep 2026

Sort, group and search the file browser

Sort SFTP and FTP listings by name, type, size or date — click a column header, or pick from the new sort menu. Names sort naturally, so file2 comes before file10
Group a folder by type (code, images, archives…), by date (today, yesterday, last 7 days…) or by Explorer-style size bands. Groups fold away with a click
A filter box narrows the folder as you type, with * wildcards. Press Enter and it searches every subfolder on the server instead, streaming matches in with a stop button; each result shows where it lives and jumps to its folder
The local pane in split view gets the same sort, group and filter, and each pane remembers its own choice between sessions

v1.1.3

sep 2026

Corrected credentials are kept by default

A password typed into the auth-failure prompt is now saved to the session by default, with no checkbox to tick each time — being asked at all means what was stored is wrong or missing. Settings › General turns the write off if you would rather each retry be one-time
A session saved without a username asks for one alongside the password, and keeps both
The connect banner drops its Dshh masthead and starts at the session line, so the box is three lines shorter

v1.1.2

sep 2026

Retry a wrong password, colour on connect

A saved session whose password the server rejects now asks for it again instead of leaving a dead tab. Type the right one and it connects, and the corrected password is written back to the saved session — but only after the server accepts it, so a second wrong guess never overwrites a working one. Covers SSH, SFTP and FTP, and asks for the key passphrase where that is what failed
A MobaXterm-style connect banner: a coloured box at the top of each session with the target, port, auth method, jump host, saved forwards and login command. It scrolls away with the session and lands in the log
The terminal status bar is drawn as coloured segments — green connected, amber connecting, red on error — with a clock alongside the uptime, grid and encoding
The accent colour set on a connection now tints that session's toolbar and status bar, so prod doesn't look like staging
All three are on by default and switch off individually in Settings › General

v1.1.1

aug 2026

Reorder quick commands and macros

Quick commands can be reordered — drag a row by its grip in the manage dialog and the chips above the compose bar follow that order, so the ones you actually use sit where your eye lands
Macros get the same handle, reordered the same way
Both lists also move with the keyboard: focus a grip and press the up or down arrow, which beats dragging inside a scrolling dialog

v1.1.0

aug 2026

Paste guard, transfer progress, file owners

Pasting two or more lines now asks first, listing the exact numbered lines that would run — every newline is an Enter to the shell, so a stray copy used to execute commands with no warning. Covers Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Shift+V, Shift+Insert and right-click paste; switch it off in Settings › Terminal
Uploads and downloads show a real progress bar with bytes moved, percentage and position in a multi-file batch, in the SFTP/FTP browser and the SCP dialog. Servers that won't report a size get an indeterminate bar rather than a fake percentage
The file browser has an owner column. SFTP resolves numeric uids against the server's own /etc/passwd, so you see root and www-data rather than 0 and 33; FTP reads the names straight out of its listing

v1.0.1

aug 2026

Right-click copy and paste

Right-clicking the terminal now pastes the clipboard. Select text first and the same right-click copies it instead — so select, right-click, right-click again copies a line and pastes it back without touching the keyboard
Fixed: a quick command typed into the new-row fields is saved when you press Done, instead of being discarded unless you started a second one

v1.0.0

jul 2026

1.0 — forwarding in every direction, macros, agent auth

Port forwarding now covers all three OpenSSH directions: local (-L), remote (-R, where the server listens on your behalf) and dynamic (-D), which runs a built-in SOCKS5 proxy
Every running forward shows live byte counters and an indicator that flashes on real traffic, so you can tell an idle tunnel from a busy one
SSH agent authentication — the private key never enters Dshh. Uses the Windows OpenSSH agent service, falling back to Pageant
Macros: record the commands you type in a terminal, name them, and replay the sequence into any session from the bottom dock
Optional terminal status bar with the target, time connected, grid size and encoding, plus indicators for logging, macro recording and running forwards
Optional Windows 11 Mica or acrylic backdrop behind the app chrome. The terminal itself stays opaque
Tabs carry a per-protocol icon, so a long row of sessions is scannable without reading labels
Settings is now organised into four tabs — General, Terminal, Output & logs, Security — instead of one long scroll
Font and line height are dropdowns rather than free text. The font list shows only the monospace faces actually installed on your machine, each rendered in its own face
Session logs default to a logs folder inside the portable data folder, so they travel with the app and auto-logging works without picking a folder first
The portable download is now a folder — dshh.exe beside its own data/ — so settings and saved connections travel with it to another machine or a USB stick
Upgrading from a non-portable build carries your existing settings and saved connections across on first run, leaving the originals untouched

v0.5.3

jul 2026

Type a path to jump there

The file-browser address bar is now editable — type a directory and press Enter instead of clicking down one level at a time. Works on both the remote and local panes
SFTP sessions show the real starting directory (e.g. /home/you) instead of a bare "."

v0.5.2

jul 2026

Transfer & dialog fixes

Fixed: SFTP/FTP uploads keep the file's exact name and extension — the local folder path is no longer part of the uploaded filename
Fixed: the connection editor and other dialogs no longer close when a text selection started inside a field ends outside the box

v0.5.1

jul 2026

Readable session logs & more terminal color

Recorded session logs are now clean, readable text — colour codes stripped, backspace / delete / progress-bar rewrites applied, proper UTF-8
Telnet sessions can record logs too
Richer terminal palette and more built-in highlight keywords (fatal, refused, timeout, completed, listening, …)

v0.5.0

jul 2026

File browser overhaul & zip downloads

Dual-pane split view — local disk next to the remote listing, drag & drop both ways to upload / download
File-type icons in the SFTP/FTP browser
Fixed: downloads keep the original file type in the save dialog; folders no longer render as plain files
The portable build now ships as Dshh-portable.zip

v0.4.0

jul 2026

Telnet, jump hosts, multi-exec & self-update

Telnet sessions and one-hop SSH jump hosts (bastion)
Multi-exec — broadcast typed input to several SSH tabs at once
Drag & drop upload into the file browser; edit remote files in your local editor with auto re-upload
Optional master-password encryption for saved credentials
In-app self-update from GitHub Releases; SCP tilde/quote fixes

v0.2.0

jul 2026

Local terminal, SCP & a terminal fix

Local terminal — cmd & PowerShell in a tab (portable-pty / ConPTY); Run-as-Admin opens elevated in its own window
SCP file transfer over the SSH channel (upload / download), for hosts with SFTP disabled
Fixed a PTY width desync that smeared line editing (arrows, history) after the font loaded

v0.1.0

jul 2026

Initial release

SSH, SFTP, FTP and serial — all in-process (russh · russh-sftp · suppaftp · serialport)
Tabbed workspace with split pane; terminals survive tab switches
Saved connection profiles with groups
Quick command chips, Ctrl+K compose bar, broadcast to all connected hosts
Buffer search (Ctrl+F), session logging, ANSI highlight rules, SSH port forwarding

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