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uk.org.greenend.chiark.sgtatham.putty - 0.84-17 ⚙ x86_64

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  <id>uk.org.greenend.chiark.sgtatham.putty</id>
  <name>PuTTY</name>
  <summary>SSH, Telnet and serial client</summary>
  <project_license>MIT</project_license>
  <description>
    <p>
            PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet, rlogin and serial console client for Linux.
            It includes PuTTY, pterm, Pageant, Plink, PSCP, PSFTP and PuTTYgen.
        </p>
  </description>
  <developer id="uk.org.greenend.chiark.sgtatham">
    <name>Simon Tatham</name>
  </developer>
  <developer_name>Simon Tatham</developer_name>
  <pkgname>putty</pkgname>
  <launchable type="desktop-id">uk.org.greenend.chiark.sgtatham.putty.desktop</launchable>
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  <icon type="stock">putty</icon>
  <url type="homepage">https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</url>
  <url type="bugtracker">https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/feedback.html#feedback-bugs</url>
  <categories>
    <category>Network</category>
    <category>RemoteAccess</category>
  </categories>
  <provides>
    <binary>putty</binary>
    <binary>plink</binary>
    <binary>pscp</binary>
    <binary>psftp</binary>
    <binary>puttygen</binary>
    <binary>pageant</binary>
    <binary>pterm</binary>
  </provides>
  <screenshots>
    <screenshot type="default">
      <caption>PuTTY configuration and console</caption>
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    </screenshot>
  </screenshots>
  <keywords>
    <keyword>putty</keyword>
    <keyword>ssh</keyword>
    <keyword>telnet</keyword>
    <keyword>serial</keyword>
    <keyword>terminal</keyword>
    <keyword>remote</keyword>
  </keywords>
  <releases>
    <release type="stable" version="0.84" timestamp="1779408000">
      <description>
        <ul>
          <li>Security fix: remotely triggerable double-free in RSA key exchange.</li>
          <li>Security fix: crash in NIST ECDSA signature verification.</li>
          <li>Security fix: trust sigil handling for Telnet and Rlogin after proxy authentication.</li>
          <li>Pre-connection command support (e.g. wake-on-LAN or port knocking).</li>
          <li>Unix: pre-edit text for multi-keystroke Unicode composition.</li>
          <li>Unix: improved Wayland support for the GUI tools.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release type="stable" version="0.83" timestamp="1738972800">
      <description>
        <ul>
          <li>Support for ML-KEM post-quantum key exchange.</li>
          <li>Full Unicode file names in Windows file selector dialogs.</li>
          <li>Bug fixes for psftp -b, Pageant, login timeouts and terminal input on Unix.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release type="stable" version="0.82" timestamp="1732665600">
      <description>
        <ul>
          <li>Major Unicode handling refactor for foreign characters outside the system code page.</li>
          <li>Bug fix: Alt + function key in Xterm 216+ mode sent a spurious escape character.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
    <release type="stable" version="0.81" timestamp="1713139200">
      <description>
        <ul>
          <li>Security fix for CVE-2024-31497: biased ECDSA-SHA-521 signatures no longer compromise private keys.</li>
        </ul>
      </description>
    </release>
  </releases>
  <content_rating type="oars-1.1"/>
</component>