This package is the full final release for PuTTY SSH client for Symbian OS version 1.5.0. This is the first non-beta non-snapshot release since 1.3.2 was released in January 2005, and is a significant milestone in the development.The only change compared to 1.5RC1 is a small palette resource change, but the code itself has not been modified.
Compared to earlier releases, 1.5 brings significant enhancements:
PuTTY for Symbian OS is based on an up-to-date release of the PuTTY core from the Windows version, it has a new friendlier settings system based on profiles, more settings including character set and color palette selection, and fixes and enhancements on the S60 platform.
This release support all S60 third edition phones and the Series 80 v2 Communicator products. Both versions have essentially identical features and will be fully supported through bug fixes. However, given that the user base for S60 is now orders of magnitude larger, new features may only be availble on S60 in the future. Earlier S60 versions are not supported, and while this version contains some changes to enable very basic functionality on S60 5th edition, it is still considered unsupported too.
If you are upgrading from releases earlier than 1.5 beta 2, note that PuTTY can now use full 256-bit keys with the AES encryption algorithm, which can slow it down considerably. New profiles will use a faster128-bit Blowfish algorithm, but existing profiles will need to ben changed from the SSH settings page to take advantage of this.
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