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Preview version 25.4_Preview4 (2025-11-03) changelog:

  • New feature: you can now use the Windows SSH agent to authenticate to your SSH sessions
  • Improvement: added a new option in macros to include another macro
  • Improvement: added milliseconds in terminal logs timestamps
  • Improvement: improved the default syntax highlighting in MobaTextEditor
  • Improvement: added Ctrl+Backspace keyboard shortcut to delete the last word in text fields
  • Improvement: improved startup speed and MobaXterm closing speed
  • Improvement: several new external PuTTY-based SSH agents are now supported in SSH/SFTP sessions
  • Improvement: better detection of long URLs when ctrl+clicking into the terminal
  • Improvement: you can now toggle between relative and absolute paths for root and home folders in the Customizer
  • Improvement: improved the paste and search feature in MobaTextEditor and MobaTextDiff
  • Improvement: enhanced the MobaXterm debug file, especially the event viewer section
  • Improvement: user identity can now be confirmed by using the "Windows Hello" mechanism (fingerprint or face recognition)
  • Improvement: better detection of the current explorer path for the "Popup Console" in the latest Windows 11 updates
  • Improvement: added a new "floating window" setting for the Popup Console spawned using Ctrl+Alt+M
  • Improvement: better detection of text files format (UTF-8 or ANSI) in MobaTextEditor and MobaTextDiff
  • Improvement: added a button to toggle between dark and bright theme in MobaFoldersDiff
  • Improvement: auto-detection of SSH sessions to Cisco devices that need a filtered KEX list to work properly
  • Improvement: added a new expert SSH setting "Chokes on full KEXINIT" for SSH servers that have a KexInit list limit
  • Improvement: better identification of old SSH servers that need some SSH tweaks to work properly
  • Improvement: improved the SSH-browser transfer speed, either in SFTP or in SCP mode
  • Bugfix: when the "Use external PuTTY agent" setting was unchecked, MobaXterm was still requesting keys from Pageant
  • Bugfix: some browsing windows could freeze MobaXterm, because they were trying to open archive files as folders
  • Bugfix: when setting a dark theme in the Customizer program, some pop-up windows were not properly themed
  • Bugfix: some search terms were not highlighted in MobaTextEditor when very long text lines were used in the text file