linscp 0.6.0

A pre-release of linscp, a Qt 6 port of WinSCP for Linux and Windows. It runs WinSCP 6.7.1's own core under a new Qt interface. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the WinSCP project.

What's new

This release fills in the parts of WinSCP's interface that linscp was still missing.

Site Manager

• The Manage menu and right-click menus on the site tree: clone a site, copy its URL or code, open it in PuTTY, back up and import the configuration, and more.
• Save As and Set Defaults on the Save button; Transfer Settings Rule in the Advanced drop-down.
• Search for sites (Ctrl+F); rename sites and workspaces in place; drag sites into folders; site colors and notes.
• Session URLs pasted or typed into the host name box are split into their fields.
• Anonymous login, and S3 credentials taken from the AWS environment.
• The Login button's drop-down, with Open in PuTTY.
• Site Advanced has all of its pages, including PuTTY's terminal settings (Windows) and the private key's Tools menu: Generate New Key Pair with PuTTYgen, and Install Public Key into Server.

Transfers and synchronization

• The Progress window shows elapsed and remaining time, and can skip a file, move the transfer to the background, act once finished, and limit the speed.
• Synchronization progress shows times and a progress bar, and can be minimized; the synchronization checklist has WinSCP's right-click menu.

Main window

• The keys for Go to Tree, Go to Command Line, Go to Address and search.
• History drop-downs on the panels' Back and Forward buttons.
• Customize Toolbar in the toolbars' right-click menu.
• The column header menu on the file lists.
• Tree and view-style buttons on the panels' navigation bars.
• The directory trees can be shown left of the file lists.
• The console's output menu, with Adjust Window.

Prompts

• At the password prompt you can change the stored password, or remember it for the session.
• Server banners can be shown in a monospaced font, and links in prompts can be clicked.

Preferences

• A search box above the page list (Ctrl+F) finds settings by their text.
• New: the Explorer page, the Window page's options (Login, tab titles, idle disconnect, workspaces), the temporary directory options on the Storage page, "Use default system editor", and the Languages page's "Get more" button.

Drag and drop: dropping files onto a drive works without the shell extension, including on the network drives you list on the Drag & Drop page.

Command line

• linscp: /synchronize, /edit, /refresh, /explore, /workspace, /rawtransfersettings, /privatekey, download URLs, the logging switches and /help.
• linscp-cli: /info, /batchsettings, /copyid /identity=<key>, /fingerprintscan and /h. linscp passes these on to linscp-cli, as WinSCP.exe does with its console.

Fixes on Linux

• Temporary folders are deleted.
• Folders created with the remote path appended are nested properly.
• ~/.aws is read for S3 profiles.
• Sites can be imported from FileZilla (~/.config/filezilla).
• Paths that differ only in letter case are treated as different files.

These fixes have also been offered to WinSCP (#86, #87, #88).

Known issues:

• In translated menus and dialogs, two items sometimes share the same keyboard shortcut letter. Pressing it again moves between them.
• Serbian cannot be chosen yet; choosing it gives Croatian.
• Edit in PuTTY and Generate New Key Pair with PuTTYgen are on Windows only.

Not yet: code signing, and /dumpcallstack. WinSCP's tips, usage statistics and donor automatic updates are not offered. See the tracker.

Downloads

File	For
linscp-0.6.0-setup.exe	Windows 10/11, x64. Installs for all users or only you; optional desktop icon, Send To, URL handler and search path; registers the drag & drop shell extension.
linscp-0.6.0-portable.zip	Windows 10/11, x64, without installing. Unzip it anywhere and run linscp.exe; the configuration stays in linscp.ini beside it.
linscp-0.6.0-x86_64.AppImage	Linux x86-64 with glibc 2.41 or newer. chmod +x it and run it.
linscp-0.6.0.flatpak	Any Linux with Flatpak. Needs Flathub for the KDE 6.10 runtime: flatpak install --user linscp-0.6.0.flatpak
linscp_0.6.0_amd64.deb	Debian 13 (trixie), and distributions with the same Qt 6.8 packages: sudo apt install ./linscp_0.6.0_amd64.deb

The binaries are not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run.

This is a pre-release: back up your WinSCP configuration before pointing linscp at it.