Nightly 2026-08-23

Added

• A portable copy started on a computer that also has Portkey Drop installed now offers to bring the installed copy's configuration across on first launch: a list of what to copy -- your sites, known hosts, and settings -- and, separately, your saved passwords. The installed copy is read and left exactly as it is. Passwords need the separate question because an installed copy keeps them in the computer's keyring, which a portable copy on a different machine cannot read, so without copying them into the portable copy's own encrypted vault the sites would arrive with every password blank. Both questions are asked once.
• The Modified column can show how long ago a file changed -- "3 days ago" rather than a date and time -- which is much shorter to listen to when skimming a folder. The exact stamp is still there for comparing two files; choose between them in Settings.

Fixed

• Connecting to an unknown SSH host with "Ask before trusting a new server" (the default) now shows a dialog to reject the key, accept it once, or accept it permanently, instead of refusing every new host. Reject is the default, so Enter and Escape both refuse.
• SFTP connections left idle were dropped without warning by firewalls and by servers that close quiet sessions, and you only found out when the next thing you did failed. Portkey Drop now sends a keepalive every 60 seconds so the connection keeps answering. The interval is in Settings, and 0 turns it off.
• The spoken detail setting only ever affected transfer progress announcements. It now governs how often progress is spoken as well: minimal stops progress being announced and verbose announces it twice as often. Setting the interval itself to 0 still silences progress whatever the detail level.
• The default protocol and the "use AUTH SSL" preference were saved but ignored: the quick connect bar always opened on the same protocol with the SSL box clear. It now starts from your defaults, and saving settings moves it onto whichever of the two you changed rather than resetting a protocol or port you had already typed in.