SSH Ache v0.9.0

A dropped session no longer costs you the tab, and the hardening that had been sitting uncommitted ships with it.

Reconnect on drop

A live SSH pane whose remote end goes away — an idle timeout, a dropped network, sshd restarting — used to print — disconnected — and leave a dead pane with no way back except closing the tab. Now the pane stays exactly where it is and a Connection lost prompt offers Reconnect (same host, fresh shell, same pane — the tab, its layout and its scrollback all survive) or Close tab.

Intentional teardown never raises the prompt: closing a tab, reconnecting, or merging tabs into a pane are all silent. Only real SSH panes qualify — a local shell closing is you typing exit. Losing the network takes every open session down at once, so drops queue rather than overwrite each other, and each one still gets its own answer.

Hardening

• Windows storage paths fixed. home_dir() no longer assumes HOME is set — it reads USERPROFILE too. Every storage path failed on Windows before this.
• Secrets are written 0600, owner-only, through a single private-write path.
• The keychain fallback no longer treats an empty password as authenticated.
• A real Content-Security-Policy replaces csp: null, naming every origin the app may reach.
• SFTP uploads stream in 32K chunks instead of buffering the whole file in memory.
• Backup crypto moved to src/backup.js with node:test coverage over the export/import round trip and the import whitelist. npm test runs it.
• CI gained a Rust matrix across macOS, Windows and Linux. That check used to run only on tag releases, which is how the Windows break survived in main.
• SECURITY.md documents how to report a vulnerability.

Install

brew install --cask SSH-Ache/sshache/sshache

Or grab an installer below.

macOS builds are not signed or notarised. The first launch is blocked as "unidentified developer" — right-click the app → Open. If you would rather not do that for an app that handles SSH credentials, that is a reasonable position: build from source, or verify the download against the sums below.

SHA-256

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Full changelog: v0.8.1...v0.9.0

SSH Ache v0.8.1

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SSH Ache v0.8.0

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