PuttyAlt v0.1.0 — First Release

PuttyAlt v0.1.0

First public release of PuttyAlt — a modern PuTTY 0.83 fork with enhanced features for sysadmins and power users.

Highlights

• Portable mode — run from USB, no registry modifications
• Auto-reconnect — exponential backoff (1s → 60s) on connection drop
• Window geometry — remembers position and size per session
• Session manager — folders, tags, and instant search
• Command snippets — one-click frequent commands
• Connection health — uptime, bytes transferred, reconnect count
• Log rotation — automatic rotation by file size (10 MB default)
• Clipboard history — ring buffer of 32 recent copies with search
• Terminal triggers — pattern matching with alert/beep/exec actions
• Multi-input broadcast — type once, send to multiple sessions
• SSH key manager — auto-discover .ppk and OpenSSH keys
• Terminal search — Ctrl+Shift+F scrollback search with navigation
• Environment indicator — colour-coded stripes for prod/staging/dev
• Quick connect — Ctrl+K URI bar (ssh://user@host:port)

Security

• Built with -fstack-protector-strong, FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, full RELRO
• Based on PuTTY 0.83 with ML-KEM post-quantum key exchange
• No telemetry, no analytics

Building

cmake -B build
cmake --build build --config Release

MIT License — free forever.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/chillymasterio/puttyalt/commits/v0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/chillymasterio/puttyalt/commits/v0.1.0