0.8.4 — 2026-05-21

Release Notes

Hotfix for a load-bearing inject_include bug present since v0.4.0.
Affects both macOS and Windows. No behavior change for users whose
~/.ssh/config was empty when sshc first ran setup.

Fixed

• Include directive appended by sshc -m's i could end up
  nested inside the user's last Host stanza, making sshc-managed
  hosts silently invisible to ssh <alias>. OpenSSH terminates a
  Host block only on the next Host / Match directive or EOF —
  blank lines and comments don't end a stanza — so an Include
  line appended to a config that ends with a Host block became a
  conditional Include scoped to that last alias. ssh -vv showed
  Reading configuration data .../sshc.conf (parse time), but
  Applying options for <sshc-alias> never fired for any sshc host.

  Fix: inject_include now emits three lines instead of two, with
  Match all between the comment header and the Include:

  # Added by sshc; do not remove.
  Match all
  Include ~/.ssh/config.d/sshc.conf
  

  Match is a stanza header in its own right, so the preceding
  Host block is closed; Match all matches every connection
  unconditionally, so the Include (which now belongs to this
  block) fires for every alias. Restores the "append-only,
  unconditional include" semantics the user expects.

  Users on existing v0.7.x / v0.8.0–v0.8.3 installs whose
  ~/.ssh/config ends with a Host stanza should either re-run
  sshc -m → i after deleting the existing Include line, or
  manually add a Match all line directly above the sshc-managed
  Include block in ~/.ssh/config. New installs onto an empty
  ~/.ssh/config see no change in behavior.

Internal

• New regression tests:
  • test_inject_emits_match_all_terminator_before_include —
    asserts Match all is the line immediately before Include
    after inject_include runs over a config that ends with a
    Host stanza.
  • test_inject_idempotent_with_terminator — confirms calling
    inject twice still yields exactly one Include line and one
    Match all line.
• is_include_present is unchanged; it scans for any Include
  directive line-by-line regardless of position, so the new
  three-line block is detected as already-present on the second
  invocation.

Install sshc 0.8.4

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/hang-in/sshc/releases/download/v0.8.4/sshc-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/hang-in/sshc/releases/download/v0.8.4/sshc-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install hang-in/tap/sshc

Download sshc 0.8.4

File	Platform	Checksum
sshc-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
sshc-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
sshc-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
sshc-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
sshc-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum