MobaXterm is a complete toolbox for remote computing. The application is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm has the essential Unix commands for Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file.
Key Features Include:
- Free X server fully configured (based on Xorg).
- Tabbed terminal based on PuTTY / MinTTY with antialiased fonts and macro support.
- Easy DISPLAY exportation from any remote host.
- X11-Forwarding capability in OpenSSH.
- Several Unix/Linux commands based on Cygwin (rsync, wget, sed, awk, grep, cd, ls, cat, cp).
- A session manager with all the network clients you need: RDP, VNC, SSH, telnet, rsh, FTP, SFTP and XDMCP.
- Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick.
- Light and portable application, packaged in a single executable.
- Bugfix: updated bash to version 4.1.13 to fix "shellshock" vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169)
- Improvement: added a "compact mode" in the "View" menu in order to save screen real estate
- Bugfix: on German and French keyboards, the AltGr+] escape sequence was not working correctly
- Bugfix: if Persistent Root folder has been set to a network share, a FAT16 or ExFAT filesystem, an error message was displayed at X server startup
- Bugfix: on Windows 2000 and XP, MobaXterm logo background was not transparent
- Bugfix: with persistent root folder, new customizations were sometimes not applied correctly
- Improvement: the embedded browser now emulates the most recent engine available
- Improvement: added a "tweet" button in the "About" window (please send a tweet about MobaXterm if you like it)
- Improvement: added the "xauth" command for the embedded X server
- Bugfix: MobaSwInfo now lists install software correctly on Windows 8/8.1 64 bit
- Bugfix: Corrected the "Shift+Tab" shortcut in OpenSuse "Yast" installer
- Improvement: improved the way symlinks are handled via SSH or SFTP
- Bugfix: Corrected the Gnome session environment which did not start correctly through SSH when remote user had TCSH as default shell
- Bugfix: fixed a potential indexing issue when deleting a SSH tunnel
- Improvement: added a new telnet setting which prevents MobaXterm from closing when a telnet session is active
- Bugfix: corrected resizing issues with RDP sessions
- Improvement: added a new commandline setting in order to allow MobApt to work with local Cygwin repositories (e.g. MobApt -l /drives/c/MyCygwinRepository)
- Bugfix: corrected an issue with tar and hardlink decompression
- Improvement: added 2 more sections to the embedded documentation with detailed explanations about global settings and sessions settings
- Improvement: added a lot of new questions/answers in the FaQ section
