These release notes contain a summary of product changes (new features, enhancements, and bug fixes), late-breaking product issues, and migration guides.
Upgraded to OpenSSL 3.0.16. (HA-1309)
Upgraded to PuTTY 0.83. (HA-1310)
Added keyboard shortcuts for the Copy/Paste functionality. (HA-726)
Added Keepalive advanced option to Secure Sockets (SSL), Windows sockets, U2 sockets, U2 sockets over SSL and SSH. (HA-163, HA-1392)
Added Keepalive timeout and Keepalive interval advanced options to Secure Sockets (SSL), Windows sockets, U2 sockets and U2 sockets over SSL. (HA-163)
Added Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable to the HostAccess and HostAccess Workstation installers. (HA-1310)
Replaced the Strip spaces option with
Trim leading whitespace and
Trim trailing whitespace options. (HA-732)
Fixed the Copy functionality to prevent appending a trailing newline. (HA-187)
Fixed DDE-EXECUTE error occurring when executing
PASS.TO.EXCEL. The PASS.TO.EXCEL subroutine no
longer generates a chart (this parameter is ignored). See the Migration Guide for
additional information. (HA-640)
Fixed support for SSL certificates. (HA-1536)
Removed references to unsupported network libraries. (HA-1195)
Fixed SO_KEEPALIVE value reported in Journal logs to
match socket options. (HA-1396)
Resolved a regression in control visual styling introduced in version 7.49a. (HA-1461)
Resolved a regression where *.ses file was not
associated with HostAccess. (HA-1460)
Re-added Arial Monospace and TERMiTE fonts. (HA-1494)
Re-added Help topics, Host Integration Guide, and AiF Developer's Guide under Help menu. (HA-1308)
Re-added ActiveX control libraries. (HA-1583)
Upgraded to PuTTY 0.81, addressing security issues including CVE-2019-9895 and CVE-2019-9898. (HA-1102, HA-1249, HA-1250)
Upgraded to OpenSSL 3.0.15. This addresses connectivity issues with Rocket UniVerse and other PICK systems, including support for TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3. (HA-391, HA-400, HA-790, HA-1103, HA-1220)
Fixed SSH key exchange order to align with modern best practices. (HA-645, HA-1185, HA-1194)
Resolved issue with invalid SSH2_MSG_IGNORE packet.
(HA-392)
Enhanced SSH key file authentication to support passphrase-protected private keys. (HA-1238)
Enhanced Host Key Not Found dialog to display more details about the host and host key. (HA-1245)
Removed obfuscation from PICK BASIC source files. (HA-702)
Fixed compile error in HOSTPROGS PIX.GET on D3.
(HA-575)
Resolved an issue causing a crash when utilizing a read-only
drop-down combo box instantiated with PIX.GUI.LOAD.COMB.
(HA-383, HA-399)
Fixed an issue where loading saved credentials would result in corrupted values (HA-421)
Resolved an issue where PIX.CALL.DOS would log an
error and not execute the requested command. (HA-380)
Resolved an issue with EASY.ACCESS.GUI generating
reports with duplicate columns or failing to render a report at all.
Includes resolving multiline text boxes being read incorrectly. (HA-339,
HA-430)
Fixed truncation of the character in the last column of the terminal. (HA-317)
Fixed an issue where PIX.TERMITE.DIRECTORY returned
an incorrect client path. (HA-398)
HostAccess has been certified to run on Windows 8. HostAccess has been tested on Windows 8.1 and is supported. (HA-282)
Inserting and deleting OLE objects from the System menu has been removed. (HA-120)
HostAccess had a potential issue where it could fail to launch an
application via AiF. The previous version of HostAccess called
WinExec(), which is no longer supported. HostAccess has
been updated to use CreateProcess() instead.
(HA-124)
For those emulations that support the Answerback feature, the
answerback string can optionally be retrieved from an environment
variable. For example, given an environment variable
USER=JANE, setting the answerback string to
%USER% returns the answerback message JANE.
(HA-128)
MSI installations now use the InstallShield 2012 Spring v19.0.0.160 for improved Windows 8 support. (HA-221)
Updates to Chart and Grid ActiveX controls documentation. (HA-271, HA-272)
Updates to Controls and Macros in the Common Problems section of the Developers Guide. (HA-273)
Updates to PICK Integration documentation. (HA-274)
Addition of Mapping Exception for Monitors with EBCDIC to the User Guide. (HA-287)
Removed outdated VBX and Grid control references in the Integration and Developer Guides. (HA-293)
WinHelp (*.hlp) has been replaced with Microsoft’s compiled help manuals (*.chm). (HA-106)
A manifest file, host32.exe.manifest, has been added
which facilitates interaction with the User Account Control features of
Windows 7 and higher. (HA-159)
HostAccess has been updated to display modem information. (HA-165)
Extended PIX.WIN.DISPLAY.IMAGE to provide support
for JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, ICO, WMF, EMF, and TIFF image types. HostAccess
now uses the 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer' when loading these image
types. For further details, refer to Display a Windows image or
Applications Integration in the Host Integration Guide. (HA-84,
HA-93)
TCP_NODELAY is now provided as an option for all
socket protocols. This option improves performance when using the SSL
protocols. (HA-113)
This release includes a new PICK function,
PIX.TERMITE.DIRECTORY.PATH.TYPE(Path.Type,Path), that
distinguishes between server and workstation or local path directories.
A PATH.TYPE of 2 selects the user’s local temp directory. A
PATH.TYPE of 9 selects the installation directory of
HostAccess. (HA-311)
The column values in five arrays in
PIX.GET.DIMENSIONS.INIT in PIX.GET were
increased from 50 to 400. (HA-109)
Drawing performance was improved when connecting via SSL. (HA-114)
The erroneous string "isT6is" that was appended to the end of dates entered into an edit box has been removed. (HA-115, HA-292)
After setting the contents via AiF, the date now reads correctly. (HA-116)
PIX.INSTALL.HOST correctly updates a second account,
one or more times, from a master account. This does not work on
UniVerse. (HA-129)
The column labels and data now transfer without error when using the Onware port. (HA-138)
EASY.GUI incorrectly handled semicolon characters
within the SELECT field. EASY.GUI will now
correctly handle semicolons in both display and data storage.
(HA-81)
When passing data to Microsoft Excel 2007/2010, the following error is displayed:
"The file you are trying to open, '[filename]' is in a different format specified by the file extension."This issue caused Microsoft Excel to display a warning message when
running PASS.TO.EXCEL. The issue was related to HostAccess
using the DIF file format with a TMP extension. HostAccess now uses the
DIF file extension for DIF formatted files. (HA-91)
PASS.TO.WORD was updated to allow transferring to
Microsoft Word files in compatibility mode. For more information on
compatibility mode refer to the following Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2117661
(HA-149)
The HOSTACCESS.DEMO program now runs without
displaying the "Nothing to Call" error. (HA-135)
The HOSTACCESS.DEMO program was updated to use the
Install directory for locating images and updated to use the user's Temp
directory to copy files. (HA-142, HA-257, HA-311)
PASS.TO.EXCEL
Chart Generation RemovedIn previous releases, the PICK BASIC subroutine
PASS.TO.EXCEL would transfer the result of a query against
a PICK database to Excel and open a requested chart type for that data.
This functionality was incomplete and the requested chart type (as well
as other attributes) were never correctly opened.
With this release, the chart generation feature has been disabled in
the PASS.TO.EXCEL subroutine. The subroutine will still
export the queried data and open it in Excel, but it will no longer
automatically create a chart. Users who wish to visualize the data must
now create charts manually within Excel.