New in version 22.3 of IVT:

  • Many Window-resizing, font-resizing and dual-monitor issues fixed.
  • Windows 7 support - strict separation of programs and data because Windows 7 has stricter protection.
  • Searching scrollback will highlight all matches on screen.
  • IVT will remember the last size and position and use that at next startup.
  • Browser integration: using "ivt://hostname" will start IVT (or open a new tab) and connect to "hostname".
  • Select any number of host names on-screen, hit F10 and IVT will connect and (optionally) login to them all.
  • Installer allows you to select a version of the password learning system that cannot store (encrypted) passwords on disk, but remembers them only for the current run of IVT.
  • New "Fix" button to re-create lost sessions in a group.
  • Many extensions to the script language, numerous bugfixes and improvements.
  • New in version 22.1 of IVT (august 2009):
  • Added a tab bar with draggable tabs to allow more intuitive switching between sessions.
  • UTF-8 and IME keyboard support (see this screen shot).
  • Various resizing problems solved.
  • Many extensions to the script language, numerous bugfixes and improvements.
  • New in version 21.2 of IVT (January 2008):
  • Rewritten script language, much more powerful than before.
  • New "Project" feature to allow large groups of users to share address books of large numbers of hosts.
  • Password-learning configuration now uses GUI dialogs (no more text-mode).
  • PuTTY/Xterm like copy/paste mode now optional.
  • Drastic speed-improvement for X-tunneling and Zmodem file transfers.
  • The addressbook now allows multiple hosts to be selected at once (IVT will create multiple sessions in parallel).
  • New "Clone session" command.
  • Much better support for serial connections using USB serial hardware.
  • Many improvements for proxied connections.
  • Support for very big monitors and dual-monitor setups.
  • New MSI installer. Installation wizard written in the IVT scripting language.

  • New in version 18.1a of IVT:
  • Fixed security leak in SSH2 client code, see this link for details.
    Also upgraded the rest of SSH code to PuTTY release 0.56.
  • Added SCO-Ansi compatibility.
  • Multi-lingual dialogs and menu's. IVT can load a translation table for a specific language during startup, which allows you to change the language used in the dialogs and menu's, but also allows you to change the wording only (you can edit the file for an existing language or add new ones). See IVT_LANGUAGE in the documentation.
  • New BELL_ABUSE control, prevents bell-overload.
  • New SHELLEXECUTE script function, allows starting Windows programs such as Explorer and Word from IVT scripts.
  • New SYSTEM script function to start other types of programs.
  • Support for black-and-white printing.
  • Improved VERTICAL_LINE command (blending, relative colors).
  • Various improvements to the licence scheme for SSH and Kerberos.
  • New in version 18.0a of IVT:
  • Thorough facelift of the IVT interface: True Windows GUI dialogs!
    The older text-mode dialogs are still available for those who appreciate a more Spartan interface. The Windows dialogs are dynamically generated from the text-mode stuff and offer exactly the same functionality.
  • New AUTOLOG feature, facilitates fully automatic logging of sessions to files.
  • New SETICON script function to control the IVT icon for every session.
  • ALT-0 now allows you to send any character to the host (much like ALT-numeric-keypad does for other programs).
  • Various other smaller improvements and bugfixes, see the "News" screen for details.
  • New in version 17.0e of IVT:
  • Complaints about expired licences now appear only when you attempt to use SSH or Kerberos. Installation proces improvements for the evaluation licence.
  • New VERTICAL_LINE command to draw margin lines on wide screens.
  • New RETAIN_SESSIONS command to prevent accidental destruction of sessions (and their scrollback buffers).
  • Various other smaller improvements and bugfixes, see the "News" screen for details.