v8.8.0 Release Notes

The major new features/fixes for the 8-February-2009 release are:

SOCKS4, SOCKS5 Proxy Support for POP3, SMTP, IMAP, FTP, MHT, HTTP, and Socket.
The following properties have been added to each component for SOCKS4/SOCKS5 support: SocksHostname, SocksPort, SocksUsername, SocksPassword, and SocksVersion (4 or 5). Setting these properties to non-empty values is all that is required to use SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 proxies.

Chilkat Socket: Added a SocksProxy class to make it easy to create SOCKS4/5 proxy servers.  (Documentation and examples are forthcoming.)

Chilkat FTP2

  1. Restarting uploads is improved (didn’t work with all FTP servers, now it does).
  2. otp-md4 is now supported.  (in addition to otp-md5 and otp-sha1)

Chilkat HTTP

  1. HTTP proxies with SSL/TLS now working correctly.
  2. New LoginDomain property for NTLM/Negotiate/Kerberos Authentication.

Chilkat Zip

  1. VerboseLogging property to help diagnose issues with AppendFiles.
  2. QuickAppend method fixed.

Chilkat Crypt2

  1. New hash algorithms: MD4, RIPEMD128, RIPEMD160, RIPEMD256, RIPEMD320
  2. New hash methods:  HashBeginBytes, HashBeginString, HashMoreBytes, HashMoreString, HashFinal, HashFinalENC
  3. NTLM object/class for NTLM authentication.  Documentation and examples are forthcoming…

Chilkat Email

  1. ComputeGlobalKey method added to email object.
  2. Performance and memory usage improvements.

Chilkat IMAP

  1. Performance and memory usage improvements.

Chilkat SSH/SFTP

  1. “Exceeded window” error fixed.
  2. Added the following new methods to Ssh:  OpenDirectTcpIpChannel, GetReceivedTextS, GetReceivedDataN, PeekReceivedText.  (Reference documentation to be updated soon.)
  3. Added SshTunnel object/class to allow for running SSH tunnels in a background thread.
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