From time to time, you’ll find here the latest changes and newest features for what will come in the next release. These ‘release candidates’ have a limited lifespan, an expiration date. Not to be confused with your 30-day demo period, release candidates expire on a specific date that it will announce to you each time you run it, something like this:
By that time, either a NEW release candidate will be announced (on this page) or the release candidate will become final and posted to the normal download section of the website.
Current Release Candidate: AbsoluteTelnet 13.14 RC5
Deployed Date: November 4, 2025
Expiration Date: November 30, 2025
Download links:
64 bit: https://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet13.14RC5.exe
32 bit: https://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet32.13.14RC5.exe
This release candidate for version 13.14 contains the following changes:
RC1
- Added support for chacha20poly1305 encryption
RC2
- New application icon
RC3
- Fix writing backward compatible config files (can open in earlier versions)
RC4
- Fix intermediate positioning of status bar. This was not an end user problem, but did trip some internal debug checks with DPI switching.
RC5
- Add support for Fido Secure Keys
- sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com
- sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com
- Fix agent forwarding on servers that no longer support sha1