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 13.16 RC2
Deployed Date: January 26, 2026
Expiration Date: February 23 2026
Download links:
This release candidate for version 13.16 contains the following changes:
RC1
- Added support for user certificates and host CA
- Expanded support of smartcard authentication to include ECC (ECDSA) smartcard keys
- Updated login/authentication semantics to support NFC smartcards and ‘tap’ to login
- Recognize smartcards that are backed by the Certificates in windows and route auth through NCrypt and friends
- Added support for paste bracketing, which makes multiline pastes behave correctly in BASH, VIM, and others.
- Modified behavior of DECCOLM slightly so it’s less likely to change terminal screen width unexpectedly.
RC2
- Fixed shell extension crash