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 13.11 RC3
Deployed Date: September 10, 2025
Expiration Date: October 5, 2025
Download links:
64 bit: https://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet13.11RC3exe
32 bit: https://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/AbsoluteTelnet32.13.11RC3.exe
This release candidate for version 13.11 contains the following changes:
RC1
- Added support for external authentication agents (1password, openssh, pageant)
- Added support for 1password bookmarks and ssh logins
- Agent forwarding is now disabled by default. You must enable this manually in secure environments
- Add option to ignore color changes from the server
- Fixed shell property sheet handler
- Fixed issue where Absolute was preventing logout and reboot
RC2:
- Play nice with default apps selection for ssh/telnet/sftp urls. Installer now declares capabilities instead of trying to force itself as the default.
- Fixed startup quirks with shell extension
- Streamline installation to handle in-use files directly
- support for SFTP URLs in addition to SSH and TELNET URLs we already handle (supports 1password sftp bookmarks)
- extend color suppression feature in RC1 to all text features (color, bold, underline, reverse, and all combinations)
RC3:
- Create UI for displaying SFTP downloads
- Add support for resuming failed or partial sftp downloads from URLs
- popup help for the text/color suppression that describes in detail what it does