Enhanced terminal with X11 server, tabbed SSH client and network tools

MobaXterm

MobaXterm 8.0

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  • Latest Version

    MobaXterm 24.3

  • Operating System

    Windows (All Versions)

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  • Author / Product

    Mobatek / External Link

  • Filename

    MobaXterm_Setup_8.0.msi

  • MD5 Checksum

    04a427f03922f1718417928910317a65

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of MobaXterm 8.0.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of MobaXterm or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

- New feature: MobaXterm is now able to create shared credentials for multiple sessions
- Improvement: SSH, telnet, rlogin and serial sessions are now powered by a faster native Windows engine based on the efficient PuTTY tool by Simon Tatham
- New feature: Added "MobaKeyGen": a graphical SSH keys generator based on the great "PuTTYgen" tool by Simon Tatham
- Improvement: Default X server is now a native Windows port of Xorg with no wrapper (compiled using MinGW)
- Improvement: The embedded terminal is now based on a plain PuTTY engine
- Improvement: Re-organized session settings for better usability
- Improvement: MobaXterm is now able to retrieve/store SSH password, even in "keyboard-interactive" mode
- New feature: Dragging using Alt+drag performs a rectangular selection
- New feature: Right-click menu now allows to reconfigure many options on the current terminal for the current running session
- New feature: Added a "home page" at MobaXterm startup with recent sessions, a quick search bar and a button to start a new terminal. You can disable this home page from the global settings and choose to start a local terminal instead.
- Improvement: New keyboard configurations added
- Improvement: SFTP browser now works in keyboard interactive mode
- Improvement: Double-click selection in the terminal is now smarter when determining if a character is a separator or not
- Improvement: Local Unix utilities based on Cygwin are now in a separate plugin file. If you only need basic MobaXterm features like SSH, X11, Rlogin, Telnet, Serial or RDP, you do not need this plugin
- Improvement: MobaXterm startup speed has been improved
- Improvement: Banner message is now adapted to the session you launched. For SSH sessions, it displays some useful information about X11-forwarding, DISPLAY, SFTP browser and compression features
- Improvement: Added new proxy settings for SSH connections
- Improvement: Added some new charsets for remote sessions
- Improvement: Better SSH keys support (OpenSSH / PuTTY / SSH.com types are seamlessly managed)
- New feature: Added some cool puzzle games from Simon Tatham
- New feature: You can now select a terminal size (number of rows/columns) and keep it while resizing MobaXterm by increasing/decreasing font size
- Improvement: Added new SSH KEX algorithms for the SFTP browser (DH_GROUP_EXCHANGE256, RSA1024_SHA1, RSA2048_SHA256, GSS_GROUP_EXCHANGE, GSS_GROUP, GSS_GROUP_14)
- New feature: Added uptime, shred, truncate, nl, link, free, factor, compress, count, paste, nc (netcat) and host tools (thanks to Toybox: http://landley.net/toybox/ )
- Improvement: Log file name is now automatically based on the session protocol, remote host, username and date/time
- New feature: You can now choose disable completely OpenGL rendering support in X11 server
- Improvement: Updated Cygwin version to version 2.0.4 in CygUtils plugin
- Bugfix: Corrected a bug with libopenssl, grep and bash update from apt-get
- Bugfix: Prevented Windows taskbar from being raised with fullscreen VNC sessions
- Improvement: Improved CMD sessions by using the "winpty" tool: Ctrl+C and TAB completion should work on any environment now
- New feature: Added Powershell to the "Local terminal" session type (experimental)
- New feature: Added TWM window manager as an option for X11 sessions
- Improvement: Added a Paste button on the MultiExec top toolbar
- New feature: Added a new tool entry in order to start a CMD window as admin
- Improvement: Added an explanation message when sub processes fail to start because of a group policy
- Bugfix: Corrected some issues when MobaXterm is installed in a Windows path containing unicode characters
- Bugfix: Corrected an issue with tab integration of XDMCP sessions
- Bugfix: Corrected an issue with tabs numbering when a VNC session was started but the remote host did not exist
- Bugfix: Prevented Windows taskbar from being raised with fullscreen RDP sessions
- Bugfix: Desktop shortcuts did not work on some Windows version because of truncated command line
- Bugfix: fixed a bug with PuTTY sessions import at first start
- Bugfix: Prevented MobaXterm slash directory from being set to the root of a drive or to a directory with other programs already present
- Bugfix: Corrected some focus issues in RDP sessions