SocketTools 11 Build 2210 (11.0.2210.1824) was released on November 14, 2024. This is a complete release which incorporates updates from previous releases, as well as all subsequent hotfixes. Release notes for this update are included with the installation package.
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- SocketTools .NET Edition
- SocketTools ActiveX Edition
- SocketTools Library Edition
- SocketTools Subscription
Please review the release notes for more information about the changes included with this update. SocketTools 11 supports the current release of Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025. For the SocketTools Subscription and .NET Edition, this update includes .NET 9.0 assemblies for use with Visual Studio 2022 17.12 and later versions.
This update includes internal changes to how secure connections are established using TLS on Windows 10 and Windows 11, as well as on Windows Server 2022 and 2025. Connections will automatically default to using TLS 1.3 if it is supported by the operating system, and fallback to using TLS 1.2 when necessary. These changes improve overall performance and compatibility with future versions of Windows, and you will not need to make any changes to your code. Applications executing on Windows 7 and Windows 8 will continue to use the previous method to ensure backwards compatibility with those platforms.
This update also includes improvements to the SSH and FTP components (using SFTP) to provide better cryptographic and authentication support. These changes are intended to provide broader support for modern SSH servers; however, legacy features which were deprecated with previous versions are no longer supported. This may impact connections to servers or devices which are based on OpenSSH prior to version 6.0, depending on their configuration.
You do not need to uninstall previous versions of SocketTools when installing this update. For example, if you also have SocketTools 10 installed on your development system, you do not need to uninstall that version.
The SocketTools installer packages and components have been digitally signed with an extended validation (EV) Authenticode certificate which uses SHA-256 signatures.