Interactive command-line sessions on remote systems VT / xterm style terminal emulation Connect via the SSH protocol Connect via serial ports File transfer via SFTP over SSH Support for connecting via SOCKS or HTTP proxies Legacy Internet login protocols: Telnet, Rlogin, SUPDUP SSH key generator and SSH agent Batch-mode SSH tool 'plink' for automation Share multiple login sessions over one SSH connection

0.82 improves PuTTY's Unicode support. Usernames and passwords read from the terminal or the Windows console now support full Unicode, so that you can use characters outside the Windows system code page, or the character set configured in PuTTY. The same is true for usernames and file names provided via the PuTTY tools' command line and via the GUI (but unfortunately not yet if you save and reload a session).