Xshell is designed to satisfy both beginners and advanced users. Its user interface is intuitive and it provides advanced users with powerful features such as local commands, searching with regular expressions, dynamic port forwarding, international languages and so forth.

Here are some key features of Xshell:

General:

Supports SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL protocols:

Runs on Windows 2000 SP4 and above

Supports OpenSSH and ssh.com servers

Multi-user configuration

Keep alive option

SOCKS4/5, HTTP proxy connection

Supports Multi-session (Session tab, Session bar)

Key mapping support

VB Scripting support

Improved Links bar

Auto reconnect lost connections

Session management:

Creates and manages session files for different servers

Provides Sessions dialog, address bar, local prompt, and shortcut to open sessions

Provides a default session for quick connections

Supports connecting to multiple sessions simultaneously

Address bar supports URL commands and allows you to connect to a remote host with or without a saved session

Opens sessions with Xactivator

Supports automatic logon and logon scripts

Folder and tree view support in the Sessions dialog box

Security:

RSA/DSA public key, Password, and Keyboard Interactive authentication methods

RSA/DSA key generation wizard and import/export features

SSH authentication agent forwarding using Xagent utility

AES128/192/256, 3DES, BLOWFISH, CAST128, ARCFOUR, RIJNDAEL encryption methods

SHA1, SHA1-96, MD5, MD5-96, and RIPEMD160 MAC algorithms

zlib compression

Host key management dialog box

User key management dialog box

Terminal:

Unicode based terminal buffer

Supports VT100, VT220, VT320, XTERM, LINUX, SCOANSI, and ANSI terminals

International output encoding (UTF-8)

Compose bar lets you send a string of text to multiple servers simultaneously

Scroll buffer up to 32,767 lines

Text searching with regular expressions

Scrolled copy

Column mode text selection

Multi-byte support in copy & paste

Delimiter is used when the terminal window is double clicked

Triple click selects the whole line

Bold font and ANSI color escape sequences

Mouse support in xterm terminal

256 color mode in xterm 256

Linux Meta key emulation

Supports terminal (network) printing

Configurable line spacing and margin of the terminal window

Tunneling:

TCP/IP and X11 forwarding

Dynamic port forwarding using SOCKS4/5

Instant Tunneling

Tunneling bar allows you to monitor active forwarding channels and add new rules for the current session

Appearance:

Simple and powerful user interface

Adjustable toolbar

Customizable Standard Buttons on toolbar

Color scheme edit/import/export feature

Configurable cursor color and blinking speed

Font bar allows you to select a preferred font on the fly

Assign frequently used strings to Quick Command buttons

Status bar displays security-lock, session selection, network traffic information (up/down)

Full Screen view

Customizable transparency level

Local commands:

Local Xshell prompt for advanced users

Local commands such as open, ssh, sftp, telnet, and rlogin

Local Windows commands such as ping, ipconfig, netstat, and nslookup

Escaping to the local prompt while connecting to a remote host

Interoperability:

Interoperable with Xmanager program for X11 forwarding

Interoperable with Xagent program for agent authentication and forwarding

Interoperable with Xftp program for file transfer

Editing scroll buffer text with Notepad

Menu commands to cycle through Xshell windows

File management:

File send and receive via SFTP

File send and receive via ZMODEM

ASCII file upload

Automatic session logging (including terminal code)

Printing selected text, screen, or scroll buffer