Preview 12.2.0.1.  for Windows 11 (and 10)
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/2016/Vista/7/8/10/11/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
What's new (in short):
- Updated SSH libraries: - LIBSSH2 1.11 (more supported KEX methods, host types and ciphers)
- OpenSSL 3.2.0.0
- Supported: SSH User Pre-Auth banner
See the ReadMe for a complete and detailed modification history.

Preview 12.1.0.0.  for Windows 11 (and 10)
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/2016/Vista/7/8/10/11/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
What's new:
- Supported for UTF-8 character set in Terminal emulator
See the ReadMe for a complete and detailed modification history.

Release Candidate 12.0.1.0.  for Windows 11 (and 10)
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/2016/Vista/7/8/10/11/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
What's new:
- Supported on Windows 11
- New (configurable) standard settings folder: %APPDATA%/anita.
Legacy folders still supported.
Customized installation using ../oemfiles updated (see readme for details and examples).
- Includes updated SSH and SSL libraries:
OpenSSL libssl-3 (3.0.3.0)
OpenSSL libcrypto-3 (3.0.3.0)
libssh2 (1.10.0)
Provides SSL 3 compatibitity required by OpenSSL3 (comes with Ubuntu 22.04 and others).
See the ReadMe for a complete and detailed modification history.

Preview 11.5.2.0.  for Windows 10 April update
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/2016/Vista/7/8/10/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
What's new:
- Includes updated SSH and SSL libraries:
OpenSSL libssl-3 (3.0.3.0)
OpenSSL libcrypto-3 (3.0.3.0)
libssh2 (1.10.0)
Provides SSL 3 compatibitity required by OpenSSL3 (comes with Ubuntu 22.04 and others).
See the ReadMe for a complete and detailed modification history.

Preview 11.5.1.2.  for Windows 10 April update
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/2016/Vista/7/8/10/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
What's new:
- Supported on Windows 10, April 2018 Update.
- Automatic and configurable support for Winsock with and without deprecated WSAAsyncSelect().
- Window resize freezing problem fixed.
- Multimonitor and very high res monitor sizing fixed.
- AniTaFTP SFTP (SSH) updates for login and directory listing
- Fixed JPG and PNG image import
- Improved image download from secure web servers
See the ReadMe for a complete and detailed modification history.

Release Candidate 11.3.3.3.  for Windows 10
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/8/10/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
What's new:
- Supported on Windows 10.
- SSH supports more Key Exchange Methods, Hostkey Types, and Ciphers.
- Printscreen supported on Multimonitor systems.
- AniTaFTP updated with support for SFTP (SSH) and Windows 10 User Interface.
- AniTa and AniTaFTP configurable SSH/SFTP Public Key and Private Key with Passphrase.
- AniTa launch of SFTP can now dynamically connect to currently connected host.
See the ReadMe for a complete and detailed modification history.

Release 10.0.7.1.  for Windows 8.1 RELEASE
for 32/64 Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/8/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
Major features compared to AniTa 9:
- Windows 8.1 supported.
- Drag and Drop from Explorer supported.
- Help files updated.
- Programmer's Reference updated.
- Support for 255 columns (was max 132).
- Support for SOCKS 5 proxy server.
- New CapsLock and NumLock settings.
- New mouseover Glow settings
- Optimized Installation.
- Better Browser Hotspot support for Javascripts.
- New RGB-editor for all 64 base colors. Available with ALT-click in the 3DBox dialog.
- New escape sequenses to control the keyboard and window focus for AniTa window and Browser hotspots.
- Improved mouseover status bar trace including colors and 3DBox mapping
See the ReadMe for a complete modification history.

Current Release 9.3.8.9.  for Windows 7 Released
32-bit version for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/Terminal Server - upgrade or evaluation.
Major features compared to AniTa 8:
- Windows 7: Supported
- Pop-up menus Automatic creation of right-click Pop-up menues.
- IPv6 supported.
- Window size and position retained when swithing between multiple non-standard column modes.
- http hotspot images can now be automatically downloaded from http servers.
- 64 colors. Support for a 2nd set of 32 colors.
- COM10+. Support for serial COM ports above 9.
- Support for .NET Com Automation interoperability.
- Support for clickable links for email and web servers.
- Easier 3D-Box editing.
- New: Support for custom menus.
- Support for SSH 2 environment parameters.
- New Hotscreen editing features makes it easier to work with large .hot files.
- PCL formatted printing: better lines/page handler.
- HP700/92 emulation: Multiple enhancements and fixes.
- New %panel% macros to HIDE/SHOW button panels.
- History Log Window now remains active and hidden when closed by upper right X button.
- New %historylog% macro availible
- New Events feature to trigger actions based on host received data stream.
- New %movewindow%x;y;X;Y macro.
- Mousewheel actions now configurable.
- Very fast Hotscreen file reorganization. New editing features.
- rounded attributes on line graphics, hotspots and 3D-Boxes.
See the ReadMe for a complete modification history.

Previous major release 8.8.1.1.  RELEASE
32-bit version for Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista - upgrade or evaluation.
Major features compared to AniTa 8.0:
- New: AniTa Hotspot Support for Common Windows controls such as Rich Edit, ListBox, ComboBox, ....
- New macro: %msgbox%reply;mode;caption;text Create and display a dialog window that contains an application-supplied message and caption. The user reply can be returned as keyboard data to the host application.
- More "Windows-like" 3D-box attributes like:
- New 3D Box attributes to allow the box to shrink above and below the normal cell size. This is a nice Windows look-n-feel feature that can be used to separate fields and make the text area background visible between fields.
- Enhanced and improved Hotscreen editor and checking. Many new functions and macros has been added to make it easier to work with Hotscreens.
- Now possible to change the hotscreen (.hot) file without having to use external text editor.
- New Hotscreen feature: Automatic fieldscan AniTa can now search & replace '[' and ']' field open and close characters with "AniTa attributes".
- Dynamic Hotspot content alignment can now be set to: left, center (default), right.
- Dynamic Hotspot menu creation will now pick up the mapping from screen better. This makes it possible to create a meny screen without having to edit each dynamic hotspot afterwards.
- New set of macros to start a program using a file extension association. The %shell% macro is extended to also support wait for completion and also allows receiving the exit code from the completed application.
- Faster AniTa loading time by using hash table for all files with traditional .ini-file format. This affects settings (.wcf) and and hotscreen (.hot).
- Enhanced Tooltips:
- Max tooltip width now defauls to 300 pixels (configurable).
- Support for multiline tooltips.
Use <cr> to get new line.
- Configurable Tooltip Text and Background colors.
- Balloon style Tooltips supported.
- Reduced screen flicker when using Hotspots. This is accomplished by using child windows for HotSpots instead of painting on the text area. This feature is configurable since the downside is slower display.
- Configurable AniTa image cache.
- Printing: AniTa Terminal printing and AniTaLPD now supports HP PCL level II printer controls such as:
- Portrait
- Landscape
- Primary Pitch: ESC(s#H chars / inch
- Primary Height: ESC(s#V Character height
- Lines / inch
- Set Unit of Measure: ESC & u # D
- Raster resolution: ESC * t # R
- Horizontal PCL positioning
- Vertical PCL positioning
- Compressed text
- Rectangle (not transparent modes)
- Raster Graphics
- Terminal printing Pop-up runtime selection changed so the user can re-select to any of the 10 Terminal printers.
- Fonts: Support for Stretched Fonts to fill larger part of the screen area. This is quite useful in for example 132 * 24 mode where otherwise major parts of the screen would be blank. Stretched font does not keep the X/Y aspect. Any True Type Font can be stretched.
- Terminal printing: New macro %printredir% makes it easier to use any of the 10 configurable Terminal Printers. Just execute the %printredir% macro and all terminal printing will be redirected to that printer.
- New %keylock% macro to set or clear a key state. This macro is useful to set the state of the Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock keys.
- New %keyevent% macro to generate keyboard action press and/or release. Use this macro to create singe keystrokes or combined keystrokes.
- Hotspot Font selection dialog now allows Enable/Disable automatic font scaling.
- Supports OpenSSH 5.1.
- SSH2: Now tries "keyboard-interactive" (challenge-response) authentication method before "password" if both are listed from the host in the authentication negotiation phase. This works better in systems with support for both methods.
- Minor enhancemants and fixes in Hotscreen editor.
- Enhanced and fixed PCL decoder
- Support for COM10 and up
Sample host-side scripts to demonstrate can be downloaded from the FTP server sample folder. click to open sample script catalog..
See the ReadMe for a complete modification history.

Older major release 7.5.2.0.  PREVIOUS RELEASE
32-bit version for Windows95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003 - upgrade or evaluation.
Major features compared to AniTa 6
In version 7.5.1.8:
Installable package and all included .exe files are now digitally signed.
In version 7.5:
- New: Support for SSH "keyboard-interactive" Authentication method.
- New: Now possible to create your own ENVIRONMENT variables (SYMBOLNAME=value) in the PC environment table. This feature can be used much like a Browser "cookie" to keep information during a session. The environment variables can be set "put" and "get" using AniTa callback functions from an e-script. They can also be manipulated directly from the host using escape sequences. In contrast to a "cookie", when the AniTa program exists, all environment variables created during the session will no longer exist. There is an example e-script "envcount.bas" in the ftp anita
- Support for 16 extra colors for emulators using DEC and ANSI
- WYSE emulation modes can now use ANSI color escape codes. - New Screen desing feature makes it easier in the design phase when you want to see the effect of different colors or 3D-box attributes without having to change the host-side of the application. - New macro: %setatt%: Supports persistant painting of selected background areas. - New macro to turn on/off text display: %textshow% This macro is good to use in a situation where you need to temporarily turn off the display of characters on screen. - New .WCF file parameter: MinWaitForConnect=0. Good for seamless automatic re-connection to MoSes session server.
in Version 7.3:
- Icons of all sized now supported in hotspots. Shrinked icons still transparent.
- Enhanced Text-area Hotspot editor
- Easier customizable printer selection in menu: File->Print Setup ...
- New macro: %unplay% to remove only specific hotspots.
- E-script: New escript engine. New AniScreenScrape() callback to get AniTa screen data into the script.
- Improved Winsock error trace in AniTa "Comm Recording".
in Version 7.2:
- Support for Windows Terminal Server 2003
- PC-side LPD Server
- Print directly to clipboard
- Background image or gradient fill in main window
- New 3-D effects with Proportional Font and gradient filled fields
- 3270-E and IND$FILE structured field file transfer
- New 3-D effects with Proportional Font and gradient filled fields
- Active Hotspots with live browser
- Better Hotspot support for .WAV files
- AniTaLPD now multithreaded (7.1.0.2) and extended to allow acting as a file transfer daemon.
- AniTaFTP updated (7.0.0.6). Now uses settings (anitaftp.ini) in current working directory.
- AniTaSCP support for enchrypted file transfer (scp) over SSH channels. Requires OpenSSH to be active on the host system.
- Idle disconnect supports auto-disconnect after idle time.
- Dynamic hotspots, many new features like "quick meny creation" and other related macros.
- Screen refresh optimized to get less flicker.
- Adds 60 supported.
- Font scaling fills screen better. New %zoom% macro.
- Automatic printer name remapping support for Windows Terminal Server 2003
- New macros %putenv% and %getenv% to set and get enviroment table symbol values in the PC
See the ReadMe for a complete modification history.

Older major release 6.2.1.3. 
32-bit version for Windows95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP - upgrade or evaluation.
Major New Features in AniTa 6.0:
- Windows XP is supported
In version 6.2.1.3:
Installable package and all included .exe files are now digitally signed.
- Visual Editor for buttons and panels.(ALT-click a button to activate)
- Application context sensitive help. (First install AniTa 6, then download the new "demo from a real application" to see how it works)
- AniTa is a COM Automation server. (sample script: COMconnect.js for a demo)
- Graphic mode screendump and terminal printing of image files.(sample: printimage.sh)
- SSH upgrade to OpenSSH 2.9.
- Hostlist support for easy access to recently connected hosts.  Parameters and macros can be attached to each host.
- Faster startup by using cached .wcf and .hot files.
- VT420, VT520 and VT525 predefined PC-keyboard mappings.
- File Transfer: New fast simple binary file transfer mode named "toanita".  (Find host side programs in the sample folder).
click to open sample script catalog.

Major New Features in AniTa 6.1:
- Support for 10 Terminal printers
- Keepalive for both telnet and SSH
- Cyrillic 8859.5 character set supported
- FileModified time and date can be requested by host
- Customized installation improved
- Hotscreens with cursor position match
- Col/Pos on status bar (finally)!!!
- TAPI modems supported (TAPI is the Windows modem API) 
- Linux Console IBM Alternate character set Line Graphics supported 
See the  PDF for a more complete "What's new list".
See the ReadMe for a complete modification history.

Previous  version 5.3.
32-bit version for Windows95/98/2000/NT4 - update.

Released version 4.
32-bit version for Windows95/98/NT4/NT3.51 - update.

Released version 3.
16-bit version for Windows 3.1x - update.

Version 4 and 3.20+: Instructions for installation and upgrading.

Modification History (all versions).

Frequently Asked Questions.

AniTa SCP source code
AniTaSCP executable is included in AniTa version 7.1
New: AniTaSCP client supports the standard Secure Copy Program SSH protocol extension. AniTaSCP is based on the PSCP open source program. AniTaSCP has added support for Windows programs interaction used to start and control the file transfer from a UNIX/Linux/AIX host system. This is implemented in AniTa to make it compatible with existing AniTa file transfer methods.