Download PuTTY: latest development snapshot


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This page contains download links for the latest development snapshot of PuTTY.

The development snapshots are built every day, automatically, from the current development code – in whatever state it's currently in. So you may be able to find new features or bug fixes in these snapshot builds, well before the same changes make it into the latest release. On the other hand, these snapshots might also be unstable, if a lot of new development has happened recently and introduced new bugs.

In particular, they may contain security holes. If we find one that's not also in a release, we're likely to just fix it in the next day's snapshot. If it's a particularly bad one we might make a note on the wishlist page.

Package files

You probably want one of these. They include versions of all the PuTTY utilities.

(Not sure whether you want the 32-bit or the 64-bit version? Read the FAQ entry.)

MSI (‘Windows Installer’)
32-bit: putty-<version>-installer.msi (signature)
64-bit: putty-64bit-<version>-installer.msi (signature)
Unix source archive
.tar.gz: putty-<version>.tar.gz (signature)

Alternative binary files



putty.exe (the SSH and Telnet client itself)
32-bit: putty.exe (signature)
64-bit: putty.exe (signature)
pscp.exe (an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy)
32-bit: pscp.exe (signature)
64-bit: pscp.exe (signature)
psftp.exe (an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTP)
32-bit: psftp.exe (signature)
64-bit: psftp.exe (signature)
puttytel.exe (a Telnet-only client)
32-bit: puttytel.exe (signature)
64-bit: puttytel.exe (signature)
plink.exe (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends)
32-bit: plink.exe (signature)
64-bit: plink.exe (signature)
pageant.exe (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP, and Plink)
32-bit: pageant.exe (signature)
64-bit: pageant.exe (signature)
puttygen.exe (a RSA and DSA key generation utility)
32-bit: puttygen.exe (signature)
64-bit: puttygen.exe (signature) (a .ZIP archive of all the above except PuTTYtel)
32-bit: (signature)
64-bit: (signature)


Browse the documentation on the web
HTML: Contents page
Downloadable documentation
Zipped HTML:
Plain text: puttydoc.txt
Windows HTML Help: putty.chm

Source code

Unix source archive
Windows source archive
.zip: (signature)
git repository
gitweb: master

Downloads for Windows on Arm

Compiled executable files for Windows on Arm. These are believed to work, but as yet, they have had minimal testing.

Windows on Arm installers
64-bit Arm: putty-arm64-<version>-installer.msi (signature)
32-bit Arm: putty-arm32-<version>-installer.msi (signature)
Windows on Arm individual executables
64-bit Arm: putty.exe (signature)
64-bit Arm: pscp.exe (signature)
64-bit Arm: psftp.exe (signature)
64-bit Arm: puttytel.exe (signature)
64-bit Arm: plink.exe (signature)
64-bit Arm: pageant.exe (signature)
64-bit Arm: puttygen.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: putty.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: pscp.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: psftp.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: puttytel.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: plink.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: pageant.exe (signature)
32-bit Arm: puttygen.exe (signature)
Zip file of all Windows on Arm executables
64-bit Arm: (signature)
32-bit Arm: (signature)

Checksum files

Cryptographic checksums for all the above files
MD5: md5sums (signature)
SHA-1: sha1sums (signature)
SHA-256: sha256sums (signature)
SHA-512: sha512sums (signature)

(last modified on Thu Mar 21 00:43:06 2019)