WinSCP

Registry Sessions, Protocols and Workspace Fixes - July 14, 2026

Session discovery

• Added support for sessions stored in the Windows registry, which is WinSCP's default storage location. Registry sessions are read through PowerShell rather than reg.exe, which is often blocked on managed machines
• Added support for WinSCP.ini in %APPDATA%, the default INI location that was previously never read
• WinSCP is now detected in Program Files, on PATH, and in package-manager installs such as Scoop and Chocolatey

Session list

• Workspaces are now listed once instead of once per contained session, with a session count in the subtitle
• Session subtitles now show the protocol (e.g. sftp://user@host) instead of undefined@host when no username is set
• Workspaces use a distinct icon in the list
• Added an empty state when no sessions are found

Launching sessions

• Sessions are now launched with their stored identifier, so names with spaces or other encoded characters open correctly
• Sessions are launched directly instead of through a shell command
• Added a Launch in New Instance action (⌘⇧↩)
• Added a Refresh Sessions action (⌘R)

Error handling

• Improved the "WinSCP Not Found" message and added a preference shortcut to set the installation folder manually
• Added a dedicated error view when registry sessions cannot be read, with steps to switch WinSCP to INI storage

Fixed Session Parsing - November 14, 2025

• Fixed parsing of WinSCP.ini to correctly extract session names
• Added support for workspace sessions (e.g., "Media/0000", "My Workspace/0000")
• Added support for regular sessions (e.g., "user@host")
• Sessions with URL-encoded names (e.g., "My%20Workspace") are now properly decoded
• Improved regex patterns to handle different session name formats