Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more
MobaXterm is your ultimate toolbox for remote computing. In a single Windows application, it provides loads of functions that are tailored for programmers, webmasters, IT administrators and pretty much all users who need to handle their remote jobs in a more simple fashion.
MobaXterm provides all the important remote network tools (SSH, RDP, X11, SFTP, FTP, Telnet, Rlogin, ...) to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box. Some plugins can be used to add functions to MobaXterm such as Unix commands (bash, ls, cat, sed, grep, awk, rsync, ...).
New feature: added support for smart card certificate authentication in SSH sessions using Microsoft CryptoAPI
New feature: added a smart card management interface (add/remove smart card certificates, retrieve the OpenSSH public key, ...)
New feature: added a right-click option on SSH sessions to open an SFTP session with the same parameters
New feature: you can now choose the SSH browser location by clicking the SSH browser title icon, allowing you to display your sessions and the SSH browser simultaneously
Improvement: added a new option in SSH session expert settings to select a smart card certificate
Improvement: added a new option in the global settings to add a smart card to MobAgent
Improvement: multiplex mode is now automatically applied for the SSH browser when the SSH session uses a smart card
Improvement: deferred the creation of system and toolbar icons to increase startup speed
Improvement: deferred the creation of item lists with checkboxes to increase startup speed
Improvement: added caching in graphical components to prevent unnecessary recalculation of their dimensions
Improvement: prevented core components from triggering unnecessary Windows messages when invisible at startup
Improvement: improved management of embedded fonts in memory at MobaXterm startup
Improvement: added a default openssl.cnf configuration file for the local terminal "openssl" command
Improvement: added the "linux" terminal type to terminal-based session settings
Improvement: install embedded fonts into Windows to prevent rendering issues when the Windows embedded fonts feature is disabled
Improvement: the master password prompt no longer stays on top of all windows after unlocking the Windows desktop
Improvement: improved the appearance of the remote monitoring bar by preventing double borders when the bar is adjacent to another
Improvement: column sizes in the SSH browser are now saved and restored upon MobaXterm restart
Improvement: added a confirmation prompt before overwriting files downloaded or uploaded with the SSH browser
Improvement: the default WSL shell can now use native authentication with the "DefaultWslUsesNativeAuth=1" directive in the "Misc" section of the configuration file
Improvement: improved the management of PNG image files and PNG icons by handling files without alpha layers
Improvement: when selecting a session folder in the "Quick connect" bar, it is now automatically selected and expanded
Improvement: increased MobaTextEditor performance when replacing multiple occurrences of a pattern or undoing many actions in a file
Improvement: updated the embedded OpenSSH client, the OpenSSL library and the X server to their latest versions
Improvement: switched the default compression setting to "no" in SSH sessions and in the local terminal
Bugfix: when updating MobaXterm, clean the previous "AdmSlash" folder if it exists
Bugfix: prevented "mobagrep" from creating a blank file when using the "-i" command-line switch
Bugfix: hidden modal windows are no longer displayed in the Aero Peek preview when hovering over the MobaXterm taskbar button
Bugfix: disabled bracket characters in the credentials creation window
Bugfix: when quickly switching tabs with the "Follow terminal" feature enabled, the SSH browser could appear empty
Bugfix: prevented MobaXterm from launching the wrong session when double-clicking a session if the second click occurred over another session
Bugfix: fixed a potential freeze when pasting clipboard content into the terminal if the clipboard owner became unresponsive
Bugfix: prevented mobagrep from stopping the search thread if one of the searched files fails to open
Bugfix: cleaned the MobaXterm temporary folder at startup in "portable" mode if it already exists
Bugfix: prevented MobaTextEditor, Xorg, MoTTY and the Cygwin library from loading some unused libraries at startup (fixes CVE-2026-11879 reported by Pedro J. Nunez-Cacho Fuentes @tunelko)
Bugfix: prevented MobaXterm from trying to load the "winspool.drv" file at startup (fixes CVE-2026-11967 reported by Pedro J. Nunez-Cacho Fuentes @tunelko)
