We also publish the latest PuTTY installers for all Windows architectures as a free-of-charge download at the Microsoft Store; they usually take a few days to appear there after we release them.

We also publish the latest PuTTY installers for all Windows architectures as a free-of-charge download at the Microsoft Store; they usually take a few days to appear there after we release them.

Aug 14, 2025 · PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

Apr 15, 2024 · Past releases of PuTTY are versions we thought were reasonably likely to work well, at the time they were released. However, later releases will almost always have fixed bugs and/or …

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 …

The existing PuTTY licence document already gives you permission to use or distribute PuTTY in pretty much any way which does not involve pretending you wrote it or suing us if it goes wrong.

The preferred (and simplest) way to mirror the PuTTY website is to use rsync. We provide a version of the website content intended for use as a standalone mirror, at …

Main resources on this site: users' home pages; PuTTY - a Free Software Telnet and SSH client for Windows and UNIX;

About me: some idea of who I am. Free software I've written, which you can download. PuTTY: an SSH client for Windows, also able to talk to serial ports and speak older insecure protocols like Telnet.

Downloadable documentation Zipped HTML: puttydoc.zip Plain text: puttydoc.txt Windows HTML Help: putty.chm