Besides other improvements and bug fixes, this release adds SFTP support for SCP as an eventual replacement to the SCP/RCP protocol and stricter configuration file parser for ssh and sshd.

In this video, the speaker gives a practical introduction to SSH tunnels with lots of examples and configuration tips.

The release notes of OpenSSH 8.6 again start with the deprecation notice for the SHA-1 "ssh-rsa" signature scheme. The new release comes with security and feature improvements.

This OpenSSH release enables the UpdateHostKeys option by default to assist the client by automatically migrating to better algorithms if the weak SHA-1 hash algorithm in conjunction with the RSA public key algorithm is still used.

»Have you ever wondered what the random art or visual fingerprint is all about when creating OpenSSH keys or connecting to OpenSSH servers?« This post gives you the answer.

sshuttle adds VPN-like capabilities to SSH that go beyond the built-in port-forwarding features of SSH.

OpenSSH 8.0 release notes.