sftp-kio status? sftp:// currently gives "Error encountered talking to ssh"

Tim, Serghei, Robert:

What is the latest on restoring sftp://host:port/path/to/file/ capability in TDE? It broke in KDE3 some time ago. Particularly where 'port' is a non-standard port. In Trinity you still get the error:

Error encountered while talking to ssh

My understanding is there was a complete re-write of the code that handles this taking place -- any word on how that is coming? fish:// continues to work in Trinity, but sftp should be working before the 3.5.13 release.

What say the folks in the know?