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Changes for v3.47.1 - v3.47.2.1

  • macOS: Potential fix for clipped text labels on a few systems
  • SFTP: Backported selected fixes from developement versions of PuTTY
  • Fixed value range for directional transfer limits
  • Fixed layout issues if changing to/from comparative search



Changes for v3.46.2 - v3.46.3

  • SFTP: Fixed handle leak on Windows
  • SFTP: Remote paths were not fully resolved on all operations



Changes for v3.46.0 - v3.46.2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fixed a regression connecting using a password-protected keyfile
  • Fixed a crash if an FTP server sends too long response lines
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.19.3 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/), this fixes a few issues with the new speed limiting code
  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.73



Changes for v3.44.2 - v3.45.0

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated translations
  • 3.45.0-rc1
  • New features:
  • If checking for updates cannot be performed for a prolonged time, users are warned about using an outdated version
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Performance improvements if expanding or refreshing a directory with thousands of direct subdirectories in the directory trees
  • Fixed prefix search in Site Manager
  • macOS: Fix password pasting using Cmd+V
  • Minor performance improvements deleting many thousands of files



Changes for v3.44.1 - v3.44.2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fixed a crash if using predefined sites through fzdefaults.xml
  • Fixes to protocol selection glitches in the Site Manager
  • Increase maximum length of response lines when using FTP



Changes for v3.43.0 - v3.44.0

  • Fixed export in context menu of Site Manager to handle multiple selected items



Changes for v3.42.1 - v3.43.0

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Filenames containing double-quotation marks were not escaped correctly when selected for opening/editing. Depending on the associated program, parts of the filename could be interpreted as commands.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Added a second layer of authentication to the update mechanism



Changes for v3.41.2 - v3.42.0 RC 1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Switching from using a master password to not saving passwords at all no longer requires entering the master password
  • *nix: Fixed support for internationalized domain names on systems having AI_IDN when using SFTP
  • Fixed an assertion after importing a manipulated queue file
  • When importing sites, any imported passwords are now immediately protected/deleted depending on the password protection settings
  • The ability to import Sitem Manager entries from antique FileZilla 2, last updated over a dozen years ago, has been removed



Changes for v3.41.1 - v3.41.2

  • Backport a security fix from PuTTY 0.71 affecting SFTP connections: Fix an integer overflow in the RSA key exchange preceeding host key verification



Changes for v3.40.0 - v3.41.1

  • Fix a regression introduced in 3.41.0 with slow FTP servers needlessly waiting for a bidirectional shutdown of the data connection during downloads



Changes for v3.40.0 RC 1 - v3.40.0

  • Official binaries are now linked against GnuTLS 3.6.6



Changes for v3.39.0 - v3.40.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Added TLS 1.3 support by linking official binaries against GnuTLS 3.6.5
  • Refactored how sites and servers are being represented internally to fix issues trigged by renaming sites in the Site Manager
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix display of server names containing ampersands in several dialogs
  • Fix regular expression filter in the quick search panel
  • Fix a crash if files are added to the queue when there are already files for multiple different servers in the queue
  • Fix a crash applying filters when there are no selected files and the focused item is past the new file count
  • Fix a crash if emptying the queue while a directory creation item is active
  • Fix a potential crash if FileZilla is being closed the moment a delayed dialog has already been created but before it is shown.



Changes for v3.39.0-rc1 - v3.39.0

  • Fix timestamps of newly created empty files on the server if the option to preserve timestamps is set



Changes for v3.38.1 - v3.39.0-rc1

  • New features:
  • The down button on the keyboard now opens the quickconnect history dropdown menu if the quickconnect bar has the input focus
  • The down button on the keyboard now opens the search options if the quick search dialog has the input focus
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Refactored how close notifications were handled in the network code
  • Fixed saving of the 'not equal' and 'less than' conditions for size filters
  • Fixed regular expression filters not respecting the case-sensitivity checkbox in all situations
  • Restore context menu item to delete file in local file search



Changes for v3.37.1 - v3.37.4

  • MSW: Fix regression introduced in 3.37.3 with moving files locally using drag&drop
  • Fix issues with directory creation when uploading many files in parallel
  • macOS: Fix crashes if dragging more than one file
  • macOS: Opt out of Dark Mode



Changes for v3.37.0 - v3.37.1

  • Local path is no longer forgotten when leaving synchronized browsing mode



Changes for v3.36.0 - v3.37.0

  • Fix remote target path if uploading files through the search dialog



Changes for v3.35.2 - v3.36.0

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix --site-manager command-line argument
  • Fix potential crash with malformed directory listings
  • Fix potential crash if opening/closing tabs or starting the queue while directories are being renamed or deleted
  • New features:
  • Ask for explicit confirmation prior to falling back to insecure plaintext FTP if a server refuses to use TLS
  • Warn if an FTP server refuses TLS that is known from previous connections to be capable of TLS



Changes for v3.34.0 - v3.35.2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix functionality of --site and --local command-line options
  • MSW: Fix local rename not updating file list
  • OS X: Fix compatibility with old CPUs not supporting SSE4



Changes for v3.32.0 - v3.33.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • The contents of the transfer queue can now be sorted
  • SFTP: Support key files encrypted with aes256-ctr, e.g. as created by OpenSSH 7.6 and later
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fix preserve timestamps menu option



Changes for v3.28.0 - v3.29.0

  • Fix activity indicators not working after the update check has been run



Changes for v3.28.0 RC 1 - v3.28.0

  • New features:
  • *nix: Official Linux binaries are now built for Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Do not disable password saving settings if fzdefaults.xml contains a kiosk mode setting of 0.



Changes for v3.27.1 - v3.28.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Add "Close once" as queue completion action
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if FileZilla is forced to close, e.g. when the system is shutting down, while there are open dialogs
  • If the transfer queue asks for a password and the password dialog is canceled the queue processing is now stopped
  • OS X, *nix: Improve detection of invalid character encodings in local filenames
  • Fix potential crash expanding directory tree items while changing selections



Changes for v3.27.0.1 - v3.27.1

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Change client identification string if connecting with SFTP due to OpenSSH disregarding the supported ciphers announced by the client, resulting in less secure algorithms being chosen by OpenSSH.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Improve handling of NTFS reparse points
  • MSW: If running the installer with /S, previous versions where not uninstalled prior to the new version being installed
  • MSW: The installer can be run with /quiet for a semi-silent installation
  • OS X, *nix: Potential fix for a rare crash if changing local directories while the local directory list is being updated and vice versa.



Changes for v3.26.2 - v3.27.0.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Add misssing file to .zip binary package
  • MSW: Fix toolchain issues breaking the shell extension
  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.70



Changes for v3.26.1 - v3.26.2

  • Fixed crash if using master passwords and decrypting very long passwords



Changes for v3.26.0 - v3.26.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if changing password settings and the Site Manager contains subdirectories
  • *nix: Fixed saving of sites having more than one site-specific bookmark



Changes for v3.25.2 - v3.26.0

  • When changing or removing the master password, update protected credentials of server items in the transfer queue
  • Fix display of remember checkbox when showing the password entry dialog for sites that have no username set and are using the "Ask" logon type
  • Some icons were missing in the Windows .zip binary archive



Changes for v3.25.0 - v3.25.2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.69
  • Fixed potential stall during the final listing operation when finishing a queue which contained uploads



Changes for v3.24.1 - v3.25.0

  • New features:
  • OS X: The minimum required OS X version is now 10.9
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • OS X: Disable App Nap during transfers and other operations
  • OS X: Downloaded updates are now stored in the Downloads directory
  • OS X: Fix initial toolbar state on startup if it was hidden when FileZilla was last closed
  • Fix reconnect delay logic which broke in 3.25.0-beta1
  • Fix piecewise creation of remote paths using FTP which broke in 3.25.0-beta1



Changes for v3.24.0 - v3.24.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed rendering icons in the remote directory tree when DPI scaling is enabled on Windows Vista and some Windows 7 machines
  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.68
  • Updated builtin pugixml to version 1.8



Changes for v3.23.0.2 - v3.24.0

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a possible crash if sending FTP commands fails during a directory listing operation
  • *nix: Fixed a scrolling issue in the message log if wxWidgets is built against GTK3



Changes for v3.22.2.2 - v3.23.0.2

  • Key file paths entered in the Site Manager are now saved to corresponding server entries in the transfer queue
  • MSW: Work around a bug in wxWidgets causing bad icons in the remote directory tree due to wxImageList::GetBitmap errorneously stripping the alpha channel from images
  • Allow relative paths and environment variables in the "Cache directory" setting.



Changes for v3.22.0 - v3.22.1

  • OS X: Work around a nasty bug in XCode where programs explicitly compiled for older versions of OS X were silently pulling in features exclusive to the new version, resulting in crashes at runtime
  • Fixed a potential crash when using SFTP



Changes for v3.20.1 - v3.21.0

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Fixed a string format vulnerability introduced in 3.20.0-rc1 when listing directories using SFTP
  • New features:
  • SFTP: Added support for AES-GCM ciphers as implemented in OpenSSH
  • OS X: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab can now be used to switch forward and backward between opened tabs
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Reduced time between TCP keepalive packets to 15 minutes on supporting platforms
  • Fixed saving of directory listing filters with an attribute condition



Changes for v3.20.0 - v3.20.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed rename file exists action on downloads
  • Fixed possible crash if disabling log abbreviation
  • Official binaries now link against a patched version of GnuTLS so that a better error message can be printed on broken servers that send malformed certificate chains



Changes for v3.18.0 - v3.19.0

  • New features:
  • Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.5.3 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed context menu in search dialog if not connected to server
  • OS X, *nix: Fix displayed text in file list status bar if selecting a single item in the file list out of multiple already selected items



Changes for v3.15.0.2 - v3.16.0

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Small fix for remembering queue completion actions
  • 2016-02-22 - FileZilla Client 3.16.0-rc1 released
  • New features:
  • Make notification bubble on queue completion configurable though the queue's context menu
  • Selected queue completion action is now remembered, excluding the system shutdown/sleep actions.
  • Added new servertype to the Site Manager for servers using MS-DOS style paths with forward slashes as separators
  • Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.4.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixes for network configuration wizard leading to incorrect test result
  • MSW: Installer now removes leftover files from improperly uninstalled previous versions



Changes for v3.15.0.1 - v3.15.0.2

  • MSW: Binaries are now also signed using a SHA256 signature and certificate.
  • OS X: Move location of COPYING file containing the GPL to a different location in the bundle. On some systems OS X cannot verify the bundle with the file at the old location
  • Restore focused item if changing directory listing sort order
  • Fix restoring the column widths of the failed transfers tab in the queue when starting FileZilla
  • MSW: Double-clicking a divider between a list header in the queue now adjust the sizes in the other tabs just as dragging the width would



Changes for v3.15.0 - v3.15.0.1

  • Fix for search dialog not displaying the results from the last visited directory of a search



Changes for v3.14.1 - v3.15.0

  • MSW: Display notification bubble if FileZilla isn't in the forgeground and all active transfers have finished.



Changes for v3.14.0 - v3.14.1

  • New features:
  • For third-party builds, add configure flag to allow using system ciphers for FTP over TLS. Display a warning if an insecure cipher is negotiated as result of using system ciphers.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed loading of the directory comparison flag for bookmakrs in the Site Manager
  • Changing the interface layout and icon theme no longer results in an inconsistent UI state
  • Some SFTP servers send additional information on errors. This information is now shown in the message log
  • If the local file cannot be opened on SFTP transfers FileZilla no longer automatically retries
  • Updated SFTP components from PuTTY



Changes for v3.14.0 RC2 - v3.14.0

  • When connecting using SFTP, show an error message instead of silently failing when encountering an insecure cipher



Changes for v3.14.0 RC1 - v3.14.0 RC2

  • Removing selected queue items is now faster
  • Reduced memory usage of queue
  • When connecting to hostnames with multiple IPs, reset timeout if trying the next address



Changes for v3.13.0 - v3.13.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix SFTP component crashing on some combinations of encryption and key exchange algorithm
  • Fixed Ctrl+Shift+I shortcut to toggle filters
  • OS X: Fixed Ctrl+, shortcut to open settings dialog
  • Optimizations to reduce memory footprint
  • Build system fixes



Changes for v3.11.0.2 - v3.13.0

  • New features:
  • Display home directory instead of root directory if the last used directory does not exist
  • Larger initial size of main window if there is no stored size
  • Slightly increased size of page selection box in settings dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix assertion in directory listing parser
  • Fix drag&drop of remote files which broke in 3.13.0-rc1



Changes for v3.11.0.1 - v3.11.0.2

  • Fixed a potential crash if a connection gets remotely closed in the same moment a new connection is to be opened
  • Improved compatibility with servers sending pre-epoch timestamps
  • Fixed pt_BR translation



Changes for v3.11.0 - v3.11.0.1

  • Reject Diffie-Hellman Groups smaller than 1024 bits when using FTP over TLS to protect against the Logjam attack



Changes for v3.11.0 RC 1 - v3.11.0

  • Ensure the title bar is at least partially inside the screen boundary when restoring a saved window position
  • Fixed crash if opening a wrapped dialog without having restarted FileZilla after having change language to Chinese or Japanese



Changes for v3.10.3 - v3.11.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Implemented new date/time handling to solve issues with DST conversion
  • *nix: Official Linux binaries are now built for Debian Jessie
  • In passive mode transfer, the source IP of the data connection is now bound to the same source IP as the control connection
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Requeueing of folder items no longer prints an error message
  • Fix disabling of timeouts
  • MSW: Fix the returned error level of the installer
  • Fix a crash if disconnecting during transfers
  • Official binaries now link against GnuTLS to 3.4.1
  • Official binaries now link against SQLite to 3.8.10.1



Changes for v3.10.3 RC 1 - v3.10.3

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if changing number of simultaneous transfers while transferring files
  • Fixed local filelist statusbar regression introduced in 3.10.3-beta2



Changes for v3.10.3 Beta 2 - v3.10.3 RC 1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • If saving passwords is disabled, don't ask for the password again after connecting via the quickconnect bar and then starting a download via drag&drop.
  • Small performance improvements



Changes for v3.10.3 Beta 1 - v3.10.3 Beta 2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Minimum timeout value is now 10 seconds, up from 5 seconds to prevent timeouts uploading to servers with slow storage
  • Fixed an assert with invalid file sizes
  • Small performance improvements



Changes for v3.10.2 - v3.10.3 Beta 1

  • New features:
  • FileZilla is now also available as 64bit Windows program. Users of 32bit FileZilla on 64bit Windows will get automatically migrated using the auto-updater
  • Added option to enable SFTP compression



Changes for v3.10.2 RC 2 - v3.10.2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • When finding the local name of a remote file to be edited, use case-insensitive comparison
  • Updated SFTP components from PuTTY
  • MSW: Cleaned up runtime dependencies
  • Fix crash introduced in rc2 when there is no password element for a saved item



Changes for v3.10.2 RC 1 - v3.10.2 RC 2

  • New features:
  • OS X binaries are now 64bit
  • MSW: The installer configures Windows Error Reporting to save minidumps in %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps if filezilla.exe crashes
  • The updater now submits CPU capabilities when checking for updates. In a future version support for CPUs without SSE2 support will be dropped
  • In the XMl files, passwords are now base64 encoded
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix HTTP proxy handshake if no proxy username is set
  • Fix state of filter toolbar button if dismissing filter dialog
  • At the end of transfers errors writing all downloaded data to disk were not always detected



Changes for v3.10.1.1 - v3.10.2 RC 1

  • New features:
  • When reopening files already being edited, preselect the previously used selection
  • The suject area in the certificate verification can now be scrolled if the certificate contains many alternative names
  • Many performance improvements
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed display of total transfer size in message log for SFTP transfers
  • MSW: Fixed sorting of sites in Site Manager
  • MSW: Fix initial focus after starting FileZilla to be in the quickconnect bar again
  • Fixed bug in GnuTLS where the AES-NI instruction set wasn't always used when available
  • Refresh directory trees if sort mode changes
  • Fix potential crash if disconnecting during ongoing transfers
  • Fix updating the transfer progress bar When uploading files via SFTP with a low speed limit set



Changes for v3.10.1 - v3.10.1.1

  • Fix editing of files with the same name in different directories



Changes for v3.10.1 RC 1 - v3.10.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Don't override proxy settings if loading an implicit session from PuTTY
  • Silently delete junk files left behind by some editors in the temporary directory



Changes for v3.10.0.2 - v3.10.1 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Fixed wording of some error messages when using FTP over TLS
  • Display subject alternative names in certificate verification dialog
  • If re-editing multiple files already being edited, add a checkbox to apply action to all selected file
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Editing the same local file multiple times no longer results in an error message
  • Display SHA-256 fingerprints in certificate verification dialog, no longer display MD5 fingerprints.
  • Disable insecure RC4 algorithm in FTP over TLS
  • *nix: Fix assertion when opening the file exists dialog on some multi-display systems
  • Deleting items in the Site Manager now correctly upates the right-hand side of the dialog
  • Dragging items in the Site Manager no longer makes the default port appear in the port input box
  • OS X: Multi-line text edit controls no longer act like rich-text edit controls and no longer perform quote substitution



Changes for v3.10.0.1 - v3.10.0.2

  • Fix a crash if a keyfile has been configured for SFTP and this file has become missing or corrupted
  • *nix, OS X: Fix permissions on files uploaded via SFTP.



Changes for v3.10.0 - v3.10.0.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • TLS handshakes no longer stall if the server sends ginormous packets during the handshake that do not fit into a single TLS record
  • Fix loading and saving the same queue item multiple times
  • Post-login commands now work with the protocol set to plain FTP
  • MSW: Allow uploading files that are locally opened for writing by another program
  • OS X: Fix layout issues in search dialog and filter conditions dialog



Changes for v3.10.0 RC 2 - v3.10.0

  • Fixed default file exists actions broken by rc1



Changes for v3.10.0 RC 1 - v3.10.0 RC 2

  • New features:
  • Added Welsh translation
  • Data type indicator in the status bar now reacts to left-clicks as well
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix crash when displaying the drive list



Changes for v3.10.0 Beta 3 - v3.10.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Reduced memory consumption of large queues
  • Preliminary support for Windows 10 technical preview
  • MSW: FileZilla running on a 64bit Windows can now use up to 4GiB of RAM, up from 2GiB
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed memory leaks in SFTP component
  • Fixed fzsftp crashing on disconnect if using keyfiles
  • Various code cleanup and minor fixes



Changes for v3.10.0 Beta 2 - v3.10.0 Beta 3

  • New features:
  • The search dialog now has checkboxes to only search for files or directories
  • In the file lists, Ctrl+Shift+N can now be used to create new directories
  • Added an additional icon theme
  • Small performance improvements parsing large directory listings
  • Updated SFTP components from PuTTY
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed applying file exists actions to files currently in the queue
  • Don't send the PBSZ and PROT commands to servers that have rejected AUTH TLS/SSL



Changes for v3.10.0 Beta 1 - v3.10.0 Beta 2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed uploads constantly timing out
  • Log abbreviation now works correctly when cancelling a pending connection retry
  • Fixed a timing issue in the updater. Users of 3.10.0-beta1 need to update manually.
  • Speed limits no longer reset when opening the settings dialog
  • Fix reporting of transfer progress
  • Theme preview in the settings dialog now properly displays non-standard theme sizes



Changes for v3.9.0.6 - v3.10.0 Beta 1

  • FTP over TLS is now used by default if the server supports it. Use of plain FTP can be enforced for a server in the Site Manager
  • Connection handling and transferring files has been moved into its own thread to improve GUI responsivenes
  • The message log now only shows abbreviated logs unless an error occurs
  • Added option to pre-allocate disk space when downloading files
  • Files editing can now be started from the search dialog
  • Directory trees and the Site Manager tree can now be drag-scrolled
  • *nix: FileZilla no longer depends on libidn if getaddrinfo supports AI_IDN



Changes for v3.9.0.4 - v3.9.0.5

  • Fix auto-updater not being able to download updates



Changes for v3.9.0.3 - v3.9.0.4

  • MSW: Fixed crash if starting file rename in an unusual way
  • OS X: Fixed a bug im wxWidgets so that a right-click after a left-click no longer counts as double-click
  • OS X: Fixed pasting of passwords into the "Enter password" dialog
  • OS X: Fixed context menu site manager tree not working
  • *nix, OS X: Fixed context menu of search dialog not working
  • Fixed loading of resources if FileZilla is installed in a directory containing the # character
  • Fixed support for SOCKS4 proxies
  • Attempt reading settings from temporary backup files if loading of settings files fails



Changes for v3.9.0.2 - v3.9.0.3

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix potential crash on connection failures
  • Fixed navigating through the different controls in FileZilla's main window using the Tab key
  • OS X: If FileZilla becomes the active program, the focus no longer jumps to the quickconnect bar
  • MSW: Improve compatibility with DFS network shares



Changes for v3.9.0.1 - v3.9.0.2

  • New features:
  • Handle setting files redirected using symbolic links
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Updated installer to fix an issue with re-registring the shell extension after a reboot on 32bit system if a another program keeps the extension locked
  • Closing FileZilla during a recursive operation no longer hangs
  • OS X: Manually handle CMD+V and CMD+A for password fields as Cocoa cannot seem to do it by itself
  • OS X: Manually handle CMD+X, CMD+C, CMD+V and CMD+A in the path combo boxes
  • OS X: Creating new tabs selects the newly created tab again
  • Detect some types TLS error conditions earlier instead of waiting for a timeout
  • Small performance imprvement for TLS handshakes
  • Do not show error message if "Create and enter" is used with synchronized browsing enabled



Changes for v3.9.0 - v3.9.0.1

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix installation issue with locked DLLs affecting users of 32bit Windows



Changes for v3.9.0 RC 3 - v3.9.0

  • New features:
  • Added Lao translation
  • Added an additional icon set
  • OS X: Holding modifier key while clicking Site Manager toolbar icon now shows the site dropdown menu
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix assertion when entering UNC paths
  • Fix button layout of editing dialogs
  • *nix, OS X: Small performance improvement recursing through local directories



Changes for v3.9.0 RC 2 - v3.9.0 RC 3

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • OS X: Fix random crashes if adding text to the message log
  • Fixed drag&drop when dropping on local file list and directory tree
  • Fixed assertion when using format specified for date/time formatting
  • Fixed assertion when closing FileZilla in response to system shutdown
  • Various code cleanup



Changes for v3.9.0 RC 1 - v3.9.0 RC 2

  • New features:
  • Display a helpful message if login fails and either username or password starts or begins with a space.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Small performance and memory consumption optimizations
  • Various code cleanup and modernization



Changes for v3.9.0 Beta 3 - v3.9.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Binaries are now being built with DEP and ASLR enabled where supported
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • OS X: Fixed creating new tabs
  • OS X: Fixed assertion and crash when renaming files
  • Fixed assertion when sorting by modification time
  • Fixed toolbar button to hide remote directory tree



Changes for v3.9.0 Beta 2 - v3.9.0 Beta 3

  • OS X: Fixed rendering of the main window
  • MSW: Fixed support for right-to-left languages
  • Fixed several small layout problems



Changes for v3.9.0 Beta 1 - v3.9.0 Beta 2

  • Natural sort now also works with directory comparison
  • Toolbar state now updates if directory tree visibility is toggeled by enabling directory comparison
  • *nix: Fixed minimizing to tray not working
  • Fixed background of activity indicators
  • Several dialog layout fixes
  • Removed spurious error message when closing FileZilla



Changes for v3.8.1 - v3.9.0 Beta 1

  • Added natural sort to file name comparison and added option to select which algorithm to use
  • FileZilla now builds against wxWidgets 3.0 instead of wxWidgets 2.8



Changes for v3.8.1 RC 3 - v3.8.1

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Updated official binaries to use GnuTLS 3.2.15, addressing CVE-2014-3466
  • New features:
  • OS X: Partial support for retina displays
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed several small memory leaks



Changes for v3.8.0 - v3.8.1 RC 3

  • Fixed bundling of .xrc resources in non-Windows binaries



Changes for v3.8.0 RC 1 - v3.8.0

  • New features:
  • OS X: Implemented the reboot, shutdown and suspend queue completion actions
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Popup dialogs no longer automatically open if other dialogs are already open. This prevents FileZilla from becoming unresponsive on OS X
  • Fix calculation of current transfer speed. In some situations the transfer speed tooltip over the activity indicators showed negative speeds
  • Fix handling of focus item in local directory listings if connecting to a site with a default local directory



Changes for v3.8.0 Beta 2 - v3.8.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • MSW: Added suspend as new queue completion action
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Minor fixes to new updater



Changes for v3.8.0 Beta 1 - v3.8.0 Beta 2

  • New features:
  • Use Server Name Indication (SNI) With FTP over TLS and HTTP over TLS
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Minor updater improvements to further improve reliability
  • Updated translations



Changes for v3.7.4.1 - v3.8.0 Beta 1

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Updated GnuTLS to latest version to address vulnerabilities in GnuTLS' certificate validation
  • New features:
  • Redesigned update dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix initial state of the 'Enable' item in speed limit menu
  • Date/Time handling routines now carry precision information, this avoids comparisons of timestamps with different accuracy, e.g. 2014-02-01 and 2014-02-01 10:00 now compare as being identical when using the "Overwrite if newer" file exists action
  • MSW: Make handling of FD_CLOSE socket events more robust



Changes for v3.7.4 - v3.7.4.1

  • Fix detection of modified files
  • Additional fixes for site-specific bookmark handling



Changes for v3.7.4 RC 1 - v3.7.4

  • New features:
  • Added SOCKS4 support
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Additional bugfix for site-specific bookmarks
  • Improve compatibility with servers sending directory listings in Polish language or in EBCDIC encoding
  • Handle set user id bit when populating permissions dialog.



Changes for v3.7.3 - v3.7.4 RC 1

  • Added Corsican and Kabyle translations
  • SFTP now supports the hmac-sha2-256 algorithm
  • MSW: Show local timestamps for old files using the correct daylight saving time (DST) offset.
  • Fix loading of transfer queue if starting FileZilla while another instance is in the process of shutting down
  • Fix interaction between site-specific bookmarks and multiple tabs
  • Don't resume uploads when there's zero octets left to transfer
  • Improve symbolic link detection when using MLSD
  • If processing a queue with files queued on multiple servers and not storing passwords, the password was not always asked prior to switching servers
  • Use the correct name element when importing sites
  • MSW: Show actual Windows version in about dialog regardless of app-compat settings



Changes for v3.7.2 - v3.7.3

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Merge further fixes from PuTTY to address CVE-2013-4206, CVE-2013-4207, CVE-2013-4208



Changes for v3.7.1.1 - v3.7.2

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Apply a fix for a security vulnerability in PuTTY as used in FileZilla to handle SFTP. See CVE-2013-4852 for reference.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Provided Linux binaries are now built against Debian Wheezy



Changes for v3.7.1 - v3.7.1.1

  • Minor bump for installer changes



Changes for v3.7.1 RC 1 - v3.7.1

  • Updated translations



Changes for v3.7.0.2 - v3.7.1 RC 1

  • Add command-line option to specify initial local directory
  • Fix crash on OS X if connecting using FTP over TLS
  • Prevent file lists from jumping when they are not supposed to



Changes for v3.7.0.1 - v3.7.0.2

  • Fix freeze if trying to transfer files with multiple servers each with a connection limit of 1
  • Adjust accepted X.509 signature algorithms in TLS 1.2 mode



Changes for v3.7.0 - v3.7.0.1

  • Fixed a bug in bundled GnuTLS affecting FileZilla 3.7.0
  • Updated translations



Changes for v3.7.0 RC 1 - v3.7.0

  • Fix typo



Changes for v3.6.0.2 - v3.7.0 RC 1



Changes for v3.6.0.1 - v3.6.0.2

  • Fix problems with stalling FTP over TLS uploads
  • MSW: Minor performance increase listing local files



Changes for v3.6.0 - v3.6.0.1

  • Fix problems with TLS cipher selection, including a bugfix for GnuTLS
  • Fix a crash on shutdown
  • Add log message for servers not using UTF-8
  • Small performance and memory optimizations getting file types
  • Improve formatting of transfer speeds



Changes for v3.6.0 RC 1 - v3.6.0

  • Fix a crash introduced since 3.5.3
  • IPv6-only hosts should no longer cause a crash in the network configuration wizard



Changes for v3.6.0 Beta 1 - v3.6.0 RC 1

  • Do not show "Remember passwords?" dialog if connecting anonymously
  • Make wording in "Remember passwords?" dialog consistent.
  • Increase default TLS session lifetime
  • When asking for confirmation to delete files, state whether it's local or on the server
  • Fix right-to-left rendering of progress line in the transfer queue



Changes for v3.5.3 - v3.6.0 Beta 1

  • New features:
  • Auto-scroll file lists if dragging an item near the top or bottom
  • Add option to create empty files to the remote file list context menu
  • Support legacy servers sending directory listings in EBCDIC
  • Added Tango icon set
  • First-time users now get prompted whether they want to save passwords when first using the quickconnect bar
  • Greatly improve TLS performance by updating to GnuTLS 3.1.x with Nettle backend
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • FTP proxies now work with IPv6 addresses as proxy address
  • Handle expired TLS sessions when trying to reuse a session
  • TLS session reusing no longer fails with newer GnuTLS versions due to changed semantics of gnutls_session_get_data
  • Directory listings now longer sporadically fail if two connections try to list the same directory in parallel
  • Partially Work around a Ubuntu-specific problem with modal dialogs not being modal resulting in crashes



Changes for v3.5.2 - v3.5.3

  • New features:
  • Ctrl+Shift+O can be used to toggle between modification time and filesize based directory comparison
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • It is now possible to use custom passwords if using "anonymous" as user name
  • After un-hiding toolbar, update toolbar button states
  • Fix TLS compatibility issues with TLS 1.2 servers
  • MSW: Unset hidden attribute on FileZilla's settings files
  • Building FileZilla from source now requires wxWidgets 2.8.12 or higher.



Changes for v3.5.2 RC 1 - v3.5.2

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated translations



Changes for v3.5.1 - v3.5.2 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Added option to open site manager on startup to the settings dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • The "Don't save passwords" option was not being saved
  • The queue was not saved correctly if having items from multiple servers
  • Queue items with the lowest priority setting are now being restored again
  • Drag & Drop did not work with all saved sites if saving of passwords had been disabled



Changes for v3.5.1 RC 1 - v3.5.1

  • Add support for another rate variant of MVS style directory listings



Changes for v3.5.0 - v3.5.1 RC 1

  • Add menu item to hide toolbar



Changes for v3.5.0 RC2 - v3.5.0

  • Don't create queue.xml anymore if it does not exist
  • MSW: Progress lines in transfer queue now appear in correct position after changing the Windows theme
  • MSW: Work around a bug in Windows where a list controls' scroll position changes without the control being notified in any way
  • Several fixes to build system and environment



Changes for v3.5.0 RC1 - v3.5.0 RC2

  • New features:
  • Added experimental setting to strip file revision upon download from VMS servers. Set "Strip VMS revisions" to 1 in FileZilla.xml to enable
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • The string coalescer benchmark debug option no longer crashes if benchmarking an empty string coalescer



Changes for v3.4.0 - v3.5.0 RC1

  • New features:
  • The transfer queue is now stored in an SQLite database. This greatly improves performance and vastly reduces memory consumption while loading/saving the queue
  • Additional improvements to general queue performance and memory consumption
  • The provided Linux binaries are now compiled for Debian Squeeze instead of Lenny
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash during shutdown of FileZilla
  • Clearing the queue when it was not yet fully populated no longer causes a crash
  • If using ask login type for a site and no username is given, the initial focus is now on the user box in the login dialog



Changes for v3.4.0 RC 1 - v3.4.0

  • Updated translations



Changes for v3.4.0 Beta 1 - v3.4.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Disabled automatic negotiation of FTP over TLS introduced in 3.4.0-beta1. Will be added in a future version instead
  • Add checkbox to settings dialog to not save passwords
  • Add timestamp columns to successful and failed queue tabs showing when the transfers completed or failed
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed infinite loop in TinyXML when loading settings from corrupt XML documents
  • Parsing MDTM reply now takes seconds into account
  • MSW: Handling of paths relative to the drive-root in local directory input box
  • Compatibility with MVS listing containing PO-E type entries
  • Fix Resizing issues with manual transfers dialog
  • MSW: Remote file editing did not correctly handle files that were still open



Changes for v3.3.5.1 - v3.4.0 Beta 1

  • New features:
  • Normal FTP connections now always attempt to negotiate secure FTP over TLS
  • Added option to force use of insecure plain FTP to Site Manager
  • Kiosk mode option can now also be read from FileZilla.xml, with fzdefaults.xml having priority if setting exists in both files
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix memory leak in directory cache
  • Compatibility with obscure DOS servers using forward slashes as path delimiter
  • MSW: Horizontal scroll bar in file lists and queue did not appear if changing column widths
  • Improve text wrapping engine



Changes for v3.3.5 - v3.3.5.1

  • Permanently trusting certificates had no effect until FileZilla was restarted
  • Fix downloading of symbolic links to files



Changes for v3.3.5 RC 1 - v3.3.5

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated language files, otherwise identical with rc1



Changes for v3.3.4.1 - v3.3.5 RC 1

  • New features:
  • FTP over TLS certificate store is now host-specific
  • MSW: Large-DPI awareness
  • Improved SFTP transfer speeds
  • FTP over TLS should prefer ciphers with longer key sizes, updated contained GnuTLS library in precompiled binaries
  • Add context menu entry to re-queue all files on the successful and failed queue tabs
  • MSW: Native file list sort indicator on Windows Vista and 7
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Resuming of uploads was not working correctly in all cases
  • Correct remaining time calculation in queue
  • Do not show welcome dialog in kiosk mode 2
  • Do not offer option to permanently accept certificate in kiosk mode 2
  • Fix sorting by size in filelists with directory sort behavior set to inline
  • MSW: Fix memory corruption when changing language
  • OS X: Include license and documentation files in application bundle
  • Directly save settings after importing from file



Changes for v3.3.4 - v3.3.4.1

  • Set a minimum size for column widths in directory lists and transfer queue
  • Fix build-time check for system TinyXML



Changes for v3.3.4 RC 2 - v3.3.4

  • Correctly handle symbolic links pointing to files in search dialog
  • Fix crash in options initialization



Changes for v3.3.4 RC 1 - v3.3.4 RC 2

  • Fix issues with path names not properly terminated by separator
  • Fix loading of settings with empty values
  • Update status bar icons if changing theme



Changes for v3.3.3 - v3.3.4 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Filter/search by modification date
  • Add "does not equal" option to size filter
  • Reduced memory consumption when working with very large queues and directory hierarchies
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix bug in TinyXML that could lead to corrupt XML documents
  • Abort directory listing parsing if encountering a line with more than 10k characters
  • Fix stalling recursive operations if FileZilla gets disconnected
  • Set correct initial control state in site manager if there are no sites



Changes for v3.3.3 RC 1 - v3.3.3

  • Fix transfer statusbar regression introduced in the release candidate
  • Do not include IPv6 zone index in the argument to the EPRT command
  • Correct tab order in filter edit and search dialogs
  • *nix: Revert cursor changes



Changes for v3.3.2.1 - v3.3.3 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Added "does not contain" filter condition to name and path filter types
  • Pressing Alt+Left or Alt+Up (Cmd+Left, Cmd+Up on OS X) in file lists enters parent directory
  • Pressing Alt+Down (Cmd+Down on OS X) in file lists transfers selected items
  • Pressing Alt+Right (Cmd+Right on OS X) in file lists activates selected item(s)
  • Add operating system information to about dialog
  • MSW: Auto-update check now transmits whether the operating system is 32bit or 64bit
  • Small performance improvements, mostly benefiting *nix users
  • OS X: Remember hidden state of toolbar, make quickconnect bar look more Mac-ish
  • Add option to display momentary transfer speed instead of average speed
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix problem with rekeying of SFTP connections if not permanently trusting the server's hostkey
  • Certificate details dialog no longer changes size if selecting a different certificate in the chain
  • Some dialogs did not display icons using the correct size
  • Show "Not connected" instead of "Empty directory" in remote filelist statusbar if not connected
  • MSW: Replace some additional characters not allowed in filenames on MSW
  • MSW: Selecting files while holding Ctrl+Shift no longer shows incorrect values in the filelist status bars



Changes for v3.3.2 - v3.3.2.1

  • New features:
  • Remember location of update download directory
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Cancel file renaming on actions that change the file list, such as changing sort order or performing a refresh
  • Cancel file renaming if starting a drag&drop operation
  • Filter invalid characters if downloading through double-clicking files or if adding from the search dialog
  • Fix site-specific bookmarks menu
  • The menu did not reflect initial value of preserve timestamp option properly
  • MSW: Keep FileZilla subdirectory in startmenu when updating, preserves custom order
  • MSW: Add AppID support to installer



Changes for v3.3.2 RC 2 - v3.3.2

  • New features:
  • *nix: Add support for forward and backward mouse buttons
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Speed limits can be re-enabled on SFTP connections
  • Changed settings did not come into effect unless FileZilla was restarted
  • Small performance improvements



Changes for v3.3.2 RC 1 - v3.3.2 RC 2

  • Spelling fixes
  • Rebuilt due to timer problems



Changes for v3.3.1 - v3.3.2 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Speed limits can be quickly set using the menu and a new indicator in the status bar
  • Display number of bytes transferred and duration of transfer in log
  • MSW: React to back button of mouse in file lists
  • Updated blukis icon set
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Refactored large parts of the toolbar and menubar code
  • A race condition in the socket code could lead to crashes
  • Fix connecting to addresses longer than 15 characters if using SOCKS proxy
  • Get add to queue in local directory tree context menu working again
  • Do not open request dialogs if user is holding a mouse button
  • Forward all Ctrl+Tab key events to tab bar
  • Do not report SFTP exitcodes that do not originate from the server



Changes for v3.3.1 RC 1 - v3.3.1

  • Implement missing tab creation from context menu
  • *nix: Reduce flicker on tab creation
  • Set initial focus in chmod dialog to input box for numeric value
  • Correct handling of unexpected closure of SFTP connection



Changes for v3.3.0.1 - v3.3.1 RC 1

  • New features:
  • New tab context menu, can be used to close or refresh current tab or to close all but the current tab.
  • *nix, OS X: Display sort indicators in filelist header control
  • Remember size of dialog showing all files opened for editing
  • Add refresh item to filelist context menus
  • Scroll treeview horizontally if needed to keep item in view on changing directories
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix crash of fzsftp if server closes connection
  • Successfully downloaded update file is no longer deleted if user cancels the finish page of the update check wizard
  • Do not retry connecting if not trusting certificate on FTP over TLS connections
  • Better reporting of handshake failures on FTP over TLS connections
  • *nix: Check for xdg-open. This program from the xdg-utils is an indirect runtime dependency. It is used by wxWidgets to open URLs in the default browser
  • Refactored most of the tabbing code
  • Use proper address type on SOCKS proxies
  • Add missing default button in bookmarks dialog



Changes for v3.3.0 - v3.3.0.1

  • New features:
  • Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to cycle tabs now loop around if reaching the end of the tab list
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix crash on showing/hiding of directory trees after closing a tab
  • Tabs no longer become unresponsive if not approving to close a busy tab
  • Directory comparison did not work properly on all but the first tab
  • Fix spurious error messages if connecting to a new site while synchronized browsing is enabled
  • *nix: Work around a bug in KDE preventing restore from minimize to notification area
  • Do not show update dialog if there is already some other dialog open
  • Fix synchronized browsing option on site-specific bookmarks



Changes for v3.3.0 RC 1 - v3.3.0

  • Aborting a previous connection attempt by establishing a new connection in the same tab no longer renderes the new connection unusable
  • *nix: Quote filenames containing spaces if editing using default editor for text files
  • *nix: Fix crash while emitting queue finished notifications



Changes for v3.3.0 Beta 2 - v3.3.0 RC 1

  • New features:
  • *nix: Display desktop notification if all transfers have finished and FileZilla isn't focused
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Navigating controls inside tab using tabulator key now works on all tabs
  • Fix splitter positions on horizontal interface layouts



Changes for v3.3.0 Beta 1 - v3.3.0 Beta 2

  • New features:
  • Give choice to abort old connection or to open a new tab when trying to connect while already connected
  • Double-click on empty space in tabbar opens new tab
  • Middle-click on tab closes it
  • Use splitter positions and filelist column setup of previous tab when opening new one
  • Make betas and release candidates check daily for new versions
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix crash when leaving settings dialog after tabs have been closed
  • Fix crash on changing tabs if old tab has site-specific bookmarks but new one doesn't
  • Layout of tabs no longer changes after leaving settings
  • Fix issues with remembering last used server
  • Don't use bold font for active tab
  • Recursive operations now working in all tabs



Changes for v3.2.8.1 - v3.3.0 Beta 1

  • New features:
  • Tabbed interface to connect to multiple server at the same time
  • New welcome screen
  • Add Open to local directory tree context menu
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix mismatch of displayed and actually performed default file exists action
  • MSW: Update mingwm10.dll to fix a crash at initialization
  • MSW: FTP over TLS no longer crashes for users of VIA CPUs
  • *nix: Fix crashes due to race condition in dbus code
  • Fix SHA-512 calculating incorrect hashes on 64bit systems, used by SFTP and the update wizard



Changes for v3.2.8 - v3.2.8.1

  • Fix crash if creating filters with attributes or permissions rule
  • MSW: Fix column reordering and hiding in file lists
  • MSW: Fix crash if trying to edit a file without any associated program nor default editor
  • Use REST+STOR to resume upload instead of APPE if server advertises REST STREAM support



Changes for v3.2.8 RC 1 - v3.2.8

  • Changing directories at the same time an upload finishes no longer disturbs synchronized browsing
  • *nix: Ensure dialogs can be closed using escape key
  • *nix: Fix height of settings dialog



Changes for v3.2.7.1 - v3.2.8 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Remember last used search conditions
  • Display link overlay on icons of links in remote file list
  • Display of average transfer speed should converge faster to overall average
  • Simplify default file exists action dialogs
  • Apply decimal places size formatting option also to total queue size
  • MSW: Reduce number of needed user interactions in installer if update started from within FileZilla
  • MSW: Check that there are no running instances of FileZilla before installing
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix handling of remote directory names with leading or trailing spaces
  • *nix: Fix memory leaks in D-Bus session management and power management inhibitor client code
  • *nix: Fall back to org.gnome.SessionManager if org.freedesktop.PowerManagment does not exit to inhibit idle sleep during transfers
  • Increase default size of SO_RCVBUF (TCP advertised window) to fix performance issues on high-latency connections
  • MSW: Fix displaying list of shares on local network resources
  • MSW: Remote file editing no longer gets confused if two filenames only differ in character case
  • Fix dialog line wrapping issues
  • Ensure width of site manager is large enough to fit all tabs
  • Better guard against filename columns being moved or hidden
  • *nix, OS X: Handle filesystems without advisory file locking instead of falsely warning about site manager being opened in a different instance of FileZilla



Changes for v3.2.7 - v3.2.7.1

  • Fix crash if adding new filters
  • Small performance optimization for local directory tree



Changes for v3.2.7 RC 3 - v3.2.7

  • Make external address resolver IPv6 aware, resolve correct address type on hosts both with working IPv4 as well as IPv6
  • Bumped minimum required GnuTLS version to 2.8.3
  • Keep URLs copied to clipboard even after FZ gets closed



Changes for v3.2.7 RC 2 - v3.2.7 RC 3

  • Test of changes to autoupdate logic introduced in 3.2.7-rc2



Changes for v3.2.7 RC 1 - v3.2.7 RC 2

  • New features:
  • Add option to prevent system idle sleep during transfers or other operations
  • Add -l option to commandline to specify logon type for passed URLs
  • Improve layout of search and filter edit dialogs
  • Implement keyboard navigation in search and filter edit dialogs
  • Add status bar to search dialog
  • Remember file exists action for individual queue items
  • Faster queue loading and saving
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix memory leak in shell extension
  • Fix possible race in socket code leading to infinite loop
  • Resolve parsing conflict between MLSD and Unix-style listings
  • Fix deleting symlinks on SFTP connections
  • Deselect ".." on Ctrl+A in addition to selecting all other items
  • Changing data type on implicit FTP over TLS connections no longer prints an error message
  • *nix: Fix missing thread synchronization in D-Bus bindings



Changes for v3.2.6 - v3.2.6.1

  • Fix FTP over TLS regressions in provided binaries due to two bugs in GnuTLS causing transfer failures
  • OS X: Revert regression in wxWidgets in provided binaries leading to a crash on drag & drop
  • Keep bookmarks menu sorted after ...



Changes for v3.2.6 RC 1 - v3.2.6

  • Don't display error messages multiple times if modification times of edited file cannot be obtained
  • Fix problems with certificate dialog introduced in 3.2.6-rc1



Changes for v3.2.5 - v3.2.6 RC 1

  • FTPS: Display complete certificate chain
  • Add option for stateless local file editing
  • Fix delete operation on symbolic links
  • Automatically reconnect if necessary to perform drag & drop action like with other actions
  • SFTP: Don't report success if download fails due to lack of disk space
  • MSW and OS X: Link against GnuTLS 2.8.1



Changes for v3.2.5 RC 1 - v3.2.5

  • Fix adding remote directory symlinks to queue not working
  • Fix "Timer creation failed" message boxes on update download dialog. Actual update download was not affected, only display of the progress bar.
  • MSW: Use deferred volume label gathering on local file list as well



Changes for v3.2.4.1 - v3.2.5 RC 1

  • Remote file search
  • Add option to hide identical files to directory comparison
  • Remember SSH host keys for session duration if not trusting permanently
  • MSW: Display full UNC path on drive-mapped network shared
  • Use pkg-config to detect GnuTLS if pkg-config is available
  • Fix to auto-reconnect logic
  • Allow targetless OS.unix=slink facts in MLSD listings
  • Start additional transfers if possible after readding files to queue during queue processing
  • Fix name of SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable on SFTP page in settings dialog
  • Properly qoute path to fzputtygen
  • MSW: Fix problems if re-activating FileZilla window by clicking inside it if there is a changed edited file
  • Fix problem with permissions parsing for nonstandard chmod dialog



Changes for v3.2.4 - v3.2.4.1

  • Allow empty fact values in MLSD listings as allowed by the specifications
  • Recognize symlink entries in MLSD listings
  • Fix redundant file exists prompts after chosing rename file exists action
  • Update item in queue after rename file exists action
  • Fix reconnect delays in case login failed with 5yz reply code



Changes for v3.2.4 RC 1 - v3.2.4

  • Fix crash on SFTP download resume caused by uninitialized variable in PuTTY code
  • Properly refresh remote directory after chmod if synchronized browsing is enabled
  • Fix unediting locale files in file editing dialog
  • Fix regression with custom post-login commands on servers supporting MLSD
  • Trigger refresh of transfer progress bars after resizing queue
  • Several small fixes to minimize to tray functionality



Changes for v3.2.3.1 - v3.2.4 RC 1

  • Always use MLSD to retrieve directory listings on servers supporting it
  • Handle leading and trailing spaces on filenames, requires MLSD support
  • Multiple files can be selected for editing simultaneously
  • MSW and *nix: Add option to minimize to tray
  • The URLs of selected remote files and directories can be copied to clipboard
  • Further queue performance improvements
  • *nix: Provided Linux binaries now linked against Debian Lenny instead of Etch
  • Fix visual problems caused by too long URLs in update checks
  • Fix sync browsing checkbox in bookmark manager



Changes for v3.2.3 - v3.2.3.1

  • Add context menu to data type indicator in status bar
  • Do not display file exists dialog after confirming to upload a changed, edited file
  • Classic theme wasn't remembered
  • OS X: Option to auto-remove successful transfers in queue could not be toggled
  • *nix, OS X: "Remove all" context menu item did not work if no item was selected in successful and failed queue tabs
  • MSW: Search PATH environment variable for associated editor if needed
  • Fix problems with double-quoted paths with containing single quotes in associations



Changes for v3.2.3 RC 1 - v3.2.3

  • made OpenCrystal the default theme on new installations
  • setting kiosk mode to 2 in fzdefaults.xml prevents FileZilla from writing to any settings files. Useful if executed from read-only media.
  • Fix crashes and memory corruption if resizing columns in queue if message log is positioned as queue tab



Changes for v3.2.2.1 - v3.2.3 RC 1

  • Add synchronized browsing option to sites and bookmarks
  • If synchronized browsing and directory comparison are enabled, changing directories no longer disables comparison
  • Add some hotkeys for commonly used menu and toolbar items
  • Handle CTRL+A to select all files in queue
  • Less CPU usage during SFTP transfers
  • Improve appearance of queue tabs on dark themes
  • Allow system file associations with singlequotes around filenames for editing
  • Fix rare crash on connection failures
  • Activity indicators in lower-right corner of main window were not working properly
  • Do not allow multiple entries in quickconnect history that only differ in password
  • Fix crash if closing filter edit dialog
  • Improve timezone offset detection on servers without seconds resolution in listings
  • Fix layout issues in settings dialog



Changes for v3.2.2 - v3.2.2.1

  • Fix local directory creation during downloads. If multiple directory levels were missing, they were created in the reverse order
  • MSW: Restore ability to navigate to drive list through .. entry in local file list



Changes for v3.2.2 RC 1 - v3.2.2

  • Display password prompt if connecting to sites with Ask or Interactive logon type through bookmarks
  • Fix parsing of default remote directories in site manager if using non-default server type



Changes for v3.2.1 - v3.2.2 RC 1

  • *nix, OS X: Fix crash if starting FileZilla when the last used local path no longer exists
  • Keep track of name and path of the site manager item currently connected to so that bookmarks menu stays updated properly
  • MSW: Handle obscure DDE associations for file editing
  • More verbose error messages if loading a configuration file fails
  • Newly downloaded directories appear again in the local file list



Changes for v3.2.1 RC 1 - v3.2.1

  • New iconset: Minimal
  • Fix filter edit dialog sizing issue
  • MSW: Fix icon transparency in status bar and use better disabled icons in toolbars



Changes for v3.2.0 - v3.2.1 RC 1

  • Synchronized browsing
  • Configurable double-click action for file lists
  • Ask user to select an editor if trying to edit an unassociated file type
  • MSW: Work around problem with TinyXML if settings or program directory contains characters not expressible by the system's narrow character set
  • OS X: When adding sites, the edit label will no longer be hidden behind the tree in the site manager
  • MSW: Further Vista improvment for installer
  • Fix potential race condition in socket code



Changes for v3.2.0 RC 2 - v3.2.0

  • Fix account logon type in combination with FTP proxies



Changes for v3.2.0 RC 1 - v3.2.0 RC 2

  • Change wording of some strings
  • Support yet another directory listing variant on obscure MVS style systems
  • Fix odd behavior if deleting items from site manager
  • Do not show proxy password in message log on SFTP connections
  • Properly display "bytes" suffix in filelist status bar if not using thousands separator



Changes for v3.1.6 - v3.2.0 RC 1

  • Bookmarks
  • Logging to file
  • *nix: Use GNOME's Session Manager D-Bus API to cleanly shut down FileZilla on end of session
  • MSW: Improve installer's Vista compatibility.
  • *nix: Fix encoding issues with thousands separator in some locales
  • Thousands separator on file exists dialog
  • Rearrange filter dialog a bit
  • Compile fixes for HP-UX



Changes for v3.1.6 RC 1 - v3.1.6

  • Automatically refresh remote directory listing if queue finishes successfully
  • Speed up refresh of remote directory listing if adding files during uploads
  • Connections no longer time out waiting on a directory listing getting retrieved by a different connection
  • Number of files were not updated if deleting remote files
  • MSW: Update manifest so that the evil filesystem virtualization stays disabled under Vista



Changes for v3.1.5.1 - v3.1.6 RC 1

  • Configurable location of message log pane
  • Context menu inside site manager to export individual sites or site subtrees
  • Several fixes for users with Turkish locale
  • Fix race condition causing not all subdirectories to be added to queue on upload
  • Cleanup of pane splitter code to facilitate configurable message log position
  • Cleanup of path and directory listing caches to be less convoluted



Changes for v3.1.5 - v3.1.5.1

  • Connection establishment through SOCKS proxies could fail in some cases
  • Clearing private data no longer crashes if quickconnect bar is hidden
  • Handle drag & drop of symlinks
  • Update remote directory tree if deleting a subdirectory
  • Fix parsing of HTTP chunk lengths for the update downloader
  • Reduce memory consumption of remote directory tree
  • Rewrite the code that added local directories to the queue. New one is faster and avoids some potentially thread-unsafe behaviour of the old code
  • OS X: Fix help menu duplication on non-English systems
  • MSW: Reset wxWidgets internal display cache if changing display resolution or layout
  • MSW: Fixes for silent intaller



Changes for v3.1.4.1 - v3.1.5

  • Handle symbolic links on servers. If trying to access a symbolic link, FileZilla will first try to CWD into it, and if that fails, will treat it as a file instead. During recursive operations, any directory link encountered will not be followed, but file links will be downloaded.
  • Numpad keys could not be used to search for entries in the file lists
  • OS X: Use smaller font sizes in message log and directory trees
  • Fix vertical alignment of labels next to the directory boxes above the directory trees
  • Use lighter text colors in message log if using dark background
  • *nix: Transfer status lines will no longer overlap the queue scrollbar
  • *nix: Fix font colors if using themes with dark backgrounds (e.g. DarkRoom under Ubuntu 8.10)
  • Fix XML corruption problems



Changes for v3.1.4 - v3.1.4.1

  • *nix: Fix crash if renaming directories using the local directory tree
  • Rebuilt official binaries to revert a regression in wxWidgets causing memory corruption



Changes for v3.1.4 RC 1 - v3.1.4

  • *nix and OS X: Avoid SIGPIPE if socket gets closed during uploads
  • Fix SFTP speed limits
  • Avoid reduntant refreshes of local file lists on some drag&drop operations
  • Send user agent with requests if using HTTP proxy
  • MSW: Add checkbox to start FileZilla to finish page of intaller
  • Reselect previously set default file exists action if reopening dialog on a queue item
  • OS X: Do not check /net whether it has subdirectories, it is extremely slow
  • Upon reconnecting, fall back to list current directory if last used directory is no longer accessible



Changes for v3.1.3.1 - v3.1.4 RC 1

  • Configurable number of decimal places for filesize formatting
  • Allow editing of files with identical name but different remote paths
  • File changed notification displays more information
  • Manual trannsfer dialog
  • Quickconnect bar can be hidden
  • MSW: React to added or removed drive letters
  • Downloading updates should no longer randomly freeze the client after HTTP redirects
  • Huge queues should save slightly faster



Changes for v3.1.3 - v3.1.3.1

  • Download speedlimits were not working since 3.1.3-beta1
  • On very fast connections, sockets could receive close event before being marked active, leading to timeouts



Changes for v3.1.3 RC 1 - v3.1.3

  • Fzsftp no longer crashes if receiving invalid data from server and instead quits gracefully
  • Fix crash if entering hostname with characters not allowed in internationalized domain names
  • OS X: Fix crash if path to FileZilla contained non-ASCII characters
  • Compatibility with yet another exotic directory listing format



Changes for v3.1.3 Beta 1 - v3.1.3 RC 1

  • Keep remote directory tree and file list if disconnected by the server. Transparently reconnect before performing the next operation.
  • OS X: Massive performance improvements
  • Various small performance improvements



Changes for v3.1.2 - v3.1.3 Beta 1

  • New socket event handling system, more flexible and a bit faster
  • Performance improvements for local directory tree
  • MSW: Using prefix search to select an item now also changes the startpoint for a multiple selection.
  • Fix directory creation logic if the directory to create is a root directory



Changes for v3.1.1.1 - v3.1.2

  • Allow drive labels with more than one letter for servertype DOS
  • Slight speedup of transfer queue, defer redrawing of UI elements to idle time
  • Add directory listing filter condition to match on containing path name
  • Implement kiosk mode in which FileZilla will not write any passwords to disk. Can be enabled through fzdefaults.xml
  • Add option to disable update checks to fzdefaults.xml
  • Vast performance improvements if handling queues and directories with thousands of files
  • Faster TLS/SSL handshake on data connections
  • Queue should no longer get mixed up if LIST command fails during recursive downloads
  • Fix crash if using -s commandline argument
  • Fix spurious transfer failures if multiple engines try to list the same directory
  • Loading invalid filters could crash FileZilla
  • User/pass authentication for SOCKS5 proxy support was not working properly
  • If stopping queue processing while recursively downloading directories, files added by the recursive operation will no longer reenable queue processing
  • MSW: Keep site manager wide enough so that all notebook tabs fit
  • Fix crash if server does not support resuming of large files
  • SFTP uploads did not fail if server ran out of diskspace
  • If compiled for some 64bit systems, SFTP resumes of files larger than 2^32 did not work properly



Changes for v3.1.1 - v3.1.1.1

  • Fix crash if a connection attempt gets aborted



Changes for v3.1.1 RC 1 - v3.1.1

  • Save filter toggle state
  • MSW: Display drive labels if available
  • Fix crash in new socket class if using active mode FTP
  • Request user attention (e.g. blinking in taskbar) if an edited file changes and the program is minimized
  • Don't issue mdtm command on links for the automatic timezone detection on SFTP servers
  • Do not capture menu shortcut keys in file lists
  • Allow directory comparison if filters are toggled off
  • MSW: Sorting in site dropdown menu is now identical to sorting inside the Site Manager
  • OS X: If closing the file rename edit box, refresh neighboring lines to get rid of artifacts left behind by the edit control border



Changes for v3.1.0.1 - v3.1.1 RC 1

  • If using "Ask for password" and "Interactive" logon types, a username is now optional in the Site Manager
  • New iconset: OpenCrystal
  • MSW: Whether icon sets should be installed or not can be seleted in the installer
  • Fix parsing of URLs containing port number in quickconnect bar
  • Fix handling of local write errors if downloading files
  • If closing FileZilla, the queue is now properly saved using a backup copy to prevent corruption of queue file
  • Slight performance improvement if opening settings dialog, language and theme pages are now populated on demand
  • Reply to server's shutdown notification on SSL/TLS secured downloads if connection still open
  • After downloading files, local file count did not update
  • "My Sites" in Site Manager should not be dragable
  • Fix entering IPv6 addresses in Site Manager
  • Directory cache was incoherent after renaming a directory
  • Several fixes to new socket class
  • MSW: Starting a bounding box selection (Windows calls it marquee selection) did not set focus to the file lists



Changes for v3.1.0 - v3.1.0.1

  • Do not report success on SSL/TLS transfers if server did not perform orderly SSL/TLS shutdown. Previously, an attacker could cause truncated files with FileZilla thinking the transfer was successful. All versions prior to this were affected
  • Fix infinite loop in new socket class
  • Fix file descriptor/handle leak in new socket class
  • Fix locking error if cancelling an operation waiting for a lock held by a different engine
  • MSW: In rare cases, initial read event was not triggered on transfer sockets
  • Add missing icon in LonE theme



Changes for v3.1.0 Beta 1 - v3.1.0 Beta 2

  • Filecount in statusbar no longer count upwards if deleting files
  • MSW: Call WSAStartup, fixes WSANOTINITIALISED problem
  • MSW: Use closesocket(fd) instead of close(fd), the latter caused uploads to hang at the end
  • MSW: Fix socket hang after changing event handler. Use a better way to resend events



Changes for v3.0.11.1 - v3.1.0 Beta 1

  • IPv6 support
  • Add option to reopen file if trying to edit a file already being edited
  • Fix SFTP file descriptor leak on some transfer failures
  • Fix crash if remote directory gets cleared between opening context menu and selecting view/edit item



Changes for v3.0.11 - v3.0.11.1

  • Show number of filtered files in status bars if directory appears empty
  • Support for international domain names was accidentally commented out
  • Add missing path separator in remote filename on file exists dialog
  • Fix shrinking panes if using widescreen or blackboard styles
  • MSW: If showing file changed notification dialog after editing a file, program could become unresponsive in some cases
  • MSW: Fix visual problems with right-to-left languages introduced with the flicker corrections in 3.0.11
  • MSW: Main component can no longer be unselected in the installer



Changes for v3.0.11 RC 1 - v3.0.11

  • MSW: Reduce flicker if resizing main window
  • Improve compatibility with Cygwin's SSH server. Use Site Manager to select server type
  • Correct position of queue size in statusbar



Changes for v3.0.10 - v3.0.11 RC 1

  • File list status bars showing number of (selected) files and directories along with total filesize
  • MSW: Installer improvements. The installer now remembers the installation options.
  • The update wizard now shows a list of changes in the new version
  • Fix sorting issues of file lists
  • Reduce CPU load if deleting or uploading many files
  • MSW: Prefix search in file lists did not work with all characters
  • OS X: SFTP didn't work if full bundle path contained spaces
  • OS X: Fix odd dialog sizes



Changes for v3.0.10 RC 2 - v3.0.10

  • Precompiled binaries available from filezilla-project.org now link against GnuTLS 2.2.5 due to security vulnerabilities in previous GnuTLS versions, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html



Changes for v3.0.10 RC 1 - v3.0.10 RC 2

  • MSW: Performance improvements. Windows is inherently flawed since it does not cache directory contents.



Changes for v3.0.9.3 - v3.0.10 RC 1

  • Commandline arguments, see manpage for details
  • Columns in file lists can be reordered or hidden by right-clicking the column header
  • Added some useful links to help menu
  • Don't send redundant MKD commands to server if multiple transfers want to create the same directory multiple times
  • Fix sizing problems with some interface layouts



Changes for v3.0.9.2 - v3.0.9.3

  • Fix rare race condition in IO thread leading to data loss. Was possible to lose up to 3*65536 bytes at the beginning of a download.
  • *NIX: Renaming local files did not change local filelist
  • OS X: Deleting non-empty local directories did not work in all cases
  • MSW: Program could become unresponsive if update available dialog appears while a menu was opened
  • MSW: Update wizard should use correct download location on Vista to save installation files
  • Fix possible duplication of queue items on shutdown
  • Cap input length of speedlimit edit controls
  • Fix crash if getting disconnected while remote directory creating dialog was open
  • Quickconnect bar did not handle URLs with trailing paths
  • Update menu and toolbar state after clearing private data
  • NIX: Filetype column was empty on some filetypes



Changes for v3.0.9.1 - v3.0.9.2

  • Fix rare crash if closing FileZilla
  • *nix: Fix problems with drag&drop operation starting from local directory tree- Filetype display and ascii/binary detection did not work on VMS servers
  • Requeue did not work properly for edited files
  • Fix state of comparison button if comparison could not be started
  • Fix crash if changing filters while comparison mode is active
  • Fix ghost item appearing if applying filters after exiting comparison mode
  • Compatibility fix with broken servers sending PWD reply with single quotation marks
  • *nix: Display drop highlight in file lists



Changes for v3.0.9 RC 1 - v3.0.9

  • Reset keyboard search prefix in file lists on directory and selection changes



Changes for v3.0.8.1 - v3.0.9 RC 1

  • Automatic resume on some types of transfer failures
  • Improve main statusbar
  • Icon to display selected transfer mode on FTP connections
  • Icon to show current certificate and cipher on FTP(E)S connections
  • Icon to show key exchange and encryption algorithms on SFTP connections
  • Remember last selected item in Site Manager
  • Various improvements to main menu
  • New menu and toolbar state update system to reduce CPU usage and increase responsiveness
  • Fix refresh problem with local directory tree
  • Fix unreadable text with some color schemes
  • Submit operating system version on update availability check
  • Fix connection problems with some SFTP servers introduced in 3.0.8
  • *nix: Fix message catalog install directory



Changes for v3.0.8 - v3.0.8.1



Changes for v3.0.8 RC 1 - v3.0.8

  • *nix: No longer follows symbolic links if deleting local directories
  • Fix crash if dropping a file on a fill item in directory comparison mode
  • Handle DEL key in queue and local directory tree
  • Handle F2 key in local directory tree



Changes for v3.0.7.1 - v3.0.8 RC 1

  • + Add interface for SFTP public key authentication
  • + Add option to bypass proxy settings to sitemanager and quickconnect bar
  • + Automatic timezone detection for SFTP listings
  • + Preserving file timestamp on SFTP transfers
  • + If using Site Manager, display site name in window title during connection
  • - Tell user in message log to use interactive logon type if SFTP server sends multiple prompts
  • - Fix performance issue with local file listings, most noticeable if browsing network shares
  • - Reduce initial window size on very small display resolutions like 800x600 or below



Changes for v3.0.7 - v3.0.7.1

  • Fix connections timing out shortly after sending keep alive command
  • Update remote file list if renaming files
  • *nix: Fix tab key in Site Manager not working



Changes for v3.0.7 RC1 - v3.0.7

  • Timeouts were not working at all on FTP connections since 3.0.4-rc1
  • OS X: Application bundle can now be renamed



Changes for v3.0.6 - v3.0.7 RC1

  • Ability to select different toolbar icon sizes if theme supports it
  • Local listings can be filtered by file attributes (Windows) or permissions (other)
  • Option to enable timestamps in message log
  • Transfer queue pane did not remember its size correctly
  • Fix infinite loop if dragging root node in Site Manager
  • *nix: Fix segault if copying directory listing filters
  • Keyboard navigation in file lists fixed
  • MSW: Ctrl + Space not working
  • *nix: Ctrl + A not selecting all files
  • OS X: File changed notification can no longer get stuck behind main window
  • Disable download in remote context menu if local directory is not writable
  • Prevent opening multiple confirmation dialogs if closing FileZilla
  • Speed up loading time of the more complex dialogs
  • Fix cache problem if renaming files
  • If preserving file timestamps, use MDTM command if downloading files where the directory listing does not have enough precision



Changes for v3.0.6 RC 1 - v3.0.6

  • If deleting or renaming a directory in SFTP, invalidate current working directories
  • Allow downloading of files starting with a dash using SFTP
  • MSW: /S installer argument works again
  • Improve queue on broken servers with a connection limit



Changes for v3.0.5.2 - v3.0.6 RC 1

  • Site Manager improvements:
  • Remember dialog size
  • Site Manager will remember which folders are expanded or collapsed
  • Sites can be moved and copied using Drag & Drop
  • F2 key can be used to rename sites in Site Manager
  • Add context menu for local directory tree
  • *nix: Basic man pages
  • Do not allow empty names for filters and filter sets
  • custom file associations did not work if system associations were inherited
  • MSW: Fix Reboot/shutdown queue completion actions



Changes for v3.0.5.1 - v3.0.5.2

  • Fix local tree refresh causing unwanted directory changes.
  • Fix crash in patch cache
  • Fix update check
  • Remove error message if locales aren't installed or FileZilla has not been translated into the default system language



Changes for v3.0.5 - v3.0.5.1

  • Fix crash if entering custom command



Changes for v3.0.5 RC 1 - v3.0.5

  • Fix freeze if deleting remote directories
  • Compatibility with HP NonStop servers
  • MSW: Uninstaller did not remove defaultfilters.xml
  • Improve visual feedback for some drag&drop operations
  • Fix sort order in sitemanager dropdown menu
  • Fix size of file changed dialog
  • "Apply to current queue only" in file exists dialog did not work properly
  • Cached directory listings expire after 30 minutes



Changes for v3.0.4.1 - v3.0.5 RC 1

  • New features:
  • Directory listing comparison
  • Ability to open and edit local files
  • Add option to use default system language. Note: Language selection will be reset to default if updating to this version.
  • New artwork for send and recv indicators
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Fix crash with keepalive timer
  • nix: Use proper locale initialization, happened too late in FZ's startup sequence in previous versions.
  • Fix issue with proxies in combination with nonstandard ports
  • Fix timezone offset detection if user has specified a custom offset
  • MSW: Cancel remote renaming of files if listing changes
  • Fix prefix search in file listings not working with all keys
  • Internal engine state could get confused on failed transfers
  • Fix visual refresh problem in queue
  • Fix several glitches with right-to-left languages
  • Write errors during downloads are now critical, as they usually require user interaction (e.g. disk full)
  • Calculate proper filesize on VMS servers
  • Remote directory tree did not display all known directories
  • Don't display error messages if some local directories are not accessible during auto-completion in local view header or if if they are parent of an accessible directory in the local tree view.



Changes for v3.0.4 - v3.0.4.1



Changes for v3.0.4 RC 1 - v3.0.4

  • Linux: Fix empty challenge text if using interactive login



Changes for v3.0.3 - v3.0.4 RC 1

  • Implement FTP Proxy support. Note that using a properly configured NAT router is recommended instead.
  • Implement FTP keep alive for those connecting to improperly configured servers
  • Fix crashes if deletig files in directories with more than 200 entries
  • Compatility improvements with VMS and z/VM servers
  • Now requires GnuTLS 2.0.4 which fixes a problem with servers using compression.
  • Changing list of ascii files or increasing number of concurrent transfers had no effect until restart of FileZilla



Changes for v3.0.3 RC 1 - v3.0.3

  • Install some default filters if filters.xml missing in user's settings directory
  • OS X: Fix remote file viewing/editing
  • Additional fixes for SFTP servers with nonstandard filename encodings



Changes for v3.0.2.1 - v3.0.3 RC 1

  • + Automatic server timezone detection. Custom offset in the Site Manager may need to be adjusted. FTP only.
  • + Option to preserve file timestamps on downloads (all protocols)
  • + Option to preserve file timestamps on uploads on FTP servers supporting the MFMT command
  • + Add transfer type (ascii/binary/auto) selection to transfer menu
  • - Shorten very long filenames on file exists dialog
  • - Attempt at working around broken routers and firewalls disconnecting the control connection of the transfer session on transfers
  • - Deleting directories containing lots of files should be faster now
  • - Disallow settings/site import from files located in the settings storage directory
  • - Fix nullpointer dereference on non-UTF8 enabled SFTP servers
  • - *nix: Fix button height inconsistencies on dialogs with certain artwork (e.g. Ubuntu 7.10)



Changes for v3.0.2 - v3.0.2.1

  • Fix issue with message log not working properly



Changes for v3.0.1 - v3.0.2 RC1

  • New features:
  • Remote file viewing / editing
  • Display current server in window title
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Don't remember incorrect password on SFTP connections with ASK logontype
  • MSW: Fix drag&drop to explorer in case of case-mismatch between requested and reported path.
  • *nix: Fix Makefiles so SFTP properly supports files > 2GB
  • Ascii filetype setting for extensionless files and dotfiles had negated effect
  • Fix error message if using multiple running instances save the settings at the same time
  • Fix parsing of very new files in directory listings if server is in a timezone ahead of the client
  • Fix range of timezone offset setting
  • Fix problems with remote path combobox if reconnecting after a disconnect
  • Display confirmation dialog if deleting file from remote directory tree context menu
  • Refresh remote directory listing after refreshing a single file
  • On very first startup, center FileZilla on screen



Changes for v3.0.0 - v3.0.1

  • Settings to configure size, date and time formatting
  • Message log and queue visibility will be remembered
  • Custom action to perform after queue completion
  • Add some confirmation dialogs
  • MSW: Fix file truncation if using speed limits
  • MSW: Fix slow startup on systems with floppy drives, disconnected network drivers and so on triggered by design flaw in Windows.
  • Fix misplaced settings dialog
  • Fix problems with remembering pane size
  • Properly refresh local directory if downloading into newly created subdirectories
  • Fix issues with language set to Japanese
  • Fix parsing of settings or site XML data containing double, leading or trailing whitespace.
  • MSW: Work around flaw in the combo box implementation used by the view headers



Changes for v3.0.0 - v3.0.1 RC1

  • Settings to configure size, date and time formatting
  • Message log and queue visibility will be remembered
  • Custom action to perform after queue completion
  • Add some confirmation dialogs
  • MSW: Fix file truncation if using speed limits
  • MSW: Fix slow startup on systems with floppy drives, disconnected network drivers and so on triggered by design flaw in Windows.
  • Fix misplaced settings dialog
  • Fix problems with remembering pane size
  • Properly refresh local directory if downloading into newly created subdirectories
  • Fix issues with language set to Japanese



Changes for v2.2.32 - v3.0.0

  • New application icon
  • Fix support for servers sending directory listing in yet another exotic format
  • Fix prefix search in list controls on wxGTK
  • Work around problem with wxSpinCtrl in site manager on wxGTK
  • Fix assertion on wxGTK if listing extensionless files



Changes for v3.0.0 RC2 - v3.0.0 RC3

  • Fix buffer overflow if directory lisiting filters were enabled, causing FileZilla to crash.
  • Backspace key can be used to goes to parent directory in file lists
  • Fix file selection by entering filename prefix
  • Restore correct window size if FileZilla gets closed while minimized
  • Disable "Create directory" entry in remote filelist context menu while disconnected
  • Improve compatibility with SFTP servers using exotic listing formats
  • MSW: Fix locales not working
  • *nix: Fix queue scrolling



Changes for v3.0.0 RC1 - v3.0.0 RC2

  • Remember Window size and position
  • Remember sort column and order of file lists
  • Additional icon set by Brian Lukis
  • Added .desktop file on *nix systems
  • If server is crippled and doesn't allow more than one connection (based on Sitemanager preference), primary browsing connection can be used by the transfer queue
  • Fix SSL transfers hanging if using speed limits
  • Compile fixes and compatibility improvements for various platforms
  • The usual assortment of small bugfixes, see changelog for details



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 11 - v3.0.0 RC1

  • Fix remotely triggered memory corruption if connection gets terminated during TLS handshake.
  • Windows: Add choice between "All Users" and "Current User" to installer
  • Windows: Add Desktop and My Documents links links to directory tree
  • Windows: Ability to list shares on Network computers
  • Column withs in all list views will be saved
  • Refresh local file list after a successful file transfer
  • Add context menu to remote directory tree
  • Make Site Manager resizable
  • Don't leave empty files behind on failed downloads
  • Fix retry and cache logic if transfer command fails with 5yz reply
  • Limit number of simultaneous connections did not work properly
  • Refresh listing after chmod
  • Fix upload of empty files over TLS connections



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 10 - v3.0.0 Beta 11

  • New features:
  • Improved queue
  • Import and export dialogs including import of Sitemanager data from legacy FZ 2.x
  • Tab key can be used to switch between panes
  • F6 toggles between quickconnect bar and local/remote path edit fields
  • Location of settings directory can be specified in fzdefaults.xml
  • Fixed bugs:
  • Engine state could get mixed up if transfers failed
  • Transfer of empty files could incorrectly time out
  • Fix directory cache coherency if removing/renaming directories
  • Work around lack of thread-safety in wxWidgets causing random misbehaviour
  • Properly disconnect idle transfer engines after 30 seconds
  • Update selections if changing sort order of file lists
  • Various minor fixes



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 9 - v3.0.0 Beta 10

  • Fix bug that made Beta 9 unusable



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 8 - v3.0.0 Beta 9

  • Add "View hidden files" option to server menu
  • Add dialog to clear private data
  • Performance improvements of message log
  • Avoid sending unnecessary TYPE commands
  • Updated TinyXML component, fixes problems with filenames containing ampersands or other special XML entities.
  • Fix deadlock in sftp component under Windows
  • Don't retry connecting if user cancels new/changed hostkey notification



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 6 - v3.0.0 Beta 7

  • New optionspage to change layout of file and directory panes
  • Loading of predefined Sitemanager entries from fzdefaults.xml
  • UTF-8 support for STP, merged in upstream changes from PuTTY.
  • Ascii file FTP transfers should now work properly on non-Windows systems
  • Fix SFTP transfers of filenames containing the following characters: [ ] \ * ?
  • lots of small bugfixes and performance improvements



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 4 - v3.0.0 Beta 5

  • Fix format string vulnerabilities
  • Partial drag and drop support.
  • Lots of small bugfixes



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 3 - v3.0.0 Beta 4

  • Fix bug that made Beta 3 unusable



Changes for v3.0.0 Beta 2 - v3.0.0 Beta 3

  • FTP over TLS/SSL support
  • Major performance improvements
  • Automatic connection attempt retries
  • Improved compatibility with legacy systems and other exotic servers
  • Lots of small bugfixes



Changes for v2.2.30 - v2.2.30a

  • This release fixes two security volnerabilities, an update is hightly recommended.
  • Fixed buffer overflow in transfer queue
  • Fixed buffer overflow if using registry to store settings
  • Local file list could freeze and stop responding



Changes for v2.2.29 - v2.2.30

  • Fixed buffer overflow in transfer queue
  • Fixed buffer overflow if using registry to store settings
  • Local file list could freeze and stop responding



Changes for v3.0.0 RC2 - v3.0.0 RC2

  • Fix buffer overflow if directory lisiting filters were enabled, causing FileZilla to crash.
  • Backspace key can be used to goes to parent directory in file lists
  • Fix file selection by entering filename prefix
  • Restore correct window size if FileZilla gets closed while minimized
  • Disable "Create directory" entry in remote filelist context menu while disconnected
  • Improve compatibility with SFTP servers using exotic listing formats
  • MSW: Fix locales not working
  • *nix: Fix queue scrolling



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