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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 v3.7.3 - 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 Beta 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 v3.5.3 - 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 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 3.1.5.1 - 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 - 3.1.5.1

  • 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 (PPC) - 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 (Intel)

  • 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 v3.1.0.1 - v3.1.1 RC 1 (PPC)

  • 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



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