FileZilla

The free FTP solution.

Version history

This page lists the version history of FileZilla Client releases. Have a look at the changelog for a detailed list of all changes committed to the source code repository.

3.3.4.1 (2010-08-16)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.3.4 (2010-08-12)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.3.4-rc2 (2010-08-07)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.3.4-rc1 (2010-08-02)

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

3.3.3 (2010-06-14)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.3.3-rc1 (2010-06-06)

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

3.3.2.1 (2010-03-21)

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

3.3.2 (2010-02-21)

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

3.3.2-rc2 (2010-02-14)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Spelling fixes
• Rebuilt due to timer problems

3.3.2-rc1 (2010-02-13)

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

3.3.1 (2010-01-03)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.3.1-rc1 (2009-12-27)

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

3.3.0.1 (2009-11-15)

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

3.3.0 (2009-11-09)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Aborting a previous connection attempt by establishing a new connection in the same tab no longer renders 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

3.3.0-rc1 (2009-11-03)

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

3.3.0-beta2 (2009-10-29)

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

3.3.0-beta1 (2009-10-27)

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

3.2.8.1 (2009-10-10)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.8 (2009-10-03)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.8-rc1 (2009-09-26)

New features:

• Replacement of characters not allowed in local filenames if downloading
• 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

3.2.7.1 (2009-08-23)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.2.7 (2009-08-13)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.7-rc3 (2009-08-06)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.2.7-rc2 (2009-08-04)

New features:

• Use HTTPS to check for updates and compare hash of downloaded update file

3.2.7-rc1 (2009-08-02)

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

3.2.6.1 (2009-07-02)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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 adding new bookmarks

3.2.6 (2009-06-28)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.6-rc1 (2009-06-22)

New features:

• FTPS: Display complete certificate chain
• Add option for stateless local file editing

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.5 (2009-06-15)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.5-rc1 (2009-06-09)

New features:

• 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 shares

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.4.1 (2009-04-28)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.4 (2009-04-21)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.4-rc1 (2009-04-14)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.3.1 (2009-03-25)

New features:

• Add context menu to data type indicator in status bar
• Do not display file exists dialog after confirming to upload a changed, edited file

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.3 (2009-03-21)

New features:

• 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.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix crashes and memory corruption if resizing columns in queue if message log is positioned as queue tab

3.2.3-rc1 (2009-03-15)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.2.1 (2009-02-21)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.2 (2009-02-20)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.2-rc1 (2009-02-13)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• *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

3.2.1 (2009-02-06)

New features:

• New iconset: Minimal

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.2.1-rc1 (2009-01-31)

New features:

• Synchronized browsing
• Configurable double-click action for file lists
• Ask user to select an editor if trying to edit an unassociated file type

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.0 (2009-01-07)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix account logon type in combination with FTP proxies

3.2.0-rc2 (2009-01-03)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.2.0-rc1 (2008-12-30)

New features:

• 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.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• *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

3.1.6 (2008-12-02)

New features:

• Automatically refresh remote directory listing if queue finishes successfully

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.6-rc1 (2008-11-26)

New features:

• Configurable location of message log pane
• Context menu inside site manager to export individual sites or site subtrees

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.5.1 (2008-11-15)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.5 (2008-10-22)

New features:

• 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.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.4.1 (2008-10-16)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.1.4 (2008-10-15)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• *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

3.1.4-rc1 (2008-10-08)

New features:

• 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 transfer dialog
• Quickconnect bar can be hidden
• MSW: React to added or removed drive letters

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Downloading updates should no longer randomly freeze the client after HTTP redirects
• Huge queues should save slightly faster

3.1.3.1 (2008-09-29)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.3 (2008-09-21)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.3-rc1 (2008-09-15)

New features:

• Keep remote directory tree and file list if disconnected by the server. Transparently reconnect before performing the next operation.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• OS X: Massive performance improvements
• Various small performance improvements

3.1.3-beta1 (2008-09-10)

New features:

• New socket event handling system, more flexible and a bit faster
• Performance improvements for local directory tree

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.2 (2008-08-30)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Allow drive labels with more than one letter for servertype DOS
• Slight speedup of transfer queue, defer redrawing of UI elements to idle time

3.1.2-rc1 (2008-08-24)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.1.1 (2008-08-11)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix crash if a connection attempt gets aborted

3.1.1 (2008-08-10)

New features:

• Save filter toggle state
• MSW: Display drive labels if available

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.1-rc1 (2008-08-04)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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 draggable
• 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

3.1.0.1 (2008-07-24)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.0 (2008-07-23)

New features:

• Right-clicking filter button in toolbar toggles filters

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix oddities in visual formatting of IPv6 addresses
• MSW: Enable IPv6 support on SFTP connections
• Connecting using an IPv6 address did not work on SFTP
• Editing remote files did not pick up local changes if timestamp preserving was enabled

3.1.0-rc2 (2008-07-19)

New features:

• Enable SOCKS5 and HTTP/1.1 proxy support for SFTP connections

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix sorting remote file list by owner/group
• *nix: Install FileZilla application icons according to the freedesktop.org Icon Theme Specification
• *nix: Use the system's tinyxml library if available

3.1.0-rc1 (2008-07-17)

New features:

• SOCKS5 and HTTP/1.1 proxy support
• The "Open" item in local directory listing context menu will open the system's file browser if a directory is selected
• New iconset: LonE
• 2 new file exists actions

3.1.0-beta2 (2008-07-13)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.1.0-beta1 (2008-07-10)

New features:

• IPv6 support
• Add option to reopen file if trying to edit a file already being edited

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.11.1 (2008-07-05)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.11 (2008-06-15)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.11-rc1 (2008-06-09)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.10 (2008-05-20)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.10-rc2 (2008-05-15)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.0.10-rc1 (2008-05-14)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.9.3 (2008-05-06)

New features:

• 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.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• *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

3.0.9.2 (2008-04-18)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.9.1 (2008-04-07)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.0.9-rc1 (2008-03-31)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.8.1 (2008-03-17)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix infinite loop in local directory tree

3.0.8 (2008-03-13)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• *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

3.0.8-rc1 (2008-03-07)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.7.1 (2008-02-19)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.7 (2008-02-14)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.0.7-rc1 (2008-02-10)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.6 (2008-01-30)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.6-rc1 (2008-01-24)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.5.2 (2008-01-12)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

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

3.0.5.1 (2008-01-11)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix crash if entering custom command

3.0.5 (2008-01-10)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.5-rc1 (2007-12-31)

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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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.

3.0.4 (2007-11-26)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Linux: Fix empty challenge text if using interactive login

3.0.4-rc1 (2007-11-20)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix crashes if deleting 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

3.0.3 (2007-11-06)

New features:

• Install some default filters if filters.xml missing in user's settings directory

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• OS X: Fix remote file viewing/editing
• Additional fixes for SFTP servers with nonstandard filename encodings

3.0.3-rc1 (2007-10-31)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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)

3.0.2.1 (2007-10-17)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix issue with message log not working properly

3.0.2 (2007-10-17)

New features:

• MSW: Added /user=all and /user=current options to installer
• Experimental support for z/VM servers

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix typo in option handling code. Due to this, settings for date/time formatting have been reset.
• Fix performance problem if FileZilla gets started with message log hidden
• Work around possible race conditions in SFTP input thread leading to crashes
• MSW: Fix issue with installer where reboot after uninstalling previous version disrupted installation. Fix will only work if uninstalling 3.0.2 or greater.
• OS X: Use new icon

3.0.2-rc1 (2007-10-10)

New features:

• Remote file viewing / editing
• Display current server in window title

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.1 (2007-09-19)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.1-rc1 (2007-09-15)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.0 (2007-09-08)

New features:

• New application icon

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.0-rc3 (2007-08-31)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

• Fix buffer overflow if directory lisiting filters were enabled, causing FileZilla to crash.

New features:

• Backspace key can be used to goes to parent directory in file lists

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.0-rc2 (2007-08-25)

New features:

• 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

3.0.0-rc1 (2007-08-11)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

• Fix remotely triggered memory corruption if connection gets terminated during TLS handshake.

New features:

• MSW: Add choice between "All Users" and "Current User" to installer
• MSW: Add Desktop and My Documents links to directory tree
• MSW: Ability to list shares on Network computers
• Column widths 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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

Beta11 (2007-07-20)

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

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

Beta10 (2007-06-03)

New features:

• Fix bug that made Beta 9 unusable

Beta9 (2007-06-01)

New features:

• Add "View hidden files" option to server menu
• Add dialog to clear private data
• Performance improvements of message log
• Avoid sending unnecessary TYPE commands

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Updated TinyXML component, fixes problems with filenames containing ampersands or other special XML entities.
• MSW: Fix deadlock in sftp component
• Don't retry connecting if user cancels new/changed hostkey notification

Beta8 (2007-05-09)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

• Fix data corruption on FTPS uploads

New features:

• Implement speed limits
• Last used local directory will be remembered
• New option for the sorting of the filelists. Directories can be kept on top or sorted inline.
• MSW: Display warning if detecting a system with a networking bug confirmed by Microsoft
• Right-clicking the Sitemanager button in the toolbar displays a popup menu with the sites for quick access. On Windows, a dropdown arrow got added.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Directorylisting-parser fixes, including support for Microware OS-9
• MSW: Small SFTP transfer speed improvement
• *nix: Autocompletion did not work properly on GTK based systems
• MSW: Uninstalling FileZilla should no longer leave registry keys behind
• lots of small bugfixes

Beta7 (2007-03-27)

New features:

• New optionspage to change layout of file and directory panes
• Loading of predefined Sitemanager entries from fzdefaults.xml
• UTF-8 support for SFTP, merged in upstream changes from PuTTY.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

Beta6 (2007-02-19)

New features:

• Vastly improved drag and drop support, including
• MSW: Shell extension to allow dragging of files from FileZilla into Explorer
• CTRL+A will select all files in currently focused file list
• Display warning if trying to connect to SFTP server using FTP protocol

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix timing issue in socket event handling, fixes transfers not starting on some systems
• Cosmetic fixes under non-Windows platforms.

Beta5 (2007-01-11)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

• Fix format string vulnerabilities

New features:

• Partial drag and drop support.

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Lots of small bugfixes

Beta4 (2006-12-14)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix bug that made Beta 3 unusable

Beta3 (2006-12-13)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• 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

Beta2 (2006-10-15)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix timeouts
• "Update available" notification did not go away after updating
• Upload progress for SFTP transfers did advance too fast
• Filters did not apply properly
• UNC paths can now be browsed locally
• Directory listings can now be sorted by timestamp and permissions

Beta1 (2006-10-05)

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• First beta

Changes since old 2.x branch

FileZilla 3 is a complete rewrite with the following new features since 2.x:

• Cross platform
• Directory listing filters
• Automatic updates
• Improved multi-language suppot
• Right-to-Left language support
• Network configuration wizard