FileZilla FTP Client

FileZilla 3 is the next generation (S)FTP-client from the FileZilla project. It is platform independent and supports operating systems like Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X. Features Easy to use Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more Available in many languages Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue Drag & drop support Configurable Speed limits Filename filters Directory Comparison Network configuration wizard The ability to use Notepad or any other program to edit a file online (the real action behind the scenes: downloading it to a temporary place and re-uploading it upon saving) Missing Features The following features are not yet implemented in FileZilla 3. If you need them, you may want to hold off on upgrading until we've added them. SOCKS/HTTP proxy support More information - You can follow the development in the FileZilla 3 development diary. There's also a detailed technical changelog available. - Learn how to compile FileZilla 3 under Windows (for developers) Tips & Tricks - Holding ctrl+alt+shift while starting FileZilla resets the default GUI layout.

Changelog

3.0.10 (2008-05-20)

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

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

3.0.9.2 (2008-04-18)

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• Fix infinite loop in local directory tree

3.0.8 (2008-03-13)

Fixed bugs:

• *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

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

Fixed bugs:

• Fix crash if entering custom command

3.0.5 (2008-01-10)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

Fixed bugs:

• Fix crash with keepalive timer
• *nix: Use proper locale initialization, happened too late in FZ's startup sequence in previous versions.
• Fix issue with proxies in combination with nonstandard ports
• Fix timezone offset detection if user has specified a custom offset
• MSW: Cancel remote renaming of files if listing changes
• Fix prefix search in file listings not working with all keys
• Internal engine state could get confused on failed transfers
• Fix visual refresh problem in queue
• Fix several glitches with right-to-left languages
• Write errors during downloads are now critical, as they usually require user interaction (e.g. disk full)
• Calculate proper filesize on VMS servers
• Remote directory tree did not display all known directories
• Don't display error messages if some local directories are not accessible during auto-completion in local view header or if if they are parent of an accessible directory in the local tree view.

FileZilla 3.0.4 (2007-11-26)

Fixed bugs:

• Linux: Fix empty challenge text if using interactive login

FileZilla 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.3 (2007-11-06)

New features:

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

Fixed bugs:

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

FileZilla 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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)

FileZilla 3.0.2.1 (2007-10-17)

Fixed bugs:

• Fix issue with message log not working properly

FileZilla 3.0.2 (2007-10-17)

New features:

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

Fixed bugs:

• 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.
• OSX: Use new icon

FileZilla 3.0.2-rc1 (2007-10-10)

New features:

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

Fixed bugs:

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

FileZilla 3.0.1 (2007-09-19)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0 (2007-09-08)

New features:

• New application icon

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0-rc2 (2007-08-26)

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

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0-rc1 (2007-08-11)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

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

New features:

• Windows: Add choice between "All Users" and "Current User" to installer
• Windows: Add Desktop and My Documents links to directory tree
• Windows: 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

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0-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

Fixed bugs:

• Engine state could get mixed up if transfers failed
• Transfer of empty files could incorrectly time out
• Fix directory cache coherency if removing/renaming directories
• Work around lack of thread-safety in wxWidgets causing random misbehaviour
• Properly disconnect idle transfer engines after 30 seconds
• Update selections if changing sort order of file lists
• Various minor fixes

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta10 (2007-06-03)

Fixed bugs:

• Fix bug that made Beta 9 unusable

FileZilla 3.0.0-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

Fixed bugs:

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

FileZilla 3.0.0-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
• Display warning if detecting a Windows 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

Fixed bugs:

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

FileZilla 3.0.0-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

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta6 (2007-02-19)

New features:

• Vastly improved drag and drop support, including
• Shell extension under Windows 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

Fixed bugs:

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

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta5 (2007-01-11)

Fixed vulnerabilities:

• Fix format string vulnerabilities

New features:

• Partial drag and drop support

Fixed bugs:

• Lots of small bugfixes

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta4 (2006-12-14)

Fixed bugs:

• Fix bug that made Beta 3 unusable

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta3 (2006-12-13)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta2 (2006-10-15)

Fixed bugs:

• 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

FileZilla 3.0.0-beta1 (2006-10-05)

The main purpose of the first beta was public testing. Please report any bugs you find, but do not post feature requests.

What's new/improved since v2:

• Cross-platform (new)
• Directory listing filter (new)
• Automatic updates (new)
• Multi-language support (improved)
• Right-to-Left languages support (new)
• Firewall support w/ wizard (improved)

And of course, as always:

• FTP and SFTP support
• Site Manager with folders and definable server timezones offsets
• Upload/Download Queue
• Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it)
• ASCII/Binary files' support (not for SFTP though!)
• Custom Commands
• Timeout detection