FileZilla Changelog

What's new in FileZilla 3.67.0

Apr 16, 2024
  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • SFTP: Fixed PuTTY ECDSA NIST P-521 private key recovery vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497). If you use NIST P-521 keys to connect to SSH/SFTP servers, you should regenerate them and revoke the previous ones.
  • Official binaries are now built against GnuTLS 3.8.4
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.47.0

New in FileZilla 3.66.5 (Feb 7, 2024)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.8.3
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.46.0
  • MSW: Fixed tab navigation over message log

New in FileZilla 3.66.4 (Dec 21, 2023)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • SFTP: Address Terrapin protocol vulerability

New in FileZilla 3.66.3 Beta 1 (Dec 9, 2023)

  • New features:
  • macOS: Now also distributing aarch64 binaries
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Fixes for language detection
  • Fixed a potential crash in the HTTP client

New in FileZilla 3.66.1 (Nov 4, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Fixed display of local filenames containing non-ASCII characters if LC_CTYPE wasn't set

New in FileZilla 3.66.0 (Oct 23, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a sorting issue in comparative search

New in FileZilla 3.66.0 RC 1 (Oct 13, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash removing items from the list of file extensions treated as text files
  • Fixed potental crash if shutting down HTTP client.
  • Fixed HTTP timeouts

New in FileZilla 3.65.0 (Jul 13, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Comparative search can now also be used if sorted by path
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed an issue in comparative search in directories with uppercase letters

New in FileZilla 3.65.0 RC 1 (Jul 4, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed potential crashes
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.44.0

New in FileZilla 3.64.0 (Apr 26, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed refresh of directory trees when filters changing
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.42.2

New in FileZilla 3.64.0 RC 1 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Additional icon sizing fixes on high DPI scale factors
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.42.0
  • Switched to .tar.xz for source tarballs

New in FileZilla 3.63.2.1 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • BUGFIXES AND MINOR CHANGES:
  • macOS: Several rendering fixes in dark mode
  • macOS: Disable automatic quote/dash substitution in text input fields
  • MSW: Fixed an issue with Drag&Drop to Explorer on systems that use shortened 8.3 pathnames in environment variables
  • MSW: If FileZilla was installed for current user only, updating with the installer now skips the UAC prompt
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.41.1 to fix a rare crash
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.8.0

New in FileZilla 3.63.2 (Feb 27, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Several rendering fixes in dark mode
  • macOS: Disable automatic quote/dash substitution in text input fields
  • MSW: Fixed an issue with Drag&Drop to Explorer on systems that use shortened 8.3 pathnames in environment variables
  • MSW: If FileZilla was installed for current user only, updating with the installer now skips the UAC prompt
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.41.1 to fix a rare crash
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.8.0

New in FileZilla 3.63.1 (Jan 27, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fixed icon sizing issue on high DPI scale factors

New in FileZilla 3.63.0 (Jan 25, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • All official FileZilla binares now link against wxWidgets 3.2.1
  • Fixed a potential crash when closing FileZilla
  • macOS: Fixed tree control scroll position not following the foucsed item
  • macOS: Fixed an issue preventing translations into some languages to be loaded

New in FileZilla 3.62.2 (Nov 23, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed an issue with some dialogs not showing up

New in FileZilla 3.62.1 (Nov 17, 2022)

  • Fixed a crash if main menu events arrive while a dialog is already open
  • macOS: Fixed an issue with keyboard shortcuts
  • macOS: Fix selected item count in file list status bars
  • macOS: Fixed graphical corruption in some controls

New in FileZilla 3.62.0 (Oct 29, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed sizing issues in about and welcome dialogs

New in FileZilla 3.62.0 Beta 1 (Oct 12, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS binaries are now built against wxWidgets 3.2.1
  • updated ot libfilezilla 0.39.2

New in FileZilla 3.61.0 (Sep 19, 2022)

  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.39.1

New in FileZilla 3.61.0 RC 1 (Sep 14, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.39.1

New in FileZilla 3.61.0 Beta 1 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Use improved asynchronous file readers/writers from libfilezilla
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix export of root items in the Site Manager
  • Handle rare cases of non-existing download directory in the updater

New in FileZilla 3.60.2 (Jul 28, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.38.1 to address an issue with child process termination resulting in freezes

New in FileZilla 3.60.1 (Jun 2, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a regression drag-moving local files

New in FileZilla 3.60.0 (May 29, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fixed error handling if reading from child process fails
  • Fixed transfers following recursive operations not starting if the connection limit has been set to 1 in the Site Manager

New in FileZilla 3.60.0 RC 1 (May 19, 2022)

  • New features:
  • macOS: Remote files can now be dragged into Finder
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed file change detection when editing files

New in FileZilla 3.59.0 (Apr 10, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Windows binaries: Updated zlib, used purely to cache re-scaled versions of icons shipped with FileZilla, to 1.2.12
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.37.1

New in FileZilla 3.58.0 (Feb 14, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • More detailed error messages if an XML file known to exist cannot be opened

New in FileZilla 3.57.0 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed incorrect default settings for file editing
  • Fixed a crash looking up data in file lists
  • Fixed a crash if a HTTPS connection gets canceled during the TLS handshake
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.35.0

New in FileZilla 3.56.2 (Oct 28, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a potential crash after uploading

New in FileZilla 3.56.1 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Updated to libfilezilla 0.34.1 to fix local directory contents returned by the system in oversized buffers containing nulls

New in FileZilla 3.56.0 (Oct 11, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.34.0
  • Updated translations

New in FileZilla 3.56.0 RC 1 (Sep 30, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Right-clicking a queue tab header now opens the same context menu as right-clicking the correponding queue contents
  • By default, the minimum allowed TLS version is now TLS 1.2
  • Optionally, the systen trust store can be used for certificate verification
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • FTP: Fixed an issue with key file conversion
  • Fixed an issue loading servers not supporting session resumption from storage

New in FileZilla 3.55.1 (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a crash if a tree view items are deleted at the same time as something is being dragged over the tree view
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.31.1 to fix an issue with SIGPIPE on *nix

New in FileZilla 3.55.0 (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Updated translations

New in FileZilla 3.54.1 (May 13, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix control visibility logic in Site Manager

New in FileZilla 3.54.0 (May 13, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fixed a regression loading configured key files
  • Refactored network activity handling, the activity indicators tooltips now display more accurate data
  • Updated SFTP components
  • Small performance improvement sorting very large directory listings
  • Fixed a crash changing numeric permissions value in chmod dialog

New in FileZilla 3.53.1 (May 13, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Removed an error message on new installation where there is no sitemanager.xml yet
  • Fixed SOCKS5 proxy support

New in FileZilla 3.53.0 (May 13, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • HTTP: Handle servers sending early replies

New in FileZilla 3.52.2 (May 13, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • When restoring the main window position at startup, detect if the title bar would become hidden behind taskbars or global menu bars and reposition it appropriately
  • SFTP: Fixed preserving of timestamps on downloads

New in FileZilla 3.52.0.5 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • FTP: Fixed crash if downloading ASCII files with stray carriage returns
  • Fixed too strict requirements for preallocation
  • *nix: Fixed a memory leak

New in FileZilla 3.52.0.4 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Work around a kernel bug where ftruncate cannot be called more than once on a shared memory object

New in FileZilla 3.52.0.3 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Fix issue opening shared memory objects

New in FileZilla 3.52.0.2 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • HTTP: Handle multi-token Connection: headers

New in FileZilla 3.52.0.1 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Rebuilt to address a toolchain issue

New in FileZilla 3.52.0 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a regression with the rename file exists action on downloads

New in FileZilla 3.50.0 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Minor fixes to Tardigrade integration

New in FileZilla 3.49.1 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed selection changes not being reflected in the Site Manager in some circumstances

New in FileZilla 3.48.1 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • If FileZilla is configured to restore open tabs on startup, the directory trees no longer shrink in size

New in FileZilla 3.48.0 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Custom associations for file extensions containing spaces were not saved correctly

New in FileZilla 3.47.2.1 (Aug 30, 2020)

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

New in FileZilla 3.47.1 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed regression loading advanced site parameters

New in FileZilla 3.47.0 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • Fixed regression loading advanced site parameters

New in FileZilla 3.46.3 (Dec 27, 2019)

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

New in FileZilla 3.46.0 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • Fixed a rare crash if closing FileZilla the very same moment a connection or transfer requests user attention.

New in FileZilla 3.46.0 RC1 (Nov 16, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Show an error message in the local directory listing if the user lacks permission to show the directory
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Local filelist status bar is now reset if accessing a local directory fails
  • macOS: Work around an a bug in macOS 10.15 (Catalina) where closing a dialog shown from a timer can result in temporary freezes
  • Refactored speed-limiting code
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.19.1 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)

New in FileZilla 3.45.1 (Sep 27, 2019)

  • Fixed sorting issues in the directory trees.

New in FileZilla 3.44.2 (Aug 16, 2019)

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

New in FileZilla 3.43.0 (Jun 27, 2019)

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

New in FileZilla 3.43.0 RC2 (Jun 21, 2019)

  • Rebuilt against libfilezilla 0.17.1

New in FileZilla 3.43.0 RC1 (Jun 21, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Minimum required macOS version has been increased to 10.11 (El Capitan)
  • *nix: Official Linux binaries are now built for Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Building FileZilla now requires a C++17 compiler
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.17.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • When using SFTP, fix fallback to password authentication on a server refusing a password-protected key
  • Fix HTTP proxy support
  • *nix: Improve resolution of program icon

New in FileZilla 3.42.0 (May 6, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a potential crash if the first-launch welcome dialog is shown at an inopportune moment
  • Fixed display of subject and issuer details in the certificate verification dialogs with some certificates
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.6.7, minimum required GnuTLS version to build FileZilla is now 3.5.7

New in FileZilla 3.42.0 Beta 1 (Apr 23, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.16.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • Limit the maximum length of site, bookmark and filter names to prevent display issues and crashes due to some operating systems badly handling long texts
  • When displaying message boxes, insert zero-width spaces into long unbroken words to prevent display issues and crashes due to some operating systems badly handling long texts
  • Fix crash in the external IP address resolver
  • Fix some assertions if a server sends bad file sizes
  • Large refactoring of the socket code
  • The thread pool from libfilezilla is now used for all worker threads

New in FileZilla 3.41.2 (Mar 19, 2019)

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

New in FileZilla 3.41.0 RC1 (Feb 27, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if adding a bookmark with the current connection not yet having a Site Manager entry
  • Fixed a rare crash if closing FileZilla while a recursive chmod operation is still in progress
  • Fixed a rare crash if starting directory comparison on an empty directory without logical parent
  • Fixed a rare crash on changing the file list sort order when the focused item index has previously become invalid
  • Restrict the maximum length of regular expressions in filter conditions due to bugs in some implementations of the C++ Standard Library causing crashes
  • OS X: Fixed crash if the path of a file dropped on FileZilla cannot be obtained
  • Fixed order in which directories helper tools and data files are searched for
  • Fixed a rare crash if closing tab during an ongoing recursive directory deletion

New in FileZilla 3.40.0 (Jan 27, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Official binaries are now linked against GnuTLS 3.6.6

New in FileZilla 3.40.0 RC1 (Jan 21, 2019)

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

New in FileZilla 3.39.0 (Nov 30, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix timestamps of newly created empty files on the server if the option to preserve timestamps is set

New in FileZilla 3.39.0 RC1 (Nov 26, 2018)

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

New in FileZilla 3.38.1 (Oct 29, 2018)

  • Fixed crash if transferring three or more files in parallel when speed limits are enabled.

New in FileZilla 3.38.0 (Oct 29, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Refreshing remote file list while holding Ctrl now clears the remote directory cache for the current server
  • Changed default logon type if creating a new site in the Site Manager
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed state of controles in the Site Manager when creating a new site after the previously viewed site has been predefined
  • Fixed dragging remote files to queue
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.15.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • Improve compatibility with GnuTLS 3.6.x
  • Fix building with automake >= 1.16.0
  • Updated translations

New in FileZilla 3.37.4 (Oct 5, 2018)

  • MSW: Fix regression introduced in 3.37.3 with moving files locally using drag&drop

New in FileZilla 3.37.1 (Sep 21, 2018)

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

New in FileZilla 3.37.0 (Sep 18, 2018)

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

New in FileZilla 3.36.0 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix --site-manager command-line argument
  • Fix potential crash with malformed directory listings
  • Fix potential crash if opening/closing tabs or starting the queue while directories are being renamed or deleted

New in FileZilla 3.35.2 (Aug 7, 2018)

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

New in FileZilla 3.35.1 (Jul 23, 2018)

  • Fix context menu in search dialog.

New in FileZilla 3.34.0 (Jun 18, 2018)

  • New features:
  • After deleting files, the focus rectangle now stays near the previously deleted file

New in FileZilla 3.34.0 RC1 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Refactoring of the Site Manager internals
  • Moved protocol selection to the top in the Site Manager
  • Adjusted spacing in the Site Manager
  • Slightly reduced height of certificate details dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Properly quote the uninstall command in the registry
  • Updated builtin pugixml to version 1.9

New in FileZilla 3.33.0 (May 10, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Microsoft broke the ICopyHook interface in Windows 1803. Until Microsoft fixes the bug in Windows, drag & drop from FileZilla into Explorer will not work on Windows 1803.

New in FileZilla 3.33.0 RC1 (Apr 30, 2018)

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

New in FileZilla 3.32.0 (Apr 13, 2018)

  • Further SFTP performance improvements.

New in FileZilla 3.31.0 (Feb 28, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Allow trusting all subject alternative names (SAN) in a certificate if the current hostname matches the certificate
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • OS X: Fix file lists becoming inresponsive when a file rename edit box is discarded by clicking to the right of the last column in the file list
  • Fix rare crash during directory removal
  • Fix rare crash in the transfer queue

New in FileZilla 3.30.0 (Jan 9, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Add additional logging if autoupdate mechanism fails

New in FileZilla 3.30.0 RC1 (Dec 29, 2017)

  • New features:
  • In the search dialog local files can now be deleted or opened
  • The root node in the remote directory tree is now expanded by default
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix uploading from search dialog
  • Fix formatting of filename in rename dialog
  • MSW: Fix installer crash if an update installation is started with the updated version having been installed

New in FileZilla 3.29.0 (Nov 21, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.28.0 (Oct 25, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.27.1 (Sep 4, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.27.0.1 (Jul 20, 2017)

  • MSW: Add misssing file to .zip binary package
  • MSW: Fix toolchain issues breaking the shell extension

New in FileZilla 3.27.0 (Jul 20, 2017)

  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.70

New in FileZilla 3.26.2 (Jun 12, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.26.0 (Jun 12, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.26.0 RC1 (May 28, 2017)

  • Passwords can now be stored encrypted, protected with a master password
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.9.2 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on wxWidgets >= 3.0.3

New in FileZilla 3.25.2 (Apr 30, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.25.0 (Mar 14, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.25.0 RC1 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • Fix encryption selection for FTP in the Site Manager which broke in 3.25.0-beta1
  • Small changes to error message texts

New in FileZilla 3.25.0 Beta 1 (Feb 27, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Major refactoring of the FileZilla internals.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Scale width of fields in the status line control on high-DPI displays
  • Fix duplicate mnemonic in "Files currently being edited" dialog.

New in FileZilla 3.24.1 (Feb 22, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.24.0 (Jan 15, 2017)

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

New in FileZilla 3.23.0.2 (Dec 6, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.23.0.1 (Dec 6, 2016)

  • Work around a bug in wxWidgets that has been causing a virtually infinite loop when deleting toolbar buttons.

New in FileZilla 3.23.0 (Dec 6, 2016)

  • Speed up icon scaling and cache scaled icons for faster subsequent loading. The cache directory can be changed through fzdefaults.xml using the "Cache directory" setting
  • OS X: Fixed icon display on high-DPI displays in a few more dialogs
  • Loading a corrupted layout.xml or search.xml no longer shows an error message, these files are now silently overwritten
  • MSW: Fixed a regression where UNC paths where not handled correctly as config location in fzdefaults.xml

New in FileZilla 3.23.0 RC1 (Nov 29, 2016)

  • New features:
  • New high-resolution icons
  • Improvements to the sizing of icons and other user interface elements on high-DPI displays. For technical reasons, existing theme settings have been reverted to their default values. They can be changed again in the settings dialog.
  • Make use of the Unix.ownername and Unix.groupname facts for MLSD if available
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • The bookmarks menu updates again after changing global bookmarks
  • Adding a site to the Site Manager as part of adding a site-specific bookmark no longer fails if sitemanager.xml does not yet exist
  • Strip byte order marks at the beginning of directory listings
  • Add an option to filezilla.xml to control cache ttl

New in FileZilla 3.22.2.2 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Fixed trimming of FEAT response lines leading to incorrectly detected server features.

New in FileZilla 3.22.0 (Oct 2, 2016)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Bookmarks with the "Directory comparison" checkbox set now work correctly
  • MSW: Fix background clearing issue on the size format settings page
  • MSW: Toggling the log timestamp option no longer results in wrong log colors
  • Fix for premature queue completion action

New in FileZilla 3.22.0 RC1 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Directory listing filters can now be exported and imported
  • Added the "not all" filter match type to filter out all items not matching all conditions
  • Added the "not all" search match type to search for all items not matching all conditions
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.7.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on GnuTLS >= 3.4.15
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Speed up creation of socket and file i/o threads through the use of a thread pool
  • Replace invalid characters in filenames when calculating the local filename for editing remote files
  • The updater can now handle HTTPS servers that redirect to other HTTPS servers
  • SFTP: Try password based login if a password-protected keyfile is rejected by the server instead of failing the login
  • MSW: Tee shell extension now supports long paths on Windows 10

New in FileZilla 3.21.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Fixed a string format vulnerability introduced in 3.20.0-rc1 when listing directories using SFTP
  • New features:
  • SFTP: Added support for AES-GCM ciphers as implemented in OpenSSH
  • OS X: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab can now be used to switch forward and backward between opened tabs

New in FileZilla 3.20.1 (Aug 5, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.20.0 (Jul 27, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Display error message if entering a non-existing path on local file search
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.6.1 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).

New in FileZilla 3.20.0 RC1 (Jul 25, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.6.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on GnuTLS 3.4.0 or higher
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed regression introduced in 3.19.0-rc1, reconnecting again uses the last used remote directory instead of the initial default remote directory
  • Fixed crash if creating a new site via the bookmarks dialog
  • Queuing remote directories for transfer no longer exits comparison mode
  • Fixed a rare crash using FTP over TLS if the control connection fails at the same time the data connection gets established
  • Entering invalid regular expressions in filter and search conditions now shows an error message
  • Fixed title of search dialog
  • Stricter certificate chain validation to supplement the Tofu model
  • *nix: Fix initial size of Site Manager dialog with some GTK versions

New in FileZilla 3.19.0 (Jun 28, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.19.0 RC1 (Jun 22, 2016)

  • New features:
  • In the Site Manager a background colour for sites can now be selected
  • Open tabs can be re-arranged using drag&drop
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed copying URLs of multiple selected files to clipboard
  • Setting remote file timestamps did not take timezone offsets configured through the Site Manager into account

New in FileZilla 3.18.0 (May 28, 2016)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Small fixes to local file search
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 3.18.0-rc1 when formatting hostnames for display

New in FileZilla 3.18.0 RC1 (May 22, 2016)

  • New features:
  • The search functionality can now also be used to search local file
  • Reduced CPU consumption of adding files to the list of search results
  • Opening the remote context menu while holding shift allows copying URLs to clipboard that include the password
  • Added an option to the configuration file through which initiating drag&drop can be disallowed
  • Reduced memory footprint of some data structures
  • Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.5.2 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • The remote file list context menu no longer shows inapplicable entries while files are being added to queue
  • Fix date validation in filter and search conditions

New in FileZilla 3.17.0.1 (May 13, 2016)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • MSW: Quoted the path to the uninstaller when executed from the installer to prevent an attacker from tricking the installer into running some other program instead
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fixed resuming SFTP transfers
  • MSW: Loading the system default locale no longer fails on systems that have any English locale installed, yet do not have the US-English locale installed
  • Fixed crash if update dialog is opened at the very same moment FileZilla is being closed.

New in FileZilla 3.17.0 (Apr 23, 2016)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • *nix: Removed a label on the filter dialog that doesn't apply to *nix builds
  • Fix compilation if Nettle is installed in a custom location
  • Fix potential issues with destruction order when closing FileZilla

New in FileZilla 3.17.0 RC1 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Recursivly queing local files for upload now displays the progress below the local file list
  • MSW: Use dynamic TCP send buffer sizes to improve upload speeds on high-latency connections
  • SFTP: Use hardware-accelerated AES on x86_64 CPUs if available by using the AES implementation from Nettle instead of PuTTY
  • Building FileZilla now depends on the Nettle library, version 3.1 or later
  • Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.5.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: The installer now warns if it detects old versions of FileZilla outside of the installation directory
  • Improve compatibility with directory listings where midnight is represented as 24:00:00 of the prior day
  • SFTP: Failed downloads due to write failures, e.g. due to a full disk, no longer show up as successful
  • SFTP: Fix transfer failures if multiple transfers try to list the same directory
  • SFTP: Updated PuTTY components
  • FTP over TLS: Debug logs now contain additional information about the TLS handshake

New in FileZilla 3.16.1 (Mar 16, 2016)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • MSW: Updated installer to NSIS 3.0b3 to prevent DLL hijacking
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix string conversion functions of MiNGW runtime libraries
  • Updated PuTTY components
  • Updated translations
  • Official binaries now link against GnuTLS 3.4.10
  • Official binaries now link against SQLite 3.11.1

New in FileZilla 3.16.0 (Feb 29, 2016)

  • Small fix for remembering queue completion actions

New in FileZilla 3.16.0 RC1 (Feb 23, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.15.0.2 (Feb 11, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.15.0.1 (Feb 3, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.15.0 (Feb 1, 2016)

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

New in FileZilla 3.15.0 RC1 (Jan 25, 2016)

  • Fix regression from 3.16.0-beta1 where extra data being appended to some downloaded files
  • Fix setting initial pane sizes when creating new tabs
  • OS X: Fix display of issuer and subject details in certificate verification dialog
  • Updated SFTP components from PuTTY
  • Official binaries now link against GnuTLS 3.4.8
  • Official binaries now link against SQLite 3.10.2

New in FileZilla 3.15.0 Beta 1 (Jan 13, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla 0.3.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Added support for downloading and deleting multiple unrelated directories from the search dialog
  • *nix: Vastly speed up line-ending conversion when downloading files using the ASCII data type
  • Improved compatibility with broken servers omitting the mandatory 1yz reply to transfer commands
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix handling of SFTP keyfiles with non-ASCII characters in their paths
  • Add missing directory comparison checkbox to new bookmark dialog
  • MSW: Installer now sets appid on desktop icon
  • Updated built-in pugixml

New in FileZilla 3.14.1 (Oct 16, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.14.0 (Sep 17, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.14.0 RC2 (Sep 11, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.14.0 RC1 (Sep 7, 2015)

  • Add support for password-protected SSH private keys
  • SSH private keys not in PuTTY's native format no longer need to be converted if they aren't password-protected
  • When using synchronized browsing, changing to a directory that does not exist on both sides now asks whether the missing directory should be created

New in FileZilla 3.13.1 (Aug 25, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.13.0 (Aug 17, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.13.0 RC1 (Aug 5, 2015)

  • New features:
  • For SFTP servers the private key file to use can now be specified in the Site Manager
  • The contents of each queue tab can now be exported through the context menu
  • MSW: The installer now registers the App Path so that FileZilla is recognized in the Win+R dialog
  • FileZilla now uses pugixml instead of TinyXML to parse and create XML files
  • Several performance improvements
  • Code cleanup and modernization, building FileZilla now requires a C++14 compiler
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed an assert loading sitemanager.xml created by an old version
  • If password saving is disabled, specifying a password on the command-line no longer leads to extraneous password prompts when transferring files
  • If deleting remote directories via the directory tree, navigate out of the directory tree that is to be deleted

New in FileZilla 3.12.0.2 (Jul 9, 2015)

  • regression on servers that have MLSD facts disabled by default

New in FileZilla 3.12.0 RC1 (Jun 30, 2015)

  • New features:
  • FileZilla no longer visually enters each visited directory during recursive operations, e.g. when downloading or deleting remote directories. During recursive operations the server's directory structure can now be navigated as if idle
  • Ask for confirmation if trying to load Site Manager data originating from a future version of FileZilla
  • Display location of settings directory on the About dialog
  • Display detected CPU features (on x86) on the About dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Remove certificate verification messages in the message log for data connections
  • Speed up parsing of the PASV reply
  • The status bar of the search dialog now shows the number of found matches again
  • OS X: Configuring SFTP keys no longer fails if the full path of FileZilla's application bundle contains spaces
  • *nix: Make waitable conditions immune to wallclock changes if the system supports both clock_gettime and pthread_condattr_setclock
  • Fixed a rare crash when queuing many socket threads for deletion at the same time

New in FileZilla 3.11.0.2 (Jun 4, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.11.0.1 (May 22, 2015)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Reject Diffie-Hellman Groups smaller than 1024 bits when using FTP over TLS to protect against the Logjam attack
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Do not bind the source IP address of the data connection if the server is not configured properly
  • Deleting bookmarks from the bookmarks dialog no longer deletes the wrong bookmark
  • Fixed CPU compatibility issues on 64bit binaries

New in FileZilla 3.11.0 (May 19, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.3 (Mar 30, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.3 Beta 1 (Mar 14, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.2 (Mar 3, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.2 RC2 (Feb 25, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.2 RC1 (Feb 21, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.1.1 (Feb 2, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.1 (Feb 1, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.1 RC1 (Jan 24, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0.2 (Jan 16, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0.1 (Jan 13, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0 (Jan 8, 2015)

  • Fixed default file exists actions broken by rc1

New in FileZilla 3.10.0 RC2 (Jan 3, 2015)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0 RC1 (Dec 31, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0 Beta 3 (Dec 20, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0 Beta 2 (Dec 5, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.10.0 Beta 1 (Dec 3, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0.5 (Sep 6, 2014)

  • Fix auto-updater not being able to download updates

New in FileZilla 3.9.0.4 (Sep 6, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0.3 (Aug 14, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0.2 (Aug 1, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0 RC3 (Jul 17, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0 RC1 (Jul 6, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0 Beta 3 (Jul 1, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0 Beta 2 (Jun 28, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.9.0 Beta 1 (Jun 23, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.8.1 (Jun 1, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.8.1 RC3 (May 26, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.8.0 (Mar 28, 2014)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.8.0 Beta 2 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.8.0 Beta 1 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.7.4.1 (Feb 12, 2014)

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

New in FileZilla 3.7.4 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • 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.

New in FileZilla 3.7.4 RC1 (Feb 3, 2014)

  • Added Corsican and Kabyle translations
  • SFTP now supports the hmac-sha2-256 algorithm

New in FileZilla 3.7.3 (Aug 8, 2013)

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

New in FileZilla 3.7.2 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.7.1 (Jun 19, 2013)

  • Updated translations.

New in FileZilla 3.7.1 RC1 (Jun 11, 2013)

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

New in FileZilla 3.7.0.2 (May 27, 2013)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.7.0 (May 10, 2013)

  • Fix typo.

New in FileZilla 3.7.0 RC1 (Apr 30, 2013)

  • New features:
  • Show total transfer speed as tooltip over the transfer indicators
  • List supported protocols in tooltip of host field in quickconnect bar
  • Use TLS instead of the deprecated term SSL
  • Reworded text when saving of passwords is disabled, do not refer to kiosk mode
  • Improved usability of Update page in settings dialog
  • Improve SFTP performance
  • When navigating to the parent directory, highlight the former child
  • When editing files, use high priority for the transfers
  • Add label to size conditions in filter conditions dialog indicating that the unit is bytes
  • Ignore drag&drop operations where source and target are identical and clarify the wording in some drop error cases
  • Trim whitespace from the entered port numbers
  • Slightly darker color of inactive tabs
  • Ignore .. item in the file list context menus if multiple items are selected
  • Display TLS version and key exchange algorithm in certificate and encryption details dialog for FTP over TLS connections.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix handling of remote paths containing double-quotes
  • Fix crash when opening local directories in Explorer if the name contained characters not representable in the locale's narrow-width character set.
  • Fix a memory leak in the host key verification dialog for SFTP
  • Fix drag-scrolling in file lists with very low height
  • Don't attempt writing XML files upon loading them
  • Improve handling of legacy DDE file associations
  • Fix handling of HTTPS in the auto updater in case a mirror redirects to HTTPS

New in FileZilla 3.6.0.2 (Nov 30, 2012)

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

New in FileZilla 3.6.0.1 (Nov 19, 2012)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.6.0 (Nov 12, 2012)

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

New in FileZilla 3.6.0 RC1 (Nov 5, 2012)

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

New in FileZilla 3.6.0 Beta 1 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • 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 no 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

New in FileZilla 3.5.3 (Jan 9, 2012)

  • 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.

New in FileZilla 3.5.2 (Nov 10, 2011)

  • Updated translations

New in FileZilla 3.5.2 RC1 (Nov 2, 2011)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.5.1 (Aug 29, 2011)

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

New in FileZilla 3.5.1 RC1 (Aug 23, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Add menu item to hide toolbar
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Don't save server list in kiosk mode 2
  • Fix for predefined sites not appearing in all circumstances
  • OS X: Pasting formatted text into input boxes no longer changes their format
  • Fix typo in build script in detection of SQLite3
  • MSW: Small installer improvements
  • *nix: Fix character set conversion in desktop notification code
  • Merged upstream PuTTY changes for compatibility with PuTTY 0.61
  • Updated built-in TinyXML

New in FileZilla 3.5.0 (May 23, 2011)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.5.0 RC2 (May 16, 2011)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.5.0 RC1 (May 9, 2011)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.4.0 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Updated translations

New in FileZilla 3.4.0 RC1 (Mar 22, 2011)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.4.0 Beta 1 (Jan 11, 2011)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.5.1 (Nov 23, 2010)

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

New in FileZilla 3.3.5 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • Updated language files, otherwise identical with rc1

New in FileZilla 3.3.5 RC1 (Nov 9, 2010)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.4.1 (Aug 18, 2010)

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

New in FileZilla 3.3.4 (Aug 13, 2010)

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

New in FileZilla 3.3.4 RC1 (Aug 3, 2010)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.3 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.2.1 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • 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
  • Remember location of update download directory

New in FileZilla 3.3.2 (Feb 22, 2010)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.2 RC1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Spelling fixes
  • Rebuilt due to timer problems

New in FileZilla 3.3.1 RC1 (Dec 28, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.0.1 (Nov 17, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.0 (Nov 9, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.0 RC1 (Nov 3, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.3.0 Beta 1 (Oct 28, 2009)

  • 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
  • *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

New in FileZilla 3.2.8.1 (Oct 10, 2009)

  • Fix crash if creating filters with attributes or permissions rule
  • Use REST+STOR to resume upload instead of APPE if server advertises REST STREAM support

New in FileZilla 3.2.8 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.7.1 (Aug 25, 2009)

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

New in FileZilla 3.2.7 (Aug 14, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.6.1 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • Fix FTP over TLS regressions in provided binaries due to two bugs in GnuTLS causing transfer failures
  • Keep bookmarks menu sorted after adding new bookmarks

New in FileZilla 3.2.6 (Jun 29, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.6 RC1 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.5 (Jun 16, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.4.1 (Apr 28, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.4 (Apr 22, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.4 RC1 (Apr 15, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.3.1 (Mar 25, 2009)

  • 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
  • Fix problems with double-quoted paths with containing single quotes in associations

New in FileZilla 3.2.3 (Mar 22, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.3 RC1 (Mar 16, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.2.1 (Feb 22, 2009)

  • Fix local directory creation during downloads. If multiple directory levels were missing, they were created in the reverse order.

New in FileZilla 3.2.2 (Feb 20, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.1 (Feb 6, 2009)

  • New iconset: Minimal
  • Fix filter edit dialog sizing issue

New in FileZilla 3.2.1 RC1 (Jan 31, 2009)

  • Synchronized browsing
  • Configurable double-click action for file lists
  • Ask user to select an editor if trying to edit an unassociated file type
  • Fix potential race condition in socket code

New in FileZilla 3.2.0 (Jan 8, 2009)

  • Fix account logon type in combination with FTP proxies

New in FileZilla 3.2.0 RC2 (Jan 3, 2009)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.2.0 RC1 (Jan 1, 2009)

  • Bookmarks
  • Logging to file
  • *nix: Use GNOME's Session Manager D-Bus API to cleanly shut down FileZilla on end of session
  • *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

New in FileZilla 3.1.6 (Dec 2, 2008)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.1.5.1 (Nov 16, 2008)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.1.5 (Oct 22, 2008)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.1.4.1 (Oct 16, 2008)

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

New in FileZilla 3.1.4 (Oct 15, 2008)

  • *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

New in FileZilla 3.1.3.1 (Sep 29, 2008)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.1.3 (Sep 22, 2008)

  • 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
  • Compatibility with yet another exotic directory listing format

New in FileZilla 3.1.3 Beta 1 (Sep 10, 2008)

  • 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

New in FileZilla 3.1.2 (Aug 31, 2008)

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