Download FileZilla 3.28.0 RC1

The release candidate of version 3.28.0 of the open source FTP client FileZilla has been released. FileZilla is small, simple and yet complete. The program is popular due to its low system resource load. FileZilla is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Since version 3.26.0, passwords are no longer stored unencrypted and unsecured on the computer.

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New features:

• Add “Close once” as queue completion action

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Fixed crash if FileZilla is forced to close, eg when the system is shutting down, while there are open dialogs
• If the transfer queue asks for a password and the password dialog is canceled the queue processing is now stopped
• OS X, *nix: Improve detection of invalid character encodings in local filenames
• Fix potential crash expanding directory tree items while changing selections