Download FileZilla 3.6 Beta 1

The open source FTP client FileZilla has been quiet for a while, but a new development version suddenly appeared last week. 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 Mac OS X, and can be downloaded from this page be downloaded in different versions. The changelog for version 3.6.0 shows the following changes and improvements:

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

Bug fixes 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