Download FileZilla Server 1.5.0

Version 1.5.0 of the open source ftp server FileZilla Server has been released. FileZilla Server is a small and powerful ftp server that includes support for fxp (sending files from one ftp server to another), secure connections (ssl and tls), gss authentication and Kerberos encryption. Previously, the program was only available for Windows, but now also for Linux and macOS. Since version 1.4.1, the following changes and improvements have been made:

FileZilla Server 1.5.0

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Admin UI: Connection dialog did not remember the last used port if there are multiple saved entries for the same hostname with different ports

FileZilla Server 1.5.0-rc1

New features:

• Server: Implemented throttling of login attempts in case of too many failed attempts.
• Server: The version number in the welcome messsage can now be manually suppressed by setting the “has_version” attribute of the message field in the configuration file to “false”.
• MSW: If the service is running under the SYSTEM account, configuration files are now placed under %PROGRAMDATA%\filezilla-server. This is to workaround the issue that when doing a Windows Update the settings could be wiped out. Settings still residing under %LOCALAPPDATA%\filezilla-server are automatically migrated.
• Communication with the impersonator child process is now asynchronous
• Admin UI: The password fields in the configuration dialog now how show a hint to inform the user about how to keep the existing password

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Admin UI: Fixed a crash in listener editor
• Admin UI (macOS): Implemented workarounds for some wxWidgets glitches and malfunctions.
• Admin UI: The system_user’s name cannot be edited anymore (rightly so)
• Configuration data that cannot be serialized now prevents an incomplete output file from being written to disk
• Sudden deaths of the impersonator process no longer cause unintended behavior
• Fixed server crashes due to unexpected socket events in some corner cases
• MSW: Due to a toolchain issue, programs making use of thread-local variables would crash on exit. Implemented a workaround, until it gets addressed by future MinGW toolchains
• The number of possible worker threads has been reduced to a maximum of 256
• FTP Server: The NLST command now reports paths compliant with RFC 1123
• When using the command line parameter –config-version-check ignore, the expected version is now written to the settings files if a mismatch is detected
• *nix: Logo icons are no longer embedded in the executables, they are instead installed to the proper system paths
• *nix: Added a filezilla-server-gui.desktop file, so that the Admin UI can easily be opened by desktop environments
• Maximum number of log file rotations has been reduced to a more sensible amount and the rotation algorithm has been changed to be more efficient