November 14th, 2011· Add two ASCII mode related options.
· Add option to show directory list output from FTP LIST command in IIS FTP or DOS DIR command output format.
· Fixed a bug in SFTP, where a file opened by the first user will prevent other users from sharing and downloading this file.
September 24th, 2011· Fixed a SSH client compatiable problem when closing SSH channel.
· Fixed a FTP client compatiable problem when running LIST command with filename.
· Fixed a bug in the APPE command.
· Fixed a bug in the FTP session download/upload limit.
May 16th, 2011· Add an option to enable SSH tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel).
January 17th, 2011· Enhanced the right-click menu for Xlight Main GUI Window, add a new option "Localization" to allow loading language file.
· Fixed a crash issue when upload/download ratio and anti-leech protection are both enabled.
· Fixed a few bugs in the FTP SITE command and allow show SFTP/SSH2 user info from FTP SITE command.
· Fixed a $USERIP parameter bug for ODBC feature.
November 8th, 2010· Add a server option to allow files or folders being deleted to Windows recycle bin.
· Add an option to allow set LDAP filter for limiting user search scope.
· In the email notification feature, two new variables "up_filelist" and "dwon_filelist" have been added to allow last 100 files uploaded or downloaded to be sent in the email content.
· Remote administration client has a new command line option "-autoconnect" for to allow auto connect to FTP server.
· Writing file transfer log to database feature has been enhanced to be more robust for the case when backend SQL server temperatorily out of service or shutdown.
· Fixed two small bugs in the email notification
· Fixed a small bug in the SITE command.
August 27th, 2010· Add support for writing real virtual server statistics to file.
· When virtual path comes from external authentication, using %username% variable for associated real path is supported.
· When virtual path comes from external authentication, if associated real path does not exist when user logins, it will be created automatically.
· Fixed virtual path deletion bug in SFTP.
July 5th, 2010· Add virtual server option "Set bandwidth by IP address range" to allow setting different bandwidth by different IP ranges.
· Fixed a path traversal bug for SFTP/SSH2.
May 16th, 2010· Add support for sending log to Syslog server.
· Add support for FTP MFMT command.
· When upload file with SFTP, if the client doesn't set the file modification time, use current time as default time.
· Remove the maximum 30 groups limit when matching local FTP group with AD group.
April 12th, 2010· Fixed a bug of Xlight admin console management interface for non-console session of remote desktop.
· Fixed a resource leaking bug for LDAP authentication.
· Fixed a bug of access control list.
January 1st, 2010· Fixed a SFTP/SSH2 crash problem.
November 11th, 2009· Add support for creating virtual paths in the LDAP and Active Directory through a new attribute "ftpVirtualPaths" in the schema xlightFTPdUser.
· Add a new SSL option "Force users to use encrypted data connection".
· Add support for Openssh public key format in the SFTP/SSH2.
· Increase the maximum value of FTP command speed from 255 to 1000. This will help to increase the speed of transfering large number of very small files.
· Increase the maximum checked AD group of a user from 15 to 50, when his Active Directory group is checked and mapped to a same name local FTP group.
· Fixed a bug in the public key authentication for SFTP/SSH2.
· Fixed a bug in pausing virtual server.
· Fixed a bug in access control list.
· Fixed a few small bugs in the GUI.
September 1st, 2009· Add support for multiple virtual paths in the ODBC database.
· Fix a bug when writing file transfer log to database.
· Fix a bug frequently loading ICMP.dll in WAN IP auto detection.
· Fix a bug in the UPnP function when VMWare virtual network card exists in the system.
· Fix a bug FEAT command output format.
June 29th, 2009· Add four new parameters ($exclude_user, $exclude_file, $exclude_dir, $exclude_group) for e-mail notification configuration file.
· Add a new option to overwrite exiting file when renaming.
· Add support for ALLO command.
· Change the error response code of CWD command from 450 to 550.
· Fix a GUI bug in the connection detail.
May 4th, 2009· Add support for default user profile to external authentication to allow quick setup of default user settings such as home directory.
· Add option for output the directory list in Netware FTP Server format.
· Allow the resizing of user and group list dialog box.
· Provide read-only support for salted MD5 password. This allows importing users of salted MD5 password from other FTP servers, for example serv-U 6.x. Reading salted MD5 password only works for local FTP users, not users in database.
· Fix a NLIST bug for empty directory when the option "NLIST Show Directories" is enabled.
March 30th, 2009· Fix a SQL injection vulnerability for ODBC authentication.
March 11th, 2009· Add support to call an external program after a file been uploaded, downloaded or deleted. The new option is in the [Virtual Server Config]->[File and Directory]->[File Transfer Options].
· Add support to automatic backup config files after configuration change. The new option is in the [Global Option]->[General]->[Backup After Configuration Change].
· Fix a in correct file path bug in the xferlog.
· Fix a GUI bug related to advanced log filter.
January 28th, 2009· Enhanced the support Active Directory group. When the group of a user in Active Directory is the same name of local FTP group, it will become his local FTP group.
· When a local FTP group name changed, the group name of all local FTP users belong to it will be updated automatically.
· Fix a crash problem when use ODBC database for SFTP.
· Fix a client compatibility problem for SFTP.
· Fix a bug that viewing Xlight Event from event viewer will crash Microsoft Management Console.
· Fix a bug that the option "Don't use ODBC connection pooling" doesn't really take effect.
December 2nd, 2008· Fix a bug in the supported SSH2 authentication method string returned from server.
September 26th, 2008· Add support to set passive mode port range and ip at virtual server level.
· Add blowfish cipher to SSH2/SFTP.
· Fix a timestamp bug in FTP command MLST.
· Fix a response code bug in FTP command RNTO.
· Fix a client compatibility problem for SFTP.
· Fix a bug for IPv6 subnet mask.
August 5th, 2008· Add support for SFTP(SSH2) protocol. In Xlight FTP Server, SFTP virtual server can now be created and managed the same way as FTP virtual server. The tutorial has steps to create SSH2/SFTP virtual server.
· Add a new option "use NTFS permission for group path" for Active Directory users.
· Add support that if the primary group is set for an Active Direcotory user, it will automatically become his FTP group.
· When saving connection information for the remote administration, password can now be empty. If it is empty, user will be prompted for password after connection is established.
· Xlight FTP Server verison information is now embedded in the executable file and can be showed in the Windows explorer.
· Fixed a SSL/TLS compatible problem with FileZilla 3.1.0.1.
· Fixed several bugs related to remote administration.
July 22nd, 2008· Another Admin Console bug is fixed in this version.
May 12th, 2008· Fix a bug in the Admin Console that sometimes causes it taking long time to load and showing incorrect registration information.
April 7th, 2008· Add support for using NTFS permission in the public path for Active Directory users.
· Add a new option "Force all users except anonymous user to login using SSL" in virtual server's security settings.
· Add support for CCC (Clear Command Channel) command.
· Add a domain field in the UNC path account impersonation settings.
· Fix a random crash problem cased by PASV command, when server was serving downloads for more than 3000 users at the same time.
March 3rd, 2008· Fix a bug that when used in the two quad-core Xeon processors platform, Xlight FTP Server will crash during startup.
· Fix a bug in the PASV port range when option "Always use serve IP for PASV mode reply" is slected.
February 4th, 2008· Add a new option "Message for IP address auto blocking" in the settings of "IP Address Auto Blocking".
· Fix a LDAP authentication problem. Because in some LDAP servers, users with blank password can always authenticate(bind) successfully. Xlight FTP Server will now do special check to fail the LDAP authentication for users with blank password.
October 22nd, 2007· Add two new options in the external authentiction through LDAP.
· Add two new events OnLogin and OnLogout, two new parameters and four new variables in the email notification.
· When disk quota is enabled for a user, his quota will be automatically re-calculated after login. This will be eliminate the need to manually re-calculate quota from GUI.
· Add options to set notes for virtual server and users.
· Add option to force to use WAN IP or Server IP for virtual server behind firewall.
· Add option to send debug trace informtion of external authentication to Error Log.
· Add option to filter file transfer logs to database by download or upload.
· Fix a GUI bug for selecting SSL server certificate.
April 11th, 2007· support for authentication through LDAP Server. LDAP Server can use extended schema xlightFTPdUser for Xlight FTP Server related user settings.
· support for Active Directory to use extended schema xlightFTPdUser for Xlight FTP Server related user settings.
· support for writing file transfer log to database through ODBC.
· support for email notification on some events happened in the Xlight FTP Server.
· support UPnP function. It will be easier to configure Xlight FTP Server behind UPnP aware boardband routers.
January 4th, 2007· Support for authentication through active directory. User can use
· the same password of Windows Domain.
· Support for UNC path impersonation, server can access remote network shares easily with different impersonation accounts.
· Support for automatically log file rotation by date
· Support for global IP deny and allow list
· Add new "User Login" action in the advanced log options
· Add ftp commands such as FEAT, MODE,OPTS ext. into the selection list for denying
· FTP Commands
· UTF8 is turned off by default. UTF8 can be turned on in the "[Virtual Server Configuration]->[Advanced]->[Encoding]->[Enable UTF8 Encoding]"
July 5th, 2006· Support anti-leech protection. It can prevent ftp links from leeching by unauthorized people
· Support MODE Z function.
· Support UTF-8, UTF-8 can be turned on and off by OPTS UTF8 command.
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