CrossFTP Changelog

What's new in CrossFTP 1.99.9

Nov 12, 2021
  • The main changes are:
  • Support ap-east-1, eu-south-1, af-south-1, and me-south-1 regions for Amazon S3.
  • Fixes that CrossFTP refuses to copy or delete files/paths with special characters for S3.

New in CrossFTP 1.99.8 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • Support 'Keep Date' for all protocols (Sites -> Site Manager -> Actions -> Keep Date).
  • Fixes a Site Manager saving issue.

New in CrossFTP 1.99.7 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • Improve Glacier inventory retrieval's user experience and reduce memory usage.
  • Fix issue that S3 file name cannot include '=' character.

New in CrossFTP 1.99.6 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Fix Email notification library issue.
  • Reduce memory usage for large queue.

New in CrossFTP 1.99.5 (Sep 13, 2020)

  • Amazon S3 Glacier/DEEP_ARCHIVE storage classes' restore retieve support.
  • Improve Glacier server's retrieve support and provide cost estimation. User should finish existing Glacier retrieve queue before the installation of the new version.
  • Fix the site manager serialization issue.
  • This update is recommended for all CrossFTP users.

New in CrossFTP 1.99.4 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • Fix URL generation dialog cannot be open for websites.
  • Refine site manager’s UI to show only related elements.

New in CrossFTP 1.99.2 (May 24, 2020)

  • Support more S3 default storage class: STANDARD, REDUCED_REDUNDANCY, GLACIER, STANDARD_INFREQUENT_ACCESS, ONE_ZONE_IN_FREQUENT_ACCESS, INTELLIGENT_TIERING, DEEP_ARCHIVE. See this doc for details of storage classes.
  • Fix that some popup dialogs are hidden behind on UI.
  • Support empty file for the Amazon Glacier backup.
  • Refine instruction for protocol parameter of CrossFTP commander.

New in CrossFTP 1.98.9 (May 25, 2018)

  • Refine support for Amazon S3 server side encryption.

New in CrossFTP 1.98.8 (May 25, 2018)

  • Fix directory sync item's processing issue in queue.

New in CrossFTP 1.98.7 (Dec 20, 2017)

  • Improve directory sync for Amazon Glacier.

New in CrossFTP 1.98.6 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • Add global menu in context to handle Mac OS X High Sierra's global menu display issue.

New in CrossFTP 1.98.5 (Oct 4, 2017)

  • OpenStack Swift Rackspace storage protocol support.

New in CrossFTP 1.98.1 (Jun 16, 2017)

  • Add end-points for Amazon S3.
  • Improved Amazon Glacier retrieval and site-local-site processing.
  • Support Amazon Glacier retrieve tier.
  • Allow to show tab’s title as site name or folder name.
  • Fix that schedule sometimes cannot change AM/PM hours.

New in CrossFTP 1.97.9 (Jun 16, 2017)

  • The main changes are:
  • Fix MFMT to keep date correctly in FTP
  • Change to use "original-file-date-iso8601” in the cloud storage header name for date sync
  • and a number of minor fixes

New in CrossFTP 1.97.8 (Oct 7, 2016)

  • Fix to avoid welcome popups on some SFTP sites
  • Fix the license issue on CrossFTP command line tool
  • Improve the launch speed

New in CrossFTP 1.97.7 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Allow empty folder’s creation in directory sync
  • Fix that in some situations the FXP cannot work
  • Fix Google cloud storage’s OAuth2 connection issues

New in CrossFTP 1.97.6 (Jul 5, 2016)

  • Improves SFTP Authentication
  • Allows to queue the file(s) to multiple target sites

New in CrossFTP 1.97.5 (Dec 18, 2015)

  • Improved SFTP error handling and display.
  • Fix GS permission's display issue.

New in CrossFTP 1.97.4 (Nov 12, 2015)

  • Switch new SFTP library to significantly improve the performance and compatibility.
  • Add support for QNAP's Amazon Glacier file name format.
  • Fix that permission change table in property dialog is too small to show on some operating system.
  • Fix that the first folder added to the favorites for a site won't be shown

New in CrossFTP 1.97.3 (Oct 2, 2015)

  • Adds Amazon Glacier's metadata support for Fast Glacier V1/V3/V4.
  • Fixes the anonymous user name error for the CrossFTP commander.

New in CrossFTP 1.97.2 (Sep 7, 2015)

  • Improve the user experience for App-Store version
  • Fix the property dialog’s metadata’s checksum calculation popup doesn’t stop.
  • Fix that the remote site search could show lots of 404 not found message
  • Global skiplist support
  • Sort bookmarks
  • Allow to choose config home through command line
  • Fix multipart download pause issue.
  • Support the Tools -> Combine files … to combine downloaded multi-part parts
  • Disable the CloudFront service for non-amazon S3 sites

New in CrossFTP 1.97.1 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • Fix SFTP/SSH file upload's buffer size overflow issues
  • Improve SFTP/SSH transfer speed
  • Make the S3 requester pays bucket option permanent in site manager to avoid continuously popup
  • Fix the JDK 8 caused UI rendering issue on Mac OS X 10.10
  • Allow to change the subject for Email notification in CrossFTP Enterprise
  • Support multiple TOs address in CrossFTP Enterprise
  • Site-local-site support for sync directory in CrossFTP Enterprise
  • Launch of the CrossFTP commander (console version CrossFTP engine) in CrossFTP Enterprise

New in CrossFTP 1.96.9 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • Add better support for TLS/SSL connection’s customer’s keystore, so that 3rd party keystore tool can be used, such as http://portecle.sourceforge.net/
  • Add auto overwrite direction for L2R and R2L’s sync.
  • Significantly improved the directory synchronization feature
  • Release license for CrossFTP Pro/Enterprise
  • Table light line’s background color cannot be changed.
  • Support better site license installation on mac.
  • Updated the cert expiration date for CrossFTP Server.
  • Fix the initial startup hanging error.

New in CrossFTP 1.96.8 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Support better site license installation on mac
  • Updated the cert expiration date for CrossFTP Server
  • Add better support for TLS/SSL connection’s customer’s keystore, so that 3rd party keystore tool can be used, such as http://portecle.sourceforge.net/
  • Add auto overwrite direction for L2R and R2L’s sync
  • Significantly improved the directory synchronization feature
  • Release license for CrossFTP Pro/Enterprise
  • Table light line’s background color can be changed

New in CrossFTP 1.96.6 (Jan 19, 2015)

  • Support new Amazon S3 V4 Authentication.
  • Fixed that Glacier’s max part size preference should have 4G max size limit.
  • Fixed that SSL certification verify dialog failed to reload the certs on connection.
  • Fixed that multi-part download’s file resume after power outrage may lead to incorrect download.
  • Fixed that Amazon Glacier/GS/S3’s upload should should not be allowed in the root folder.
  • Fixed that Mac App Store’s application open dialog should show correct content.
  • Site-local-site transfer failed to apply proper file name in some cases.

New in CrossFTP 1.96.4 (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Support the Amazon S3 bucket for Frankfurt
  • Improve the queue restore dialog (do not show restore dialog if it has been shown before)
  • Improve the overwrite dialog by not popping new ones if there is any.
  • Improve the overwrite dialog to avoid wrong layout of button in case of too long file name.

New in CrossFTP 1.96.2 (Sep 11, 2014)

  • Add multipart download support for FTP/SFTP/FTPS/WebDav/S3/GS/Amazon Glacier, which significantly improves the download speed for large files.
  • Fix that site-local-site transfer fails on the Glacier transfer.
  • Build up the translation tool to map the old translations to new version. This update is recommended for all CrossFTP users.

New in CrossFTP 1.95.2 (Jun 11, 2014)

  • Improve create new folder’s display speed.
  • Hide the iterative dialog after visit action.
  • Fix the issue that sometimes the uploaded files are not automatically displayed in the remote folder.
  • Change the max thread number to 100.
  • Provide Email notification support for CrossFTP Enterprise.
  • Fix that disconnect sometimes make CrossFTP to hang for a period of time.
  • Show progress information when calculating the Amazon Glacier’s checksum.
  • Fix some multi-part upload parent item’s progress info display issue.

New in CrossFTP 1.94.8 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • Add Brazil language translation.
  • Amazon Glacier site with data compressed failed to load the inventory dump.
  • Improve error log message for WebDav protocol.
  • Improve error tracing logs.
  • Fix Amazon Glacier’s cache miss issue.
  • Add support for Amazon CloudFront’s redirect-to-https viewer protocol policy.

New in CrossFTP 1.94.6 (Feb 21, 2014)

  • Add S3 static website configuration.
  • Add option to setup temp file folder.
  • Fix Amazon Glacier inventory retrieve job’s status checking.
  • Improved compatibility with Cloudberry explorer’s Glacier inventory format.
  • New Enterprise version to support the site-local-site transfer to simplify the data migration between any sites.

New in CrossFTP 1.94.4 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • Fix CHMOD and other operation's error display.
  • Fix queued multi-thread delete operation for FTP protocol.
  • Fix site file import error on default category.
  • Improve FTP parser for MVS, OS400, and Netware.
  • Provide JDK bundled version for Mac.

New in CrossFTP 1.94.2 (Jan 30, 2014)

  • Infrastructure upgrade to reduce memory usage and improve the reliability.
  • Fix CloudFront Invalidation session release issue.
  • Fix when Alt + Q is pressed, the Exit dialog's Not to exit option doesn't work.
  • Better handling the duplicated folder placeholder for Amazon Glacier.
  • Better compatibility with high memory and low memory instance.

New in CrossFTP 1.93.6 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Fix session release bug of multi-part upload for S3/Glacier.
  • Add enable/disable TLS SNI support option.
  • Add TLS v1.1~v1.2 support.
  • Add enable/disable multi-part upload option.
  • Improved import bookmarks.
  • Fix the temp file permission issue for App Store version.
  • Search sites in site manager.
  • Fix unable to unmarshall error response: Amazon Glacier retrieveJob error response parsing error.
  • Add scheduled transfer option.

New in CrossFTP 1.93.4 (Nov 23, 2013)

  • Disallow direct delete on local files unless shift is pressed.
  • Fix search file issue for Amazon Glacier.
  • Start to support the size calculation for folders.
  • Add icon for Glacier vault.
  • Start to support the diagnose report through Email.
  • Fix file cache issue when vaults have same prefix.
  • Show hint to download "JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" for decryption.

New in CrossFTP 1.93.2 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Improved HTTPS server certificate handling with S3 compatible sites.
  • Fix handshake error for some misconfigured server: unrecognized_name during SSL handshaking on JDK 7.
  • For URL generator, fix when domain name is selected, and toggle the sign URL choice, the domain name is not properly interpreted.
  • Fix multipart upload with server side encryption failure.
  • Provide an option to start the queue for schedule dialog when OK is pressed.
  • Show better information for CrossFTP and its Pro version.

New in CrossFTP 1.92.6 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • Queue operations of Move to and Rename for multi-threaded processing.
  • Improved cache control to fasten the thread upload speed and reduce memory usage.
  • Fix WebDav's "Unbuffered entity enclosing request can not be repeated" issue on some server.
  • Fix the performance issue for extreme large file's upload to Amazon Glacier.
  • Remove -Xmx max memory requirement for better compatibility with EC2 micro instance.
  • Sort by File Type doesn't work correctly on remote site.
  • Improved duplicated folder processing for Amazon Glacier.
  • Improve the Glacier upload speed by pre-calculate the checksum.

New in CrossFTP 1.92.4 (Sep 7, 2013)

  • Improved handling of the sandbox file accessing for Mac App Store version.
  • Fixed S3 bucket creation bug in some cases.
  • Show hint to download "JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" for encryption.

New in CrossFTP 1.92.2 (Aug 27, 2013)

  • Queued operation of CHMOD, delete, and update metadata for multi-threaded processing.
  • Retrieve rate wizard for Amazon Glacier.
  • Improved Amazon Glacier error display and handling.
  • Allow to retrieve multiple vault's inventory metadata from the root folder.
  • S3 lifecycle rule's date are enforced as midnight GMT.
  • Improved support for Mac App Store license.
  • Added new minute type interval for scheduler.

New in CrossFTP 1.91.4 (Jul 27, 2013)

  • Fallback to Amazon Glacier's status API call when SNS/SQS permission is not granted.
  • Combine & Split tool for extra large files.
  • Manage duplicated Amazon Glacier object names.
  • Overwrite support for Amazon Glacier's upload.
  • Site Manager popup save dialog bug fix.
  • Fix of archive extraction bug.
  • (Un)Select of matched/diff file names.
  • New S3 bucket IAM policy editor with syntax highlighter, formatter, and json validator.
  • Improve the compatibility with S3 IAM read-only permission.
  • Fix remote folder refresh issue.
  • Some other bug fixes.
  • Improved synchronization function.

New in CrossFTP 1.91.2 (Jun 29, 2013)

  • Start to support reading of the Glacier archived ids by third party Glacier client.
  • Speed up the vault list for Amazon Glacier.
  • Show Amazon Glacier's vaults if the vault number is larger than 10.
  • Support the Glacier download when SNS service is not available.
  • Updated CloudFront Distribution management API to support multiple origins and cache behaviors.
  • Added new German translation.
  • Improved instructions for CloudFront and Pro function.

New in CrossFTP 1.90.2 (Apr 26, 2013)

  • Support of Amazon Glacier protocol.
  • Local tree style file system cache for Glacier.
  • Process huge amount of files effectively.
  • Multi-part upload for Amazon Glacier.
  • Support very large file's upload (up to 40TB).
  • Multi-threads transfer support.
  • Compressing support for Amazon Glacier.
  • Local Encryption support for Amazon Glacier.
  • Bandwidth limit management.

New in CrossFTP 1.88.6 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Enables "Move To…" function for the remote site.
  • Adds installation support for site license file.
  • Improves translation message, and fixes some types.
  • Adds Korean translation.
  • Improves Chinese translation.
  • Fixes compatibility issues with JDK 5.
  • Fixes issue when the CloudFront Distribution is edited multiple times, the OriginAccessId disappears.

New in CrossFTP 1.88.4 (Jan 14, 2013)

  • Support S3 Sydney Bucket Location.
  • Fix some file upload issues for Google Cloud Storage.

New in CrossFTP 1.88.2 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Support Google Cloud Storage
  • Improved metadata editing tool
  • Better support of 3rd party S3 sites API
  • Add wizard for Walrus
  • Add wizard for DreamObjects

New in CrossFTP 1.86.6 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Improved features UI difference between CrossFTP Pro and CrossFTP.
  • Fix multi-upload and WebDav propery issues.

New in CrossFTP 1.86.2 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Adds sign URL support for S3 private distribution.
  • Adds local encryption support for file transfer.
  • Support enqueue the file delete operation for multi-thread processing.
  • Better compatbility for s3 compatible protocol, such as Ceph, etc.
  • Solve FTP PASV/PORT firewall issue in Windows Vista/7/2008 with JDK 7 by fallback IPV4 network stack.
  • Fix the private CloudFront update bug.
  • Improved file context menu for easier understanding.

New in CrossFTP 1.81.4 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Fix the multi-part upload's minimum part size issue.
  • Fix the stream CloudFront distribution's delete issue.
  • Fix the rtmp URL prefix error.

New in CrossFTP 1.80c (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Support S3 multi-upload for large files' uploads.
  • Set the default permission for upload.
  • Set the default S3 metadata for S3 sites.
  • Improve the WebDAV comparability by allowing to send "100-Continue" HTTP Header for server.
  • Fix the URL creation bug for the CloudFront distributions.
  • Fix the permission inheritance from parent's bug.
  • Fix the permission inheritance from source's bug.

New in CrossFTP 1.76a (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Improve the URL input function in the site manager.
  • Enable the SSH key file selection in site manager.
  • Use new certification file for jar file signing.

New in CrossFTP 1.75a (Feb 15, 2011)

  • It enhances the user interface
  • Fixes the stability issue
  • Improves the sync function
  • Lot of bug fixes

New in CrossFTP 1.65a (Jun 24, 2010)

  • It starts to support portable configuration, and significantly enhances Amazon S3 functionality.

New in CrossFTP 1.59a (May 11, 2010)

  • CrossFTP v1.59a is a major update of CrossFTP. It significantly improves the Amazon S3 support, enhances the startup display options, introduces color label for sites, and includes lots of bug fixes.

New in CrossFTP 1.55a (Oct 27, 2009)

  • CrossFTP 1.55a significantly enhances Amazon S3 support with Metadata modification, gzip transfer compression, logging, MIME types modification, etc.;
  • improves the compatibility for Windows 7;
  • adds SFTP/SSH's command and archiving support;
  • provides lots of other enhancements, and fixes a number of bugs.

New in CrossFTP 1.53 (Jun 19, 2009)

  • New: Sun cloud storage preview support.
  • Fix: scheduler's recurrent problem
  • Fix: duplicate to the other pane should not show grey in content.
  • New: Reveal in Finder, Explorer, and File Manager.
  • New: Background setup for the message pane.
  • Fix: the reliability and performance issue for large (20K+) transfers on the s3 cloud server.
  • Fix: status bar cannot display all item's size properly. Increase the size of the label.
  • Fix: Thread number's change in global option does not update the status bar.
  • Fix: Change the spaces in the copied URL to .
  • Fix: Show the log and table's color in Global Option's display tab.
  • New: View and Edit button in Remote Search dialog.
  • New: additional parameters for customization, including the remote path, etc.

New in CrossFTP 1.52 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • Fix: Master password input dialog asks for the password even there is no password set before.
  • New: WebDav lock function.
  • Fix: Solve the FXP problems on Pret.
  • Fix: FXP speed update.

New in CrossFTP 1.51a (Mar 27, 2009)

  • Version 1.51 starts to support FTP Web URL and browser preview, advanced log management utility, Amazon CloudFront distribution management, etc., and fixes a lot of bugs.

New in CrossFTP 1.36 (Jun 7, 2007)

  • New: adds thread information display panel.
  • Improve: Transfer performance
  • Fix: A lot of bugs.

New in CrossFTP 1.28 (Aug 11, 2006)

  • Bug fixes when multiple queue items are edited simultaneously.
  • disable the related editors in options dialog when the check box is unselected.
  • modified the bugs for the refresh function
  • added the quick connect bar.