What's new in Flying Carpet 8.0.1
Jan 1, 2024
- Version 8.0.1 fixes a bug with path handling.
New in Flying Carpet 8.0 Per-release (Dec 29, 2023)
- Version 8.0 allows sending folders from Android and iOS. Flying Carpet now skips a transfer if a file of the same name, location, and contents already exists on the receiving end. This allows folders to be mirrored and interrupted transfers to be quickly resumed. If a file of the same name, but different size/contents exists, the transfer will still take place, with the new file renamed. To send a folder from the Linux, macOS, and Windows versions, select Send and then drag a folder onto the window.
New in Flying Carpet 7.1 (Jun 8, 2023)
- Version 7.1 adds support for computers with multiple wireless interfaces on Linux and Windows.
New in Flying Carpet 7.0 Pre-release (Apr 20, 2023)
- New Android version and updated iOS versions 7.0 are pending app store approvals. Links will be posted here when available.
- Send and receive files between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No shared network or cell connection required, just two devices with WiFi chips in close range.
- Don't have a flash drive? Don't have access to a wireless network? Need to move a file larger than 2GB between different filesystems but don't want to set up a network share? Try it out!
- Version 7.0 has been rewritten in Rust and is compatible with the new Android and updated iOS versions.
New in Flying Carpet 6.0 (Aug 2, 2022)
- Version 6.0 supports iOS! (Pending App Store approval.) I'm planning on making an Android version as well, though I have to learn Kotlin and how to make Android apps first.
- Flying Carpet enables wireless, encrypted, cross-platform file transfer over automatically configured ad hoc networking. No network infrastructure required (access point, router, switch). Just two laptops (Mac, Linux, and Windows supported) with wireless chips in close range.
- Don't have a flash drive? Don't have access to a wireless network or don't trust one? Need to move a file larger than 2GB between different filesystems but don't want to set up a file share? Try it out!
- Not compatible with previous versions.
New in Flying Carpet 4.2 (Mar 8, 2022)
- Extends the password length to 6, and shortens the number of hash bytes used in the SSID to 2. This addresses a security vulnerability wherein an attacker, by noticing a flyingcarpet_a1b2c3 WiFi network, could use the truncated hash a1b2c3 to infer the password to within a few because there are only ~10 million possible passwords when 4 characters are used. Since the password is generated on the receiving end, the impact of this is that an attacker with a table of all possible passwords and hashes who was watching for Flying Carpet networks could send a file before the intended sender.
New in Flying Carpet 4.1 (Sep 12, 2021)
- Drag and drop (Linux and Mac only)
- Folder upload
- Keyboard shortcuts to toggle folder upload (Ctrl/Cmd+S) and quit (Ctrl/Cmd+Q)
- Doesn't reset send/receive selections when clicking same mode button multiple times