Portable FileZilla Changelog

What's new in Portable FileZilla 3.67.0

Apr 16, 2024
  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • SFTP: Fixed PuTTY ECDSA NIST P-521 private key recovery vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497). If you use NIST P-521 keys to connect to SSH/SFTP servers, you should regenerate them and revoke the previous ones.
  • Official binaries are now built against GnuTLS 3.8.4
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.47.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.66.5 (Feb 7, 2024)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.8.3
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.46.0
  • MSW: Fixed tab navigation over message log

New in Portable FileZilla 3.66.4 (Dec 21, 2023)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • SFTP: Address Terrapin protocol vulerability

New in Portable FileZilla 3.66.3 RC 1 (Dec 11, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Test release for macOS CPU architecture migration.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.66.3 Beta 1 (Dec 7, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a potential crash in the HTTP client

New in Portable FileZilla 3.66.1 (Nov 4, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS: Fixed display of local filenames containing non-ASCII characters if LC_CTYPE wasn't set

New in Portable FileZilla 3.66.0 (Oct 23, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a sorting issue in comparative search

New in Portable FileZilla 3.65.0 (Jul 10, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Comparative search can now also be used if sorted by path
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed an issue in comparative search in directories with uppercase letters

New in Portable FileZilla 3.65.0 RC 1 (Jun 30, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed potential crashes
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.44.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.64.0 (Apr 26, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed refresh of directory trees when filters changing
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.42.2

New in Portable FileZilla 3.64.0 RC 1 (Apr 13, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Additionsl icon sizing fixes on high DPI scale factors
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.42.0
  • Switched to .tar.xz for source tarballs

New in Portable FileZilla 3.63.2.1 (Mar 4, 2023)

  • macOS: Several rendering fixes in dark mode
  • macOS: Disable automatic quote/dash substitution in text input fields
  • MSW: Fixed an issue with Drag&Drop to Explorer on systems that use shortened 8.3 pathnames in environment variables
  • MSW: If FileZilla was installed for current user only, updating with the installer now skips the UAC prompt
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.41.1 to fix a rare crash
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.8.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.63.2 (Feb 24, 2023)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fixed an issue with Drag&Drop to Explorer on systems that use shortened 8.3 pathnames in environment variables
  • MSW: If FileZilla was installed for current user only, updating with the installer now skips the UAC prompt
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.41.1 to fix a rare crash
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.8.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.63.1 (Jan 26, 2023)

  • MSW: Fixed icon sizing issue on high DPI scale factors

New in Portable FileZilla 3.63.0 (Jan 24, 2023)

  • All official FileZilla binares now link against wxWidgets 3.2.1
  • Fixed a potential crash when closing FileZilla

New in Portable FileZilla 3.62.2 (Nov 22, 2022)

  • Fixed an issue with some dialogs not showing up

New in Portable FileZilla 3.62.1 (Nov 17, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a crash if main menu events arrive while a dialog is already open
  • macOS: Fixed an issue with keyboard shortcuts
  • macOS: Fix selected item count in file list status bars
  • macOS: Fixed graphical corruption in some controls

New in Portable FileZilla 3.62.0 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • Fixed sizing issues in about and welcome dialogs

New in Portable FileZilla 3.62.0 Beta 1 (Oct 11, 2022)

  • macOS binaries are now built against wxWidgets 3.2.1
  • updated ot libfilezilla 0.39.2

New in Portable FileZilla 3.61.0 (Sep 20, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.39.1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.61.0 RC 1 (Sep 13, 2022)

  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.39.1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.61.0 Beta 1 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Use improved asynchronous file readers/writers from libfilezilla
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix export of root items in the Site Manager
  • Handle rare cases of non-existing download directory in the updater

New in Portable FileZilla 3.60.2 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.38.1 to address an issue with child process termination resulting in freezes

New in Portable FileZilla 3.60.1 (Jun 2, 2022)

  • Fixed a regression drag-moving local files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.60.0 (May 29, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fixed error handling if reading from child process fails
  • Fixed transfers following recursive operations not starting if the connection limit has been set to 1 in the Site Manager

New in Portable FileZilla 3.60.0 RC 1 (May 19, 2022)

  • New features:
  • macOS: Remote files can now be dragged into Finder
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed file change detection when editing files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.59.0 (Apr 8, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Windows binaries: Updated zlib, used purely to cache re-scaled versions of icons shipped with FileZilla, to 1.2.12
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.37.1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.59.0 RC 1 (Apr 1, 2022)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.37.0
  • Non-blocking communication with SFTP process
  • macOS, *nix: Fixed "All files" category in file picker dialogs

New in Portable FileZilla 3.58.0 (Feb 11, 2022)

  • More detailed error messages if an XML file known to exist cannot be opened

New in Portable FileZilla 3.58.0 RC 1 (Feb 3, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Negotiate custom ALPN with FileZilla Server >=1.3.0 during TLS handshake to save some roundtrips during connection establishment
  • Prepare FileZilla to support TOTP-based 2FA authentication on future FileZilla Server versions
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Made downloading updates more robust if the network connection is unreliable
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.36.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.57.0 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed incorrect default settings for file editing
  • Fixed a crash looking up data in file lists
  • Fixed a crash if a HTTPS connection gets canceled during the TLS handshake
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.35.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.56.2 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a potential crash after uploading

New in Portable FileZilla 3.56.1 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • macOS Monterey: Opening the Site Manager on startup is now delayed a millisecond, otherwise the right mouse button would have stopped working
  • macOS: Fixed getting temporary directory
  • MSW: Updated to libfilezilla 0.34.1 to fix local directory contents returned by the system in oversized buffers containing nulls

New in Portable FileZilla 3.56.0 (Oct 11, 2021)

  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.34.0.
  • Updated translations.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.56.0 RC 1 (Sep 29, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Right-clicking a queue tab header now opens the same context menu as right-clicking the correponding queue contents
  • By default, the minimum allowed TLS version is now TLS 1.2
  • Optionally, the systen trust store can be used for certificate verification
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • FTP: Fixed an issue with key file conversion
  • Fixed an issue loading servers not supporting session resumption from storage

New in Portable FileZilla 3.55.1 (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a crash if a tree view items are deleted at the same time as something is being dragged over the tree view
  • Updated to libfilezilla 0.31.1 to fix an issue with SIGPIPE on *nix

New in Portable FileZilla 3.55.0 (Jul 9, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated translations

New in Portable FileZilla 3.55.0 RC 2 (Jul 5, 2021)

  • Fixed a crash in the converter for old configurations.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.55.0 RC 1 (Jul 2, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Updated SFTP components
  • Set appropriate ALPN on TLS connections
  • Fixed loading of settings files that were moved between platforms
  • Refactored updater internals

New in Portable FileZilla 3.54.0 (May 13, 2021)

  • SFTP: Fixed a regression loading configured key files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.54.0 RC 1 (May 5, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Refactored network activity handling, the activity indicators tooltips now display more accurate data
  • Updated SFTP components
  • Small performance improvement sorting very last directory listings
  • Fixed a crash changing numeric permissions value in chmod dialog

New in Portable FileZilla 3.53.1 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Removed an error message on new installation where there is no sitemanager.xml yet
  • Fixed SOCKS5 proxy support

New in Portable FileZilla 3.53.0 (Mar 16, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • HTTP: Handle servers sending early replies

New in Portable FileZilla 3.53.0 RC 1 (Mar 6, 2021)

  • New features:
  • Require explicit confirmation on FTP servers not supporting TLS session esumption on the data connection
  • Access Grant support for Tardigrade
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSWFixed handle leak if using SFTP
  • FTPFixed cancelling listings on very slow computers with extremely fast network connection
  • Fixed loading of custom FTP proxy setting when opening the settings dialog
  • Internal restructuring

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.2 (Jan 18, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • When restoring the main window position at startup, detect if the title bar would become hidden behind taskbars or global menu bars and reposition it appropriately
  • SFTP: Fixed preserving of timestamps on downloads

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.0.5 (Jan 8, 2021)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • FTP: Fixed crash if downloading ASCII files with stray carriage returns
  • Fixed too strict requirements for preallocation
  • *nix: Fixed a memory leak

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.0.4 (Jan 7, 2021)

  • macOS: Work around a kernel bug where ftruncate cannot be called more than once on a shared memory object

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.0.2 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • HTTP: Handle multi-token Connection: headers

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.0.1 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • macOS: Rebuilt to address a toolchain issue

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.0 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • Fixed a regression with the rename file exists action on downloads

New in Portable FileZilla 3.52.0 RC 1 (Dec 29, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Added context menu item in the search dialog to close the search and set the selected directory as the current local/remote directory
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Minor fixes for updating the HTTP transfer status

New in Portable FileZilla 3.51.0 (Oct 21, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed import of sites protected with a different master password
  • Directory comparison now works correctly with non-default file name sorting settings
  • Small search dialog fixes

New in Portable FileZilla 3.51.0 RC 1 (Oct 13, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Refactored how the queue stores transfer flags
  • Refactored internals to be more modular
  • Linux: Disable receive buffer tuning if it results in unexpected consequences
  • Distinguish between Cancel and No in the file changed dialog
  • Small fixes to changing or disabling a master password

New in Portable FileZilla 3.50.0 (Aug 27, 2020)

  • Minor fixes to Tardigrade integration

New in Portable FileZilla 3.50.0 RC 1 (Aug 22, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Update Storj/Tardigrade integration, now based on the uplink-c library
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix layout issues in the Site Manager if switching protocol
  • Restored natural sort option for file list sorting

New in Portable FileZilla 3.49.1 (Jul 15, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed selection changes not being reflected in the Site Manager in some circumstances

New in Portable FileZilla 3.49.0 (Jul 14, 2020)

  • Fixed retrying initial connection attempts

New in Portable FileZilla 3.49.0 RC 1 (Jul 7, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Tab bar icons now scale on high-DPI displays
  • The sizing and spacing of several dialogs has been improved on high-DPI displays
  • MSW: Fix visual glitches when changing the selected site in the Site Manager
  • When creating a new tab, the pane sizes are now inherited from the previous tab.
  • macOS: Additional fixes for handling Cmd+V, Cmd+C and Cmd+X in text input controls
  • Refactored internal settings and option handling

New in Portable FileZilla 3.48.1 (May 19, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • If FileZilla is configured to restore open tabs on startup, the directory trees no longer shrink in size

New in Portable FileZilla 3.48.0 / 3.48.1 RC1 (May 13, 2020)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • MSW: The settings directory is now initially created with tight permissions restricted to the user’s account. Previously the directory could have had inherited too wide permissions if a custom location outside the user’s profile directory had been preconfigured.
  • New features:
  • Redesigned certificate dialog
  • During directory comparison and comparative search, Ctrl+Shift+A can now be used to select only the highlighted files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.48.1 RC 1 (May 12, 2020)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • MSW: The settings directory is now initially created with tight permissions restricted to the user's account. Previously the directory could have had inherited too wide permissions if a custom location outside the user's profile directory had been preconfigured.
  • New features:
  • Redesigned certificate dialog
  • During directory comparison and comparative search, Ctrl+Shift+A can now be used to select only the highlighted files
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed import of settings
  • Fixed local file editing if the option to track local file changes had been disabled
  • Fixes to storing associations

New in Portable FileZilla 3.48.0 (Apr 28, 2020)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Custom associations for file extensions containing spaces were not saved correctly

New in Portable FileZilla 3.48.0 RC 1 (Apr 20, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Overhaul of file associations for editing files. The setting to inherit system associations has been removed. When first editing a type of file with no default editor set, a dialog is shown asking which editor to use. The system associatio, if it exists, is a choice in this dialog.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Re-added support for AES-GCM which was accidentally removed in 3.46.1
  • Fixes for comparative search leaving the program in an inconsistent state when closing the dialog during an ongoing search
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.20.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)

New in Portable FileZilla 3.47.2.1 (Mar 11, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Backported selected fixes from developement versions of PuTTY
  • Fixed value range for directional transfer limits
  • Fixed layout issues if changing to/from comparative search

New in Portable FileZilla 3.47.1 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed regression loading advanced site parameters

New in Portable FileZilla 3.47.1 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed regression loading advanced site parameters

New in Portable FileZilla 3.47.0 (Feb 24, 2020)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix visual glitched adding/removing filter rows
  • MSW: Limit amount of text that can be entered in spin controls

New in Portable FileZilla 3.47.0 RC 1 (Feb 16, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Added new search mode: Comparative search
  • Pressing F7 now switches focus between local and remote panes
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Work around a linker bug breaking ASLR
  • macOS: Avoid spurious button events button events consuming keyboard shortcuts
  • Increased minimum width of text field in generic input dialogs
  • Refactored Site Manager controls to increase modularity and fixed some minor GUI inconsistencies
  • Refactored engine connection logic
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.19.1 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)

New in Portable FileZilla 3.46.2 (Dec 20, 2019)

  • SFTP: Fixed a regression connecting using a password-protected keyfile

New in Portable FileZilla 3.46.1 (Dec 20, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a crash if an FTP server sends too long response lines
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.19.3 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/), this fixes a few issues with the new speed limiting code
  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.73

New in Portable FileZilla 3.46.0 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • Fixed a rare crash if closing FileZilla the very same moment a connection or transfer requests user attention

New in Portable FileZilla 3.46.0 RC 1 (Nov 15, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Show an error message in the local directory listing if the user lacks permission to show the directory
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Local filelist status bar is now reset if accessing a local directory fails
  • macOS: Work around an a bug in macOS 10.15 (Catalina) where closing a dialog shown from a timer can result in temporary freezes
  • Refactored speed-limiting code
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.19.1 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)

New in Portable FileZilla 3.45.1 (Sep 25, 2019)

  • Fixed sorting issues in the directory trees

New in Portable FileZilla 3.45.0 RC 1 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • New features:
  • If checking for updates cannot be performed for a prolonged time, users are warned about using an outdated version
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Performance improvements if expanding or refreshing a directory with thousands of direct subdirectories in the directory trees
  • Fixed prefix search in Site Manager
  • macOS: Fix password pasting using Cmd+V
  • Minor performance improvements deleting many thousands of files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.44.2 (Aug 18, 2019)

  • MSW: Fixed a crash if using predefined sites through fzdefaults.xml
  • Fixes to protocol selection glitches in the Site Manager
  • Increase maximum length of response lines when using FTP

New in Portable FileZilla 3.44.1 (Aug 9, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 3.44.0-rc1 breaking support for insecure servers

New in Portable FileZilla 3.43.0 (Jun 28, 2019)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Filenames containing double-quotation marks were not escaped correctly when selected for opening/editing. Depending on the associated program, parts of the filename could be interpreted as commands.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Added a second layer of authentication to the update mechanism

New in Portable FileZilla 3.43.0 RC 2 (Jun 21, 2019)

  • Rebuilt against libfilezilla 0.17.1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.43.0 RC 1 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Building FileZilla now requires a C++17 compiler
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.17.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • When using SFTP, fix fallback to password authentication on a server refusing a password-protected key
  • Fix HTTP proxy support

New in Portable FileZilla 3.43.0 RC 1 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Building FileZilla now requires a C++17 compiler
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.17.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • When using SFTP, fix fallback to password authentication on a server refusing a password-protected key
  • Fix HTTP proxy support

New in Portable FileZilla 3.42.0 (May 6, 2019)

  • Fixed a potential crash if the first-launch welcome dialog is shown at an inopportune moment
  • Fixed display of subject and issuer details in the certificate verification dialogs with some certificates
  • Official binaries are now built againt GnuTLS 3.6.7, minimum required GnuTLS version to build FileZilla is now 3.5.7

New in Portable FileZilla 3.42.0 RC1 (Apr 26, 2019)

  • Switching from using a master password to not saving passwords at all no longer requires entering the master password
  • nix: Fixed support for internationalized domain names on systems having AI_IDN when using SFTP
  • Fixed an assertion after importing a manipulated queue file
  • When importing sites, any imported passwords are now immediately protected/deleted depending on the password protection settings
  • The ability to import Sitem Manager entries from antique FileZilla 2, last updated over a dozen years ago, has been removed

New in Portable FileZilla 3.42.0 Beta 1 (Apr 22, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.16.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • Limit the maximum length of site, bookmark and filter names to prevent display issues and crashes due to some operating systems badly handling long texts
  • When displaying message boxes, insert zero-width spaces into long unbroken words to prevent display issues and crashes due to some operating systems badly handling long texts
  • Fix crash in the external IP address resolver
  • Fix some assertions if a server sends bad file sizes
  • Large refactoring of the socket code
  • The thread pool from libfilezilla is now used for all worker threads

New in Portable FileZilla 3.41.2 (Mar 18, 2019)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Backport a security fix from PuTTY 0.71 affecting SFTP connections: Fix an integer overflow in the RSA key exchange preceeding host key verification

New in Portable FileZilla 3.41.1 (Mar 7, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix a regression introduced in 3.41.1 with slow FTP servers needlessly waiting for a bidirectional shutdown of the data connection during downloads

New in Portable FileZilla 3.41.0 (Mar 6, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix an issue with failing uploads due to the operating system not gracefully closing TCP connections contrary to the documented behavior
  • MSW: Fix compilation flags for wxWidgets to no longer include useless XP compatibility

New in Portable FileZilla 3.41.0 RC1 (Feb 26, 2019)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if adding a bookmark with the current connection not yet having a Site Manager entry
  • Fixed a rare crash if closing FileZilla while a recursive chmod operation is still in progress
  • Fixed a rare crash if starting directory comparison on an empty directory without logical parent
  • Fixed a rare crash on changing the file list sort order when the focused item index has previously become invalid
  • Restrict the maximum length of regular expressions in filter conditions due to bugs in some implementations of the C++ Standard Library causing crashes
  • OS X: Fixed crash if the path of a file dropped on FileZilla cannot be obtained
  • Fixed order in which directories helper tools and data files are searched for
  • Fixed a rare crash if closing tab during an ongoing recursive directory deletion

New in Portable FileZilla 3.40.0 (Jan 25, 2019)

  • Official binaries are now linked against GnuTLS 3.6.6

New in Portable FileZilla 3.40.0 RC 2 (Jan 22, 2019)

  • Fix regression introduced in rc1 where adding files to queue creates extra server items if the connection was established through the Site Manager

New in Portable FileZilla 3.40.0 RC 1 (Jan 19, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Added TLS 1.3 support by linking official binaries against GnuTLS 3.6.5
  • Refactored how sites and servers are being represented internally to fix issues trigged by renaming sites in the Site Manager
  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • Fix display of server names containing ampersands in several dialogs
  • Fix regular expression filter in the quick search panel
  • Fix a crash if files are added to the queue when there are already files for multiple different servers in the queue
  • Fix a crash applying filters when there are no selected files and the focused item is past the new file count
  • Fix a crash if emptying the queue while a directory creation item is active
  • Fix a potential crash if FileZilla is being closed the moment a delayed dialog has already been created but before it is shown.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.39.0 (Dec 2, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix timestamps of newly created empty files on the server if the option to preserve timestamps is set

New in Portable FileZilla 3.39.0 RC1 (Nov 24, 2018)

  • New features:
  • The down button on the keyboard now opens the quickconnect history dropdown menu if the quickconnect bar has the input focus
  • The down button on the keyboard now opens the search options if the quick search dialog has the input focus
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Refactored how close notifications were handled in the network code
  • Fixed saving of the 'not equal' and 'less than' conditions for size filters
  • Fixed regular expression filters not respecting the case-sensitivity checkbox in all situations
  • Restore context menu item to delete file in local file search

New in Portable FileZilla 3.38.1 (Oct 29, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if transferring three or more files in parallel when speed limits are enabled

New in Portable FileZilla 3.38.0 (Oct 26, 2018)

  • Updated translations

New in Portable FileZilla 3.38.0 RC1 (Oct 22, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Refreshing remote file list while holding Ctrl now clears the remote directory cache for the current server
  • Changed default logon type if creating a new site in the Site Manager
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed state of controles in the Site Manager when creating a new site after the previously viewed site has been predefined
  • Fixed dragging remote files to queue
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.15.0 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/)
  • Improve compatibility with GnuTLS 3.6.x
  • Fix building with automake >= 1.16.0

New in Portable FileZilla 3.37.4 (Oct 5, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix regression introduced in 3.37.3 with moving files locally using drag&drop

New in Portable FileZilla 3.37.3 (Oct 1, 2018)

  • Fix issues with directory creation when uploading many files in parallel
  • macOS: Fix crashes if dragging more than one file
  • macOS: Opt out of Dark Mode

New in Portable FileZilla 3.37.1 (Sep 21, 2018)

  • Local path is no longer forgotten when leaving synchronized browsing mode

New in Portable FileZilla 3.37.0 (Sep 17, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix remote target path if uploading files through the search dialog

New in Portable FileZilla 3.37.0 RC1 (Sep 11, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Use a cache for the system trust store to speed up connecting establishment on systems with huge certificate revocation lists in the system trust store
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed bug in GnuTLS causing crashes on connection establishment
  • Fixed enabled state of controls in the Site Manager if switching to a protocol not supporting the previously selected logontype

New in Portable FileZilla 3.36.0 (Aug 27, 2018)

  • Fix --site-manager command-line argument
  • Fix potential crash with malformed directory listings
  • Fix potential crash if opening/closing tabs or starting the queue while directories are being renamed or deleted

New in Portable FileZilla 3.36.0 RC1 (Aug 20, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Ask for explicit confirmation prior to falling back to insecure plaintext FTP if a server refuses to use TLS
  • Warn if an FTP server refuses TLS that is known from previous connections to be capable of TLS

New in Portable FileZilla 3.35.2 (Aug 6, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix functionality of --site and --local command-line options
  • MSW: Fix local rename not updating file list

New in Portable FileZilla 3.35.1 (Jul 23, 2018)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix context menu in search dialog

New in Portable FileZilla 3.35.0 (Jul 23, 2018)

  • Improved appearance of activity indicators, sort direction indicators, and quick search panel buttons on high-DPI displays

New in Portable FileZilla 3.35.0 RC1 (Jul 16, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Add option to settings dialog to have FileZilla restore tabs and connections after a restart
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix initial size of Site Manager being too small on some systems

New in Portable FileZilla 3.34.0 (Jun 18, 2018)

  • New features:
  • After deleting files, the focus rectangle now stays near the previously deleted file

New in Portable FileZilla 3.34.0 RC1 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Refactoring of the Site Manager internals
  • Moved protocol selection to the top in the Site Manager
  • Adjusted spacing in the Site Manager
  • Slightly reduced height of certificate details dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Properly quote the uninstall command in the registry
  • Updated builtin pugixml to version 1.9

New in Portable FileZilla 3.33.0 (May 7, 2018)

  • MSW: Microsoft broke the ICopyHook interface in Windows 1803. Until Microsoft fixes the bug in Windows, drag & drop from FileZilla into Explorer will not work on Windows 1803.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.33.0 RC1 (Apr 28, 2018)

  • New features:
  • The contents of the transfer queue can now be sorted
  • SFTP: Support key files encrypted with aes256-ctr, e.g. as created by OpenSSH 7.6 and later
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fix preserve timestamps menu option

New in Portable FileZilla 3.32.0 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • Further SFTP performance improvements

New in Portable FileZilla 3.32.0 RC 1 (Mar 23, 2018)

  • New features:
  • The Site Manager no longer shows controls not applicable to the selected protocol
  • Dynamically disable menu items if the used protocal does not support the corresponding functionality
  • Speed up listing large directories over SFTP
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix state of case sensitivity checkbox in the filter edit dialog if no filter has been selected

New in Portable FileZilla 3.31.0 (Feb 25, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Allow trusting all subject alternative names (SAN) in a certificate if the current hostname matches the certificate
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • OS X: Fix file lists becoming inresponsive when a file rename edit box is discarded by clicking to the right of the last column in the file list
  • Fix rare crash during directory removal
  • Fix rare crash in the transfer queue

New in Portable FileZilla 3.29.0 (Dec 20, 2017)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix activity indicators not working after the update check has been run

New in Portable FileZilla 3.28.0 (Oct 1, 2017)

  • New features:
  • *nix: Official Linux binaries are now built for Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Do not disable password saving settings if fzdefaults.xml contains a kiosk mode setting of 0.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.27.1 (Aug 15, 2017)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Change client identification string if connecting with SFTP due to OpenSSH disregarding the supported ciphers announced by the client, resulting in less secure algorithms being chosen by OpenSSH.
  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Improve handling of NTFS reparse points
  • MSW: If running the installer with /S, previous versions where not uninstalled prior to the new version being installed
  • MSW: The installer can be run with /quiet for a semi-silent installation

New in Portable FileZilla 3.27.0.1 (Jul 26, 2017)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Add misssing file to .zip binary package
  • MSW: Fix toolchain issues breaking the shell extension

New in Portable FileZilla 3.26.2 (Jun 15, 2017)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed crash if using master passwords and decrypting very long passwords

New in Portable FileZilla 3.26.1 (Jun 3, 2017)

  • Fixed crash if changing password settings and the Site Manager contains subdirectories
  • *nix: Fixed saving of sites having more than one site-specific bookmark

New in Portable FileZilla 3.26.0 (Jun 2, 2017)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • When changing or removing the master password, update protected credentials of server items in the transfer queue
  • Fix display of remember checkbox when showing the password entry dialog for sites that have no username set and are using the "Ask" logon type
  • Some icons were missing in the Windows .zip binary archive

New in Portable FileZilla 3.25.2 (May 2, 2017)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP components have been updated and are now based on PuTTY 0.69
  • Fixed potential stall during the final listing operation when finishing a queue which contained uploads

New in Portable FileZilla 3.25.1 (Mar 21, 2017)

  • Fixed timeout detection

New in Portable FileZilla 3.24.0 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Fixed a possible crash if sending FTP commands fails during a directory listing operation

New in Portable FileZilla 3.24.0 RC 1 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • The context menu for remote file search results now has a "Copy URL(s) to clipboard" item
  • Alt+number can now be used to switch between tabs in addition to Ctrl+number
  • SFTP hostkey fingerprints are now also shown as base64 encoded SHA256 hashes to match the new format displayed by OpenSSH
  • Errors at the end of SFTP transfers now correctly result in transfer failures instead
  • Cancelling synchronized browsing questions no longer prevents further directory changes
  • Fix display issues for the filter conditions dialog
  • Fix deleting multiple extensions on the filetype page in the settings

New in Portable FileZilla 3.23.0.2 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • Key file paths entered in the Site Manager are now saved to corresponding server entries in the transfer queue
  • MSW: Work around a bug in wxWidgets causing bad icons in the remote directory tree due to wxImageList::GetBitmap errorneously stripping the alpha channel from images
  • Allow relative paths and environment variables in the "Cache directory" setting.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.23.0.1 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Work around a bug in wxWidgets that has been causing a virtually infinite loop when deleting toolbar buttons

New in Portable FileZilla 3.23.0 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Speed up icon scaling and cache scaled icons for faster subsequent loading. The cache directory can be changed through fzdefaults.xml using the "Cache directory" setting
  • Loading a corrupted layout.xml or search.xml no longer shows an error message, these files are now silently overwritten
  • MSW: Fixed a regression where UNC paths where not handled correctly as config location in fzdefaults.xml

New in Portable FileZilla 3.22.2.2 (Nov 18, 2016)

  • Fixed trimming of FEAT response lines leading to incorrectly detected server features

New in Portable FileZilla 3.22.1 (Oct 28, 2016)

  • Fixed a potential crash when using SFTP

New in Portable FileZilla 3.20.1 (Aug 4, 2016)

  • Fixed rename file exists action on downloads
  • Fixed possible crash if disabling log abbreviation
  • Official binaries now link against a patched version of GnuTLS so that a better error message can be printed on broken servers that send malformed certificate chains

New in Portable FileZilla 3.20.0 (Jul 30, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Display error message if entering a non-existing path on local file search
  • Building and running FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.6.1 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).

New in Portable FileZilla 3.19.0 (Jun 30, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.5.3 (https://lib.filezilla-project.org/).
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed context menu in search dialog if not connected to server
  • OS X, *nix: Fix displayed text in file list status bar if selecting a single item in the file list out of multiple already selected items

New in Portable FileZilla 3.18.0 (May 31, 2016)

  • Small fixes to local file search
  • Fixed a regression introduced in 3.18.0-rc1 when formatting hostnames for display

New in Portable FileZilla 3.17.0.1 (May 10, 2016)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • MSW: Quoted the path to the uninstaller when executed from the installer to prevent an attacker from tricking the installer into running some other program instead
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • SFTP: Fixed resuming SFTP transfers
  • MSW: Loading the system default locale no longer fails on systems that have any English locale installed, yet do not have the US-English locale installed
  • Fixed crash if update dialog is opened at the very same moment FileZilla is being closed.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.16.1 (Mar 19, 2016)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • MSW: Updated installer to NSIS 3.0b3 to prevent DLL hijacking
  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix string conversion functions of MiNGW runtime libraries
  • Updated PuTTY components
  • Updated translations
  • Official binaries now link against GnuTLS 3.4.10
  • Official binaries now link against SQLite 3.11.1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.16.0 (Mar 1, 2016)

  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • Small fix for remembering queue completion actions

New in Portable FileZilla 3.15.0.2 (Feb 11, 2016)

  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Binaries are now also signed using a SHA256 signature and certificate.
  • Restore focused item if changing directory listing sort order
  • Fix restoring the column widths of the failed transfers tab in the queue when starting FileZilla
  • MSW: Double-clicking a divider between a list header in the queue now adjust the sizes in the other tabs just as dragging the width would

New in Portable FileZilla 3.15.0.1 (Feb 3, 2016)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix for search dialog not displaying the results from the last visited directory of a search

New in Portable FileZilla 3.15.0 (Feb 3, 2016)

  • New features:
  • MSW: Display notification bubble if FileZilla isn't in the forgeground and all active transfers have finished.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.14.1 Rev 2 (Oct 25, 2015)

  • Fixes an issue with language switching

New in Portable FileZilla 3.14.1 (Oct 22, 2015)

  • New features:
  • For third-party builds, add configure flag to allow using system ciphers for FTP over TLS. Display a warning if an insecure cipher is negotiated as result of using system ciphers.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed loading of the directory comparison flag for bookmakrs in the Site Manager
  • Changing the interface layout and icon theme no longer results in an inconsistent UI state
  • Some SFTP servers send additional information on errors. This information is now shown in the message log
  • If the local file cannot be opened on SFTP transfers FileZilla no longer automatically retries
  • Updated SFTP components from PuTTY

New in Portable FileZilla 3.14.0 (Sep 16, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • When connecting using SFTP, show an error message instead of silently failing when encountering an insecure cipher

New in Portable FileZilla 3.13.1 (Aug 31, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix SFTP component crashing on some combinations of encryption and key exchange algorithm
  • Fixed Ctrl+Shift+I shortcut to toggle filters
  • OS X: Fixed Ctrl+, shortcut to open settings dialog
  • Optimizations to reduce memory footprint
  • Build system fixes

New in Portable FileZilla 3.13.0 (Aug 17, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Display home directory instead of root directory if the last used directory does not exist
  • Larger initial size of main window if there is no stored size
  • Slightly increased size of page selection box in settings dialog
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix assertion in directory listing parser
  • Fix drag&drop of remote files which broke in 3.13.0-rc1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.12.0.2 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix regression on servers that have MLSD facts disabled by default

New in Portable FileZilla 3.12.0.1 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix detection of UTF-8 support
  • Fix location of file list status bar, it was shifted by one pixel

New in Portable FileZilla 3.12.0 (Jul 9, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Directory comparison can be configured for Site Manager entries and bookmarks
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Instead of skipping commands due to spontaneous connection failures while executing a command, reconnect and retry
  • FileZilla no longer shows popup dialogs such as the file exists dialog if another dialog or message box is already shown
  • Improved compatibility with servers sending malformed FEAT replies

New in Portable FileZilla 3.11.0.2 (Jun 4, 2015)

  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a potential crash if a connection gets remotely closed in the same moment a new connection is to be opened
  • Improved compatibility with servers sending pre-epoch timestamps
  • Fixed pt_BR translation

New in Portable FileZilla 3.11.0.1 (May 23, 2015)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Reject Diffie-Hellman Groups smaller than 1024 bits when using FTP over TLS to protect against the Logjam attack
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Do not bind the source IP address of the data connection if the server is not configured properly
  • Deleting bookmarks from the bookmarks dialog no longer deletes the wrong bookmark
  • Fixed CPU compatibility issues on 64bit binaries

New in Portable FileZilla 3.10.3 (Mar 30, 2015)

  • Fixed crash if changing number of simultaneous transfers while transferring files
  • Fixed local filelist statusbar regression introduced in 3.10.3-beta2

New in Portable FileZilla 3.10.2 (Mar 4, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • When finding the local name of a remote file to be edited, use case-insensitive comparison
  • Updated SFTP components from PuTTY
  • MSW: Cleaned up runtime dependencies
  • Fix crash introduced in rc2 when there is no password element for a saved item

New in Portable FileZilla 3.10.1.1 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix editing of files with the same name in different directories

New in Portable FileZilla 3.10.0 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed default file exists actions broken by rc1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.10.0 RC 2 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Added Welsh translation
  • Data type indicator in the status bar now reacts to left-clicks as well
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix crash when displaying the drive list

New in Portable FileZilla 3.10.0 RC 1 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Reduced memory consumption of large queues
  • Preliminary support for Windows 10 technical preview
  • MSW: FileZilla running on a 64bit Windows can now use up to 4GiB of RAM, up from 2GiB
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed memory leaks in SFTP component
  • Fixed fzsftp crashing on disconnect if using keyfiles
  • Various code cleanup and minor fixes

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0.6 (Oct 22, 2014)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Disabled support for legacy SSL 3.0 to address the POODLE vulnerability in SSLv3. (CVE-2014-3566)
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed generic proxy support in IPv6 environments
  • Small improvements of control sizes on high-dpi displays
  • OS X: Fix Drag&Drop while holding down the Ctrl key (or equivalent)
  • Fix potential crash dragging files over an empty list

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0.5 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix auto-updater not being able to download updates

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0.4 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fixed crash if starting file rename in an unusual way
  • OS X: Fixed a bug im wxWidgets so that a right-click after a left-click no longer counts as double-click
  • OS X: Fixed pasting of passwords into the "Enter password" dialog
  • OS X: Fixed context menu site manager tree not working
  • *nix, OS X: Fixed context menu of search dialog not working
  • Fixed loading of resources if FileZilla is installed in a directory containing the # character
  • Fixed support for SOCKS4 proxies
  • Attempt reading settings from temporary backup files if loading of settings files fails

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0.3 (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Fix potential crash on connection failures
  • Fixed navigating through the different controls in FileZilla's main window using the Tab key
  • OS X: If FileZilla becomes the active program, the focus no longer jumps to the quickconnect bar
  • MSW: Improve compatibility with DFS network shares

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0.2 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Handle setting files redirected using symbolic links
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Updated installer to fix an issue with re-registring the shell extension after a reboot on 32bit system if a another program keeps the extension locked
  • Closing FileZilla during a recursive operation no longer hangs
  • OS X: Manually handle CMD+V and CMD+A for password fields as Cocoa cannot seem to do it by itself
  • OS X: Manually handle CMD+X, CMD+C, CMD+V and CMD+A in the path combo boxes
  • OS X: Creating new tabs selects the newly created tab again
  • Detect some types TLS error conditions earlier instead of waiting for a timeout
  • Small performance imprvement for TLS handshakes
  • Do not show error message if "Create and enter" is used with synchronized browsing enabled

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0.1 (Jul 23, 2014)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix installation issue with locked DLLs affecting users of 32bit Windows

New in Portable FileZilla 3.9.0 (Jul 22, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added Lao translation
  • Added an additional icon set
  • OS X: Holding modifier key while clicking Site Manager toolbar icon now shows the site dropdown menu
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Fix assertion when entering UNC paths
  • Fix button layout of editing dialogs
  • *nix, OS X: Small performance improvement recursing through local directories

New in Portable FileZilla 3.8.1 (Jun 3, 2014)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Updated official binaries to use GnuTLS 3.2.15, addressing CVE-2014-3466
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed several small memory leaks

New in Portable FileZilla 3.8.0 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Popup dialogs no longer automatically open if other dialogs are already open. This prevents FileZilla from becoming unresponsive on OS X
  • Fix calculation of current transfer speed. In some situations the transfer speed tooltip over the activity indicators showed negative speeds
  • Fix handling of focus item in local directory listings if connecting to a site with a default local directory

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.4.1 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix detection of modified files
  • Additional fixes for site-specific bookmark handling

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.4 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added SOCKS4 support
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Additional bugfix for site-specific bookmarks
  • Improve compatibility with servers sending directory listings in Polish language or in EBCDIC encoding
  • Handle set user id bit when populating permissions dialog.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.4 RC 1 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Added Corsican and Kabyle translations
  • SFTP now supports the hmac-sha2-256 algorithm
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • MSW: Show local timestamps for old files using the correct daylight saving time (DST) offset.
  • Fix loading of transfer queue if starting FileZilla while another instance is in the process of shutting down
  • Fix interaction between site-specific bookmarks and multiple tabs
  • Don't resume uploads when there's zero octets left to transfer
  • Improve symbolic link detection when using MLSD
  • If processing a queue with files queued on multiple servers and not storing passwords, the password was not always asked prior to switching servers
  • Use the correct name element when importing sites
  • MSW: Show actual Windows version in about dialog regardless of app-compat settings

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.3 (Aug 8, 2013)

  • Merge further fixes from PuTTY to address CVE-2013-4206, CVE-2013-4207, CVE-2013-4208

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.2 (Aug 8, 2013)

  • Fixed vulnerabilities:
  • Apply a fix for a security vulnerability in PuTTY as used in FileZilla to handle SFTP. See CVE-2013-4852 for reference.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Provided Linux binaries are now built against Debian Wheezy

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.1.1 (Jul 3, 2013)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Minor bump for installer changes

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.1 (Jun 20, 2013)

  • Updated translations
  • New features:
  • Add command-line option to specify initial local directory
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Prevent file lists from jumping when they are not supposed to

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.0.2 (May 27, 2013)

  • Fix freeze if trying to transfer files with multiple servers each with a connection limit of 1
  • Adjust accepted X.509 signature algorithms in TLS 1.2 mode

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.0.1 (May 13, 2013)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a bug in bundled GnuTLS affecting FileZilla 3.7.0
  • Updated translations

New in Portable FileZilla 3.7.0.1 RC1 (May 13, 2013)

  • New features:
  • Show total transfer speed as tooltip over the transfer indicators
  • List supported protocols in tooltip of host field in quickconnect bar
  • Use TLS instead of the deprecated term SSL
  • Reworded text when saving of passwords is disabled, do not refer to kiosk mode
  • Improved usability of Update page in settings dialog
  • Improve SFTP performance
  • When navigating to the parent directory, highlight the former child
  • When editing files, use high priority for the transfers
  • Add label to size conditions in filter conditions dialog indicating that the unit is bytes
  • Ignore drag&drop operations where source and target are identical and clarify the wording in some drop error cases
  • Trim whitespace from the entered port numbers
  • Slightly darker color of inactive tabs
  • Ignore .. item in the file list context menus if multiple items are selected
  • Display TLS version and key exchange algorithm in certificate and encryption details dialog for FTP over TLS connections.
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix handling of remote paths containing double-quotes
  • Fix crash when opening local directories in Explorer if the name contained characters not representable in the locale's narrow-width character set.
  • Fix a memory leak in the host key verification dialog for SFTP
  • Fix drag-scrolling in file lists with very low height
  • Don't attempt writing XML files upon loading them
  • Improve handling of legacy DDE file associations
  • Fix handling of HTTPS in the auto updater in case a mirror redirects to HTTPS

New in Portable FileZilla 3.6.0.2 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix problems with stalling FTP over TLS uploads
  • MSW: Minor performance increase listing local files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.6.0.1 (Nov 20, 2012)

  • Fix problems with TLS cipher selection, including a bugfix for GnuTLS
  • Fix a crash on shutdown
  • Add log message for servers not using UTF-8
  • Small performance and memory optimizations getting file types
  • Improve formatting of transfer speeds

New in Portable FileZilla 3.6.0 (Nov 14, 2012)

  • Fix a crash introduced since 3.5.3
  • IPv6-only hosts should no longer cause a crash in the network configuration wizard

New in Portable FileZilla 3.5.3 (Jan 10, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Ctrl+Shift+O can be used to toggle between modification time and filesize based directory comparison
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • It is now possible to use custom passwords if using "anonymous" as user name
  • After un-hiding toolbar, update toolbar button states
  • Fix TLS compatibility issues with TLS 1.2 servers
  • MSW: Unset hidden attribute on FileZilla's settings files
  • Building FileZilla from source now requires wxWidgets 2.8.12 or higher.

New in Portable FileZilla 3.5.1 (Aug 30, 2011)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Add support for another rate variant of MVS style directory listings

New in Portable FileZilla 3.5.0 (May 24, 2011)

  • Don't create queue.xml anymore if it does not exist
  • MSW: Progress lines in transfer queue now appear in correct position after changing the Windows theme
  • MSW: Work around a bug in Windows where a list controls' scroll position changes without the control being notified in any way
  • Several fixes to build system and environment

New in Portable FileZilla 3.4.0 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Updated translations

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.5.1 (Nov 23, 2010)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Permanently trusting certificates had no effect until FileZilla was restarted
  • Fix downloading of symbolic links to files

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.5 (Nov 19, 2010)

  • Updated language files, otherwise identical with rc1

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.4.1 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Set a minimum size for column widths in directory lists and transfer queue
  • Fix build-time check for system TinyXML

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.4 (Aug 14, 2010)

  • Correctly handle symbolic links pointing to files in search dialog
  • Fix crash in options initialization

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.3 (Jun 23, 2010)

  • Fix transfer statusbar regression introduced in the release candidate
  • Do not include IPv6 zone index in the argument to the EPRT command
  • Correct tab order in filter edit and search dialogs
  • *nix: Revert cursor changes

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.1 (Jan 14, 2010)

  • Implement missing tab creation from context menu
  • *nix: Reduce flicker on tab creation
  • Set initial focus in chmod dialog to input box for numeric value
  • Correct handling of unexpected closure of SFTP connection

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.0.1 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to cycle tabs now loop around if reaching the end of the tab list
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix crash on showing/hiding of directory trees after closing a tab
  • Tabs no longer become unresponsive if not approving to close a busy tab
  • Directory comparison did not work properly on all but the first tab
  • Fix spurious error messages if connecting to a new site while synchronized browsing is enabled
  • *nix: Work around a bug in KDE preventing restore from minimize to notification area
  • Do not show update dialog if there is already some other dialog open
  • Fix synchronized browsing option on site-specific bookmarks

New in Portable FileZilla 3.3.0 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • Aborting a previous connection attempt by establishing a new connection in the same tab no longer renderes the new connection unusable
  • nix: Quote filenames containing spaces if editing using default editor for text files
  • nix: Fix crash while emitting queue finished notifications

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.8.1 (Oct 20, 2009)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix crash if creating filters with attributes or permissions rule
  • MSW: Fix column reordering and hiding in file lists
  • MSW: Fix crash if trying to edit a file without any associated program nor default editor
  • Use REST+STOR to resume upload instead of APPE if server advertises REST STREAM support

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.8 (Oct 20, 2009)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Changing directories at the same time an upload finishes no longer disturbs synchronized browsing

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.8 RC1 (Oct 20, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Replacement of characters not allowed in local filenames if downloading
  • Remember last used search conditions
  • Display link overlay on icons of links in remote file list
  • Display of average transfer speed should converge faster to overall average
  • Simplify default file exists action dialogs
  • Apply decimal places size formatting option also to total queue size
  • MSW: Reduce number of needed user interactions in installer if update started from within FileZilla
  • MSW: Check that there are no running instances of FileZilla before installing
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Fix handling of remote directory names with leading or trailing spaces
  • Increase default size of SO_RCVBUF (TCP advertised window) to fix performance issues on high-latency connections
  • MSW: Fix displaying list of shares on local network resources
  • MSW: Remote file editing no longer gets confused if two filenames only differ in character case
  • Fix dialog line wrapping issues
  • Ensure width of site manager is large enough to fit all tabs
  • Better guard against filename columns being moved or hidden

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.7.1 (Aug 27, 2009)

  • Fix crash if adding new filters
  • Small performance optimization for local directory tree

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.7 (Aug 27, 2009)

  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Make external address resolver IPv6 aware, resolve correct address type on hosts both with working IPv4 as well as IPv6
  • Bumped minimum required GnuTLS version to 2.8.3
  • Keep URLs copied to clipboard even after FZ gets closed

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.6.1 (Jul 3, 2009)

  • Fix FTP over TLS regressions in provided binaries due to two bugs in GnuTLS causing transfer failures
  • Keep bookmarks menu sorted after adding new bookmarks

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.4.1 (May 18, 2009)

  • Allow empty fact values in MLSD listings as allowed by the specifications
  • Recognize symlink entries in MLSD listings
  • Fix redundant file exists prompts after chosing rename file exists action
  • Update item in queue after rename file exists action
  • Fix reconnect delays in case login failed with 5yz reply code

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.2.1 (Feb 24, 2009)

  • Fix local directory creation during downloads. If multiple directory levels were missing, they were created in the reverse order
  • MSW: Restore ability to navigate to drive list through .. entry in local file list

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.2 (Feb 21, 2009)

  • Display password prompt if connecting to sites with Ask or Interactive logon type through bookmarks
  • Fix parsing of default remote directories in site manager if using non-default server type

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.1 (Feb 10, 2009)

  • New iconset: Minimal

New in Portable FileZilla 3.2.0 (Jan 8, 2009)

  • Fix account logon type in combination with FTP proxies

New in Portable FileZilla 3.1.6 (Dec 19, 2008)

  • New features:
  • Automatically refresh remote directory listing if queue finishes successfully
  • Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Speed up refresh of remote directory listing if adding files during uploads
  • Connections no longer time out waiting on a directory listing getting retrieved by a different connection
  • Number of files were not updated if deleting remote files
  • MSW: Update manifest so that the evil filesystem virtualization stays disabled under Vista