What's new in WatchFTP 4.5.0
Feb 5, 2024
- New: WatchFTP is now compatible with the latest secure login methods (like TLS 1.3).
- Improved: WatchFTP will reuse its FTP connections longer, less disconnect/connects.
- Fix: Rare cases of the WatchFTP control center crashing at startup are fixed.
- Fix: The email address you enter as the sender was ignored.
New in WatchFTP 4.2.1.0 (Jun 13, 2019)
- Fixed: Connecting with new versions of GlobalScape SFTP servers failed.
- New: You can now export private keys.
- New: You can now set the "From" email address for your email actions.
New in WatchFTP 4.1.7.0 (Jan 8, 2018)
- Fixed: Connecting with new versions of WS_FTP SFTP servers failed.
- Improved: When you use Keep Session Log for debugging issues, those logs could get very large. Logs older than a few days are now zipped (and deleted after 7 days).
- Improved: On the Advanced Settings you can now set a timeout for WatchFTP to connect, previously WatchFTP would always abort after 20 seconds.
- Fixed: WatchFTP would ignore all files/directories with names starting with a ".". By default WatchFTP will still ignore those but you can now tell WatchFTP to process those files on Advanced Settings.
- New: Create local directories early. Older WatchFTP releases created local (Windows) directories as soon as they were detected on your FTP server. Version 4 only creates those directories when needed (for a file to download). You can now set an option to restore the old behavior.
New in WatchFTP 4.0.3.0 (May 31, 2017)
- Fixed: When using multiple download threads (especially on SFTP downloads), downloads could get very slow.
- Fixed: When using multiple download threads AND the email action there was a chance the filenames inside those emails could get mixed up.
New in WatchFTP 4.0.2.0 (May 26, 2017)
- An issue was fixed that caused connection faillures
New in WatchFTP 4.0.1.0 (May 8, 2017)
- Private Key Support
- Dynamic Naming
- Multithreaded Downloads
- Task Groups
- and a lot more
New in WatchFTP 3.8.0.0 (Jan 6, 2017)
- A new option to "Force Host IP Address", used when connecting Passively on Secure connections.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.9.0 (Feb 18, 2016)
- WatchFTP sometimes used a wrong encoding when using accented characters for your password.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.8.0 (Nov 27, 2015)
- When you backup a task with an accented name, the WatchFTP Control Center would crash upon import
New in WatchFTP 3.7.7.0 (Nov 16, 2015)
- Improved: When "Keep FTP Session Log" and/or WxRemote's "Last Message" support is enabled, WatchFTP was using a lot of CPU causing the task to run very slow. This has been fixed and tasks run a lot faster now.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.6.0 (Aug 3, 2015)
- When you enter a wrong date or time format for the Email Action, the task crashed.
- Tasks could hang upon computer shutdown, causing Windows to abort the task, causing corrupted task settings and history.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.5.6 (May 18, 2015)
- The option to remove empty FTP directories did not work for some FTP servers
- Better support for OpenVMS FTP servers
- When a download fails halfway, WatchFTP will reconnect and try to resume the download
- When you have a task that deletes FTP files after several hours and the file is downloaded a second time (because it has changed), the delete will be delayed again
New in WatchFTP 3.7.4 (Jan 30, 2015)
- In some cases WatchFTP did not use the MLSD command to list FTP directories. This has been fixed.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.3 (Oct 13, 2014)
- The email action did not always close the connection to the SMTP server. Some SMTP servers do not reuse open connections causing them to run out of connections.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.2 (Aug 16, 2014)
- In some cases, after downloading very large files, some FTP servers do not send a final "success" reply. WatchFTP interpreted this as a failure to download and restarted the download. This release will first reconnect and check if the file was properly downloaded.
New in WatchFTP 3.7.1 (Jul 3, 2014)
- Bugfix: Previous releases could crash if you used "Filter Directories".
New in WatchFTP 3.7.0 (Jun 13, 2014)
- At startup, WatchFTP will automatically try to repair a corrupt directory list. Previous versions crashed when those files were corrupt.
New in WatchFTP 3.6.6 (Apr 4, 2014)
- The email action did not always properly replace variables.
- The email action now uses sensible defaults for the time and date format.
New in WatchFTP 3.6.5 (Feb 17, 2014)
- New: When you use the new v1.9 release of WxRemote, WatchFTP can send its latest messages (activity) to WxRemote.
- New: SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxy support when connecting to an SFTP server.
- Fixed: When you do not download detected files, WatchFTP will now properly set environment variables for your email and bat script actions.
- Fixed: Previous versions did not support downloading to the root of an UNC path (\\server\share).
New in WatchFTP 3.5.2 (Jan 20, 2014)
- Improved: In rare cases WatchFTP downloaded files that were not changed. This typically happened when the target directory is not a local drive but on the network and there was a little network disruption.
New in WatchFTP 3.5.1 (Jan 11, 2014)
- It is now possible to detect changes on your FTP sites without downloading detected files
- When you remove or change a downloaded file, WatchFTP will not download the FTP file again
- This release supports OpenVMS FTP servers
- The WatchFTP Control Center can optionally be password protected
New in WatchFTP 3.5 Beta 1 (Jun 5, 2013)
- Until v3.4 (the current released version), WatchFTP compared the files on your FTP server
- to the files on your Windows file system to determine if they should be downloaded. This
- way of comparing files causes several problems:
- Files must always be downloaded, even if you only want a notification email for those files
- You could not move, rename or change downloaded files because WatchFTP needed them to compare the FTP files with
- It was quite difficult (sometimes impossible) to properly support FTP servers in other timezones
- In this new beta the file comparison algorithm has changed. Instead of comparing FTP files with downloaded Windows files,
- WatchFTP stores the result of scanning the FTP server in the task directory. This allows WatchFTP to compare
- files on your FTP site with the results of the previous scan.
New in WatchFTP 3.4.5 (Jan 28, 2013)
- The "filter directories" window now supports wildcards (* and ?)
- The "filter directories" window now also has an option to tell which directories to download. Previous versions only allowed you to tell which directories should NOT be downloaded.
- You can now Copy a task (Right-click the task, select Copy).
- The File menu has a new option to Create Backup of the selected task(s).
- The File menu has a new option to Restore task(s) from a backup.
New in WatchFTP 3.3.2.0 (Dec 6, 2012)
- Improved: Better support for extremely long directory and file names. Previous versions were limited to approximately 255 characters in those names, this release allows far longer (~32000 characters) names.
- New: Added support for HTTP proxy when connecting through SFTP.
New in WatchFTP 3.3.0.0 (Oct 29, 2012)
- Fixed: All previous WatchFTP v3 versions did not properly set the timestamps of downloaded files. Besides not looking "nice", this can cause problems when Daylight Saving Time ends, causing files to be downloaded again.
- New: You can now also Run a Batch file after multiple downloads are complete.
- Improved: Better compatibility with some FTP servers.
New in WatchFTP 3.2.0.0 (Sep 26, 2012)
- Improved: When monitoring SFTP sites the speed has been improved. Previously, for each detected file, 2 redundant calls were made to the server. Those have been removed.
- New: The WatchFTP Control Center now shows what each task is doing (task status) next to the download counts. This status can be "Sleeping", "Scanning", "Downloading" or "Stopped".
New in WatchFTP 3.1.0.10 (Sep 5, 2012)
- New: 64 Bit version
- New: SFTP support.
- Due to server problems we advise you to WAIT to download.