2017 Archive

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.28.0.

The security and automation of file transfers has become easier for all enterprises – large and small - to use and integrate with the release of the latest version of SFTPPlus MFT.

SFTPPlus MFT is a software suite for managed file transfer (MFT) with Client and Server that may be licensed and used as standalone modules or together as a MFT solution. SFTPPlus MFT provides functionality to automate file transfers between systems, users inside an organization and with third-parties. The software is designed to work on major operating systems including Windows, Linux and UNIX. SFTPPlus MFT supports the most popular file transfer protocols like FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS and WebDAV and provides external authentication support, integration with built-in and external logging solutions and audit functionality. SFTPPlus MFT also integrates with external encryption solutions and offers an API for third-party integrations.

SFTPPlus MFT suite has become the main product of the company which is continuously developed and supported using automated tests, high-quality assurance and documentation. Security, correctness, functionality and performance as well as integration support and no vendor lock-in are key requirements of SFTPPlus MFT.

Tim Adams, Director, said “We have found an increasing demand from customers who do not want vendor lock-in with proprietary protocols and prefer a solution that can be quickly installed to use basic functions and are then delighted to find the extra functions that are typically only available with high cost solutions. Part of our mission has always been to make high end functionality available with a cost-effective and affordable product.”

New features and functionality have been added – in many cases this is driven by customer requests as well as market needs – and includes those required due to changes in FIPS, PCI and other security standards.

A new website has been launched at sftpplus.com which has added new pricing and discount information to ensure new customers can quickly find information they need and access further information through trials and documentation. Discounts are not only available for larger deployments but also for small companies in order to encourage and enable best practice for every enterprise of any size.

Tim Adams, Director, said “We encourage new customers to take a free, supported trial to see the ease with which the software can be installed and used in order to explore the rich functionality and features. Our consultants will be happy to help with best practice and discuss integration, if required. We are always pleased to work with companies of all sizes where needs may be a single Server or Client as well as with large enterprises and government where needs may be for an enterprise wide solution that requires integration with other systems.”

Adi Roiban, CTO, said “We have listened carefully to customers who are keen to use open standards and require a solution that helps ensure security of data while enabling many options for automation and authentication. Our larger customers need a product that can be integrated with existing workflow and other systems and can also be installed on multiple operating systems.”

“Key to our success has been our team of developers and support specialists who ensure that SFTPPlus MFT fits customer needs whether on legacy systems or latest technology and they will assist, if required, with use of features and best practice as well as help with integration.”

“We see increasing demands due to changing requirements to meet FIPS, PCI and other security standards. We work closely with customers to ensure that current and future needs are met in a timely way with functionality that is based on the RFC and specific standards as well as particular integration or other use.”

Our worldwide customer profile includes government agencies and businesses large and small across Europe, USA, Middle East, Asia, Australia and Far East. Pro:Atria also works with integrators and system design teams including IBM, DXC, Fujitsu, Capita and Tata (amongst others). Customers are from all sectors including retail, financial, manufacturing, healthcare, education and transport as well as government agencies and departments. Support is provided by our team of staff who are based across Europe.

For more information on SFTPPlus MFT and how Pro:Atria can help secure and automate file transfers go to - sftpplus.com.

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About Pro:Atria Ltd

Pro:Atria was founded in 2001 in the UK and provides commercial on-premise software products and support to it’s worldwide client base. Its flagship product, SFTPPlus MFT, enables enterprise users and IT teams to secure and automate file transfers across a wide range of platforms that includes Windows, Unix and Linux. The original SFTPPlus product was launched in 2005 and has been under continuous development since then.

With customers that include government agencies and businesses - large and small - Pro:Atria also works with integrators and system design teams on a worldwide basis. Support is provided by its team of staff who are based across Europe.

Our mission is to provide a cost-effective and secure software product with a rich feature list for authentication, automation and integration together with the highest quality service, ensuring that enterprises of all sizes can secure and automate their data transfers both internally and externally with third parties. Data is secured using open standards that include the protocols FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS - amongst others.

For more information, visit our web site.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.27.0.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.26.0.

New Features

• It is now possible for the LDAP authentication to accept a direct username. In this way you, can leverage the Active Directory implementation and authentication using the User Principal Name (UPN). [server-side] [#4352]

Defect Fixes

• An internal server error is no longer emitted for long uploads taking more than 15 minutes to complete over HTTP/HTTPS. [server-side][http][https] [#2533]
• Stopping the SFTPPlus during a transfer which is pending a reconnection, the stop procedure is no longer delayed until all reconnection retries are exhausted. [client-side] [#2656]
• The WebDAV location will detect changes into folders, when the letter cases in the configured path does not match the cases on the server. [client-side][http][https] [#3945-1]
• The WebDAV location can now get members and attributes for paths containing the + (plus) character, as well as detecting changes into folders with such names. [client-side][http][https] [#3945]
• When the destination of a transfer is changed, the Local Manager will not mark the transfer as requiring a restart. Unless the transfer is restarted, the files are transferred using the destination defined a start time. [client-side] [#4245]
• The event with ID 10079 was updated to show the reason of the failure. [ftp][ftps][server-side] [#4326]
• The references to recursive transfers were removed, as recursive transfers are not yet supported. Recursive transfers were never supported, and we have accidentally referenced them in the documentation and the administration UI. [client-side] [#4367]

Deprecations and Removals

• Support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003 was removed. If you are still using these operating systems, please get in touch with us. [#3415]
• Events with IDs 30009, 30010 and 30066 were replaced by the generic event with ID 30008. [server-side][sftp] [#4326]

You can check the full release notes.

Please take note the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.25.1.

The release fixed the following defects:

When using the client-shell with a FTP/FTPS location, the path attributes will show the modified time assuming that the server is in the same timezone as the client. [ftp][ftps][client-side] [#3038]

When using OS and application accounts containing @ in their names, the home folder is no longer automatically translating the @ character to the dot (.) character. [server-side] [#4257]

No removals, deprecations or features were added in this release.

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.25.0.

This release adds the following new supported platform:

Ubuntu Server 16.04 on ARM64 (ARMv8-A/AArch64) [#4321]

The release fixed the following defect:

When downloading files over WebDAV, the file content is now correctly transferred.

In the previous version, small files (below 10kB) might have be transferred without content and larger files (over 10kB) may have the last few bytes missing. [client-side][http][webdav] [#4329]

Please take note of the following removal:

Support for Ubuntu Server 14.04 on ARM64 (ARMv8-A/AArch64) was removed. Please contact us if you still need to deploy on this Ubuntu version. [#4321]

You can check the full release notes.

We are announcing the release of SFTPPlus version 3.24.1, which is a defect fix only release. No new functionalities have been added.

The release fixed the following defects:

• When a failure occurs rotating a Local File Handler event handler, the error is now logged properly and the event handler will stop after a specified number of failures.
• Timeouts for HTTP and WebDAV requests were increased from 15 to 30 seconds for download requests and from 20 to 120 seconds for file upload requests.
• An internal server error is no longer generated when uploading large files to a WebDAV server.

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus version 3.24.0.

This release adds the following new functionalities:

• The Past Activity page, accessible from Local Manager, now has an option to download all events in CSV format.
• The WebDAV location now supports the get_attributes client shell command. [http][https][webdav][client-side]
• The Solaris 10 and 11 packages for SPARC are now only available in 32bit in order to keep Python's memory usage low.
• SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 with Security Module is now a supported platform, providing stronger cryptography than base SLES 11, with support for TLS 1.2 and SHA2.
• The OpenSSL version distributed in our Windows version was updated to OpenSSL 1.1.0f. [ftps][https]
• Transient errors generated while watching a location will now emit an event. [client-side]

The release fixed the following defects:

• You can now run file uploads taking longer than 20 seconds. A timeout is no longer raised after 20 seconds when performing a long upload over HTTP, as long as chunks are transferred with a delay smaller than 20 seconds. [http][https][client-side]
• A defect was fixed which previously allowed bad configurations for the structured_fields Local File Event Handler configuration option.
• An internal error is not triggered when a local file event handler with time based rotation has a bad configuration.

Please take note of the following deprecations and removals:

• The following events where renamed as part of event ID reorganization. Please ensure to check your usage of the following event IDs: Event with ID 32001 was renamed to 30004, 70001 to 30071, 70002 to 30072, 70003 to 30073, 70005 to 30075, 70006 to 30076, 70007 to 30077, 70008 to 30078, 80002 to 10102, 80003 to 10103, 80004 to 10104, 80005 to 10105, 80006 to 10106.
• Standard support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was removed. RHEL 5 has reached the end of production phase. Please contact us if you need extended life-cycle support.
• The Windows renamed installation file is no longer provided as part of the standard download files. Please contact us if you are not able to download the standard Windows installation kit.

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.23.0.

This release adds the following new functionality:

• The Local File Event Handler now includes a header when log entries are stored using the CSV format.

This release fixes the following defects:

• FTP client-side transfer now works with FTP servers which don't support the FEAT command. [ftp][ftps][client-side] [#4180]
• For WebDAV client-side operation, the authentication token is automatically refreshed once it is no longer valid. [http][https][client-side] [#4194]

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.22.0.

This release adds the following new functionalities:

• The Local File Event Handler can now rotate files daily on a certain time.
• It is now possible to configure the certificate chain advertised by the SFTPPlus services which act as SSL/TLS servers.
• You can now define the filter for an event handler based on the structured data associated to the event.

The release also fixed the following defects:

• The time based log rotation now occurs exactly at the configured time, not only when a new event is emitted.
• HTTP/HTTPS client-side connections which take more than 15 seconds to be initialized, more than 20 seconds to send the headers once connection is established, more than 15 seconds to send a fragment of the body content, are now considered stalled and are closed with a timeout error.

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.21.0.

This fixes a security issue related to the execution of the FTP LIST command for an OS account. This security issue was introduced in 3.17.0.

Users that are on SFTPPlus version 3.17.0 are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version containing the fix, 3.21.0.

Environments that use both OS and application accounts are affected.

Environments that only use SFTP, that only use application accounts or only use OS accounts exclusively are not affected.

Overview of the fix.

When executing the FTP LIST command for an OS account, it will no longer put on hold the whole SFTPPlus process running under that OS account while the LIST command is executed.

In this case, if the command is executed under the OS account and during that command execution, a file is uploaded by the application account, the command is not on hold and subsequently the uploaded file is owned by the application account.

Alternatively, if a command is executed towards an account (such as an FTP LIST command), SFTPlus is still responsive and can accept new connections and perform other operations. This is the case even if there is a connection timeout configured with the service - the connection (both data and commands) should not be closed as it processes the commands.

In addition, should there be a log rotation occurring during the list process, the log process should also be owned by the SFTPPlus process account and not the OS account.

Upgrading your version of SFTPPlus can be done with very minimal disruption to existing services or users. Please follow the upgrade procedures available in our Documentation.

In this release we have introduced support for FreeBSD 10 on Intel X86_64.

You can now store the server log in CSV format in order to get structured logging.

The following are some of the defect fixes targeted in this release:

• A transfer with a WebDAV source location will no longer fail at runtime if the WebDAV server is temporary unavailable.
• A transfer with a WebDAV source location will no longer fail at runtime if the proxy server is temporary unavailable.
• When failing to close the source or destination file for a transfer, the failure is no longer ignored and the transfer failure is observed.
• The audit message emitted after an account is successfully authenticated now include the correct information about the local path used by that account and whether it is locked.
• When using the FTP LIST command with an explicit path, the member's name in the resulting listing will no longer include the parent path.

You can check the full release notes.

SFTPPlus version 3.20.1 was release as a bugfix release.

It fixes that SFTP server side defect in which SFTP client connection hangs when the quit command is issued by the client, as the command was ignored by the server.

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.20.0.

Starting with this release, SharePoint Online server is a supported location for client-side transfer. Now you can set up transfers to push or pull files to a SharePoint Online site as part of the Office 365 suite.

In this release we have introduced support for Solaris 10 11/06 U3. It can be used for any Solaris 10 releases up to (and including) U7.

The LDAP authentication method was updated to allow filtering the accepted LDAP entries based on a LDAP search filter. Also regarding LDAP authentication, it is now possible to authenticate LDAP entries which are located inside the LDAP tree in multiple branches. For example, you can authenticate users from multiple organizations, each organization having its own sub-tree.

The following are some of the defect fixes targeted in this release:

• The SSL/TLS shutdown operation was updated to abort the connection when the remote peer is no longer actively undergoing the shutdown. The connection is aborted if the shutdown sequence needs more than 2 seconds to complete.
• When the SCP server-side service successfully received an uploaded file, it will close the process with exit code 0.
• The Local File event handler will now detect failures occurred during operation and will stop the handler.

You can check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.19.0.

The target of this release is fixing a series of defects.

In this release we have introduced support for macOS Sierra (10.12) with the OpenSSL 1.0.2 provided by the Homebrew project, making TLS 1.2 supported on Apple OS X.

The following are some of the defect fixes targeted in this release:

• When a resource is disconnected it will now be in the Disconnected state instead of the previous Stalled state. When the source or destination for a transfer are not available the state will be Source has failed or Destination has failed instead of the previous Stalled state.
• A transfer with scheduled resume/stop action will no longer have the actions active after the transfer was stopped.
• Fix the issue when event data is not displayed in the "Attached data" section on event details page. The page is available from "Past activity" page ("Local Manager") by clicking on any event link.
• An internal server error is no longer produced when the SSH server is sending a global request.
• Installing on Linux with partitions mounted with noexec or with SELinux restriction will no longer trigger a MemoryError.
• The restart required label is no longer displayed for components which are in the process of being started, but only for those which are already started and operational.
• The configuration file for the SFTP service which is created by default as part of the installation process was fixed to point to the right DSS/DSA private key. It was wrongly pointing to the RSA key. The configuration file should be dsa_private_key = configuration/ssh_host_dsa_key instead of the wrong dsa_private_key = configuration/ssh_host_rsa_key.
• An internal error is no longer raised when calling the admin-commands command line tool with unknown parameters.
• Globbing/wildcard operation are now available for the FTP NLST command. This regression was introduced in 3.17.0.
• The stop operation for a SFTP location will no longer hang when stopping from the stalled or disconnected state.
• Monitoring a SFTP location for changes will no longer hang for a SFTP transfer when the folder listing operation is done in the same time as the remote server is closing the connection.

You can check the full release notes.