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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.