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We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.11.0.

This release adds SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 to the list of supported SUSE versions.

The support for certificate revocation list was extended in this version to support loading CRLs over HTTP and supporting multiple CRLs for a single service.

Here is the list with the main new features:

• It is now possible to configure a list of ciphers used by the SSH based services. You can now configure the accepted symmetric encryption, key exchange and MAC algorithms. [sftp][scp]
• It is now possible to load CRLs from local filesystem in both PEM and DER format. Previously only the PEM format was supported.

Here is the list of the most important defects fixed in this release:

• Database event handlers will now resume once the associated database becomes available again.
• The state of a transfer is now correctly reported as stopped, when the transfer was stopped while in the stalled state.

You can also check the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.10.1. This is a bug fix only release, no new features were added.

We continue to focus on improving the quality of SFTPPlus by fixing any defect which is know to us, big or small:

• Account activity audit database is indexed for improved performance.
• Fixed an internal server error encountered when stopping a location and/or transfer.
• Files that are being kept open by other processes are skipped by transfers until they are closed by all other processes.

For more details, including the full list of changes, please see the full release notes.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.10.0.

In this release we have improved the FTP implementation to allow configuring the default data type used by FTP/FTPS transfers.

In SFTPPlus, the default data type is IMAGE/binary, but for compatibility with the FTP RFC, you can configure the ASCII/text data type as the default type.

You can also check the full release notes.

We are announcing that SFTPlus Server version 1.8 has reached end of life.

As described in our Product Life Cycle page, SFTPPlus version 1.8 was released on 03/10/2012.

The end of life was reached on 08/04/2016, 3 years after version 2 was released.

Security and other features have been updated in later versions and new functionality added under our development programme. An upgrade is recommended in order to take advantage of all such updates and enhancements. The upgrade is free of charge and fully supported.

Customers can continue to use SFTPPlus Server version 1.8 as there is no limitation build in SFTPPlus which prevent using the product past its end of life.

Customers which require extended support for SFTPPus Server version 1.8 can get in touch with us to arrange the extended support.

SFTPPlus Server version 2 continues to be supported until 17/09/2018.

No end of life is announced yet for SFTPPlus version 3, but it will supported for at least another 3 years after a end of life date is announced.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.9.0.

In this release we improved the fault-tolerant capabilities for the client-side transfers.

Another important change is the usage of database indexes for the audit/log entries stored in a database. This result in fast navigation and search of log entries with a huge number of entries.

Here is the list of the important new functionalities:

• Allow configuring rules for re-trying failed connection to a location. This will result in a fault-tolerant location.
• Add configuration option to filter an event based on account names.
• It is now possible to configure the FTP and FTPS services to pretend that ASCII data type is supported, while the actual data is transferred in IMAGE mode.

We continue to focus on improving the quality of SFTPPlus by fixing any defect which is know to us, big or small. Here is the list of the main defects fixed in this release:

• Log entries stored in databases are indexed for improved performance.
• Transfers for which the source location has failed are now entering the Stalled state and will be automatically resumed once the location is available.

These are just the highlights of this release. For more details, including the full list of changes, please see the full release notes.