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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.

We are pleased to announce the latest release of SFTPPlus, version 3.8.0.

In this release we expanded the list of supported Linux distribution to include Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on X86_64. We have also added an experimental Linux build for hardened distribution build with an OpenSSL without SSLv3.

Here is the list of the important new functionalities:

• Event with ID 10042 is now emitted for all FTP command channels which are not closed in a clean way. [ftp][ftps]
• Add support for Syslog over TCP as documented in RFC 6587. [syslog]

This release was focused on reducing the number of known defects and improving the quality of the product. Here is the list of the main defects fixed in this release:

• Transfers that process multiple files in distinct batches are working now.
• Syslog messages are now formatted according to RFC 3164 also known as syslog-bsd.
• Fix new line delimiter conversion for server-side FTP downloads in ASCII mode.]

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