FTP Voyager® Release Notes

Check here to read a detailed list of what's new for each recent FTP Voyager release.

FTP Voyager® Version 15.1.0.0

FTP Voyager 15.1.0.0 was released July 16, 2008. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Added Russian installation.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a problem where FTP Voyager's CPU usage would increase over time, when downloading very large files, using excessive amounts of CPU time.
• Corrected a bug where FTP Voyager would incorrectly create a local directory while using folder locking and uploading nested directories.
• Corrected a bug when parsing MLST/MLSD results where certain Asian characters could cause FTP Voyager to hang.
• Corrected a bug where FTP Voyager was not allowing "level 1: CA certificate" (the second level) and higher Certificate Authorities to be verified.

FTP Voyager® Version 15.0.0.3

FTP Voyager 15.0.0.3 was released June 2, 2008. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Updated OpenSSL libraries from 0.9.8g to 0.9.8h.

FTP Voyager® Version 15.0.0.2

FTP Voyager 15.0.0.2 was released May 19, 2008. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Added support for servers supporting UTF-8 encoding.
• Added support for UTF-8 on SSH.
• Added support for the new CSID command. When a server supports this command, FTP Voyager no longer uses the CLNT command. When successful, FTP Voyager uses the return values from the server to identify the server and its capabilities.
• On subsequent connections and reconnects, send the CLNT or CSID command to identify FTP Voyager with the server.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a bug in Synchronize Folders where an empty subdirectory, nested one or more levels deep, could be created in the incorrect directory.
• Corrected a bug when using image thumbnails on images with very large file names or nested very deep on a server, FTP Voyager was unable to build the cache files due to path name limits in Windows
• Corrected a bug where the update notification dialog would appear every 2 hours if an update was available. This notification now only appears every 3 days, as was originally intended.
• Corrected a bug when the server was returning an empty response string, FTP Voyager could appear to hang.

FTP Voyager® Version 15.0.0.1

FTP Voyager 15.0.0.1 was released April 10, 2008. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Added the ability to disable the use of the HOST command for Site Profiles. This option is under the "Advanced | Connection" settings for the site profile.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a problem when sending the new HOST command prior to login. Some firewalls and servers immediately disconnect the connection. During the reconnect FTP Voyager won't reissue the HOST command, instead it continues logging in normally.
• Corrected a rare problem where installation failed on certain computers with an error message about failure to expand a shell folder constant.

FTP Voyager® Version 15.0.0.0

FTP Voyager 15.0.0.0 was released April 2, 2008. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Added support for the new THMB command added by Serv-U 7.0. The THMB command is used to download a smaller version of image files for the remote thumbnail view in FTP Voyager. This feature can substantially increase update time, thumbnail images are usually around 2-3KB as opposed to several MB on the server. Using the THMB command instead of RETR can make thumbnail image retrieval as fast as possible.
• Added support for the new RMDA command added by Serv-U 7.0. The RMDA command works like RMD to remove a directory, but it also removes the contents of a directory in one command. This command substantially decreases the time to remove a directory and its contents.
• Added support for the new HOST command added by Serv-U 7.0. The HOST command is issued immediately after connecting to the server, much like the "Host" header parameter in HTTP. This command allows the server to support multiple domains or sites on a single IP address and port.
• Added support for the new DSIZ command added by Serv-U 7.0. The DSIZ command returns the number of bytes stored in a directory and all contained sub-directories. This command allows FTP Voyager to send a single command to the server instead of drilling into each sub-directory to determine the number of bytes on the server. This value is displayed when the size is determined in properties dialog for single or multiple remote file and folder selections.
• Added support for the new AVBL command added by Serv-U 7.0. The AVBL command returns the number of bytes available to a user in a directory on the server. This value is displayed when the size is determined in properties dialog for single or multiple remote file and folder selections.
• Added Spanish translation.
• Added support for MLST options Win32.dt (Drive Type) and Win32.dl (Drive Label) for MLST and MLSD commands. Serv-U 7.0 introduced these MLST/MLSD options (return values) allowing FTP Voyager to identify a drive type and drive label for disk drives.
• Added icons for remote disk drives such as /C:/ and /D:/. FTP Voyager can clearly identify using icons disk drives and drive types.
• Added drive label support for remote disk drives such as /C:/ and /D:/. FTP Voyager shows the actual drive label, if available, in the tree and list views.
• Removed some very old functionality that would assume /C:/ was the same as / for default directories or the root directory. Starting with Serv-U 7.0, this isn't necessarily the case, the root in Serv-U 7.0 "/" can now be a listing of drives on the server.
• Removed the UNIX permissions validation check found in the file properties dialog, that would prevent CHMOD from being executed on servers that might not be UNIX style servers.
• Added mnemonics for the following pop-up menu options: "Navigation List" (last option when right-clicking the remote or local toolbar), "Explore" when right-clicking a folder in any view, "Send FTP Command" when right-clicking in the remote list view, "Send FTP Command" when right-clicking in the log view, "Refresh" when right-clicking outside the borders of an item in the remote tree view
• Added a check box in the SSL Security Alert dialog allowing the user to avoid being prompted for the same certificate on subsequent connections.
• Improved the wording in the User Interface options for showing the site profile or server name on the title bar.
• Improved the Alternate Editor file extension support to include multiple file extensions, separated by semicolons, and for adding support for wildcard comparisons of the entire file name.
• Added an overwrite warning when attempting to rename a file in the remote list to an existing name in the same directory.
• Added a registry entry for system administrators to disable the ability to store passwords. To disable saving of site profile passwords, create a DWORD value named "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Rhino Software\FTP Voyager\Allow Password Storage" and set the value to 0. 1 enables password saving support. This option is very useful for organizations where regulations or policy don't allow passwords to be saved on computers.
• Added "View Log File" to the log pane right mouse click menu. This option is available only when a log file is specified.
• When using "Manual Put" to upload a file, FTP Voyager no longer renames that file it uploads directly to the specified file.
• Removed the file size check for the thumbnail image cache. Now only file dates and times are checked against the thumbnail cache.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a bug where Power Download may not work in some situations.
• Corrected a listing bug where "NcFTPd Server" UNIX FTP servers do NOT correctly follow the MLST/MLSD specification for directory listings. Prior to listing a file or folder name the server does not include the last semicolon ";" before the file name. For these servers file names containing a semicolon may not properly be shown in FTP Voyager listings.
• Corrected a problem with some servers that do not correctly follow the MLST/MLSD specification in response to the OPTS MLST command. If FTP Voyager can identify required MLST/MLSD options by using the FEAT command, and the server incorrectly returns a response to OPTS MLST, FTP Voyager will still use MLST/MLSD.
• Corrected a bug where the "Skip File" option while downloading would cause FTP Voyager to sometimes crash.
• Corrected a validation problem when creating an SSL certificate. FTP Voyager now verifies that the length of the country code is 2 characters long, which is required for an SSL certificate.
• Corrected a very rare memory leak when attempting to select an SSL certificate that fails to open. Under normal operations this would not occur.
• Corrected a minor graphical imperfection in the right mouse click "Commands" sub-menu.
• Corrected a bug when editing a Site Profile while connected to a server where FTP Voyager's Folder Short Cuts are being used. When a Folder Short Cut was changed from with in the Site Profile Manager while connected, FTP Voyager could crash.
• Corrected an internal problem where adjusting certain registry entries could cause FTP Voyager to store a site profile excessively large. This problem is not something that would happen to most users, other than those who are changing registry entries for configurable options, which isn't recommended.
• Corrected a problem where the "Alternate Editors" and "Auto Rename" dialogs would not bring up the correct context sensitive help.
• Corrected a bug in the About dialog when the cursor was in one of the multi-line edit controls or in the rich text edit control, pressing ESC would cause the sub dialog (the category) disappear.
• Corrected a bug usually found in FTP Voyager Scheduler but also appears in FTP Voyager when using "Manual Get". The problem occurred when downloading files from a VMS server using FTP Voyager Scheduler, FTP Voyager Scheduler would incorrectly create the source directory path. Now it simply uses the current directory and uses the relative file name.
• Corrected a bug where the "Upload newer files only" check box under "View | Options | User Interface | Confirmation" would not work as expected and would eliminate prompting all together.
• Corrected a bug where the Site Profile Manager would not come up when the remote and local trees were disabled and running with the log pane on the bottom instead of the top.
• Corrected a problem where the window could come up "off-screen" when restarting. This is a very rare condition and could only happen when Windows was shut down while FTP Voyager was minimized.
• Corrected a bug in wildcard comparison; comparisons such as "a.011" and "a.0111" to "a.???" would previously pass when they shouldn't have. This affected both FTP Voyager and FTP Voyager Scheduler.