Release Notes

v1.3.15 (Released 2010-05-22)

  • Allow multiple files to be selected at once when uploading (in supported browsers - Safari, Chrome, Firefox 3.6+).

v1.3.14 (Released 2010-05-10)

  • Update: Added curl.
  • Fix: Redirect logged in users from the home page to the message page.

v1.3.13 (Released 2010-04-24)

  • Fix: When using a non-standard port, sometimes the browser was redirected back to the standard port.
  • Fix: Tempfiles are deleted after 7 days.

v1.3.12 (Released 2010-04-20)

  • Fix: File permission problems on the files and temp area.

v1.3.11 (Released 2010-04-19)

  • Update: LDAP authentication doesn't automatically downcase email addresses before authentication.
  • Fix: In the Dropbox admin interface, show email address if no username is present in the recipients field.

v1.3.10 (Released 2010-04-15)

  • Fix: Reload the web server on updates.
  • Fix: Dropbox recipients show up correctly in the message log.
  • Fix: In 10.3.9, the Active Transfers and User Log tables wasn't working properly, displaying javascript errors.

v1.3.9 (Released 2010-04-11)

  • Update: When a new user registers - validate the user against LDAP, if configured. If the user doesn't exist, treat the user as a non-ldap user.
  • Update: Updated the html emails for better compatibility with web email.
  • Update: User account settings with the ability for a user to set language and change their own password.

v1.3.8 (Released 2010-04-09)

  • Update: When sending messages - validate local users against LDAP, if configured. If the user doesn't exist, treat the user as a non-ldap user.

v1.3.7 (Released 2010-04-07)

  • Update: The From address from the dropbox email is now included in the From field of the email.
  • Fix: Ensure correct file permissions are set when updating from 1.2.x and earlier releases.
  • Fix: The account create headline in the account create email wasn't set properly.

v1.3.6 (Released 2010-04-06)

  • New Feature: Pro Only - Dropbox functionality. The ability to create a page where anyone without pre-registration can send files to a pre-defined local user.

v1.3.5 (Released 2010-03-30)

  • Update: HTML versions of all emails.
  • Fix: Ensure redirect to SSL is honored.
  • Update: Preserve 512Mb for the system when limiting max uploads.
  • Update: Increased logging for LDAP connections.
  • Fix: Custom css of the title on the login page wasn't applied.

v1.3.4 (Released 2010-03-27)

  • Update: Improved checking for license server.
  • Fix: Don't throw an error when an LDAP server isn't available.
  • Update: HTML version of the user activation email.
  • Update: List a reason if the max file size has been decreased from max.
  • Fix: The VMWare version of 1.3.3 could not be updated, or connect to the license server

v1.3.3 (Released 2010-03-21)

  • Update: Limit uploads based on browser capability and available disk space.
  • Fix: It wasn't possible to enable console in the 1.3-1.3.2 releases.
  • Fix: Ensure proper file and folder permissions on uploaded files.

v1.3.2 (Released 2010-03-18)

  • Fix: Multiple attachments for external users.

v1.3.1 (Released 2010-03-17)

  • Fix: LDAP authentication for non AD LDAP would fail since the v1.3 update.
  • Fix: Custom headers didn't display on the home page.

v1.3 (Released 2010-03-16)

  • New Feature: Pro Only - 32Gb max file size. The Standard license is still limited to 2Gb.
  • New Feature: AD Group authorization. Limit logins to the Filetransfer appliance to certain AD groups.
  • Update: Send page cleanup
  • Update: Updated Branding.
  • Update: Demo license branding update - the demo will allow branding to be displayed to sysadmins only.
  • New Feature: Support for either accepted filetypes or blocked filetypes. Accepted filetypes is handy of you only want to allow certain filetypes.
  • Update: Removed the flash upload component and replaced Apache with Nginx.
  • Update: Internet Explorer 6 and earlier support has ended. If you need support for IE6, please use version 1.2.x.
  • Update: Remote Authentication is now LDAP only.

v1.2.20 (Released 2010-03-14)

  • Fix: LDAP authentication for non AD LDAP would fail since the v1.2.11 update.

v1.2.19 (Released 2010-02-22)

  • Fix: Corrected license count for demo licenses (it would allow 4, not 5 users).

v1.2.18 (Released 2010-02-12)

  • Fix: Compatibility fixes for external SSL offloaders.

v1.2.17 (Released 2010-02-10)

  • Update: Latest stable swfupload plugin.

v1.2.16 (Released 2010-02-09)

  • Fix: Better https redirection for integration with external web proxies.
  • Fix: domain1.com,domain2.com (without space) wasn't recognized as two domains in the local domain settings.

v1.2.15 (Released 2010-01-27)

  • Fix: The messages page wasn't localizable.

v1.2.14 (Released 2010-01-15)

  • Fix: With the DEMO license, when 5 local users has been created it would only be possible to send to other local users. This releases fixes that.

v1.2.13 (Released 2009-12-11)

  • Enhancement: Added French Localization.
  • Security: An authenticated user using a carefully crafted URL could potentially change some settings.
  • Fix: In v1.2.11 automatically created users would be created as local users.

v1.2.11 (Released 2009-12-01)

  • Security: An admin (not a sysadmin) can no longer create or delete a sysadmin user.
  • Fix: When using LDAP (advanced), disabled users in Active Directory are skipped in the search for the authenticating user.

v1.2.10 (Released 2009-11-19)

  • Fix: Fixed Javascript caching issue. This would sometimes give javascript errors in Internet Explorer after updates.

v1.2.9 (Released 2009-11-14)

  • Security: Using a carefully crafted URL, a logged in user could read messages of other users, but not download files. This affected versions 1.2 to 1.2.8.
  • Fix: A message deleted from the “Active Transfers” tab, would still show up under the “Messages” tab, even though the files would not be available.
  • Update: There's more default settings being provided in the initial API response, like if require authentication defaults to true or false. Please see API for more details.

v1.2.8 (Released 2009-11-03)

  • Fix: Configurations could sometimes not be saved on v1.2.7
  • Fix: Fixed XML encapsulation of the email footer for the API

v1.2.7 (Released 2009-10-17)

  • Fix: Set expiry date correctly when not allowing users to change expiry date.

v1.2.6 (Released 2009-10-17)

  • Update: Added html version of “files available” email
  • Update: Set certificate default key length to 2048 bits

v1.2.5 (Released 2009-10-08)

  • Fix: Disk space wasn't reported properly
  • Fix: Javascript error reported in Internet Explorer
  • Fix: Sometimes updates from v1.2.3 to v1.2.4 would fail with a database error

v1.2.4 (Released 2009-10-03)

  • Update: The type-ahead find has been updated to allow pasting of addresses better.
  • Fix: The interface didn't display properly in IE6.
  • Update: Cleaned up the Getting Started interface.
  • Fix: The user registration registers users as local users.
  • Update: Removed the drop down for send options.
  • Update: Set send copy to myself default in configuration.
  • Update: Configuration to allow users to change require authentication.

v1.2.3 (Released 2009-09-20)

  • Fix: The interface getting started page didn't display properly in IE.
  • Fix: Setting interface configuration didn't work unless media type was set.
  • Fix: Cumulative updates from versions before v1.2 didn't work properly (i.e. update to v1.2.2 would only work from v1.2 or v1.2.1, this has been fixed and it's possible to update from 1.1.x directly to 1.2.3).

v1.2.2 (Released 2009-09-14)

  • Fix: The download log would only record the first download.

v1.2.1 (Released 2009-09-10)

  • Update: Reset settings after 1 day.
  • Fix: “Send a copy to myself” was always set.

v1.2 (Released 2009-09-07)

  • New Feature: An API that enables sending files automatically. Please see http://docs.allardsoft.com/filetransfer/api for more info.
  • New Feature: An Outlook plugin, please see: http://docs.allardsoft.com/filetransfer/outlook_plugin for more info
  • New Feature: Option to require authentication of files for download, another much requested feature
  • New Feature: Added a tab for users to see which sent files are available to them.
  • New Feature: Added a system status bar for system administrators displaying current CPU, Memory, Swap and Disk load.
  • New Feature: Increased the number of running application servers and switched from SQLite to MySQL for database storage. This should tenfold the amount of concurrent connections each Filetransfer Appliance can handle. The memory consumption has increased as a result of this and it's recommended to run the Filetransfer Appliance with 512Mb of RAM.
  • Update: Send page cleanup
  • Update: System configuration cleanup. When configuring NTP and DNS servers, the system will automatically check if each server responds.

v1.1.4 (Released 2009-03-26)

  • Security: Administrators cannot edit System Administrators
  • Fix: Set return-receipt to the sending user for the outgoing emails. This will make sure that bounces gets delivered back to the sending user.
  • Fix: local domains are always stored lowercase, and checking for local domains are case-insensitive
  • Fix: The activation gives better error reporting
  • Reliability: Fixed a problem with authenticating to the PMDF IMAP server

v1.1.3 (Released 2009-03-04)

  • Fix: The custom stylesheet was not displayed on the front page
  • Fix: An empty list of blocked file extension throws an error
  • Fix: Sometimes user self registration fails when remote authentication is set

v1.1.2 (Released 2009-02-16)

  • Enhancement: Built-in Antivirus scanning using ClamAV
  • Enhancement: Blocking of files with certain file types (Windows executables blocked as default)
  • Enhancement: Hooks to create custom file checks on upload.
  • Fix: email addresses are stored as lower case when entered

v1.1.1 (Released 2009-02-09)

  • Fix: Internet Explorer display error
  • Fix: Outdated library caused updates from v1.1 to fail

v1.1 (Released 2009-02-08)

  • Enhancement: Localization: The Filetransfer appliance can now be set to use English, English with Australian numbering format, German and Swedish. French and Dutch is under development and will be added soon.
  • Enhancement: Added setting for when to delete downloaded files.
  • Enhancement: Added setting for default download expiration
  • Enhancement: Added setting to allow users to change default download expiration or not
  • Enhancement: Added outgoing email relay authentication through the web interface
  • Enhancement: Added the ability to change login domain for LDAP logins
  • Enhancement: Updated IMAP authentication mechanism to allow both “user@domain” and “user” type logins
  • Fix: Stability update to the update mechanism
  • Fix: Delete all active transfer belonging to a user if the user is deleted
  • Fix: Self-signed certificates wasn't detected reliably for the Firefox ssl/flash warning

v1.0.9 (Released 2009-01-10)

  • Security: Always fail authentication if a blank password is entered.

v1.0.8 (Released 2008-12-30)

  • Fix: Fixed a problem where sometimes non-admin users got an error “Something went wrong, we'll take a look at it shortly” directly after login.

v1.0.7 (Released 2008-12-24)

  • Fix: Fixed logo display errors in Internet Explorer 7
  • Fix: Fixed general display errors (white areas that shouldn't be there) in Internet Explorer 6
  • Fix: Fixed transparent image background problems in Internet Explorer 6
  • Fix: Fixed Javascript errors in Internet Explorer 7
  • Stability: Updated the flash upload library to the latest version

v1.0.6 (Released 2008-12-23)

  • Enhancement: Added Advanced LDAP Authentication configuration options, please see the remote authentication documentation for details
  • Enhancement: Added a setting to set all remote authenticated users as local
  • Enhancement: Added IMAP configuration for imap servers that authenticate with usernames only (without @domain)
  • Fix: downcase email before authentication so that user@Company.com and user@company.com is the same user
  • Security: if user registration is disabled, redirect users back to the login page if they try to browse to the register URL
  • Stability: Max file size is now set to 2000 Mb if left blank
  • Fix: Password resets is disabled for remote authenticated users
  • Fix: The outgoing email sender envelope address is now set correctly
  • Stability: Added CrashReporter so in case the application crashes it will email the relevant log (no data) for analysis to crashreporter@allardsoft.com

v1.0.5 (Released 2008-11-24)

  • Enhancement: Changed DEMO limitations, if you update to version 1.0.5, you will be able to send large files, and instead the system will be rebranded with a AllardSoft File Transfer DEMO branding
  • Enhancement: If an ip address hasn't been properly set (when the appliance boots for the first time) you will be prompted on the command line to set/change it, will make it easier to get started
  • Security: The VMware demo no longer comes with a predefined root password. In version 1.0.5 an onwards, the root account is locked and a password needs to be set from the webadmin console before it's possible to login as root.

v1.0.4 (Released 2008-11-19)

  • Enhancement: Support for flash version 10
  • New Feature: Added branding options to set a logotype, background colors and stylesheet overrides. The Allard Consulting copyright notice is only shown to system administrators.
  • New Feature: Cookie authentication to “remember me”
  • Stability: Updated the update mechanism

v1.0.3 (released 2008-11-15)

Version 1.0.3 was released 2008-11-15 and had the following changes and enhancements

  • New Feature: Added a configuration option to remove the user signup link from the front page.
  • New Feature: Added display of Active Transfers and the possibility to delete files that hasn't been downloaded yet. This is available both for administrators that can delete any file, and individual users who can delete their own files.
  • New Feature: It's now possible to set individual expirations on transfers.
  • Stability: A much improved system watchdog system has been implemented.

v1.0.2 (released 2008-10-30)

Version 1.0.2 was released 2008-10-30 and had the following changes and enhancements

  • Enhancement: It's now possible to upload Certificate Chains for subordinate CA's such as Godaddy.
  • Stability: Proper checking of certificates are now being performed when uploading certificates. It's no longer possible to upload certificates that will cause the webserver to stop.

v1.0.1 (released 2008-10-28)

Version 1.0.1 was released 2008-10-28 and had the following changes and enhancements

  • Enhancement: There is an incompatibility with Firefox, Self-signed certificates and flash based functions, such as the uploader function in the Filetransfer Appliance. A warning is now issued when someone logs in with Firefox using https, and when there's a self-signed certificate installed.
  • Fix: There was a missing database entry causing an error during downloads
  • Fix: There was a problem with permissions when uploading certificates which caused Apache not to start.

v1.0

First Public Release: 2008-10-26

filetransfer/release_notes.txt · Last modified: 2010-05-22 09:15 by allard