Software Update: FileZilla 2.2.4b

The makers of FileZilla have released another new version of their FTP program. FileZilla is a very comprehensive open source FTP client that can also handle SFTP servers and servers that use SSL or Kerberos GSS. A system behind a firewall or a SOCKS proxy is also no problem for this program. This version of the program again contains modules for different languages. Version 2.2.4b has the following improvements:

New features:

• Improved SSL certificate verification. You can know put a list of known root certificates into the file cacert.pem
• Sticky bit can be set with the file attributes dialog
• Message log font can now be changed
• added TLS support

Fixed bugs:

• fixed incompatibility between Visual C++ 7.1, UPX and Windows 2003 Server (2.2.4b)
• downloading files using SSL should no longer produce incomplete files (2.2.4b)
• fixed bug in CServerPath constructor (2.2.4a)
• Upgraded to Visual C++ 7.1 and now linked statically against the runtime libraries, this may fix some rare crashes.
• Fixed regression with the Connect:Enterprise server directory listing format.
• Improved compatibility with some windows servers which do not support paths prefixed with slashes
• Added support for paths in the form DIR.SUBDIR1.SUBDIR2.
• Local/remote file lists were not always sorted correctly
• some SSL fixes
• drawing problems if running under wine
• improved caching if creating directories
• some reported crashes have been fixed