Software Update: FileZilla 3.10.0 RC 1

After three betas, it’s now the turn of the first release candidate of version 3.10.0 of the open source FTP client FileZilla. FileZilla is small, simple and yet complete. The program is popular due to its low system resource load. However, a common complaint is that passwords are stored unencrypted on the computer. FileZilla is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and can be downloaded from this page be downloaded in different versions. Be careful of other sources as there are modified versions floating around the internet that contain malware. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features:

• Reduced memory consumption of large queues
• Preliminary support for Windows 10 technical preview
• MSW: FileZilla running on a 64bit Windows can now use up to 4GiB of RAM, up from 2GiB

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Fixed memory leaks in SFTP component
• Fixed fzsftp crashing on disconnect if using keyfiles
• Various code cleanup and minor fixes