Software Update: FileZilla 3.15.0 Beta 1

A new release of the open source FTP client FileZilla has been released, a beta this time. 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.

SourceForge, which hosts the downloads, has been in the news lately because it offers some downloads through its own download manager that contains adware. If the download is less than 1MB in size and has an icon with the letters ‘SF’, you’ve got the wrong one. If the download is about 6MB and there is a FileZilla icon, then you’re good. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features:

• Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla 0.3.0 (
• Added support for downloading and deleting multiple unrelated directories from the search dialog
• *nix: Vastly speed up line-ending conversion when downloading files using the ASCII data type
• Improved compatibility with broken servers omitting the mandatory 1yz reply to transfer commands

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Fix handling of SFTP keyfiles with non-ASCII characters in their paths
• Add missing directory comparison checkbox to new bookmark dialog
• MSW: Installer now sets appid on desktop icon
• Updated built-in pugixml