Software Update: FileZilla 3.16.0 RC1

A new development version of the open source FTP client FileZilla has been released with version number 3.16.0. 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features:

• Make notification bubble on queue completion configurable though the queue’s context menu
• Selected queue completion action is now remembered, excluding the system shutdown/sleep actions.
• Added new servertype to the Site Manager for servers using MS-DOS style paths with forward slashes as separators
• Building FileZilla now depends on libfilezilla >= 0.4.0.

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Fixes for network configuration wizard leading to incorrect test result
• MSW: Installer now removes leftover files from improperly uninstalled previous versions