Software Update: FileZilla 3.40.0 RC1

The release candidate of version 3.40.0 of the open source FTP client FileZilla has appeared. FileZilla is small, simple and yet complete. The program is popular due to its low system resource load. FileZilla is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Since version 3.26.0, passwords are no longer stored unencrypted and unsecured on the computer.

Be careful with the download file recommended by SourceForge, as it is often bundled with third-party software. on this page installation files that do not contain additional components. A wrong installation is easily recognized by the word bundled in the file name. The changelog for this release looks like this:

New features:

• Added TLS 1.3 support by linking official binaries against GnuTLS 3.6.5
• Refactored how sites and servers are being represented internally to fix issues trigged by renaming sites in the Site Manager

Bug fixes and minor changes:

• Fix display of server names containing ampersands in several dialogs
• Fix regular expression filter in the quick search panel
• Fix a crash if files are added to the queue when there are already files for multiple different servers in the queue
• Fix a crash applying filters when there are no selected files and the focused item is past the new file count
• Fix a crash if emptying the queue while a directory creation item is active
• Fix a potential crash if FileZilla is being closed the moment a delayed dialog has already been created but before it is shown.