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Syncplify Devs
December 18, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.2.21 released 🔥

Importance of this update: VERY HIGH
What’s changed?
  • The Golang standard library was updated to address a yet-to-be-disclosed CVE that could potentially affect SSH/SFTP services, this release incorporates such updates to keep your server safe
  • Importing old V4/V5 backups now works a little better even when such backups contain errors and misconfigurations (some of them are addressed by applying sensible default settings)
  • Parameters (see this KB article) can now be used in all Virtual File Systems, and not only in “Disk” VFSs as it used to be

IMPORTANT NOTE: those who are running the “worker” system service under a different account (not System or LocalSystem) will need to re-configure the service to run under such account after upgrading from any version number <= 6.1.12)

Upgrading from v6.x.y is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
December 7, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.2.20 released

Importance of this update: MINOR
What’s changed?
  • Special ISO-8859-1 characters in old V4/V5 backups are now correctly converted to UTF8 when restoring (importing) those backup files into a new Syncplify Server! V6

IMPORTANT NOTE: those who are running the “worker” system service under a different account (not System or LocalSystem) will need to re-configure the service to run under such account after upgrading from any version number <= 6.1.12)

Upgrading from v6.x.y is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
April 26, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.1.3 released

Importance of this update: NORMAL
Fixed
  • Permission overrides now show the check-mark under the correct label when configured inside of a User account
  • A better automatic sanitizer for User objects now prevents certain mishaps when saving such User objects to the back-end DB
  • Log files, when stored in W3C format, now correctly use UTC timestamps, as required by the W3C Extended Log File Format standard
Improved
  • When importing users from older (V4/V5) backups a broader variety of fields of such user objects is now initialized to sensible default values
  • Upgraded back-end SyngoDB to v4.6.0

Upgrading from v6.x.y is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
April 22, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.1.2 released ☝️

Importance of this update: SIGNIFICANT
Fixed
  • Validation of the password fields in the WebClient! UI for users to be able to change their password by themselves
Improved
  • Sanitization of virtual site configuration now can also automatically fix most incorrect FTP(E/S) data-port and passive port-range bindings (after we found out that a surprisingly high number of our customers were running old V4/V5 with incorrect FTP(E/S) bindings causing all sorts of problems)

Upgrading from v6.x.y is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
April 11, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.27 released 🚨

Importance of this update: VERY IMPORTANT
Fixed
  • HAProxy headers now report the correct client IP address in the SSH2/SCP/SFTP protocol handler
  • Importers (V4/V5) now auto-sanitize all IP/Network lists by removing incorrect items
Improved
  • Decreased heap memory allocation by ~0.8%
  • Sped up file transfers by ~1.4%
  • Upgraded SyngoDB to v4.5.5
  • Radically changed validation for all APIs and database objects/structures: now anything that can be sanitized (auto-corrected) will be sanitized, and validation errors will be reported only for those rare cases in which automatic sanitization is not possible: this should reduce the number of errors returned by the Admin UI upon saving configuration changes by up to 95%
  • Most of the remaining errors are now reported with clear messages in plain English
  • Removed nearly all null values from JSON objects returned by the APIs

Upgrading from v6.0.x is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
February 24, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.20 released

Today we released Syncplify Server! v6.0.20; here’s what’s new and improved in this version.

Importance of this update: NORMAL
Fixed
  • Fixed the return condition when no session ID is found in a session during its termination
  • Added safety checks during restore (from V6 backups, V4/V5 were not affected)
  • Consistent logging is now applied to all restore processes (from V4, V5, and V6)
Improved
  • Added “Trusted Proxies” setting to the SuperAdmin UI global configuration, which applies to all management UIs (SuperAdmin and Admin) to be able to run them behind non-fixed-IP load balancers like ALB and the like

Upgrading from v6.0.x is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
January 16, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.6 released

Today we released Syncplify Server! v6.0.6; here’s what’s new and improved in this version.

Fixed
  • If an Admin profile was incompletely imported from an old backup, all Admin profiles of that virtual site would be non-editable
  • The list of VFS selectable as Home-VFS for a User profile was limited to 20 items
Improved
  • Restore/import functions from old V4/V5 backups have been further improved
  • Re-activation of the same license on the same “system ID” can now be performed autonomously by the SuperAdmin

Upgrading from v6.0.x is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
January 14, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.5 released

Today we released Syncplify Server! v6.0.5; here’s what’s new and improved in this version.

Fixed
  • Importing configurations from a backup with an erroneous maximum number of concurrent connections now no longer fails (it auto-corrects the situation)
  • The server wrongly advertised the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 key exchange algorithm
Added
  • Support for SSH2 public key encoding (PEM) as exported by PuTTYgen

Upgrading from v6.0.x is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
January 10, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.3 released

Today we released Syncplify Server! v6.0.3; here’s what’s new and improved in this version.

Fixed
  • Restoring from old V4/V5 backups in some cases did not import the virtual sites’ admin(s)
  • Restoring from old V4/V5 backups skipped the structure validation, causing potential issues editing the configuration down the road (some changes would not persist)
  • Occasional 15-second timeout of the control connection while transferring data over a PASV data connections (FTP protocol family only)
  • Unit validation of some SI (standard international system) numeric values
  • In some user profiles it wasn’t possible to import a user-supplied public key for PKI authentication
Improved
  • The “System ID” is now immutable even across multiple uninstall/reinstall cycles
New
  • There is now an easy-to-see top-screen notification when updates/upgrades are available with instructions on how to obtain them

Upgrading from v6.0.x is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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Syncplify Devs
December 28, 2022

Syncplify Server! v6.0.2 released

Today we released Syncplify Server! v6.0.2; here’s what’s new and improved in this version.

Fixed
  • Bug in the restore procedure from old version (v4/v5) database backups, which neglected to drop some of the collections prior to restoring them, and consequently produced an unusable restored configuration

Upgrading from v6.0.x is a simple and fairly automatic process: simply download the latest version from the official download page, and install it over the existing version, all of your settings and license will be kept.

If, instead, you’re upgrading from an older (v4/v5) version, you find the upgrade instructions in our knowledge base.

Thank you all for trusting our software with your secure file transfers!

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