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Syncplify Devs
May 4, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.1.4 released 🚨

Importance of this update: EXTREME

Fixed

Service detection under Linux now works as expected: resolves all the “exit code 4” errors during Virtual Site creation
Correctly initialized all functions/methods in the scripting engine
Fixed a possible (though very rare) goroutine leak in the scripting engine

Improved

Added user account statistics to the Admin UI
Changing (adding/deleting) certificates from the Certificates page in the SuperAdmin UI no longer requires a restart of the system service (all changes are applied live at run-time)
Upgraded back-end SyngoDB to v4.7.1 (new and much stringer DB locking mechanism)

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 19, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.1.0 released 🔥

Importance of this update: VERY IMPORTANT

Fixed

Various bugs and glitches in all web-based UIs (SuperAdmin, Admin, and WebClient!)
Virtual folders and permission overrides can now be edited/removed without errors
VFS names are now correctly enumerated in the virtual folder list inside of user accounts
Online license activation now allows for a longer timeout detection frame

Improved

Total redesign of the Admin UI dashboard page: clearer, faster, more responsive, more streamlined

Added

New OnQuotaExceeded event-handler

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 12, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.28 released 🔥

Importance of this update: HOT-FIX

Fixed

Password validation during User creation is only applied for user profiles which password authentication is not delegated to a back-end LDAP server
User authentication via PKI (over SSH/SCP/SFTP) is now carried out correctly even when the user profile has multiple public-keys associated to it
Exporting the public part of an SSH Host Key now works as expected

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
March 25, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.26 released

Importance of this update: MINOR

Fixed

Little cosmetic (Admin UI) bug introduced in v6.0.25 that prevented editing of LDAP users/group after importing them from an old V4/V5 backup
Cloud VFSs (S3, Azure, GCP) now correctly delete empty directories even when the client software sends the request without a trailing slash

Improved

Figured out a way to rename/move non-empty directories in cloud VFSs (S3, Azure, GCP) – it’s not fast (there’s no way to make this fast, as the only way is to iterate over all contained objects) but it works

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
June 30, 2021

Dropping Windows User/Group support

Syncplify.me Server! v1.0 was released back in Q1-2014. Since then, and all the way up to now, nobody (not a single one of our customers) has ever used profiles of type “Windows User” or “Windows Group”.

We have plenty of customers who rely on “Active Directory User” and/or “Active Directory Group” profiles, that’s obvious and expected, and the most common user profile is the so-called “Normal” user, which is a basic user profile saved in the software’s own internal database. But nobody has ever used the local operating system user profiles.

Therefore, given the security implications involved, the fact that with v6 we’re going fully cross-platform, and the fact that no one seems to even want to use this kind of profiles, we decided to drop them.

Syncplify Server! v6.0 will then feature the following user profile types:

Normal (local to the server, saved in Syncplify Server!’s own internal database)
LDAP User (which includes Active Directory)
LDAP Group (which includes Active Directory)

Later, probably with the release of v6.1, we will also add support for SAML2.0 user profiles.

Greatly simplified Active Directory (LDAP) integration

More good news regarding Syncplify Server! version 6.0: we have greatly simplified the management of users (and even groups) profiles.

In all previous versions the Admin had to specify the type of LDAP query (UPN/sAMAccountName) and the desired order in case of multiple query types, but groups would only allow the use of UPNs; this, occasionally, led to some confusion.

As of version 6.0, Syncplify Server! is capable of gracefully handling both UPN and sAMAccountName logins, for both LDAP user and group profiles, no questions asked, no special configuration needed.

What you see in the picture here above is the same user, logging in twice, the first time using their UPN, and then using their sAMAccountName.

But wait… there’s more!

In the example above, what you see is not a user profile in Syncplify Server!… it’s an LDAP Group profile! The “sftptest” (or “sftptest@ad9.local”) user was able to log in simply because it’s part of the “sftpusers” LDAP group in the underlying Active Directory. And the session logs make it very clear:

nodeId="peaceful-booth"
sender="ssh2_sftp-handler"
sessionId="e6G8PrHp2KRjQrqCS3SDSn"
clientIp="127.0.0.1"
serverIp="127.0.0.1"
serverPort=22 
protocol="ssh2_sftp"
username="sftptest@ad9.local |&gt; sftpusers"
method="SESSION-START"
uriStem=""
uriQuery=""
status=200
cliToSrvBytes=0
srvToCliBytes=0
latencyMillisec=0
latencyHuman="4.197µs"
userAgent="SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.4p1 Ubuntu-5ubuntu1"

This user profile simultaneously represents the user itself, as well as the group profile it belongs to, and from which it inherits its configuration, permissions, virtual folders, etc…

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