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Syncplify Devs
September 27, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.2.10 released

Importance of this update: MINOR
What’s changed?
  • Several cosmetic improvements to WebClient!
  • Improved sanitization and validation of bindings when saving/editing a virtual site
  • Improved sanitization of the configuration for SFTP-type VFSs

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
September 20, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.2.9 released 🔥

Importance of this update: VERY IMPORTANT
What’s changed?
  • The ghost session bug that affected the FTP/FTPS/FTPES protocols (WebClient! and SFTP were not affected) has now been completely fixed
  • A weird and somewhat semi-random directory disappearance bug when using cloud (S3, Azure, GCP) VFSs has been identified and resolved

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
September 13, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.2.7 released

Importance of this update: NORMAL
What’s changed?
  • All places where you can select a VFS (user’s home, virtual folders, …) now present you with a searchable drop-down, so you can easily filter and find what you need even when you have hundreds or thousands of VFSs
  • You can now use special characters in usernames and passwords for SFTP type VFSs
  • A possible delayed FTPS (and FTPES) certificate validation error has been fixed
  • OCSP stapling now correctly re-staples X.509 certificate if/when previous stapling expires
  • Occasionally erroneous count of concurrent connections per user has now been fixed
  • Tentative fix for Azure “directory placeholder” bug
  • Fix for the NLST command in the FTP(E/S) protocol handler

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
July 31, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.2.6 released

Importance of this update: NORMAL
What’s changed?
  • The Status/History tab of the Dashboard page in the Admin UI now shows each node’s status and CPU/RAM usage in a clearer and more pleasant way
  • When logging detail is configured to TRACE level, each LIST command received by the client software now also logs the number of directory items returned to the client in the response
  • Fixed an inconsistency in the way variables were processed in banners, titles, etc…
What’s new?
  • The backup verb has been added to the ss6-webrest executable, to export full configuration backups via command line
  • All virtual file system (VFS) types can now automatically identify file paths and names sent by buggy client software in encodings other than UTF8, and automatically convert them to standard UTF8

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
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
March 23, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.25 released

Importance of this update: NORMAL
Fixed
  • Fixed Admin UI glitches in the creation and editing of cloud VFSs (S3, Azure, GCP)
Improved
  • Importing (restoring) from an old V4/V5 backup now also sanitizes your block-list, safe-list, and allow-list: only correct items are imported, faulty ones are skipped
  • Cloud VFSs (S3, Azure, GCP) now return directory names in directory lists in a format that is more compatible with a broader variety of FTP/SFTP clients

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 19, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.23 released

Importance of this update: NORMAL
Fixed
  • Restore/import from V4/V5: group accounts are now imported without square brackets
  • The “encrypted” switch for VFSs now behaves as expected
  • Poor performance of file uploads via WebClient! (HTTPS protocol) has been completely resolved (all other protocols were never affected by this)
Improved
  • Editing of SuperAdmin, Admin, and User accounts
  • Better choice of initial location (directory) for log files when a new virtual site is created (existing virtual sites are not affected nor changed)
  • Manual was greatly improved, new pages and sections were added
  • The sliding-window used to feed the real-time dashboard is now double-buffered for much better performance and a lot less context-switches

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 12, 2023

Syncplify Server! v6.0.16 released

Today we released Syncplify Server! v6.0.16; here’s what’s new and improved in this version.

Importance of this update: MINOR
Fixed
  • Glitch in the Admin UI that affected only the Linux version preventing it from using standard POSIX paths when creating new VFSs

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
August 5, 2021

For those who use(d) DiskAES256 VFSs

The DiskAES256 virtual file system (VFS) type provided at-rest encryption in Syncplify.me Server! v4.x and v5.x, and served its purpose well for several years, but it got old, and in IT lingo “old” means that it can’t be considered secure anymore. It uses the AES-256 algorithm in a simplified version of the XTS mode, so we decided to retire it while it’s still unbroken.

In fact, at-rest encryption in Syncplify Server! v6.x will be provided by a state-of-the-art implementation of the AES-256 algorithm in GCM mode (authenticated encryption) with per-stream unique initialization vectors.

Not only this improves security by leaps, but (unlike v4 and v5) this method is applicable to all virtual file system types. Yes, with v6.x you’ll be able to apply AES-GCM encryption also to your S3, Azure, Google, and SFTP virtual file systems, not just the disk-based ones!

This gigantic step forward, though, comes with a small trade-off: version 6.x will no longer be able to access or support the old DiskAES256 encryption, so a method to decrypt your old DiskAES256 storage is needed, in order to move those folders and files over to the new v6.x high-security standard.

Upon release of Syncplify Server! v6.x we will therefore also release this tiny app to decrypt your old DiskAES256-encrypted folders, so that you can then migrate them over to the new and more secure server version.

We have finished testing this little app, and we’ll make it available for free to all users (including users of the free edition) of our previous Server! versions upon release of v6.x.

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