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Version History

Xlight FTP Server

This shows you how often Xlight FTP Server was updated with us over the past few months. Whenever available, we also include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.).

version 3.0.5 - posted on Sep 25, 2008

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version 3.0 - posted on Aug 04, 2008

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version 2.861 - posted on Jul 21, 2008

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version 2.86 - posted on May 12, 2008

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version 2.85 - posted on Apr 06, 2008

  • Add support for using NTFS permission in the public path for Active Directory users.
    Add a new option `Force all users except anonymous user to login using SSL` in virtual server s security settings.
    Add support for CCC (Clear Command Channel) command.
    Add a domain field in the UNC path account impersonation settings.
    Fix a random crash problem cased by PASV command, when server was serving downloads for more than 3000 users at the same time.

version 2.835 - posted on Mar 03, 2008

  • Fix a bug that when used in the two quad-core Xeon processors platform, Xlight FTP Server will crash during startup.
    Fix a bug in the PASV port range when option `Always use serve IP for PASV mode reply` is slected.

version 2.83 - posted on Feb 04, 2008

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version 2.82 - posted on Jan 15, 2008

  • * Add option `Buffer for sending data` and `Buffer for receiving data` in the user s settings. Socket buffer in the user s settings will override the socket buffer set in the virtual server. * Fix a bug in the Admin Console. * Allow Xlight FTP Server to run with non-admin account. The steps are put in the FAQ section. * When the option to use extended schema xlightFTPdUser is selected for Active Directory, but attribute ftpHomeDirectory is not set for a user, AD attribute homeDirectory will be automatically used as his home directory. * Fix a few small bugs in the GUI.

version 2.82 - posted on Jan 14, 2008

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version 2.8 - posted on Oct 22, 2007

  • Add two new options in the external authentiction through LDAP.
    Add two new events OnLogin and OnLogout, two new parameters and four new variables in the email notification.
    When disk quota is enabled for a user, his quota will be automatically re-calculated after login. This will be eliminate the need to manually re-calculate quota from GUI.
    Add options to set notes for virtual server and users.
    Add option to force to use WAN IP or Server IP for virtual server behind firewall.
    Add option to send debug trace informtion of external authentication to Error Log.
    Add option to filter file transfer logs to database by download or upload.
    Fix a GUI bug for selecting SSL server certificate.

version 2.72 - posted on Sep 10, 2007


  • Add a new option, which can be used to be compatible with IIS FTP 6.0 user isolation mode in the Active Directory.
    Add a new option in the user s settings, which allows local ftp user to bypass the external authentication.
    Add a new option to allow user to install and uninstall system service directly within the Xlight FTP Program.
    Fix a compatibility bug with OpenSSL client with AES cipher in the Windows Vista.
    In compliance with RFC959, the STOU command return code changes from 150 to 250.

version 2.706 - posted on Aug 10, 2007

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version 2.706 - posted on Aug 09, 2007

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version 2.70 - posted on Jun 20, 2007

  • Add support for SSL client authentication

version 2.60 - posted on Apr 11, 2007

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version 2.40 - posted on Jan 03, 2007

  • Support for authentication through active directory. User can use the same password of Windows Domain.
    Support for UNC path impersonation, server can access remote network shares easily with different impersonation accounts.
    Support for automatically log file rotation by date
    Support for global IP deny and allow list
    Add new `User Login` action in the advanced log options
    Add ftp commands such as FEAT, MODE,OPTS ext. into the selection list for denying FTP Commands
    UTF8 is turned off by default. UTF8 can be turned on in the `[Virtual Server Configuration]->[Advanced]->[Encoding]->[Enable UTF8 Encoding]`

version 2.27 - posted on Oct 16, 2006

  • Add support for detecting duplicated xlight instances from inside remote desktop.
    Improve the auto WAN IP detection function.
    Add right button menu for copying selected on screen logs.
    Fix a bug where timestamp in files list for MLSD command is 8 hours late.

version 2.24 - posted on Jul 31, 2006

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version 2.2 - posted on Jul 05, 2006

  • - Support anti-leech protection. It can prevent ftp links from leeching by unauthorized people
    - Support MODE Z function.
    - Support UTF-8, UTF-8 can be turned on and off by OPTS UTF8 command.

version 2.1 - posted on Apr 17, 2006

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version 2.03 - posted on Mar 03, 2006

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version 2.02 - posted on Feb 09, 2006

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version 2.01 - posted on Jan 19, 2006

  • This is a bug fixing version, fix several bugs in 2.0. Recommend 2.0 users to upgrade.

version 2.0 - posted on Dec 22, 2005

  • new user interface with better usability.
    add support for GUI remote administration.
    all configuration changes will take effective immediately without the need to restart server.
    users can localizate interface into their own local languages.
    add support for IPv6.

version 1.65 - posted on May 16, 2005

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version 1.64 - posted on Jan 18, 2005

  • Enhance server s capacity of accepting new ftp connections when it is under very high traffic and has large number of downloading users. This can greatly reduce the happening of `connection refuse`, even when many users are hammering busy ftp server with multi-threads download tool such as `flashget`.
    Fix two bugs related to user s idle time.
    FTP connection will be closed if user can t login into ftp server within 120 seconds

version 1.62 - posted on Dec 08, 2004

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version 1.61 - posted on Oct 25, 2004

  • Fix a bug inside user login control
    Increase user login control to hold up to 16 entries.
    Fix the problem that virtual server bandwidth control and group bandwidth only work on the first NIC card.
    Some changes in ftp server s internal method for utilizing window OS s file cache
    Fix a firewall compatiable issue

version 1.60c - posted on Aug 22, 2004

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version 1.60a - posted on Aug 18, 2004

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version 1.60 - posted on Aug 08, 2004

  • Add bandwidth usage record in status panel
    Add download/upload bandwidth limit options for virtual server and group
    User can setup seperate idle time from virtual server
    Add `Only Deny IPs from` option inside user login control
    Add right mouse pop menu inside virtual server s detail window for showing auto-banned IPs and sending boardcast message to all users.
    Add function to detect `Password Brute Force` attack.
    Add option to setup maximum file size for ftp log and error log.
    If real path related to user s virtual path `/` or Home Path in ODBC database doesn t exist, FTP server will automatically create the non-exist real path when user first login.
    Improved network algorithm to reduce CPU utilization under high load situation as well as improve bandwidth sharing between users.

version 1.58 - posted on Mar 13, 2004

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version 1.57 - posted on Mar 09, 2004

  • Add support for banner message before user login and folder message file when user changes directory, welcome message now showed after user login.
    Add support for more variables in message file.
    Add option to hiden files/dirs with hidden attribute
    Change user s icon in detail window to show different status, such as user downloading, uploading, idle and SSL.
    Fix an interface bug in Windows XP.

version 1.55 - posted on Feb 20, 2004

  • -Fix for several internal program bugs and the bug filename with `/` in double-width characters can t be downloaded.
    -Add option for showing server s file lists in lower case characters.
    -Add `Rename` option in virtual path permission setting.
    -Add several more display items in user connection detail window. Server will send user s `malicious attempts` summary to error log when user disconnects.
    -Change maximum items in User Login Control from 6 to 10.

version 1.52 - posted on Feb 09, 2004

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version 1.51 - posted on Feb 04, 2004

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version 1.50 - posted on Jan 25, 2004

  • -Add support for external user database. FTP server now can connect to external database through ODBC Data Source, authenticate user and get user s setting from database.
    -Add support for user login control. Allowed user login time or login IP address can be controled by user or group.

version 1.45 - posted on Dec 20, 2003

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version 1.41 - posted on Dec 12, 2003

  • -Add support for Secure Sockets Layer(SSL). Xlight supports two methods of SSL, Implicit and Explicit SSL

    -Add option to upload/download ratios

    -Add new tag "%diskfree" in welcome message file to show free hard disk space

    -Add a speed entry in detail window to show history download/upload files speed.

version 1.40 - posted on Dec 07, 2003

  • Add support for Secure Sockets Layer(SSL). Xlight supports two methods of SSL, Implicit and Explicit SSL.
    Add option to upload/download ratios.

version 1.25 - posted on Nov 20, 2003

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version 1.2 - posted on Nov 14, 2003

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version 1.15 - posted on Nov 05, 2003

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version 1.1 - posted on Oct 12, 2003

  • -Add auto ban ip feature for better ftp server security protection

    -Add option to control user s ftp command execution speed before and after his login

    -Fix the detail window resizing bug in windows XP

    -Improve transfer speed for large files in high speed LAN, upload speed is now almost the same
    fast as download in 100M LAN.