FTP Voyager® Release Notes

FTP Voyager® Version 9.1.0.3

FTP Voyager 9.1.0.3 was released January 7, 2003. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

Features:

• Updated the Open SSL DLLs to version 0.9.6h.
• Added delete confirmation as an option for task and schedule deletion.
• Adjusted Browser Integration for IE 6 SP1, where a strange bug in IE 6 SP1 (not FTP Voyager) causes small images to be missing on certain web pages.
• Added support for IE FTP secure FTP servers.

BUG FIXES:

• When converting DOS file names with special characters such as *|?, etc to "_" check for DBCS.
• Corrected a problem when using SSL, some of the SSL DLL library initialize functions were being called when not required. Removing these calls could increase speed.
• Corrected a bug when using SSL connections, some memory would not be released causing a memory leak.
• Corrected "on-line" editing dialog when using Connection Saver. In previous versions 9.1 versions "on-line" editing would sometimes cause a "file not found" error in the editor, or the file would not get uploaded.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.1.0.2

FTP Voyager 9.1.0.2 was released December 17, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

BUG FIXES:

• Changed log, where in the case of odd font sizes, scrolling could be done incorrectly where the first row of pixels of a line item would become truncated.
• Corrected a problem where server return values could be incorrectly interpreted when numeric values were not part of the return value. This problem would usually show itself on VERY fast connections only.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.1.0.1

FTP Voyager 9.1.0.1 was released October 8, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Rebuilt FTP Voyager and released when it was learned the computer on which FTP Voyager 9.1.0.0 was built had a bad RAM chip. The likelihood of a corrupt build of FTP Voyager is very small, however we have re-released to be safe.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a server-to-server transfer bug intruduced in version 9.0.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.1.0.0

FTP Voyager 9.1.0.0 was released September 25, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Changed automatic on-line editing so that FTP Voyager checks for file changes when it becomes the foreground application. In previous versions FTP Voyager used the process ID of the started editor.
• Added support for another set of French month abbreviations for a UNIX server.
• Added special hosting offer from HostVoyager.com
• When a server returns MDTM as part of the supported commands in response to a FEAT command, FTP Voyager attempts to maintain uploaded dates and times. Since this command is a Serv-U and FTP Voyager extension to the RFC MDTM command it is still possible to turn this command off in the Advanced settings for a site profile.
• Updated SSL libraries to version 0.9.6g
• Changed "Alternate Editors" feature to ignore letter case for file extensions.
• Added support for TopStyle HTML/CSS editor (http://www.BradSoft.com/). If TopStyle is installed, FTP Voyager will recognize TopSyle and make it the default HTML editor inside FTP Voyager.
• Removed support for ID Assure.
• When overwrite confirmations are enabled, prompt user for overwrites when using "Open" and "View".
• Changed overwrite confirmation dialog to display both source and destination paths.
• After downloading a file for on-line editing, the download connection session is now terminated. FTP Voyager no longer remains connected while waiting for you to edit a file.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a bug with Description files where minor variations in the file name would cause incorrect descriptions to be shown. For example, extra letters at the end of a file name.
• Corrected a problem with FTP Voyager Scheduler where it might not load the FTP engine, giving an error message about the version number not being correct.
• Corrected a problem where FTP Voyager Scheduler was unable to open the FTP engine to perform scheduled operations.
• Corrected a problem where too many nested directories could cause mass downloads or synchronization to fail due to a problem where Windows events were not being released. This problem usually showed up when using Sync Folders, or copying huge numbers of files from a server.
• Corrected a status bar problem where "Refreshing..." would not be displayed while refreshing a directory.
• Corrected a bug where deleting a file or folder that could not be deleted would cause the file or folder to disappear in the list even when it wasn't deleted.
• Corrected a bug that when the FTP Voyager Scheduler opened FTP Voyager based on a clipboard URL, FTP Voyager would improperly parse the command line sequence for the URL.
• Corrected "smart reconnect" bug for PORT and PASV modes. FTP Voyager would be unable to connect back when errors occur with these commands.
• Corrected a problem where the file transferring status was being placed in the log, even if the user canceled a file transfer.
• Corrected a problem where the transfer complete sound would play in some cases where a file would not get transferred.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.8

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.8 was released August 15, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

• Added support for Portuguese UNIX servers.
• Corrected a bug where on a very fast LAN connection and on a very fast computer, FTP Voyager could drop some data.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.7

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.7 was released July 30, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Changed phone number to (262) 560-9627 and FAX number to (262) 560-9628.
• Removed string compilation on UNIX based file names converting URL hex characters to a value. (i.e., %20 shouldn't actually be converted to a space for directory listings).
• Improved download speed and performance.
• At startup ask the user if he wants to use PASV mode or not.
• Added support for servers that use Russian month representations.
• Added ".css, .php, .inc, .1st, .asp, .bat, .bash, .cfm, .dhtml, .xml, .mak, .pinerc, .pl, .pm, .qmail, .screenrc" as default text file types.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected possible memory leak problem when using SSL.
• Corrected a GPF problem where if not connected, and attempting to perform a drag and drop opertaion to the remote tree, FTP Voyager could GPF.
• Corrected a GPF bug in Sync Folders where file dates were far into the future, now they're capped at 2037.
• Corrected a SOCKS proxy server error where if connecting to a VERY fast proxy server or one locally, FTP Voyager may have ignored the server welcome message, causing the connection to fail.
• Corrected a bug where File Transfer settings in the advanced dialog for sites was not being saved.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.6

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.6 was released April 24, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

• Help file in version 9.0.0.5 was not working. Corrected the help file problem. This version is identical to version 9.0.0.5, other than the help file and version number change.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.5

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.5 was released April 22, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

• Corrected a bug where on a faster computer FTP Voyager would delay parts of downloaded files
• Corrected a bug where FTP Voyager Scheduler could not start FTP Voyager.
• Added missing thread safe handling to SSL library. This problem probably did not affect previous versions of FTP Voyager Secure.
• Signed downloadable installation file.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.4

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.4 was released April 4, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

• Corrected bug where AIX servers' directory listings could be parsed incorrectly
• Corrected a bug where under Windows 9X/Me FTP Voyager Scheduler would crash after starting a task.
• Increased the speed of the UNIX parsing mechanism.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.3

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.3 was released February 18, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

• Corrected SSL problem with RadianFTP servers, where FTP Voyager was waiting for the 150 repsonse code prior to negotiating the SSL connection.S
• Corrected a bug where under Windows 9x/Me the site profile would be placed in the root directory.
• Remove the word "Cute" from the "Look and Feel" options.
• Added support for the FEAT command. FTP Voyager will issue this command to determine some of the supported extended server commands. Currently FTP Voyager supports:
  • MDTM YYYYMMDDHHMMSS filename
  • CLNT
  • LIST -laT
  • LIST -T
  • Changed "PROT p" command to use "PROT P" (upper case P)

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.2

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.2 was released February 8, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

• Corrected a bug where on a FAST network, Implicit SSL connections could fail the first time.
• Corrected a bug where if remote and local toolbars were customized from "View | Options" while they were not visible, FV would GPF.

FTP Voyager® Version 9.0.0.1

FTP Voyager 9.0.0.1 was released February 4, 2002. A complete list of changes and upgrades follows:

FEATURES:

• Added SSL (secure) support. FTP Voyager supports both Implicit and Explicit SSL servers. SSL support adds verification of both the client and server through certificates, and encrypts data transfers to keep your important information private.
• Added warnings to use SOCKS proxy servers and SSL.
• Added SSL certificate creation support, creating self-signed certificates, certificate requests, and private key files.
• Added "Trusted Certificate" support, whereby FTP Voyager considers certain certificates as "okay", and automatically accepts them.
• Added Import and Export support for Trusted Certificates.
• Added SSL Certificate verification when connecting to SSL enabled FTP servers. This feature verifies a certificate's valid date range and the host name allowing the user to connect or cancel the connection.
• Added SSL Certificate viewing when connecting to SSL enabled FTP servers.
• Added new Options dialog that uses a tree instead of tabs to break the options into categories.
• Broke up certain Options categories into smaller sub categories, making the options dialog much easier to understand and follow.
• Added new Advanced Site Profile settings dialog that uses a tree instead of tabs.
• Rearranged Advanced Site Profile settings pages so it's easier to understand.
• Added comments to each of the Advanced Site Profile settings for "quick help".
• Added 256 color images for toolbars and menus.
• Added XP style "hot" images for toolbars when the mouse moves over the button.
• Added XP style selected columns to show which column is the sort column.
• Changed the location of the Site Profile file "FTPVoyager.ftp" to be placed in the Application Data directory
• Added SysOp chat function. When the FTP server SysOp sends a message, this dialog allows you to chat directly with the SysOp.
• When unsolicited SysOp messages arrive, FTP Voyager opens the SysOp chat dialog.
• Added "Tools | Import | Text (CSV) File" allowing you to import sites stored in CSV (comma separated value) text files.
• Added "Tools | Import | CuteFTP Text File" allowing you to import sites text files exported by CuteFTP and CuteFTP Pro.
• Added "Tools | Export Sites" allowing you to export site profiles from FTP Voyager to a CSV (comma separated value) text file.
• Added support for the Delete key in the Find Files dialog.
• Changed default password setting to MD5 password encryption for S/Key servers. All new site profiles will automatically recognize S/Key servers and use either MD4 or MD5.
• Added Sync Folders support for "Newer" files. When not ignoring newer files they will be uploaded or downloaded as selected.
• Added a message preventing the user from closing FTP Voyager if file transfers are in progress and the user is not using pop-up transfer dialogs, as found in "View | Options | GUI".
• FTP Voyager Scheduler now closes the log after each task completes. This gives the user the opportunity to move the file, delete the file, or other items as needed.
• Added better native support for WFTPD servers.
• Added support for WFTPD Windows servers such that FTP Voyager recognizes that WFTPD file systems are case insensitive. (support already exists for Serv-U, Microsoft, and others)
• Added tooltips to lists when the information in a column is truncated
• Added status bar in Site Profile manager. The new status bar now displays, last connect time, connection duration, number of folders and sites in a folder.
• Added Windows XP "Manifest" to give the Windows XP look and feel to FTP Voyager.
• Removed "Caps" and "NumLock" indicators on the status bar.
• Added "-noduration" command line parameter so that Site Profile durations are cleared.
• Added connection duration status on the status bar of the main window.
• Added lock icon on the status bar to identify a connection to a secure server.
• Added transfer mode icon on the status bar along with the already existing "BIN", "ASCII", and "AUTO".
• Added support for maintaining file dates and times for WS_FTP Server uploads.
• Added "Secure Computer" icon to both the FTP Site Profile Manager and to the remote tree. This icon is used when connecting to a secure server.
• Added Orange, Cherry, Midnight, Detroit, and Minnesota to GUI options highlight preset colors for both FTP Voyager and FTP Voyager Scheduler.
• Improved registration IDs so that name and email address are stored in the ID itself. It is no longer required to have separate fields for the IDs.
• Changed default RGB values for colors so that they match predefined colors in the Windows color selection dialog.
• Changed the folder icons to the Windows XP folder icons.
• Changed the Windows Generic File icon to the matching Windows XP icon.
• Added "Properties" icon to the main toolbar.
• Added "Properties" icon to pop up menus.
• Added "Track Select" support to the FTP Site Profile Manager
• Added Windows XP AVI's for pop-up transfer dialogs
• Added ability to use NLST instead of LIST for simple directory listings, on servers that may only support NLST or that FTP Voyager does not recognize.
• Changed file listings to omit file date and time, and size, if this information is not returned by the server. This is especially important on UNIX style servers that don't return file times on old files, or when using simple directory listings.
• The log now displays "unsolicited responses", or those messages from the server that do not go with a command. This is valuable for SysOp messaging.
• Added Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro support for Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, and Favorites.
• Added ASP folder for ASP member sites to the default site list.

BUG FIXES:

• Corrected a bug where when using Find Files and Delete the remote file list would not get updated, and if deleting multiple files could cause a GPF.
• Corrected a bug where if moving directories from a directory not in the root, the source on the FTP server might not get deleted.
• Corrected a bug where if a certain sequence of downloads, uploads, and folder creation occurred, and a folder has a file extension such as ".JPG", the icon shown for the folder in the local list could be incorrect.
• Corrected a bug when using folder shortcuts of folders where the name matched the folder, reconnect would cause the folder to disappear, but the shortcut would remain. This was a cosmetic bug only.
• Corrected a potential problem where the Site Profile Manager, Find Files, and Sync Folders dialogs could appear "off-screen" when the main window was very small and in the upper right corner of the screen.
• Corrected a Scheduler bug where Synchronize folders would work incorrectly. This normally happened when "Don't Delete" was not checked.
• Corrected a FAT bug where file time "seconds" must be divisible by two. In the case of servers that support file time "seconds", the downloaded file may be off by as much as on second if the file time "seconds" is an odd number. This is NOT a problem when using NTFS.
• Corrected a Scheduler bug where downloading directly to a root directory from another directory was not working.
• Corrected a bug where UNIX files with trailing spaces were having their file or folder names trimmed, removing the trailing spaces.
• Corrected a problem with "Go to Remote Dir" (manual CWD) where FV would not go to the directory if the parent directory was initialized, and the directory did not appear in the child list. This meant that the function would not work for hidden directories.
• Corrected a problem when renaming a directory with cached sub directories. FTP Voyager did not update the cached sub directory's parent name, causing it to use the old parent directory name.
• Corrected a SOCKS bug where FTP Voyager would not properly connect to the SOCKS server on a very fast LAN.
• Corrected a OPEN and SITE proxy bug where PASS would always be sent, even if FTP Voyager had no password to send.
• Corrected a potential bug when using a SOCKS proxy server, and host resolution was required; FTP Voyager could GPF on certain computers.
• Corrected a bug where after connecting to a site, navigating to various directories, then disconnecting from the site, the "Forward" and "Back" buttons on the toolbar were still available.
• Corrected a problem where the icons, read from other applications, were read as 16 color icons only. Now FTP Voyager will choose the best fitting color depth with the display settings. This gives higher color icon displays for remote files.
• Corrected a bug where the time estimate and transfer rate would be incorrect in the transfer status pane if a file was resumed when uploading. This error did not appear in the transfer dialogs, only in the transfer list.
• Corrected a bug where directory listings could get goofed up if the server uses <LF> only for line separation in directory listings (such as on VxWorks servers). Even though, when using TYPE A, the server is supposed to output <CR><LF> between lines. FTP Voyager correctly interprets both <LF> and <CR><LF> line separation.
• Corrected a directory listing bug where the end of a directory could get lost. This was only shown with Serv-U servers where the data socket close came before the end of the directory listing.
• Corrected a problem where using network computers for the default local directory, would not go back to that directory under XP. This was due to the new XP way of displaying computer names.
• Corrected a potential problem where some UNIX style servers would allow a space in the "group" name, which caused FTP Voyager to ignore the directory listing.
• Corrected a UNIX parsing bug where file names that contained a lot of spaces could confuse the parser thinking the server was using a different UNIX format.