This version fixes some minor bugs, and has a few gui improvements. bareFTP now also includes an Italian translation (Thanks Gianvito!).

Bugs fixed:

• #5 – Crash when trying to upload parent directory

New features:

• Added access to personal bookmarks from the bottom of bookmarks menu
• Italian translation (by Gianvito Cavasoli)

A new version of bareFTP is here!

New features and improvements

Bookmark system
A bookmark system is finally in place. Bookmarks can be added manually in
the bookmark dialog, or automaticly by adding a bookmark to the site you are
currently connected to. Bookmarks can be organized in folders and can be dragged
and dropped using the treeview.

Stored bookmarks can easily be accessed using the Bookmarks menu item. It
replaces the connect button, which has been moved to the right end of
the toolbar.

Note: Passwords are currently stored in clear text. The bookmarks file
is stored in the user home directory with the most restrictive permissions
possible. It should be quite safe if you keep your home directory
permissions in order, but clear text is clear text. I don’t know if this
will ever change. bareFTP needs the clear text version of the password, and
if bareFTP can decrypt it, anybody can.

More FTP servers supported
There are a lot of directory listsing styles out there, and bareFTP now
supports more of them. This version has support for some VMS directory
listings, and more varitions of the UNIX style listings. The screenshot
below shows bareFTP connected to a VMS TCPware server.

Other minor improvements
This version also brings some minor bugfixes and improvements. Aborting
transfers should now work better in most cases. Moving queued transfers up
and down in the queue now brings less nasty surprises. And as always we have
updated French, Norwegian and Spanish translations.

Known issues
bareFTP does currently not support SSL session reuse. This may cause
problems when using protection level P (encrypted data channel) with servers that require session
reuse.

bareFTP needs more translators!
Want to translate bareFTP into your language? We currently have quite complete translations on French, Spanish and Norwegian. But we need more! If you want to translate bareFTP into a language you know, please drop me a note (see contact email on front page).

Credits
Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and cintributed with ideas. Special
thanks to Simon Leblanc for all the help!

After a rather idle period, the development is back on track for the 0.2 release. The main focus for 0.2 has been a bookmark system. As a preparation for 0.2 you can try the 0.1.9x development releases found in devel-snapshots. I even made a Ubuntu package.

I really want to smoke out as many bugs as possible before the 0.2 release. So please give 0.1.9x a try and report any bugs you may encounter.

Things to check out in 0.1.9x
Ok, we have a new bookmark system. It should be quite traditional and intuitive. The connect button has moved, and a Sites menu has taken it’s place. Bookmarks can be added manually, or by adding the current connected site. You can edit the bookmarks and folders and move them around in the treeview. A word of warning: bareFTP currently stores bookmark passwords in clear text.

If you have access to a VMS style ftp server, bareFTP should now be able to browse and transfer files for some of those systems.

bareFTP needs more translators!
Want to translate bareFTP to your language? At the moment we have quite complete translations for Norwegian and French, and a partially Spanish one. Please contact me if you want to contribute! (see contact info on front page)

This release is mainly a bugfix release, but it also comes with some new features.

This is a quick summary of the changes:

• Sorting on all columns in file views
• Fixed some charset issues
• More threads to avoid gui freezes
• Statusbar displays more useful information
• New progressbar in the statusbar pulsing when something time consuming is happening in the background
• Fixed several problems when connecting to a dos/windows ftp server
• Greatly improved error and exception handling

This is probably the last release in the 0.1 series. Work on 0.2 has already begun.
Enjoy!

So, 0.1.3 has been out for a while, and as with all releases, it came with some new features and both new and old bugs. I’ve been hacking a bit on this project lately and have a quite solid version coming along soon..

This is some of the things already in place in svn:

• Some fixes regarding charset issues
• Sorting on all columns
• Time consuming remote operations run in background threads to avoid gui freeze
• Big improvements in error handling

Try the latest devel release or build from svn if you want to check it out. Please report any issues.

A 0.1.4 release can be expected shortly, and that will probably be the last 0.1.x release. The plans for 0.2 include a site manager for bookmarks and site specific settings.

This new release offers several improvements and bugfixes. bareFTP now has a new preferences dialog in a more gnomeish style and drag’n drop now works better with the rest of gnome. See the changelog in the download section for a morecomplete list of changes.

On this last day of the year I made my first attempt at making some rpms for Fedora 10. You’ll find them in the downloads section. The guys maintaining the PackMan repository for openSUSE have made some packages too.

Happy New Year to everyone! See you for a new release of bareFTP in January!

This release fixes some of the issues reported with the initial release. Most notably, the multi threaded remote operations now work more as intended. You can now continue to browse directories etc while a transfer is in progress.

I want to thank the people who have given feedback on bareFTP. This project got a lot more attention than I anticipated, and that of course motivates me to hurry up with new features! It seems I may have some co-developers coming to the project too.

On a side note, the latest development snapshot has a lot of fixes and multi threaded remote operations that actually works. I bit more testing is needed, but a 0.1.2 release is not far away. Stay tuned!

This is an initial release, and is to be considered as alpha quality. Lots of features are still missing. Feel free to give it a try!



A few cool new things made it into this release, and among them is drag’n drop.