Release Notes for Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional

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WS_FTP Professional Release Notes

Features

New Features in WS_FTP Professional 2007.1

Security

Keyboard-Interactive Authentication: Client support for dynamic client-server authentication. Users can authenticate and connect to SSH servers that require connecting clients to respond to server-defined prompts for authentication, in addition to username.
Configure Email Notifications for SMTP Server Authentication: Users can easily set-up email notifications to be automatically sent when a file transfer occurs. Email notifications can now be configured for SMTP server authentication.
Storage Utilization Displayed when Connecting to WS_FTP Server: Users connecting to WS_FTP Server with the WS_FTP Professional file transfer client get a real-time view of their server disk space utilization.

Usability

Copy Fully-Qualified URL to Clipboard: Right-mouse-click and copy the URL to a remote file and paste into another document or email. The complete URL link includes host, server, folder and filename.
Enhanced Workspaces: Save and instantly reconnect to frequently used local and server connections. Enhanced capability lets you add descriptive comments for each saved workspace.
Enhanced Logging: The SSH Authentication method used to connect to an SSH server is now included in the connection log.
The E-mail notification functionality now includes the ability to authenticate with the SMTP Server.

Defects Fixed in WS_FTP Professional 2007.1

Fixed a defect that caused the WS_FTP application to close when transferring more than 40 files in Compression mode.

Ipswitch would like to thank CVE for reporting the following vulnerabilities, which were fixed in this release:

CVE-2007-0330: Buffer overflow in a DLL used by wsftpurl.exe was fixed.
CVE-2007-2213: A vulnerability in the Initialize function in NetscapeFTPHandler in WS_FTP Home and Professional 2007 could be exploited to cause a denial of service. We have removed support for browser integration with Netscape.

Defects Fixed in WS_FTP Professional 2007 HF2

Using a wildcard option to upload and download data from a file folder caused files, with matching search criteria, to transfer from the subdirectories of the specified file folder.
SSH/SFTP downloads from servers with a window size < 20,000 bytes were failing to download the complete file.

New Features in WS_FTP Professional 2007

User Experience and Efficiency

WS_FTP Pro supports Microsoft® Terminal Services and Citrix® terminal services.
Shortcut (right-click) menu for OpenPGP Transfer Mode option is now available on the shortcut menu.
Enhanced Thumbnails let you view and resize pictures and graphics as thumbnails on your computer or remote sites.
You can customize the Send To options on the Shortcut menu by adding a HotDrop (shortcut) to Windows Explorer or the local WS_FTP Send To menu. HotDrops let you send files on your local computer to a remote site quickly and easily.
New custom skins are available to change the look-and-feel of your FTP client.
Site Import wizard now supports CuteFTP, FTP Voyager, WS_FTP LE, and WS_FTP Home.

Search, Synchronize, and Backup

Backup Wizard lets you compress (zip) and schedule archives for important files and folders.
Synchronize Utility now supports local-to-local file synchronization.
Enhanced file content comparison and Synchronization features let you compare files between sites, using powerful file integrity checking algorithms (CRC32, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512). Files transfer only when they are not current in the source or target locations.
Local Search lets you use powerful desktop search engines (Google™, Copernic™, and a Windows® search tool), installed on your computer, to search for local files and file content from within the FTP client. Search results can then be transferred to remote server easily with a simple drag-n- drop or with HotDrop options on the shortcut (right-click) menu.

Security

File Integrity uses built-in file verification mechanisms, with file checking algorithms for CRC32, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512, to validate that transferred files have not been compromised.
HTTP proxy firewall is now supported. HTTP Proxy works for all connection types (FTP, FTP Auth SSL, FTP Implicit SSL, SSH/SFTP, HTTP and HTTPS).

Included Applications

Upload Wizard
The Upload Wizard provides a simple interface for uploading files. It can be invoked via integration with Windows Explorer (just right-click on file(s) or folder(s) and select upload using the WS_FTP Upload Wizard!).

You can launch the Upload Wizard as a stand-alone application via the shortcut provided in the WS_FTP Professional program group.
Find Utility
The WS_FTP Find Utility provides two search capabilities: Local lets you search for files on your local computer and Remote lets you search for files on a remote FTP site.
Backup Utility
The Backup Wizard lets you compress (zip) and schedule archives for important files and folders. Files can be backed up from your computer to a remote server, between two remote servers, or from a local drive to another local drive.
Synchronize Utility
The WS_FTP Synchronize Utility is designed to let you "mirror" folders and directories between your computer and a remote FTP server. It lets you keep remote sites up-to- date by automatically uploading files that have changed, while deleting files that have been removed from the master directory. This is especially useful for quickly and efficiently updating live web sites from an authoring site, or for mirroring FTP servers. Also, before transferring files between a local and remote site the files are first compared, if the files are the same on the local and remote sites, no data transfer occurs.
Script Utility
The WS_FTP Script Utility automates file transfer and management through FTP commands such as open, get, and put. For example, you can create a script that instructs WS_FTP Professional to upload certain files, and then use a scheduling program to run the script at the same time each day or week. Script lines that start with ';' are comments and are ignored by the command processor.
Scheduler Utility
The WS_FTP Scheduler Utility is an interface to Windows Scheduler that lets you to schedule time consuming or reoccurring tasks to be executed automatically.
Browser Integration Utility
Browser Integration lets you use WS_FTP Professional to download files from a web browser. With this feature, if you select a download file in your web browser (provided the download file has an FTP URL), the download will be processed by WS_FTP Professional.

System Requirements

One of the following Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, or Windows Vista.
32 MB minimum RAM
32 MB of disk space

Installing WS_FTP Professional

If you purchased a WS_FTP Professional CD-ROM, insert the CD in a drive. If the CD does not automatically display a "Welcome" screen, click the Windows Start button and select Run. Enter the CD-ROM drive letter followed by autorun.exe. For example, D:\autorun.exe. Follow the instructions on your screen.

If you downloaded WS_FTP Professional from the Internet, run the downloaded application, WSFTP_Pro_Install.exe. Follow the instructions on your screen.

Uninstalling (All Applications)

The uninstall function removes all files associated with WS_FTP Professional from your computer, including your configured sites. It also removes the WS_FTP Professional icon from your desktop. To uninstall WS_FTP Professional, you need to use the "Add/Remove Programs" function located in the Control Panel. Select Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional from the program list and click the "Change/Remove" button.

Silent Install (All Applications)

As an administrator, you can automate the WS_FTP Client installation by creating a silent installation file. The silent installation does not prompt the user for input, but instead gets user input from an InstallShield Silent Response File (.iss extension). A response file is a plain text file with sections of data entries that include information similar to that which an end user would enter as responses to dialog boxes during a normal setup. InstallShield Silent reads the input from the response file at run time.

When you play back the silent installation file, no messages are displayed. To view information about the installation, you can view the log file. For more information about setting up a log file, see To playback an InstallShield Silent Response File.

Note: Depending on the installation type (clean install vs. upgrade install), you need to create a unique InstallShield Silent Response File for each installation type.

To record an InstallShield Silent Response File:

From a DOS prompt, change to the drive where the install CD is located (for example, d:\), enter: Setup.exe -r - f1"c:\setup.iss"
- -r starts the WS_FTP Client installation program in the record mode.
- -f1 lets you set the path and file name where the resulting .iss will be written. Make sure that you include the path and file name in quotations.
Press Enter and select the installation options you want to use for the silent installation. A new silent response file is created. You can view and edit the .iss file in a text editor.

To playback an InstallShield Silent Response File:

From a DOS prompt, change to the drive where the new InstallShield Silent Response File was saved (for example, c:\), enter: Setup.exe -s -f1"c:\setup.iss"
- -s starts the WS_FTP Client silent installation program in the play back mode.
- -f1 lets you set the path and file name for the .iss file. Make sure that you include the path and file name in quotations.
- -f2 lets you set the path and file name for the log file. Make sure that you include the path and file name in quotations.
Press Enter. The silent response file is executed.

Silent Uninstall (All Applications)

To uninstall the application silently, execute the following command at the command prompt:

"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{AD88355B-A4E0-4DA1- BAC3-EA4FEA930691}\setup.exe" silent

Terminal Services Support

If you use WS_FTP via terminal services, such as Microsoft Terminal Services or Citrix, see the setup information in our Knowledge Base article on terminal services.

For More Information

Interactive Getting Started Tour - Walks you through the initial setup, configuration and connecting to your first site as well as transferring your first files. Take the Getting Started Tour
Getting Started Guide - Covers information about the release and a screen shot labeling all the key areas of the application interface. Download the Getting Started Guide
Tools Guide- Covers information on the included Utilities that are installed with WS_FTP Professional. Download the Tools Guide
Security Guide - Covers information on security and encryption and using SSL, SFTP and PGP. Download the Security Guide

Notes

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project.

PGP is a registered trademark of PGP Corporation.

This product contains software based on standards defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Proposed Standard RFC 2440.

In respectful memory of Veronique Gowdy