# FileZilla: what changed from 1 to 3 - Product: FileZilla (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla) - Vendor: FileZilla Project - Range: changelog entries numbered after 1.12.6 up to and including 3.71.1, stable releases only - Entries below: 9 releases (newest first) - Resolved: 1 is 1.12.6 and 3 is 3.71.1, the newest stable release of each major we track - Carrying security changes: 1 · CVEs mentioned: 0 · Mentioning breaking changes: 0 · Removing or deprecating something: 0 - Page: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/compare/1...3 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. 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The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. ## What changed (16 changes, grouped by kind) ### Added #### 3.71.0 (2026-08-19) - Entering an empty path in the remote path edit field now returns back to the initial home directory for FTP(S) and SFTP #### 3.70.6 (2026-06-04) - Add compatibility flag to Site Manager to ignore invalid bits in file attributes flags received from non-compliant servers in SFTP #### 3.70.5 (2026-05-06) - SFTP: Added a page with compatibility flags to the Site Manager #### 3.70.3 (2026-04-14) - SFTP: Added a heuristic to reply to a keyboard-interactive request with the site's password, if it consists of a single prompt named "Password" ### Changed #### 3.71.1 (2026-08-26) - Improved heuristic when keyboard-interactive requests are treated #### 3.70.6 (2026-06-04) - Update fzssh to version 1.3 for SFTP #### 3.70.4 (2026-04-16) - Updated SFTP to fzssh 1.2.0 #### 3.70.3 (2026-04-14) - SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.1 #### 3.70.0 (2026-04-09) - Replacing of invalid characters in filenames when downloading can no longer be disabled ### Fixed #### 3.71.1 (2026-08-26) - Work around a bug in macOS 27 where setting the locale to non-English triggers crashes in AppKit #### 3.71.0 (2026-08-19) - Fix parsing of permissions for chmod in FTP(S) #### 3.70.4 (2026-04-16) - Updated to libfilezilla 0.55.4 to address a crash #### 3.70.2 (2026-04-13) - SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.9 to address an issue with servers sending nonsensical SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST packages #### 3.70.1 (2026-04-13) - SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers sending empty longnames #### 3.70.0 (2026-04-09) - Temporarily remember passwords until FileZilla closes even when saving of password was disabled ### Security #### 3.70.5 (2026-05-06) - Official binaries are now linked against GnuTLS 3.8.13 ## Release notes ### 3.71.1 — FileZilla Client 3.71.1 released - Date: 2026-08-26 - Version: 3.71.1 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.71.1 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Bugfixes and minor changes: macOS: Work around a bug in macOS 27 where setting the locale to non-English triggers crashes in AppKit SFTP: Improved heuristic when keyboard-interactive requests are trea… - **fixed** — Work around a bug in macOS 27 where setting the locale to non-English triggers crashes in AppKit - **changed** — Improved heuristic when keyboard-interactive requests are treated ### 3.71.0 — FileZilla Client 3.71.0 released - Date: 2026-08-19 - Version: 3.71.0 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.71.0 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop New features: FTP(S), SFTP: Entering an empty path in the remote path edit field now returns back to the initial home directory Bugfixes and minor changes: FTP(S): Fix parsing of permissions for chmod… - **added** — Entering an empty path in the remote path edit field now returns back to the initial home directory for FTP(S) and SFTP - **fixed** — Fix parsing of permissions for chmod in FTP(S) ### 3.70.6 — FileZilla Client 3.70.6 released - Date: 2026-06-04 - Version: 3.70.6 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.6 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop New features: SFTP: Added compatibility flag to Site Manager to ignore invalid bits in file attributes flags received from non-compliant servers Bugfixes and minor changes: SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.3.… - **added** — Add compatibility flag to Site Manager to ignore invalid bits in file attributes flags received from non-compliant servers in SFTP - **changed** — Update fzssh to version 1.3 for SFTP ### 3.70.5 — FileZilla Client 3.70.5 released - Date: 2026-05-06 - Version: 3.70.5 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.5 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Fixed vulnerabilities: Official binaries are now linked against GnuTLS 3.8.13 New features: SFTP: Added a page with compatibility flags to the Site Manager Bugfixes and minor changes: SFTP: Updated to… - **security** — Official binaries are now linked against GnuTLS 3.8.13 - **added** — SFTP: Added a page with compatibility flags to the Site Manager ### 3.70.4 — FileZilla Client 3.70.4 released - Date: 2026-04-16 - Version: 3.70.4 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.4 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Bugfixes and minor changes: Updated to libfilezilla 0.55.4 to address a crash SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.2.0 - **fixed** — Updated to libfilezilla 0.55.4 to address a crash - **changed** — Updated SFTP to fzssh 1.2.0 ### 3.70.3 — FileZilla Client 3.70.3 released - Date: 2026-04-14 - Version: 3.70.3 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.3 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Bugfixes and minor changes: SFTP: Added a heuristic to reply to a keyboard-interactive request with the site's password, if it consists of a single prompt named "Password" SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.1… - **added** — SFTP: Added a heuristic to reply to a keyboard-interactive request with the site's password, if it consists of a single prompt named "Password" - **changed** — SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.1 ### 3.70.2 — FileZilla Client 3.70.2 released - Date: 2026-04-13 - Version: 3.70.2 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.2 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Bugfixes and minor changes: SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.9 to address an issue with servers sending nonsensical SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST packages - **fixed** — SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.9 to address an issue with servers sending nonsensical SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST packages ### 3.70.1 — FileZilla Client 3.70.1 released - Date: 2026-04-13 - Version: 3.70.1 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.1 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Bugfixes and minor changes: SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers sending empty longnames SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers incapable of handling la… - **fixed** — SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers sending empty longnames ### 3.70.0 — FileZilla Client 3.70.0 released - Date: 2026-04-09 - Version: 3.70.0 - Original notes: https://filezilla-project.org/ - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/filezilla/releases/3.70.0 - Labels: Platforms: Desktop Bugfixes and minor changes: Replacing of invalid characters in filenames when downloading can no longer be disabled If saving of password was disabled, temporarily remembering passwords until FileZill… - **changed** — Replacing of invalid characters in filenames when downloading can no longer be disabled - **fixed** — Temporarily remember passwords until FileZilla closes even when saving of password was disabled