FileCatalyst Direct

Learn more about FileCatalyst Direct by visiting https://www.filecatalyst.com/filecatalyst-direct.

NOTE: Java 1.8+ is required for all FileCatalyst products. Amazon Corretto JRE 8u362 is now bundled into all FileCatalyst product installers (Windows, macOS, Linux).

April 4, 2024

Version 3.8.10 - Build 138

April 4, 2024

Fixes

  • All - Various security fixes

  • Central - Issue with obtaining all reports from Central-connected nodes

  • HotFolder - Files would be re-transferred if the cache was enabled, and the transfer was triggered within 10 seconds

  • HotFolder - "Generate on next execution" functionality, for the transfer cache, was not working through HTML admin

  • HotFolder - Generating the transfer cache would not work with single client tasks

  • HotFolder - HTML Admin prevented changes to Dynamic Files task settings, once they were enabled

  • LoadBalancer - Long transfers would be assigned a different IP, if interrupted

  • Server - Bandwidth reports would display doubled data values when the "all" user filter was specified

  • TransferAgent - TransferAgent would incorrectly import old configuration files

  • Central, HotFolder, Server - UTF-8 characters would not properly render in node HTML admins, through Central

January 29, 2024

Version 3.8.9 - Build 90

January 29, 2024

Added
  • TransferAgent - Updated SSL Certificate.
Fixes

  • All - Multiple security fixes. An upgrade to the latest version is strongly recommended.

  • All - Various UI fixes

  • All - Chargify would submit wrong usage data

October 25, 2023

Version 3.8.9 - Build 30

October 25, 2023

Added

  • All - Multiple security fixes.

  • All - Modernized look and feel.

  • Server - Ability to modulate read timeout for Swift3 EFS driver.

  • HotFolder - Ability to install HotFolder as a non-admin user.

  • Central - Ability to search transfer history by Task ID or Task Name, through REST.

Fixes

  • All - Various UI fixes.

  • All - Insufficient database connection pool could lead to performance degradation.

  • Central - Stale connections were holding on to locks, preventing refresh of new connections.

  • HotFolder - Removed the "Test Access Rate" button when creating a new HotFolder through the HTML admin.

  • HotFolder - Undefined task would break HTML Scheduler UI.

  • HotFolder - Time entries were incorrectly parsed when importing bandwith reports from older versions.

  • Reverse Proxy - Enabling SSL was causing the diagnostic command to fail.

  • Reverse Proxy - Reverse Proxy was improperly handling certain errors.

  • Server - Problems navigating Google cloud file system.

  • Server - Large report files may cause IO Exceptions.

  • Server - S3 transfers would only use SSE-S3 encryption.

  • Server - Disabling remote admin through HTML UI was not possible.

July 13, 2023

Version 3.8.8 - Build 55

July 13, 2023

Fixes

  • HotFolder - Fixed issue where auto zip archives were not properly deleting.

July 10, 2023

Version 3.8.8 - Build 52

July 10, 2023

Updates

  • All - Update Amazon Corretto to version 8.362.08.1.

  • All - Multiple security fixes.

  • All - Modernized look and feel.

  • Central - Added ability for non-admin users to change their passwords in Central.

  • HotFolder, Server - Added -WEBUI flag, provides option to start up application with web administration rather than Swing UI.

  • Hotfolder, Server, TransferAgent - Utilize proper database for reporting (rather than CSV). Ability to export to CSV retained.

Fixes

  • All - Various UI fixes

  • All - Rate Based Congestion Control was failing on very high latency lines.

  • Central - Central proxy WebUIs would incorrectly stop polling for status updates in slower networks.

  • Central - "Task Name" was missing in some Central tables.

  • HotFolder - Multi-client upload task with synchronization enabled was deleting server data, when HotFolder is inaccessible.

  • HotFolder - Hotfolder task would become unusable after restart.

  • HotFolder - Post-task email settings weren't being saved when using the web admin.

  • HotFolder - "Run Report" button would fail with an authentication failure message in the web admins.

  • HotFolder - Downloads would write temporary file names to reports when temp file names were enabled.

  • HotFolder - File Filter Test functionality, for Excludes, was not working.

  • HotFolder - Mystery task would appear in HotFolder Swing UI, on new deployments, breaking HTML scheduler.

  • Server - S3 transfers would not honor the encryption setting applied the bucket.

  • Server - Added "Upload" dialog to support uploading remote certificate.

  • Server - Temp file deletion thread was setting an incorrect start delay, after the configuration is applied.

  • TransferAgent - TransferAgent Express would break, when attempting to transfer files over networks that have large amounts of latency

  • Reverse Proxy - Diagnostics would fail to generate when evoked from the command line.

  • HotFolder, Server - Multi-client upload task with synchronization enabled was deleting server data, when hotfolder is inaccessible.

February 16, 2023

Version 3.8.7 - Build 27

February 16, 2023

Updates

  • TransferAgent - Updated SSL Certificate

January 19, 2023

Version 3.8.7 - Build 24

January 19, 2023

Updates

  • All - Multiple security fixes.

  • All - Modernized look and feel.

  • Central, Server - Added OAuth support for email authentication.

Fixes

  • All - Various UI fixes.

  • HotFolder - Upgrading HotFolder does not add TLSv1.3 to the config file.

  • HotFolder - "Move to Sent" functionality would delete the HF location, if destination is outside HF.

  • HotFolder - Hotfolder Connect functionality, through Swing Admin, when running as a service.

  • LoadBalancer - LoadBalancer would not properly cycle through sites that were down.

  • LoadBalancer - LoadBalancer sticky sessions were not using the same ID for check site and transfer operations, in Single Client mode.

  • Central - Alarm history was being redundantly generated with no retention limits.

  • Central, HotFolder - Backwards compatibility issue between Central and HotFolder.

October 26, 2022

Version 3.8.6 - Build 43

October 26, 2022

Updates

  • All - Update Amazon Corretto to version 8.332.08.1.

  • All - Multiple security fixes.

  • All - Modernized look and feel.

  • Server - TLS 1.3 support.

  • Server - HTML Remote Admin now allows the creation of self-signed certificates for testing and demo purposes.

  • HotFolder - MD5s now included in HotFolder data reports.

  • Server, HotFolder, TransferAgent - Labs: New Rate-based Congestion Control Algorithm.

  • Server, HotFolder, Central - Ability to enforce strong password policy.

  • Central, LoadBalancer - LoadBalancer now has built in sticky sessions, where a multiclient task execution will utilize the same server.

Fixes

  • All - Various UI fixes.

  • Central - FileDetails CSV export has Null in Task ID and Name columns.

  • Central - FileDetails CSV export has swapped Task ID and Name column values.

  • Server - Issue with diagnostic generation on shutdown.

  • HotFolder - Thread leak causing HotFolder to hang.

  • HotFolder - No task logging, after first execution.

  • TransferAgent - TransferAgent would incorrectly reset connections when receiving multiple transfer requests.

  • Server, TransferAgent - SessionID is not relevant to the FileCatalyst TransferAgent.

April 8th, 2022

Version 3.8.5 - Build 78

April 8, 2022

Updates

  • All - Update Amazon Corretto to version 1.8.0_282.

  • All - Multiple security fixes.

  • Central - Ability to generate a CSV for Central report data.

  • Central - New report in Central provides data transferred per Node.

  • HotFolder - Bandwidth blackout cancellation.

  • Load Balancer - Origin Affinity for Load balancer.

  • Reverse Proxy - Run time Diagnostics generation.

  • Server - New upload SSL certificate button for Server HTML admin.

  • Server - Support for authenticating against an OpenID service (Beta feature, support limited to certain UIs).

  • Server, HotFolder - Checksum now included in select Server and HotFolder CSV reports.

  • Server, HotFolder - New Read/Write speed test tool for testing I/O speeds.

Fixes

  • TransferAgent - Weblink page intermittently getting Connection Refused.

  • Server - Error when downloading from Weblink using SSL.

  • Server - Renaming an Amazon S3 folder creates a 0B file instead.

  • HotFolder - Intermittent hang on startup, with CPU spiking to 100%.

October 22, 2021

Version 3.8.4 - Build 48

October 22, 2021

Updates

  • All - Modernized look and feel.

  • Server - Usability enhancements to the Logs page in the HTML Admins.

  • Server - Performance improvements.

  • HotFolder,TransferAgent - Client applications no longer require license key to enable reporting.

Fixes

  • All - XML REST API calls return a 500 Internal Server Error.

  • All - Various usability improvements.

  • All - Multiple security fixes.

  • TransferAgent - About dialog not displaying information.

  • TransferAgent - Email Weblink page not loading.

  • TransferAgent - Install on Mac showing failure despite successful installation.

  • TransferAgent - TA Express page does not detect TA is running when running Localhost Fallback Proxy.

  • TransferAgent - Addressed issue where TransferAgent would not properly queue transfers.

  • Server - Upgrading S3 authentication method to enable compatibility with newer buckets.

  • Server - Connection limit email reporting incorrect value.

  • Server - Unable to Browse on an EFS.

  • Server - Fixed an issue where we were not writing bandwidth reports.

  • Server - License information not being displayed.

  • Server - Native HTTP Upload page not loading.

  • Server - Help button on Weblink page disappears on page refresh.

  • Server - File Ownership is not being applied with auto-zip.

  • Server - Corrected Server shutdown process.

  • HotFolder - HotFolder incorrectly identifying itself for licenses purposes, erroneously limiting functionality.

  • HotFolder - Serialization error when setting task to Always on.

  • HotFolder - Fixed an issue where we were failing to write transfers to logs on rescans.

  • Central - Search on filepath produces an SQL error.

 

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