Ghost FTP 2.1.1 RC20

Released: 24 September 2026

RC20 is a reliability, scheduler-correctness, connection-lifecycle and diagnostic-privacy hardening release candidate built on RC19.

Reliability and connection lifecycle

Deduplicates concurrent connection attempts per saved or temporary profile so rapid repeated clicks cannot create duplicate native sessions.
Keeps the global connecting indicator active until every in-flight connection attempt has settled instead of letting the first completed connection clear it early.
Prevents duplicate session rows if a native connection result is observed more than once.
Keeps Agent Bridge active-session synchronization failures observable while credential-redacting their diagnostic text.

Treats the selected date as the real start/anchor date for daily and weekly schedules.
Prevents recurring schedules from running before that anchor date.
Rejects rolled/invalid local calendar dates and nonexistent local times caused by daylight-saving transitions.
Enables the recurring start-date field in Transfers instead of disabling it for daily schedules.
Waits for the initial backend transfer snapshot before evaluating persisted schedules.
Automatically disables a persisted schedule if its saved transfer target no longer exists.
Avoids retrying a transfer that is already queued, transferring or paused.
Keeps failed schedule diagnostics credential-redacted.

Routes all human-readable IPC error messages through the central credential redactor.
Redacts native OS notification titles/bodies before they leave the application UI boundary.
Redacts notification listener/routing diagnostics.
Redacts updater error state and updater warning/error toasts.
Releases the held updater object after a successful install so a completed update cannot accidentally be installed twice from stale in-memory state.

Updates canonical repository links from the old Ghost-FTP-Premium path to bren-wp/Ghost-FTP.
Preserves the seven real native README screenshots and the Windows README-vs-QA verification gate.
Preserves real FTP, explicit FTPS and SFTP end-to-end acceptance.
RC20 publication is explicitly a GitHub prerelease and remains exact-source/approval gated.

RC20 publication is allowed only from the exact approved source commit after all of these succeed:

frontend typecheck and production build;
i18n, single-window/UI, privacy, scheduler and connection-lifecycle regression checks;
production npm dependency audit at high severity;
Rust formatting, workspace check, tests and Clippy;
real FTP, explicit FTPS and SFTP roundtrip E2E;
Windows x64 native bundle, 21-capture native-window visual QA and README screenshot verification;
Linux x86-64 native binary, AppImage, DEB and RPM builds;
RC20 source/documentation package generation.

RC20 is a prerelease candidate, not stable/FINAL certification. Earlier release tags remain unchanged.

RC19: terminal/transfer lifecycle hardening with 1:1 native README screenshots by @bren-wp in #20

Full Changelog: v2.1.1-rc.19...v2.1.1-rc.20