Release Version 2.0

Release date: 7 June 2018.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.0 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at http://docs.filesender.org/v2.0/install/

Upgrade Notes

Version 2.0 breaks compatibility with version 1.x. We recommend a fresh installation to version 2.x of FileSender.

Major changes since 2.0 release candidate 1

An update for a regression in drag and drop when dirtree was disabled. The download page only offers to send an email if this option is not disabled. Various updates to the docs, particularly the installation information.

Major changes in 2.0 relative to the 1.x series

It is highly recommended that installations on 1.x consider upgrading to 2.x. There have been security and stability improvements and these will be released in a timely manner for the 2.x series. Incremental updates including database migration will be supported in 2.x.

A short incomplete list of changes: End to end encryption support which is performed entirely in the browser. TeraSender multiple stream upload. Race conditions found and fixed, some edge cases that could result in bad data for some uploads have been fixed. Secondary indexes in the database are now created and used. Multiple storage options are available allowing files to be stored as whole files, chunks, or uploaded to a cloud provider. Filesystem hashing allows multiple NFS servers to be used to store file data in the backend. Zip64 archive generation now makes valid archives for large files. My transfers page is now paginated (and uses indexes) which reduces load times from tens of minutes to seconds for very frequent users. Guest workflow has been improved to not present confusing options. Many security issues have been addressed. Multiple files can now be sent in a single transfer. No flash. And much more.

Configuration changes

There are no configuration changes since release candidate 1.

Support and Feedback

See Support and Mailinglists and Feature requests.

A new label "release2.0" has been created to specifically track issues relating to this release. Please attach that label when reporting issues that relate to this beta. Current known issues can be seen at https://github.com/filesender/filesender/labels/release2.0