Release version 2.57

Release date: 5 Aug 2025.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.57 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

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

Major changes since 2.56

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS changed.

Short summary:

This is mostly a bugfix release.
Major: OSX/Safari download progress bar should be working now.
Minor: PHP8.4 items, cloud storage limit handling and tmp-dir docs, docs updates.

Handle email addresses with <> in them #2288

Cloud: apply no limits to available storage #2293

php 8.4 deprecation updates #2295

Remove old script which might be confusing for some users. #2296

Document usage of php temp-dir for s3 cloud backend better #2297

Update known-installs.md #2302

i18n: auto import from poedtor on 2025-07-08-1751932085 #2309

does: update nginx paths for filesender and ssp #2310

docs: Mention Fedora, bump cited version #2322

UX: On OSX/Safari it seems lengthComputable is not set. #2324

i18n: auto import from poedtor on 2025-07-16-1752621256 #2330

Update known-installs.md #2340

Fix filesender.py so that it doesn't get messed up by clidownload.php #2342

bump in build version number #2346

release 2.57 #2347

Configuration changes

No new options.

Support and Feedback

Please lodge new github issues for things that might improve the next release!
See Support and Mailinglists or create a Feature requests using Github issues.