WatchFTP version 4.5 released

 

Today, we released WatchFTP version 4.5.

 

What's new in this release

• New: WatchFTP is now compatible with the latest secure login methods (like TLS 1.3).
• Improved: WatchFTP will reuse its FTP connections longer, less disconnect/connects.
• Fix: Rare cases of the WatchFTP control center crashing at startup are fixed.
• Fix: The email address you enter as the sender was ignored.

This is a Free Upgrade for everyone who has a "version 4" license. Basically everyone who bought after May 1, 2016.

 

WatchFTP version 4.1 Released

4.1.0 (January 7, 2018)

• Fixed: Connecting with new versions of WS_FTP SFTP servers failed.
• Improved: When you use Keep Session Log for debugging issues, those logs could get very large. Logs older than a few days are now zipped (and deleted after 7 days).
• Improved: On the Advanced Settings you can now set a timeout for WatchFTP to connect, previously WatchFTP would always abort after 20 seconds.
• Fixed: WatchFTP would ignore all files/directories with names starting with a ".". By default WatchFTP will still ignore those but you can now tell WatchFTP to process those files on Advanced Settings.
• New: Create local directories early. Older WatchFTP releases created local (Windows) directories as soon as they were detected on your FTP server. Version 4 only creates those directories when needed (for a file to download). You can now set an option to restore the old behavior.

This is a Free Upgrade for everyone who has a "version 4" license. Basically everyone who bought after May 1, 2016.

Just install this new release "on top" of your current version so it keeps all your tasks and settings.

WatchFTP version 4 released - Reminder

In case you missed our newsletter or previous blogs about the new release of our FTP monitor program WatchFTP, this quick reminder.

• See what's new here
• Owners of older (version 3) license(s), check if your upgrade is free.
• Only 10 days left (until July 1st, 2017) until the upgrade price will be $49 per license, get it now for just $29 per license.

WatchDirectory v4.9.5 released

We just released a new version of our File System Monitor WatchDirectory. This is a free upgrade for all customers. Just install the new evaluation version "on top" of your version and it will automatically see your tasks and licenses.

New/Fixed in this release

• Fixed: WatchDirectory crashed on (some) Asian language systems.
• Improved: The new System.Mail now allows you to connect to SMTP servers without username/password.
• Improved: The Print PDF task has several new settings.
• Fixed: The email reports of the Audit task weren't properly sent at 6am.
• Fixed: Large file uploads by the FTP task didn't properly report their progress.
• Improved: The Unzip task now supports password protected zips.

WatchFTP v4.0.2 released

Just to let you know we released an important update for WatchFTP.

Fixed

In some cases (mostly when connecting to an SFTP server), WatchFTP failed to connect to the server. This has been fixed.

Download

Download this new release here. Install it "on top" of your current version so it will keep your settings and tasks.

Buy

When you are ready to buy, visit our webshop to get a license. If you already own a previous version, your upgrade may be free, see Upgrade to WatchFTP v4

WatchFTP version 4 released

New in this major WatchFTP version 4 release

Private Key Support		Use a Private Key (PuTTY or OpenSSH format) to login on SFTP sites.
Dynamic Naming		You now have full control which name/location is used for downloaded files. For example, download to C:\Down\{dt-yyyy}\{dt-mm}\{dt-dd}\{filename}
Multithreaded Downloads		WatchFTP can now download multiple files concurrently.
Task Groups		There is a new menu that allows you to show "All Tasks (Ctrl+0)", "Running Tasks (Ctrl+1)" or "Stopped Tasks (Ctrl+2)". Create your own task groups if you have a lot of tasks.
...and a lot more...		Support for the latest encryptions on secure connections. The Email Action can now email different people depending on the location of detected files. Lots of small other improvements...

Download

Download this new release here. Install it "on top" of your current version so it will keep your settings and tasks. You can try WatchFTP free for 30 days.

Buy

When you are ready to buy, visit our webshop to get a license. If you already own a previous version, your upgrade may be free, see Upgrade to WatchFTP v4.

WatchFTP 3.8.0 released - Free Upgrade

We just released a new version of our FTP Monitor Program WatchFTP. If you already own a license, this is a free upgrade. Just install the new version "on top" of your current install.

What's New

If you use a secure connection to your FTP site and use Passive mode to connect (the default), you can now enable the new option "Force Host IP". Here the explanation from the WatchFTP help file:

When you use a secure connection all commands and responses between WatchFTP and the FTP server are encrypted. When the FTP server is behind a NAT router, the router can not translate the internal IP addresses (typically 192.168....) to externally accessible IP addresses so they remain unchanged in the FTP response lines to WatchFTP.
When this option is set, WatchFTP will ignore the (unaccessible) IP addresses in the server's responses and always uses the IP address of the FTP server itself.

WxRemote version 1.9.2 released (free update)

We just released a new version of our program WxRemote, our program to remotely control your WatchDirectory and WatchFTP tasks. We highly recommend you install this free update.

Fixed in this release

There was a memory leak in the WxConnectionManager and WxListener components. This leak would only show if you had logging disabled. Furthermore, "Check for Updates" did not work properly.

Download the new release here.

30% Discount

For a limited time, until the end of September, you can buy WxRemote with a 30% discount. Use the discount-code WXPROMO in our webshop.

WatchDirectory v4.9.4 released

We just released another free update for our program WatchDirectory. To update, download the evaluation version from our website, stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current install. That way, all your settings, license info and tasks are kept.

New in this release

• Improved: Updated the supported encryption methods for the FTP Upload plugin.
• Improved: When you let the Email task combine multiple emails, there is a new setting to prevent the same file being attached multiple times.
• Improved: The Print PDF task has a new option to set the print orientation (Portrait or Landscape).

The installer now uses a new so called SHA256 code signing certificate. Our older installers used a so-called SHA1 certificate. Older Windows versions (for example Windows XP) do not recognize the new certificate and may give you a warning that the certificate is corrupt. You can safely ignore that message.

WatchFTP v3.7.9 released - Free Upgrade

We have just released a new version of WatchFTP, our FTP monitor. This is a free upgrade for all customers who own a WatchFTP license. Just install this release "on top" of your current version so it will keep all settings and tasks.

What's new?

This releases fixes an obscure problem when you connect using a "strange" password. With "strange" meaning characters not found in the typical ANSI (a-z,A-Z,0-9) character set. If your FTP server supports the UTF-8 character set, WatchFTP would first connect using ANSI but switch to UTF-8 after this initial connect. When WatchFTP needed to re-connect again, it tried to do so using UTF-8, an encoding your FTP server doesn't expect for new connections.
On the "Advanced Settings" window you can now enter the character set to use while connecting, it will default to ANSI.

WatchDirectory v4.9.4 beta 1 - TLS 1.2 support

On our forum we have a first beta for WatchDirectory v4.9.4 available.

The FTP Upload task now supports the TLS 1.2 protocol for secure connections. Download the beta from the forum link above.

WatchDirectory v4.9.3.E released

A week ago we released version 4.9.3 of WatchDirectory. The last few days we released a few "micro updates" with small fixes and enhancements. Those micro updates do not show when WatchDirectory performs a "check for updates" so if you installed version 4.9.3 when it was released, you may want to install the current update (released today).

New since version 4.9.2

• The new Print Pdf plugin has a new option to control how documents are resized (or not).
• Dynamic Naming did not work properly for the new Print Pdf plugin.
• The Print Pdf plugin does not add "GdP Software PrintPDF" to document names anymore.
• The Auto ZIP plugin will retry after 10 seconds if one of the files to be zipped is locked.
• Some (harmless) debugging code removed from Print PDF.
• On some systems the "Auto Repair" of the history database did not work, the new release fixes this.

Download / Install

Download the current release here. Stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current installed version so it will keep all your settings and tasks.

WatchFTP v3.7.8 released, free update

We just released a small update for our FTP File Monitor WatchFTP. This is a free update for all customers, just install the current evaluation version "on top" of your install so it keeps your settings and tasks.

This release fixes an issue that caused the WatchFTP Control Center to crash when you try to import a task with an accented name.

WatchDirectory 4.9.2 released - free update

We just released version 4.9.2 of our File Monitoring Program WatchDirectory.

New / Changed in this release

A new plugin has been added so WatchDirectory can now print PDF files directly without need for Acrobat or Foxit Reader. This works more reliable, faster and is easier to setup.

If you use WxRemote's "Last Message" option, WatchDirectory used a very inefficient method to write those LastMessage files. This has been fixed.

The Email Task can now request a read receipt. Note that this depends on the receiver's email client if those receipts will be sent.

When a task starts and it finds that its history database is corrupt, it will automatically repair this database.

Download / Install

Download the current release here. Stop all your tasks and install this new release "on top" of your current installed version so it will keep all your settings and tasks.

WatchFTP version 3.7.7 released, recommended update

Today we released a new version of our FTP Monitoring program WatchFTP.

New in this release

When "Keep FTP Session Log" and/or WxRemote's "Last Message" support is enabled, WatchFTP was using a lot of CPU causing the task to run very slow. This has been fixed and tasks run a lot faster now.

Download / Install

You can Download the latest release here. This is a free upgrade for all customers. Just install this new release "on top" of your current version so your tasks and settings are preserved.

WatchFTP version 3.7.6 released

Just released, version 3.7.6 or our FTP Monitor program WatchFTP. This free upgrade fixes a few important issues that could let your tasks crash.

Fixed in this release

• When you enter a wrong date or time format for the Email Action, the task crashed.
• Tasks could hang upon computer shutdown, causing Windows to abort the task, causing corrupted task settings and history.

Upgrade

This is a free upgrade for all customers, just download & install the new release after stopping all your tasks. If you install in the same directory as your current release, it will keep all your tasks and settings.

WatchFTP v3.7.5 released - Free Update

We just released a new version of our WatchFTP program. This is a free update for our customers, just install this new version "on top" of your current WatchFTP install so it will keep its settings and tasks.
You can download the new version here.

New & Fixed

• The option to remove empty FTP directories did not work for some FTP servers.
• Better support for OpenVMS FTP servers.
• When a download fails halfway, WatchFTP will reconnect and try to resume the download.
• When you have a task that deletes FTP files after several hours and the file is downloaded a second time (because it has changed), the delete will be delayed again.

WatchDirectory v4.9.1 released - free update

We just released a new version of our Directory Monitor program WatchDirectory. This is a free update for all our customers, just download the evaluation version here and install it "on top" of your current install so it will keep all your settings and tasks.

New & Fixed

A serious issue was fixed for the Folder Size task. For some settings it didn't scan subfolders which caused wrong calculations for the total size of files.

New/improved is that you can use the $CALL$ macro to dynamically get the recipients for emails.

WatchDirectory version 4.8.9 released

We just released version 4.8.9 of our folder monitoring program WatchDirectory. This is a free update if you currently have another v4.x version installed.

New & Fixed in this release

• New: Use the $CALL$ macro in email tasks to dynamically set the subject and/or body of your emails.
• Improved: If you use {dynamic naming}, the {drive} variable will now be set to the \\server\share name when monitoring a network share.
• Improved: The System.Mail (wdPostman) program has been optimized to perform better when combining large numbers of emails.
• Improved: The Upload to Amazon S3 task handles large files a lot better. It will also automatically retry several times when the http-connection is lost during a transfer.
• Improved: The Upload to S3 plugin now allows you to select the end-point of your AWS server.
• Improved: You can now import backups even while tasks are running (you can not import running tasks).
• Fixed: The WatchDirectory Control Center crashed when you didn't install the help files and tried to create a new task.
• Fixed: Inlining more than 9 images (using cid:image-root.10) in an html email did not work.

Download & Install

Download the new release here. Stop all your tasks and install this new version "on top" of your current release so it will keep all your settings and tasks.

WatchFTP v3.7.4 released

We released a new version of our FTP Monitoring program WatchFTP.

This release fixes a problem that caused WatchFTP to use the LIST command instead of the (more reliable) MLSD command to get directory listings from the FTP server.

Download / Install

You can Download the new version here. Stop all your tasks and the WatchFTP Control Center and install the new version "On Top" of your current install. There is no need to uninstall your current version first.