News

See the NEWS file for all changes.

Mars 11th, 2005: new maintainer
- John Buswell is now maintaining yafc.
May 22nd, 2004: yafc 1.1 released
- Large file support patch from Eduard Bloch applied
- more patches from the Debian package applied
- bugfixes
December 5th, 2002: yafc 1.0 released!
- compare filesize & -date if file already exist
- added cache timeout feature
- made sftp:// an alias to ssh://
- put --append didn't work in ssh mode, fixed
- fxp now uses other connection as default target (if there are exactly two open connections)
- fixed get/put/fxp/rm on directories with apostrophes and other chars that need to be quoted
- added option auto_bookmark_update: specifies handling of updating existing bookmarks
- support for iso date and time format in unix directory listing (YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm)
- added option --skip-empty to get/put/fxp (skips empty files)
- added config option transfer_first_mask (transfers specified files before other files)
- fixed bug in ssh put: --resume truncated file
- new autoconf checks for Kerberos based on code from the Arla project
- now check for Kerberos by default
November 25th, 2002
- Redesigned webpage
October 18th, 2002: LFS patch
- Eduard Bloch has a patch for large filesize support. It is currently applied on the Debian package version 0.7.10-2, but I have not yet applied it. It will be, eventually, when I get enough time to check it out more. Also, I don't know if it works for other systems than Linux.
May 30th, 2002: yafc 0.7.10 released
- fixed segfault in directory listing
- (forgot to update this webpage)
May 28th, 2002: yafc 0.7.9 released
- fixed segfault with bookmarks without login
- put, rm, untag, cat and ltag functions now handles quoted characters correctly
- the "long command" setting now also applies to connection attempts
- Changed get -o function; if the argument ends with a slash it is always considered a directory, if only one file is transferred and the destination already exists and is a directory the file is put in that directory
April 7th, 2002: yafc 0.7.8 released
- Fixed segfault when issuing "bookmark -u" without being connected
- Went around issue in PureFTPd when listing files using MLSD. PureFTPd doesn't recognize directory arguments with spaces.
February 23rd, 2002: yafc 0.7.7 released
- bugfix release, fixed segfault when connecting
February 17th, 2002: yafc 0.7.6 released
- bugfix release
February 15th, 2002: yafc needs help
- As you may have noticed, yafc development has slowed down quite a bit. The reason is that I don't have so much time as I had before (I have more or less finished my studies and begun working.) So I need help to maintain it and implement some missing features. So, if you are a C programmer and likes yafc, send a mail to yafc-devel.
November 3rd, 2001: yafc 0.7.5 released
- bugfixes
August 24th, 2001: yafc 0.7.4 released
- Fixed segfault in DOS directory listings
- Fixed alias %-expansion off-by-one bug
- Fixed parse error in weird directory listings
July 27th, 2001: yafc 0.7.3 released
- Fixed segfault when listing an ambiguous alias
July 16th, 2001: yafc 0.7.2 released
- Fixed segfault with --anon flag
- Support for MLSD directory listings
- Fixed bug with binary transfers being in ascii mode after reconnect
- cleanups
May 23rd, 2001: yafc 0.7.1 released
- Removed OpenSSL dependency
- Portability issues fixed (?)
- ls sorting bug fixed
May 13th, 2001: yafc 0.7 released
- Support for MIT Kerberos 5
- Automatic reconnect if connection times out
- SSH Support (sftp)
- Removed gettext (not used anyway)
- Option to control reverse DNS lookups
- ls now sorts on name
- more...
February 7th, 2001: yafc 0.6.6 released
- some bugs fixed
December 14th, 2000: ping
- There probably won't be a new release in the nearest future, though I've received several bug reports. I simply don't have the time right now.
October 20th, 2000: yafc 0.6.5 released
- added option --type to cat command
- fixed bug in cat: didn't work on binary files
- added config option: transfer_xterm_string
- changed the behaviour of the --output option in get/put/fxp
- fixed bug that caused use_passive_mode to be ignored
- cleanups, bugfixes and updates
October 14th, 2000: yafc 0.6.4 released
- removed lib/setproctitle due to licensing problems
- zcat removed (use aliases instead)
- updated manual
October 13th, 2000: yafc 0.6.3 released
- always using private protlevel in kauth
- added per-url passive mode and mechanism settings in bookmarks
- fix for DOS style paths
- added option --mechanism=MECH to open commands
September 15th, 2000: yafc 0.6.2 released
- added bookmark --delete
- alias segfault bug fixed
- DOS list issues fixed
September 15th, 2000: yafc moved to SourceForge
- The project page is here
- A mailing list is set up, click here for more info
September 1st, 2000: yafc 0.6.1 released
- Bug in recursive put fixed
September 1st, 2000: yafc 0.6 released
- FxP support (transfer files between two remote servers)
- Longstanding Kerberos4 problems fixed
- Kerberos5 support (Heimdal, through GSSAPI)
- New options for get, put, fxp: --mask=PATTERN and --dir-mask=PATTERN
August 23rd, 2000: yafc now officially part of Debian
- yafc is part of Debian unstable (woody) thanks to Decklin Foster
August 16th, 2000: yafc 0.5.8 released
- just some small bugfixes
August 13th, 2000: yafc 0.5.7 released
- bug in DOS-directory listing fixed
- added option --workdir for setting the working directory for configuration files and temporary files
- ...and some other bugfixes
July 6th, 2000: yafc 0.5.6 released
- bugfixes, including some segfaults fixed
- system-wide yafcrc
- directory cache problems fixed
- experimental visual tag interface removed
- hmmm, will there ever be a 1.0? :-)
June 30th, 2000: yafc 0.5.5 released
- small bugfixes
- there are still some issues to fix before 1.0
June 27th, 2000: website updated...
May 19th, 2000: yafc 0.5.4 released
- added support for MacOS WebStar ftp server
May 18th, 2000: yafc 0.5.3 released
- bugfixes
- This is the second release candidate for version 1.0
April 26th, 2000: yafc is an mp3 player :-)
- Today I found out that yafc can be used as a remote mp3 player using the following command:
  yafc> cat filename.mp3 | mpg123 -
- ...and, no, yafc development is not dead, I just haven't got time lately
Januari 24th, 2000: yafc 0.5.2 released
- This will become version 1.0, if no bugs found
December, 1999: yafc in Linux Journal
- Yafc appeared in the Focus on Software column by David A. Bandel in Linux Journal. Press here to read.
December 25th, 1999: yafc 0.5.1 released
- fixes...
December 10th, 1999: yafc RPMs updated
- Ryan Weaver <ryanw@infohwy.com> has created RPMs. See below for availability.
November 17th 1999: yafc 0.5.0 released
- EPLF support
- ...and the mandatory bugfixes
November 8th 1999: yafc 0.4.9 released
- experimental proxy support
- bugfixes
October 20th 1999: yafc 0.4.8 released
- saving and loading of taglists
- more verbose report in nohup mail
- ...and more
October 15th 1999: server problems
- what comes up, must come down
September 19th 1999: RedHat RPMs
- Leonid Zeitlin has posted some RedHat RPMs at http://lz.freeservers.com/linux/yafc.html
September 12th 1999: yafc 0.4.7 released
- support for dos-style directory listings
August 21st 1999: Updated .debs
- Decklin Foster has updated Debian packages
August 03rd 1999: yafc 0.4.6 released
- multiple connections open simultaneously
- sorting on time in 'ls' (-t option)
- an experimental visual 'tag' interface using the newt library
- xterm window title
July 24th 1999: yafc 0.4.5 released
- Sort functions in 'ls' (size and extension)
- Improved alias support
- Multiple commands on one line, separated with semicolon
June 30th 1999: yafc 0.4.4 released
- Mostly a bugfix release
June 15th 1999: yafc 0.4.3 released
- bookmark support
June 10th 1999: yafc 0.4.2 released
- Serious bugfix release
June 07th 1999: yafc 0.4.1 released
- first announcement on freshmeat