Revision History: ---------------- Version 2.16 Official release notes -- 3/25/2004 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Fixed a bug that could result in an interface failing initialization in NT4 - Added an option to disable the startup tip that appears when starting the server ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.15 Official release notes -- 2/06/2004 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Corrected a major bug in the 'Use different IP for PASV' mode option. ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.15 BETA release notes -- 1/25/2004 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Added a default interface to the interface configuration screen. The user-defined settings from the default interface are now applied to new interfaces automatically. - Added an automatic IP-blocker. Administrators can now configure filters to automatically block IP addresses (temporarily or permanently) that fail authentication after a certain number of attempts. - Added a new network checklist screen to the Getting Started Wizard. The new wizard will point out possible problems in the network configuration that may cause problems with an FTP Server. - Added an auto-detect IP address feature. The server can now automatically detect and activate new interfaces, as well as clean up and deactivate interfaces that have been released. - Added a line limit option to the onscreen logger. - Corrected a bug with the 'Deny FXP Transfers' option. - Changed the look of the taskbar icon ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.11 release notes -- 12/21/2003 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Changed the permissions structure so that uploaded files cannot overwrite existing files unless the user has delete permission - The MDTM command can now be used to set the date/time on an uploaded file - Enhanced file send operations by allowing the OS to cache files - Added an option under the 'Advanced' tab of the server manager that instructs the server to use the 'TransmitFile' API call to send files. Not available on Windows 98. ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.11 BETA 2 release notes -- 11/11/2003 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Added automatic import of previous Cerberus settings(except interfaces) - Fixed a buffer overflow vulnerability - Added experimental support for the OPTS and LANG commands - Fixed a bug the caused a "550 Invalid Path" error message whenever a CWD to the root ("/") was issued - Resolved a bug that caused settings changes to be lost on restart when Cerberus was installed as a service - Corrected some cosmetic flaws in the GUI's server manager - Fixed a bug that turned off command logging when connection logging was turned off ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.11 BETA release notes -- 10/29/2003 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Adjusted the dialog button positioning so that the buttons wouldn't get clipped on XP - The login process has been changed so that incorrect usernames will now be prompted for passwords. This is a security enhancement. - Fixed a UI bug that could cause the Getting Started Wizard to keep showing up after a reboot - Added an option under the 'advanced' tab of the server manager to deny FXP transfers. - Added an option under the 'advanced' tab of the server manager to deny PORT commands on the reserved ports (Ports below 1025). - Passwords are not longer stored in the user file. Passwords are now SHA-1 encrypted, and then only the password message digest is stored. - Default programs are now invoked, instead of always Internet Explorer, for external links. Ex: mailto, Cerberus homepage web link, statistics file display. - The interface limit of 5 has been removed. Cerberus can now listen on an unlimited number of interfaces. - The list command has been changed to display the contents of directories passed as parameters - Updated help file - Numerous minor bug fixes and performance enhancements ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.1 Release notes -- 3/18/2003 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Added support for P@SW command to allow certain SMC Barricade routers to work with passive mode - Added support for MDTM command - Added additional support for FEAT command - Improved support for running as a service - Added option to display file times in local or UTC format - Greatly reduced flicker on screen resizing - Added 'Getting Started' wizard to the GUI - Improved communication performance between the GUI and the server - Fixed bug which caused the PORT command to sometimes fail on NT4 - Several minor bug fixes ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.02 Release notes -- 1/07/2003 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Official release - Added PASV port range option to the 'Advanced' Server Configuration ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.02 BETA Release notes -- 12/22/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Resolved a bug that allowed multiple versions of Cerberus to be started if Cerberus was running as a service, and a Terminal Services client started another version. - Fixed a bug that could, on rare occasions, cause the server to continuously attempt to terminate a connection that had already been terminated - Added an option to log server replys - Rewrote underlying socket communications to improve performance - Several minor bug fixes and performance improvements ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.01 Release notes -- 10/17/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Enhanced error detection and recovery - Corrected a bug which prevented networked drives from being displayed to clients - Changed the appearance of the Status Pane - Changed some of the toolbar icons to Hi-color icons - Added several commands to the 'right-click' menu of the User Manager - Added the option to 'Clone' (use as a base template) a user - Checked, and corrected where necessary, all string and buffer manipulations routines to make sure they were "buffer-overflow proof" - The uninstall program now removes Cerberus from the NT Service list ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.0 Official Release notes -- 10/07/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Corrected a bug that could result in an uploaded file being corrupt when overwriting and existing file of the same name. - Added the ability to control how many times an account can be logged into simultaneously ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.0 BETA 4 Release notes -- 9/21/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Corrected a bug which could prevent Cerberus from starting up on Windows 95 and 98 - Fixed a bug in the registry access routines which could cause Cerberus to crash ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.0 BETA 3 Release notes -- 9/20/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Corrected the "The descriptor is not a socket" bug ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.0 BETA 2 Release notes -- 9/16/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - New User Manager(comments?) - Several GUI changes and improvements ------------------------------------------------ Version 2.0 BETA 1 Release notes -- 8/09/2002 http://www.cerberusftp.com/ - Completely new server core. No more MFC! - Can now be installed as a Native NT Service - Data Connections established through the PORT command now correctly bind to port 20 (RfC959). Should help with firewalls - Corrected a bug that occasionally caused uploaded files to be closed before the last few kilobytes were written. - The User Manager has been revamped again. Automatically saves changes, instead of constantly asking for permission - Ability to control whether or not to display hidden files and directories - New toolbar icons - Added a context menu to the connections page - Ability to manually add interfaces - Support for files greater than 4GB - Too many security and bug fixes to list ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.71 Release notes -- 2/07/2002 - Only one copy of Cerberus can start at a time - The User Manager has been made more user friendly - Settings and user lists now save automatically when windows is shutting down - Rewrote the directory parsing routines for greater reliability ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.7 Release notes -- 12/16/2001 - Fixed the "Invalid Path" error that showed up when a file or directory with more than one period was used in a command - Directories added to a user's virtual root can now have different permissions - The user manager has been redesigned to be more user friendly - Fixed a bug that caused processor utilization to sometimes spike when a file was downloaded. - Command progress indication. The user page will tell whether a command is in progress or complete. For file downloads, the percentage left to download will be displayed. - Fixed a bug that could cause the server to crash if a message greater than 4KB was specified in either the welcome, goodbye, or max connection edit boxes. - Fixed a bug that could cause the server to crash if the server wasn't restarted after a message was changed. - Many other bug fixes and improvements ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.6 Beta Release notes -- 8/25/2001 - Fixed a MAJOR security bug that allowed unrestricted access to the server machine by using periods in the change directory path - Modified the directory retrieval commands to more closely model Unix behavior Should fix the problems encountered using the mget * command - Complete rewrite of the underlying directory parsing functions - Lots of other minor fixes and improvements ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.5 Release notes -- 5/21/2001 - Added a new virtual root directory file structure - Added support for the APPEnd command - The server now remembers whether an interface is disabled or enabled - Enhanced the fault tolerance for clients that send incorrect or unsupported commands by ensuring a reply code is always sent - Added this help file - Corrected a bug in the IP Manager that caused all IP addresses placed inside to be blocked regardless of whether the deny or allow button was selected - CWD command now fails if anything other than a valid directory is passed - Activated the "Allow Login" feature for particular interfaces - Server now handles X-versions(experimental) of commands - Maximum connection settings are now enforced - Streamlined a lot of the underlying code ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.22 Release notes -- 5/08/2001 - Fixed a security problem that always uses c:\ as the root directory for anonymous logins.
- Replaced the imbedded directory control in User manager with a more stable one
- Rewrote the command parsing routines to provide greater fault tolerance for incorrectly formatted, or garbage strings on the control connection ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.2 Release notes -- 5/03/2001 - Changed OS (UNIX) returned from SITE command. Should improve FTP auto-detect. - Fixed a security hole that allowed people to execute certain commands without being logged in - Removed the hard-coded paths; International versions of Windows should work now. - Some stability improvements ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.1 Release notes -- 4/25/2001 - Fixed the CWD command to fail when the remote directory requested doesn't exist - Added support for the CDUP command - Added additional log messages for file transfers - Major code rewrites to improve overall performance - New statistic generator - Added additional error checking during remote path resolution - Some GUI changes/improvements - Fixed a major bug that caused PASV file uploads to fail - Several other minor bug fixes - Modified the directory structure sent with the LIST command to mirror UNIX exactly - Increased compatibility with popular FTP clients - Partial support for the ABORt command ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.05 Release notes -- 4/16/2001 - Added support for the SIZE and REST commands. The server can now restart failed file transfers from the point of failure - Fixed a MAJOR security issue that caused upload/download permissions to not be checked for users - Added the creation of the 'log' directory so that the AutoLog option wouldn't error when attempting to open the log file - Corrected the "incorrect user file version" bug that appears when you restart the server (note: delete the old user and block files) - Corrected a bug in the STOU command that caused the wrong procedure to be called. - Optimized the file transfer code and added improved error detection - Thanks to everyone who has submitted bug reports ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.03 Release notes -- 4/14/2001 - Corrected a bug introduced in the last version that resulted in the wrong OS being detected (currently harmless, but annoying) ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.02 Release notes -- 4/13/2001 - Added an IP Manager to control connection attempts - Added an option to automatically record a log file while the server is running - More event tracking added to the log - Enhanced error detection and recovery ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.01 Release notes -- 4/5/2001 - Added menu options to the taskbar icon - You can now hide or show the Cerberus manager window from the taskbar - Added an option to hide the server manager window at startup - Added my email address to the about dialog for tech support - Activated the ability to save a copy of the log screen to file ------------------------------------------------ Version 1.0 Release notes -- 3/14/2001 - Initial Release