Rebex File Server Release Notes

Released: Apr 8, 2024

Updates in 7.0.8865

Features

  • File System: Improved reporting of some I/O errors in virtual file systems.
  • TLS Core: Added the option to disable ClientHello padding.
  • TLS Core: Added the option to enable legacy SCSV mode.
  • Cryptography: Added support for loading private keys in new OpenSSH key format encrypted using AES/GCM or ChaCha20/Poly1305.

Fixes

  • SSH: SshPublicKey.LoadPublicKeys reads comments and does not fail on empty files.
  • TLS Core: Fixed potential repeated clean-up of TLS extensions that might cause strange...

Released: Feb 19, 2024

Updates in 7.0.8816

Features

  • File Server: Added logging of SSH ciphers supported by the client on mismatch.
  • File System: Added an instructional exception message when VFS node name contains prohibited characters.
  • SSH: Added new SshCipher.StrictKeyExchange and SshServerInfo.SupportsStrictKeyExchange properties.
  • SSH: Added new SshPrivateKey.CreateFrom(PrivateKeyInfo) method.
  • SSH: Added support for a combination of password and keyboard-interactive authentication.
  • SSH: Improved SSH session and channel lifecycle...

Released: Dec 20, 2023

Updates in 7.0.8755

Features

  • Improved compatibility with Native AOT (ahead-of-time) deployment model in Microsoft .NET 8.
  • File Server: Added support for strict key exchange extension (thwarts the so-called 'Terrapin attack').
  • SSH: Added support for PKCS #8 format to SshPublicKey constructor.
  • SSH: Added support for strict key exchange extension (thwarts the so-called 'Terrapin attack').
  • Common: Optimized memory usage of miscellaneous methods.

Fixes

  • File Server: Allowed dates outside 1970-2999 range in SFTP v4 (or...

Released: Nov 15, 2023

Updates in 7.0.8720

Features

  • All: Added a new set of binaries targeting Microsoft .NET 8.0.
  • SSH: Added SshParameters.ChannelCloseTimeout property.

Fixes

  • Cryptography: Fixed behavior of certificate issuer API when no CRLs have been specified.

Released: Sep 13, 2023

Updates in 7.0.8657

Fixes

  • Networking: Fixed handling of IPv6 addresses in square brackets.
  • SSH: Fixed behavior of Certificate flag in SshParameters.HostKeyAlgorithms.

Released: Jun 29, 2023

Updates in 7.0.8581

Features

  • File Server: Added custom Context property to ConnectingEventArgs, PreAuthenticationEventArgs and AuthenticationEventArgs.
  • File Server: Added FileServer.Settings.MaxAuthenticationDuration option.
  • File Server: Changed default shell character encoding to UTF-8.
  • File Server: Improved client public key authentication process.
  • File Server: Optimized 'Move' operation in LocalFileSystemProvider.
  • File System: Added 'NodePath.IsBackslashInFileNameAllowed' property. Setting it to true allows...

Released: Jun 28, 2023

Updates in R6.14

Fixes

  • All: Fixed problems in finalizer logic.
  • SSH: Fixed missing end-of-lines in new OpenSSH key format.
  • Cryptography: Fixed support for ECDSA private key formats with optional public key.

Released: Jun 6, 2023

Updates in R6.13

Features

  • Networking: Added support for IPv6 addresses to SOCKS5 proxy (client-side).
  • Cryptography: Improved support for SignatureHashAlgorithm.MD5SHA1 in Microsoft .NET 5 and higher in FIPS-only mode.
  • Networking: You can now use 'Proxy-Connection' header instead of 'Connection' with HTTP CONNECT proxies.

Fixes

  • File Server: Fixed filename handling in SCP's non-directory upload mode.
  • File Server: Fixed handling of datetimes on non-Windows file systems.
  • Networking: Added workaround for systems...

Released: Apr 18, 2023

Updates in R6.12

Features

  • File System: Improved recursion breaker.

Fixes

  • File Server: Fixed parsing of "\$" sequences in SSH commands
  • File System: Exists methods/properties in Rebex.IO VFS API return 'false' (like System.IO) instead of raising an exception.
  • File System: Rebex.IO VFS API raises InvalidOperationException when the underlying VFS provider is not registered as a VDriveInfo object.
  • File System: Rebex.IO VFS API raises NotSupportedException when the format of the specified path is invalid.
  • SSH: Added...

Released: Jan 31, 2023

Updates in R6.11

Features

  • Common: Improved compatibility with Microsoft Windows 2000.

Fixes

  • File Server: Added workaround for libssh2's broken string value encoding (in SCP or possibly elsewhere).
  • File System: Fixed potential memory leak when a VFS provider is disposed in an unexpected thread.
  • Networking: Comment is no longer ignored when loading SSH2 public key into SshPublicKey.
  • SSH: Fixed occasional StackOverflowException in SSH tunnel code (thrown when a large batch of consecutive asynchronous IO operations...