Pure FTP Server

Privilege separation has been introduced. When this feature is enabled, each client session spawns two processes communicating over a private channel: a restricted trusted part, and the main part that revokes all privileges after authentication and chroot(). Automatic detection of Virtuozzo was added. Forced passive IP addresses (-P) can now work with gateways whose addresses are dynamic (DSL and cable modem users) using symbolic host names.

OpenLDAP 2.1.x is now supported, and new LDAP directives were added to provide more flexibility. More professional messages can optionally be displayed, and zero-copy transfers for large files have been fixed on Solaris. A Czech translation was included, the default UID and GID can now be used for SQL-based authentication, and a Vpopmail authentication module was also added. Support for Windows was improved, and various other minor improvements and bugfixes were made.

New workarounds and conformance fixes were added to improve client compatibility, zero-copy downloads are now enabled on HPUX and Solaris, Russian and Chinese (simplified + traditional) translations were added, LDAP_FTPUID and LDAP_FTPGID are now really fetched from the directory, and a protection against common bruteforce scanners for hidden directories has been added. The FTP data connection assurance draft (ESTA/ESTP) has been implemented and per-user (including anonymous) concurrency limits are now available.

This version adds new translation (Norwegian) and fixes some typos and a few bugs (non constant page size, throttling with extauth, and a workaround for Solaris streams bugs).

Pure-FTPd now compiles out of the box on OpenBSD with PostgreSQL,
minor speedups were committed, file names with multiple successive dots
in their names are now accepted in a virtual chroot jail, a
"customerproof" option has been added in order to turn on workarounds
against common customer mistakes (-Z / --customerproof), the spec file
has been improved, and PureDB has been upgraded to version 2.1.