14 DAY TRIAL // LFTP, the free, open-source, and sophisticated command-line file transfer program (FTP) supporting a wide range of network protocols, including FTP, SFTP, HTTP, FISH, and Torrent, was updated on the first day of 2017 to version 4.7.5.
LFTP 4.7.5 arrives one and a half months after the release of version 4.7.4 on November 16, 2016, and promises to add detection of Apache listings with ISO date and time to the HTTP protocol support, implements a new setting for logging, namely log:prefix-{recv,send,note,error}, and improves the help manual and documentation a bit.
Additionally, the IPv6 protocol support was updated in LFTP 4.7.5 to ignore link-local addresses that don't have a scope. There are also various improvements to FTP support, such as "site mkdir" support for "mkdir -p," as well as fixes for a failed assertion and long delay in "mode z" when using the ProFTPD FTP server.
The initialization of the recursion mode was repaired
LFTP 4.7.5 also improves the mirror functionality a little bit by repairing the initialization of the recursion mode and an assertion failure that occurred when attempting to create remote symlinks. Furthermore, it is now possible to view chmod errors when verbose mode is enabled.
Last but not least, there's a fix for an issue with the debug command when switching output to stderr if no output file is given. As usual, we've attached the entire changelog below for those of you curious to know what exactly was changed in this release.
Meanwhile, you can download the LFTP 4.7.5 sources through our web portal if you want to compile the software yourself for your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, or you can wait until it lands in the stable repositories of your operating system (it's already in Arch Linux).