Release Version 3.6

Release date: 4 March 2026

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v3.0/install/

Major changes since 3.5

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

Fix for downloading larger encrypted files with Firefox and StreamSaver (#2590)

All changes:

Modifications for 2.66 release plus

fix: return uid if the transfer has been forwarded #2568

i18n: ui3: auto import from poedtor on 2026-02-22-1771722406 #2573

add FS CLI Client to the download window on download page #2576

FS CLI Client Updates #2579

FS CLI Client: more lint #2591

bump in build version number #2595

release 3.6 #2596

Configuration changes

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Release version 2.66

Release date: 4 March 2026.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.66 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v2.0/install/

Major changes since 2.65

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

Fix for downloading larger encrypted files with Firefox and StreamSaver. Some bug fixes around the jquery 4.0 upgrade.

Changes:

firefox streamsaver encrypted file fix. #2590

update for jQuery 4.0.0 dep bump #2571

part 2 of 2 of the jquery updates. charts too #2572

build(deps-dev): bump nokogiri from 1.18.9 to 1.19.1 in /docs #2570

bump in build version number #2592

release 2.66 stuff #2593

Configuration changes

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Release Version 3.5

Release date: 18 Feb 2026

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v3.0/install/

Major changes since 3.4

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

The move to jQuery 4.x caused problems in some environments. This reverts to 3.7.x of jQuery again for now.

Configuration changes

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Release Version 3.4

Release date: 18 Feb 2026

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v3.0/install/

Major changes since 3.3

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS changed.

Short summary:

This is mainly a bugfix and refinement release. It loosens the validaiton on mime type strings to allow the hyphen character.

Details:

Add customizable expiry date options #2505

2026/jan/docs mariadb info copy out #2508

read and send token if it is valid #2513

This seems to have been left out with the efficiency updates. #2514

feat: Dynamic expiry days selector based on max_transfer_days_valid #2518

fix: Handle undefined xhr.responseText to enable upload retries #2522

fix: Prevent empty token in download links for authenticated owners #2523

We might as well forget these too here. #2528

abstract the responsetext into a shared utility method. #2530

add these protected declarations #2531

bug: change send invitation button icon from fa-send to `fa-paper-plane #2533

bug: Prevent extending the expiry date of guests set to never expire invitations #2534

Remove the download class from the delete and auditlog buttons in the transfer detail page. #2539

fix: Corrected the cgilimit parameter in pagination links to use $limit instead of $cgilimit. #2540

i18n: ui3: auto import from poedtor on 2026-02-06-1770336990 #2541

v3: Curl links #2542

add new terms #2543

allow hide_sender_email to work as in 2.x again #2545

add wget and plain links + fix typeOs + improve css for links #2546

i18n: ui3: auto import from poedtor on 2026-02-12-1770854245 #2551

old font name in css for icon #2552

Update known-installs.md #2554

Improve the download side of python cli tool #2557

relase 2.65 #2560

Configuration changes

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Release version 2.65

Release date: 18 Feb 2026.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.65 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v2.0/install/

Major changes since 2.64

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS changed.

Short summary:

Validation for mimetype string was relaxed slightly. Updates for docker.

Changes:

Make the 4 locations this is mentioned all changed. #2507

update script to not chop leading 'h' from url #2509

Make the intent of [0:-9] more explicit #2510

Use raw string in filesender.py to silence escapement warning #2515

Docker deployment for local testing #2520

Fix xhr responsetext crash #2521

Update known-installs.md #2525

build(deps-dev): bump phpunit/phpunit from 9.6.22 to 9.6.34 #2526

Update known-installs.md #2527

here too #2532

build(deps-dev): bump psy/psysh from 0.12.7 to 0.12.19 #2535

Configurable local docker deployment for version, branch and localdev #2536

keep cgilimit key and cgilimitvalue as two variables #2544

build(deps-dev): bump faraday from 2.9.0 to 2.14.1 in /docs #2548

update deps #2553

validation relax mimetype regex slightly #2556

bump in build version number #2558

cleanup for the release patch juggling process. #2559

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Release Version 3.3

Release date: 8 Jan 2026

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v3.0/install/

Major changes since 3.2

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

This release includes a small bugfix for the natural sorting for PostgreSQL backed installations.

Details:

mariadb min version bump #2498

more fa icons with -o on them #2496

seems f['size'] is now a string? Let's cast it as an int in python #2495

update for larger numbers in sorting [ed: postgresql backed databases] #2494

Fa 7.1 Uplift #2491

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Release version 2.64

Release date: 8 Jan 2026.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.64 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v2.0/install/

Major changes since 2.63

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

This release includes a small bugfix for the natural sorting for PostgreSQL backed installations.

Changes:

update for larger numbers in sorting [ed: postgresql backed only] #2494

mariadb version bump applies to 2.x series as well #2499

i18n: auto import from poedtor on 2026-01-08-1767831283 #2500

Configuration changes

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Release Version 3.2

Release date: 2026-1-4

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag 3.2 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v3.0/install/

Major changes since 3.1

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

This aligns more with release version 2.63. It brings in the download in the restricted FileSystemwritableFilestream support (#2438) as well as the validation from 2.63 (#2486).

Details:

See the release notes for 2.63 and 2.62.
Note:

The database schemas are not identical between this release and any 2.x series release. Things should be much closer match for this release 3.2 and 2.63. There may be smaller differences that remain.

There are known bugs in the 3.x series as shown in the github issues.

Configuration changes

Added

    'advanced_validation_create_transfer' => true,
    'advanced_validation_create_guest' => true,
    'advanced_validation_token' => true,
    'advanced_validation_user' => true,
    'advanced_validation_principal' => true,

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Release version 2.63

Release date: 4 Jan 2026.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.63 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v2.0/install/

Major changes since 2.62

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

Added additional data validation to cases such as transfer creation and guest creation. This can be selectively disabled with new configuration options. Note that it is on by default. It can be disabled by setting the below options to false selectively if needed.

Configuration changes

    'advanced_validation_create_transfer' => true,
    'advanced_validation_create_guest' => true,
    'advanced_validation_token' => true,
    'advanced_validation_user' => true,
    'advanced_validation_principal' => true,

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Release version 2.62

Release date: 1 Jan 2026.

Distribution

Source snapshots are attached to this announcement and the git tag filesender-2.62 contains the base that these snapshots were created from.

Installation

Documentation is available at https://docs.filesender.org/filesender/v2.0/install/

Major changes since 2.61

The database update script DOES NOT need to be run.
The templates directory HAS NOT changed.

Short summary:

Added more robust Error handling and fallback to other Download options if FileSystemwritableFilestream does not work #2438. This will be the case in some locked down research environments.

Align remote_config with AuthRemote #2475
Use queried user for quota evaluation #2476
build(deps): bump aws/aws-sdk-php from 3.288.1 to 3.368.0 in /optional-dependencies/s3 #2477
build(deps-dev): bump uri from 0.13.2 to 0.13.3 in /docs #2483

Configuration changes

N/A

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