Cyberduck

Ganymed SSH-2, the robust SSH implementation used in Cyberduck, is now maintained at Google Code and includes the optimizations patches that I have made for Cyberduck. Most prominently that is parallelism for downloads and uploads increasing transfer rates.

WebDAV on the upcoming Lion release of Mac OS X will feature a more prominent role. As a superset of HTTP, WebDAV adds support to retrieve a directory hierarchy and create, change and move documents therein. WebDAV is a core protocol supported in Cyberduck since 2008. To make it more robut and ready for the next couple of years I have decided to contribute to the Sardine project, an open source implementation of the WebDAV protocol that is now used in Cyberduck. You can test the new implementation in the latest beta build.

For Windows. For Mac. Available now.

Update: Version 4.0.1 and subsequently 4.0.2 with many bugfixes has been released.

Some have noted you can now find Cyberduck in the App Store! This is important for the visibility of the project in particular for new and average users on the Mac platform.

To support development we have introduced donation keys back in 2009 to give supporters of both financial and other contributions (such as localizations) something back. It greatly helped a sustainable development.

The caveat is that this model is not supported in the App Store per the developer agreement. Software asking for volontary contributions does not get approved. We have therefore opted to distribute Cyberduck in the App Store for a fixed price with no donation prompt.

It is your choice to buy the version from the App Store or download from the website and opt in for a payment if you feel like. Or not.

Cyberduck is libre (FLOSS) software and will remain so in the future. It uses a plethora of open source software libraries and its own source code and development process is open.

Amazon now supports hosting static websites on S3. The latest snapshot build of Cyberduck supports configuring website distributions for S3 buckets.

Update: You can now also configure Website Configuration Endpoint Distributions with CloudFront CDN.