Cyberduck
Mountain Duck
CLIGanymed 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.
All new WebDAV
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.
Cyberduck 4
App Store
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.
S3 Website Endpoints
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.
New ways to upload files
The latest beta supports Services (the menu you never go to but that got usable again in Mac OS X 10.6) to send files and data between applications. The support in Cyberduck, offers a nice new way to quickly upload files from the Finder to a server.
- Using Services you can select a file to be uploaded. Choose Finder → Services → Files and Folders → Upload or right click a file in the Finder to send it to Cyberduck.
- Alternativly you can still drag files to the application icon (for example in the Dock) as before.
The Transfers window will open with a sheet attached to select the bookmark to upload the files to.
Read more in the wiki about options for file uploads.
Upload 5TB
The latest snapshot build of Cyberduck supports multipart uploads to Amazon S3. The benefits are twofold:
- Concurrent upload of parts of the file (currently configured up to 10 parallel requests) making use of all available bandwidth.
- The size limit for files is 5TB instead of 5GB.
Give it a try if you are moving big files.
User forum
The neglected previous forum at cocoaforge.com for user questions and anwers has been closed and is now replaced with a Cyberduck Google Group which should make it easier to engage with other users of Cyberduck discussing workflows and possible issues. I’ll chime in regularly answering questions if needed. The Help Wiki is maintained as another great resource for users of Cyberduck.
13. December 2010
Update: The public beta is now available. Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 required. Features in version 4.0 and onward will be on par for both Mac and Windows. For users migrating to Cyberduck from third-party software, bookmarks with connection details of various other FTP clients are imported. Users of the private beta can use the ‘Check for Update…’ feature in Cyberduck to automatically update. Spread the word and many thanks for your continued support!
The public beta of Cyberduck for Windows 4.0 is scheduled for arrival on Monday, 13. December 2010.
Version 3.8 Now Available
Cyberduck 3.8 is now available fixing tons of issues.
