The current 2.8 beta build (3161) is incompatible with OS X 10.3.9 due to #1145 and #1155. Users not running OS X 10.4.x are advised not to upgrade to Cyberduck 2.8b1 yet.

Nightly builds of the upcoming 2.8 release are available (r2981). Changes include a new SSH library including the support for SCP transfers, transfer throttling, automatic reconnection on network failures, limiting the number of concurrent transfers and an outline view to browse the folder hierarchy in the overwrite warning and synchronizsation dialogs. Give it a try and report any problems.

Update: The latest build is 3084.

• [Bugfix] Problem parsing PASV response from some servers (FTP) #779, #869]
• [Bugfix] Stalls when connection is interrupted during DNS lookup #960]
• [Bugfix] Improved sorting in ‘Kind’ browser column #993]
• [Bugfix] Renaming files using Info panel causes repeated renaming #1005]
• [Bugfix] Uploading folders interrupts file transfer (SFTP) #1001]
• [Bugfix] Preference for auto-open delay for spring-loaded folders not saved #633]
• [Bugfix] Preference to open new browser window on launch not used #997]
• [Bugfix] Symbolic links on local filesystem not handled properly [#995]
• [Bugfix] Send creation time of file with UTIME [#–]
• [Feature] Clear command in History menu [#648]
• [Feature] Preference to exclude files from transfers using regular expression [#511]

Usually Cyberduck is featured in the nowadays popular I use these 10 OS X applications blog entries which thrills me, but this one is different: Elliotte Rusty Harold has written an article published at IBM developerworks titled “Java 2007: The year in preview“.
First, I had to think of myself when I read of the “(…) satisfied IntelliJ IDEA users will continue to wonder what all the fuss is about [the competition between Netbeans and Eclipse], confident in their belief that it’s the best Java IDE available. (…)” and secondly I was delighted if not proud to see the name of my own little software engineering effort appear in the Client GUIs section which reads “(…) Although many people haven’t noticed, the Java platform has been a real presence on the desktop for four or five years now. More than a few quality desktop applications have been written in Java code, including RSSOwl, Limewire, Azureus, Eclipse, NetBeans, Cyberduck, and others. These applications are written in nearly every GUI toolkit available including Swing, AWT, SWT, and even platform-native toolkits such as Mac OS X’s Cocoa. (…)“. Read the full article here.

I have just discovered ohloh.net, a website tracking source code repositories and composing some nice metrics with the commit log. It says that I changed 315,981 lines of code in the last 3.8 years. Frightens me.

As of Cyberduck 2.7.2, there is a new hidden preference to display the items in the bookmark drawer using less screen real estate. Only the bookmark’s nickname is displayed and the row is about one third as usually height. To enable open a Terminal.app window and enter defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck browser.bookmarkDrawer.smallItems true. Relaunch Cyberduck.

• [Feature] Option to use single connection for browser and transfers [#57]
• [Feature] Option to remember open browser windows and reconnect upon relaunching the application [#59]
• [Feature] Delay for spring-loaded folders can be set [#633]
• [Feature] Calculate size of directory [#5]
• [Feature] Duplicate files using option-drag [#150]
• [Feature] Per bookmark setting for download folder [#158]
• [Feature] Per bookmark setting to use single connection for browser and transfers [#–]
• [Feature] Kind column in browser describing file type [#46]
• [Feature] Advanced settings in connection and bookmark window in disclosable view
• [Feature] Added PageSpinner to the list of supported editors (http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner) [#205]
• [Bugfix] Disconnecting in the background not blocking the user interface [#–]
• [Bugfix] Folders marked as inaccessible after timeouts and cannot be opened after reconnecting [#611]
• [Bugfix] Applescript/Dashboard should not use seperate session for transfers [#–]
• [Bugfix] Cannot write to group writable files (SFTP) [#173]
• [Bugfix] File length is set to zero if updating permission fails (SFTP) [#974]
• [Bugfix] Directory listing is not refreshed when upload is completed after “Try Again” [#982]

• [Feature] Don’t block user interface when working in browser. All potentially lengthy operations are now performed in the background [#921]
• [Feature] All (possibly stalled) operations in progress can be interrupted [#943]
• [Feature] Improved error handling [#–]
• [Feature] Failed network operations can be repeated [#–]
• [Feature] A default bookmark can be configured [#915]
• [Feature] Option to disable spring-loaded folders [#98]
• [Feature] Individual settings how to treat duplicate files on uploads and downloads [#500]
• [Feature] Callback to alternate connect mode upon failure (FTP) [#83]
• [Feature] Add ‘Download To…’ menu option to download multiple files into designated, non-default directory [#909]
• [Feature] The bottom of the browser window shows the security status [#9]
• [Feature] Improvements to the AppleScript dictionary [#737], [#918], [#878], [#922]
• [Feature] When duplicating files, propose a filename containing the current date and time [#912]
• [Feature] Added JarInspector to the list of supported editors (http://www.cgerdes.com) [#–]
• [Bugfix] Honor the existing permissions when replacing files [#–]

• [Localize] Portuguese Localization
• [Bugfix] Reporting error about failed to set permissions whereas it actually succeeded [#–]
• [Bugfix] Fail gracefully on uploading when server doesn’t support changing permissions [#–]
• [Bugfix] Disconnecting from server could crash application shortly thereafter [#–]
• [Bugfix] Outline view not updated after dragged files have been uploaded [#–]
• [Bugfix] Synchronisation not awaiting selection from user [#–]

The latest snapshot of the upcoming 2.7 release can be
downloaded at update.cyberduck.ch/nightly.
The current builds feature many improvements,
the most important to me being #921. Death to the spinning beachball!