fre:ac version 1.1.7 has been released on 5th March 2023.

This release adds a tool for splitting the output into multiple files based on various parameters like duration, number of files or metadata. The update also adds support for dithering, a matrix surround decoder and a volume adjustment filter.

Additionally, fre:ac 1.1.7 comes with various minor improvements, updated third party codecs and fixes for several issues found in fre:ac v1.1.6 and earlier versions:

• New features
  • Added a tool for splitting output by various parameters (e.g. duration or number of files)
  • Added support for dithering when reducing sample resolution
  • Added a matrix surround decoder DSP component
  • Added a volume adjustment DSP component

• Improvements
  • Added support for WavPack Hybrid Lossless compression with correction files
  • Added support for decoding MPEG-4 DASH files
  • Added support for opening WebM audio files with the .weba extension
  • Added support for downmixing 6.1 channel audio
  • Added support for MusicBrainz metadata in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and WMA tags
  • Added support for sort order fields in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and WMA tags
  • Added support for rating field in Vorbis Comment, APEv2, MP4 and LIST INFO tags
  • Added rating field to the tag editor
  • Added optional release year column to the joblist
  • Changed filename placeholder to resolve to 1 if disc number is not set
  • Improved compatibility with applications writing non-compliant LIST INFO tags (e.g. Traktor)
  • Added an option to use source file names as output file names if no metadata is present
  • Added an option to control extraction of missing metadata from file names
  • Added an option to restrict file names for reading cover art
  • Added an option to disable intensity stereo phase inversion to Opus settings
  • Added AccurateRip notification options for successful verification and missing database entries
  • Sample rate conversion no longer converts to 32 bit float when the source rate matches the target
  • Added negative exit codes to indicate errors when running freaccmd
  • Added support for KDE color schemes (including dark mode)
  • Improved HiDPI scale factor detection in KDE desktop environments
  • Respect text scaling factor in addition to font size setting on X11 based systems

• Bug fixes
  
  • Fixed crashes when decoding ALAC files (especially with the Windows Store version)
  • Fixed failure (hang and abort after several seconds) to decode chapters from ALAC files
  • Fixed interoperability issues of HE- and HEv2-AAC files created with FDK-AAC with foobar2000
  • Fixed incorrect gapless information when creating HE- and HEv2-AAC files with FDK-AAC
  • Fixed incorrect index times in cuesheets for very long multi-track files
  • Fixed incorrect inclusion of data tracks in the audio track count of CD offset strings
  • Fixed old data remaining in place after updating WMA file tags
  • Fixed selected format resetting to first entry when opening WMA config dialog
  • Fixed excessive bitrate when encoding Vorbis on non-x86 LP64 systems
  • Fixed decoding of MP4 files with a single chunk taking excessively long
  • Fixed HDCD detection for tracks starting with more than about one second of silence
  • Fixed floating point samples being converted to integer when creating WavPack files
  • Fixed inability to close cover art popup window on Linux
  • Fixed long paths being converted to 8.3 format on recent versions of Windows
  • Fixed inability to handle long network paths on some versions of Windows
  • Fixed disc insert and removal detection working unreliably on Windows

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.7 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.

The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

fre:ac's discussion forums are moving to GitHub. Please post new questions and ideas in the new Discussions area and feel free to start discussions about anything releated to fre:ac and digital audio conversion over there.

The old discussion forums on SourceForge will be kept online for reference, but please use the GitHub Discussions page to start new topics from now on.

fre:ac version 1.1.6 has been released on 22nd January 2022.

This update adds native support for Windows on the ARM64 architecture which greatly improves the user experience on devices like the Surface Pro X, HP Elite Folio or certain Samsung Galaxy Book models. Most notably, conversions can be up to six times faster on many devices with ARM cores.

Besides this, the 1.1.6 update adds support for editing lyrics in the tag editor and creating cue sheets and playlists with freaccmd, fre:ac's command line interface. It also comes with minor workflow and performance optimizations, tagging improvements, updated codecs and the usual bug fixes:

• New features
  • Added support for editing lyrics in the tag editor
  • Added support for creating cue sheets and playlists with freaccmd

• Improvements
  • Improved performance of adding video and proprietary audio files (DTS, DSD etc.) to the joblist
  • Playlists can now be added to the joblist by drag & drop
  • Added <tempo> and <initialkey> placeholders for use in filename patterns
  • Added optional composer, conductor, tempo, musical key and ISRC columns to the joblist
  • Added initial key field to tag editor
  • Added support for lyrics in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and WMA tags
  • Added support for parsing OverDrive MediaMarkers in ID3v2 tags
  • Added support for the pre-emphasis flag in cue sheets

• Bug fixes
  
  • Fixed possible crash upon querying the CDDB database
  • Fixed possible crash in FAAD2 decoder when trying to open unsupported files
  • Fixed faulty decoding of certain AAC files caused by a bug in the FDK-AAC decoder
  • Fixed possible faulty output when decoding from non-zero positions using external decoders
  • Fixed issue ripping CD tracks when output filename pattern is <filename>
  • Fixed AccurateRip reporting verification errors for hidden track one audio
  • Fixed setting to replace spaces not being respected when writing cover art and log files
  • Fixed setting to suppress Unicode characters not being respected when writing cover art and log files
  • Fixed tag editor fields for media type, catalog number and barcode being limited to 12 characters
  • Fixed freeze when decoding certain WMA files on Windows
  • Fixed drag & drop not working after online update on Windows

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.6 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.

The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

fre:ac version 1.1.5 has been released on 27th June 2021.

This update adds support for verifying audio CD rips using AccurateRip technology. This compares a checksum of the ripped audio against other users' results for the same CD. When a match is found in the AccurateRip database, this basically certifies a perfect rip. And in case of a mismatch, fre:ac displays a warning to let you know something may be wrong.

Besides this major new feature, the 1.1.5 update comes with performance optimizations, further tagging improvements, updated codecs and a number of bug fixes:

• Improvements
  • Improved DSP processing performance by up to 70% (mainly on Windows)
  • Added frequency bandwidth setting to FDK-AAC encoder configuration dialog
  • Added an option to toggle logging of complete paths in log files
  • Added options for specifying cover art files to freaccmd
  • Added support for reading Shift_JIS encoded CD-Text
  • Added support for writing album and track comments to cue sheets
  • Added support for ID3v2 tags in RF64 files
  • Added support for updating Vorbis Comment tags
  • Added support for updating ID3v2 tags in RIFF and AIFF files
  • Added support for updating LIST INFO tags in RIFF, RF64 and Wave64 files
  • Added support for ensemble field in Vorbis Comment and APEv2 tags
  • Added support for movement field in ID3v2, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and MP4 tags
  • Added support for additional URL fields in APEv2 tags
  • Added a tag editor option to keep album artist even if identical to track artist
  • Added media type field to tag editor

• Bug fixes
  
  • Fixed hotspot for genre edit field utility menu not covering the whole width of the field
  • Fixed occasional crashes when selecting codec subformat using the "Start encoding with" menu
  • Fixed chapter marks being offset by a few seconds when using DSP processing
  • Fixed playback not working when using certain combinations of DSP processors
  • Fixed incompatibility of FDK-AAC encoded HE and HEv2 AAC files with iTunes
  • Fixed issue decoding FLAC files with unknown length
  • Fixed glitches decoding transients in some Vorbis files
  • Fixed possible crashes when decoding Opus files
  • Fixed rare crashes in LAME encoder component
  • Fixed strings read from ID3v2 tags being limited to 1024 characters
  • Fixed crash when reading malformed CD-Text genre IDs
  • Fixed failure ripping with negative read offset
  • Fixed disc eject not working on macOS
  • Fixed crash when closing fre:ac via dock command on macOS
  • Fixed UI glitches and crashes on exit when running in a Wayland session
  • Fixed popup menu and dropdown list closing behavior on non-Windows platforms
  • Fixed issues with custom DPI settings on Xfce desktops
  • Fixed drag & drop working unreliably on X11 based systems

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.5 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.

The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

Continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the macOS as well, completing the effort to make these automated builds available for all major desktop operating systems. These builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions.

Continuous builds are currently provided as .dmg images for Intel Macs running macOS 10.9 or later. A variant optimized for Apple Silicon Macs and macOS 11.0 will be added later.

You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub.

Thanks to GitHub Actions, continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the Windows platform. These automated builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions.

The continuous builds are provided as .zip packages for the x86 (32 bit) and x86-64 (64 bit) architectures.

You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub.

fre:ac version 1.1.4 has been released on 14th February 2021.

This is a service focussing on minor improvements and bug fixes. fre:ac 1.1.3 adds support for HDCD decoding, improves tagging support and usability of the tag editor, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases:

• Improvements
  
  • Improved support for reading CD-Text
  • Added an HDCD decoder DSP filter
  • Added catalog number and barcode fields to tag editor
  • Added file type associations to macOS app, so fre:ac is offered for opening audio files
  • Added quality (VBR) setting to FDK-AAC configuration dialog
  • Improved MP3, AAC and Opus encoding performance by up to 30%
  • Improved multi-monitor support on X11 based systems
  • Discs of multi-disc albums are now shown separately in tag editor album mode
  • Update only changed fields when making edits in tag editor album mode
  • Added support for Replay Gain values in MP4 and WMA metadata
  • Do not override settings with default values when using freaccmd's --config option

• Bug fixes
  
  • Fixed invalid length written to very long Opus and Speex files (longer than 12 ½ hours at 48 kHz)
  • Fixed decoding of some very short Opus, Vorbis and Speex files
  • Fixed written MP4 chapters being invisible to some applications when using Nero AAC
  • Fixed hang/crash when opening WavPack, Musepack, TAK and OptimFROG files with chapters
  • Fixed issues submitting CDDB information for new CDs (without existing entries)
  • Fixed issues handling long path/file names on Windows
  • Fixed output sample rate being limited to 192 kHz
  • Fixed freaccmd randomly failing to process files in rare cases
  • Fixed bad user interface colors on some Linux distributions

• Codec support
  • Switched from FAAC to FDK-AAC for AAC encoding

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.4 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.

The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

Just in time for the first Apple Silicon Macs being delivered to end users, fre:ac is now available for this new generation of Macs.

To support the different types of Macs, the macOS version of fre:ac is now available in two flavors:

• For Intel and PowerPC Macs running macOS 10.x, download freac-1.1.x-macos10.dmg
• For Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 11.0, download freac-1.1.x-macos11.dmg

Head over to the downloads section to get the Apple Silicon version or any other variant of fre:ac.

fre:ac version 1.1.3 has been released on 11th October 2020.

This is a service with only minor feature updates and improvements. Instead, the focus is on compatibility and bug fixes. fre:ac 1.1.3 adds support for macOS 11.0 Big Sur, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases:

• General changes
  
  • Added support for macOS 11.0 Big Sur
  • Switched to using GNUdb as the default CDDB database service

• Improvements
  
  • Command line codec configuration now allows specifying additional arguments
  • Improved cue sheet encoding detection to support system codepage and UTF-8 without BOM
  • freaccmd now splits cue sheets to individual tracks unless an output file is specified
  • freaccmd now supports a --split-chapters option to split files into individual chapters
  • Added <profile> placeholder for output folder configuration setting, resolving to user profile
  • Added file type and audio CD associations to Linux/FreeBSD and Windows Store app
  • Added an option to suppress "No entry found" messages for automatic CDDB queries
  • Improved detection of sampler CDs when querying CDDB information

• Bug fixes
  
  • Fixed possible conversion thread hangs when using external encoders
  • Fixed possible crash related to drag & drop handling on Windows
  • Fixed crash when writing fields containing only whitespace to certain tag formats
  • Fixed glitches in WAV/AIFF output when processing samples outside the -1.0/+1.0 range
  • Fixed possible hangs when opening WAV/AIFF files > 2 GB or with a broken chunk structure
  • Fixed inability to open WAV/AIFF files with long paths on Windows
  • Fixed writing wrong offsets to single file cue sheets when the resampling DSP filter is enabled
  • Fixed writing invalid chapter offsets to Opus files with source sample rates other than 48 kHz
  • Fixed writing invalid MP3 bitstreams in rare cases in SuperFast mode
  • Fixed wrong length detection for MP3 files with invalid chapter data
  • Fixed parsing of cue sheets with minute/second values missing leading zeros or longer 99min
  • Fixed parsing of embedded cue sheets without FILE designations
  • Fixed ripping progress for other drives stalling while one drive is ejecting
  • Fixed inability to pause or stop single output file verification
  • Fixed log files being archived despite disabling the corresponding option
  • Fixed various issues with multi-monitor support on macOS
  • Fixed user interface glitches after closing dialogs in tabbed mode on macOS
  • Fixed Shift+Pos1/End shortcuts being interpreted by the joblist and edit fields simultaneously

• Codec support
  • Switched from libav 12.3 to FFmpeg 4.3.1 for auxiliary format support
  • Added support for using the Core Audio codec of iTunes 12.10.9 and later

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.3 is strongly recommended for users of any earlier releases.

The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

fre:ac version 1.1.2 has been released on 20th June 2020.

This release introduces UI scaling to the system font size by default, adds support for theme colors and dark mode on Linux/FreeBSD, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases:

• Improvements
  
  • Scale UI to adjust to system font size by default
  • Added support for theme colors and dark mode on Linux/FreeBSD
  • Improved handling of maximized window state on Linux/FreeBSD and macOS
  • Removed non-working option to not lock CD trays while ripping
  • Stop ripping before trying to eject a disc
  • Write audio data CRC to log files when ripping
  • Write MD5 checksums to log files when verifying files
  • Write log entries when replacing existing files

• Bug fixes
  
  • Fixed length of last chapter of some audio books being detected as 0:00
  • Prevent interpreting numerical IDs or dates at the beginning of file names as track numbers
  • Fixed a possible source of random crashes when adding files to the joblist
  • Fixed possible crash when importing MP4/M4A files
  • Fixed possible crash when encoding in SuperFast mode
  • Fixed some graphics glitches on macOS

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.2 is strongly recommended for users of any earlier releases.

The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #961 the /?shares listing now shows the list of filenames for each share 2cc53ea

🩹 bugfixes

• #967 per-volume md/lg sandbox rules are now applied during navigation db60951
  • if a volume has no-sb-lg or no-sb-md set then it'll apply when navigating into that volume, and vice-versa

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🩹 bugfixes

• fix building the archlinux package e3524d8
  • otherwise identical to v1.19.18

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #949 when all uploads have finished, the client (both the browser and u2c) sends a message to the server saying it's done db87ea5
• #941 copyparty-en.pyz, yet another copyparty variant, with enterprise-friendly tweaks:
  • does not include the smb-server, so antivirus doesn't think it's malware 7f5810f
  • english-only, because antivirus apparently hates certain translations too 7f5810f
  • renamed the webdav-config .bat to .txt because clearly only one of those are "dangerous" b624a38
• show volumes with permssion h in the navpane fff7291
• #937 global-option --notooltips to default-disable tooltips a325353

🩹 bugfixes

• #948 fix the u2c --dr option when the server is running on windows d3dd345
• fix crash on startup when using volflags unlistc* and the parent folder is not a volume cdd5e78
• og / opengraph / discord-embed fixes:
  • using the h permission could result in unexpected 404 c9e45c1
  • a single-file volume could make filenames in its parent volume unintentionally visible 36ab77e
    • this would only happen when combined with --og
• fix some harmless warnings from single-file volumes b1efc00
• fix filesize-colors in selected rows 1c17b63

🔧 other changes

• releases can now also be downloaded from https://copyparty.eu/ 547a7ab

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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #916 view cbz manga/comics in the browser (thx @Scotsguy!) 8ef6dda
• #845 users/groups can be subtracted from a broader access grant b4fda5f
  • for example *,-@acct hides a volume from everyone who's logged in
• reflink dedup is now available in most python versions, not just 3.14 and newer f2caab6
  • much better and safer than symlink/hardlink-based dedup, but only works with a few filesystems
• #905 option to magnify images/videos to fill the screen 66dc8b5
• #921 #685 xm hooks can see the selected files (thx @carson-coder!) 6c024db 3364448
• #927 textfiles can now be viewed with the ?doc= suffix with just the g permission dbb7870
• #742 new volflag nodupem to prevent dupes from being moved into a volume; the stronger alternative to nodupe which only prevents uploads f55d834
• audioplayer: show embedded coverart as fallback for cover.jpg in OS widgets 9746b4e
• #928 option to hide certain ui-elements, either with volflags or url-params 98da5cc
• #911 users can now avoid autoban according to permissions 6f02812
• verbosity and permssion options for ?stack 677fd8e
  • default is now admin-only; previously it was "admin or read+write"

🩹 bugfixes

• #914 ftp-server: resuming interrupted uploads (thx @Audionut!) 33b0cd5
• race-the-beam didn't work in non-toplevel shares d9cd7ec

🔧 other changes

• #904 new example hook wget-i.py; import-safe fork of wget.py dbd8f83
• hide the search-ui while viewing a share because searching in shares is not possible cca1f9b
• config-parser now prevents invalid values for the lifetime volflag 5d96862
• translations are now separate files instead of all chilling inside browser.js d099e5e d6433b7 a7840be a7cdc5d 9808694 a85ad20 c2e03bf b9d7ede 5a29df6 52446bb bb166c9 0fa862e 6de6aa4 748aaa9 07ace41 b61b910 28b9323 14bd4cf 50109f7 3b009d9 f5425a8 5232ce6 02ba9ea ff01723 d099e5e

🌠 fun facts

• looks like i'll be in Japan november 7～26 and then at CCC for newyears!
  • wait, I never made stickers... orz

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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• hooks got some nice upgrades
  • add flag I to run in-process for a 140x speed boost 41ed559
    • bring your own safeguards (if an I hook has a bug then it can deadlock copyparty)
    • (this is where the releasetitle came from btw)
  • add flag s to send info on stdin instead of argv 4542ad3
  • new hook: reject uploads into ramdisks (granular alternative to wram) efd19af
    • will be default-enabled in the bootable copyparty flashdrive image
• show media-tags inside shares 50276c0
• #881 manga-mode (RTL) for the image viewer (thx @Scotsguy!) dacc64d
• #872 combining chpw and IdP-auth is now supported 3f59710
• #854 auto-incrementing counters for batch-rename d05a88d 76e9f23
• #882 change to volume-specific favicon on navigation 2ce32e4
• #884 option to turn the servername into a link (thx @Morganamilo!) 38cc809 9b7f933
• rss: add option to not embed pw into feed 73ec2d2
• cbz and epub files can become folder-thumbnails eb173be

🩹 bugfixes

• web-ui: only show generic http errors if nothing better is available 0453b7a
• #860 epub-thumbnailer errors are less noisy now 4177c1d
• the ui-filesz option can have a trailing hyphen now 2248705
• hide "create share" button while inside a share c5f1229

🔧 other changes

• #460 example config for running the podman images as a systemd service (thx @danloveg!) 7fc379a
• #886 nixos: option to specify unix-user/group to run as (thx @2Kaleb!) 31f1b53
• #895 mention the ?v suffix to open mediafiles in the mediaplayer f8e1981
• ignore 403s from /favicon.png (samsung-android)
• docker: shrink the min image from 45 to 33 MiB a8f53d5
• #887 add missing entries in --licenses 805a705
• #887 various vendored python libraries can now be ripped out and replaced with system-libs:
  • ifaddr 656f0a6
  • dnslib 39bd4e5
  • qrcodegen 08ebb0b
  • surrogateescape aace711

🌠 fun facts

• today's genre is Techcore (a subgenre of J-core (a subgenre of UKHC))
  • FULLBURST by ぱらどっと is an excellent example
  • omake: speedrun through 18 other genres (pick your favorite)

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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #184 add various human-readable formats for filesizes 234edde
• search for files by their identifier ("wark"/checksum) 4e38e40
  • and those are displayed in file-listings now too 456addf
• PUT-upload with header Replace will overwrite any existing files 397ed56
• xbu/xau hooks can reject uploads with a custom message df0fa9d
• #855 mDNS options to change the announced http/https port a3d9506
• #473 #383 custom favicons per-volume (.ico/png/gif/svg) 470b504
  • doesn't seem to work in internet explorer... ah whatever, go next

🩹 bugfixes

• #849 create IdP-db for --idp-store when necessary 80ca785
• #859 cbz-thumbnailing had an accidental dependency on FFmpeg 983865d
• docs: misleading markdown-expansion example e187df2

🔧 other changes

• #851 show a huge warning when copyparty accidentally detects a failing HDD and/or filesystem-corruption during indexing 6912e86 eb5d767
• #870 improved discord video embeds (thx @tsuza!) f0ecb08
• #858 prefer reflinks (not hardlinks) in the -ss security option 57650a2
• improved controlpanel action-buttons layout 9f46e4d

🌠 fun facts

• includes (a tiny bit of) code written at koie ramen
• according to Biltema, september is an excellent time to start decorating for xmas

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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #779 add OPDS support (thx @Scotsguy!) 6dbd990
  • copyparty can now serve books for KOReader
  • the mandatory soundtrack
• #786 add Turkish translation (thx @NandeMD!) 549fe33
• #808 support reading config-files in UTF8-BOM 5e4ff90
• make more http-errors return a friendly errortext rather than the scary wall of html 9d06641

🩹 bugfixes

• #842 could not navpane into webroot if webroot is unmapped 0941fd4
• upload-resume becomes funky when the OS/network is overloaded to the point where it starts dropping connections left and right -- the issue was reported on discord and I don't have a good way to reproduce it, but these changes may help and/or fix it:
  • b136a5b panic and drop chunk reservations if client or connection glitches out
  • 38df223 also drop reservations if subchunk logic hits an edgecase

🔧 other changes

• versus.md tweaks:
  • #840 tooltips in the table headers (thx @guano!) e9ca36f
  • #839 sftpgo updates (thx @augustanational!) a053a66

🌠 fun facts

• this release is identical to v1.19.13 except the pypi package isn't messed up 👉😎👉
  • as if the 13 wasn't foreshadowing enough

⚠️ not the latest version!

v1.19.13

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #787 add Esperanto translation (thx @slashdevslashurandom!) 15d3c2f
• #802 timezone can be specified for the rotf upload rule (thx @Lehmustus!) 1460fe9

🩹 bugfixes

• #837 sharing an entire HDD on Windows (v1.19.9 regression) 6a24432
  • sharing your whole 【Dドライブ】 is once again possible
    • TLNote: Dドライブ means "D:\ drive"
    • if you can't upgrade, a workaround is global-option casechk: n
• /?ls on an unmapped root didn't give a sensible response; now it should be okay except it won't have a cfg field 8f6194f

🔧 other changes

• #836 hide the unpost tab in folders where user has no write-access ca872c4
• #835 fix webdep buildscript to avoid an edgecase on some platforms (thx @25huizengek1!) 260da2f

🌠 fun facts

• the esperanto translation was the final straw; copyparty-sfx.py is now 1 MiB large
  • copyparty-en.py is still a comfy 759 KiB

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🩹 bugfixes

• #827 ftp on servers with unmapped root broke in v1.19.9 280815f

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• prevent uploading into ramdisks by default 59a0122 538a205
  • safeguard against misconfigured docker containers, where certain parts of the vfs has not been mapped to actual storage, for example /w/music is but /w/ itself isn't
  • can be disabled with wram (global-option and/or volflag), mainly for ephemeral servers
• #799 nixos: groups can be specified (thx @AnyTimeTraveler!) ee5f319
• the logspam from the filesystem indexer can be reduced/disabled 478f1c7
  • new options scan-st-r, scan-pr-r, scan-pr-s

🩹 bugfixes

• #809 medialinks (#af-badf00d) would fail on the very first pageload from a new browser 5996a58
• #806 instructions for running on iOS was bad (thx @GhelloZ!) 35326a6

🔧 other changes

• copyparty32.exe is now english-only, to save space 669b107
• version info on startup indicates free-threading or not 6559152
• docs: explain the daw option better a043d7c

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #781 case-sensitive behavior is now simulated on Windows/Macos/Fat32/NTFS 8b66874
  • avoids some of the scary issues associated with case-insensitive filesystems
  • unfortunately this is expensive and may be noticeably slower in large folders; disable the safeguard with casechk: n if you know you don't need it
• #789 case-insensitive search for unicode filenames/paths (thx @km-clay!) e2aa8fc ecd18ad
  • default-disabled because it is somewhat expensive; enable with global-option srch-icase
• CB-1 add --qr-stdout and --qr-stderr to show qr-code even with -q d7887f3

🩹 bugfixes

• #775 the basic-uploader didn't accept empty files 25749b4
• opt-out from index.html with ?v did not work as documented 3d09bec
• Windows: dedup could get rejected by the filesystem if the origin file had a timestamp from the cambrian era e09f3c9
• webdav would incorrectly return an error for Depth:0 on an unmapped root 3a2381f
• markdown-editor would waste another http roundtrip on certain documents 14b7e51
• --help didn't render if terminal was non-UTF8 3f45492

🔧 other changes

• #788 fixed a hotkey typo in the imageviewer (thx @tkroo!) 5c1a43c
• #778 improved polish translation (thx @daimond113!) 52438bc
• #798 debian: fixed an issue in the systemd script (thx @Beethoven-n, and congrats on commit number 4000!) dfd9e00
• media-tag conductor is no longer mapped to circle (album-artist) 9c9e405
• "download-selection-as-zip" now produces a better filename, sel-FOLDERNAME.zip instead of FIRSTFILE.zip 8f58762
• detect and warn if IdP volumes are misconfigured in a particular way 83bd197

🌠 fun facts

• the themesong of this release is KO3 - Give it up? because that's what the car mechanic got to enjoy when i forgot to unplug the flashdrive before handing in the shitbox for service

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

⚠️ ATTN: this release fixes CVE-2025-58753, an issue with shares

• when a share is created for just one or more files inside a folder, it was possible to access the other files inside that folder by guessing the filenames
• it was not possible to descend into subdirectories in this manner; only the sibling files were accessible
• NOTE: this does NOT affect filekeys; this is specifically regarding the shr global-option

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #761 IdP: option to replace the login/logout links and buttons with redirects into an IdP UI 09f2299
• #726 disk-usage and server-version can be selectively hidden according to user permissions 19a4c45
• option --shr-who / volflag shr_who decides who is able to create a share of that volume edafa15
• #751 nixos: add globalExtraConfig to specify repeatable config parameters (thx @xvrqt!) 09e3018
• some very small speedups (mainly u2c and ancient python versions) 74821a3
• #759 #393 total folder size now decreases when files inside are deleted 96b109b
  • would previously require a reindex to get back on track

🩹 bugfixes

• fix GHSA-pxvw-4w88-6x95 by fencing fileshares to just the shared files e0a92ba
• #397 prevent hinting at valid passwords, even if they cannot be used to authenticate with 7a4ee4d
• #747 disable some features if /tmp must be used for runtime config e6755aa
  • the config-folder will now also be created with chmod 700 (accessible by owner only)
• #733 #298 fix hotkeys on non-qwerty keyboard layouts (dvorak etc.) e798a9a
• #539 ftp-server: support clients which never does a CWD b049631
• ignore the plaintext session-cookie on https; fixes some confusing behavior when switching from https to http c71128f
• og-ua would prevent clients matching the pattern from accessing fullsize files
• og-ua was only possible to set globally; the og_ua volflag was ignored 422f8f6
• uds / unix-domain-sockets got wrong permissions when rm-sck was used e270fe6
• #727 macos: support running from config-files 230a146
• #539 avoid issues if someone uploads a file with a last-modified timestamp from year -9999999999999 eeb7738
• using the spacebar to pause a video was jank on chrome bfcb6ea
• block the next-song hotkey while a folder is loading f7e08ed
• #748 fix rare js-panic when an action is aborted aaeec11
• #738 bubbleparty: use /bin/bash (thx @ckastner!) 0469b5a

🔧 other changes

• partyfuse: nice speedup by caching readdir too 06d2654
• partyfuse: explain usage with usernames 1cdb388
• connect-page: better examples when usernames enabled 3bdef75
• docker: fix image annotations ab56238

🌠 fun facts

• konami's biggest legacy lives on f0caf88 bd6d1f9

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• new option chdir to change the PWD (process working-directory) before volumes are mapped 14555d5

🩹 bugfixes

• fix using empty folders as statefile storage (v1.19.6 made this a bit too strict) 0d96786
• holding I/K to scroll through folders quickly now works better 914686e

🔧 other changes

• #717 docker: fix the image repo metadata (thx @EmilyxFox!) 6f08711
• docker: change $HOME to /state 01cf20a d1f7522
  • and use the new chdir option to preserve old config-file semantics 14555d5
  • helps avoid statefiles accidentally landing in /w as a consequence of misconfiguration

🌠 fun facts

• this release was made at RevSpace NL

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #673 add Portuguese translation (thx anonymous!) 4b8c221
  • ...and enable the Polish translation (whoops) 8f235be
• #689 add option to control authentication priority/precedence 543b7ea
• url-parameter ?dl forces file download instead of displaying in-browser 48d6224
• #533 more ways to make the QR-code always-visible in the console 2848941
• #695 option to log invalid xml from clients 28b93d7
• #552 configurable markdown newline behavior 0491123
  • and tweak the styling of monospace in links 6850344

🩹 bugfixes

• #628 FTP-server now accepts connections from IPv6 link-local addresses 978801d
• incorrect assumption that all IPv6 link-local addresses start with fe80 d39c74c
• ftp: fix file rename d40f061
• u2c: couldn't upload files located at the very top of the unix file hierarchy 599e82f
• #699 markdown-editor: fix panic if the table-formatter is executed on something that isn't a table 4c042b3

🔧 other changes

• #696 a volume can be one single file, not just folders aa1c921
• #442 strongly prefer XDG_CONFIG_HOME as config location 3547255
• #691 album-art collected from audio-files can now become folder thumbnails 0b50fde
• allow spaces in more of the comma-separated options d30240b
• docs:
  • mention config requirements for syncing folders with u2c 6cd0a39 59f142c

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #328 run copyparty on iPhones; see install on iOS in the readme ca98d54
  • cannot run in the background, doesn't have full access to your files, and is slightly buggy, but it works
  • running on android gives you a much better experience
• save the qr-code to a file (txt/svg/png) 202ddea

🩹 bugfixes

• #661 fix incorrect rproxy hint in the logs 6c76614
• #649 fix js-crash when tapping in the exactly correct place (thx @hahaslav for debugging!) 0de07d8
• #628 ftpd: fix banning IPv6 clients 6d76254

🔧 other changes

• #296 nixos: support non-flake setups (thx @Sorixelle!) 20ef74c 3259367
• config-parser catches and explains a few more common mistakes cc65b1b
• docs:
  • #490, #199: readme: confirm that combining copyparty and syncthing is safe c51371c
  • #377 improved authelia docker example (thx @xFuture603!) cd8771f
  • mention the homebrew formulae f9cb2c1
  • #651 versus.md: fix hfs3 comparison (thx @rejetto!) 7a4973f

⚠️ not the latest version!

[0.6.2] 2025-07-21

Small release, focused on LDAP improvements and ongoing maintenance.

Added

• LDAP
  • Support for searching groups by their groupid
  • Support for whoamiOID
  • Support for creating groups
  • Support for subschema entry
• Custom assets path.
• New endpoint for requesting client settings

Changed

• A missing JWT secret now prevents startup.
• Attributes with invalid characters (such as underscores) cannot be created anymore.
• Searching custom (string) attributes is now case insensitive.
• Using the top-level firstName, lastName and avatar GraphQL fields for users is now deprecated. Use the attributes field instead.

Fixed

• lldap_set_password now uses the system's SSL certificates.

Cleanups

• Split the main lldap crate into many sub-crates
• Various dependency version bumps
• Upgraded to 2024 Rust edition
• Docs/FAQ improvements

Bootstrap script

• Custom attributes support
• Read the paswsord from a file
• Resilient to no user or group files

New services

• Discord integration (Discord role to LLDAP user)
• HashiCorp
• Jellyfin 2FA with Duo
• Kimai
• Mailcow
• Peertube
• Penpot
• PgAdmin
• Project Quay
• Quadlet
• Snipe-IT
• SSSD
• Stalwart
• UnifiOS

New Contributors

• @fa-sharp made their first contribution in #1080
• @mbelangergit made their first contribution in #1083
• @tyami94 made their first contribution in #1079
• @maystar made their first contribution in #1096
• @geragio made their first contribution in #1105
• @hendrik1120 made their first contribution in #1124
• @baka-yuki made their first contribution in #1127
• @taiwan-king made their first contribution in #1126
• @meetpatty made their first contribution in #1134
• @ivan-sirosh made their first contribution in #1132
• @juntong20XX made their first contribution in #1144
• @vmd1 made their first contribution in #1146
• @avargaskun made their first contribution in #1155
• @cogdavid made their first contribution in #1157
• @broemp made their first contribution in #1166
• @MikaelUrankar made their first contribution in #1170
• @ChibyX made their first contribution in #1174
• @sdelnevo made their first contribution in #1173
• @ingalls made their first contribution in #1177
• @bryanalves made their first contribution in #1182
• @jaj42 made their first contribution in #1183
• @PHIDIAS0303 made their first contribution in #1188
• @AlexandreFoley made their first contribution in #1192
• @selfhoster1312 made their first contribution in #1198
• @T0byV made their first contribution in #1071
• @coredoesdev made their first contribution in #1210

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

this release is a hotfix for #624; v1.19.2 broke volumes defined in config files

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

ℹ️ this upgrade is a one-way ticket

• your up2k database (.hist/up2k.db), used by the e2d filesystem indexing feature, will be upgraded to a new format which older copyparty versions cannot read. A backup of each database will be created automatically, named up2k.db.bak.SOMETHING.v5. If you need to downgrade to a previous version: Shutdown copyparty, delete these files: up2k.db up2k.db-shm up2k.db-wal and then copy up2k.db.bak.*.v5 to up2k.db

🧪 new features

• new translations:
  • #551 Swedish (thx @Bevinsky!) d676a86
  • #551 Korean (thx @nyqui!) 4e878d2
• #581 new theme: phi95 (thx @varphi-online!) d8662ae
• #567 .raw image thumbnails (thx @ar-nelson!) 0177a9b
  • available in docker-images iv and dj
• #561 epub thumbnails (thx @Scotsguy!) 9435e6b
• #252 music thumbnails use embdded coverart if available 98d117b
  • thumbnails folder .hist/th must be deleted to take effect
• #530 show username of uploaders in file listings; requires a (admin) permission 4df033e
• #604 a new group @acct which automatically contains all known usernames 68907ea
• controlpanel has a dedicated "logout all sessions" button, similar to the logout-link in the browser f4a3fba
• #397 accounts can be restricted to certian IPs 62e072a
• #504 automatic login through tailscale auth a4649d1
• #533 sticky qr-code with --qr-pin 1 1ebe06f
• #572 button to abort copy/move 715d374
• #618 "download selected files" didn't work on firefox 52 (winxp) dcc6b1b
• max number of cookies to allow can be configured 6303eff
  • good if you have too many selfhosted services on one domain (but will beware of the spec-mandataed max length of the cookie field!)

🩹 bugfixes

• fix xvol/xdev edgecases:
  • #603 rootless vfs 554cc2f
  • false-positive with overlapping volumes d9046f7
• #573 ftp: attempting an upload into read-only folder no longer kills the connection 3aa8b7a
• #306 adjust navpane for --rp-loc (location-based proxying)
• #556 more sensible config expansion order f4727f8
  • #624 ...which broke things bf1fdca
• the video player now stays fullscreen between videos 782e2f1
• heif thumbnailing with libvips

🔧 other changes

• #253 build nix-packages from source (thx @toast003, @chinponya!) 187cae2
• #616 logfiles will have a plaintext severity column if --no-ansi d4cf42e
• #598 separate option --ac-convt for audio transcoding timeout d562305
• #596 users with a blank password gets a strong random-generated one 7f44875
• copyparty.exe: upgrade to python 3.13.7

⚠️ not the latest version!

v1.19.3

v1.19.2