Fix issue #463: Don't add a missing XML declaration on save.
Fix issue #460: Remove formatting for XML elements that are not allowed to contain whitespace (XSD Schema content model is Empty, Mixed, or TextOnly).

Fix issue #430: Autoformat on Save with empty XML-Elements.
Formatting Options has new setting to format Xml attributes each on a separate line.

Fix issue #425: "No byte order mark on save" option throws stream closed exception add unit test.
Apply dark mode to window titlebar.

Fix issue #418: check setttings-file for "read-only".
Fix issue #398: XmlNotepad detects xml-errors at empty nillable xsd:date Elements, but xml is correct

Issue 409: Not able to validate XML against multiple not referenced Schemas
Issue 329: Incomplete schema validation of large XML files ( > ~20 MB).
Report invalid characters undex 0x20.
Fix unit tests so they run on Windows 11, including a work around for dotnet/winforms#10244.

Issue 324: Generate xml from schema, see ttps://youtu.be/5I_q1oXz02I.
Issue 385:: "XML Reload" removes loaded XSLT. You can now get auto-reload when xml file changes on disk
and you can turn off the prompt in options dialog and it will reapply the XSLT automatically.
update to WebView2 version 1.0.2739.15
Also preserve the selection in the XML tree view across file reloads.

Issue 382: Add progress bar on long XSLT transform operations.
Issue 379: Add Preserve Whitespace option so your XSLT transforms can output the whitespace correctly.
Bug 383: Reload of a "not loaded" file
Bug 381: Multiple instances resets the settings
Bug 380: Opening bad XML file keeps watching the file

Issue 382: Add progress bar on long XSLT transform operations.
Issue 379: Add Preserve Whitespace option so your XSLT transforms can output the whitespace correctly.
Bug 383: Reload of a "not loaded" file
Bug 381: Multiple instances resets the settings
Bug 380: Opening bad XML file keeps watching the file

Add ability to load .json files.

Add #367 preserve Options Dialog box relative location and size
Bug 370: Error Message after SEARCHING and drag & drop of a new file
Bug 371: Unhandled exception loading XML file with the http://www.crossref.org/schema/deposit/crossref4.4.2.xsd schemas.

Add ability to load .json files.

Add #367 preserve Options Dialog box relative location and size
Bug 370: Error Message after SEARCHING and drag & drop of a new file
Bug 371: Unhandled exception loading XML file with the http://www.crossref.org/schema/deposit/crossref4.4.2.xsd schemas.

• 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

🧪 new features

• sftp server 4714c2f ec7ea30
  • included in docker-images im, iv, ac, dj
  • not using docker? install the optional dependency paramiko
• #1135 right-click menu (thx @stackxp and @Scotsguy!) 82c4960 05a4472
• PUT can now append to existing files 63d8e5a
  • new option apnd-who to configure who is allowed to do that
• #1128 added option to skip uploading a file if the filename is already taken on the server (thx @Scotsguy!) fa32e15
• #1127 descript.ion now also works for folders 2c26aec
• in file listings, up_by and up_ip (uploader info) can now be displayed for non-admin users by adding them to the mte option 7bfd370
• #1120 display the disk-space quota instead of the underlying HDD size (thx @rabid-dev!) 511dc01 e0845b2
• option to skip dotfiles/dotfolders when using download-as-zip 7d7a151
• #1124 button to skip files with a filename collision when copying/moving files 85639ad
• #1151 u2c (commandline uploader): option to use basic-auth instead of the PW header (thx @Le0Developer!) 120fdfb
• the name of the pw url-param and http-header can be changed f81d80b
  • mainly to force basic-auth, but perhaps also for other purposes
  • changing these will break support for many clients, so you probably want to keep the default

🩹 bugfixes

• image-viewer:
  • images now scale properly when rotated while the zoom feature is enabled c0e167f
  • the current image rotation will now be applied to the next image as well 485c60c c82a3cb
• groups announced by an IdP will now also apply for native (copyparty-config) users f08cb25
• windows: download-as-zip would flatten everything to a single folder 2d1d295
• #1157 dirkeys did not work in grid-view d1ddcb1
• #1123 the ui-notree option to simplify the UI would simplify a bit too much 4c73704
• don't add the trailing slash to a volume in the controlpanel when the volume is a file 80a3749
  • the link couldn't be clicked on Windows CE 4.20 using Internet Explorer 4.01

🔧 other changes

• #1158 updated german translation (thx @Scotsguy!) 3bf80c8
• the dotfiles button now also toggles showing unlisted files e55e5a4
• /?h&ls (the api to list volumes) now includes the user's permissions for each volume 1f6e811
• #1142 new option dav-port to open a dedicated port for webdav clients 4642d32
  • workaround for certain clients which pretend to be webbrowsers
• #1147 workaround for a buggy browser-extension 8551472
• detect (and panic) when a webbrowser has failed to load one of the javascript files af3f777
  • replaces the confusing errormessage resulting from half of the code missing

🌠 fun facts

• it turns out that copyparty runs just fine on SGI IRIX! 39c3ccc
  • there's a photo of the server and a screenshot as proof 😁
  • the feature comparison has been updated accordingly
• this release was mostly coded at 39c3 (see photo above) and the release was made at revspace

⚠️ 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

🧪 new features

• #1080 new translation: Vietnamese (thx @thatfrozenfrog and @khoidauminh!) b60eb3f d4a9787
• #1110 add option xf-proto-fb to support reverseproxies which do not provide an x-forwarded-proto header 9c64788
  • and improve the rproxy config guidance message in the serverlog c8f3b4e
  • and show a warning in the controlpanel if misconfiguration is detected c8f3b4e
• #1109 add option --ipar, reverseproxy-aware alternative to --ipa 3368421
  • its purpose is rejecting connections from unexpected/unwanted IPs/subnets
• option idp-chsub can be used to replace spaces in IdP usernames/groupnames 5e1d9a5
• #1029 indicate password max-length in ui 8d46cf1
  • thx to @grantbacon for the initial take!

🩹 bugfixes

• #1111 apple gave us coal for xmas this year 0b6d2d2
  • workaround for a new bug in safari (iOS and Macos) where it would randomly show a login-popup
• #1113 the @acct group was unavailable in groupless IdP setups b6c2ec1

🌠 fun facts

• speaking of current events, @stackxp made copyparty bad-apple-certified a little while back 😁
  • the plugin is available here

⚠️ 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

🧪 new features

• #1068 #1089 add options to customize which textfiles (readme/prologue/epilogue) to embed above/below directory listings 14bef85
  • prologues, epilogues, readmes, preadmes (global-options and/or volflags) accept a comma-separated list of filenames to look for
• #1092 add option th-qv to change the thumbnail quality a1cbac0
  • also found and enabled a size-optimization for libvips, so:
• #1092 automatically delete and rebuild thumbnails if thumbnailer-config is changed ca6c4de
• #1049 add option log-date to display dates in logs 965a4a6
• #1047 rss-feed: title/description of each entry is now a template-string which can reference arbitrary metadata properties (thx @djjeane!) 5e85e3d
• extend the ramdisk safeguard to also prevent moving files into ephemeral storage fa91822
  • would previously prevent creating new files, but this was another potential source for confusion (thx coworker!)
• now possible to customize the thank you for playing ban-message ce2eeba
• #964 option to change the default value of the Cache-Control response-header 3bc0bf1
  • don't let this be you :^)

🩹 bugfixes

• #1010 correctly replace illegal characters in filenames according to underlying filesystem ba017f7
  • for example, uploading a folder named COMPLE:X into an exFAT flashdrive on linux is now possible
  • and, to make that possible, filesystem-detection now sees the true filesystem behind FUSE (for example ntfs-3g) 3bbed1b
• audio-playback would skip into the next folder rather than play the rest of the current one if the folder was sufficiently massive 8e2fb05
• #1094 fix ipu with idp users 594ec39
• commandline uploader: fix termsize detection on windows 7d526ea
• #1104 the rss feature now complains loudly if e2d is not enabled (because that was always necessary but not obvious) 9219540
• ui/ux:
  • #1102 the option to cosmetically hide server info did not apply for all themes e440578
  • the metadata-property date (default-disabled) was renamed to tdate to avoid colliding with the last-modified timestamp if enabled fecc3fd
• docs:
  • #1070 how to use the bundled archlinux systemd scripts 7f82189
  • podman-systemd: fix paths in guide (thx @emiliatheworst!) a869839
  • synology: better way to hide @eaDir 1b0eb45

🔧 other changes

• add a loud warning in logs if X-Forwarded-Proto is not added by the reverseproxy ad45de9 1b222fb
  • almost did the same for X-Forwarded-Host too before realizing that's generally not a thing
• #1038 creating a blank chpw.json before starting copyparty is now supported and no longer crashes on startup efc6a09
• #1105 better feedback in the login ui (thx @stackxp!) 08474db
• mtag/audio-key.py: replaced the melodic key detector since ffmpeg-8 / alpine-3.23 broke it 67ddc64
• updated deps:
  • webdeps: dompurify-3.3.1 e0b04d9
  • copyparty.exe: python-3.13.11 9e64fe0

🌠 fun facts

• 39c3 has a LOT of awesome self-organized sessions
  • didn't have anything copyparty-related this time but CCC HYPE!

⚠️ 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

• hooks now behave more usefully/predictably; 889bd32
  • hooks returning 0 will run the next hook (if any), and let the initiating action proceed if no other hooks object
  • hooks returning 100 will stop processing successive hooks, but return success, letting the initiating action proceed
  • hooks returning anything else will stop processing successive hooks (like the documentation always said) and also fail the initiating action (if hook is checked)
  • zmq hooks can now respond with json, doing relocations and all that stuff
• new mtag plugin, geotag.py: read image geotags with exiftool (demo) 1c15c0d ac085b8
• #972 markdown-links are rewritten to open in the markdown-viewer 278a0d8
• #794 add json beautifier / minifier
  • ...in the textfile-editor fd8c5bf
  • ...in the textfile-viewer 89cab5b
• #1058 ui-option and server-config to force download instead of showing files inline a9174e5
• option stats-u to grant access to prometheus-metrics based on username, not just permissions b427d78

🩹 bugfixes

• #1003 u2c.py (commandline uploader) did not install correctly on archlinux and/or pypi 9385dae
• #1035 uploader could fail to initialize if: 98701b7
  • the mt button (webworkers) was enabled in the settings tab
  • and the network was severely strained during intial page load
• possible deadlock on shutdown if thumbnailer queue was hella busy fb9f044
• #971 windows: fix deadlock on startup if trying to use a nonexistant driveletter as a volume 945b227
• #1022 js-panic if audio playback is set to stay-in-folder a28503e
• links to ongoing file transfers in the controlpanel could 404 (thx @Habetdin!) 77f74dd f4d67ff
• video scrubbing on iOS dba7c5d
• #1054 audio volume slider could skip one percent (thx @shermanhlc!) ca6d3a5
• detect invalid config:
  • #959 panic if ipu user doesn't exist 79e1078
  • panic if share config overlaps with a volume cedfc44
• #943

🔧 other changes

• the "new-markdown" feature was repurposed into "new-file", accepting any file extension 7d62335
• #1023 the option to grant delete-access when creating a share was removed due to never having been implemented in the backend 04ac7fb
• #1012 rephrased the controlpanel login-text when logged in to avoid confusion 7a29140
• add hints that the serverlog is a good place to look in some situations c424a55
• all thumbnail types and combinations can now be pregenerated a359b89
• #1030 add debug if cfssl is misbehaving ec00dc1
• #871 grid volflag is applied during navigation if user has not set a preference a9378a8
• cosmetic:
  • show column number in markdown editor b9aacba
  • reduced grid margins in theme2 e469bc9
  • reduced redirect delay after logging in f7e7b03
  • controlpanel greeting in some fail-early responses acde21d
  • update hooks to ignore the new upload-queue-empty message 3f4b79f
• docs:
  • #1032 fix typo in example docker idp config (thx @tuetenk0pp!) 867237d
  • warn that using/changing -j is usually a bad idea cad15fb
  • add hotlink anchors to https://copyparty.eu/cli/ 7f9c139
• nixos:
  • #868 option to install from git-head (thx @shelvacu!) c734530
  • #962 support idp volumes (thx @nicomem!) 904c984
  • #963 use configured chmod-d when creating volumes (thx @nicomem!) 3242145
• copyparty.exe: update to python 3.13.10, pillow 12.0 cdffde7

🌠 fun facts

• copyparty has been observed running on a wristwatch and on an android tv-box running in big-endian mode, so copyparty is BE-certified
• also... it's december! you know what that means :^)

⚠️ not the latest version!

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

⚠️ 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

• 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/
• 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

• #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

⚠️ 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

• #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

⚠️ 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

• 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)

⚠️ 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

• #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

⚠️ not the latest version!