Today we are releasing two unofficial 2.3 betas for those users who are having trouble with the official release. They're unofficial in that they don't include an installer, localization, or a help file, but the exes themselves are still good. 
If you want to use them just extract the zip over your existing beta installation.
The zip files are available at:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/bc23e...-20_oldftp.zip (Old FTP, build 5001)
http://www.scootersoftware.com/bc23e...-20_newftp.zip (New FTP, build 6001)
As for why there are two of them: We use a third-party library for our FTP support and for the 2.3 beta we upgraded to a new major release. There are was a lot of infrastructure work done that we want to use going forward, but we've discovered there are some bugs that will cause problems for some of our users so we're offering a version without that upgrade.
2.2.9 Build 5001, the "Old FTP" release, includes our FTP support as it was in 2.2.7 build 227. The only significant issue that we know of is that cancelling a transfer can be flaky for certain users. If the FTP support was working for you in the official releases and you want all of the rest of the 2.3 fixes this is the build to use. The exe size is 3,078,656 bytes.
2.2.9 Build 6001, the "New FTP" release, includes the updated FTP support that was added in the 2.3 beta. This release corrects the cancel issue mentioned above, adds support for compressing transfers on servers that support it (MODE Z), as well as support for some FTP-over-HTTP proxies. We know of two issues with this release: (1) Reconnecting after a server-side disconnect (eg, idle timeout) may not work without a full refresh. This includes both saying "Yes" to the reconnect prompt and using the auto-reconnect functionality. (2) Trying to read from or write to files that you don't have permission to can block the FTP site for as long as you have the read timeout set to. The exe size is 3,264,512 bytes.
We plan to switch completely to the upgraded version as soon as we're convinced it's stable. We may release 2.3 before then, in which case it will have the old version and we'll have an alternate download with the new version available for anyone who wants to help us test it.
Thanks to everyone who's helped us test the betas so far. If you find any new problems with either release please let us know.
If you want to use them just extract the zip over your existing beta installation.The zip files are available at:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/bc23e...-20_oldftp.zip (Old FTP, build 5001)
http://www.scootersoftware.com/bc23e...-20_newftp.zip (New FTP, build 6001)
As for why there are two of them: We use a third-party library for our FTP support and for the 2.3 beta we upgraded to a new major release. There are was a lot of infrastructure work done that we want to use going forward, but we've discovered there are some bugs that will cause problems for some of our users so we're offering a version without that upgrade.
2.2.9 Build 5001, the "Old FTP" release, includes our FTP support as it was in 2.2.7 build 227. The only significant issue that we know of is that cancelling a transfer can be flaky for certain users. If the FTP support was working for you in the official releases and you want all of the rest of the 2.3 fixes this is the build to use. The exe size is 3,078,656 bytes.
2.2.9 Build 6001, the "New FTP" release, includes the updated FTP support that was added in the 2.3 beta. This release corrects the cancel issue mentioned above, adds support for compressing transfers on servers that support it (MODE Z), as well as support for some FTP-over-HTTP proxies. We know of two issues with this release: (1) Reconnecting after a server-side disconnect (eg, idle timeout) may not work without a full refresh. This includes both saying "Yes" to the reconnect prompt and using the auto-reconnect functionality. (2) Trying to read from or write to files that you don't have permission to can block the FTP site for as long as you have the read timeout set to. The exe size is 3,264,512 bytes.
We plan to switch completely to the upgraded version as soon as we're convinced it's stable. We may release 2.3 before then, in which case it will have the old version and we'll have an alternate download with the new version available for anyone who wants to help us test it.
Thanks to everyone who's helped us test the betas so far. If you find any new problems with either release please let us know.
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