The FTP Address book and contents of FTP sites is now displayed in the Folder Tree. This can be disabled if desired through Preferences.
It is also possible to browse to the root of the FTP:// namespace in the file display and access your Address Book entries that way. Simply click the FTP item in the Tree or enter FTP:// in the Lister path field. The Address Book list is grouped according to whether sites are secure (SSL/SSH) or insecure. To connect to a site simply double-click it as if it were a normal folder.
There have been several improvements to proxy support for FTP. Proxies can now be configured on a per-site basis as well as globally. Two additional proxy types are supported - ftp_user@Proxy_user@remote_host as well as a fully configurable Custom template type that lets you define the connection parameters yourself.
Support for SOCKS proxies has been improved and this now works with most SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy servers.
The FTP Address Book lets you add a comment string for individual sites; this is displayed both in the Address Book and in the File Display when you browse to the root FTP:// folder.
There is now an internal FTP password cache, which means that FTP passwords are remembered once entered for a configurable period of time. This is needed to support FTP in the tree, so that you are not continually prompted to enter site passwords whenever a folder in the tree is expanded.
FTP logs are now stored on a per-site basis rather than the option of only two shared logs for the whole system, however there is also an All Activity log which shows the old merged-view log of activity for all sites. There is a new option to display the FTP log automatically when connecting to a site. The FTP log is now shown in the Lister itself rather than in a separate window, but it can still be floated free of the Lister if desired.