Release 2025-12-16

OS4X Release 2025-12-16 can be downloaded online from the website www.os4x.com/downloads, the OS4Xvirtual images and the Docker containers are updated.

Current changes are:

  • OS4X Core:
    • Improved: If a file is to be received whose OFTP2 cipher is unknown, the file will be rejected with a corresponding error message.
    • Improved: Negative OFTP2 acknowledgments are translated better if there were errors in decryption on the receiver side.
    • Improved: Internet security scans from „scanner.modat.io“ are now optionally no longer logged in the system log.
    • New: Grafana integration in OS4X! Finally, more stylish transfer graphs!
  • OS4X administrative web interface:
    • Improved: If the web browser is not allowed to communicate with the internet (to check for a new version), the „Possible configuration problems“ section will be displayed after a 15-second timeout.
    • Improved: The automatically generated OFTP2 parameter sheet is no longer an iframe, but fully integrated.
    • Improved: The included SSH client „PuTTY“ has been updated to the latest version.
    • Improved: The integrated database administration software „phpMyAdmin“ has been updated and optimally configured.
    • Improved: The list of unsupported operating systems has been updated.
  • OS4X Portal:
    • New: A new feature for displaying expiring portal users (who haven’t logged in for a long time) is available.
  • OS4X AS2:
    • Fixed: The init script for stopping and starting the daemon has been updated.
  • OS4X Docker image:
    • Improved: The verification of the dependency on the database server has been improved by no longer checking the certificate validity of TLS-secured connections.
  • OS4X Enterprise:
    • New: A password rule for newly assigned passwords in OS4X Webaccess can be defined!
    • Improved: Emails sent via plugins are now also stored in the database if they are larger than 64kB.
    • Improved: Additional separators for XPath expressions in plugin configurations: the characters „!“ and „@“ were added.
    • Korrigiert: A final line break in the mail plugin eliminates unnecessary log messages.
  • OS4X Webaccess:
    • Improved: The input field for multi-factor authentication provides better support for users when copying and pasting.
    • Improved: For new send jobs, the cancel button for background cancellations is now highlighted in red.
    • Improved: If no language can be identified, the default language is now English (no longer German).
    • Improved: The website title is now „OS4X Webaccess“, without the version number „6“.
  • OS4X Fetch Queue:
    • Improved: The escaping of source paths (especially in SFTP) containing spaces has been improved.
    • Improved: Hanging processes are detected and eliminated, ensuring that no FetchQ entry is missed.

As the latest version of OS4X available, we recommend to update to this version as fast as possible.