Web Manager improvements ​

SFTPPlus 5.18.0 introduces a significantly improved Web Manager experience.

• You can now browse and select filesystem paths directly from the interface when configuring source, destination, or archive locations for transfers.
• A new test capability lets you validate configuration changes for protocols, locations, and resources before committing them, reducing the risk of disruption.
• Cloud and network storage support was extended: both SMB and Azure File locations can now list available shares, simplifying setup in heterogeneous environments.

Oracle Database file transfers ​

• This release adds the oracle-db location, enabling file-style transfers where content is stored as rows inside Oracle Database tables.

Client-shell command line tool enhancements ​

• The client-shell command line tool can load location definitions directly from the main configuration file for easier scripting.
• The interactive client-shell CLI now supports in-line editing and a session command history.

Security and Reliability Fixes ​

• A defect affecting the security policy that blocks source IPs after multiple authentication failures was corrected, restoring the intended protection behavior.
• A defect was fixed for SSH key exchange process: RSA host keys signed with SHA256 or SHA512 now work correctly with a broad set of modern diffie-hellman-group\* and diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithms. Previously, these combinations could fail with packet length or invalid signature errors due to inadvertent SHA1 usage.
• You can define multiple security policies and assign them to different file transfer protocols, allowing granular control over access behavior.
• Source IPs can be blocked immediately on connection, not only during authentication, and blocked IPs are now visible and manageable from the Web Manager.

You can check the full release notes here.