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Current Development State

The ProFTPD source tree is managed via CVS (Concurrent Versions System). While there may be a large number of branches in the CVS tree, the actual tarball release of ProFTPD is boiled down into four flavors:
  • Production Release
    The production release is a "stable" version, most suited for conservative administrators. It is less likely to have as many features as development releases as well as less bugs.
  • Production Release (incremental patchlevel)
    Released between maintenance versions, each patchlevel will address one or more bug fixes which are slated for rollup into a new maintenance production release.
  • Development Release
    Development releases are bleeding edge version of ProFTPD, in which the latest and greatest features ("unwanted" features included) are being worked on.
  • Development Release (incremental patchlevel)
    These releases contain specific feature sets and bug fixes which are slated for an upcoming development release.

You can FTP the latest and greatest production or development release (and patchlevels) from the ProFTPD download page. Because the web site may lag slightly behind actual development work, you can finger proftpd@proftpd.org for the latest version information.

Version Numbering

ProFTPD version numbers are in the format: major.minor.maintenace[pl[patchlevel]]

Minor version numbers are odd for development releases, and even for production releases. Incremental patchlevel releases are always "later" in the source tree that the maintenance release they are based on. The RCS revision numbers found at the top of source and header files (the $Id tag) are NOT related to actual release versioning, and are handled completely by CVS without human intervention. Don't rely on them to tell you anything (unless you are a developer).

Bug Reports/Questions/Patch Tracking

All bugs reports should be submitted to proftpd-l@evcom.net. In actuality, this is a mailing list. To subscribe to the list, send a message to majordomo@evcom.net,with the phrase "subscribe proftpd-l" (w/out quotes) in the body of your message.

A searchable archive of the mailing list can be found here.

Patches (much appreciated!) or bug reports that include patches, can be sent to bugs@proftpd.org.An online patch tracking system is available at http://www.proftpd.org/cgi-bin/proftpd.You can also use this system to examine the status of all previous and/or pending patches & reported bugs.