• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #916 view cbz manga/comics in the browser (thx @Scotsguy!) 8ef6dda
• #845 users/groups can be subtracted from a broader access grant b4fda5f
  • for example *,-@acct hides a volume from everyone who's logged in
• reflink dedup is now available in most python versions, not just 3.14 and newer f2caab6
  • much better and safer than symlink/hardlink-based dedup, but only works with a few filesystems
• #905 option to magnify images/videos to fill the screen 66dc8b5
• #921 #685 xm hooks can see the selected files (thx @carson-coder!) 6c024db 3364448
• #927 textfiles can now be viewed with the ?doc= suffix with just the g permission dbb7870
• #742 new volflag nodupem to prevent dupes from being moved into a volume; the stronger alternative to nodupe which only prevents uploads f55d834
• audioplayer: show embedded coverart as fallback for cover.jpg in OS widgets 9746b4e
• #928 option to hide certain ui-elements, either with volflags or url-params 98da5cc
• #911 users can now avoid autoban according to permissions 6f02812
• verbosity and permssion options for ?stack 677fd8e
  • default is now admin-only; previously it was "admin or read+write"

🩹 bugfixes

• #914 ftp-server: resuming interrupted uploads (thx @Audionut!) 33b0cd5
• race-the-beam didn't work in non-toplevel shares d9cd7ec

🔧 other changes

• #904 new example hook wget-i.py; import-safe fork of wget.py dbd8f83
• hide the search-ui while viewing a share because searching in shares is not possible cca1f9b
• config-parser now prevents invalid values for the lifetime volflag 5d96862
• translations are now separate files instead of all chilling inside browser.js d099e5e d6433b7 a7840be a7cdc5d 9808694 a85ad20 c2e03bf b9d7ede 5a29df6 52446bb bb166c9 0fa862e 6de6aa4 748aaa9 07ace41 b61b910 28b9323 14bd4cf 50109f7 3b009d9 f5425a8 5232ce6 02ba9ea ff01723 d099e5e

🌠 fun facts

• looks like i'll be in Japan november 7～26 and then at CCC for newyears!
  • wait, I never made stickers... orz

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• hooks got some nice upgrades
  • add flag I to run in-process for a 140x speed boost 41ed559
    • bring your own safeguards (if an I hook has a bug then it can deadlock copyparty)
    • (this is where the releasetitle came from btw)
  • add flag s to send info on stdin instead of argv 4542ad3
  • new hook: reject uploads into ramdisks (granular alternative to wram) efd19af
    • will be default-enabled in the bootable copyparty flashdrive image
• show media-tags inside shares 50276c0
• #881 manga-mode (RTL) for the image viewer (thx @Scotsguy!) dacc64d
• #872 combining chpw and IdP-auth is now supported 3f59710
• #854 auto-incrementing counters for batch-rename d05a88d 76e9f23
• #882 change to volume-specific favicon on navigation 2ce32e4
• #884 option to turn the servername into a link (thx @Morganamilo!) 38cc809 9b7f933
• rss: add option to not embed pw into feed 73ec2d2
• cbz and epub files can become folder-thumbnails eb173be

🩹 bugfixes

• web-ui: only show generic http errors if nothing better is available 0453b7a
• #860 epub-thumbnailer errors are less noisy now 4177c1d
• the ui-filesz option can have a trailing hyphen now 2248705
• hide "create share" button while inside a share c5f1229

🔧 other changes

• #460 example config for running the podman images as a systemd service (thx @danloveg!) 7fc379a
• #886 nixos: option to specify unix-user/group to run as (thx @2Kaleb!) 31f1b53
• #895 mention the ?v suffix to open mediafiles in the mediaplayer f8e1981
• ignore 403s from /favicon.png (samsung-android)
• docker: shrink the min image from 45 to 33 MiB a8f53d5
• #887 add missing entries in --licenses 805a705
• #887 various vendored python libraries can now be ripped out and replaced with system-libs:
  • ifaddr 656f0a6
  • dnslib 39bd4e5
  • qrcodegen 08ebb0b
  • surrogateescape aace711

🌠 fun facts

• today's genre is Techcore (a subgenre of J-core (a subgenre of UKHC))
  • FULLBURST by ぱらどっと is an excellent example
  • omake: speedrun through 18 other genres (pick your favorite)

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #184 add various human-readable formats for filesizes 234edde
• search for files by their identifier ("wark"/checksum) 4e38e40
  • and those are displayed in file-listings now too 456addf
• PUT-upload with header Replace will overwrite any existing files 397ed56
• xbu/xau hooks can reject uploads with a custom message df0fa9d
• #855 mDNS options to change the announced http/https port a3d9506
• #473 #383 custom favicons per-volume (.ico/png/gif/svg) 470b504
  • doesn't seem to work in internet explorer... ah whatever, go next

🩹 bugfixes

• #849 create IdP-db for --idp-store when necessary 80ca785
• #859 cbz-thumbnailing had an accidental dependency on FFmpeg 983865d
• docs: misleading markdown-expansion example e187df2

🔧 other changes

• #851 show a huge warning when copyparty accidentally detects a failing HDD and/or filesystem-corruption during indexing 6912e86 eb5d767
• #870 improved discord video embeds (thx @tsuza!) f0ecb08
• #858 prefer reflinks (not hardlinks) in the -ss security option 57650a2
• improved controlpanel action-buttons layout 9f46e4d

🌠 fun facts

• includes (a tiny bit of) code written at koie ramen
• according to Biltema, september is an excellent time to start decorating for xmas

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #779 add OPDS support (thx @Scotsguy!) 6dbd990
  • copyparty can now serve books for KOReader
  • the mandatory soundtrack
• #786 add Turkish translation (thx @NandeMD!) 549fe33
• #808 support reading config-files in UTF8-BOM 5e4ff90
• make more http-errors return a friendly errortext rather than the scary wall of html 9d06641

🩹 bugfixes

• #842 could not navpane into webroot if webroot is unmapped 0941fd4
• upload-resume becomes funky when the OS/network is overloaded to the point where it starts dropping connections left and right -- the issue was reported on discord and I don't have a good way to reproduce it, but these changes may help and/or fix it:
  • b136a5b panic and drop chunk reservations if client or connection glitches out
  • 38df223 also drop reservations if subchunk logic hits an edgecase

🔧 other changes

• versus.md tweaks:
  • #840 tooltips in the table headers (thx @guano!) e9ca36f
  • #839 sftpgo updates (thx @augustanational!) a053a66

🌠 fun facts

• this release is identical to v1.19.13 except the pypi package isn't messed up 👉😎👉
  • as if the 13 wasn't foreshadowing enough

⚠️ not the latest version!

v1.19.13

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #787 add Esperanto translation (thx @slashdevslashurandom!) 15d3c2f
• #802 timezone can be specified for the rotf upload rule (thx @Lehmustus!) 1460fe9

🩹 bugfixes

• #837 sharing an entire HDD on Windows (v1.19.9 regression) 6a24432
  • sharing your whole 【Dドライブ】 is once again possible
    • TLNote: Dドライブ means "D:\ drive"
    • if you can't upgrade, a workaround is global-option casechk: n
• /?ls on an unmapped root didn't give a sensible response; now it should be okay except it won't have a cfg field 8f6194f

🔧 other changes

• #836 hide the unpost tab in folders where user has no write-access ca872c4
• #835 fix webdep buildscript to avoid an edgecase on some platforms (thx @25huizengek1!) 260da2f

🌠 fun facts

• the esperanto translation was the final straw; copyparty-sfx.py is now 1 MiB large
  • copyparty-en.py is still a comfy 759 KiB

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🩹 bugfixes

• #827 ftp on servers with unmapped root broke in v1.19.9 280815f

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• prevent uploading into ramdisks by default 59a0122 538a205
  • safeguard against misconfigured docker containers, where certain parts of the vfs has not been mapped to actual storage, for example /w/music is but /w/ itself isn't
  • can be disabled with wram (global-option and/or volflag), mainly for ephemeral servers
• #799 nixos: groups can be specified (thx @AnyTimeTraveler!) ee5f319
• the logspam from the filesystem indexer can be reduced/disabled 478f1c7
  • new options scan-st-r, scan-pr-r, scan-pr-s

🩹 bugfixes

• #809 medialinks (#af-badf00d) would fail on the very first pageload from a new browser 5996a58
• #806 instructions for running on iOS was bad (thx @GhelloZ!) 35326a6

🔧 other changes

• copyparty32.exe is now english-only, to save space 669b107
• version info on startup indicates free-threading or not 6559152
• docs: explain the daw option better a043d7c

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #781 case-sensitive behavior is now simulated on Windows/Macos/Fat32/NTFS 8b66874
  • avoids some of the scary issues associated with case-insensitive filesystems
  • unfortunately this is expensive and may be noticeably slower in large folders; disable the safeguard with casechk: n if you know you don't need it
• #789 case-insensitive search for unicode filenames/paths (thx @km-clay!) e2aa8fc ecd18ad
  • default-disabled because it is somewhat expensive; enable with global-option srch-icase
• CB-1 add --qr-stdout and --qr-stderr to show qr-code even with -q d7887f3

🩹 bugfixes

• #775 the basic-uploader didn't accept empty files 25749b4
• opt-out from index.html with ?v did not work as documented 3d09bec
• Windows: dedup could get rejected by the filesystem if the origin file had a timestamp from the cambrian era e09f3c9
• webdav would incorrectly return an error for Depth:0 on an unmapped root 3a2381f
• markdown-editor would waste another http roundtrip on certain documents 14b7e51
• --help didn't render if terminal was non-UTF8 3f45492

🔧 other changes

• #788 fixed a hotkey typo in the imageviewer (thx @tkroo!) 5c1a43c
• #778 improved polish translation (thx @daimond113!) 52438bc
• #798 debian: fixed an issue in the systemd script (thx @Beethoven-n, and congrats on commit number 4000!) dfd9e00
• media-tag conductor is no longer mapped to circle (album-artist) 9c9e405
• "download-selection-as-zip" now produces a better filename, sel-FOLDERNAME.zip instead of FIRSTFILE.zip 8f58762
• detect and warn if IdP volumes are misconfigured in a particular way 83bd197

🌠 fun facts

• the themesong of this release is KO3 - Give it up? because that's what the car mechanic got to enjoy when i forgot to unplug the flashdrive before handing in the shitbox for service

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-09-07)

⚠️ ATTN: this release fixes CVE-2025-58753, an issue with shares

• when a share is created for just one or more files inside a folder, it was possible to access the other files inside that folder by guessing the filenames
• it was not possible to descend into subdirectories in this manner; only the sibling files were accessible
• NOTE: this does NOT affect filekeys; this is specifically regarding the shr global-option

recent important news

• v1.19.8 (2025-09-07) fixed CVE-2025-58753 (a missing permission-check inside single-file shares)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #761 IdP: option to replace the login/logout links and buttons with redirects into an IdP UI 09f2299
• #726 disk-usage and server-version can be selectively hidden according to user permissions 19a4c45
• option --shr-who / volflag shr_who decides who is able to create a share of that volume edafa15
• #751 nixos: add globalExtraConfig to specify repeatable config parameters (thx @xvrqt!) 09e3018
• some very small speedups (mainly u2c and ancient python versions) 74821a3
• #759 #393 total folder size now decreases when files inside are deleted 96b109b
  • would previously require a reindex to get back on track

🩹 bugfixes

• fix GHSA-pxvw-4w88-6x95 by fencing fileshares to just the shared files e0a92ba
• #397 prevent hinting at valid passwords, even if they cannot be used to authenticate with 7a4ee4d
• #747 disable some features if /tmp must be used for runtime config e6755aa
  • the config-folder will now also be created with chmod 700 (accessible by owner only)
• #733 #298 fix hotkeys on non-qwerty keyboard layouts (dvorak etc.) e798a9a
• #539 ftp-server: support clients which never does a CWD b049631
• ignore the plaintext session-cookie on https; fixes some confusing behavior when switching from https to http c71128f
• og-ua would prevent clients matching the pattern from accessing fullsize files
• og-ua was only possible to set globally; the og_ua volflag was ignored 422f8f6
• uds / unix-domain-sockets got wrong permissions when rm-sck was used e270fe6
• #727 macos: support running from config-files 230a146
• #539 avoid issues if someone uploads a file with a last-modified timestamp from year -9999999999999 eeb7738
• using the spacebar to pause a video was jank on chrome bfcb6ea
• block the next-song hotkey while a folder is loading f7e08ed
• #748 fix rare js-panic when an action is aborted aaeec11
• #738 bubbleparty: use /bin/bash (thx @ckastner!) 0469b5a

🔧 other changes

• partyfuse: nice speedup by caching readdir too 06d2654
• partyfuse: explain usage with usernames 1cdb388
• connect-page: better examples when usernames enabled 3bdef75
• docker: fix image annotations ab56238

🌠 fun facts

• konami's biggest legacy lives on f0caf88 bd6d1f9

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• new option chdir to change the PWD (process working-directory) before volumes are mapped 14555d5

🩹 bugfixes

• fix using empty folders as statefile storage (v1.19.6 made this a bit too strict) 0d96786
• holding I/K to scroll through folders quickly now works better 914686e

🔧 other changes

• #717 docker: fix the image repo metadata (thx @EmilyxFox!) 6f08711
• docker: change $HOME to /state 01cf20a d1f7522
  • and use the new chdir option to preserve old config-file semantics 14555d5
  • helps avoid statefiles accidentally landing in /w as a consequence of misconfiguration

🌠 fun facts

• this release was made at RevSpace NL

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #673 add Portuguese translation (thx anonymous!) 4b8c221
  • ...and enable the Polish translation (whoops) 8f235be
• #689 add option to control authentication priority/precedence 543b7ea
• url-parameter ?dl forces file download instead of displaying in-browser 48d6224
• #533 more ways to make the QR-code always-visible in the console 2848941
• #695 option to log invalid xml from clients 28b93d7
• #552 configurable markdown newline behavior 0491123
  • and tweak the styling of monospace in links 6850344

🩹 bugfixes

• #628 FTP-server now accepts connections from IPv6 link-local addresses 978801d
• incorrect assumption that all IPv6 link-local addresses start with fe80 d39c74c
• ftp: fix file rename d40f061
• u2c: couldn't upload files located at the very top of the unix file hierarchy 599e82f
• #699 markdown-editor: fix panic if the table-formatter is executed on something that isn't a table 4c042b3

🔧 other changes

• #696 a volume can be one single file, not just folders aa1c921
• #442 strongly prefer XDG_CONFIG_HOME as config location 3547255
• #691 album-art collected from audio-files can now become folder thumbnails 0b50fde
• allow spaces in more of the comma-separated options d30240b
• docs:
  • mention config requirements for syncing folders with u2c 6cd0a39 59f142c

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #328 run copyparty on iPhones; see install on iOS in the readme ca98d54
  • cannot run in the background, doesn't have full access to your files, and is slightly buggy, but it works
  • running on android gives you a much better experience
• save the qr-code to a file (txt/svg/png) 202ddea

🩹 bugfixes

• #661 fix incorrect rproxy hint in the logs 6c76614
• #649 fix js-crash when tapping in the exactly correct place (thx @hahaslav for debugging!) 0de07d8
• #628 ftpd: fix banning IPv6 clients 6d76254

🔧 other changes

• #296 nixos: support non-flake setups (thx @Sorixelle!) 20ef74c 3259367
• config-parser catches and explains a few more common mistakes cc65b1b
• docs:
  • #490, #199: readme: confirm that combining copyparty and syncthing is safe c51371c
  • #377 improved authelia docker example (thx @xFuture603!) cd8771f
  • mention the homebrew formulae f9cb2c1
  • #651 versus.md: fix hfs3 comparison (thx @rejetto!) 7a4973f

⚠️ not the latest version!

this release is a hotfix for #624; v1.19.2 broke volumes defined in config files

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

ℹ️ this upgrade is a one-way ticket

• your up2k database (.hist/up2k.db), used by the e2d filesystem indexing feature, will be upgraded to a new format which older copyparty versions cannot read. A backup of each database will be created automatically, named up2k.db.bak.SOMETHING.v5. If you need to downgrade to a previous version: Shutdown copyparty, delete these files: up2k.db up2k.db-shm up2k.db-wal and then copy up2k.db.bak.*.v5 to up2k.db

🧪 new features

• new translations:
  • #551 Swedish (thx @Bevinsky!) d676a86
  • #551 Korean (thx @nyqui!) 4e878d2
• #581 new theme: phi95 (thx @varphi-online!) d8662ae
• #567 .raw image thumbnails (thx @ar-nelson!) 0177a9b
  • available in docker-images iv and dj
• #561 epub thumbnails (thx @Scotsguy!) 9435e6b
• #252 music thumbnails use embdded coverart if available 98d117b
  • thumbnails folder .hist/th must be deleted to take effect
• #530 show username of uploaders in file listings; requires a (admin) permission 4df033e
• #604 a new group @acct which automatically contains all known usernames 68907ea
• controlpanel has a dedicated "logout all sessions" button, similar to the logout-link in the browser f4a3fba
• #397 accounts can be restricted to certian IPs 62e072a
• #504 automatic login through tailscale auth a4649d1
• #533 sticky qr-code with --qr-pin 1 1ebe06f
• #572 button to abort copy/move 715d374
• #618 "download selected files" didn't work on firefox 52 (winxp) dcc6b1b
• max number of cookies to allow can be configured 6303eff
  • good if you have too many selfhosted services on one domain (but will beware of the spec-mandataed max length of the cookie field!)

🩹 bugfixes

• fix xvol/xdev edgecases:
  • #603 rootless vfs 554cc2f
  • false-positive with overlapping volumes d9046f7
• #573 ftp: attempting an upload into read-only folder no longer kills the connection 3aa8b7a
• #306 adjust navpane for --rp-loc (location-based proxying)
• #556 more sensible config expansion order f4727f8
  • #624 ...which broke things bf1fdca
• the video player now stays fullscreen between videos 782e2f1
• heif thumbnailing with libvips

🔧 other changes

• #253 build nix-packages from source (thx @toast003, @chinponya!) 187cae2
• #616 logfiles will have a plaintext severity column if --no-ansi d4cf42e
• #598 separate option --ac-convt for audio transcoding timeout d562305
• #596 users with a blank password gets a strong random-generated one 7f44875
• copyparty.exe: upgrade to python 3.13.7

⚠️ not the latest version!

v1.19.3

v1.19.2

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• new translations:
  • #486 French (thx @Tr3yWay996, @Packingdustry, @Alee14, @jakubiakfr, @Equinoxs!) e9ddfcc 7aa2148 b87f8f1
  • #463 Polish (thx @pufereq and @daimond113!) 392a4db
  • #537 Nynorsk (thx @chinatsu!) 3931bc2
• #549 custom mdns domain 3c78c6a

🩹 bugfixes

• #539 FTP glitches when running on windows 8ba9887
• #555 global-config didn't load through PRTY_CONFIG (thx @icxes!) 074e106
• macos: could take a while to establish webdav connection from finder a01870b
• ux:
  • dropdown colors 347cf6a
  • case-sensitivity in filters e5e8229
  • iOS being too enthusiastic about using saved passwords 03acd65

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #511 login with username and password (not just password) can now optionally be enabled with --usernames 346515c
  • if you have enabled password hashing (ah-alg: argon2 or similar) then you will need to hash your passwords again after enabling usernames, hashing them as username:password:
• #468 add Greek translation (thx @chamdim!) 50f4618 392abd0
• #471 add Czech translation (thx @kubakubakuba!) c955658
• #515 support systemd socket acivation (thx @mati1210!) 9b9d2a9
• #523 add QR-code to the connectpage bcc3b15
• #513 optional EOL-conversion for texteditor 8b31ed8
• controlpanel refresh-button now toggles automatic refresh 7ae84de

🩹 bugfixes

• fix stuck uploads when the up2k database (e2d) is not enabled 4a04356
  • if more than 60'000 files were uploaded and there were several dupes of some files, they could get stuck and never upload
  • upload performance is improved remarkably by enabling e2d so such huge uploads non-e2d had not been tested in a long time
• #467 #470 fix ui-crash when exporting links of all uploaded files to clipboard (thx @geekalaa!) 0df1901
• #487 fix ui-crash when the location url-part is // 0f55a1a
• fix viewing .MD files (8a0746c)

🔧 other changes

• when a reverse-proxy is detected, force explicit configuration of --rproxy to obtain correct client IP 3f8cb7e
  • a bit inconvenient, but helps prevent potentially-dangerous misconfiguration
  • the necessary configuration changes are explained in the serverlog (you can't miss it)
  • thanks to @person4268 for pointing out that there was room for improvements!
• failed login attempts now only log a sha512 hash of the provided password
  • to see login-attempts with incorrect passwords as plaintext like before, log-badpwd: 1
• #502 add systemd user services and templated services (thx @icxes!) 34d98e9
• #475 improve helptext for multivalue global-options c2ac57a
• #475 add chungus.conf, massive extensive nonsensical demo config b664ebb
• try to detect proxies with incorrect caching behavior 9e980bb
• recent-uploads now support ie9 a57f7cc
• languages and themes are now dropdowns a9ee4f2
• copyparty.exe: upgrade python to 3.13.6 a98360f
• introduce copyparty-en.py, english-only edition of copyparty-sfx.py to save space 33497e6

🗿 known issues

• the copyparty.pyz in this release is english-only, and does not include the translations -- they got lost in transit while adjusting the buildscripts to make copyparty-en.py

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) (PREVIOUS RELEASE) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #426 add Dutch translation (thx @DeStilleGast!) 3798e19
• #458 add Italian translation (thx @AOTREVAI!) a38e6e6
• #456 transcode to flac/wav (thx @missaustraliana!) b469db3 b2d48c6 0d09fb6
• #439 config-file can be provided through PRTY_CONFIG (thx @icxes!) 971360e
• #459 videos can become folder thumbnails 16bbcce
• add --idp-cookie, session-tickets for IdP auth (performance boost) f9502c3
  • useful when the IdP-server becomes a bottleneck

🩹 bugfixes

• #412 fix PUT-uploads into volumes with nosub volflag 47fa4a9
• #435 ignore spurious exceptions from browser extensions 39e5582
• #449 IPv6 QR-Code didn't include port 66a5bf3
• #295 do not force d2d in blank vfs (introduced in v1.18.3) 848315c

🔧 other changes

• #440 improved finnish translation (thx @icxes!) a68d5b0
• point to the -nc option in the "at max connections" warning 153d240
• the play-button now indicates "play-as-audio" for video-files 40d56bb
• docs:
  • #411 improve password-hashing instructions (thx @chinponya!) c69c7c8
  • #429 improve --cert helptext (thx @kzshantonu!) 7e3825f
  • #413 copyparty is Wii Internet Channel compatible! (thx @techflashYT!) 50f1629
  • #461 how to use groups without IdP e85a710
  • mention that WebDAV and OpenGraph are incompatible by default (and how to fix that) 0bc1b8f
  • #345 short explanation about the sfx in quickstart ae5eefc
• #398 pypi-package now has extra-group all 6eaf8af

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

⚠️ ATTN: this release fixes a Denial-of-Service vuln

CVE-2025-54796: an unauthenticated user could make the server grind to a halt by accessing a particular URL

recent important news

• v1.18.9 (2025-08-01) fixed CVE-2025-54796 (Denial-of-Service)
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #310 translated to Spanish (thx @herruzo99!) a1dfd0b
• #350 translated to Ukrainian (thx @MrMebelMan!) fea45e4
• #321 translated to Russian (thx @A1Asriel!) 0b05c72
• #381 translated to Finnish (thx @icxes and @Permik!) 7ecedb2
  • haha it says surf
• #312 add option to use localtime in the UI ad23b25
• #386 initial packaging for debian (thx @Beethoven-n!) 3c6f0b1

🩹 bugfixes

• CVE-2025-54796 / GHSA-5662-2rj7-f2v6 09910ba
• #347 fix upload-abort when uploading to a share 6d6d79f
• fix xiu backlog dropping on restart 3222ba3
• #375 fix crash on really old versions of python2.7 (thx @bb!) b69d590
• #388 another python2.7 fix: improve unicode support in u2c (thx @KevinXuxuxu!) 9c19753
• log creator of new/blank markdown docs d0d2f20
• #400 config didn't support indenting with tabs c160428

🔧 other changes

• ack was changed to continue 4fa7be2

🌠 fun facts

• the translations have made the sfx size balloon from 766 to 845 KiB in under a week... nice! keep em coming 🎉

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-28)

recent important news

• v1.18.7 (2025-07-30) (PREVIOUS RELEASE) fixed XSS in the recent-uploads page
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🩹 bugfixes

• #354 fix copyparty-sfx.py failing to start on certain versions of python c17ce48

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-30)

⚠️ ATTN: this release fixes an XSS vulnerability

GHSA-8mx2-rjh8-q3jq, could let an attacker execute arbitrary JS by tricking you into clicking a malicious URL

Soon there won't be many of these left, surely. Huge thanks to @Ju0x for finding and reporting this.

recent important news

• v1.18.7 (2025-07-30) fixed XSS in the recent-uploads page
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #265 uid/gid for new files can be configured per-volume f195998
  • has preconditions; see readme
• #212 add German translation (thx @rGunti, @Scotsguy, @chocolateimage) 9d32564

🩹 bugfixes

• GHSA-8mx2-rjh8-q3jq a8705e6
• #276 windows: fix segfault (thx @kernel1994 for debugging!) a9d07c6
• #272 webdav: send disk-size and disk-free to clients 4988a55
• #285 use disk-free sans root-reserve on linux (thx @Arklaum!) c3cc2dd
• cors-check was funky on IPv6 e9684d4
• #325 upgrade sharex example for newer versions 6016ec9
• #300 restore support for old versions of python 2.7 b7ca6f4

🔧 other changes

• shares: the config POST-target is now always the webroot (for ease of IdP configuration) fb7cbc4
• unlist: now applies to the navpane too fbf17be
• windows: show disk-usage as well, not just disk-free 5c6341e
• #228 nix-pkg improvements (thx @dtomvan!) 4915b14
• docker-compose: ensure logs appear in realtime 3cde1f3
• mention that IdP-volumes and users can now be persisted 6069bc9
• #316 explain a scary-looking thing in the code 053de61

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-28)

recent important news

• v1.18.5 (2025-07-28) (PREVIOUS RELEASE) fixed XSS in display of media tags
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #201 add support for reflink-based dedup on cow filesystems df9feab
  • combine --dedup with --reflink to enable, or volflags with same name
  • a better and safer alternative to the other dedup approaches (symlink/hardlink), but only possible to use in some cases:
    • needs linux 5.3 or newer, python 3.14 or newer, btrfs/xfs/zfs
    • not available in the docker images yet; needs a new version of python, so maybe next alpine release (november/december 2025)
• ratelimit password changes to impede bruteforcing a2601fd
  • limit is set by --ban-pwc (default is 5 changes in 60min)

🩹 bugfixes

• #240 nixos: fix unixgroups issue (thx @chinponya!) 7c9c962
• #246 cbz: use correct page for thumbnail (thx @Scotsguy!) 542a1de

🔧 other changes

• volflag nosub now also prevents mkdir 0f2c623
• improve documentation:
  • #229 use the same example UDS path everywhere cb019af
  • example nginx config had misleading cloudflare comment (thx @jmi2k!) 674fc1f
  • more readable --help-chmod 03d23da
  • #244 fix typo in --help 4f013f6
• #242 hide "use real pw" on connectpage if no accounts (thx @toast003!) 025942a
• #211 docker: remove deprecated attribute (thx @ptweezy!) 5b98e10
• #190 add the feature-showcase video to the readme (thx @RustoMCSpit!) 43e6da3

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-07-28)

⚠️ ATTN: this release fixes an XSS vulnerability

GHSA-9q4r-x2hj-jmvr, exploitable in two different ways, could let an attacker execute arbitrary javascript on other users:

• either: tricking someone into clicking a malicious URL to load and execute javascript
• or: uploading a malicious audio file to the server, affecting any successive visitors

so, with new and curious eyes on the project, we are starting off with a bang. Huge thanks to @altperfect for finding and reporting this earlier today.

recent important news

• v1.18.5 (2025-07-28) fixed XSS in display of media tags
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #214 option to stop playback after one song, and/or at end of folder 6bb27e6

🩹 bugfixes

• GHSA-9q4r-x2hj-jmvr 895880a
• block external m3u files 2228f81
• #202 the connect-page could show IP-address when it should have used hostnames/domains b0dec83
• scrolling locked after tailing a file and closing it creatively d197e75

🔧 other changes

• #189 the SameSite cookie parameter now defaults to Strict, increasing CSRF protection ca6d0b8
  • new option --cookie-lax reverts to previous value Lax
• docker: add FTPS support b419984

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• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
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there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-02-25)

recent important news

• v1.16.15 (2025-02-25) fixed low-severity xss when uploading maliciously-named files
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #182 Landmarks edba7ff
  • detects that a storage backend is glitching out and disengage the up2k-database as a precaution
• #183 quickdelete 21a96bc
  • new togglebutton qdel in the UI which reduces the number of deletion confirmations by one
  • global-option --qdel=0 which can bring it all the way to zero (good luck)

🩹 bugfixes

• fix unpost in recently created shares 2d322dd
• fix filekeys on windows df6d4df

⚠️ not the latest version!

• read-only demo server at https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/
• docker image ╱ similar software ╱ client testbed

there is a discord server with an @everyone in case of future important updates, such as vulnerabilities (most recently 2025-02-25)

recent important news

• v1.16.15 (2025-02-25) fixed low-severity xss when uploading maliciously-named files
• v1.15.0 (2024-09-08) changed upload deduplication to be default-disabled
• v1.14.3 (2024-08-30) fixed a bug that was introduced in v1.13.8 (2024-08-13); this bug could lead to data loss -- see the v1.14.3 release-notes for details

🧪 new features

• #181 the default chmod (unix-permissions) of new files and folders can now be changed 9921c43
  • --chmod-d or volflag chmod_d sets directory permissions; default is 755
  • --chmod-f or volflag chmod_f sets file permissions; default is usually 644 (OS-defined)
  • see --help-chmod which explains the numbers

🩹 bugfixes

• #179 couldn't combine --shr (shares) and --xvol (symlink-guard) 0f0f8d9
• #180 gallery buttons could still be clicked when faded-out 8c32b0e
• rss-feeds were slightly busted when combined with rp-loc (location-based proxying) 56d3bcf
• music-playback within search-results no longer jumps into the next folder at end-of-list 9bc4c5d
• video-playback on iOS now behaves like on all other platforms 78605d9
  • (it would force-switch into fullscreen because that's their default)

⚠️ not the latest version!