// filex Linux

Resilient transfers. A dropped connection no longer kills your transfer - filex now reconnects on its own and picks up where it left off.

What's new

- Reconnect + resume. If the link drops mid-transfer (Wi-Fi blip, peer restart, a brief network hiccup) filex re-establishes it on the same code, retrying for up to 60 seconds, and recovers the file in flight. Unencrypted files resume from where they stopped; password-locked files restart (the cipher can't resume mid-stream). Works for both one-shot sends and shared rooms - in a room the queue and the room itself survive the drop too. - Minimize fix. Minimizing the window during a transfer no longer wastes a CPU core (and could crash on some GPUs). Transfers always run on background threads, so they keep going regardless of the window. - Polish. The title bar is now tinted to match the app instead of a bright OS-default strip; the taskbar flashes when a transfer finishes while filex is in the background; room transfers show live speed and ETA; and the can't-connect message now points you at the STUN / TURN settings to fix it.

Same as before: unzip and run filex.exe (the k-engine.org relay is password-gated for friends, so for your own use run the server build and point the Server field at it). A macOS (Apple Silicon) build lands with this release too — unzip and drag filex.app to Applications; it's unsigned, so right-click → Open the first time. Linux builds and code signing are still on the way.

First run on Windows. The builds aren't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn "Windows protected your PC." Click More info -> Run anyway. To be sure you got the real file, verify its SHA-256 against the hash listed above:

Get-FileHash .\filex-client-1.1.0-win64.zip -Algorithm SHA256

First public release. Windows builds for now — macOS and Linux will be added under this entry once they're cut.

Client — unzip and run filex.exe (keep the bundled DLLs alongside it). The default relay (k-engine.org) is password-gated for friends, so to use filex yourself, run the server build below and point the client's Server field at it (ws://your-host:8080). Then drag a file in, share the code or a filex:// link, done. Shared rooms, per-file passwords, live speed/ETA, and a STUN/TURN panel for strict NATs are all in there.

Server — filex-signal.exe runs your own relay (filex-signal.exe 8080, or point it at a config file). Only the handshake passes through it, so its bandwidth stays tiny no matter the file size.

Windows may flag the unsigned binaries ("Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway). Signed builds are coming.