* New backends
* [Citrix Sharefile](/sharefile) (Nick Craig-Wood)
* [Chunker](/chunker) - an overlay backend to split files into smaller parts (Ivan Andreev)
* [Mail.ru Cloud](/mailru) (Ivan Andreev)
* New Features
* encodings (Fabian Möller & Nick Craig-Wood)
* All backends now use file name encoding to ensure any file name can be written to any backend.
* See the [restricted file name docs](/overview/#restricted-filenames) for more info and the [local backend docs](/local/#filenames).
* Some file names may look different in rclone if you are using any control characters in names or [unicode FULLWIDTH symbols](
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms_(Unicode_block)).
* build
* Update to use go1.13 for the build (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Drop support for go1.9 (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Build rclone with GitHub actions (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Convert python scripts to python3 (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Swap Azure/go-ansiterm for mattn/go-colorable (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Dockerfile fixes (Matei David)
* Add [plugin support](
https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#writing-a-plugin) for backends and commands (Richard Patel)
* config
* Use alternating Red/Green in config to make more obvious (Nick Craig-Wood)
* contrib
* Add sample DLNA server Docker Compose manifest. (pataquets)
* Add sample WebDAV server Docker Compose manifest. (pataquets)
* copyurl
* Add `--auto-filename` flag for using file name from URL in destination path (Denis)
* serve dlna:
* Many compatability improvements (Dan Walters)
* Support for external srt subtitles (Dan Walters)
* rc
* Added command core/quit (Saksham Khanna)
* Bug Fixes
* sync
* Make `--update`/`-u` not transfer files that haven't changed (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Free objects after they come out of the transfer pipe to save memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix `--files-from without --no-traverse` doing a recursive scan (Nick Craig-Wood)
* operations
* Fix accounting for server side copies (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Display 'All duplicates removed' only if dedupe successful (Sezal Agrawal)
* Display 'Deleted X extra copies' only if dedupe successful (Sezal Agrawal)
* accounting
* Only allow up to 100 completed transfers in the accounting list to save memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Cull the old time ranges when possible to save memory (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix panic due to server-side copy fallback (Ivan Andreev)
* Fix memory leak noticeable for transfers of large numbers of objects (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix total duration calculation (Nick Craig-Wood)
* cmd
* Fix environment variables not setting command line flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Make autocomplete compatible with bash's posix mode for macOS (Danil Semelenov)
* Make `--progress` work in git bash on Windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix 'compopt: command not found' on autocomplete on macOS (Danil Semelenov)
* config
* Fix setting of non top level flags from environment variables (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Check config names more carefully and report errors (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Remove error: can't use `--size-only` and `--ignore-size` together. (Nick Craig-Wood)
* filter: Prevent mixing options when `--files-from` is in use (Michele Caci)
* serve sftp: Fix crash on unsupported operations (eg Readlink) (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Mount
* Allow files of unkown size to be read properly (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Skip tests on <= 2 CPUs to avoid lockup (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix panic on File.Open (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix "mount_fusefs: -o timeout=: option not supported" on FreeBSD (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Don't pass huge filenames (>4k) to FUSE as it can't cope (Nick Craig-Wood)
* VFS
* Add flag `--vfs-case-insensitive` for windows/macOS mounts (Ivan Andreev)
* Make objects of unknown size readable through the VFS (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Move writeback of dirty data out of close() method into its own method (FlushWrites) and remove close() call from Flush() (Brett Dutro)
* Stop empty dirs disappearing when renamed on bucket based remotes (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Stop change notify polling clearing so much of the directory cache (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Azure Blob
* Disable logging to the Windows event log (Nick Craig-Wood)
* B2
* Remove `unverified:` prefix on sha1 to improve interop (eg with CyberDuck) (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Box
* Add options to get access token via JWT auth (David)
* Drive
* Disable HTTP/2 by default to work around INTERNAL_ERROR problems (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Make sure that drive root ID is always canonical (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix `--drive-shared-with-me` from the root with lsand `--fast-list` (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix ChangeNotify polling for shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix change notify polling when using appDataFolder (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Dropbox
* Make disallowed filenames errors not retry (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix nil pointer exception on restricted files (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fichier
* Fix accessing files > 2GB on 32 bit systems (Nick Craig-Wood)
* FTP
* Allow disabling EPSV mode (Jon Fautley)
* HTTP
* HEAD directory entries in parallel to speedup (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Add `--http-no-head` to stop rclone doing HEAD in listings (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Putio
* Add ability to resume uploads (Cenk Alti)
* S3
* Fix signature v2_auth headers (Anthony Rusdi)
* Fix encoding for control characters (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Only ask for URL encoded directory listings if we need them on Ceph (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Add option for multipart failiure behaviour (Aleksandar Jankovic)
* Support for multipart copy (庄天翼)
* Fix nil pointer reference if no metadata returned for object (Nick Craig-Wood)
* SFTP
* Fix `--sftp-ask-password` trying to contact the ssh agent (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Fix hashes of files with backslashes (Nick Craig-Wood)
* Include more ciphers with `--sftp-use-insecure-cipher` (Carlos Ferreyra)
* WebDAV
* Parse and return Sharepoint error response (Henning Surmeier)