In January 2025, we introduced exciting new features for Automations, published a connector for MuleSoft customers, and made numerous minor enhancements across the platform.

New Import Files Automation Type

You can create a new type of automation, the Import File Automation Type, which allows you to call one or more URLs and save the result as a file within your site. Use this feature to automatically download files from other websites or retrieve API payloads and save them as files. Import File Automations include options for sending custom parameters or headers, giving you full control over the requests.

Read more about Automation Types.

More Automation Retry Options

Automations will always automatically retry individual failed operations, to guard against brief interruptions in remote systems. For even more robustness, you can now configure automations to automatically retry runs that failed or partially failed.

Configure your automation to specify the number of retry attempts and the delay between them. If an automation fails, your site will re-run the entire automation. This provides protection against lengthy interruptions, even if a remote system is unreachable for multiple days. If a remote system's disk fills up on Saturday night, for example, your automation can automatically re-try each day until that server is available again on Monday.

Read more about Automations Retry Logic.

MuleSoft Connector for Files.com

The Files.com Connector for MuleSoft is available on the MuleSoft Anypoint Exchange. MuleSoft enables you to connect your Files.com site to thousands of other applications and systems. With its no-code integration capabilities, you can automate more of your business tasks and workflows

Learn more about the MuleSoft Connector.

Other Minor Updates

We're continuously improving our platform to make it even more powerful, convenient, and useful for you.

Boomi Connector Update

We've published version 141 of the Boomi Connector for Files.com. The latest version supports the "Return Application Error Responses" behavior, allowing you to catch and respond to errors within your Boomi processes. To use this feature, update the connector version in your Boomi process to v141.

Learn more about Boomi.

GPG Encryption Signing Support

The automatic GPG Encryption setting now allows you to designate a key to use for signing encrypted files. To enable signing for an existing auto-encrypt behavior, update the setting to choose any key stored within the Key Manager for the signing step.

Learn more about GPG Encryption.

Automatically Delete Disabled Users

We've added a new setting to automatically remove user accounts that have been disabled for a certain number of days. This makes life easier for site administrators that do not automatically de-provision user accounts from a directory system or identity provider. By default, the automatic deletion is not enabled, and a site administrator must change your site's user settings to activate it.

Learn more about Disabling Users.

Updates for On-Premise Agent on Windows Servers

The Files.com On-Premise Agent supports a new show_hidden_files configuration setting on Windows environments. When enabled, this setting will make hidden files on the remote Windows server visible to the Files.com site. By default, this is disabled.

Some Agent installations on Windows servers experienced frequent disconnections and reconnections, leading to high CPU usage. We've resolved this with version 2.0.29459.

We recommend updating Agents running in a Windows environment to version 2.0.2949 or higher.

Read about the Agent Configuration File and about Upgrading the Agent.

Azure Files Integration Supports Azure Government

Our Azure Files integration now supports Azure Government, a cloud platform designed for U.S. government entities that require a secure and compliant environment. To configure a connection to Azure Government, set the Azure DNS Suffix setting to core.usgovcloudapi.net.

Learn more about Azure Files.

FTP/SFTP Append and Restart on Remote Servers

Files.com now supports resuming interrupted transfers to remote servers via FTP/SFTP. This feature extends beyond FTP or SFTP remotes servers - remote server types support the append and restart operations when you are connecting to the FTP or SFTP services of your Files.com site.

No action is required to enable resume behavior, but you may need to change your FTP or SFTP client settings to automatically resume interrupted uploads.

PHP SDK Fix for Uploads to Missing Parent Folders

We've updated the PHP SDK to properly add missing parent folders when you upload files to a non-existent folder while using the mkdir_parents parameter. This fix is available starting in version v2.0.138 of the SDK.

Check out the PHP SDK on Github.

Improved Code Examples in Developer Documentation

We love developers! This month, we’ve enhanced our developer documentation by improving the code examples across all supported languages and SDKs. The updated examples are more idiomatic and ready to run, now including relevant dependency statements and sample error handling. Additionally, CLI examples have been refined to reflect the latest flags and best practices.

Check out the updated developer documentation site.

Web Interface Improvements

We've made several quality-of-life improvements to the web interface. Tables with less than 1000 records can now be sorted by any of the visible columns. Choosing a remote server or child site as the source path or destination folder in Automations is now more intuitive. Several configuration fields have been updated with clearer descriptions to better communicate their impact.