New Passkeys, OpenID Connect sign-in, and two-factor protection by default. See what is new

Updates

A new release every few months.
An update that fails puts your installation back as it was.

The latest release

FileRun 2026.3.0 arrived in September 2026, with more than 270 documented changes.
Most of the work went into protecting your accounts, your files and every connection made to your server.

Signing in

  • Passkeys: users sign in with a fingerprint, a face, a device PIN or a USB security key.
  • A second factor is on by default. FileRun e-mails a code, so the protection does not wait for every user to set up an authenticator app.
  • OpenID Connect, for Keycloak, Authentik, Authelia, Microsoft Entra ID, Google and any other provider that follows the standard.
  • One-time recovery codes, and a Sessions panel where a user sees every active sign-in and revokes any of them.

Everywhere else

  • Apps and devices connect with their own named passwords instead of the account password, and access tokens are signed, so they cannot be forged.
  • Storage quota calculation is instant, uploads are much faster for accounts with a quota, and folder sizes are shown in the file list.
  • Groups, roles, comments, tags, file locking and the trash can now be managed through the API.
  • Nine more theme colour presets, wildcards in the file search, and a Hebrew translation.

Every one of the changes is listed in the release notes.

A release every few months

FileRun has been developed continuously since 2003. These are the releases of 2026.

Every release since 2019 is written down the same way, change by change. Nothing arrives in your installation without being on that list first.

Safe to update

Self-hosted software gets left on an old version because of what an update might do to it.
This is what happens when you start one.

  • Each application folder is swapped in one step. At any moment the installation is either the old version or the new one, never half of each.
  • The updater also keeps a copy of every file and folder it replaces, for the rare case that an update cannot finish.
  • Should that happen, everything is restored, and the installation returns to the version it had.
  • Applying an update again replaces every application file, so a file that was damaged or changed is repaired.
  • Any installation from 2023 on updates directly to the latest release. There is no chain of versions to walk through first.
  • Updates are installed only when you start them, from the control panel. Nothing is installed on its own.
  • The step between replacing the files and updating the database is sealed with a one-time key, so nobody else can finish an update you started.
  • What you added yourself is left where it is: your configuration, your own wording, and any application of your own.

Try the current release

Put FileRun on your own server with a free trial license.
Or open the live demo, with no sign-up.

Also worth reading: what protects your files once they are on your own server.