filezilla can not connect to tls sites anymore

[Christian Schlittchen]

Since upgrading to 18.10 filezilla fails to connect to sites the require explicit FTP over TLS:

tatus: Connecting to 1.2.3.4:56789...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status: Initializing TLS...
Error: GnuTLS error -50 in gnutls_priority_set_direct: The request is invalid.
Error: Failed to initialize TLS.
Error: Could not connect to server

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: filezilla 3.33.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Oct 19 10:24:40 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-25 (784 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: filezilla
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-18 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tim Kosse (tim-kosse)]

This will be fixed in the upcoming FileZilla 3.38.0 release.

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

3.38 has been released when will it hit Ubuntu ? Without TLS FTP is very unsecured.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package filezilla - 3.39.0-1

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filezilla (3.39.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Adrien Cunin ]
  * New upstream release
     - Fixes TLS connection bug (LP: #1798767)
  * Updated libfilezilla-dev versioned build-dep to 0.15.0
  * Configure with --enable-gnutlssystemciphers (Closes: #879537, thanks
    Dimitri John Ledkov)

  [ Ondřej Nový ]
  * d/changelog: Remove trailing whitespaces
  * d/watch: Use https protocol

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * patch refresh
  * Conditionally apply Ubuntu patch on Ubuntu systems (Closes: #915922)

 -- Adrien Cunin <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:06:09 +0100

[Brandon Bell (brandonbell)]

Is this going to be backported to Cosmic? Because, as it stands, FileZilla is utterly broken in that release.

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

Not fixed on Bionic:

dpkg -l | grep filezilla
ii filezilla 3.33.0-1ubuntu1 amd64

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

Cosmic sorry