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Hello everyone, and welcome to the April and May 2026 Filen status update. It has been a little longer than usual since our last update, so we decided to combine April and May into one post again. Not because nothing happened, but because much of the work during this phase

The survey and giveaway are now closed, and the winners have been notified. We have launched the Filen User Survey 2026, and we would love to hear from you. The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete and at the end you can also optionally enter our giveaway for a

Some of you have recently reported that security software on your systems or networks is incorrectly flagging Filen as untrusted or potentially harmful. We are aware of this issue, it is a false positive, and we are actively working to resolve it. This is not unique to Filen. Cloud storage

Hello everyone and welcome to the February & March 2026 Filen status update. After the combined December and January post, February and March have also been focused on continued groundwork across several areas. A lot of that work has been less flashy from the outside, but still important: hiring, infrastructure-related

At Filen, we build cloud storage around a simple promise: strong privacy and security by default, with zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption at the core. That is not changing. What is changing is one part of how new free accounts are created. We are doing this because abuse has grown to a

Happy new year, and welcome to the first Filen status update of 2026. This time we are combining December 2025 and January 2026 into one post. Internally, we had a holiday period, and for roughly two weeks we focused on keeping everything stable and handling the essentials. Instead of publishing

After months of beta testing and community feedback, our rclone backend has been merged into the official rclone project. With the release of rclone v1.73, you can now use Filen directly with any standard rclone installation. No custom builds, no separate downloads. What is rclone? For those unfamiliar, rclone

Hi there, As Filen continues to grow, we're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Developer / Senior Product Engineer to help us scale and evolve our product. You’ll be a key part of a small, agile team, working across the entire stack to build secure, privacy-focused cloud solutions. Filen

Today we temporarily removed the Starter Lifetime Plan from availability. This does not affect anyone who already has a Starter Lifetime plan. Nothing is being taken away, and your plans remain active as usual. Why we’re doing this Over the last weeks a few factors came together in a