I run a forum supporting open source software called KiCad . After a recent upgrade, some of the file extensions that users often upload are no longer working. There is a thread about it here: [image] Minor errors after upgrade Yeah, I think it might have been that the default “allowed” ex…

Now it is fixed by the below commit FIX: allow underscore in file extension while downloading the uploads. committed 04:39AM - 03 Jan 20 UTC (UTC) [image] vinothkannans …

So only the ones with underscores are broken?

I hadn’t thought to try it on another instance I have, just to make sure. I just enabled the same extension (“kicad_mod”) and the upload works fine. However, it has the same behavior and when you click on the file link in the post, it goes to the default page that says “Oops! That page doesn’t exis…

Thanks for the report. I will check the issue next week.

This is another example by a forum user https://forum.kicad.info/uploads/short-url/kkB1iEtT2JAEbNFZP4YclKPmgbC.kicad_pcb , who thought his upload had worked An underscore again. The users are NOT trying to use Unicode characters.

Is there some way we’ll be notified when this is included in a beta build?

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ChrisGammell (Chris Gammell) February 5, 2020, 5:39pm 11

Just tested this on our local install and it works well. Thank you for the update!

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