>May have missed something but I see no indication that native support has been added.........

This is very sad because this protocol is used more and more now, for new security policy in corporations, and this forces us to use a third party to be able to talk to an FTP server which uses it. I have built this FTP class which does pretty much everything. But, because one client has a FTP server with SFTP for the protocol, this is a big headache.