xorgxrdp v0.10.2

Release notes for xorgxrdp v0.10.2 (2024/07/30)

General announcements

The biggest news of v0.10 is that Graphic Pipeline Extension also called GFX in short has been supported. xrdp v0.10 with GFX achieves more frame rates and less bandwidth compared to v0.9. There is a significant performance improvement especially if the client is Windows 11's mstsc.exe or Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac. GFX H.264/AVC 444 mode and hardware-accelerated encoding are not supported in this version yet.

GFX implementation in xrdp is sponsored by an enterprise sponsor. @CyberTrust is also one of the sponsors. We very much appreciate the sponsorship. It helped us to accelerate xrdp development and land GFX earlier!

Please consider sponsoring or making a donation to the project if you like xrdp. We accept financial contributions via Open Collective. Direct donations to each developer via GitHub Sponsors are also welcomed.

Security fixes

None

New features

• Check list of support devices in glamor (backport of #322)
• Support NULL cursors and large mono cursors (#320, backport of #323)

Bug fixes

• Separate out key frame request from MAX_INT frame ACK. This prevents some cases of screen corruption on multi-monitor setups (backport of #288)
• Fixes complex dirty region causing overflow of xrdp comms buffer (#318, backport of #319)

Internal changes

None

Known issues

The backport of #322 can cause some working systems to no longer use Glamor acceleration. In particular, systems using amdgpu are affected - see #341.

Changes for packagers or developers

• If moving from v0.9.x, read the 'Significant changes for packagers or developers section' for the v0.10 branch below.

xorgxrdp v0.10.1

Release notes for xorgxrdp v0.10.1 (2024/04/20)

General announcements

The biggest news of v0.10 is that Graphic Pipeline Extension also called GFX in short has been supported. xrdp v0.10 with GFX achieves more frame rates and less bandwidth compared to v0.9. There is a significant performance improvement especially if the client is Windows 11's mstsc.exe or Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac. GFX H.264/AVC 444 mode and hardware-accelerated encoding are not supported in this version yet.

GFX implementation in xrdp is sponsored by an enterprise sponsor. @CyberTrust is also one of the sponsors. We very much appreciate the sponsorship. It helped us to accelerate xrdp development and land GFX earlier!

Please consider sponsoring or making a donation to the project if you like xrdp. We accept financial contributions via Open Collective. Direct donations to each developer via GitHub Sponsors are also welcomed.

Security fixes

None

New features

• Switch to wyhash from CRC for capture tile diff and introduce lazy color conversion (#167 #301)
  • Thanks to @trishume!

Bug fixes

None

Internal changes

None

Known issues

None

Changes for packagers or developers

• If moving from v0.9.x, read the 'Significant changes for packagers or developers section' for the v0.10 branch below.

v0.9.20

General annoucements

This is the last v0.9.x release. v0.9.x will be maintained for a while but less actively. New releases will happen only when severe security vulnerabilities or critical bugs are found.

We have created a fund on Open Collective. Support us if you like xrdp! Direct donations to each developer via GitHub Sponsors are also welcomed.

New features

Too fast scroll mitigation

A fundamental solution for too fast scrolling issue by @seflerZ has been backported from devel version to v0.9 (#265 #286). This fix requires xrdp v0.9.25 so use xrdp v0.9.25 and xorgxrdp v0.9.20 together.

The following former workaround added at v0.9.19 has been removed. It takes no effect anymore.

[SessionVariables]
(some existing lines)
XRDP_XORG_TOUCHPAD_SCROLL_HACK=yes

What's Changed

• [v0.9] Backport touchpad inertial scrolling by @metalefty @seflerZ in #286
• Bump version to v0.9.20 by @metalefty in #292

Full Changelog: v0.2.19...v0.9.20

xorgxrdp v0.10.0

Release notes for xorgxrdp v0.10.0 (2024/03/10)

This section notes changes since the v0.10 branch was created.

General announcements

The biggest news of this release is that Graphic Pipeline Extension also called GFX in short has been supported. xrdp v0.10 with GFX achieves more frame rates and less bandwidth compared to v0.9. There is a significant performance improvement especially if the client is Windows 11's mstsc.exe or Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac. GFX H.264/AVC 444 mode and hardware-accelerated encoding are not supported in this version yet.

GFX implementation in xrdp is sponsored by an enterprise sponsor. We very much appreciate the sponsorship. It helped us to accelerate xrdp development and land GFX earlier!

Please consider sponsoring or making a donation to the project if you like xrdp. We accept financial contributions via Open Collective. Direct donations to each developer via GitHub Sponsors are also welcomed.

Security fixes

None

New features

None

Bug fixes

• Fix some monitor hotplug issues (#287)

• RandR outputs and CRT controllers are not now deleted on a resize, allowing xev to be used to monitor RandR events (#284)

Internal changes

None

Known issues

None

Changes for packagers or developers

• If moving from v0.9.x, read the 'Significant changes for packagers or developers section' for the v0.10 branch below.

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Branch v0.10

This branch was forked from development on 2024-02-08 in preparation for testing and release of v0.10.1.

The changes in this section are relative to version v0.9.23 of xorgxrdp.

General announcements

This software release is intended for use with xrdp v10.y.z

It has not been tested with previous versions of xrdp.

New features

• Intel hardware is supported for VDPAU (#215 #216 #218) - thanks to @akarl10
• Use damage to track any lost screen changes (#186, #244)
• Touchpad inertial scrolling is now supported (#234)

Bug fixes

• Ignore screen size changes which don't change anything (#203)
• Made sure xdpyinfo was available for CI test (#225)
• fix mouse scrolling too fast and implement inertial scrolling (#227, #234). Thanks to @seflerZ for this development.

Internal changes

• A fix was made to the GitHub CI workflow to update the package cache (#213)

• A fix was made to better support xrdp PR #1895 (#212)

• The CI build now checks Glamor compilation works (#219)

• Updated github actions for CI to address warnings (#240)

• Disabled some auto-add hardware features (#241)

• and RandR output is now created before the client connects (#254)

• sh improvements(#228)

• Use xorg version to see if glamor_egl_get_driver_name() exists (#239)

Known issues

None

Changes for packagers or developers

• Build now works on OpenIndiana (#267)

xorgxrdp v0.9.19

General announcements

You might be surprised that xorgxrdp version is suddenly jumped from v0.2.18 to v0.9.19. We decided to bump up version from v0.2 to v0.9 to indicate xorgxrdp v0.9 is compatible with xrdp v0.9.

We also made a tag v0.2.19. Both v0.2.19 and v0.9.19 are minor version up from v0.2.18 and identical. For upcoming xorgxrdp v1.0 is not compatible with xrdp v0.9 and is for upcoming xrdp v1.0.

New features

Too fast scroll mitigation

Workaround for too fast vertical scrolling on touchpad (#150) has been implemented. Define an environment variable XRDP_XORG_TOUCHPAD_SCROLL_HACK and set to yes, true, on or 1 to mitigate too fast scroll. More specifically, edit xrdp's sesman.ini as following and restart xrdp-sesman.

[SessionVariables]
(some existing lines)
XRDP_XORG_TOUCHPAD_SCROLL_HACK=yes

This is a temporary workaround and may be removed in future version.

What's Changed

• Fix build break in GitHub workflow by @Nexarian in #213
• populate DRI2InfoRec driverNames by @akarl10 in #216
• Update for unification of monitor processing by @Nexarian in #212
• xrdpdri2.c typo by @akarl10 in #218
• Add glamor to CI by @matt335672 in #219
• use damage to track any lost screen changes by @jsorg71 in #186
• Revert "Update for unification of monitor processing" by @metalefty in #221
• [v0.9] mouse: workaround for too fast vertical scroll by @metalefty in #229
• [v0.9] Merge #228 for v0.9 by @metalefty in #230
• [v0.9] Ignore screen size changes which don't change anything (#203) by @metalefty in #232
• Bump version to v0.9.19 by @metalefty in #231

New Contributors

• @akarl10 made their first contribution in #216

Full Changelog: v0.2.18...v0.9.19

xorgxrdp v0.2.18

What's Changed

• trigger full screen refresh after initializing shared memory by @FlintRiverSystems in #197
• replace non-posix tool which with command -v by @drwilly in #204
• Bump version to v0.2.18 by @metalefty in #206

New Contributors

• @FlintRiverSystems made their first contribution in #197
• @drwilly made their first contribution in #204

Full Changelog: v0.2.17...v0.2.18

xorgxrdp v0.2.17

xorgxrdp v0.2.17 has been released.

This version includes following features & fixes:

• Avoid potential infinite loop for rdpUpdate #193

xorgxrdp v0.2.16

xorgxrdp v0.2.16 has been released.

This version includes following features & fixes:

• Move to GitHub Actions for CI (#182, #191)
• Improve stability of xorgxrdp when resolution changes during a session ("dynamic resolution") (#183)
• Add client_info version check (#184)
• Add some glamor build checks/help (#185)

xorgxrdp v0.2.15

xorgxrdp v0.2.15 has been released.

This version includes following features & fixes:

• Give group permission also to disconnect socket (#177, missed in #110)
• Add logs on socket files deletion failure (#176)
• Fix bug in killing disconnected sessions (#175)

xorgxrdp v0.2.14

xorgxrdp v0.2.14 has been released.

This version includes following features & fixes:

• Reduce input lag by using two different delays #166
• Do not fail randr resize if size not changed #161 #156