Changelog for veyon-4.7.0-bp155.2.5.x86_64.rpm :

* Fri Dec 03 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.7.0.
* Core
* Fixed binary compatibility issues between different versions of LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient.
* Messages in log files (especially debug messages) are now much more human readable.
* Plugins
* Demo: Screens in the Demo menu are now displayed with their actual hardware name and connector type/index.
* LDAP: Fixed querying members of a group when the nested groups option is enabled.
* TextMessage: Students can now select and copy the text message or parts of it.
* TextMessage: Rich text (i.e. formatted text including hyperlinks) can now be entered and sent to students.
* RemoteAccess: For remote computers with multiple screens, a button with a screen selection menu has been added.
* RemoteAccess: The login name of the remote user is shown in the window title, if the full name is not available.
* WebAPI: The header field lookup (e.g. for the connection UID) is now case insensitive.
* Linux
* The parameter order for the ping utility has been improved.
* Issues regarding the session identification have been fixed, solving various issues when running veyon-server manually e.g. via autostart entries.
* Master
* A regression in Veyon 4.6.0 has been fixed to make the computer and user search case insensitive again.
* Control messages between computers are now sent asynchronously which improves performance and responsiveness while reducing the CPU load.
* When closing the program, it now stops all features on the student computers and waits until all corresponding control messages have been sent.
* A new filter button has been added to show computers with logged on users only.
* The dialog for confirming actions such as powering off computers only emphasizes ALL computers if all computers are selected.
* If available, the full name of the user is now preferred in the tooltip.
* Server
* Server-side framebuffer update rate control has been added which improves performance and responsive.
* Fri Sep 24 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.6.0.
* Core
* Protocol errors during the initial authentication phase are handled more reliably. This fixes problems when connecting to incompatible servers accidentally.
* CLI
* The plugin and feature modules have been added.
* The config and shell plugins have been integrated as static modules.
* Plugins
* Demo: The visual feedback when (re-)connecting has been redesigned.
* DesktopServices: The Run program feature has been renamed to Start application.
* RemoteAccess: The visual feedback when (re-)connecting has been redesigned.
* RemoteAccess: The computer connection of the main window is reused if available resulting in immediate access to the remote computer.
* RemoteAccess: The remote cursor is no longer used in view only mode to prevent occasionally observed render artifacts.
* UserSessionControl: Non-user sessions (such as display manager/login screen sessions) are no longer terminated by the user logoff feature.
* WebAPI: An error code has been added to report protocol errors occuring while connecting to the Veyon Server.
* WebAPI: The connection limit is enforced at the HTTP server level already to properly report the connection limit reached error instead of timing out.
* WebAPI: Skip ping for hosts which no connection could be established to. This allows using a higher connection limit on Linux when the number of open file descriptors is limited.
* Master
* In addition to the hostname, the computer display name is shown in the tooltip of a computer.
* A computer\'s screen is shown in fullscreen and realtime while pressing and holding the left mouse button on a computer.
* For Linux clients, [no user] is displayed as the user name instead of the name of the display manager user.
* Server
* Hostnames of connected computers (shown in the tooltip of the tray icon) are now reverse resolved in background to keep connections responsive.
* Linux
* SHM support is being detected more reliably.
* Logging off users is now initiated properly through the environment-specific session manager while systemd-logind is used as fallback only. This fixes the display manager (especially GDM3) not being shown again after logoff.
* Reboot and power down via systemd-logind has been improved while the environment-specific session manager is used as fallback only. The reboot and poweroff binaries are not usedany longer.
* Thu Aug 05 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.5.7.
* Core: allow minus characters in authentication key name
* Linux: x11vnc: auto-detect SHM support – fixes server crashing on start in case of lacking SHM support (no need to manually configure -noshm as extra parameter any longer)
* Linux: fix Veyon session ID detection in case desktop session path and ID do not match – fixes occasionally broken multi session support
* WebAPI: improve TLS-related error messages
* Fri May 28 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.5.6.
* AuthKeys: make import fail when passing a filename as first argument
* Core: set up application parameters earlier to silence warning
* Core: fix loading Qt translations on Linux so file dialogs, message boxes etc. are now localized properly
* Core: configure layout direction based on default locale
* Core: use uniform button layout for DesktopAccessDialog across all platforms and desktop environments
* Demo: only start client inside user sessions
* LDAP: add support for nested user groups (AD only)
* Linux: fix login key sequence selection
* Linux: use libvnccserver provided by distribution if recent enough
* Master: fix crash when activating computers with invalid/empty hostname
* Master: indicate invalid/empty host address in tooltip
* PowerControl, UserSessionControl: improve confirmation dialog when performing operations such as shutdown or reboot on all computers
* ScreenLock: only lock screen inside user sessions
* Tue Apr 20 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.5.5.
* Core: set OpenGL context sharing flag for proper functionality of the Qt WebEngine WebTabs backend
* Demo: fix freezing/stopping screen broadcasting when Veyon Master is configured to enforce selected mode for client computers
* Demo: fix context menu for computers to properly show \"Stop demo\" for any active screen sharing mode
* Service: Windows: fix memory leak
* Linux: make minimum session lifetime before server start configurable
* Linux: only consider graphically logged in users for access control rule condition \"No user logged in\"
* Tue Mar 23 2021 Jan Engelhardt - Trim metadata redundancies from descriptions. Fixup grammar.
* Sat Mar 13 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.5.4.
* Core: fix potential crash due to race condition on shutdown
* Demo: refactor server shutdown for better reliability
* Demo: refactor demo server control for better reliability (demo server is now restarted automatically when crashed)
* Linux: ignore missing DPMS for xrdp sessions
* Linux: make key sequence for user login via display manager fully configurable
* Linux: use session path as session ID to avoid missing updates on closed sessions
* Linux: x11vnc: disable SHM for xrdp sessions
* Master: improve save/restore of checked locations/computers to better handle dynamic changes when using the NetworkDiscovery add-on
* Service: always close sessions internally properly so session IDs are reused correctly
* Service: Linux: prevent service from killing itself in some cases
* Service: Linux: send SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGKILL recursively to terminate server instances and child processes more reliably
* Service: Linux: decrease grace period for server processes
* Service: Linux: actively stop server for closing sessions
* Various PCH-related build system improvements
* Update translations
* Sat Feb 27 2021 andy great - Update to version 4.5.3.
* BuiltinX11VncServer: add missing return value
* Core: fix hostname conversion if FQDN resolving fails
* Core: improve hostname resolution reliability
* Core: update active features after every feature status change
* Core: improve parsing port number for IPv6
* Configurator: add scrollbars to configuration pages if they don\'t fit on the screen
* Demo: fix memory leak on connection error
* Demo: fix VNC server port detection to properly work with external VNC servers
* Demo: fix broadcasting of individual screens if placed out of order
* Demo: fix stopping demo mode via context menu
* Master: fix automatic reload of screenshot list on filesystem changes
* Master: fix minor issues in Linux manpage
* Linux: drop kdesudo/gksudo support
* WebAPI: qthttpserver: switch to master branch
* WebAPI: refactor to multithreaded implementation supporting asynchronous requests
* WebAPI: increase default connection limit to 32
* WebAPI: add status fields to feature list
* Internal build system improvements for shorter build times
* Update translations- Disable PCH build, cause build to fail.
* Fri Dec 11 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.5.2.
* Core: add support for building with ninja
* LDAP: update 3rdparty component kldap
* LDAP: add warning on invalid location groups
* Linux: update 3rdparty component x11vnc to fix CVE-2020-29074
* Linux: debug server crashes using catchsegv
* Linux: forward server log messages to system journal
* RemoteAccess: add option to show window on the same screen as the master window
* RemoteAccess: use non-deprecated API call to fix build with Qt >= 5.15.2
* WebAPI: add Python client implementation + tests
* Wed Nov 25 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.5.1.
* Core: fix key name conversion for arguments when invoking features
* Master: properly reload screenshot list also when using screenshot directories on network shares
* Master: add support for deleting multiple screenshots
* Master: fix bug with initial computer icon layout
* Master: update icon sizes and their aspect ratios dynamically whenever a computer is added, connected or removed
* Master: improve icon size auto adjust functionality when adding/removing multiple computers
* Master: add dedicated icon for computers not running the Veyon Server
* Master: only show connected computers in slideshow panel
* Master: fix issue with icons overlapping user name and/or computer name
* Screenshot: fix non-working feature invocation
* Server: notify first successful access control pass only- Remove group tag.
* Wed Nov 18 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.5.0.
* Core: improve invocation of worker processes for better reliability
* Core: improve message exchange with worker processes (fixes demo mode not starting properly in some cases)
* Core: implement session ID management to reuse a session ID after a session has been closed - RDP session IDs (which are increased continuously) are no longer used for calculating server port numbers
* Core: rename configuration key Service/PrimaryServicePort to Service/VeyonServerPort
* Core: refactor feature plugin API
* Configurator: Service: improve session mode configuration UI
* Configurator: Service: improve network configuration UI
* Configurator: Master: add option to hide own session
* Configurator: Master: add computer icon spacing setting
* Configurator: Master: add computer icon aspect ratio setting
* Demo: refactor server to be multithreaded which greatly improves performance and responsiveness especially with many clients
* Demo: add feature to share a user\'s screen instead of the own one
* Demo: reset access token after stopping server
* Demo: refactor modes (window/fullscreen) as subfeatures displayed in a drop down menu
* Demo: add feature to share only one of multiple (own) screens
* FileTransfer: add configuration page allowing to configure source and destination folders
* Linux: ignore SIGPIPE and continue running normally if a socket is closed unexpectedly
* Linux: fix missing dependencies in Ubuntu 20.04 package
* Linux: fix and prefer reboot/poweroff via systemd-logind
* Linux: fix reboot/poweroff if e.g. /sbin or /usr/sbin is not in PATH
* Linux: don\'t show output of internal systemctl calls
* Linux: add Debian-gdm as display manager user to properly detect that no user is being logged in
* Linux: Service: retry server start for sessions in opening state
* Linux: Service: manually set environment variable XDG_SESSION_ID if pam-systemd is not used
* Linux: Service: start server instances for active/online sessions only - fixes various issues regarding server start on user login
* Master: add Slideshow panel
* Master: add Spotlight panel
* Master: always adjust the size of computer icons automatically when enabled
* Master: save and restore states and sizes of panels
* Master: automatically adjust aspect ratio of computer icons to the original screen sizes
* Master: update already visible tooltips for computer icons
* Master: make computer icon spacing configurable and decrease its default value
* RemoteAccess: show username in window title
* RemoteAccess: hide toolbar on focus loss
* ScreenLock: fix lock widget not being shown and thus screen not being locked on some Linux desktops
* Server: also notify about authentication failure on incomplete authentication attempts
* Server: add support for external VNC servers without any authentication/password configured
* Server: improve error handling for VNC server plugins
* WebAPI: add new plugin offering a RESTful API for accessing Veyon Server instances
* Tue Sep 01 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.4.2.
* Core: extend NetworkObject API for future use by add-ons
* Core: prepare support for future WebAPI plugin
* Update translations
* Sat Jul 18 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.4.1.
* Core: improve multi session support
* Core: improve worker execution and fix tray icon not being shown on startup
* Demo: broadcast actual teacher session instead of console session when running Master within RDP session
* LDAP: fix computer query on host name lookup error
* Linux: don\'t use functions marked deprecated in Qt 5.15
* Linux: provide package for openSUSE 15.2
* NetworkObjects: update existing objects instead of adding duplicate objects when importing CSV / text file
* NetworkObjects: output proper line endings when exporting to CSV / text file on Windows
* Server: fix crash on connection accept error
* Update translations
* Fri Jun 12 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.4.0.
* Core: use updated VNC and network stack (libvncserver 0.9.13.)
* Core: make VNC connection parameters configurable internally
* Core: improve VNC connection reliability
* Core: add safe mechanism for opening files preventing symlink attacks
* Core: drop log messages exceeding size limit
* DesktopServices: improve URL handler invocation (fixes opening URLs with characters such as \"=\")
* RemoteAccess: honor feature configuration (hide view only button when corresponding feature is disabled)
* Fix possible symlink attacks on log files
* Update translations
* Mon Jun 08 2020 Matthias Gerstner - make all executables correctly position-independent.
* Wed May 27 2020 andy great - Fix veyon not starting: error while loading shared libraries.
* Tue May 12 2020 andy great - Update to version 4.3.5.
* Fix: LDAP: make SSL/LDAPS connections work properls (previously broken due to improper certificate verifications)
* Fix: LDAP: enable additional low-level debug messages at the command line via environment variable VEYON_DEBUG_LDAP_LIBRARY
* Update 3rdparty component libvncserver to latest 0.9.13 snapshot (including new unified connection timeout handling support)
* Master: limit update interval to 10 seconds to prevent server timeouts
* Fix build with Qt >= 5.14
* Minor code modernizations
* Update translations
* Mon Nov 18 2019 malcolmlewisAATTopensuse.org- Clean up building.
* Wed Jan 17 2018 larsAATTlinux-schulserver.de- initial version 4.0.3