Release notes for xrdp v0.10.0 (2024/05/10)

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. @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. Highlights

This section describes the most user-visible new or changed features in xrdp since v0.9.19. See Branch v0.10 for all changes relative to v0.9.19.

• Added GFX support with multi-monitor support (including monitor hot plug/unplug) (#2256 #2338 #2595 #2879 #2891 #2911 #2929 #2933)
• Touchpad inertial scrolling (#2364, #2424). Thanks to new contributor @seflerZ
• New look of login screen (#2366)
• Scaled login screen on higher DPI monitors (#2341, #2427, #2435)
• This feature works automatically when monitor DPI information is sent by the client (i.e. a full-screen session)
• Native platform tools are now provided to manipulate .fv1 format font files.
• The format of the date and time in the log file has been changed to ISO 8601 with milliseconds (#2386 #2541)
• xrdp-sesman now supports a --reload switch to allow for the configuration to be changed when sessions are active (#2416)

Security fixes

None

New features

• If the client announces support for the Image RemoteFX codec it is logged (back-port of #2946)

Bug fixes

• Fix some monitor hotplug issues (#2951)
• GFX: Fix disconnect on resize of busy windows (#2962 #2957)
• Fall back to IPv4 if IPv6 capable but don't have an IPv6 address set (#2967 #2957)
• Remove tcutils channel from xrdp.ini (#2970 #2957)
• Don't generate a corefile when generating SIGSEGV during unit testing (#2987)
• If the drdynvc static channel isn't available, disable GFX gracefully (#3003)
• A buffer misconfiguration which affects performance on high bandwidth, high latency links has been addressed (cherry-pick of #2910)
• A permissions fix for the socketdir update in #2731 has been issued (cherry-pick of #3011)

Internal changes

• Adjust log level not too verbose (#2954 #2972 #2957)
• Migrate GitHub actions to Node 20 (#2955 #2957)
• Bump copyright year and make easier to bump (#2956 #2957)
• Remove duplicate DEBUG output (#2976 #2977)
• Add script to make release tarball (#2983)
• Syscall filter for xrdp updated (cherry-pick of #3017)
• GFX memory usage for large screens is greatly improved (cherry-pick of #3013)
• librfxcodec SSE2 performance improvements (#3032)

Known issues

• On-the-fly resolution change with the Microsoft Store version of Remote Desktop client sometimes crashes on connect (#1869)
• xrdp's login dialog is not relocated at the center of the new resolution after on-the-fly resolution change happens (#1867)

Changes for users

• If moving from v0.9.x, read the 'User changes' for the v0.10 branch below.

Changes for packagers or developers

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

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.