v4.4.5

• major fixes:
  • use after free crash in GTK
  • ensure X11 errors don't propagate to GTK
  • windows losing focus
  • fix legacy URL format parsing
  • brolti errors on some platforms
  • keyboard shortcuts with Wayland clients and NumLock
  • client sockets overwriting server sockets
  • network queue flushing
  • correct check for disabled monitors
  • stop as soon as we find a valid mDNS backend
  • only allow logging tweaks via env vars for non-root users
• packaging:
  • dummy driver RPM version 0.4.1
  • modules not excluded due to typo
  • avoid permissions issues with mv
  • remove legacy MacOS bundler workaround
  • support MacOS arm64 builds
  • fail early with a more useful message on MacOS
  • setuptools packaging workarounds on MacOS
  • don't ship .cpp source files in MacOS app
  • compilation errors with gcc version 7 and older
  • RHEL 8.x needs pycuda 2022.1 or older
  • RHEL 9.x can install pandoc from EPEL
  • silence python cryptography OpenSSL warning on MacOS
  • workaround even more exotic library version strings
  • try harder to find a working appindicator DEB package
  • better compatibility with newer versions of Cython
  • we never want a python2 shebang
  • evdi file missing from MANIFEST
  • missing explicit dependency on pkgconfig in RPM spec file
  • skip xsettings dpi when the x11 bindings are missing
  • ignore setuptools generated cruft
  • silence rencode RPM patch warnings
  • missing GStreamer elements for playing bell on MS Windows
• encodings:
  • always use lossless encoding for text
  • continue to monitor window metadata updates
  • honour png palette encodings
  • option parsing
  • help command error
  • handle RGBA window icon data
  • ffmpeg encoder error values
  • validate NvFBC Sys capture before enabling it on MS Windows
• minor:
  • X11 Atom name memory leak
  • handle malformed display names more gracefully
  • if we don't have keycodes to map, don't try to translate them
  • skip negative keyboard codes as per MS Windows specifications
  • fix side buttons on MS Windows
  • X11 clipboard debug logging parsing of window names
  • remove unused, potentially problematic statement
  • make it possible to disable SHA1
  • avoid errors if MD5 has already been removed
  • don't try to show an exception that does not exist
  • window debug logging error
  • correctly parse OpenGL diagnostics
  • window forwarding require encoding module
  • mmap debug flood
  • continue with session info despite cursor errors
  • handle client server uuid errors more gracefully
  • silence shared socket permission warning
  • handle missing server attributes without erroring out
  • correct default method signature
  • missing latency data on websocket connections
  • service update errors with newer versions of python zeroconf
  • parse IPv6 when looking up network devices
  • run servers with missing stderr
  • correct server initialization order for cleaner shutdowns on errors
  • skip systemd-run tests on unsupported platforms
  • missing test dependency on OracleLinux 8.x
  • MacOS test tool errors
  • skip useless 'unknown' message, typo
  • more useful codec loader validation message

v4.4.4

• major fixes:
  • focus change failures, errors with OR windows
  • dpi validation failures
  • honour dpi when setting initial resolution
  • match the requested desktop size exactly
  • XI2 errors
  • try harder to find a valid menu prefix
  • OpenGL failures due to misplaced icons
• network:
  • generic version requests
  • remote start error on encodings option
  • remote start error when display is not specified
  • silence OpenSSL3 + pycryptography legacy warning
  • distinguish network vs session connected state
  • parsing of ssh key files environment variable
• misc, compatibility:
  • avoid errors when there is no keyboard config
  • fallback keycode mapping errors
  • play new client sample on MS Windows shadow servers
  • missing refresh timer with some shadow servers
  • content-type environment variable parsing
  • HTTP proxy type
  • unused field prevented serialization
  • support environment configuration for ldap authentication module
• platforms, packaging and build:
  • support the latest version of gtk-mac-bundler
  • Cython 3.0.0b1 compatibility and warnings for evdi build, C++11, etc
  • pyobjc crash workarounds: NSWorkspace, event listener
  • clang compatibility
  • workaround for OpenGL support with GTK3 on MacOS
  • library updates for binary builds (MacOS and MS Windows): OpenSSL 3, ffmpeg
  • clipboard errors on MacOS past a certain size
  • build errors with latest Python
  • build warnings with C++ modules on MS Windows
  • pycuda errors locating the CUDA path
  • use symlinks for CUDA path on MS Windows
  • builds without CUDA
  • lintian path updates
  • libproc build errors on Debian
  • remove reference to outdated path
  • version update script lost track of cups backend
  • test used incorrect command line arguments
• encodings:
  • restore ability to switch encoding at runtime
  • load all codecs before showing the list
  • enable faster codecs in some corner cases
  • only enable an encoding if we have an encoder for it
  • add encoding help entry for jpega
  • differentiate nvjpeg from plain jpeg encoder
• cosmetic:
  • log buggy dpi values
  • clarify tray vs system-tray
  • log the packet header failure message
  • logging formatting error
  • ignore empty content-type lines

v3.1.4

• major fixes:
  • correctly wait for worker threads to terminate
  • workaround new broken python3-uinput packages on Fedora
  • more robust version parsing
  • missing X11 error context in XI2 input bindings
  • clipboard errors on Microsoft Windows (regression in 3.1.3)
  • timestamp clamping code could swallow X11 client messages
  • add capability authentication module
  • match display size exactly with RandR 1.6
• keyboard:
  • xkb rules name parsing error with Python 3
  • avoid errors when there is no keyboard config
  • fallback keycode mapping errors
• build, packaging and platforms:
  • support the latest version of gtk-mac-bundler
  • pyobjc libffi crash workarounds
  • Cython 3.0.0b1 compatibility
  • ffmpeg v6 compatibility
  • support for RHEL 9.x and clones
  • missing systray dependency on Debian and Ubuntu
  • build only python3-xpra DEBs for newer distributions
  • DEBs switched to pybuild
  • build errors with latest Python
  • MS Windows unregister class reliably
  • MS Windows errors building the C++ modules
  • use symlinks for CUDA path on MS Windows
  • use standardized paths for new repo build scripts
  • missing checksums and dependencies for some RPM spec files
  • Python2 compatibility fixes
  • make it possible to override build options on MacOS
• network:
  • add rencodeplus
  • better compatibility with newer versions: emulate the command Posix command
  • handle version generic requests
  • websocket fixes: python2 compatibility, error handler
  • proxy should not try to recompress strings
  • IPv6 parsing errors
  • support newer versions of python-cryptography
  • silence OpenSSL3 + pycryptography legacy warning
  • workaround for missing paramiko dependency on python3-invoke (ie: Fedora)
  • safer paramiko lookup functions
  • ldap 'username_format' option can be set using an environment variable
• cosmetic:
  • more helpful connection failure messages
  • handle config file parsing errors more gracefully
  • free wrapper explicitly to avoid warnings in webp decoder
  • errors in xsettings watcher
  • avoid errors deleting the temporary print file
  • MacOS doesn't have an XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
  • catch missing python-dbus earlier
  • avoid errors when python-xdg is not installed
  • don't assume the peer is 32-bit when unspecified
• encodings:
  • only enable an encoding if we have an encoder for it
  • avoid video for small sizes
  • honour XPRA_ALPHA environment variable in client
  • validate x264 encoder dimensions to prevent potential crashes
  • fix transparency saturation: use premultiplied alpha with pillow and webp
  • numpy import race condition
  • expose IDR frame type in NVENC

v4.4.3

• platforms, packaging and build:
  • build failures on 32-bit systems
  • workaround more broken python uinput packages
  • build path detection for newer versions of Visual Studio: 2085ea1b721eba3bae7848e92d92d70b9efdfdf4 and 07a79a5cafbda17c31be65fa5bb0d032306038b5
  • unusual x264 library version strings disabled the encoder
  • MS Windows builds switch to CUDA 11.8
  • bundle nvidia codecs DLLs
• encodings:
  • extra validation for x264 image height
  • transparency pre-multiplied twice with webp, pillow, spng and jpeg without OpenGL which also paints faster
  • fix avif encoder loading
  • incorrect image metadata with jpega decoder
  • fallback to plain jpeg when nvjpeg fails to allocate a CUDA context
  • enable nvjpeg decoder with drivers 522.6 or later
• UI and cosmetic issues:
  • splash screen hanging after connection failures
  • avoid pycuda import warnings on MS Windows
  • avoid named-pipe warnings with MS Windows client
  • raw cursors TypeError with lz4 compression on some platforms
  • more helpful warning for some cursor issues
  • remove debug logging
  • opengl toolbox test errors

v4.4.2

Major fixes:

• packet errors with legacy encoders
• pam authentication module not linked properly

Minor issues:

• unit test errors with older versions of python pillow
• worker thread cleaner termination
• guard against missing stdin / stderr when starting servers
• add another safeguard for x264 encoder crashes

v4.4.1

• Major fixes:
  • unable to focus window
  • chunked file transfer checksum errors
  • clipboard transfer failures with large data
  • --max-size and --min-size parsing errors
  • SSH agent forwarding issues: dangling symlinks, etc
  • missing subcommands when starting via proxy
• Minor fixes:
  • option to ignore OpenGL warnings not being saved on Posix systems - save it just once
  • xpra start --encoding=help error
  • excruciatingly slow paint without transparency
  • avoid video pipeline warnings due to race conditions or clients that don't support window transparency
• Packaging and build:
  • build with clang
  • sdist snapshots missed an evdi file
  • don't clean files that no longer exist
  • RHEL 9 builds
  • RPM dependency not needed
• cosmetic:
  • logging error handler errors
  • file transfer errors shown twice
  • honour transparency override earlier
  • unused duplicate header
  • GLib unit test error
  • version test error
  • shadow debug logging error

v4.4

• Platforms, build and packaging:
  • Native LZ4 bindings
  • Safer native brotli bindings for compression and decompression
  • Native qrencode bindings
  • openSUSE build tweaks, Fedora 37, Rocky Linux / Alma Linux / CentOS Stream : 8 and 9, Oracle Linux
  • Debian finally moved to libexec
  • MS Windows taskbar integration
  • SSH server support on MS Windows, including starting shadow sessions
• Server:
  • Configurable vertical refresh rate
  • Virtual Monitors
  • Multi-monitor desktop mode
  • Expand an existing desktop
  • Exit with windows
  • Full shadow keyboard mapping
  • xwait subcommand
  • guess content-type from parent pid
  • cups print backend status report
  • Override sockets on upgrade
  • Allow additional options to X server invocation
  • Control commands for modifying command environment, and read only flag
  • Start new commands via a proxy server's SSH listener
• Shadow server:
  • Geometry restrictions
  • Shadow specific applications
• Client:
  • Automatic keyboard grabs
  • Pointer confinement
  • Faster window initial data
  • Improved DPI detection on MS Windows
  • Show all current keyboard shortcuts
  • Preserve all options when reconnecting
  • Option to accept SSL mismatched host permanently
  • Forward all command line options
  • Smooth scrolling options
  • Per-window scaling - experimental
  • Workaround Wayland startup hangs
• Security and authentication:
  • Configurable information disclosure
  • Keycloak authentication
  • Capability based authentication
  • Authentication for web server scripts
  • OTP authentication
  • Workaround paramiko No existing session error
• Encodings and latency:
  • Option to cap picture quality
  • Expose scaling quality
  • NVJPEG decoder (WIP - leaks memory)
  • AVIF encoding
  • selective scroll encoding detection
• Network:
  • SOCKS proxy connection support
  • SSH agent forwarding
  • proxy network performance improvement
  • SSH workarounds for polluted stream premable
• Misc:
  • easier xpra subcommand invocation
• Refactoring and preparation for the next LTS release:
  • Feature deprecation
  • Remove "app menus" support
  • Remove ancient complicated code
  • Simplify the build file
  • More robust info handlers
  • Remove scary warnings
  • f-strings

v3.1.3

• major fixes:
  • GDK crash when updating parked windows geometry 4573f72
  • always free X11 images safely d7a4ae6
  • MS Windows clients mishandling some window hints (ie: Firefox) 3354a3a
  • connection errors when non-user-interactive clients are connected acc73dd
  • filenames with special characters when opened remotely 62f1d35
  • missing notifications due to icon parsing errors 9ea7cb9
  • handling of packet parsing errors cd5ee74
  • bencoder error when cuda info is missing 314df99
  • missing auto-refresh 9e77ef6
  • 'Content-Security-Policy' fixes and workarounds for Safari, xpra-html5 v6 a064cd0
  • keyboard mapping not honouring the more specific keymap definition cd392e9
  • honour system prefix when loading xkb keymaps 11dc9e2
  • launcher gui initialization error on Wayland 75cd311
  • audio and webcam not starting with some packet encoders b7d3f1e
• build and packaging:
  • build using CUDA 11.7 by default 371c43e, compile as C++11 ae934df
  • clean target left some generated files behind 369dff8
  • dependency updates 69b6696
  • MacOS new package signing key 5fda527
  • ffmpeg 5.0 compatibility 5864561
  • library updates: Cython 64b7074, pynvml a3f98f1, etc
  • workarounds for latest Cython with GCC 4 d1b1b6e, 137dd57
  • support almalinux fc9582d, rocklylinux and oraclelinux 8 build targets 328cd27
  • aarch64 builds cfc409a
  • content type updates: unityhub is a browser bf810d6, ffplay is video 2c6bf18
• minor bugs and tweaks:
  • clipboard errors with MS Windows clients and UTF8 data c6628c5
  • server errors on encoding change (ie: client tray menu) 300c42e
  • store and send client properties as strings f865199
  • configurable ping timeout delay d15a481
  • make it possible to run the client without some cython extensions 39a584e
  • 'xpra showsetting' subcommand errors 14acfa5
  • always expose the server socket location b681b43
  • make socket querying code more resilient 64c5164
  • potential race conditions with xpra info requests 95c5944
• cosmetic:
  • more understandable error message when ssh fails to connect 893fffd
  • during shutdown, ignore errors trying to set nodelay / cork 7d6dc14
  • clipboard error messages when there is no client handling it 6b3b003
  • avoid warnings triggered by Pillow v9 019288e
  • show disabled menu entries in MacOS menus with GTK3 builds 031e9cc
  • codec loader output was ignoring standard log output format 75db8f9
  • silence spurious authentication modules warnings ff5c4e4
  • always log the full backtrace for client connection errors dcd950c
  • use the correct license short names bbf9b26
  • nvml version query error f5b63ea
  • misc logging tweaks and fixes
• encodings:
  • disable vaapi with the ffmpeg encoder (crashy) f708203
  • handle grayscale png images with transparency 944da35
  • workaround for missing video mode client metadata beb34ea
  • don't send empty alpha channel d894b2a
  • never delay screen updates unless we have a video region 97dfa6a
  • jpeg decoder generated invalid picture metadata 4dcc573

v4.3.4

• major bugs:
  • audio not starting with some packet encoders 7729863
  • opening files with special characters remotely 0d4aeb2
  • always free X11 images safely c797239
  • GDK crash when updating parked windows geometry d0d2bae
  • webcam forwarding with older clients 4df846f
  • launcher gui initialization error on Wayland 9e5ffae
  • attach=yes failing with an invalid command line 9b46f21
• minor:
  • extra file transfers safety checks 38c8747, fix existing one cc5980b
  • support CSP headers for stream saver of html5 client version 6 df25bc3
  • always expose the server socket in the session environment 25ccb72
• build:
  • CentOS 7 build fixes: 4b93dd9
  • RHEL9 build fixes: missing python cairo, no pandoc bb10bfb
  • support building on Alma Linux and Rocky Linux 5c63232, fa7659b
  • build using CUDA 11.7 c708894
  • honour the CPP build environment variable 145f17f
  • use the correct license short names b87225e
  • clean target left some generated files behind: e49157d
  • library updates: Cython, pynvml, etc c3e82b4
• cosmetic:
  • jpeg cleanup warnings 4276a43
  • errno Cython source name conflict c125984
  • include details in conversion failure messages 445b6a5
  • double error in file transfer sanity checks 5047f07

v4.3.3

• major bugs:
  • X11 server crashes with quickly disappearing odd sized video windows: 53e7406
  • MS Windows clients mishandling some window hints (ie: Firefox): #3533
  • connection errors when non-user-interactive clients are connected: 21265da
  • bencode network error with cuda data: 2c5b88e
  • workaround VAAPI server crashes: ad64880
  • socket leak when failing to wrap as ssl: d1b0050
  • potential race conditions with xpra info requests: 1ab2bc5
  • missing notifications due to icon parsing errors: #3366
  • workaround broken svg data format generated by Inkscape: 5f21e3c
  • more correct solution for unicode clipboard data (MS Windows clients): 64280ca, 0c195d1 + ba56b1a
  • video capability workaround for legacy packet encoders (ie: older clients): 077b3d5
  • MacOS DMG missing code signature: e72718d
• screen updates:
  • fix jpeg with alpha painting with opengl backend: 515b07d
  • png screen updates refreshed unnecessarily: 98f3eef
  • don't use an rgb format with an empty alpha channel: a038833
  • ensure video screen updates are only flushed when complete: e512d5c
  • avoid errors handling grayscale png images with transparency: 1d4b31f
  • handle grayscale with spng encoder: fdee128
  • missing transparency with webp encoder: 382412c
  • paint errors in non-opengl backend: c97baac
  • never delay screen updates unless we have a video region: 16b9617
  • invalid image metadata with jpeg decoder and csc_cython output: 6b40f4c
• cosmetic:
  • during shutdown, ignore errors trying to set nodelay / cork: 35ec622
  • codec loader output was ignoring standard log output format: 1d5e049
  • adjust docstring and debug logging messages, typos etc: 7235282, 5225e4b, 0994f06, 665348f, cfc705a
  • show disabled menu entries in MacOS menus: ee92daf
  • log current keyboard layout whenever mapping changes: cf2f819
  • avoid warnings triggered by Pillow v9: 1e62ccb
  • error messages shown when the systray menu is not yet ready: 3ddca80
  • more understandable error message when ssh fails to connect: 1346866
  • always log the full backtrace for client connection errors: e0b8cff
  • errors when changing encoding from the client's systray menu: 44c8120
• minor:
  • make it possible to run the client without some cython extensions: 767db9d
  • make socket querying code more resilient: 1f96179, 044f0c8
  • restore ability to disable smooth scrolling: 9e0286b
  • carefully access subprocess file descriptors: cc0ab96
  • map ffplay to video application type: 88139ce, unityhub as browser type (dc987e2)
  • incomplete socket dirs validation: 0f4cd80
  • jpeg and nvjpeg encoders could go missing with unusual settings: 688f7bb
  • Xorg dummy patch refresh: fc68a54
  • CUDA builds with GCC 12: 97a75e2, silence unavoidable warnings: ce29637
  • small X11 memory leak: e110f08
  • make it possible to increase the ping timeout delay: ff6dfd1
  • avoid strict warning when sorting windows (xpra list-windows): d214585
  • window mapping 'event' markers should not be stored as client properties: cbd1893
  • use strings for all client properties: 1b428f8