Veyon 4.5.0
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We're proud to announce the release of Veyon 4.5.0 coming with the largest number of improvements and changes we ever had. Download at https://veyon.io/download and discover the new Slideshow and Spotlight monitoring panels as well as the revised screen sharing features:
Changelog:
- 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
- Windows: disable Interception driver in multi session mode to prevent issues with hanging RDP sessions
- Windows: refactor service-related debug messages
- Windows: update 3rdparty component UltraVNC
- Windows: update libraries (Qt 5.12.11 snapshot, OpenLDAP 2.4.56, OpenSSL 1.1.1h)
