Veyon 4.9.8

[tobydox]

We're happy to announce Veyon 4.9.8, the eigth maintenance release of Veyon 4.9.x. It contains several minor improvements in Veyon Master, fixes a bug in the LDAP/AD module and disables the mechanism for handling interfering windows by default. The Internet Access Control and Auvidus add-ons have gained new configuration options to control how the respective blocking functions behave when the service starts or the computer boots up.

All downloads for this release are available in the download area.

A complete list of changes in detail can be found below:

• General
  • Improved compatibility with Qt 6.10
  • Make log directory handling more secure (prevent symlink/junction abuse and add full path validation, #1075)
• Master
  • Auto-adjust icon size when switching computer positioning mode
  • Fixed enforcing designated mode (i.e. screen lock) if system tray icon is disabled in the service configuration
  • Allow sorting computers by user's surname (#1034, #1045)
• Plugins
  • LDAP: fixed MAC address retrieval when 1:1 mapping 1:1 of OUs to locations is enabled.
• Linux
  • Add Fedora 43 packages
  • Add openSUSE Leap 16.0 packages
  • Drop Fedora 41 packages
• Windows
  • Disable interfering windows handling by default since it caused troubles in various environments
  • 3rdparty: libpng: update to 1.6.53
  • 3rdparty: libjpeg-turbo: update to 3.1.2
  • 3rdparty: OpenSSL: update to 3.5.4