Veyon 4.10.0

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We're happy to announce Veyon 4.10.0, a new minor release series of Veyon 4. The new version builds on the stable version 4.9.8 and adds a new feature for collecting files from students. There is also a new advanced option to prompt users in guest sessions to enter their name, so that, for example, in exam situations with logged-in guest accounts, they must enter their name. The name is then displayed in Veyon Master instead of the guest account and is also used to name collected files. On smaller screens, the toolbar in Veyon Master now always expands automatically so that all buttons are always visible.

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

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

• New features
  • Added new feature to collect files from remote computers
  • Added option to request user identification for guest sessions (enable at configuration page "Master" at the very bottom in advanced view mode)
• Master
  • Refactored main toolbar to resize itself and wrap buttons dynamically
• Plugins
  • LDAP Basic got renamed to LDAP/AD since the commercial LDAP Pro add-on has been retired
  • Allow logging in users remotely without a password
• Linux
  • Added options for customizing delays between simulated key presses when logging in users
• Windows
  • Rebase build environment to Debian 13 / GCC 14
  • Improved management and monitoring of the Veyon Server process to restart it more reliably on unexpected shutdown - fixes issues where computers were accessible only after restarting the Veyon Service
  • Veyon Server no longer shuts down when using the builtin UltraVNC server parallel to the official UltraVNC service
  • 3rdparty: Qt: update to 6.10.2 including bugfix for TLS-related performance regression (https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/606906)
  • 3rdparty: libpng: update to 1.6.54