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@dcommander dcommander released this 03 Feb 20:12
2.1.1
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  • turbovnc-2.1.1.tar.gz is the official source tarball for this release. The automatically generated "Source code" assets are not supported.
  • Refer to https://TurboVNC.org/Downloads/DigitalSignatures for information regarding the methods used to sign the files in this release and instructions for verifying the signatures.
  • The binary packages were built with libjpeg-turbo 1.5.1.

Support

Code Quality: Stable
Current Support Category: EOL

Documentation

User’s Guide for TurboVNC 2.1.1

Release Notes

Significant changes relative to 2.1:

  1. Fixed an XML error ("The processing instruction target matching '[xX][mM][lL]' is not allowed" or "Could not parse launch file") that occurred when attempting to launch the Java TurboVNC Viewer using the built-in zero-install Java Web Start feature in the TurboVNC Server. Apparently recent releases of Java did not like the fact that the JNLP file generated by the TurboVNC Server began with an XML comment.

  2. Arguments to the vncserver script are now case-insensitive.

  3. The TurboVNC Server init.d script was erroneously checking for the existence of ~/.vnc/passwd, even if the permitted and selected security types did not require a VNC password file. The init.d script now invokes vncserver with a new argument (-quiet) that causes vncserver to fail if a VNC password file is required but does not exist.

  4. The Java TurboVNC Viewer now supports the rfbTLS security descriptor used by Vino. This should allow the viewer to connect to encrypted Vino sessions using either the TLSVnc or TLSNone security types.

  5. The default behavior of the TurboVNC Server is to refuse new non-shared connections if a viewer is already connected. Previously, the server accomplished this by hard-coding the -dontdisconnect argument to Xvnc inside of the vncserver wrapper script. This release of TurboVNC instead makes -dontdisconnect the default in Xvnc and introduces a new Xvnc argument (-disconnect) to reverse the behavior. This new option allows TurboVNC to mimic the behavior of other VNC implementations that disconnect existing viewers when a new non-shared connection is established.

  6. Added a new parameter to the Java TurboVNC Viewer (LocalCursor) that, when enabled, causes cursor shape updates to be ignored and the local cursor to always be displayed. This mimics the behavior of the Windows TurboVNC Viewer when "Local cursor shape" is set to "Normal arrow" and "Mouse cursor" is set to "Don't show remote cursor". This option is useful when connecting to broken VNC server implementations that do not properly support server-side cursor rendering or cursor shape updates.

  7. Fixed an issue in the Windows TurboVNC Viewer whereby the mouse scroll wheel would stop working if the viewer was moved to a monitor above or to the left of the Windows "main"/"primary" display.

  8. Fixed an issue whereby zero-height PutImage requests (issued by XCB) would crash the TurboVNC X server. This was known to affect certain Qt5 applications running under Debian Stretch but may have also affected other applications and platforms.

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