0.3.1

Assets

• turbovnc-0.3.1-unixsrc.tar.gz and turbovnc-0.3.1-winsrc.tar.gz are the official source tarballs 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.

Release Notes

Significant changes relative to 0.3:

1. Automatically start Xvnc with -nolisten local on Solaris hosts. On Solaris, /tmp/.X11-unix is not world writable by default, so it is necessary to either start Xvnc with -nolisten local (which forces Xvnc to listen on a tcp port rather than a local pipe) or to make /tmp/.X11-unix world writable. The former approach seemed like the lesser of two evils.

2. The vncserver startup script now sets VGL_COMPRESS to 0 automatically, so it is no longer necessary to supply a -c 0 argument to vglrun when running inside a TurboVNC session.

3. The JPEG quality slider in the Unix viewer's F8 popup menu will now respond to any mouse button, not just the middle one.

4. The WAN protocol optimizations can now be switched on and off. It has been discovered that these optimizations produce slower performance on a LAN, so it is preferable only to use them on high-latency networks.

   On the Windows viewer, the "Broadband/T1" preset now enables the WAN protocol optimizations in addition to setting quality=30 and subsampling=4:1:1. Similarly, the "High-speed Network" preset disables WAN optimizations in addition to setting quality=95 and subsampling=4:4:4. WAN optimizations can also be configured via an additional check box ("High-Latency Network") in the Options dialog or through two new command line switches: /lan and /wan.

   On the Linux/Unix viewer, the default is no WAN optimizations, quality=95, and subsampling=4:4:4. You can specify an argument of -wan to enable WAN optimizations or -broadband to enable WAN optimizations, quality=30, and subsampling=4:1:1. The F8 popup menu also contains a new button for enabling/disabling WAN optimizations, and the Broadband and LAN presets in this window will enable and disable WAN optimizations (respectively.)