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0.6.90 (1.0 beta1)

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@dcommander dcommander released this 30 Jul 00:19
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  • turbovnc-0.6.90.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.

Support

Code Quality: Beta
Current Support Category: EOL

Documentation

User’s Guide for TurboVNC 1.0 (Beta)

Release Notes

Significant changes relative to 0.6:

  1. Multi-threaded the Tight encoder in the Unix/Linux TurboVNC Server so that it can take advantage of multi-core systems. See documentation for further details.

  2. Added authentication extensions which allow viewers to authenticate using one-time passwords and Unix login credentials. See documentation and man pages for details.

  3. Added scroll wheel support to the Java TurboVNC viewer (requires JRE 1.4 or later.)

  4. Added automatic lossless refresh (ALR) feature, which sends a mathematically lossless copy of the screen during periods of inactivity. See documentation for details.

  5. For Linux, Mac/Intel, Solaris/x86, and Windows systems, the default build of TurboVNC no longer uses TurboJPEG/IPP (which was based on the proprietary Intel Performance Primitives) or Sun mediaLib. Instead, TurboVNC now uses libjpeg-turbo, a fully open source vector-accelerated JPEG codec developed in conjunction with the TigerVNC Project (and based on libjpeg/SIMD.)

    As a result of this, the TurboVNC RPMs and DEBs are now self-contained.

  6. The uninstall script in the Mac distribution package should now work on OS X 10.6.

  7. Added 64-bit Solaris and Windows binary packages, as well as a universal 32/64-bit binary package for OS X.

  8. Fixed a number of interaction issues between turbovncserver.conf and the vncserver script, and added configuration file options for the new TurboVNC features, such as ALR.

  9. Performance of the OS X viewer should generally be better (prior versions were not being built with compiler optimizations, due to the use of the antiquated imake build system.)

  10. Generally robustified vncserver -kill. In this release, if Xvnc aborts unexpectedly for any reason, then attempting to run vncserver -kill :N for the session will print a warning message about the process aborting and will then try to clean up the orphaned X socket files. If Xvnc deadlocks, then attempting to run vncserver -kill :N will warn about the deadlock and forego deleting the PID file (so you can kill -9 the process yourself and then re-run vncserver -kill to clean up the orphaned files.)

  11. Integrated autocutsel into the TurboVNC Server distribution for Unix/Linux in order to work around issues with the clipboard transfer feature.

  12. In the Windows TurboVNC Viewer, full-screen mode will now span all monitors in a multi-monitor configuration, not just the primary monitor.

  13. Added automatic clipboard transfer to the Java TurboVNC Viewer.

  14. Removed the warning dialog in the Windows viewer if full screen mode is activated via a hotkey (the reasoning being that if the user knows the hotkey to activate full screen mode, then they know how to deactivate it as well.)

  15. Fixed an issue whereby the TurboVNC Server would crash when a VirtualGL window was resized to larger than 2.75 megapixels.

  16. Added double buffering option to Java TurboVNC Viewer.

  17. "Login again" button now works when running the Java TurboVNC Viewer as a standalone application.

  18. Fix a couple of potential buffer overruns in Xvnc's embedded HTTP server.

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