We're excited to announce the release of Research and Engineering Studio (RES) 2026.06.
The following is associated with RES 2026.06.
SECURITY FIXES
- Fixed a security vulnerability where an authenticated user could exploit symlink handling in the File System API on the cluster manager host to read arbitrary files.
ENHANCEMENTS
- Replaced DCV broker infrastructure host with serverless Lambda-based session management, reducing infrastructure overhead and improving scalability.
- Included QUIC, default schedule, and other cluster settings in snapshot restore functionality.
CHANGES
- Continued migration of VDC-related APIs from the VDC infra host to the backend Lambda.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed "Create Software Stack from Session" workflow failing due to stale AD credentials, missing IAM permissions, and incompatible EC2Launch version on Windows.
- Fixed Ubuntu VDI login failure caused by SSSD configuration parsing error with special characters in home directory paths.
- Fixed list project owners and members in the user drop‐down when sharing a Virtual Desktop.
- Fixed VDI login failures on RHEL8, RHEL9, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.04 caused by amazon-efs-utils build incompatibility preventing EFS /home directory mounting.
- Fixed IAM policies not appearing in "add policies" dropdown when account has more than 1000 policies.
- Updated default AMIs across all supported OS types and regions, resolving Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability.