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@github-actions github-actions released this 14 Jun 19:01
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v0.16.5
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What's Changed

Fixed

  • Keyboard shortcuts did nothing under non-Latin keyboard layouts — accelerators are registered with Latin keyvals (<Control>n), but GTK matches them against the keyval produced by the active layout, so under a Cyrillic/Greek/etc. layout pressing Ctrl+N yielded Cyrillic_en and the shortcut silently did nothing (the in-app recorder already normalized to Latin, but runtime matching did not). A capture-phase key controller now maps the hardware keycode back to its Latin keyval and activates the matching action when it is currently bound. User overrides and keyboard-passthrough mode are honored automatically (it queries the live accelerators), and Latin layouts are untouched
  • RDP external client closed immediately with no explanation (#177 follow-up) — when the embedded IronRDP first-frame watchdog (0.16.3) fell back to the external FreeRDP client — or when external mode was selected directly — the client's stderr was redirected to /dev/null, so a failed connection (authentication failure, rejected certificate, unsupported codec, wrong display backend) just made a window flash and close with no diagnostic anywhere. On top of that the widget was left in a phantom Connected state because the spawned process was never checked for an early exit. FreeRDP's stderr is now captured and forwarded to the application log, and a short startup watchdog (polls for ~3 s) detects an immediate exit and surfaces it as a clear, localized error instead of a silent blank tab
  • macOS: wrong default secret backend on a fresh install — SecretSettings defaulted to libsecret on every platform, but libsecret does not exist on macOS, so a new install fell back through an unavailable backend instead of using the system Keychain. The default is now platform-aware (MacOsKeychain on macOS, libsecret elsewhere), and the Settings → Secrets backend selector shows and persists "macOS Keychain" for the system-keyring slot on macOS instead of the meaningless "libsecret" label
  • macOS: misleading "not installed" error for any terminal spawn failure — the native-PTY launcher reported every failure (PTY allocation, fd duplication, controlling-terminal setup) as Command not found / '…' is not installed. Only a genuine missing-executable error (NotFound) now uses that wording; other failures surface the actual error text in the toast so the cause is diagnosable
  • macOS: gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme workaround fought the system theme — the Linux/KDE/XFCE xsettings workaround that force-clears this property also ran on macOS, where the property mirrors the system NSAppearance. Clearing it interfered with "Follow system" dark mode and produced repeated misleading log lines. The workaround is now gated to non-macOS platforms

Improved

  • RDP connection diagnostics — the external FreeRDP launcher now logs the selected binary (wlfreerdp3/sdl-freerdp3/xfreerdp3), the session type (Wayland vs X11), and the full argument vector (the password is never on the command line, so this is safe) at debug level. The embedded IronRDP path now logs how long the first displayable frame took to arrive, making it possible to tell a genuine GFX/H.264-only server (no frame at all) apart from a slow first paint on a high-latency link. Run with RUST_LOG=debug to collect this when reporting RDP issues
  • Quieter logs: CSS theme-parser warning flood suppressed — GTK4's CSS parser emits hundreds of harmless Theme parser warning … Expected ';' lines while reading the libadwaita ≥1.9 stylesheet (most visible on macOS/Homebrew). A GLib log writer now drops only those specific messages and forwards every other GTK/GLib message unchanged, so real warnings are no longer buried
  • macOS Keychain: secret bytes zeroized on decode failure — if a stored Keychain value failed UTF-8 decoding, the raw bytes (potentially password material) were dropped without being wiped; they are now zeroized before the error is returned
  • macOS: native key symbols on the welcome screen — the welcome screen's Keyboard Shortcuts column now renders combos with macOS symbols (⌃ ⇧ ⌥ ⌫, e.g. ⌃⇧T) instead of the Ctrl+Shift+T text. The bindings themselves are unchanged (RustConn still uses Control on macOS, shown as ⌃); this is presentation only. The Shortcuts dialog already renders natively via AdwShortcutsItem

Translations

  • Italian — updated translations contributed by @albanobattistella (#179)
  • New string for the external-client early-exit error, translated across all 16 languages
  • New strings for the macOS terminal spawn-failure messages (Failed to start '{}', Failed to start '{}': {})

Dependencies

  • Updated: yuv 0.8.15→0.8.16

Installation

Flatpak (Recommended)

flatpak install flathub io.github.totoshko88.RustConn

Snap

sudo snap install rustconn

Debian/Ubuntu (.deb from this release)

sudo dpkg -i rustconn_0.16.5_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f  # Install dependencies if needed

Fedora (.rpm from this release)

sudo dnf install rustconn-0.16.5-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm

AppImage

chmod +x RustConn-0.16.5-x86_64.AppImage
./RustConn-0.16.5-x86_64.AppImage

macOS (Homebrew)

brew tap totoshko88/rustconn
brew install rustconn
open $(brew --prefix)/opt/rustconn/RustConn.app

All dependencies (GTK4, libadwaita, VTE, Adwaita icons) are installed automatically.
Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.

OBS Repositories

Packages available at: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:totoshko88:rustconn/rustconn

# Debian 13 (Trixie)
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/Debian_13/ /' \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rustconn.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/Debian_13/Release.key \
  | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rustconn.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update && sudo apt install rustconn

# Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble)
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/xUbuntu_24.04/ /' \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rustconn.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/xUbuntu_24.04/Release.key \
  | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rustconn.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update && sudo apt install rustconn

# Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute)
echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/xUbuntu_26.04/ /' \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rustconn.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/xUbuntu_26.04/Release.key \
  | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rustconn.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update && sudo apt install rustconn

# Fedora 44
sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/Fedora_44/home:totoshko88:rustconn.repo
sudo dnf install rustconn

# Fedora 43
sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/Fedora_43/home:totoshko88:rustconn.repo
sudo dnf install rustconn

# openSUSE Tumbleweed
sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ rustconn
sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper in rustconn

# openSUSE Leap 16.0
sudo zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/totoshko88:/rustconn/openSUSE_Leap_16.0/ rustconn
sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper in rustconn

Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S rustconn

FreeBSD (Ports)

pkg install rustconn

Full installation guide: https://github.com/totoshko88/RustConn/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md

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