Release notes from tigervnc

TigerVNC 1.15.0

2025-02-17T09:12:43Z

TigerVNC 1.15.0 is now available. The prominent changes for this release are:

The native viewer and Unix servers now support the back and forward mouse buttons
The Unix servers can now handle any number of keys that are missing from the server keyboard layout, rather than just a few
x0vncserver now supports clipboard redirection
The native viewer can remember the username and password when reconnecting
Both the native and Java viewer can now show a standard arrow cursor, not just a dot cursor, if the server cursor is blank
vncpasswd can now check password complexity with pwquality

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/stable/1.15.0

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.15.0 beta

2025-01-21T08:39:07Z

A beta of TigerVNC 1.15.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made since
the last release, but the highlights are:

The native viewer and Unix servers now support the back and forward mouse buttons
The Unix servers can now handle any number of keys that are missing from the server keyboard layout, rather than just a few
x0vncserver now supports clipboard redirection
The native viewer can remember the username and password when reconnecting
Both the native and Java viewer can now show a standard arrow cursor, not just a dot cursor, if the server cursor is blank
vncpasswd can now check password complexity with pwquality

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/beta/1.15beta

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.14.1

2024-10-24T15:00:27Z

The bugfix release TigerVNC 1.14.1 is now available. This release fixes a number of regressions, the most prominent being:

Default installation of native viewer can once again handle VncAuth
Graphic acceleration now can now be disabled through the vncserver config file the same way as other features
Command vncpasswd can again correctly update passwords
Native viewer once again consider passwd file that contain more than one password valid
Native viewer can once again connect to RealVNC servers
Users of x0vncserver should no longer experience the mouse cursor moving to the upper left corner
H264 encoding no longer causes crashing

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/stable/1.14.1

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.14.0

2024-07-24T08:31:05Z

TigerVNC 1.14.0 is now available. The most prominent changes in this release are:

Xvnc now supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan on drivers that supports GBM¹
The viewers and servers now follow the XDG Base Directory Specification, like "~/.config", for storing files in the home directory. Existing users will continue using the legacy "~/.vnc" directory, but new users will get the XDG directories.
The native viewer now supports Apple's Diffie-Hellman and UltraVNC's MSLogonII authentication methods
The Java viewer now supports RealVNC's RSA-AES authentication method
Ubuntu 24.04 packages have been added
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 packages have been removed as they are EOL
The native viewer has received a mild refresh of the UI appearance
Reverse connections can now be forced to be view-only
The special "%u" marker can be specified for "PlainUsers" to dynamically indicate the user running the server
vncserver can be run without forking for better compatibility with more system service managers
x0vncserver now supports systemd socket activation

¹ FOSS drivers and newer Nvidia drivers

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/stable/1.14.0

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.14.0 Beta

2024-06-20T13:40:56Z

A beta of TigerVNC 1.14.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made since
the last release, but the highlights are:

Xvnc now supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan on drivers that supports GBM¹
The viewers and servers now follow the XDG Base Directory Specification, like "~/.config", for storing files in the home directory. Existing users will continue using the legacy "~/.vnc" directory, but new users will get the XDG directories.
The native viewer now supports Apple's Diffie-Hellman and UltraVNC's MSLogonII authentication methods
The Java viewer now supports RealVNC's RSA-AES authentication method
Ubuntu 24.04 packages have been added
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 packages have been removed as they are EOL
The native viewer has received a mild refresh of the UI appearance
Reverse connections can now be forced to be view-only
The special "%u" marker can be specified for "PlainUsers" to dynamically indicate the user running the server
vncserver can be run without forking for better compatibility with more system service managers
x0vncserver now supports systemd socket activation

¹ FOSS drivers and newer Nvidia drivers

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/beta/1.14beta

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.13.1

2023-03-06T09:58:29Z

The bugfix release TigerVNC 1.13.1 is now available. This release fixes the following critical issues:

x0vncserver can either crash itself, or crash the X server it is connected to
The servers might crash if the clipboard is updated just as a client is connected
The vncserver service can fail to start on SELinux system if ~/.vnc doesn't exist

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/stable/1.13.1

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.13.0

2023-02-08T12:18:07Z

TigerVNC 1.13.0 is now available. The most prominent changes in this release are:

The servers and native viewer now support RealVNC's RSA-AES authentication methods and encryption
The native viewer is now translated to Romanian and Georgian
The native viewer now (optionally) supports PiKVM's H.264 encoding
The display settings for the native viewer have been overhauled to make them easier to understand
The native viewer now supports adding exceptions for expired certificates
Resolved an issue where full-screen mode didn't work in the native viewer on macOS 13
Lock key synchronization has been re-enabled in the native viewer after being accidentally disabled in 1.11.0
Xvnc/libvnc.so can now be built with Xorg 1.21
x0vncserver is a bit better at handling differing server and client keyboard layout
x0vncserver now correctly handles zaphod mode
Added Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 packages

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/stable/1.13.0

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.13.0 Beta

2023-01-11T12:48:28Z

A beta of TigerVNC 1.13.0 is now available. The most prominent changes in this release are:

The servers and native viewer now support RealVNC's RSA-AES authentication methods and encryption
The native viewer is now translated to Romanian and Georgian
The native viewer now (optionally) supports PiKVM's H.264 encoding
The display settings for the native viewer have been overhauled to make them easier to understand
The native viewer now supports adding exceptions for expired certificates
Resolved an issue where full-screen mode didn't work in the native viewer on macOS 13
Lock key synchronization has been re-enabled in the native viewer after being accidentally disabled in 1.11.0
Xvnc/libvnc.so can now be built with Xorg 1.21
x0vncserver is a bit better at handling differing server and client keyboard layout
x0vncserver now correctly handles zaphod mode
Added Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 packages

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/beta/1.13beta

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.12.0

2021-11-10T07:40:00Z

TigerVNC 1.12.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made since the last release, but the highlights are:

The native viewer now supports full screen over a subset of monitors (e.g. 2 out of 3), and reacts properly to monitors being added or removed
Recent server history in the native viewer
The native viewer now has an option to reconnect if the connection is dropped
Translations are now enabled on Windows and macOS for the native viewer
The native viewer now respects the system security policy¹
Better handling of accented keys in the Java viewer
The Unix servers can now listen to both a Unix socket and a TCP port at the same time
The network code in both the servers and the native viewer has been restructured to give a more responsive experience
The vncserver service now correctly handles settings set to "0"
Fixed the clipboard Unicode handling in both the native viewer and the servers
Support for pointer "warping" in Xvnc and the native viewer, enabling e.g. FPS games

¹ except when GnuTLS is statically linked

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/stable/1.12.0

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers

TigerVNC 1.12.0 Beta

2021-09-09T07:10:26Z

A beta of TigerVNC 1.12.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made since
the last release, but the highlights are:

The native viewer now supports full screen over a subset of monitors (e.g. 2 out of 3), and reacts properly to monitors being added or removed
Recent server history in the native viewer
The native viewer now has an option to reconnect if the connection is dropped
Translations are now enabled on Windows and macOS for the native viewer
The native viewer now respects the system security policy¹
Better handling of accented keys in the Java viewer
The Unix servers can now listen to both a Unix socket and a TCP port at the same time
The network code in both the servers and the native viewer has been restructured to give a more responsive experience
The vncserver service now correctly handles settings set to "0"
Fixed the clipboard Unicode handling in both the native viewer and the servers
Support for pointer "warping" in Xvnc and the native viewer, enabling e.g. FPS games

¹ except when GnuTLS is statically linked

Binaries are available from SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tigervnc/files/beta/1.12beta

Regards
The TigerVNC Developers