Release notes for xrdp v0.9.17 (2021/08/31)
General announcements
- Running xrdp and xrdp-sesman on separate hosts is still supported by this release, but is now deprecated. This is not secure. A future release will replace the TCP socket used between these processes with a Unix Domain Socket, and then cross-host running will not be possible.
New features
- The IP address, port, and user name of NeutrinoRDP Proxy connection are logged in xrdp.log - these connections may not have a sesman log to use (#1873)
- The performance settings for NeutrinoRDP can be now configured (#1903)
- Support for Alpine Linux in startwm.sh (#1965)
- clipboard: log file transfer for the purpose of audit (#1954)
- Client's Keyboard layout now can be overridden by xrdp configuration for debugging purposes (#1952)
Bug fixes
- PAM_USER environment variable is not set when using pam_exec module (#1882)
- Allow common channel settings to be overridden for modules as well as chansrv (#1899)
- The text only-copy/paste interface for the VNC module (used only when chansrv is not active) has been improved (#1900)
- The unsupported
tcutilsutility has been removed (#1943) - The quality of TLS logging has been improved (#1926)
- Keyboard information is now passed correctly through NeuutrinoRDP, and can be overridden if required (#1934)
- A message is now logged in the sesman log for unsuccessful login attempts detailing the user used (#1947)
Internal changes
- astyle formatting is now checked during CI builds (#1879)
- Generalise development build options, and add --enable-devel-streamcheck (#1887)
- Now uses cppcheck 2.5 for CI builds (#1938)
- The SCP protocol is now using a standard
struct transfor messaging rather than its own thing (#1925)
Changes for packagers or developers
- The
--enable-xrdpdebugdeveloper option has been replaced with finer-grained--enable-devel-*options. Consequently, specifying--enable-xrdpdebugis now an error (#1913)