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What's Changed

Note: Flatpak release will follow after March 18, 2026, when GNOME 50 runtime is published on Flathub.

Added

  • RDP file import in GUI — .rdp files can now be imported via the Import dialog (Ctrl+I); previously only available through file association and CLI
  • CLI import: 4 new formats — rustconn-cli import now supports --format rdp, rdm, virt-viewer, and libvirt in addition to the existing 7 formats
  • Split view for Telnet, Serial, Kubernetes — split view now works with all VTE terminal-based protocols, not just SSH/SFTP/Local Shell
  • Statistics: Most Used & Protocol Distribution — statistics dialog now shows top-3 most used connections and protocol usage breakdown with progress bars
  • 5 new customizable keybindings — Toggle Sidebar (F9), Connection History (Ctrl+H), Statistics (Ctrl+Shift+I), Password Generator (Ctrl+G), Wake On LAN (Ctrl+Shift+L); total now 31 actions
  • Sidebar keyboard shortcuts — F2 renames selected connection/group, Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V copies/pastes connections, Ctrl+M moves to group; all scoped to sidebar focus so they don't intercept VTE terminal or embedded viewer input
  • Dynamic inventory sync — new rustconn-cli sync command synchronizes connections from external JSON/YAML inventory files; matches by source tag + name + host; supports --remove-stale to clean absent connections and --dry-run for preview (#56)
  • RDP file association — double-clicking an .rdp file opens RustConn and connects automatically; supports address, credentials, gateway, resolution, audio, and clipboard fields (#54)
  • FreeRDP bundled in Flatpak — FreeRDP 3.24.0 SDL3 client built into the Flatpak; external RDP works out of the box on Wayland without DISPLAY
  • sdl-freerdp3 detection — FreeRDP detection now includes SDL3 variants (sdl-freerdp3, sdl-freerdp); Wayland priority: wlfreerdp3 > wlfreerdp > sdl-freerdp3 > sdl-freerdp > xfreerdp3

Improved

  • i18n: hardcoded English strings wrapped — ~40 user-visible strings across sidebar, embedded viewers (RDP, VNC, SPICE), session status overlays, and toolbar buttons now use i18n() for translation
  • i18n: accessible labels translatable — ~25 update_property accessible labels in sidebar, window UI, embedded toolbar, and viewer controls wrapped with i18n()
  • i18n: protocol display names — wrapped display_name() call sites with i18n() and added translations for 15 strings across all 15 languages
  • User-friendly VNC error messages — raw error variants in VNC session toasts replaced with actionable messages ("Authentication failed. Check your credentials.", "Connection error")
  • VTE context menu moved off terminal widget — GestureClick controller for the right-click context menu moved from the VTE terminal to its container widget; prevents interference with VTE's internal mouse event processing in ncurses/slang applications
  • VTE terminal no longer wrapped in ScrolledWindow — redundant ScrolledWindow wrappers removed since VTE implements GtkScrollable natively
  • Monitoring module property tests — 12 new tests covering MonitoringSettings, MonitoringConfig, MetricsParser, and MetricsComputer
  • Stale X11 comment removed — embedded.rs comment referencing GtkSocket / X11 embedding updated to reflect native protocol clients

Fixed

  • Secret backend default mismatch — SecretBackendType default changed from KeePassXc to LibSecret to match User Guide and provide a universal out-of-the-box experience on all Linux desktops

Flatpak sandbox

  • waypipe not detected — C-only build installs as waypipe-c, not waypipe; added post-install symlink in Flatpak manifest; detect_waypipe() now also tries waypipe-c as fallback; which_binary() checks /app/bin/ directly in sandbox
  • SFTP file manager ignores SSH key — external file managers (Dolphin, Nautilus) launched via xdg-open run outside the sandbox and cannot access the sandbox's SSH agent; sftp_use_mc now defaults to true in Flatpak so Midnight Commander (bundled) is used instead
  • ssh-agent socket in read-only ~/.ssh — ensure_ssh_agent() now uses -a $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/rustconn-ssh-agent.sock inside Flatpak so the agent socket is created in a writable directory
  • KeePassXC not detected — keepassxc-cli on the host system is now detected and executed via flatpak-spawn --host; all KDBX operations work transparently inside the sandbox; "Open Password Manager" button launches KeePassXC on the host
  • SSH jump host broken — replaced -J with -o ProxyCommand=ssh -W %h:%p ... that passes StrictHostKeyChecking, UserKnownHostsFile, and identity file to the jump host process
  • mc wrapper not found — stripped host-exported mc() bash function via --unset-env=BASH_FUNC_mc%%; installed sandbox wrapper for correct directory-change-on-exit
  • ZeroTrust and Kubernetes connections broken — CLI tools (aws, gcloud, az, kubectl) now detected and executed via flatpak-spawn --host; cloud CLI config dirs mounted into sandbox so credentials are shared between sandbox and host
  • mc mouse clicks produce artifacts — the xterm-256color terminfo entry's XM extended capability tells ncurses/slang to negotiate SGR mouse mode (1006) with VTE 0.80; mc cannot parse SGR-encoded mouse events, causing raw escape fragments like 7;6M7;6m on every click; fix: compiled a custom rustconn-256color terminfo entry (identical to xterm-256color but without XM); VTE child processes in Flatpak use TERM=rustconn-256color to prevent the negotiation; additionally switched mc build from ncurses to slang and mc SFTP uses -g (--oldmouse) flag as defense-in-depth

Terminal / mc

  • mc SFTP: initial window not fullscreen — mc read terminal dimensions before VTE widget received its GTK size allocation; added 150ms delay before spawning mc
  • Split view: text selection broken — GestureClick handler no longer claims clicks on VteTerminal widgets

RDP

  • Crash on RDP connect (RefCell already borrowed) — the IronRDP event polling loop held an immutable client_ref.borrow() while handle_ironrdp_error attempted client_ref.borrow_mut().take(), causing a double-borrow panic; error handling is now deferred until after the borrow is dropped (#57)
  • RDP gateway ignored in embedded mode — IronRDP doesn't support RD Gateway; now falls back to external xfreerdp with a toast (#53)
  • External RDP sidebar icon stays green after tab close — fixed session ID / connection ID mismatch in add_embedded_session_tab; external xfreerdp process is now killed on tab close

SSH

  • Custom options format unclear — subtitle now reads "Key=Value, comma-separated" with an example placeholder so users don't have to guess the format (#58)
  • UserKnownHostsFile defaults to Flatpak path on native build — is_flatpak() now requires FLATPAK_ID to match our app ID, preventing false positives when the env var leaks from another Flatpak process (#59)

Terminal

  • Ctrl+W closes tab instead of deleting word — changed close-tab shortcut from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+Shift+W (GNOME standard); Ctrl+W now passes through to the shell for backward-kill-word; close-pane moved to Ctrl+Shift+X (#60)

UI / Clippy

  • Default window size too small on first start — minimum size increased to 800×500; welcome screen adapts to narrow windows (#55)
  • CSS parser warning: @media (prefers-reduced-motion) — GTK4 CSS parser requires explicit value; changed to @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)
  • Clippy: RdpCommand::Connect large enum variant — boxed RdpConfig payload to reduce enum size from 240 to 16 bytes
  • Clippy: case-sensitive .rdp extension check — now uses Path::extension() with eq_ignore_ascii_case
  • Clippy: collapsible if and if-not-else — cleaned up nested conditionals in protocols, window, and main modules

Changed

  • GTK4/libadwaita/VTE crate upgrade — gtk4 0.10→0.11, libadwaita 0.8→0.9, vte4 0.9→0.10; unlocks GNOME 48–50 APIs
  • MSRV bumped to 1.92 — required by updated GTK-rs bindings
  • Flatpak runtime bumped to GNOME 50 — all three manifests now use org.gnome.Platform 50 with VTE 0.80
  • AdwSpinner migration — replaces gtk::Spinner in export dialog; cfg-gated adw-1-6
  • AdwShortcutsDialog migration — replaces deprecated gtk::ShortcutsWindow; cfg-gated adw-1-8
  • AdwSwitchRow migration — replaces manual ActionRow + Switch in monitoring, logging, and secrets settings tabs
  • AdwWrapBox for protocol filters — sidebar filters wrap on narrow sidebars; cfg-gated adw-1-7 with GtkBox fallback
  • Welcome screen refreshed — updated feature highlights, replaced performance internals with Quick Access tips, added Command Palette / Import / Settings shortcuts
  • CSS prefers-reduced-motion — transitions disabled when reduced motion is requested
  • Tiered distro feature flags — adw-1-8 for Tumbleweed/Fedora 43+, adw-1-6 for Leap 16.0/Fedora 42, baseline for older distros
  • Codebase cleanup — removed 25+ unused CSS classes, consolidated futures-util into futures, fixed metainfo.xml duplicates, added k8s keywords, removed dead code

Dependencies

  • clap 4.5.60→4.6.0, gtk4 0.11.0→0.11.1, gdk4 0.11.0→0.11.1, gsk4 0.11.0→0.11.1, glib 0.22.2→0.22.3, openssl 0.10.75→0.10.76, tracing-subscriber 0.3.22→0.3.23
  • Transitive: anstream 0.6.21→1.0.0, anstyle 1.0.13→1.0.14, anstyle-parse 0.2.7→1.0.0, cc 1.2.56→1.2.57, clap_complete 4.5.66→4.6.0, clap_mangen 0.2.31→0.2.33, colorchoice 1.0.4→1.0.5, glib-sys 0.22.0→0.22.3, once_cell 1.21.3→1.21.4, roff 0.2.2→1.1.0, tinyvec 1.10.0→1.11.0, uds_windows 1.2.0→1.2.1

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo dpkg -i rustconn_0.10.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f  # Install dependencies if needed

Fedora

sudo dnf install rustconn-0.10.0-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm

AppImage

chmod +x RustConn-0.10.0-x86_64.AppImage
./RustConn-0.10.0-x86_64.AppImage

openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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