Releases: TigerVNC/tigervnc
TigerVNC 1.15.0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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