Version 2019.1.1

TranslationRelease pending.date: September 30, 2019

Download

Download the latest version from the website. 

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Installation

 

For more information, see:

Note the system requirements.

Update

 

Update existing installations within the openthinclient Management Server.¹

 

For a description of the update process, read the article Performing an Update.

 

¹If _{using the virtual appliance, install a new appliance and migrate the data, at least for a major release.}

Updates and Improvements

openthinclient Manager

Touchscreen support

Directly within the operating system without additional devices/components. Calibration can be performed on the thin client and, if necessary, persisted using the new touchscreen calibration component.

The packages elotouch, penmounttouch and egalax-touch Development's now focused elsewhere.

FreeRDP

The FreeRDP package now also supports the Windows login screen when TLS is selected as the security protocol.

Localboot

The release fixes bugs affecting Localboot clients with static IP addresses.

Display

The new "Clone" option allows duplicating the display on a second monitor.

Known issues

openthinclient Manager

The display of assignments now shows all items, including applications assigned via user groups.

Virtual Appliance

The virtual appliance starts successfully in Oracle VirtualBox after adjusting the operating system setting. To resolve the black screen, after importing the appliance, select "Linux" as the type and "Debian (64-bit)" as the version in the properties.

Citrix

The manufacturer has published a list of known issues for version 1903 of the Citrix Receiver; it's available on the Citrix website.

FreeRDP

FreeRDP is under continuous development. The developers track all known issues in the GitHub Issue Tracker.
When using Terminal Server ≤ 2008R2, use rdesktop instead of FreeRDP.

rdesktop

Use rdesktop for connections that don't require TLS; refer to arch-linux-bug.

Display Settings

Like all modern Linux systems, it uses KMS (Kernel Mode Setting). As a result, display names may change after the update. Therefore, adjust the setting in the "Display" device settings. Alternatively, under "Use specific graphics driver" in the hardware settings, select "Use Xorg-Intel driver" instead of KMS.

Glamor Acceleration with AMD Graphics (radeon)

Starting with version 2018.1, Glamor Acceleration is always enabled by default for AMD graphics cards. If the system lacks graphical interface support, set the additional kernel parameter `glamor=false` in the hardware type or directly on the thin client.

See:https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Glamor/

Versions of System Components

The following tables list the versions of the system components in use.

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┃ Debian-package                           ┃ Version                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ OpenSSL                                  │ 1.1.0k-1~deb9u1           │
│ Graphics Driver INTEL                    │ 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1  │
│ Graphics Driver ATI/RADEON               │ 1:7.8.0-1+b1              │
│ Graphics Driver ATI/AMDGPU               │ 1.2.0-1+b1                │
│ Graphics Driver Nouveau                  │ 1:1.0.13-3                │
│ Graphics Driver NVIDIA legacy 304xx      │ 304.137-5~bpo9+1          │
│ Graphics Driver NVIDIA legacy 340xx      │ 340.107-2~bpo9+1          │
│ Graphics Driver NVIDIA legacy 390xx      │ 390.116-1~bpo9+1          │
│ Graphics Driver VMware                   │ 1:13.2.1-1+b1             │
│ Graphics Driver FBDEV                    │ 1:0.4.4-1+b5              │
│ Graphics Driver VESA                     │ 1:2.3.4-1+b2              │
│ Graphics Driver Openchrome               │ 1:0.5.0-3                 │
│ Input Driver Elographics                 │ 1:1.4.1-1+b5              │
│ Input Driver Evdev                       │ 1:2.10.5-1                │
│ Input Driver Wacom                       │ 0.34.0-1                  │
│ Xorg X11 Server                          │ 2:1.19.2-1+deb9u5         │
│ Lightdm Login Manager                    │ 1.18.3-1                  │
│ XFCE4 Window Manager                     │ 4.12.1-5                  │
│ Mate Window Manager                      │ 1.20.2-1~bpo9+1           │
│ Python 2                                 │ 2.7.13-2+deb9u3           │
│ Python 3                                 │ 3.5.3-1                   │
│ Kernel                                   │ 4.19.37-4~bpo9+1          │
│ PC/SC Lite Library                       │ 1.8.20-1                  │
│ Reader Driver ACS USB                    │ 1.1.4-1                   │
│ Reader Driver ACEDrive IIIe USB          │ 3.7-5                     │
│ Reader Driver ACEDrive IIIe serial       │ 3.7-5                     │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
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┃ Application                              ┃ Version                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Cherry USB Lan Proxy                     │ v3.2.0.2                  │
│ Chromium                                 │ 72.0.3626.96              │
│ Citrix HDX Realtime Media Engine         │ 2.7                       │
│ Citrix Workspace for Linux               │ 19.1.0.9                  │
│ Evidian Auth Manager                     │ 1.5.6840                  │
│ Firefox                                  │ 60.8.0                    │
│ FreeRDP                                  │ 2.0.0-dev5 (8dcac1ada)    │
| IBM	                                   │						   |
| iAccess	                               │						   |
│ Oracle JRE                               │ 1.8.0_202                 │
│ RDesktop                                 │ 1.8.6.                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘