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Version 2019.1.3

Release date: December 20, 2019

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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
  • In this update, the administrator user interface is significantly simpler, and several issues are resolved.

  • The core system of the openthinclient server has received several improvements, allowing the installation to manage system resources more efficiently. This has also increased system reliability.
    The two most important changes:

    • Limit total log file size to 4 GB.
    • The NFS server closes its file handles daily.

  • The openthinclient software installation now includes its own Java, and the manager now operates independently of the Java installed on the system. This applies only to new installations. Existing installations will continue to use the system-wide Java version.

openthinclient Applications
  • The FreeRDP package has been updated. The system now supports digital dictation devices from Devacon and Grundig. The Philips plugin has been updated to version 12.8.5.
  • The Citrix package has been updated. It includes the Citrix Workspace App, version 1910.
  • The localboot package now handles storage space issues and failed updates more effectively.
openthinclient-OS base
  • In the OS base package, the driver for AMD chipsets has been updated, adding support for newer AMD platforms and CPUs.
  • localboot from slow USB drives now works more reliably.
  • Various bugs have been fixed, including improvements to personalized splash screens

Known issue

Update within the Virtual Appliance

After an update, the openthinclient service now starts only on virtual appliances equal to or newer than 2.3.2, i.e., the version of the openthinclient manager originally shipped with the appliance is equal to or newer than 2.3.2.

If possible, download a new Virtual Appliance and transfer data via LDIF Export and LDIF Import.

If the above error has occurred, restore the VA by opening a terminal with CTRL+ALT+Xand entering the following commands

sudo systemctl disable openthinclient-manager.service
sudo ln -s /opt/openthinclient/bin/openthinclient-manager /etc/init.d/
openthinclient-Manager

The display of assignments may require additional data to show complete information. For example, applications assigned to a user via the user group require further configuration to appear.

With the AD connection, the display names of the users are shown instead of the logon names.

Citrix

The manufacturer provides a list of known issues for version 1910 of 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 a Terminal Server ≤ 2008R2, use rdesktop instead of FreeRDP.

rdesktop

Use rdesktop for connections that don't require TLS; refer to the Arch Linux bug report here.

Display Settings

Like all modern Linux systems, it uses KMS (Kernel Mode Setting). As a result, display port names may change after the update. Adjust the setting in the "Display" device type if required. Alternatively, under "Use specific graphics driver" in the "Hardware type" section, select "Use Xorg-Intel driver" instead of KMS.

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

Versions of System Components

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

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ 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                     │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ 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               │ 19.10.0.15                │
│ Evidian Auth Manager                     │ 1.5.6840                  │
│ Firefox                                  │ 60.8.0                    │
│ FreeRDP                                  │ 2.0.0-dev5 (3aa6047b3)    │
| IBM	                                   │                           |
| iAccess                                  │                           |
│ Oracle JRE                               │ 1.8.0_202                 │
│ RDesktop                                 │ 1.8.6.                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
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