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Version 2020.2

Release date: November 2020

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Download the latest version from the website. 

To do so, select the free Community Version >> NETWORK <<. Expect to receive the download link within a few hours.

Installation

 

For more information, see:

Note the system requirements.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

64-bit OS / 32-bit Support Transition

The openthinclient OS is now fully 64-bit based.

This allows for support of various new applications, plug-ins, and drivers.

The release now exclusively supports 64-bit devices.

UEFI-PXE Boot

In addition to the previous legacy network boot, openthinclient now also supports the more modern UEFI-PXE boot mode — without requiring any special server-side configuration.

Note, UEFI HTTP Boot support is planned for a future release.

For more information, see the Knowledge Base article Network Boot — Methods and Details.Details.

openthinclient OS
  • The new version, openthinclient OS 2020.2, is based on Debian 10 (Buster).
  • Disable the SSH service on thin clients via the hardware type.
Citrix
  • The Citrix client has been updated to the current version 2009.
  • Citrix now offers dedicated support for Microsoft Teams.
  • Zoom plugin for improved video transmission.
  • Update the Phillips driver for SpeechMike (digital dictation) to 12.9.1.
  • Auto-detection for connected devices from Phillips, Grundig, and Signotec. (Auto-detection could be enabled in previous versions — it can now be disabled.)

For information on Teams and Zoom, see the Knowledge Base article Webcams with openthinclient.openthinclient.

For more details, see the release notes from Citrix.

FreeRDP
  • The FreeRDP client has been updated to the current version 2.2.
  • The Phillips driver for SpeechMike (digital dictation) has been updated to 12.9.1.
  • Signotec relies on generic USB redirection, eliminating the need for a dedicated driver.
  • Support for UPN logins.
  • Display the host name in the login dialog.

Detailed information can be found in the FreeRDP changelog.

openthinclient Management Server
  • New license widget on the dashboard
  • ThinClient management:
    • Wake-On-LAN button for thin clients
    • Improved log display
    • List of unregistered MAC addresses when creating new entries and managing them
  • Add more context information to forms (ℹ️ buttons).
Other changes
  • The Firefox browser has been streamlined out of the openthinclient OS.
  • The VMware Horizon Client has been removed from the openthinclient OS.
  • Display and sound errors now appear on thin clients as balloon messages (top right), and users can continue working without closing them.

Known issues

openthinclient Manager
  • The display of assignments now shows only the current selection; for example, it presents applications assigned to a user via the user group upon request.
  • With the Active Directory connection, the display names of the users are shown instead of the login names.
  • When renaming a hardware type used by a thin client, the save operation succeeds, yet the system still displays an error message upon saving.
Citrix
  • Due to a workaround for a bug with the Teams plugin, the connection bar appears in English.

The 2009 version of Citrix Receiver includes a list of known issues provided by the manufacturer; it's available on the Citrix website.

FreeRDP
  • Drivers for Grundig devices are still pending.

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.

Versions of System Components

The following tables list the versions of the system components used.

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Debian-package                           ┃ Version                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ OpenSSL                                  │ 1.1.1d-0+deb10u3          │
│ Graphics Driver INTEL                    │ 2:2.99.917+git20180925-2  │
│ Graphics Driver ATI/RADEON               │ 1:19.0.1-1                │
│ Graphics Driver ATI/AMDGPU               │ 18.1.99+git20190207-1     │
│ Graphics Driver Nouveau                  │ 1:1.0.16-1                │
│ Graphics Driver NVIDIA legacy 304xx      │ None                      │
│ Graphics Driver NVIDIA legacy 340xx      │ 340.108-3~deb10u1         │
│ Graphics Driver NVIDIA legacy 390xx      │ 390.138-1~deb10u1         │
│ Graphics Driver VMware                   │ 1:13.3.0-2                │
│ Graphics Driver FBDEV                    │ 1:0.5.0-1                 │
│ Graphics Driver VESA                     │ 1:2.4.0-1                 │
│ Graphics Driver Openchrome               │ 1:0.6.0-3+b1              │
│ Input Driver Elographics                 │ 1:1.4.1-1+b5              │
│ Input Driver Evdev                       │ 1:2.10.6-1                │
│ Input Driver Wacom                       │ 0.34.99.1-1               │
│ Xorg X11 Server                          │ 2:1.20.4-1+deb10u1        │
│ Lightdm Login Manager                    │ 1.26.0-4                  │
│ Mate Window Manager                      │ 1.20.2-1                  │
│ Python 2                                 │ 2.7.16-2+deb10u1          │
│ Python 3                                 │ 3.7.3-1                   │
│ Kernel                                   │ 4.19.146-1                │
│ PC/SC Lite Library                       │ 1.8.24-1                  │
│ Reader Driver ACS USB                    │ 1.1.6-1                   │
│ Reader Driver ACEDrive IIIe USB          │ 3.7-7                     │
│ Reader Driver ACEDrive IIIe serial       │ 3.7-7                     │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Application                              ┃ Version                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Cherry USB Lan Proxy                     │ 3.3.0.0                   │
│ Chromium                                 │ 83.0.4103.116             │
│ Citrix HDX Realtime Media Engine         │ 2.9                       │
│ Citrix Workspace for Linux               │ 20.9.0.15                 │
| Citrix Zoom Plugin                       | 5.0.415463.0619           |
│ Evidian Auth Manager                     │ 1.5.7313                  │
│ FreeRDP                                  │ 2.2.0                     │
│ Oracle JRE                               │ 8u202                     │
| Phillips Driver                          | 12.9.1                    |
│ RDesktop                                 │ 1.8.6.                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘

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