Tiger VNC v1.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-07-16 // almost 6 years ago
  • The new TigerVNC 1.9.0 is now available. Lots of changes have been made since
    ๐Ÿš€ the last release, but the highlights are:

    • Alternative, "raw" keyboard mode in the native client and all servers
    • ๐Ÿ”€ CapsLock/NumLock/ScrollLock synchronisation in the native client and all servers
    • Automatic "repair" of JPEG artefacts on screen in all servers
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for UNIX sockets in the native client and in the UNIX servers
    • Both clients now warn when sending the password over a possibly insecure channel
    • ๐ŸŽ Performance improvements in the Java client
    • The Java client now requires Java 7
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved high latency handling in all servers
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Better keyboard handling in the native client on Windows
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Slightly better keyboard handling in x0vncserver
    • ๐Ÿ‘ x0vncserver now supports cursors and screen resize
    • Xorg 1.20 can now be used as a base for Xvnc/libvnc.so

    Binaries are available from bintray:

    https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.9.0

    Regards
    The TigerVNC Developers