Hi all, I have spend about 2 hours now with the new version that I build this morning from the repositories and I have a few questions/remarks:
The first thing I noticed is that usage history of a connection does not seem to work like it should. What I did is setup a VNC connection to do a simple test and regular sessions do not seem to appear in the history of that connection. (I did press disconnect and reopened a session several times) However I also tried the new screen sharing, and when I used the sharing link on another PC that session did show up in the usage history. So although I used that connection several times, only the shared session showed up in the history. Is this new behaviour or a potential bug? The new screen recording feature is really nice and will defeninitely be used here once it is released, I was just wondering if there was a way to configure guacamole to manage the log files. I just recorded a few sessions and have not tried to convert them yet, but they showed up on the server as connectionname.1, connectionname.2 etc. Will this keep piling up and eventualy use enormous amounts of disk space or is there a way to configure guacamole to automatically delete them after say a month? Kind regards, L.J. 2016-08-23 23:09 GMT+02:00 Mike Jumper <[email protected]>: > Hello all, > > It looks like the planned scope of 0.9.10-incubating has been satisfied, > and > there are no further open issues related to 0.9.10-incubating changes. > > Included in this email is a list of all changes that have gone into the > Apache > Guacamole (incubating) repositories since the pre-Incubator 0.9.9 release. > Links to the relevant issues in JIRA are included for context, as well as > some > brief background info where appropriate. > > To all those able, *please test as much as possible*. Once it has been > reasonably-verified that there are no blocking issues, the next logical > step > will be to move forward with a release VOTE. > > For now, we need: > > 1) To verify that previously-working things are not suddenly broken > (regressions). > > 2) To verify that features/fixes intended for 0.9.10-incubating do indeed > work > as intended. > > 3) To verify that changes for 0.9.10-incubating are accurately reflected in > the documentation. > > The main repositories to test against are incubator-guacamole-client and > incubator-guacamole-server, both of which must be installed for any > Guacamole deployment (see the docs): > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-guacamole-client > https://github.com/apache/incubator-guacamole-server > > The Guacamole documentation itself is in the form of a manual that is kept > up-to-date with each release (or at least should be - that's part of what > needs > to be tested here): > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-guacamole-manual > > If anyone has any questions, please ask and we will do our best to assist. > > Thanks! > > - Mike > > ========== > > Table of Contents: > > A. Screen sharing > B. Screen recording > C. Streamlined file transfers > D. RDP audio input > E. Keyboard improvements > F. Local clipboard integration > G. Theming extensions > H. Docker improvements > I. User management > J. Partially-reverted clipboard changes > K. Concurrency options > L. Translations > M. Exposing terminal output to JavaScript > N. Miscellaneous bugs > > > ---------------------------------------- > A. Screen sharing > ---------------------------------------- > > Explicitly supported by the database authentication backend. Can also be > used > by extensions or Guacamole-driven applications in general (when written to > use > the appropriate parts of the APIs). > > When granted permission, users can generate temporary share links for their > active connections. Those links are invalidated when they disconnect. > > * GUACAMOLE-5: Allow creation of per-connection share links > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-5) > > * GUACAMOLE-13: Finally stabilize and merge GUAC-844 to master > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-13) > > * GUACAMOLE-52: Do not delete history records > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-52) > > > ---------------------------------------- > B. Screen recording > ---------------------------------------- > > All supported protocols (VNC, RDP, SSH, and telnet) can be configured to > record > sessions to disk for later playback. This configuration is specified on a > per-connection basis. Session recordings are Guacamole protocol dumps of > the > server -> client side of the conversation, and can be converted to a normal > video stream using the "guacenc" utility, which is part of the > guacamole-server > build. > > Additionally, text-based protocols (SSH and telnet) can record sessions as > text, using the same format used by the "script" and "scriptreplay" > commands. > > * GUACAMOLE-4: Implement session recording > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-4) > > * GUACAMOLE-16: Implement text-based screen recording for SSH/telnet > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-16) > > > ---------------------------------------- > C. Streamlined file transfers > ---------------------------------------- > > The web application will now handle file transfer via HTTP. This speeds > things > up, removes limitations on file size imposed by JavaScript, and removes the > need for initiating the actual download by clicking a link. > > File transfer is still handled via the Guacamole protocol. The streams are > dynamically intercepted, stripped, and exposed via HTTP by the web > application > in response to specific REST API requests. This is strictly a frontend > change > and does not affect the core Guacamole stack and protocol, which continues > to > handle file transfer as it always has. > > * GUACAMOLE-44: Upload/download of files that are more than 1 GB fail > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-44) > > > ---------------------------------------- > D. RDP audio input > ---------------------------------------- > > Support for RDP's "AUDIO_INPUT" channel. Configuring this is tricky, and > Microsoft's documentation is somewhat misleading. It should work > out-of-the-box > for Windows 7, while versions of Windows Server will need group policy > changes > AND the "Remote Desktop Session Host" feature installed. > > * GUACAMOLE-25: Add support for audio input > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-25) > > > ---------------------------------------- > E. Keyboard improvements > ---------------------------------------- > > There are new keymaps which need verification, as well as some fixes. In > particular, use of the keypad was broken for RDP in 0.9.9. This should be > fixed now. > > * GUACAMOLE-6: Netherlands keyboard layout created > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-6) > > * GUACAMOLE-7: Wrong French keyboard layout > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-7) > > * GUACAMOLE-15: Japanese keymap support on RDP > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-15) > > * GUACAMOLE-19: "@" characters don't work with French keyboard under IE11 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-19) > > * GUACAMOLE-51: Keypad not properly mapped in RDP, SSH, and telnet > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-51) > > > ---------------------------------------- > F. Local clipboard integration > ---------------------------------------- > > Guacamole will now use the standard-but-clunky Clipboard API > (document.execCommand()) to attempt to read the local clipboard. If this > fails, > things continue to work as they have in past releases (clipboard access > via the > Guacamole menu/sidebar). > > IE11 will prompt the user to allow clipboard access, which is actually > pretty > nice. For Chrome, there is a third-party extension which allows the user to > grant access on a per-domain basis: > > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clipboard-permission-mana/ > ipbhneeanpgkaleihlknhjiaamobkceh > > * GUACAMOLE-24: Directly integrate local clipboard > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-24) > > > ---------------------------------------- > G. Theming extensions > ---------------------------------------- > > * GUACAMOLE-9: Allow modification of HTML via extensions > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-9) > > > ---------------------------------------- > H. Docker improvements > ---------------------------------------- > > Beware that the Docker images now live in the incubator-guacamole-client > and > incubator-guacamole-server repositories (see GUACMOLE-27). > > * GUACAMOLE-8: Allow concurrency properties to be configured within Docker > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-8) > > * GUACAMOLE-21: Support LDAP within Docker image > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-21) > > * GUACAMOLE-27: Bring Docker images into new git repositories > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-27) > > * GUACAMOLE-50: Update Docker containers to use Java 8 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-50) > > > ---------------------------------------- > I. User management > ---------------------------------------- > > Support for role-based access control within LDAP. Also a convenient > "Clone" > button for users if the database authentication backend is being used. > > * GUACAMOLE-12: Allow LDAP role-based access control for guacConfigGroups > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-12) > > * GUACAMOLE-14: Add support for cloning existing users > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-14) > > > ---------------------------------------- > J. Partially-reverted clipboard changes > ---------------------------------------- > > GUACAMOLE-55 was intended to add support for arbitrary clipboard data, > specifically copy/paste of images for RDP. The Guacamole protocol has > supported > this for some time, but the web application only handled text for > simplicity's > sake. > > After the task grew in complexity, the RDP portion of those changes was > removed from scope and GUACAMOLE-55 was narrowed to just client-side > changes. > Once THAT grew in complexity (mainly due to browser quirks surrounding > content-editable divs), I partially reverted those changes for the sake of > a > stable 0.9.10-incubating. > > The "non-risky" parts of GUACAMOLE-55 still remain, namely a better > internal > representation of clipboard data and a convenient abstraction of the > clipboard > input field, thus the clipboard functionality needs regression testing, > even > though the original task was pulled from the release. > > * GUACAMOLE-82: Clipboard behavior regressions since GUACAMOLE-55 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-82) > > > ---------------------------------------- > K. Concurrency options > ---------------------------------------- > > Administrators can now restrict the total number of connections used by a > server. > > For the cases where balancing groups may route users to any one of several > desktops, administrators can now enable "session affinity" on those > balancing > groups, ensuring that users are directed to the same underlying connection > consistently (until they logout from Guacamole). > > * GUACAMOLE-26: Add support for overall concurrency limits > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-26) > > * GUACAMOLE-53: Add support for session affinity within balancing groups > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-53) > > > ---------------------------------------- > L. Translations > ---------------------------------------- > > * GUACAMOLE-18: Fix typo in French translation > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-18) > > * GUACAMOLE-22: Update missing french translations > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-22) > > > ---------------------------------------- > M. Exposing terminal output to JavaScript > ---------------------------------------- > > Not the most easily testable feature, this is mainly useful to those that > have written applications using the Guacamole API. The protocols which > leverage > the terminal emulator built into guacd (SSH and telnet) now expose their > output > via the Guacamole protocol's "pipe streams" (essentially named pipes). This > output can be grabbed and handled by client-side JavaScript for whatever > purpose can be imagined. > > * GUACAMOLE-17: Allow terminal output to be redirected to pipe streams > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-17) > > > ---------------------------------------- > N. Miscellaneous bugs > ---------------------------------------- > > * GUACAMOLE-10: Keyboard focus is permanently lost after clicking the URL > bar > in IE11 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-10) > > * GUACAMOLE-11: No error screen during an invalid SSH login in 0.9.8 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-11) > > * GUACAMOLE-23: __guac_socket_fd_select_handler() must always init fd_set > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-23) > > * GUACAMOLE-66: Remove usage of Apache Commons Codec Library > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-66) > > * GUACAMOLE-67: I/O error in WebSocket can cause connection tracking to > fail > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-67) >
