Thanks Mike, I should have read the release notes before asking. However, your response is very helpful. We, of course, have to upgrade all the pieces eventually but I was wondering how much of a risk was to delay the frontend migration. Thanks, Carlos
> On February 10, 2023 at 12:20 PM Michael Jumper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our release notes always describe whether there are any changes that may > affect compatibility: > > https://guacamole.apache.org/releases/ > > You will need to check the release notes for the versions that follow the > release you're using to see whether any changes might affect you. Since you > are way back in 1.0.0, you have a fair amount of reading ahead of you, but > there are dedicated sections of the release notes for these kinds of changes. > > Changes are not made to the protocol in 1.x releases in a way that would > break compatibility with older 1.x releases. For example, see: > > > https://guacamole.apache.org/releases/1.4.0/#deprecation--compatibility-notes > > - Mike > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2023, 4:59 PM Carlos Villegas < [email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > > Just a general question, > > > > We have a (now fairly old) application using guacamole 1.0.0. We > > had written a custom frontend for Vaadin 8 using the Guacamole common > > javascript client and it's been working well enough that it hasn't been > > kept up to date with the latest Guacamole version. I'd like the thank the > > Guacamole developers and community for the excellent product! > > Anyway, there were some issues with keyboard mappings, specifically > > the CAPS LOCK key not working, that seemed to have been fixed already. I > > did a quick test of just upgrading the guacd proxy to the 1.4 version. > > Apart from some minor configuration changes like forcing the security mode > > to accommodate our old RDP server, it seems to be working fine with our old > > client frontend and the keyboard mapping issues are now solved! > > My question is whether using the old client with the new proxy will > > bring some issues due to incompatibilities in the guacamole protocol > > between client and proxy. So far I haven't found any. Or if the protocol > > itself has been stable from 1.0 to 1.4? > > > > Thanks for any information about this, it will help us plan our > > migration strategy. > > > > Carlos > > > > >
