x2go-announcements November 2017

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Upcoming Deprecation of (Almost) EOL Distributions
by Mihai Moldovan 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Hi In order to lower resource stress when building packages, I plan to deprecate support for distributions that have (almost) reached End Of Life on December 31th 2017. This includes the following distro versions: - Debian: o 7.0 "wheezy" - Fedora o 23 o 24 o 25 - OpenSuSE o 13.1 o 13.2 o 42.1 Ubuntu builds are ceased automatically after upstream deprecation. After deprecation, no new builds will be published and existing builds will be moved to the archive repositories to discourage users from installing unmaintained software. Mihai

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X2Go OpenSUSE Package Archive: Provisioning of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Packages
by Mihai Moldovan 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear all I am happy to announce that from now on the X2Go package archive that provides OpenSUSE packages of X2Go[1] also offers X2Go packages that have been built against OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - the OpenSUSE rolling release version. Note that we only provide nightly packages for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, akin to Fedora Rawhide. We hope this makes our package archive more useful. If you encounter dependency problems when installing X2Go nightly packages under OpenSUSE Tumblewed, please file a bug report with X2Go BTS[3]. For setup information, refer to the SUSE-based packages info wiki article[3]. Mihai [1] https://packages.x2go.org/opensuse [2] http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:bugs [3] http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:repositories:suse#adding_the_x2go_reposi…

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X2Go Fedora Package Archive: Provisioning of FC27 Packages
by Mihai Moldovan 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Dear all I am happy to announce that from now on the X2Go package archive that provides Fedora packages of X2Go[1] also offers X2Go packages that have been built against Fedora 27 - the new Fedora release version. We hope this makes our package archive more useful. If you encounter dependency problems when installing X2Go release or nightly packages[2] under Fedora 27, please file a bug against X2Go BTS[3]. Mihai [1] https://packages.x2go.org/fedora [2] https://packages.x2go.org/fedora/x2go.repo [3] https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:bugs

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X2Go Desktop Sharing (3.1.1.4) released
by Mihai Moldovan 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Dear all The X2Go project is proud to announce a new release of the X2Go component ,,x2godesktopsharing''. New gains of this version of ,,x2godesktopsharing'' are: o packaging metadata updates o build fixes for RPM-based distributions - correctly passing down system optimization flags, especially useful with hardening flags o updated Finnish translation thanks to Martti Pitkänen The X2Go project thanks Martti Pitkänen for his valuable input and submitted work. X2Go Component: x2godesktopsharing Version: 3.1.1.4 Status: RELEASE Timestamp: 1510766172 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:16:12 +0100 Changes: x2godesktopsharing (3.1.1.4) RELEASED; urgency=medium . [ Mihai Moldovan ] * New upstream version (3.1.1.4): - misc: bump version string where appropriate. * debian/control: - Maintainer change in package: X2Go Developers <x2go-dev(a)lists.x2go.org>. - Uploaders: add myself. Also, force a rebuild due to the changed versioning. * x2godesktopsharing.spec: - Respect the plattform %{optflags} when calling qmake and disable automatic binary stripping (getting in the way of debug packages.) . [ Martti Pitkänen ] * New upstream version (3.1.1.4): - x2godesktopsharing_fi.ts: update Finnish translation file. Regards, Mihai Moldovan

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X2Go Server (4.0.1.22) released
by Mihai Moldovan 11 Nov '17

11 Nov '17

Dear all The X2Go project is proud to announce a new release of the X2Go component ,,x2goserver''. New gains of this version of ,,x2goserver'' are: o Fix session startup issues with a FQDN domain name. Happened to work if the short name was mapped to 127.0.0.1, but failed otherwise. X2Go Component: x2goserver Version: 4.0.1.22 Status: RELEASE Timestamp: 1510401228 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:53:48 +0100 Changes: x2goserver (4.0.1.22) RELEASED; urgency=medium . [ Mihai Moldovan ] * New upstream version (4.0.1.22): - x2goserver/bin/x2go{resume-session,startagent}: use the actual system's host name instead of the short name only. Fixes startup issues on a wide variety of systems that use a FQDN as their host name. In such a scenario, using the short name works iff the short name maps to 127.0.0.1. Otherwise, session startups fail. Using the actual host name does not require such hacks, so use this instead. Regards, Mihai Moldovan

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X2Go Server (4.0.1.21) released
by Mihai Moldovan 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Dear all The X2Go project is proud to announce a new release of the X2Go component ,,x2goserver''. New gains of this version of ,,x2goserver'' are: o Fixed overzealous nxagent socket removal. o Keyboard mapping fixes, including preparation for usage with Arctica's nx-libs version (not supported in this version of X2Go Server, yet). o Support for Devuan and RT OS full desktop session spawning. o Always use short host name, don't rely on ${HOSTNAME} variable. Compatibility with non-bash login shells. o RPM packaging improvements, also contributed by Orion Paplowski. o Spawn full desktop sessions with a new dbus user session instance. o Finnish translation update. o Added support for LXQt full desktop sessions. o New command: x2golistshadowsessions. X2Go Component: x2goserver Version: 4.0.1.21 Status: RELEASE Timestamp: 1510149718 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:01:58 +0100 Fixes these bug report(s): 1151 1153 1198 1229 1230 Changes: x2goserver (4.0.1.21) RELEASED; urgency=medium . [ Mihai Moldovan ] * New upstream version (4.0.1.21): - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: don't overzealously try to remove old nxagent sockets. If the nxagent process already vanished, simply forget the remembered session. Otherwise we might delete sockets that have been re-assigned to other sessions in the meantime. - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: convert X2GO_PORT searching algorithm to pure bash and let script fail if no display port is available. - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: fix syntax error introduced in last change to this file. - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: make compatible with changes in Arctica's nxagent. Also change to an all-bash algorithm. Fixes: #1151. - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: fix a typo that caused the script to not work properly - with or without Arctica's nx-libs. - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: rename ${setxkbcomp_opts} to ${setxkbmap_opts}, that's what it really is. - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: setxkbmap expects a parameter called "-option", but nxagent uses the key "options". Make setxkbmap happy. - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: $BASH_REMATCH is tricky, actually fetch the first match. In the $BASH_REMATCH array, index 0 contains the *full* match, while indices 1+ only contain the partial matches. We're only interested in the first partial match. - x2goserver/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: only match up the first ending quote character in a non-greedy way. This will not support nested quotes within values, but we probably don't need this feature anyway. - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: try to enable lingering via systemd's loginctl utility before calling x2goagent. Fixes: #1198. - x2goserver-xsession/etc/Xsession: support Devuan just like Debian, give useful error message in case the OS is unknown. - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: fetch hostname via "hostname -s" and do not rely on the HOSTNAME variable. The latter is only set automatically by bash if it's not already part of the environment. We might get "garbage" in this way (and one user actually did.) - x2goserver/bin/x2golistshadowsessions: whitespace only. - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: close syslog at program exit. - x2goserver/sbin/x2gocleansessions: whitespace only. - x2goserver/bin/x2golistshadowsessions: copy and use a few needed utility functions from x2gocleansessions. - x2goserver/bin/x2golistshadowsessions: mark unavailable functionality with FIXME comments. - x2goserver-xsession/etc/Xsession: add support for OS RT via /etc/os-rt-release (file needs to be created by upstream first, bug pending.) - x2goserver/{bin/x2golistshadowsessions, lib/x2go{dbwrapper.pm,sqlitewrapper.pl}}: backport listshadowsessions* DB functions and unmark them as FIXME entries. - x2goserver/lib/x2go{sqlitewrapper.pl,utils.pm}: allow arbitrary-length user names, user names starting with digits and drop $ as a valid user name character. Fixes: #1229. - x2goserver/bin/x2goruncommand: use dbus-run-session to start a new dbus user session if available. Only for full desktop sessions. Backported from a Debian patch. - x2goserver/bin/x2goresume-session: backport HOSTNAME changes from x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent. - x2goserver/bin/x2go{resume-session,startagent}: catch errors while inserting values into database more gracefully. Fixes: #1230. - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: write hostname errors to stderr to make X2Go Client (and maybe PyHoca?) fail. - x2goserver/{bin/x2go{runcommand,suspend-session}, sbin/x2gocleansessions}: remove hopefully redundant HOSTNAME export commands. - x2goserver/etc/x2goagent.options: remove file, moved to x2goagent. - x2goserver/Makefile: actually unreference x2goagent.options file as well. - x2goserver/bin/x2go{resume-session,startagent}: revert error catching while inserting values into database. The current code structure relies on ignoring failures and retrying until an operation succeeded, which may eventually happen or just as well may never happen. We need something smarter here. - x2goserver/bin/x2gostartagent: log x2goagent startup command to syslog in debug mode. * x2goserver.spec: - Add mandatory perl-generators Build-Requires as per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl - Correct usage of mime and desktop database upgrade scriptlets and dependencies. Fedora mandates to not depend upon shared-mime-info, even not for the scriplets. Additionally, FC24 has deprecated usage of the mime database update scriptlet and FC25 has deprecated usage of the desktop database update scriptlet. (Open)SUSE mandates to pull in shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils as post/postun scriptlet dependencies and provides special macros since 11.4. Older versions are handled via the usual commands. - Simplify systemd usage a bit and make sure that it's restarted on Fedora and RHEL-based distros. FIXME: Not enabled by default on FC/RHEL/*SuSE. - Use Suggests instead of Recommends, as an even weaker dependency. We can live just fine without printing or fmbindings and no functions of the x2goserver package as well will be impacted. The DEB control file also uses "Suggests" for this. - Fix RPM spec syntax error in shared-mime-info dependency section. - Fix %{?fedora} macro usage. - Add the correct package name to the %posttrans scriptlet, we only need it for x2goserver-fmbindings. - Make sure that we don't go into branches just because a macro is not defined on our platform. - Work around a bug in SuSE's mime DB update script... - Make sure that there's always at least one (nil) command in the if command list. - Break older SLES builds on purpose to see what branch is *actually* taken. Will be reverted shortly. - Fix typo in %if condition (0%?{?fedora} instead of 0%{?fedora}.) - Contrary to other information that says "brackets" and consistent with RPM's source code, grouping is done via "(" and ")" in conditions. - More platform-specific condition fixup. - Pull in shared-mime-info as a build requirement only on *SuSE and add comment regarding why desktop-file-utils is always needed. - Also add a trans(action)-requirement on shared-mime-info for older RHEL-based distros. - RPM spec does not allow %elif or %elseif, which lead to all weird kinds of errors. Split these up into nested conditions. - There is no %trans scriptlet, we're using %posttrans, so the dependency should be specified as Requires(posttrans) as well. - Pull in dbus-run-session if possible. Only available on Fedora, SLE12+ and OpenSuSE 13+. - Pull in x2goagent >= 3.5.0.33 explicitly, first version that reflects the x2goagent.options file move. * debian/po: - Tiny fixup on author name. * debian/control: - Whitespace fixes. - Add BD on dh-systemd. We'll need it for systemd integration. - Depend upon dbus for dbus-run-session. - Pull in x2goagent >= 3.5.0.33 explicitly, first version that reflects the x2goagent.options file move. * debian/rules: - Call the systemd addon to process and install the systemd service file. - Don't fail if we don't have the systemd addon. Systems that don't have that will likely not use systemd in the first place. . [ Martti Pitkänen ] * debian/po: - Translate DebConf templates to Finnish. . [ Orion Paplowski ] * x2goserver.spec: - Requires(post) does not imply Requires, and missing ones on grep and the SQLite perl module. - Fedora >= 21 and (Open)SUSE >= 11 now allow Recommends. - perl(:MODULE_COMPAT...) is only needed for perl modules. Drop from x2goserver-printing and x2goserver-xsession. - Delete .packlist which may be in different locations. - Sort some %files entries. . [ Mike Gabriel ] * New upstream version (4.0.1.21): - x2goserver/bin/x2goruncommand: stop exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH when using Arctica's nx-libs and its new Xinerama feature. Fixes: #1153. - Make x2goruncommand aware of the LXQt desktop shell. - x2goserver/x2gosqlitewrapper.c: fix implicit declaration of execv(). - x2goserver/: backport x2golistshadowsessions. Regards, Mihai Moldovan

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NX redistributed (3.5.0.33) released
by Mihai Moldovan 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Dear all The X2Go project is proud to announce a new release of the X2Go component ,,nx-libs''. New gains of this version of ,,nx-libs'' are: o Updated build metadata. o Missing dependencies rectified. o Build fix for CentOS/EPEL 7 on ppc64le. o Use correct build flags for RPM-based distributions. o Don't allow overriding of X.Org Server UNIX sockets via TEMP/NX_TEMP environment variables. Fixes problems on machines that use pam_tempdir.so. o OS X build and run time fixes. o Fix CVE-2017-2624 (timingsafe_memcmp) by Ulrich Sibiller. o Potentially improve LAN- and WAN-type connection speed settings scenarios. Includes a regression fix for VPN connections by Simon Matter. o Fix problems in mate-color-picker and potentially also other applications that make heavy use of RENDER trapezoids. The X2Go project thanks Ulrich Sibiller and Simon Matter for their valuable input and submitted work. X2Go Component: nx-libs Version: 2:3.5.0.33 Status: RELEASE Timestamp: 1510124874 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:07:54 +0100 Fixes these bug report(s): 757 758 760 1160 Changes: nx-libs (3.5.0.33) RELEASED; urgency=low . [ Mihai Moldovan ] * debian/control: - Add xkb-data to nxagent's Recommends. - Uploaders: add myself. Also, force a rebuild due to the changed versioning. - Add Breaks statement on pre-4.1.0.0 x2goserver to x2goagent package. - Change Breaks statement to pre-4.0.1.21 x2goserver and add a Replaces: x2goserver << 4.0.1.21 section to x2goagent package. We'll do the /etc/x2go/x2goagent.options file move for x2goserver 4.0.1.21 and nx-libs 3.5.0.33 already. * nx-libs.spec: - Add xkeyboard-config to nxagent's Requires. Should be a weak dependency, but RPM doesn't support that too well yet. - Copy new debian/x2goagent.options file into build environment, analogous to what debian/roll-tarballs.sh does. - Add new x2goagent.options file to installed file list of x2goagent package. - Let x2goagent package satisfy x2goagent-virtual. - Add -mno-vxs to general C(XX)FLAGS on ppc64le. Hopefully just a temporary workaround until https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489712 / https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13779 are resolved. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) - Drop ugly sed hack to push optflags to build system. - Pass CDEBUGSFLAGS and friends directly to the make command in %build. - Let x2goagent conflict with pre-4.0.1.21 x2goserver versions. Needed for x2goagent.options file move. * debian/: - Add x2goagent.options file for compatibility with x2goserver nightly. * debian/roll-tarballs.sh: - Copy new debian/x2goagent.options file into real tarball environment. * debian/Makefile.nx-libs: - Install/destroot new x2goagent.options file. * debian/rules: - Symlink and remove new debian/x2goagent.options file into/from build environment. * debian/x2goagent.install: - Add new x2goagent.options file. * Refresh: - 0016_nx-X11_install-location.debian.patch - 9900-dxpc-license-history.full+lite.patch * nx-X11: use the "old", non-NX header location. Affects: - 1270_nx-X11_CVE-2017-2624-Use-timingsafe_memcmp-to-c.full.patch * {debian/control,nx-libs.spec}: - Add proper dependencies upon xkbcomp for RPM and DEB packages. Fixes: #1160. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) * debian/patches: - Refresh all patches. Removes some fuzziness and adds the -p diff option to show the C function name in hunk headers. - Fixup series file to include previous patch. * nxcomp: Handle launchd sockets in DISPLAY variable correctly when fetching X cookie. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - debian/patches/1600_nxcomp-handle-launchd-socket-in-Auth.full+lite.patch * nxcomp: Hardcode X11 and (legacy/xfs) font UNIX paths. Fixes: ArcticaProject/nx-libs#536 Allowing overrides via NX_TEMP and TEMP breaks system using pam_tmpdir.so and most server infrastructure expects the location to be fixed anyway. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - debian/patches/1610_nxcomp-harcode-some-UNIX-socket-path.full+lite.patch * Mid-release fixup: - Rename debian/patches/1400_nx-X11_Render.c-Improve-situation-fo.full+lite.patch to debian/patches/1400_nx-X11_Render.c-Improve-situation-fo.full.patch. - Split up debian/patches/1500_all_propagate-optflags-to-subcompone.full+lite.patch. Put server changes into debian/patches/1500_all_propagate-optflags-to-subcompone.full.patch and keep client changes local to debian/patches/1510_all_propagate-optflags-to-subcompone.full+lite.patch. . [ Mike Gabriel ] * debian/libxinerama1.postinst.in: + Revert 5a9f829. Make sure libnx-Xinerama1 based Xinerama works again with X2Go on Debian based systems. + Enforce symlink creation for Xinerama et al. library symlinks. (Fixes: #757, #758, #760). * Xinerama symlinking: Attach Xinerama symlinking to nxagent bin:package (and not libnx-xinerama1). Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. * debian/Makefile.nx-libs: + Make sure that 'make all' only calls 'make build' and _not_ the global '%:' ruleset afterwards. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) * buildsystem: - OPTFLAGS: Properly propagate build option flags to nxcomp{,ext,shad} and the nx-X11 build scripts. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - debian/patches/1500_all_propagate-optflags-to-subcompone.full+lite.patch . [ Ulrich Sibiller ] * nx-X11: Backport CVE-2017-2624 (timingsafe_memcmp) Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.6.x (Ulrich Sibiller) v3: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - 1270_nx-X11_CVE-2017-2624-Use-timingsafe_memcmp-to-c.full.patch . [ Oleksandr Shneyder ] * nxcomp: Set TokenSize to 1536 for link type ADSL and WAN. Improving non-xrender based browser scrolling behaviour when link type is set to ADSL or WAN. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - debian/patches/1300_nxcomp_Set-TokenSize-to-1536-for-lin.full+lite.patch * nx-X11: Render.c: Improve situation for multiple trapezoid requests. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - debian/patches/1400_nx-X11_Render.c-Improve-situation-fo.full+lite.patch . [ Simon Matter ] * nxcomp: Reduce control->TokenSize slightly again in order to fix fragmentation of packages when on VPN (or otherwise encapsulated) connections. Backported from Arctica GH 3.6.x branch. v2: backport to nx-libs 3.5.0.x (Mihai Moldovan) Adds: - debian/patches/1301_nxcomp_Reduce-TokenSize-slightly-for.full+lite.patch Regards, Mihai Moldovan

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Upcoming Package Repository Downtime
by Mihai Moldovan 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hi I will be releasing new stable versions of nx-libs and x2goserver soon. Due to some file moves between packages, these releases must happen in lock-step (or more specifically the binary packages built from these releases be available at the same time). In order to not potentially break user systems, I will disable access to the package repositories on the UTC days of - Wed November 8, 2017 - Fri November 10, 2017 (rain date) for an unspecified amount of time. If you experience problems accessing the package repositories on these days, rest assured that this behavior is intentional. The repositories will be available once new binary packages for these new releases are available. A more fine-grained notice will be posted on the Wiki main page and removed again once the situation is cleared. Mihai

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Debian Wheezy and/or Fedora Core 25 users, please read this!
by Stefan Baur 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Dear users, this is a special reminder for those still running Debian Wheezy and/or Fedora Core 25: We will no longer provide updated X2Go packages after 2017-12-31 for these distributions, even though they have not reached their distribution-specific EOL date by then. If you rely on updated X2Go packages (think security fixes) for these particular versions, you should let us know NOW, and consider paying one of the commercial support partners for the continued maintenance. You can find a list of such support partners here: <https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:professional-support> Kind Regards, Stefan Baur X2go Project/Community Manager -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [X2Go-User] Upcoming Deprecation of (Almost) EOL Distributions Datum: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 22:03:08 +0100 Von: Mihai Moldovan <ionic(a)ionic.de> An: x2go-announcements(a)lists.x2go.org, x2go-dev(a)lists.x2go.org <x2go-dev(a)lists.x2go.org>, x2go-user(a)lists.x2go.org <x2go-user(a)lists.x2go.org> Hi In order to lower resource stress when building packages, I plan to deprecate support for distributions that have (almost) reached End Of Life on December 31th 2017. This includes the following distro versions: - Debian: o 7.0 "wheezy" - Fedora o 23 o 24 o 25 - OpenSuSE o 13.1 o 13.2 o 42.1 Ubuntu builds are ceased automatically after upstream deprecation. After deprecation, no new builds will be published and existing builds will be moved to the archive repositories to discourage users from installing unmaintained software. Mihai -- BAUR-ITCS UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Geschäftsführer: Stefan Baur Eichenäckerweg 10, 89081 Ulm | Registergericht Ulm, HRB 724364 Fon/Fax 0731 40 34 66-36/-35 | USt-IdNr.: DE268653243

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