X2Go Client (4.1.2.3) released

Dear all

The X2Go project is proud to announce a new release of the X2Go component ,,x2goclient''.

New gains of this version of ,,x2goclient'' are:

o support building against Qt5 on .deb- and .rpm-based platforms o more data is sent to the broker o fixed SSH handling errors (patches provided by Melroy van den Berg) o more dialogs can now be closed via escape o added explanation of how to resume already-attached sessions o new x-x2go.xml MIME source for .x2go files o drop Maemo support o add initial MXE (Windows cross build) support, unused by us currently

This release probably won't see Windows and OS X/macOS binaries in a timely manner, if at all, due to time constraints.

X2Go Component: x2goclient Version: 4.1.2.3 Status: RELEASE Timestamp: 1687982451 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:00:51 +0200 Fixes these bug report(s): 1469 Changes: x2goclient (4.1.2.3) RELEASED; urgency=medium . [ Oleksandr Shneyder ]

• New upstream version (4.1.2.3):
  • Load alternative image resources from specified folder.
  • Set correct aspect ratio for x2go and ON logos.
  • Download alternative resource files from http server.
  • Support for PNG background images.
  • Display state of broker connection in status bar.
  • Client can synchronize sessions with broker. Broker need to send syncinterval value in the client config section.
  • Set min width of session status label.
  • set clipboard mode of x2gokdriveclient in cmd line option.
  • Fix maximizing client window in thinclient mode with Qt5 (bullseye).
  • Add mime type application/x-x2go. X2Go Client can now automatically open session files with .x2go extension.
  • X2Go Client will send it's version to the broker when sending client event.
  • Don't close X2Go Client if settings dialog is called before broker auth.
  • X2Go Client will send it's OS name to the broker when sending client event.
  • Don't exit if connection to HTTP broker is failed when sync sessions.
  • Support for HTTP(S) urls in the session icons when using http broker.
  • Fix loading session icon to system tray when using broker.
  • Add --debug argument to x2gokdriveclient in debug mode.
  • Setting debug filter rules for QT>=5.2
  • Implement different view modes for sessions explorer: Favorite sessions, running sessions, all sessions.
  • Improve view modes in broker mode.
  • Set toolTip with detailed information for session button.
  • Show session path in session button in Favorite and Running views.
  • Improve synchronisation in broker mode.
  • Fix loading HTTP icon in pass dialog in broker mode.
  • Replace QFont::Thin with 0 to keep compatibility with Qt4.
  • Add special ACL for exported directories in Windows client.
  • Support for rootless X2GoKdrive sessions.
  • Fixed build with Qt5 on Windows.
  • Do not show empty folders in session explorer.
  • Support for OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY format sent from broker.
  • Do not show client in broker mode if startet in "hidden" mode.
  • Enable/Disable session view buttons inside of sessions explorer.
  • Add splash screen option when starting in hidden mode.
  • replace <HOME> with user's home dir in exports directories, when exporting session default directories.
  • create default export directory if not exists.
  • send to broker xdmcpserver in command option when starting xdmcp session.
  • improve processing stderr from nxproxy.
  • support for recent cygwin binaries and nxproxy 3.5.99.x all cygwin binaries and DLLs should be moved into the INSTDIR/bin directory by Windows installer.
  • for x2gokdrive sessions, when auto kbd layout is chosen, x2goclient will try to set the same kbd layout on server as on the client.
  • add "noresize" setting, which makes the proxy window not resizable for user.
  • on Windows SSHD will only listen 127.0.0.1 to avoid FW warnings.
  • on Windows check the location of cgwin binaries in <APPDIR> and in <APPDIR>/bin. . [ Ryan Schmidt ]
• New upstream version (4.1.2.3):
  • x2goclient.pro: use the right C++ standard library on OS X/macOS. . [ Melroy van den Berg ]
• New upstream version (4.1.2.3):
  • src/sshmasterconnection.c: send EOF before closing channel.
  • src/sshmasterconnection.c: return false if login check remote command execution failed.
  • src/sshmasterconnection.c: refactor some of the channel loop and fix channel/session closes.
  • src/sshmasterconnection.c: fix 'when not' password auth. Avoids double error messages.
  • src/sshmasterconnection.c: correct retval check.
  • src/sshmasterconnection.c: explicitly mark function parameters as unused.
  • .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio temporary files. Fixes: #1469. . [ Mihai Moldovan ]
• New upstream version (4.1.2.3):
  • src/sshmasterconnection.{c,h}: fix builds, new function should have been registered and not static, but private.
  • .gitignore: add debian/control, since it's now auto-generated.
  • Makefile: support version switching through a QT_VERSION variable - might be overridden via environment variables or the make call.
  • x2goclient.spec: add version switching support. Use Qt 5 for FC31+, RHEL 8 and *SuSE 15.3+.
  • x2goclient.spec: don't try to prepend %{_qt4_bindir} if the macro is not defined.
  • Makefile: allow passing down variables that are safe to pass via the environment.
  • x2goclient.spec: fix condition with maybe-undefined macro.
  • x2goclient.spec: typo fix in vendor macro.
  • x2goclient.spec: expand %{_qt4_bindir} to integer if it's set, instead of using it as a string in the condition (which then leads to parsing error).
  • x2goclient.spec: rework Qt5 dependencies. Use a common set of PkgConfig()-based dependencies for the Qt 5 libraries themselves and only make the linguist tools (lrelease) conditional.
  • Makefile: make controllable variables default-if-not-set to allow overriding via the environment.
  • Makefile: invoke make as $(MAKE) to keep original invocation.
  • x2goclient.spec: fix missing %endif in Qt-4-BuildRequires section.
  • x2goclient.spec: use %{_qt5_bindir} macro analogous to the Qt 4 variant.
  • x2goclient.spec: correctly quote PATH overrides.
  • x2goclient.spec: fix syntax error in Qt 5 PATH override.
  • x2goclient.spec: add BuildRequires on Qt5X11Extras.
  • x2goclient.spec: also use/handle %{_libqt5_bindir}, as used by *SuSE.
  • x2goclient.spec: add BuildRequires on Qt5Network. OpenSuSE Tumbleweed split the pkgconfig files up into individual packages, while older versions ship all of them in libqt5-qtbase-devel. The former does not automatically use that package any longer and hence will not pull in all library packages automatically. That's not a bad change, since it forces us to spell out the dependencies correctly.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: add Cancel standard shortcut to cancel button in login window. Change requested by Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Potsdam.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: consolidate Resume button enabling state in ONMainWindow::initSelectSessDlg ().
  • src/onmainwindow.{cpp,h}: add notice explaining how to resume running sessions. Change requested by Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Potsdam.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: add Cancel standard shortcut to cancel button in session selection view.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: set word wrapping on running label.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: increase height of session selection dialog in mini mode.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: increase fixed height of session selection dialog in normal mode and also set as minimum height.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: unbreak on Qt 4 by emulating QKeySequence::Cancel.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: unbreak more and make sure that the code actually works on older systems. A very important part of the magic is using the old Qt4 SIGNAL/SLOT syntax and making sure to drop parameters on both sides, so that the default slot parameter is used, which animates the button for 150 ms.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: fix session creation date/time display. The data returned by the server was changed to an ISO-date-formatted one in 2011, but that change was not carried over to the client. We've had silly dates for more than 10 years and nobody noticed. Go figure.
  • src/onmainwindow.cpp: convert server-reported time to human readable time in Qt's standard format in session list view.
  • handle_mxe.sh: rework, make most variables lowercase, change spacing, use proper if-else blocks, do not use special bash features for string comparison etc.
  • macbuild.sh: qmake never supported -config, it was always CONFIG(+)='something'.
  • config_linux_static.sh: also switch from -config to CONFIG+='...'.
  • {handle_mxe.sh,x2goclient.pro}: make mxe selectable via CONFIG option and prepare selector in x2goclient.pro.
  • x2goclient.pro: also select on win32 and not just win32-*, fix whitespace.
  • x2gohelper/Makefile.mxe: more quoting.
  • Windows: Update PuTTY from 0.73 to 0.78.
  • debian/preprocessor.pl: typo fixes only.
  • misc: pre-release copyright update.
  • man/man1/x2goclient.1: pre-release date update.
• debian/control:
  • Move to debian/control.in.
• debian/control.in:
  • Switch to priority: optional. "extra" has been deprecated long ago. Pulled from Mike's changes.
  • Drop x2goplugin{,-{provider,dbg}}. It's been dead long enough.
  • Add Qt version switching support.
  • Add build-dependency upon lsb-release. Should be always part of a dependency of essential or base packaded for our preprocessor Perl script.
  • Add build-dependency upon m4, needed by our preprocessing shell script.
• debian/copyright:
  • Switch Upstream-Contact to myself. Pulled from Mike's changes.
  • Add new license "GPL-2+~OpenSSL" for the modified GPL 2+ license including the OpenSSL exception and use that where appropriate. Pulled from Mike's changes.
  • Move GPL-3 definition out-of-line. Pulled from Mike's changes.
  • Update notices.
• debian/rules:
  • Preprocess files with an ".in" suffix in the "debian" directory. Mostly adapted from the firefox package.
  • Add Qt 4/5 switching, based upon the base system definition. Mostly adapted from x2gomatebindings.
  • Force re-generation of debian/control in clean rule.
  • Add force variables to bypass autodetection via lsb-release. This will be used by our buildscripts.
  • Do not force re-generation of debian/control in clean rule. Its executed non-chrooted by sbuild before building the source package, so forcing will overwrite the file our buildscripts generated with something not matching the target system.
  • Assign default values to the FORCE_{VENDOR,RELEASE_VER} variables - thus allowing passed-in values through the environment.
  • Utilize new version switching in main Makefile by overriding the QT_VERSION make variable.
  • Fix version detection on testing and unstable. lsb_release -r currently only outputs n/a on these suites, so fall back to a rather fragile detection via apt-cache policy instead.
  • Fix version detection on testing and unstable V2. Remove a= tag.
• debian/:
  • New file "watch". We won't need this per se (since we're upstream and there cannot be a newer version of the Debian package without releasing it first), but it might make downstream's life easier. Or not, depending on whether it's kept up-to-date correctly or not. Pulled from Mike's changes.
  • New file "upstream/metadata". Same reasoning as for "watch". Pulled from Mike's changes.
  • New file "preprocessor.pl". Simple text file preprocessor supporting basic condition logic.
  • New file "proprocess.sh". Used to apply replacement tokens and run our new preprocessor. . [ Mike Gabriel ]
• New upstream version (4.1.2.3):
  • Makefile: Install x-x2go.xml MIME database source file for .x2go file extension.
• debian/x2gocient.install:
  • Install x-x2go.xml into bin:pkg x2goclient.
• x2goclient.spec:
  • Install x-x2go.xml into bin:pkg and run update-mime-database during postinst. . [ Ulrich Sibiller ]
• New upstream version (4.1.2.3):
  • desktop/x2goclient.desktop: drop Maemo support.
  • res/img/icons: drop Maemo support, remove hildon subdirectory.
  • res/img/svg: drop Maemo support, remove bg_hildon.svg.
  • res/resources.qrc: drop Maemo support, remove bg_hildon.svg entry.
  • src/{{InteractionDialog,configdialog,connectionwidget, editconnectiondialog,folderbutton,mediawidget,ongetpass, onmainwindow,printprocess,printwidget,sessionbutton, sessionmanagedialog,sessionwidget,settingswidget, sharewidget}.cpp,x2goclientconfig.h}: drop Maemo support.
  • /: drop Maemo support, remove x2goclient.pro.maemo.
  • /: add README.mxe, describing MXE builds.
  • /: add handle_mxe.sh, MXE control script.
  • x2goclient.pro: use different parameters for MXE builds.
  • x2gohelper/x2gohelper.cpp: use lower-case header files.
  • x2gohelper/: add Makefile.mxe.

Regards,

Mihai Moldovan