We’re proud to announce the release of Veyon 4.5.0 coming with the largest number of improvements and changes we ever had in Veyon 4. Watch the following video to discover the new Slideshow and Spotlight monitoring panels as well as the revised screen sharing features:

All downloads for this release are available in the download area.

A complete list of changes in detail can be found below:

Core: improve invocation of worker processes for better reliability
Core: improve message exchange with worker processes (fixes demo mode not starting properly in some cases)
Core: implement session ID management to reuse a session ID after a session has been closed - RDP session IDs (which are increased continuously) are no longer used for calculating server port numbers
Core: rename configuration key Service/PrimaryServicePort to Service/VeyonServerPort
Core: refactor feature plugin API
Configurator: Service: improve session mode configuration UI
Configurator: Service: improve network configuration UI
Configurator: Master: add option to hide own session
Configurator: Master: add computer icon spacing setting
Configurator: Master: add computer icon aspect ratio setting
Demo: refactor server to be multithreaded which greatly improves performance and responsiveness especially with many clients
Demo: add feature to share a user’s screen instead of the own one
Demo: reset access token after stopping server
Demo: refactor modes (window/fullscreen) as subfeatures displayed in a drop down menu
Demo: add feature to share only one of multiple (own) screens
FileTransfer: add configuration page allowing to configure source and destination folders
Linux: ignore SIGPIPE and continue running normally if a socket is closed unexpectedly
Linux: fix missing dependencies in Ubuntu 20.04 package
Linux: fix and prefer reboot/poweroff via systemd-logind
Linux: fix reboot/poweroff if e.g. /sbin or /usr/sbin is not in PATH
Linux: don’t show output of internal systemctl calls
Linux: add Debian-gdm as display manager user to properly detect that no user is being logged in
Linux: Service: retry server start for sessions in opening state
Linux: Service: manually set environment variable XDG_SESSION_ID if pam-systemd is not used
Linux: Service: start server instances for active/online sessions only - fixes various issues regarding server start on user login
Master: add Slideshow panel
Master: add Spotlight panel
Master: always adjust the size of computer icons automatically when enabled
Master: save and restore states and sizes of panels
Master: automatically adjust aspect ratio of computer icons to the original screen sizes
Master: update already visible tooltips for computer icons
Master: make computer icon spacing configurable and decrease its default value
RemoteAccess: show username in window title
RemoteAccess: hide toolbar on focus loss
ScreenLock: fix lock widget not being shown and thus screen not being locked on some Linux desktops
Server: also notify about authentication failure on incomplete authentication attempts
Server: add support for external VNC servers without any authentication/password configured
Server: improve error handling for VNC server plugins
WebAPI: add new plugin offering a RESTful API for accessing Veyon Server instances
Windows: disable Interception driver in multi session mode to prevent issues with hanging RDP sessions
Windows: refactor service-related debug messages
Windows: update 3rdparty component UltraVNC
Windows: update libraries (Qt 5.12.11 snapshot, OpenLDAP 2.4.56, OpenSSL 1.1.1h)

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