Hi Michael, Firstly, thank you to the team for a great product.
I loaded this staging/1.6.0 build up on one of our servers to test it out. For building the server, the instructions assume more knowledge than I and probably many others have. Perhaps it is an oversight in preparing the Staging branch? The README says load prerequisites then run ./configure However, there is no ./configure ! I did a web search and found these instructions - Can you please confirm if they are correct for Guacamole, or if they need changing. libtoolize --force aclocal autoheader automake --force-missing --add-missing autoconf ./configure Perhaps the correct set of steps can be added to the Staging README file. Or, the appropriate steps can be taken to produce the ./configure file and the resultant files added to the Staging branch. Note: This has never been an issue with server release downloads as they have always had a ./configure already present in the directory As regards testing. Thus far, I have been testing using the 1.5.5 extensions - auth-totp, auth-ldap, auth-json and auth-jdbc-mysql All looks good so far. I have tested both RDP to Windows 2016 servers and VNC to linux servers. Our setup uses AD and TOTP (Google Authenticator) for sign-on to Guacamole. Guacamole connections have a mix of pre-configured authentication and prompting for credentials. I will continue to use this version and will report back if I encounter any issues. One note - On an RDP connection that had only the DOMAIN pre-configured and NLA security set, and prompted for the userid/password - when I swapped in the Guacamole 1.6 WAR file, this connection would not work. It would attempt to connect and then would just hang on a blank screen. It never prompted for the userid/password. There were no errors in the guacd log entries in the /var/log/messages file. Doing a hard refresh in the browser (Ctrl-F5) and re-logging into Guacamole resolved this issue. I recall reading user messages from someone who was seeing similar RDP anomolies recently after upgrading to 1.5.5 - if you still have access to the thread perhaps suggest the user tries a browser hard refresh. Regards Vincent ________________________________ From: Michael Jumper <mjum...@apache.org> Sent: Thursday 3 October 2024 18:27 To: user@guacamole.apache.org <user@guacamole.apache.org> Subject: Please join us in testing "staging/1.6.0" Hello fellow Guacamole enthusiasts, We recently merged a massive rewrite of the way guacamole-server handles rendering that *should* improve responsiveness, framerate, and bandwidth usage in several cases. The change specifically affects the VNC and RDP protocol support. If anyone is interested in testing, please do. The branch containing these changes is "staging/1.6.0": https://github.com/apache/guacamole-server/tree/staging/1.6.0 These changes do not depend on anything in guacamole-client, but please by all means test the "staging/1.6.0" branch of that, too, if you feel up to the task. Beware that part of these changes adds support for the RDP "Graphics Pipeline Extension" (GUACAMOLE-377). This is generally a good thing, but testing has shown that XRDP's implementation of this uses lossy compression more often than the Windows RDP implementation, resulting in the new scroll detection not recognizing things as well as otherwise. If using XRDP, I would recommend using the "staging/1.6.0" version of guacamole-client, as well, and selecting the "Disable Graphics Pipeline Extension" option in the connection settings. 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