v5.0

[totaam]

• Major improvements:
  • QUIC transport
  • split packaging
  • freedesktop screencast / remotedesktop for X11 and Wayland
  • ease of use: easier basic commands, open html5 client, disable all audio features
• Platforms, build and packaging:
  • Python 3.12 installations
  • replace Python2 builds
  • LTS feature deprecation
  • stricter type checks
  • more MacOS workarounds
• Server:
  • try harder to find a valid menu prefix
  • exit with windows
  • side buttons with MS Windows shadow servers
  • mirror client monitor layout
  • side buttons with MS Windows shadow servers
• Client:
  • allow keyboard shortcuts in readonly mode
  • show decoder statistics
  • keyboard layout switching shortcut
  • layout switching detection for MS Windows
  • mirror mouse cursor when sharing
• Minor:
  • generic exec authentication module
  • audio removesilence
  • make pulseaudio real-time and high-priority scheduling modes configurable
  • use urrlib for parsing
  • GTK removal progress
  • documentation updates and fixes: broken links, typos
• Network:
  • smaller handshake packet
  • SSL auto-upgrade
  • better IPv6
  • new packet format
  • ssh agent forwarding automatic switching when sharing
  • use libnm to query network devices
  • exclude more user data by default
• Encodings:
  • use intra refresh
  • stream encoding for desktop mode
  • GStreamer codecs

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This discussion was created from the release v5.0.