KasmVNC 1.4.0

https://docs.kasmvnc.com/docs/release_notes/1.4.0

Features

• Upgraded libwebp version to 1.5.0.
• Significant reduction of CPU usage through more efficient multi-threading.
• Added command line argument webpEncodingTime as a weighted value that determines how much webp is used to balance bandwidth and CPU usage.
• Added user connection/disconnection client notifications for shared session participants.
• Added get_sessions API endpoint that returns a list of users connect to a shared session.
• Updated to C++ 20 standard and gcc versions for builds.
• Added network.udp.payload_size to kasm yaml configuration.
• Added build for Debian Trixie.
• Reduced memory usage on the client-side browser.
• Added support for the Keyboard API for Chromium based browsers.
• Added multi-threaded asynchronous decoding of image rects, increasing client-side performance.
• Added support for the Kasm Smart Card Bridge extension for Chrome. Allows for passing through a local smart card to remote Kasm sessions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug with watermark not getting displayed in certain scenarios.
• Fixed bug with case sensitivity of HTTP headers.
• Fixed bug with the downloads API not escaping certain characters in returned json.
• Fixed bug causing a segmentation fault on the get_screenshot API handler in certain conditions.
• Bug fixes with multi-monitor, adding and removing displays.
• Fix bug with secondary display still showing content after session disconnect in certain scenarios.
• Fixed bug with Ctrl key not working on foreign language keyboards with Chromium based browsers.
• Fix bug with secondary display interaction not counting toward interaction with respect to the idle disconnect setting.
• Fixed memory leak in Firefox.
• Fixed bug with Firefox displaying scrollbars at odd resolutions.
• Fixes to Korean translations.
• Multiple fixes to IME foreign language support.
• Fixed a race condition causing an error message to be displayed erroneously on the client.