TurboVNC 3.1.4 and 3.2 beta1 have been released

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Feb 9, 2025, 12:22:12 PMFeb 9
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3.1.4:

Binaries, source tarball, and change log are here:
https://github.com/TurboVNC/turbovnc/releases/tag/3.1.4


3.2 beta1:

Binaries, source tarball, and change log are here:
https://github.com/TurboVNC/turbovnc/releases/tag/3.2beta1

Significant new features:

- Server: Built-in 3D acceleration when using open source GPU drivers
* Enables GPU acceleration for Vulkan applications with AMD GPUs
* Useful with "host offload" GPU drivers in VMWare and other
virtualization solutions
* VirtualGL performs better with OpenGL applications and is still
necessary for nVidia GPUs.

- Viewer: Rebased built-in SSH client on latest JSch fork
* Adds support for Ed25519 keys
* Adds support for modern SSH key exchange (KEX) methods, Message
Authentication Code (MAC) algorithms, and ciphers
* Disables insecure algorithms by default
* Provides Java system properties for low-level SSH client configuration

- Viewer: Support for SSH jump hosts
* Allows the TurboVNC Session Manager to be used with TurboVNC hosts
that are behind an SSH gateway
* Provides end-to-end encryption when using SSH tunneling through an
SSH gateway
* Eliminates the need to open RFB ports in the VNC host's firewall
when using SSH tunneling through an SSH gateway

- Server: Use zlib-ng instead of the Intel zlib library.
* Improves encoding performance for non-JPEG Tight subrectangles by
10-15% on x86-64 CPUs and 25-30% on AArch64 CPUs

- Viewer: Bump scrolling in full-screen mode
* Addresses a feature regression vs. the native Windows TurboVNC 2.2
Viewer

- Viewer: Hide the Mac menu bar and dock in full-screen mode if bump
scrolling is enabled.

- Support for forward and back mouse buttons

- Viewer: More modern toolbar icons

- Viewer: TigerVNC Viewer compatibility mode is now selectable in the
Options dialog.

- Viewer: TurboVNC-specific Java system properties (including JSch
system properties) can now be specified in default.turbovnc.
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