LibVNCServer-0.9.14

0.9.14 represents a gradual improvement over 0.9.13 with lots of developments all over the place. 40 issues and pull requests were closed/merged with this release. Highlights on the LibVNCServer side are a refined multi-threaded implementation, support for Unicode clipboard data 📋❗ and an outbound-connection machinery that works for real world use cases. LibVNCClient received support for SetDesktopSize (which had been added server-side in 0.9.13) and a properly documented SSH-tunneling setup.

Overall changes:

• Added more documentation (build system integration, repeater setup) and a legal FAQ.
• Added contribution guidelines.
• Ported the TravisCI continous integration machinery to GitHub workflows.

LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient:

• Added qemu extended key event support.
• Fixed several potential multiplication overflows.

LibVNCClient:

• Fixes of several memory leaks and buffer overflows.
• Added UltraVNC's MSLogonII authentication scheme.
• Fixed TLS interoperability with GnuTLS servers.
• Fixed detection of newer UltraVNC and TightVNC servers.
• Added support for SetDesktopSize.
• Added SSH tunneling example using libssh2.
• Added some extensions to VeNCrypt in order to be compatible with a wider range of servers.

LibVNCServer:

• Fixes to the multi-threaded server implementation which should be a lot more sound now.
• Fixed TightVNC-filetransfer file upload for 64-bit systems.
• Fixes of crashes in the zlib compression.
• Added support for UTF8 clipboard data.
• Fixed visual artifacts in framebuffer on ARM platforms.
• Fixed several WebSockets bugs.
• Fixed the UltraVNC-style repeater example.
• Added support for larger framebuffers (two 4k screens possible now).
• Added support for timeouts for outbound connections (to repeaters for instance).
• Fixed out-of-bounds memory access in Tight encoding.