Release 22.04

Release 22.04

• noVNC improvements

  • noVNC got a new optional argument, which is passed through a new environment variable NOVNC_HEARTBEAT

    • set the variable by creating the container, like docker run -e NOVNC_HEARTBEAT=30 for the ping interval 30 seconds
    • it should prevent disconnections because of inactivity, if the container is used behind load-balancers or reverse proxies (issue #23)

  • script vnc_startup.rc has been adjusted and improved

  • script version_of.sh has been adjusted

  • numpy module has been added to make the HyBi protocol faster

  • following variables related to noVNC has been renamed in all related files

    • ARG_NO_VNC_PORT renamed to ARG_NOVNC_PORT
    • NO_VNC_HOME renamed to NOVNC_HOME
    • NO_VNC_PORT renamed to NOVNC_PORT

Release 22.02

Release 22.02

• Updated components:

  • TigerVNC to version 1.12.0
  • noVNC to version 1.3.0
  • websockify to version 0.10.0

• Added components:

  • python3 (also added into the verbose version sticker)
  • systemctl

• Updated files:

  • Dockerfile.xfce (components updated and added)
  • vnc_startup.rc (new noVNC startup)
  • version_of.sh (python3 included)
  • version_sticker.sh (python3 included)
  • env.rc (handling of tags)
  • util-readme.sh (fixed token parsing)
  • all readme files

• Added files:

  • local-builder-readme.md

• Changes in building and publishing policy:

  • The images without noVNC will not be published on Docker Hub any more, because the size difference is now only 2MB. However, they always can be built locally.
  • The images tagged latest will always implement VNC and noVNC.
  • The Firefox image latest will not include the Firefox plus features now. They will be available in the Firefox image latest-plus.

Release 22.01

Release 22.01

• Dockerfile.xfce uses TigerVNC releases from SourceForge website

Release 21.10

Release 21.10

• builder.sh utility accepts additional parameters
• local building example updated

Release 21.08

Release 21.08

• builder.sh utility added
  • see also local-building-example.md

Release 21.07

Release 21.07

• Docker Hub has removed auto-builds from free plans since 2021-07-26, therefore
  • both GitHub Actions workflows dockerhub-autobuild.yml and dockerhub-post-push.yml have been disabled because they are not needed on free plans any more
    • just re-enable them if you are on a higher plan
  • if you stay on the free plan, then
    • you can still build the images locally and then push them to Docker Hub
      • pushing to Docker Hub is optional
      • just follow the added file local-building-example.md
    • you can publish the readme files to Docker Hub using the utility util-readme.sh
      • just follow the added file examples-util-readme.md
  • regularity of updates of images on Docker Hub cannot be guaranteed any more
• Other Xfce4 related changes since the last release
  • keyboard layout explicit config added
  • xfce4-terminal set to unicode utf-8 explicitly

Release 21.05.3

Release 21.05.3

• fix in script release_of.sh
  • because wget is not available on Docker Hub
• all images moved to docker/doc/images

Release 21.05.2

Release 21.05.2

• Dockerfile stages diagram added
• script release_of.sh improved

Release 21.05.1

Release 21.05.1

• fix in env.rc hook script

Release 21.05

Release 21.05

• package dconf-editor has been removed