ROME, Italy, September 24th, 2004 - NoMachine releases today the sixth snapshot of the upcoming 1.4.0 release. Numerous bugfixes have been applied for known problems affecting the previous snapshot. The bugfixes, in particular, relate to:
- Wrong keyboard layouts when running RDP sessions.
- Session reconnection failures in isolated conditions.
- Better handling of graphic exposures in nxagent.
- Revision and cleanup of many error messages.
We thanks all the users and developers that reported problems affecting the past snapshots. We kindly invite them to verify that the problems are solved in the current version.
The final 1.4.0 release is expected to be published soon.
Known Problems
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Audio forwarding has not been regression tested and may not work on some platforms.
Important Notes
Due to licensing changes occurred in NX software, license keys used up to version 1.3.2 will not be recognized by newer versions of NX Server. All entitled NoMachine customers will receive updated keys in time for the final 1.4.0.
In order to allow users to evaluate the production 1.3.2 release, the Web site has not been updated to issue the new licenses complying with the modified format. In order to help developers to evaluate the new version, we created a 'fake' license key that can be used for testing purposes.
Please follow the instructions below:
- Log in as root on the server which hosts the NX Server installation.
- Upgrade your current NX Server installation: for this purpose you can use the standard facilities for package management provided by your OS. When upgrading the NX Server package please make sure you upgrade beforehand the prerequisite NX Client package which is appropriate for your platform.
- Create a backup of the existing license file.
# cp /usr/NX/etc/key.txt /usr/NX/etc/key.txt.1.3.2
- Download the key appropriate for your platform to a file named 'key.tar.gz' and put it in the '/usr/NX/etc' directory:
- Linux Platform
- Solaris Platform
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From a root shell prompt execute the following commands to extract the new key:
# gzip -d key.tar.gz
# tar -xvf key.tar
- From a root shell prompt execute the commands reported below to set the proper permissions attributes and the correct owner on the license key file:
# chmod 0400 /usr/NX/etc/key.txt
# chown nx:root /usr/NX/etc/key.txt
- To check if the new license file was correcly installed issue the following command from a root shell prompt:
# /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --version
The output should look as follows:
NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-92 EE (Evaluation)
Please note that the key file is a 'ASCII' text file in UNIX format; if you are experiencing problems running the command reported above try to run:
# dos2unix /usr/NX/etc/key.txt
to make sure you didn't accidentally convert the file to the DOS format.
Supported Platforms
The binary snapshot is made available for testing purposes on a restricted number of platforms:
NX Server Platforms
Linux RedHat 8.0/9.0
Linux SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0
Linux Mandrake 9.0/9.1
Linux Debian Stable (Woody)
SUN Solaris 9 (Sparc)
NX Client Platforms
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
Linux RedHat 8.0/9.0
Linux SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0
Linux Mandrake 9.0/9.1
Linux Debian Stable (Woody)
SUN Solaris 9 (Sparc)
Download NX Client Packages
NX Client for MS Windows (any flavour: 9x/NT/2000/2003/XP)
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Windows/
nxclient-1.4.0-57.exe
(md5sum: d814f07eb74bbc8a0ce7539f5a8e26f8)
NX Client for Linux Statically Compiled Compressed TAR for Debian Linux Stable (Woody), SuSE Linux 8.1/8.2/9.0, RedHat Linux 8.0/9.0, Mandrake Linux 9.0/9.1
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Linux/
nxclient-1.4.0-57.i386.tar.gz
(md5sum: 33a345b11b29b0b231c3a68243e1c6d3)
NX Client for Linux Statically Compiled RPM for SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0, RedHat 8.0/9.0, Mandrake 9.0/9.1
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Linux/
nxclient-1.4.0-57.i386.rpm
(md5sum: e1e0566bb6aa1c200a3d9956f6329b4f)
NX Client for Solaris 9 (Sparc)
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Solaris/
nxclient-1.4.0-57.sparc.gz
(md5sum: 5886857fa4166535b2fdbd6427ed471e)
Download NX Server Packages
NX Server for Linux Statically Compiled Compressed TAR for Debian Linux Stable (Woody), SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0, RedHat 8.0/9.0 - Mandrake 9.0/9.1
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Linux/
nxserver-1.4.0-92.i386.tar.gz
(md5sum: e488cd31ddf117f172af8b79f9559e36)
NX Server for Linux Statically Compiled RPM for SuSE 8.1/8.2/9.0, RedHat 8.0/9.0, Mandrake 9.0/9.1
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Linux/
nxserver-1.4.0-92.i386.rpm
(md5sum: 9ca565fc632374991e767472386d9c3a)
NX Server for Solaris 9 (Sparc)
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxbinaries/Solaris/
nxserver-1.4.0-92.sparc.gz
(md5sum: 75a7c36b074da958dabc448df868310d)
OSS Components
Together with the commercial NX products, the snapshot includes updates to the following OSS
components:
nx-X11-1.4.0-4
nxcomp-1.4.0-25
nxcompext-1.4.0-3
nxproxy-1.4.0-2
nxagent-1.4.0-54
nxdesktop-1.4.0-47
nxviewer-1.4.0-2
nxdarwin-1.4.0-1
nxwin-1.4.0-3
nxauth-1.4.0-1
nxssh-1.4.0-16
nxesd-1.4.0-1
nxkbd-1.4.0-1
nxkdrive-1.4.0-1
nxcompsh-1.4.0-1
nxspool-1.4.0-2
nxscripts-1.4.0-3
nxuexec-1.4.0-11
Sources
Sources of OSS NX components can be downloaded here:
http://www.nomachine.com/download/snapshot/nxsources
Please refer to the ChangeLog of each specific package for information about all changes introduced since the previous release.
The NX Development Team
