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Tintii app tablet3/19/2023 Removed Adobe Flash plugin from the system.Onscreen buttons can be relocated to a different position on the kiosk screen.Added support for experimental hardware video decoding for both browsers.Virtual keyboard extension can be enabled for Firefox and Chrome.Touchscreens which were calibrated under Porteus Kiosk version 5.2.0 or below will continue using the 'evdev' driver in order to preserve compatibility with existing configs. Libinput has become our default input driver as it provides native touch gestures support for the Firefox browser.Full list of packages used for creating this release can be found under this link. Upgraded system components to latest version from Gentoo stable branch including Linux kernel 5.10.73, Mozilla Firefox 91.2.0 and Google Chrome. 18th of October 2021 Changes implemented in Porteus Kiosk 5.3.0: Never update the client ID number for already registered clients (affects 'client_id=automatic' parameter.)Īll changes can be also tracked in the 'automatic updates' changelogs: link and link.Allow connecting to older SSH servers that do not support the newer RSA/SHA-256/SHA-512 signatures (needed for preserving compatibility with kiosk clients in version 3.6.0 and 3.7.0).Guest tools are started properly on VMware virtual machines.'refresh client list' and 'export as CSV' functions of the Administration Panel have been optimized to execute up to 5 times faster.Porteus Kiosk Server version "Premium" changes: Kernel firmware symlinks are maintained according to the WHENCE file.Disabled 'share this page' button on Chrome's URL bar by default.'vesafb' driver is used for displaying the splash screen when the proprietary nVidia driver is available in the system (affects custom builds only).Native 'vboxvideo' driver is used instead of the 'vesafb' for displaying the splash screen when booting on the VirtualBox platform.Disabled 'Restore pages' Chrome notification which could appear when the kiosk is rebooted with full persistence enabled.Firefox browser will open URLs which require domain authentication without asking for user confirmation.If the GPU driver fails during the Xorg server initialization then fallback drivers are loaded in the following order: modesetting, fbdev, vesa until the desktop is started properly.Switching to a secondary keyboard layout will no longer allow using key combinations which are blocked in the system by default.This optimization lowers the server overhead when multiple kiosks are booting at the same time ('rtc_wake=' parameter is used). Number of initial connections from the client to Porteus Kiosk Server has been reduced from 5 to 3.Added 'cec-client' utility for controlling the displays over HDMI interfaces.Enabled OpenH264 plugin by default for the Firefox browser as it's needed for the WebRTC streams.Kiosk identification and settings can be now passed through the URLs which contain an append parameters, e.g. Added support for dynamically generated remote configs.Hardware video decode feature is now enabled for screensaver video and screensaver webpage functions.Added support for importing DER certificates through the 'import_certificates=' parameter.Porteus Kiosk changes including Cloud and ThinClient variants: Upgraded system components to the latest version from Gentoo stable branch including Linux kernel 5.15.28, Mozilla Firefox 91.7.1 and Google Chrome. 28th of March 2022 Changes implemented in Porteus Kiosk 5.4.0: We encourage everybody to subscribe to an automatic updates service as it lets you be safe all the time. These issues remain unfixed in full releases until new kiosk version is out. Please be aware that as the times goes the stable releases may become affected by a known security vulnerabilities which are resolved in real time in the kiosk current branch.
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