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What's new in Kasm 1.12.0

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Autoscaling configs are not automatically carried over during upgrade to 1.12. Administrators will have to reconfiguring those settings manually.

Features​

  • Usability Enhancements

    • Added support for Gamepad Pass-through
    • Added the ability to configure the CPU Allocation Method for session containers. The default now uses Shares which allows sessions to use all CPU resources if there is no contention.
    • Administrators can force a local user to reset their password on thier next login.
    • Added support for admin to reset a users LDAP account password
    • Allow LDAP users to reset their password on login if it has expired
    • Added JumpCloud LDAP Configuration Example.
    • Added new optional Multi Server role for Proxy, allowing for a single Web UI portal and many remote agent/proxy configurations for Workspaces sessions.
    • Add support for physical TOTP tokens
    • Added LDAP, OpenID, and SAML attribute mappings. Allows the administrator to map data from the identity provider to Kasm user fields.
    • Added additional customization for what options are available in the Kasm session control panel. These options can be accessed from [Group Settings]/docs/guide/groups#group-settings)
    • Added Casting Configuration Names for administrative clarity
    • Web Filters now support WebSockets
    • Added new configuration to pull a max number of docker images concurrently, see Changing MAX Concurrent Docker Pulls
    • Added a new Windows Service for providing uploads, downloads, resource monitoring, and getting screenshots from Windows based desktop servers.
    • Added a new Windows Service for providing uploads, downloads, resource monitoring, and getting screenshots from Windows based desktop servers.
    • Added customizable background images for the Workspaces launcher page as a Global Setting or via Custom Branding.
    • Added lossless mode using special installation flag for true 24 bit lossless remote desktops Lossless mode

  • Infrastructure Support Enhancements

    • Added support for Oracle Linux 9 base operating system
    • Added support for CentOS Stream 9 base operating system

  • Kasm Image Enhancements

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed bug that prevented Nvidia GPUs from being properly assigned to containers if non-Nvidia GPUs were also installed in certain configurations.

Known Bugs​

  • The group setting for session_time_limit does not work in 1.12.0. It has been fixed in the developer preview release and will be fixed in the 1.13.0 release. As a workaround the session time limit can be set on individual images.