The release below is from prior to Guacamole's acceptance into the Apache Incubator. It is not an Apache Software Foundation release, and is licensed under the MIT license. The latest release of Apache Guacamole is 1.5.5.
The 0.9.2 release of Guacamole contains several general bug fixes and improvements. Both telnet and SSH now support wide characters, such as those used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and the login process for telnet connections can now be automated. Connections via RDP and SSH should now be more stable, and the Guacamole source now builds properly on more platforms.
Several languages use characters which are too wide to fit within the space used for individual characters by text terminals. The standard mechanism for dealing with this is to allow such characters to span across two columns, but older versions of Guacamole simply placed all characters within single columns. This caused wide characters to be clipped, with only the left half of the character being visible.
As of Guacamole 0.9.2, wide characters are fully supported, and text written in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean is readable.
Guacamole has supported password-based login for SSH for some time, but some SSH servers require instead the newer “keyboard interactive” authentication method. Guacamole 0.9.2 adds basic support for “keyboard interactive”, transparently sending the password in response to the server’s authentication prompt.
Telnet has no standard authentication mechanism; all authentication via telnet is interactive and implemented completely on the server. Authentication thus depends on responses to prompts which are sent in text form and intended to be human-readable.
Guacamole now supports automation of telnet login, using heuristics to detect the username and password prompts.
Several bugs ranging from threadsafety issues to segfaults have been causing problems with connection stability. Known issues which could lead to failures to connect (or unexpected disconnects) for RDP and SSH have been fixed.
Newer compiler warnings, differences between Linux and FreeBSD, and API changes within FreeRDP have caused problems with building Guacamole from source. As of 0.9.2, Guacamole builds properly on FreeBSD and against the latest FreeRDP from git.
A minor issue which cause the appearance of Ctrl/Alt/Shift on the on-screen keyboard to differ from their true state has been fixed.
A major focus of recent development has been adding support for connection sharing at the Guacamole protocol level. While this is not yet complete, we have implemented about half the core changes required. This has absolutely no effect on user experience for the moment (other than a new “connection ID” message appearing in the guacd logs), but is a milestone as far as internal progress is concerned.
Eventually, once this support is complete, multiple users will be able to share access to the same display simultaneously regardless of underlying protocol - even RDP and SSH.