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TigerVNC 1.7 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 8 September 2016 at 09:05 AM EDT. 17 Comments

TigerVNC 1.7 was released today as the newest version of this open-source, high-performance, cross-platform VNC implementation.

Changes to find with TingerVNC 1.7 include a multi-threaded decoder with the FLTK viewer, improved SSH integration with the Java viewer, fine-grained lock-down of Xvnc parameters, support for X.Org Server 1.18.x, better compatibility with Vino, and various other changes.

Overall it's a big update with this being the first official TigerVNC update of 2016. More details on TigerVNC 1.7 can be discovered at TigerVNC.org.

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