Release Notes and Document History for Amazon DCV Web Client SDK

Semantic version: 1.8.7

Build: 858

Fixed rendering on Firefox 130 and newer

Semantic version: 1.8.4

Build: 840

Renamed to “Amazon DCV Web Client SDK”

Added new API enableHighPixelDensity for high dpi displays

Added an experimental API setMicrophone to select the microphone in compatible browsers

Added new Connection Errors GATEWAY_BUSY, UNSUPPORTED_CREDENTIAL, and TRANSPORT_ERROR

Added new Closing Reasons EXTERNAL_PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_EVICTED, and DISCONNECTION_REQUESTED

Improved Webcam handling

Improved audio playback handling

Improved WebCodecs handling

Improved plug and unplug of microphone and webcam

Improved remote window dragging when multimonitor

File storage upload and download permissions are now correctly propagated

Minor fixes on rendering

Semantic version: 1.5.10

Build: 684

Fix stream decoding errors

Semantic version: 1.5.6

Build: 659

Performance improvements in the stream decoding and rendering

Removed support for Internet Explorer 11

Semantic version: 1.4.4

Build: 573

The viewer UI compoenent now uses the navigator.keyboard.lock API on browsers that support it to handle special keys in full screen.

Fixed a problem which could cause wrong colors when using Chrome 114 or newer.

Improved WebCodecs detection.

Fixed a problem with the mouse button state when entering the window.

Fixed a problem which could cause the modifier keys to remain pressed on macOS.

Improved audio robustness to degraded network conditions.

Fixed memory leaks.

Improved logs to include time and level.

Semantic version: 1.4.0

Build: 476

Added a new uploadFiles method to the FileStorage object to upload multiple files.

The viewer UI component now supports drag and drop to initiate file upload.

The WebCodecs browser API is now used also for audio and webcam.

Fixed memory leaks related to repeated connections from the same page.

setUploadBandwidth now allows values up to 1 Gbps.

Optimized rendering of UI components.

Fixed support for animated cursors on Windows.

Fixed a problem with clipboard support when both text and image data are present for the same operation.

Improved robustness of the Webcam API: settings cannot be changed while a request is already in progress, webcam.setEnabled now keeps track of device ID for the request is in progress and returns a Promise. The viewer UI component shows notification in case of error.

Semantic version: 1.3.1

Build: 413

Fixed a problem which could cause the Time Zone redirection UI to go out of synchronization with the server.

Fixed a memory leak after multiple reconnections.

Fixed a problem which caused a blank page on disconnetion.

Fixed a bug causing console warnings on audio decoder close.

Semantic version: 1.3.0

Build: 407

Adopted Cloudscape (https://cloudscape.design) for the UI Viewer component.

Added support for Time Zone redirection.

Fixed missing update on asynchronous clipboard when the DCV viewer is focused.

The setDisplayScale function is not needed anymore when scaling the display on client side.

The DCVViewer component now automatically calls disconnect() when it is unmounted.

Semantic version: 1.2.1

Build: 358

Fixed a problem that resulted in a failure to connect to Amazon DCV server 2019.1 and older.

Semantic version: 1.2.0

Build: 352

Fixed crashing bug when the frames received are larger than the maximum supported resolution (4096x2160).

Resource objects (passed as arguments to fileDownload and filePrinted observers) now have the accept and decline methods that can be called on the object to download and discard the resource respectively.

Minor bug fix on automatic clipboard synchronization when disconnecting.

Semantic version: 1.1.3

Build: 329

Fixed a problem preventing successful connection when specifying the web-url-path option.

Semantic version: 1.1.2

Build: 322

Fixed a problem that could cause input to not work correctly after connection.

Fixed mouse coordinates when scale ratio is greater than 1.

Semantic version: 1.1.1

Build: 309

Report Transport Error when communication with the server times out.

Fixed a recurring decoding error when streaming large resolutions.

Semantic version: 1.1.0

Build: 295

Release Amazon DCV Web UI SDK library with DCVViewer React component.

Export Amazon DCV Web Client SDK both as UMD and ES modules.

Added high color accuracy support.

Added the ability to list and interact with clients connected to a session. Added notifications for connection and disconnection.

Improved webcodecs decoding support.

Various keyboard improvements.

Fix a bug that was preventing to open a second screen when the clipboard was disabled.

Semantic version: 1.0.4

Build: 249

Support opening multiple connections from the same page.

Support loading the SDK from a CDN.

Semantic version: 1.0.3

Build: 202

Experimental support for WebCodecs. This is disabled by default and must be enabled via the ConnectionConfig object using the new property enableWebCodecs.

Clipboard: added support for image/png data type on Chromium based browsers.

Added observer/callback to get the server’s screenshot as a PNG image (requires Amazon DCV server 2021.2).

Improved handling of keyboard modifiers.

Semantic version: 1.0.2

Build: 167

Fixed pressure detection for stylus events.

Improved support for Korean keyboard layout on Chrome.

Semantic version: 1.0.1

Build: 141

Fixed propagation of connection errors and close reasons

Fixed filestorage chunk progress update

Improved webcam handling

Improved audio-in processing

Semantic version: 1.0.0

Build: 81