From 4ba344985d966341cec28da45e4bd3f2f4d260d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luxit Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 21:12:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Sync the self-hosting stack --- CHANGELOG.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index fa8a384..95ca67d 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -9,6 +9,34 @@ one of them changed. An entry says which artefact and which version, so `web 0.1 Every version published to a channel appears here. Nothing is written from memory afterwards: a build cannot be published without its entry. +## 2026-10-08 — Hear the remote machine from the remote-desktop viewer `agent 0.47.0` `api 0.129.0` `web 0.159.0` + +The remote-desktop toolbar has a new speaker button. It turns on the sound of the machine you are +watching, so you can hear a video play, a notification, or a call, and turns it off again. It works +with JPEG images as well as with H.264 and H.265 video. + +**It is off when a session opens, and off means off.** Nothing is listened to on the machine until you +press the button, and pressing it again stops the listening on the machine, not only the playing in +your browser. What you hear is what the machine plays through its speakers; its microphone is never +opened. The sound is sent only while the notice is standing on the person's screen, and nothing is +recorded or kept. The person at the machine is not told that someone is listening: the notice names who +is viewing and controlling, and does not yet mention sound. Only the agent's log records that the +sound was turned on and off. + +The machine encodes the sound as AAC at 128 kbit/s with the encoder Windows already carries, and a +machine that is playing nothing sends nothing. The sound and the picture are not synchronised: expect +them to differ by a tenth of a second or two, which is fine for hearing a notification or a call and +not good enough to judge lip-sync. + +The button appears when your browser can play AAC (Chrome, Edge and Safari can; Firefox depends on its +platform codecs) and the machine's agent is updated. When the machine cannot oblige, the button turns +into a muted speaker and the status bar says why: no sound output (most virtual machines and servers +have none), no AAC encoder (on Windows Server, the Media Foundation feature is not installed), or the +sound stopped. + +Update the API, the web image and the agent release image. No database update is required. With an +older agent or an older API the button is not shown and nothing changes. + ## 2026-10-08 — A toolbar of icons, and a third way to size the remote screen `web 0.158.0` Every action on the remote-desktop toolbar is now an icon with its name on hover: Ctrl+Alt+Del, the