From 9a589f7f208c671a93ee060b417840a94bb4ed15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luxit Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 18:36:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Sync the self-hosting stack --- CHANGELOG.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 4337f7b..3db828a 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -9,6 +9,26 @@ 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 — H.265 video for very large screens in the remote-desktop viewer `agent 0.46.0` `api 0.128.0` `web 0.156.0` + +The "Picture mode" menu of the remote-desktop viewer has a third mode, H.265 video. H.264 carries a +screen up to about 4096 × 2304; H.265 goes up to 8192 × 4320, so a very large or very wide screen +(two 4K monitors side by side, for example) can now be watched as smooth video instead of JPEG +images. + +You do not have to choose it: when nobody has chosen a mode, a screen that fits H.264 stays on +H.264 and a larger one goes to H.265 by itself, and the menu shows the mode that is actually +arriving. Choosing H.265 on a smaller screen works too. + +H.265 is encoded by the remote machine's graphics card. A machine without a hardware HEVC encoder, +such as a virtual machine without a GPU or most servers, falls back to H.264 when the screen fits it +and to JPEG images otherwise, and its agent log says why. Your browser must also be able to decode +H.265, which Chrome and Edge do on a computer with a recent graphics card; without that, the menu +does not offer H.265. + +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 menu offers JPEG and H.264 as before. + ## 2026-10-08 — Show or hide the remote cursor from the remote-desktop viewer `web 0.155.0` The remote-desktop toolbar has a new cursor button, next to the size button. It hides the remote