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Spice vdagent changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog,

Gitlab markdown format support linking to Issues (#) and Merge requests (!) and more, see below:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

0.23.0 - 2025-09-23

Added

  • !49 - systemd services: add Documentation key (point to manpage)

Changed

  • !47 - Switch to spice-vdagent.service by default
  • !54 - Improve integration with systemd service manager

Fixed

  • !44 - Makefile.am: don't create /var/run/spice-vdagentd
  • !46 - vdagent: remove callback on destroy()
  • !48 - Fix minor spelling errors
  • !51 - Fix VDAGentMonitorConfig size calculation

0.22.1 - 2022-02-14

  • !42 - Fix crash on startup of session agent

0.22.0 - 2022-02-07

  • !40 - Handle side mouse buttons
  • !39 - Set retry limit to connect to vdagentd and improve logging error
  • !35 - Fix deprecation warning
  • !37 - Provide systemd spice-vdagent.service

0.21.0 - 2021-01-13

  • Security fixes: CVE-2020-25650, CVE-2020-25651, CVE-2020-25652, CVE-2020-25653
  • Fix shutdown issue due to incompatible thread/fork uses with GLib
  • Fix mouse pointer issues under Wayland
  • Fix a crash when running without dbus (e.g: within containers)
  • !9 - Introduce optional GTK4 support for monitor management
  • !13 - Enable copying files from client using webdav
  • Bump spice-protocol dependency to v0.14.3

0.20.0 - 2020-03-10

  • Add gio-unix and gobject dependency >= 2.50
  • Bump gtk+ >= 3.22 (optional dependency)
  • Last release with gtk+ being optional
  • !4 - Race fixes between client and guest clipboard
  • !2 - Fix session lookup for new GNOME versions
  • !3 - Now using GMainLoop and GIO to handle I/O of messages
  • Several minor covscan fixes

0.19.0 - 2019-04-12

  • Add libdrm dependency
  • Fix file descriptor leak on failed connections
  • Handle new VD_AGENT_GRAPHICS_DEVICE_INFO message advertised by VD_AGENT_CAP_GRAPHICS_DEVICE_INFO capability
  • Session agent autostart changed to WindowManager (rhbz#1623947) This fixes possible race with xdg-user-dirs
  • Fix of sending empty screen resolution messages (rhbz#1641723)
  • Fix 'Dependency failed for Activation socket' with systemd (rhbz#1545212)
  • Fix error messages about on selecting text on host (rhbz#1594876) this was also fixed with Gtk backend
  • Update paths from /var/run → /run
  • Fix Session agent restart
  • Add test for file creation
  • Prefer GLib memory functions stdlib.h ones
  • Several code and logs improvements

0.18.0 - 2018-06-06

  • Add GTK+ framework to handle x11 backend such as clipboard
  • Deprecate X11 backend in favor of GTK+ framework
  • Ask pkg-config to appropriate directory to install udev rules
  • Fix leak of udscs's file descriptor
  • Better quote directory path when calling xdg-open to save file transfer
  • Bump GLib to 2.34
  • Add systemd socket activation (rhbz#1340160)
  • Add support to detailed errors on file transfers
  • Add check for available free space in guest before starting a file transfer
  • Use better names for duplicated files on file transfer
  • Improve support on big endian guests (#5)
  • Use IdleHint to check if a session is locked over console-kit (rhbz#1412673)
  • Fixes double free on errors over udscs by improving memory ownership
  • Hide autostart file on Unity
  • Improve command line messages for vdagentd
  • Fix typo in --enable-static-uinput configure option
  • Code repository moved to gitlab.freedesktop.org

0.17.0 - 2016-06-10

  • Denies file-transfer in locked sessions
    • systems under systemd (rhbz#1323623)
    • systems under console-kit (rhbz#1323630)
  • Denies file-transfer in login screen
    • systems under systemd (rhbz#1328761)
    • systems under console-kit (rhbz#1323640)
  • Bump glib version to 2.28
  • Set exit code to 1 instead of 0 when virtio device cannot be opened
  • Fix double-free on uinput->screen_info (rhbz#1262635)
  • Code improvement over unix domain client server support (udcs)
  • Fix build compatibility with different libsystemd versions (fdo#94209)

0.16.0 - 2015-06-30

  • Add audio volume synchronization support
  • Add support for maximum clipboard size
  • Add support for more clipboard targets (STRING and TIMESTAMP)
  • Improve handling of transfers of multiple files
  • Fix transfer of >2GB files on 32 bit systems
  • XSpice improvements
  • Various bug fixes related to resolution changes

0.15.0 - 2013-10-14

  • Xspice support
  • Release clipboard on client disconnect if owned by client (rhbz#1003977)
  • Turn some error messages into debugging messages (rhbz#918310)
  • Not having the virtio channel is not an error; instead silently do nothing

0.14.0 - 2013-04-12

  • More multi-monitor and arbitrary resolution support bugfixes
  • Add support for file transfers from client to guest
  • Add support for setups with multiple Screens (multiple qxl devices each mapped to their own screen), limitations:
    • Max one monitor per Screen / qxl device
    • All monitors / Screens must have the same resolution
    • No client -> guest resolution syncing
  • Add spice-vdagent -X cmdline option, which runtime disables console-kit / systemd-logind integration for setups where these are not used
  • Add manpages for spice-vdagent and spice-vdagentd

0.12.1 - 2013-01-08

  • Various bugfixes for multi-monitor and arbitrary resolution support
  • Requires libXrandr >= 1.3, Note 0.12.0 also required this, but did not check for it. For older distributions use 0.10.1

0.12.0 - 2012-09-01

  • Full multi-monitor and arbitrary resolution support, this requires a new enough xorg-x11-drv-qxl driver, as well as a new enough host
  • systemd service support, using systemd hardware activation
  • Use syslog for logging, rather then logging to private log files

0.10.1 - 2012-03-27

  • Fix a race condition when opening the vdagent virtio serial port, which caused it to get opened / closed in rapid succession a number of times on vm boot

0.10.0 - 2012-03-20

  • Add limited support for multiple displays, see README
  • Add support for RHEL-5 (and other distributions with a non hotplug capable Xorg and/or no console-kit), see README.RHEL-5
  • Add support for using libsystemd-logind as session information source instead of console-kit

0.8.1 - 2011-07-18

  • In daemon mode the session vdagent now retries connecting to the system vdagentd every second, once a connection is made a version check is done, if the version differs (which only happens on an upgrade from one version to the next) the session vdagent re-execs itself (Marc-André Lureau)

0.8.0 - 2011-04-19

  • Add support for copy and paste using the primary selection, to use this you need a spice-gtk widget based client and the latest spice-gtk code (Marc-André Lureau and Hans de Goede)
  • Autotoolized (Christophe Fergeau)
  • Allow building without consolekit, for systems which don't have ck, such as RHEL-5 (Christophe Fergeau)
  • Various small bugfixes (Hans de Goede)

0.6.3 - 2010-11-01

  • Initial release, starting with version nr 0.6.3, to indicate that it more or less supports all parts of the cdagent protocol in spice-protocol and spice 0.6.3