RWC 17.05.2

Release Overview

Remote Workstation Card Firmware 17.05.2 is a firmware release replacing firmware 4.9.0 for Remote Workstation Cards (not PCoIP Zero Clients).

This release is a maintenance release with security updates over release 17.05.1. These release notes provide a summary of compatibility notes, resolved issues, and known issues for this release.

Important Notice

If you are using PCoIP Management Console to deploy firmware updates, you must upgrade to Management Console 20.01 or newer before deploying firmware 17.05 or 20.01 or newer.

Deploying endpoints from an earlier version of Management Console may cause endpoints to become unmanageable.

For further details see knowledge base article KB 3230

What's New in 17.05

Versioning Number Change

Remote Workstation Card firmware is on a new numbering scheme, where the first number is the release date year, and the second number is the release date month, and the third number is the number of maintenance releases.
Remote Workstation Card firmware 17.05 replaces firmware 4.9.

Use with Management Console version 20.01 or newer

This firmware is supported with Management Console 20.01 or newer.

Security Updates

  • This release contains security updates over firmware 4.9.
  • The Remote Workstation Card Firmware session security mode has been improved.
  • The minimum TLS version required for establishing a PCoIP session is now TLS 1.1. The minimum TLS version required to access the Administrative Web Interface (AWI) is now TLS 1.2.
  • The Administrative Web Interface certificate is now a SHA-256 certificate with 3072-bit RSA encryption.
  • PCoIP session encryption with AES-128-GCM has been removed, only AES-256-GCM can be used.

Brokering / Removal of Connection Management Interface (CMI)

CMI is no longer available in the Remote Workstation Card. but maintains brokering with Horizon View. Brokering by way of the PCoIP Broker Protocol can be done using the Remote Workstation Card Agent.

SNMP sysName

Now reports the endpoint FQDN instead of "Teradici Corp".

Time Zone Database update

GMT time zones have been replaced with the 2016j IANA time zone database.

Compatibility

Management Console

This firmware is supported with Management Console 20.01 or newer.

Zero Client

  • Remote Workstation Card firmware 17.05 has been tested with Zero Client 17.05.
  • Other Zero Client firmware may be compatible, but is not supported.

PCoIP Software Client

  • Remote Workstation Card firmware 17.05 has been tested with PCoIP Software Client 20.04.1.
    • Other Software Client versions may be compatible with this release, but are not supported.
  • For direct connections see Software Client to Remote Workstation Card.

VMware Horizon

  • Tested with VMware Horizon View 7.11.
  • Remote Workstation Card is compatible with PCoIP Secure Gateway 7.7 and older.

Resolved Issues

None.

Known Issues

Frequent webpage reloading shows different content in Chrome

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When using Chrome, performing frequently or fast webpage reloading can result in portions of an AWI page that are not normally visible to become visible. This has not been observed on Firefox or Edge.


Internet Explorer 11 does not trust the Administrative Web Interface certificate

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Internet Explorer 11 does not trust the Administrative Web Interface certificate if the AWI is accessed via IP address (it will trust the certificate when using the FQDN).


Profile application to a Remote Workstation Card fails when Enable Audio has not been enabled

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Applying a Profile to a Remote Workstation Card from PCoIP Management Console will be unsuccessful if the Enable Audio setting on the Remote Workstation Card has never been enabled (default is disabled) or the Remote Workstation Card has not had the Enable Audio setting enabled since the last Reset Parameters setting has been applied. 

In either case, after attempting to apply the profile, the PCoIP Management Console may display incorrect statuses of the endpoint. For example, if the profile attempted to peer the Remote Workstation Card to a PCoIP Zero Client, the status will display as peered when the Remote Workstation Card may be in a state ready to accept any connection.

Workaround:

To make sure your profile is applied to the Remote Workstation Card correctly, ensure the *Enable Audio* setting has been enabled in the profile you are applying or ensure the setting has been enabled once prior to applying a new profile.