Teradici Remote Workstation Card Firmware 4.7.5 Release Notes

Release Status: General Availability (GA)

Release Overview:

Tera2 PCoIP Remote Workstation Card Firmware 4.7.5 includes stability fixes and corrects an issue preventing connections from PCoIP Software Clients for Windows and Mac. This firmware is specific to Tera2 Remote Workstation Cards and cannot be used with Zero Clients. This article provides a summary of key feature additions, compatibility notes, and known issues for this firmware release.

Important Notes:

  • If you are connecting your workstation to Tera2 zero clients with an attached Wacom Tablet, you require Tera2 zero client firmware version 4.8.0p91(available through the PCoIP Host Software for Linux 4.7.0 GA package).
  • Firmware 4.5.1 or 4.6.0 will be used as a minimum firmware required prior to moving to any newer release of PCoIP firmware.
  • This package contains an individual firmware file (.all) for Tera2 processor-based products, and a combined file format (.pcoip) for PCoIP Management Console versions 1.10.3 - 1.10.5.

Key Release Details
Resolved an issue in firmware 4.7.4 that caused screen freezing when connecting from PCoIP Software Clients for Windows or Mac.

 

The  table below represents the tested firmware versions available at the time of the Remote Workstation Card firmware release, and lists the compatible Management Console version.

Management Console supported Firmware versions
Tera2 Host Card_Firmware2,3
(not supported by MC 2.0 -2.1)
Tera2 Zero Client_Firmware2,3 PCoIP Management Console Version3 Tera1 Zero Client_Firmware1 Tera1 Host Card_Firmware1

4.7.5
(not supported by MC 2.0 -2.1)

5.1.1

2 -EOL -EOL

4.7.44 No longer available for download
(not supported by MC 2.0 -2.1)

5.0.2

2.1 -EOL -EOL
4.7.24 No longer available for download 5.0.0 2.0.2 -EOL -EOL
4.7.2, 4.7.4, 4.7.5 4.8.0,
4.8.0p91 for Wacom Tablet users
1.10.5-1.10.3 4.7.3 4.7.1
4.7.1 4.8.0 1.10.5-1.10.3 4.7.1 4.7.1
4.7.1 4.7.1 1.10.5-1.10.2 4.7.1 4.7.1
4.6.0 4.6.0 1.10.5-1.10.1 4.6.0 4.6.0
4.5.1 4.5.1 1.10.5-1.10.1 4.5.1 4.5.1
4.2.0 4.2.0 1.10.5-1.10.0 4.2.0 4.2.0
4.1.2 4.1.2 1.10.5 - 1.9.1 4.1.2 4.1.2
4.1.0 4.1.0 1.10.5 - 1.9.0 4.1.0 4.1.0
4.0.3 4.0.3 1.10.5 - 1.8.0 4.0.2 4.0.2
1.10.5 - 1.8.0 4.0.2 4.0.2
1.10.5 - 1.8.0 4.0.1 4.0.1
1.10.5 - 1.8.0 4.0.0 4.0.0

1
Tera1 Products: While mixed firmware release operation is not tested, firmware up to 4.7.5 is compatible with 4.7.0, 4.6.0, 4.5.1, 4.2.x, 4.1.x, 4.0.x, 3.5.x, 3.4.x, 3.3.x 3.2.x and 3.1.x releases.

2 Tera2 Products (Applies to firmware releases after FW 4.7): It is generally recommended that the latest version of zero client firmware be used with the latest version of Remote Workstation Card Firmware.

Deployments using Tera2 Zero Clients running firmware 5.0.0 must use PCoIP Management Console 2.x to manage Tera2 zero clients. Remote Workstation Cards are not supported by PCoIP Management  Console 2.0.0 - 2.1.  To manage Remote Workstation Cards, PCoIP Management Console 1.x.x is required.

4 These firmware releases have been removed for download due to the improvements offered by Remote Workstation Card firmware release 4.7.5.

Key Resolved Issues
Minor bug fixes and enhancements
44124/44120. When using a Teradici PCoIP Software Client, the PCoIP session freezes after a short period of use on a repeated cycle of approximately 5-10 seconds. Workaround: Downgrade to Remote Workstation Card firmware 4.7.2. 

 

Key Known Issues

9418. Customer reports of PCoIP devices crashing when many devices are simultaneously running on the fall-back IP address. Workaround: Set the Enable Static IP Fallback to false via PCoIP Management Console.