Fourth Maintenance Release of the NX 3.5.0 Node and Server packages – Knowledge Base (original) (raw)

Rome, Italy, May 21, 2012 - NoMachine makes available updates to NX Node and Server software. This new maintenance release is mainly aimed at solving some issues preventing applications using Cairo libraries to work with NX, and includes:

• NX sessions may crash with applications such as Firefox or Thunderbird using Cairo library version 1.12.0.
• A degrade in performance may be noticed when running applications using Cairo library version 1.10.
• Changes to mouse sensitivity made in the tool gnome-mouse-properties may be ignored in an NX session.
• Reconnecting 3.5.0 sessions with NoMachine Player 4 may fail.

Supported NX Node and Server platforms

Solaris SPARC 8/9/10

Linux x86_64

• Red Hat Enterprise 4/5/6
• SLED 10.x/11.x, SLES 10/11, Open SUSE 10.x/11.x/12.x
• Mandriva 10.1/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011
• Fedora Core 3/4/5/6
• Fedora 7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16
• Xandros Desktop 4.1/Xandros Server 2.0
• Debian GNU Linux 4.0 Etch/5.0 Lenny/ 6.0 Squeeze
• Xandros Desktop 4.1/Xandros Server 2.0
• Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger/6.06 Dapper Drake/6.10/Edgy Eft/7.04 Feisty Fawn/7.10 Gutsy Gibbon/8.04 Hardy Heron/8.10 Intrepid Ibex/9.04 Jaunty Jackalope/9.10 Karmic Koala/10.4 Lucid Lynx/10.10 Maverick Meerkat/11.04 Natty Narwhal/11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/12.04 Precise Pangolin

Linux i386

• RedHat 7.2/7.3/8.0/9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5/6
• SuSE Linux 7.2/7.3/8.0/8.1/8.2/9.0, SLED 10.x/11.x, SLES 10/11, Open SUSE 10.x/11.x/12.x
• Mandriva Linux 9.0/9.1/9.2/10.0/10.1/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011
• Fedora Core 1/2/3/4/5/6
• Fedora 7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16
• Debian GNU Linux 3.0 Woody/3.1 Sarge/4.0 Etch/5.0 Lenny/ 6.0 Squeeze
• Xandros 3.0/Xandros Desktop 4.1/Xandros Server 2.0
• Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog/5.10 Breezy Badger/6.06 Dapper Drake/6.10/Edgy Eft/7.04 Feisty Fawn/7.10 Gutsy Gibbon/8.04 Hardy Heron/8.10 Intrepid Ibex/9.04 Jaunty Jackalope/9.10 Karmic Koala/10.4 Lucid Lynx/10.10 Maverick Meerkat/11.04 Natty Narwhal/11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/12.04 Precise Pangolin

Trouble Reports solved

NX Core

TR01J02646 - Performance issues could arise with certain graphics libraries such as Cairo library version 1.10

TR01J02667 - Changes to mouse sensitivity may be ignored in an NX session

TR05J02705 - The X11 agent may ignore WarpPointer requests
TR05J02706 - Sometimes disconnected sessions on NX server 3.5.0 cannot be recovered when using NoMachine Player 4

TR05J02703 - The X11 agent could terminate unexpectedly with libcairo 1.12

NX Server

TR12I02644 - NX Server may fail to generate SSH keys on Centos 6.2

TR12I02641 - NX server message about enough X resources contains a typo

TR10I02615 - Running the 'nxserver --userdel' command may change group for backend files

NX Node

TR01J02666 - ClientLogLimit in node.cfg is ignored

Download the NX Node and Server packages

You can download the latest node and server suitable for your Operating System from the NoMachine Web site at the following URL:

http://www.nomachine.com/download/

Update

Instructions for Linux are intended to be run from command line and use the sudo utility. If you don't have the sudo utility installed, log on as superuser ('root') and run the commands without sudo. Otherwise you can use the graphical package manager provided by your Linux distribution. Instructions for RPM , DEB and tar.gz packages refer to the 32 bit package (i386) and can be easily extended to the 64bit package (x86_64 or amd64).

It is highly recommended you disable access to new NX sessions and terminate all running sessions before proceeding with the update of node and server. To disable access to new NX sessions and terminate all the running sessions, open an xterm or similar and run the following commands:

$ sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --stop
$ sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --shutdown

After the update procedure is completed, restart NX server by running:

$ sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --start

RPM version for Linux

• Download the RPMs
• Change your working directory to the location where you saved the packages
  and update the node and server installation by running from a console:
  $ sudo rpm -Uvh nxnode-3.5.0-xy.i386.rpm
  $ sudo rpm -Uvh nxserver-3.5.0-xy.i386.rpm

DEB version for Linux

• Download the DEBs
• Change your working directory to the location where you saved the packages
  and update the node and server installation by running from a console:
  $ sudo dpkg -i nxnode_3.5.0-xy_i386.deb
  $ sudo dpkg -i nxserver_3.5.0-xy_i386.deb

TAR.GZ version for Linux

• Download the TAR.GZs in the /usr directory
• Change your working directory to the /usr directory, and uncompress
  the packages by running from a console:
  $ cd /usr
  $ sudo tar zxvf nxnode-3.5.0-xy.i386.tar.gz
  $ sudo tar zxvf nxserver-3.5.0-xy.i386.tar.gz
• Run the setup scripts for updating the NX Node and Server software:
  $ sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxnode --update
  $ sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --update

SPARC.GZ version for Solaris

• Download the SPARC.GZs
• Change your working directory to the location where you saved the packages,
  uninstall the previous versions of the software and install the new packages
  by running from a console:
  # pkgrm NXserver

# pkgrm NXnode
# gunzip nxnode-3.5.0-xy.sparc.gz
# gunzip nxserver-3.5.0-xy.sparc.gz
# pkgadd -d nxnode-3.5.0-xy.sparc
# pkgadd -d nxserver-3.5.0-xy.sparc

The complete set of installation instructions is available at:

http://www.nomachine.com/installation.php

You can find here more detailed instructions on how to configure and administer NX Node and NX Server:

http://www.nomachine.com/documents/admin-guide.php

NoMachine NX OSS components

Together with the commercial NX products, this new maintenance release sports updates to the following OSS component:

nxagent-3.5.0-8

The following components were not updated since the previous 3.5.0 releases:

nx-X11-3.5.0-2
nxuexec-3.5.0-3
nxcomp-3.5.0-2
nxcompext-3.5.0-1
nxcompshad-3.5.0-2
nxspool-3.5.0-1
nxsensor-3.5.0-1

Sources of all the OSS NX components can be downloaded here:

http://www.nomachine.com/sources/

Please refer to the ChangeLog of each specific package for more information about all changes introduced since the previous 3.5.0 versions.

The NX Development Team