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Distribution Packages

And why you should generally not use them.

A great explanation of the Debian / Ubuntu packaging mess can be found here: ​Matthew Garrett: There's more than one way to exploit the commons.

Debian's hand waving about backports is rightfully ignored here.

The list of currently supported versions can be found here: wiki/Versions.

This table was generated on the 2020-01-17 when 3.0.5 was the latest LTS version available.

DistributionVariantVersion ShippedKnown Issues
Fedora​Fedora 30 and 31​3.0.3OK: 3.0.5 in testing, you may want to add ​rpmfusion's xpra-codecs-freeworld package to get all the codecs - only one problem: their packaging unmercifully conflict with the packages from xpra.org
Ubuntu​Xenial aka 16.04​0.15.8over 4 years without any fixes, known bugs and security vulnerabilities - do not use, very dangerous, missing components, etc
Ubuntu​Bionic aka 18.04​2.1.32.5 years without any fixes, numerous serious issues, dangerous
Ubuntu​Eoan aka 19.10​2.4.3buggy, 14 months without any fixes
Debian​Buster​2.4.3buggy, 14 months without any fixes
Debian​Stretch​0.17.63.5 years out of date, known bugs and security vulnerabilities - do not use, very dangerous, missing components, etc
Gentoo​Stable ​2.2.2Dire: 2 years out of date!
Gentoo​Testing ​3.0.2Missing some important fixes, dubious patches applied
​Arch ​3.0.5Great: fully up to date

To see the fixes that are missing, follow the "Commit log" links for each branch on the "Release Notes" section of the version / fixes page.

This table was generated on the 2017-03-18 when 1.0.4 was the latest LTS version available. (2.0 released the day before)

DistributionVariantVersion ShippedKnown Issues
Fedora​Fedora 24 and 25​1.0missing critical updates, you may want to add ​rpmfusion's xpra-codecs-freeworld package to get all the codecs
Ubuntu​Trusty aka 14.04http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/xpra (link is now 404) 0.12.3not a single fix applied in 3 years, dangerous
Ubuntu​Xenial aka 16.04​0.15.816 months without any fixes, based on a dead branch
Debian​Jessie​0.14.10Awful: 2.5 years and 27 stable updates missing!
Version no longer supported, includes known bugs, crashes and serious security vulnerabilities - dangerous!
Debian​Jessie-backportshttps://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/xpra (link is now 404) 0.17.6]Backports an EOL version!?
Debian​Stretch[​https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xpra 0.17.6EOL version, known bugs and security vulnerabilities - do not use
Gentoo​Stable ​1.0.3Not too bad: 1 minor update behind
Gentoo​Testing ​1.0.4Good: up to date!
​Arch https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xpra-winswitch (link is now 404) 2.0Great: most up to date

Here's an even older version of this table, last updated 2015-12-28, when 0.15.10 was the latest version available. (0.14.33 for LTS branch).

DistributionVariantVersion ShippedKnown Issues
Fedora​Fedora 21 and 22​0.15.9Up to date (0.15.10 in "testing" queue), but you need ​rpmfusion's xpra-codecs-freeworld package to get all the codecs
Ubuntu​Precise aka 12.04http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/xpra (link is now 404) 0.0.7.36Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 4 years!
Ubuntu​Trusty aka 13.04[http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/xpra (link is now 404) 0.12.3Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 2 years, avoid
Ubuntu​Vivid aka 15.04[http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/xpra (link is now 404) 0.14.10Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian​Squeeze Backportshttps://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/xpra (link is now 404) 0.3.11Fundamentally broken - do not use
Debian​Wheezyhttps://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xpra} (link is now 404) 0.3.11Fundamentally broken - do not use
Debian​Wheezy-backportshttps://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/xpra (link is now 404) 0.14.10Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian​Jessiehttps://packages.debian.org/jessie/xpra (link is now 404) 0.14.10Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian​Jessie-backportshttps://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/xpra (link is now 404) 0.16.3Not too bad.
Gentoo​Stable ​0.15.6Not too bad: 4 minor updates behind
Gentoo​Testing ​0.15.9Good: only one minor update behind
​Arch ​0.15.9Good: only one minor update behind

Example of some of the fixes found in later 0.14.x and 0.15.x stable releases which may be missing from distributions that got stuck at a particular minor update (ie: 0.14.10 for Debian):

You can find the full list of changes merged here: wiki/Versions/PendingFixes (under commit log). Some other fixes are simply not available in older branches, here are a few: Versions/PendingFixes/Abandoned.

Non exhaustive list of bugs we would have backported to older branches if they were still maintained (mostly cumulative, the further back you go, the more you need):

etc...