Getting Started : Enhancements

Here are some of the most prominent features add to the ​original version:

• Better platform support: Mac OS X (DMG and PKG installers), Microsoft Windows (EXE and MSI installers), Android APK (beta), ​Solaris, ​FreeBSD, OpenBSD and many more
• Up to date binary packages and repositories: ​DEB (Debian/Ubuntu) / ​RPM (Fedora/CentOS), and many more
• HTML5 client
• Many new types of network transport protocols (TCP, SSL, VSOCK #983, websockets #1271) and encryption.
• Many new picture encodings: ​x264, ​VP8, ​webp, JPEG, rgb24, rgb32 and PNG image compression - automatically selected and tuned
• Sound forwarding, printer forwarding, file transfers, webcam forwarding
• VNC-like desktop mode #1247
• Support for proxy mode and system service (many sessions on a single port)
• Support for sharing a TCP port with a web server
• Concurrent multi-client connections (#41)
• GUI launcher
• System tray menu for easy disconnection, access to runtime options and statistics
• Fast OpenGL client rendering
• Fast zero-copy and much lower CPU overhead in network code, much faster packet encoder
• Memory-mapped data transfers for local connections - extremely fast!
• Hardware accelerated H264 encoding (NVENC)
• Hardware accelerated colourspace conversion
• Support for window transparency
• Better client keyboard layout support
• advanced wiki/Clipboard options
• Handles screen update storms and fast screen refresh rates
• Support for authentication modules for securing plain TCP connections
• Forwarding of system bell, custom application cursors, and application notifications
• Improved screen and window geometry handling (see Xdummy)
• Shadowing existing displays
• Many bug fixes, security and portability fixes (IPv6, endianness, platforms, etc)

See Usage and Configuration for taking advantage of those features.