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Jeremy BĂ­cha (jbicha) wrote : Update gnome-remote-desktop to 42.8

Impact
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This is a new stable release in the GNOME 42 series

It backports fixes for some crashes reported to errors.ubuntu.com

Changes since the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/compare/42.7...42.8

Test Cases
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Complete all the test cases from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/RemoteDesktop

except for the "New Audio Forwarding Feature" test case.

What Could Go Wrong
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RDP Sharing is a new feature for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as part of GNOME 42. (Previously only VNC Sharing was offered.)

RDP Sharing can be used for providing remote support so it's important that this feature works well because it may be difficult for the remote admin to fix issues in person.

gnome-remote-desktop is part of GNOME Core and falls under the GNOME Stable Release Update microrelease exception

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/GNOME

Other Info
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The previous 22.04 LTS SRU, 42.7-0ubuntu1, got stuck in phased updates. We worked with upstream to do a new 42 release in hopes that this update along with the SRU for mutter 42.9 (LP: #1998286) will significantly improve the error rate.

42.7-0ubuntu1 was included in Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.2 so many users already have that version from the original install or got it before phasing was halted.

https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/phased-updates.html