chore(release): prepare for 2025.1.5

[Benoît Cortier (CBenoit)]

Features

• dgw: cross-file seeking for recording player (#1271) (fbac3d29ce) (DGW-216)

  Introduces support for seemless playback of multi-files recording playback.

• dgw: preflight API (#1279) (8d4f7376d5) (DGW-245)

  Possible operations:

  • get-version: returns the version of the service.
  • get-agent-version: returns the version of the agent, if available.
  • get-running-session-count: returns the number of active sessions.
  • get-recording-storage-health: returns information about the remaining disk space available for recordings, etc.
  • provision-token: caches the token on the proxy side for later use.
  • provision-credentials: associates a username/password with a token for proxy-side credential injection.
  • resolve-host: DNS resolution of a hostname.

  Possible results:

  • version: the version of the service.
  • agent-version: the version of the side-by-side installed agent, if applicable.
  • running-session-count: the number of running sessions.
  • recording-storage-health: various information regarding recording storage health.
  • resolved-host: the IP addresses resolved for the hostname.
  • ack: acknowledge a given operation was performed with success.
  • alert: alert message for errors and other information.

• dgw: extend net scanner capabilities (#1303) (7518a4ea20)

• dgw: stabilize /jet/net/config (#1311) (36a034ae51)

• webapp: integrate the newer RDP and VNC packages (#1329) (79b09a62f6)

  New version of the remote desktop web clients.

  New settings are exposed for VNC, ARD and RDP.

  • VNC-specific settings: Enabled Encodings (it’s possible to specify
    in a fine-grained manner which codecs are enabled or not),
    Enable/disable cursor pseudo-encoding, etc.
  • ARD-specific settings: Resolutions Quality and Quality Mode settings.
  • RDP-specific: toggle for Unicode mode.

• webapp: option for enabling/disabling display control in RDP web client (#1333) (b056ddf5d1)

• dgw: improve system store certificate selection (#1341) (d8b2fdf4fd) (DGW-262)

  The selection is now discriminating based on the extended key usage and
  the not valid before date.

  • Discriminate based on the extended key usage: certificate is ignored
    when the "Server Authentication" (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1) key usage is not
    specified.
  • Discriminate based on the "not valid before" date: certificates not
    yet valid are ignored.
  • Added generous logging to observe the selection process in details.

Bug Fixes

• installer: resolve potential null reference installing PEDM shell extension (#1278) (d36978e63b)

  The top-level file extension keys may not all exist (in the case of QA,
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.ps1 was not present). Although we check for an
  empty default value, we don't check for the presence of the top-level
  key which could cause a null-reference exception and force the installer
  to roll back.

• dgw: properly order system certificates (#1285) (1925990f10) (DGW-261)

  We used the wrong key for sorting the certificates. It should have been
  "valid_not_after" instead of "valid_not_before".

Performance

• dgw: caching of system store certificates (#1339) (4b15a9cf6a) (DGW-266)

  Basic caching is implemented for certificates fetched from the system
  store reducing considerably the number of system calls.

  The lifetime is 45 seconds, so the certificate is still refreshed on a
  regular basis.

[Richard Markiewicz (thenextman)]

Benoît Cortier (@CBenoit) I pre-approved to smooth the road for you; but I also disabled auto-merge because I just merged my PR for PEDM and not sure if it changes something here

[Benoît Cortier (CBenoit)]

I pre-approved to smooth the road for you; but I also disabled auto-merge because I just merged my PR for PEDM and not sure if it changes something here

That’s thoughtful of you, thank you.
Your change will be released along the rest, but I’m not including PEDM-related changes in the changelog since the V1 is not released yet.