Distribution Packages

And why you should generally not use them.

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)

Distribution	Variant	Version Shipped	Known Issues
Fedora	​Fedora 24 and 25	​1.0	missing critical updates, you may want to add ​rpmfusion's xpra-codecs-freeworld package to get all the codecs
Ubuntu	​Trusty aka 14.04	​0.12.3	not a single fix applied in 3 years, dangerous
Ubuntu	​Xenial aka 16.04	​0.15.8	16 months without any fixes, based on a dead branch
Debian	​Jessie	​0.14.10	Awful: 2.5 years and 27 stable updates missing! Version no longer supported, includes known bugs, crashes and serious security vulnerabilities - dangerous!
Debian	​Jessie-backports	​0.17.6	Backports an EOL version!?
Debian	​Stretch	​0.17.6	EOL version, known bugs and security vulnerabilities - do not use
Gentoo	​Stable	​1.0.3	Not too bad: 1 minor update behind
Gentoo	​Testing	​1.0.4	Good: up to date!
​Arch		​2.0	Great: most 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.

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.

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Here's an 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).

Distribution	Variant	Version Shipped	Known Issues
Fedora	​Fedora 21 and 22	​0.15.9	Up 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 12.04	​0.0.7.36	Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 4 years!
Ubuntu	​Trusty aka 13.04	​0.12.3	Far too many to list - not a single bug fix applied in 2 years, avoid
Ubuntu	​Vivid aka 15.04	​0.14.10	Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian	​Squeeze Backports	​0.3.11	Fundamentally broken - do not use
Debian	​Wheezy	​0.3.11	Fundamentally broken - do not use
Debian	​Wheezy-backports	​0.14.10	Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian	​Jessie	​0.14.10	Awful: 23 stable updates missing! version no longer supported, known bugs including crashes and vulnerabilities - avoid!
Debian	​Jessie-backports	​0.16.3	Not too bad.
Gentoo	​Stable	​0.15.6	Not too bad: 4 minor updates behind
Gentoo	​Testing	​0.15.9	Good: only one minor update behind
​Arch		​0.15.9	Good: only one minor update behind

Omitted:

• because not available with a default installation: Debian experimental.
• opensuse: ​no packages available

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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):

• important fixes: r10197 (abysmal performance), r10160, printing broken (r10165 + r10105 + r10142), nvenc (r10000 + r10078, also on Debian / Ubuntu: r10133), r10128, r10119, opencl broken (r10024 + r10084), win32 server (#637), win32 client fix (r9751), r9997, r9983, r9970, opengl crashes (r9924 + r9871?, r9799), r9888, r9851, compatibility fixes (r9857 + r9640), r9753, paint failures (r9682), r9711, r9715, shadow fix (r9728), may crash (r9725), no transparency (r9661), leak (r9654), r9620
• more minor fixes: r10196, r10139, r10104, r10046, r10029, r9996, r9978, r9868, r9898, r9915, r9796, r9770, r9803, r9694, r9727, r9675, r9609

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.

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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):

• v0.13.x (most also apply if you're using Debian or Ubuntu's 0.14.10): r9354, r9415, r9418, r9441 (crash), r9589, r9621 (leak), r9671, r9753, #902 (r9826 - visual corruption), r9879, r9918, r9970, r8945, r9011 (leak), r9173 (race, connection errors), r8973 (races), r9003, r9003, r9005 (filtering ineffective), r8945, r8924 and r8917 (potential double free), r8788 (connection drops), r8777, r8749, r8708, r8659, r8445, r8442 (crash), r8278, r8227, r8185, r8135, r8079 (crash), r7979 (deadlock), r7524 (use disabled algorithms), r7408... and many many more
• v0.12.x: r6696, r7634, r6735, r6766, r6767, r6788, r6874 (memleak!), r6913, r6915, r7002, r7004, r7111 (leak), r7146 (deadlock), r7237 (connection failure), r7239 (crashes), #632, #588, #597, #284, #600, ...
• v0.11.x: r5842, r5898, r5899, r5900
• v0.10.x: r5207, r5209 + r5210, r5207
• v0.9.x: r4023, r4039 (and plenty more)

etc...