Release Notes

Welcome to the release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 168).

What's New in This Release

• A regression in the Connection Manager that would in some cases result in exhaustion off the connection pool was fixed.

Welcome to the release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 167).

Please note that version 166 was only released internally, and was not made public. Version 167 is the next release after 165.

What's New in This Release

• Multiple security vulnerabilities were addressed, please check HP security bulletin for a list.
• Fixed an error that would sometimes occur when identity provider discovery would take too long.

Welcome to the release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 165).

What's New in This Release

Multiple security vulnerabilities were addressed, please check HP security bulletin for a list.

Welcome to the May 9, 2023 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 164). Please note that version 163 was released internally.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve HP Anyware products into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Cloud Access Connector v164.

Cloud Access Connector Health Report Issues

The health status of the Cloud Access Connector from the Anyware Manager indicates all components are 'Healthy', however, the security gateway fails. The health report mechanism has been reconfigured to log security gateway errors and the issue is fixed in this release.

Installer does not update the Identity Provider URL

Cloud Access Connector Installer does not update the Identity Provider URL and displays "Identity provider URL has been changed. Please specify the path to the OAuth Server CA certificate or "" if not used." error message. The issue is fixed in this release.

Session Establishment failure due to Security Gateway Issues

In this release, Security Gateway bugs causing the remote desktop session to fail are fixed.

Federated Authentication with Single Sign-On Released

The Single Sign-On functionality is released for production use in this release. You can use the following configuration flags with the Connector:

• --sso-signing-csr-ca
• --sso-signing-csr-key
• --sso-signing-crl
• --sso-enrollment-url
• --sso-enrollment-domain
• --sso-enrollment-username
• --sso-enrollment-password
• --sso-enrollment-certificate-template-name

Welcome to the April 10, 2023 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 162). Please note that versions 159, 160, and 161 were released internally.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve HP Anyware products into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Cloud Access Connector v160.

OAuth URL does not appear in the Admin Console

When configuring Connectors in the Admin Console, sporadically the OAuth URL does not appear. The issue is fixed in this release.

Connector Installer does not update the Trusted Customer License

The trusted Customer License configuration is not updated when the Connector update command is executed with --trusted-customer-license-cert and --trusted-customer-license-key flags. To rectify this, the TRUSTED_LICENSE_CERT_PATH and the TRUSTED_LICENSE_KEY_PATH are updated in Connection Manager's '/opt/connector_data/data/config.properties' configuration file.

Multi-Factor and Federated Authentication Compatibility issue Fixed

When Federated Authentication is enabled on a Connector configured with multi-factor authentication, the system displays, "Communication failed due to incompatible capabilities between the client and the connection broker. Your client or connection broker software needs to be upgraded. Please report this failure to your system administrator." error message if the PCoIP Client version is 22.07 or before.

Welcome to the February 21, 2023 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 158). 

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve HP Anyware products into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Cloud Access Connector v158.

Installation Issues with the latest Docker version

The Cloud Access Connector fails during installation and expects to find a docker file /etc/docker/daemon.json during with the latest Docker version 23.0.0. The issue is fixed in this release.

Federated Authentication Flags

In this release, Federated Authentication flags are introduced to the Cloud Access Connector and are available to enable support for a private Certificate Authority (CA) to establish a connection. The new Federated Authentication flags that are introduced are as follows:

• --id-provider-url
• --enable-oauth 
• --oauth-client-id 
• --oauth-flow-code 
• --enable-entitlements-by-upn
• --fa-url
• --pull-connector-config

Active Directory Error

In this release, the Connector displays an error message if the Active Directory is not configured.

Welcome to the February 06, 2023 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 157). Please note that version 156 was released internally.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavor is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve HP Anyware products into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Cloud Access Connector v157.

Unexpected healthstatus error

When updating the Connector, the system displays an unexpected error attempting to check healthstatus. This issue is fixed in this release.

Connector installer seeking Docker files

The Connector installer expects to find a docker file /etc/docker/daemon.json during installation, however, Docker has removed that folder in the 23.0.0 version. This could result in an error during the installation process. It is recommended to manually create the docker folder and file before installing the Connector.

Welcome to the January 16, 2023 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 155). Please note that version 154 was released internally.

This release contains the following update:

Bug Fixes 

In this release, some minor bugs affecting the Cloud Access Connector were fixed.

Welcome to the December 21, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 153). Please note that versions 148 to 152 were released internally.

At HP Inc, it is our continuous endeavour to offer high standards in our product to enable enterprise grade features and workflow. with this release, we are announcing Beta for Federated User Authentication with Anyware Manager as a Service offering that can be enabled and verified using Connector v153. The following sections highlight all the configurations for Federated User Authentication.

OAuth for User Authentication

In this release, you can configure a third-party IDP to implement OAuth and authenticate the user by enabling it in the Admin guide. This verifies user credentials and grants them access to available workstations.

Replicate OAuth Settings using Anyware Manager

When a Connector is configured with OAuth settings, that configuration can be saved to the Anyware Manager and later used to reconfigure other Connectors in the deployment. You can push and pull the saved configurations from the Anyware Manager by using the '--pull-connector-config' and '--push-connector-config' commands respectively.

Single Sign-On Configuration

In this release, you can configure the Connector to support Single Sign-On by obtaining a Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and by implementing a third-party IDP. This prevents the user from authenticating two times when trying to access remote workstations.

Certificate Signing Request by the Authentication Broker

In this release, the authentication broker uses the Windows Certificate Authority Web Enrollment service to send the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to a Windows CA to obtain a signed user certificate locally.

End User License Agreement (EULA)

This software comes with updated license terms; by installing and using these updates you agree and accept the new license terms. For more information. see HP Anyware End User License Agreement.

Welcome to the November 29, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 147). 

At HP Inc, it is our continuous endeavour to offer high standards in our product and with a primary focus on quality, we have released version 147 with the following updates/fixes.

HTTP Proxy Support Updates

As of version 147, HTTP Proxy is no longer supported in Cloud Access Connector and is deprecated in any future release. This discontinues the support for --https-proxy flag as well.

Connector Container Results in low CPU Performance

In this release, the consumption bug that caused the connector_rwtelemetry container to use 100% CPU and resulted in low performance is fixed.

Welcome to the November 10, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 146). 

This release contains the following update:

Configure or update Active Directory settings

In version 145, it was discovered that configuring or updating Active Directory settings through the update or adconfig commands using --users-dn and --computers-dn flags resulted in an API error. This issue is now fixed in version 146.

Welcome to the November 3rd, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 145). 

This release contains the following update:

Security Updates

A security vulnerability issue is fixed in this release.

Connection Broker Updated for Session Establishment

In this release, the Connection Broker is updated to have Power Management functionality.

Sumo Collector Version Updated

Version v19.375-4 of Sumo Collector was affected by the CVE-2022-42889 bug issued by the National Vulnerability Database. In this release, the Sumo Collector version is updated to version v19.415-4 to address the issue.

Welcome to the October 31st, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 144). 
Please note that versions 141 and 142 were rolled back and deprecated due to issues with certificate updates. If you updated to any of these, we highly recommend you upgrade to v144.

This release contains the following update:

Anyware Manager holds Connector Configuration

In this release, Admins can configure a new Connector in a deployment and push all its configuration settings into the Anyware Manager by using the --push-connector-config command. These settings can be pulled in the future to configure multiple Connectors in the same deployment using the --pull-connector-config command.

Certification update Issues Fixed

An issue around updating custom certificates was discovered in v141, and v142 where attempting to update certificates will resume to a self-signed cert. This issue is fixed in this release.

Flag Deprecated

In this release, the Connector flag --enable-collaboration is deprecated and removed from future releases.

Welcome to the October 7th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 138). Please note that version 137 was released internally.

This release contains the following update:

Broker Container running out of memory

In this release, the broker container memory issue is fixed by allocating more memory to it.

Fix Security Vulnerabilities

In this release, system support for weak ciphers is discontinued and a new updated strong cipher suite is implemented to enhance security.

Security updates

This release contains security and vulnerability updates.

Welcome to the September 21st, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 137).

This release contains the following update:

Connector Flags Deprecated

In this release, Connector flags --reg-code and --cam-url are deprecated and removed from future releases.

Connector Flags Updated

In this release, Connector flags have been updated for Federated Authentication and SSO.

Welcome to the September 2nd, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 136). Please note that versions 133,134, and 135 were released internally.

This release contains the following update:

Broker Container running out of memory

In this release, the broker container memory issue is fixed by allocating more memory to it.

Welcome to the August 2nd, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 132). Please note that versions 129,130, and 131 were released internally.

This release contains the following update:

Bug Fixes 

In this release, some minor bugs affecting the Cloud Access Connector were fixed.

Welcome to the June 23rd, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 128). Please note that version 127 was released internally.

This release contains the following update:

Performance Enhancement for AD User Data

In this release, Adsync is configured to read only the required information from the Active Directory to reduce the load on the database when a remote connection is initiated.

Welcome to the June 9th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 126). Please note that version 125 was released internally.

This release contains the following update:

Connection Manager update

In this release, the Connection Manager functionality is updated as it can forward the Client's IP address to the broker. 

PCoIP Client Password issues

Login from software the client could sometimes display an error when certain special characters are provided in the password field. Now Connector can handle the special characters in the password.

Telemetry service update

In this release, Port 60443 was added to the Telemetry service to enumerate PCoIP agent session status to ensure the floating pool can function as expected.

Welcome to the June 6th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 124). This release contains the following update:

Improved stability of the internal broker container

Under certain conditions, the broker container could run out of memory. This release increases the container size to avoid the issue.

Active Directory Username search fixed

In this release, the search parameter validation is fixed for the Active Directory usernames that contain an underscore.

Security updates

This release contains security and vulnerability updates for the broker.

Welcome to the April 08th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 123). This release contains the following update:

Open source library update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains an update to the open source library used. 

Welcome to the March 16th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 122). This release contains the following updates:

Workstation assignment update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains an update to the Workstation Pools feature. Workstations will now only be unassigned when they are out of session.

Security Gateway updates

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains a fix to the PCoIP Security Gateway stats reporter.

Welcome to the March 09th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 121). This release contains the following updates:

Connector health check update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains an update to the health check feature. This feature enables users to check the health status of a Connector.

Telemetry service update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains enhancements to the Connector's telemetry service.

Security Gateway updates

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains updates to the PCoIP Security Gateway relating to certificate generation and statistics reporting.

Welcome to the February 15th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 120). This release contains the following updates:

PCoIP Security Gateway update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains a security update to the PCoIP Security Gateway.

Welcome to the February 04th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 119). This release contains the following updates:

PCoIP Connection Manager token update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains a fix to enable the PCoIP Connection Manager to detect collaboration tokens correctly.
 

PCoIP Connection Manager security update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains a Java security update to increase the security of the Connector and to address a vulnerability.

Welcome to the January 28th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 118).  Please note that version 117 was released internally.

Cloud Access Connector token update

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains an update to the built-in token used for downloading the Connector. You will not be able to download all older versions of the Connector from version 118 onwards. If you need to install or update versions earlier than version 118, you will need to reach out to our support team.

Welcome to the January 17th, 2022 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 116).

Security fix for Log4j2

This release of the Cloud Access Connector contains a security fix to address the Log4j2 vulnerability.

PCoIP Modern Connection Manager 22.01 support

This release of the Cloud Access Connector supports the new PCoIP Modern Connection Manager 22.01.

Welcome to the December 21, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 115).  

Release contents

• Security updates.

Welcome to the December 18, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 114).  

Release contents

• Security updates.
• Fixed a bug that caused external IP and License Server settings to be reset during upgrades.
• Added the preferred display workstation name setting.

Welcome to the December 15, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 113).  

Security updates

This release contains security updates.

Welcome to the December 11, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 112).  Please note that versions 110 and 111 were released internally.

Security updates

This release contains security updates.

Welcome to the November 16th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 109).  Please note that versions 107 and 108 were released internally.

Broker supported operations updated

In this release the broker has been updated to include more supported operations when a user requests the resource list.

Welcome to the October 6th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 106).  Please note that version 105 was released internally.

Broker version reverted

In this release the broker has been reverted to the broker version used in version 102 of the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the October 1st, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 104).  Please note that version 103 was released internally.

Broker variable fixed

An issue that was causing the broker to not recognize the CAM_VERIFYCERT variable has been fixed in this release.

Welcome to the September 15th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 102).  Please note that versions 100 and 101 were released internally.

CAS Connector version alignment

The CAS Connector version will align with the Teradici release train and follow the Teradici product version schema from October 2021 onwards.

Welcome to the August 16th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 99).  

This release includes the following fix:

RW Telemtry service updated

The rw telemtry service has been updated due to issues that were causing it to crash when using a custom CA certificate. 

Welcome to the August 10th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 98).  Please note that version 97 was released internally.

This release includes the following fix:

HTTPS Header vulnerabilities fixed

HTTPS header vulnerabilities that were causing issues have been fixed in this release of the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the July 27th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 96).  Please note that versions 93, 94 and 95 were released internally.

This release includes the following update:

Improved Network Resilience for Cloud Access Connector Services

The following Cloud Access Connector services have been updated with improved network resilience:

• healthcheck
• adsync
• rwtelemetry

Welcome to the July 19th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 92). 

This release includes the following fix:

Cloud Access Connector user authentication

A fix has been made to the Cloud Access Connector broker that fixes an issue around external user authentication to CAS Manager.

Welcome to the July 08th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 91). 

This release includes the following updates:

Updated Domain Controller Rotation

The Cloud Access Connector broker now rotates to the secondary domain controller if the primary domain controller fails.
 

Account Lockout Issue Resolved

An issue that was causing user's to be locked out from their PCoIP Client if they entered incorrect credentials after one attempt has been resolved. 

Welcome to the May 26th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 90).  Please note that version 89 was released internally.

This release includes the following update:

Internal IP address sent during an update

The internal IP address of the Cloud Access Connector is now sent to CAS Manager when an update is performed. Previously, this IP address was only sent during installation.
 

Welcome to the April 30th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 88).  

This release includes the following fix:

Domain Controller query issue resolved

A fix has been implemented in this release of the Cloud Access Connector, to prevent an SRV Lookup for Domain Controllers being performed when it is not necessary. Previously, when performing an update, the Cloud Access Connector would search for Domain Controllers regardless of the --domain-controller flag. With this fix the Cloud Access Connector will not perform an SRV Lookup if it finds the --domain-controller flag has been passed during installation, or if there is a saved Domain Controller from a previous install or update.

Welcome to the April 27th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 87).  

This release includes the following fix:

LDAPS connectivity issue resolved

A fix has been implemented in this release of the Cloud Access Connector to address issues around LDAPS connectivity that was affecting certain services.

Welcome to the April 19th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 86).  

This release includes the following update:

Security Gateway Version Update

The PCoIP Security Gateway, as part of the PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway, has been updated to v21.01.2 as part of this release of the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the April 13th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 85).  

This release includes the following updates:

Persistent parameters added to update command

The Cloud Access Connector update command has been updated to now read and save Domain Controller, Service Account credentials and Proxy configuration information when performing an update. The following flags have been updated:
 

• --sa-user
• --sa-password
• --domain-controller
• --https-proxy

For more information on updating the Cloud Access Connector, see Updating the Cloud Access Connector. 

Active Directory configuration update

A fix has been implemented in this version of the Cloud Access Connector that enables the Active Directory to work with custom CA certificates.

Welcome to the April 9th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 84). Please note that version 83 was released internally. 

This release includes the following update:

PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway v21.03.1 image added

The latest PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway v21.03.1 image has been added to this version of the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the April 7th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 82). Please note that version 81 was internally released.

This release includes the following update:

Third-party library updates

This version of the Cloud Access Connector contains updates to third-party libraries.  

Welcome to the March 26th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 80). 

This release includes the following update:

PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway v21.03.0 image added 

The latest PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway v21.03.0 image has been added to this version of the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the March 19th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 79). 

This release includes the following bug fix:

Management interface configuration file 

A fix has been implemented to prevent the Cloud Access Connector from searching for the legacy Management Interface configuration file when performing an update.

Welcome to the March 18th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 78). Please note that versions 72-77 were internally released.

This release includes the following update:

Security Gateway issue resolved

The issue with the Security Gateway that caused the rollback of the PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway in version 69, has been resolved with this release of the Cloud Access Connector. 

Welcome to the March 03rd, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 71).

This release includes the following update:

Management Interface access blocked

Access to the legacy Management Interface for the Cloud Access Connector has been blocked. The Admin Console should be used for the management of all deployments and remote workstations with CAS Manager and the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the March 01st, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 70).

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector broker version rollback

An issue has been identified that has caused us to rollback to v29 of the Cloud Access Connector broker. The broker was failing to switch the Domain Controllers in the event that one failed. We will be releasing a fix to address this issue as soon as possible.

Welcome to the March 01st, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 69).

This release includes the following update:

PCoIP Connection Manager and PCoIP Security Gateway version rollback

An issue has been identified that has caused us to rollback to PCoIP Connection Manager v20.07 and PCoIP Security Gateway v20.04.1. The Security Gateway was failing to maintain the connection. We will be releasing a fix to address this issue as soon as possible. 

Welcome to the February 26th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 68).

This release includes the following updates:

Cloud Access Connector version number update

The Cloud Access Connector now has a single version number. Previously, the installer and connector version numbers were different. These have now been combined to display a single version number going forward from both the downloads and admin console interfaces. As a result of this change, the connector version number has jumped from 41 to 68.

Self-signed certificate verification

Two new flags have been added to enable user's to supply both a LDAPS and CA certificate to a CAS Manager instance. This enables a Cloud Access Connector to connect using self-signed certificates. The --cam-ca-cert enables a user to supply a CA certificate for the connection to CAS Manager, and the --ldaps-ca-cert enables a user to supply a CA certificate for the connection to Active Directory over LDAPS.

Welcome to the January 20th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 41).

This release includes the following updates:

--prune-image command added

The --prune-image command has been added and can be used when updating a Cloud Access Connector. This command removes all unused docker images on the machine to reclaim more disk space. Please note that this command will remove all unused images under the Cloud Access Connector and other services. This is equivalent to the docker image prune command.

Support added for PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway 21.01

This version of the Cloud Access Connector has been updated to support the latest version of the PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway 21.01.

Welcome to the January 13th, 2021 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 40).

This release includes the following fix:

Active Directory account lockout policy updated

The Cloud Access Connector has been updated to enable it to deal with AD account lockout policies when an invalid credential has been entered and a user has multiple Domain Controller addresses.

Welcome to the December 21st, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 39).

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector installer update

The Cloud Access Connector installer has been updated to be bundled with configuration data. As a result of this update, cloud-access-connector update will only update the Cloud Access Connector software versions if a new installer has been downloaded.

Additionally, the installer package downloaded using the new download instructions will place the installer executable into the /usr/sbin/cloud-access-connector instead of ./cloud-access-connector directory.

See https://teradici.com/downloadcac/ for more information and instructions.

Welcome to the December 15th, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 38).

This release includes the following update:

Distribution system update

Teradici is moving to a new distribution system. The URLs to download the Cloud Access Connector installation files are changing. Any automation, scripts or instructions downloading the installer from teradici.bintray.com should be updated to use the instructions outlined at https://teradici.com/downloadcac. The download URL at teradici.bintray.com is deprecated and will be removed entirely in the near future. In order to successfully download the Cloud Access Connector installation files you must have a customer account on help.teradici.com. For information on how to download the Cloud Access Connector archive using the new distribution system, see https://teradici.com/downloadcac.

Welcome to the November 20th, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 38).

This release includes the following update:

cloud-access-connector update command updated

The cloud-access-connector update command has been updated and fixed to support and use the cloudsmith docker registry when installing or updating a Cloud Access Connector. There was an issue where the update command was pulling the diagnostics container before docker login had been completed with cloudsmith. This issue has been addressed. 

Welcome to the November 13th, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 37).

This release includes the following update:

cloud-access-connector diagnose command update

The cloud-access-connector diagnose command has been updated to support and use the cloudsmith registry when installing or updating a Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the November 05th, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 36).

Please note that version 35 was tested internally but not released.

This release includes the following update:

New parameter added to specify the Docker image registry

A new optional parameter --docker-registry has been added to the Cloud Access Connector which enables users to specify which docker image registry that they want to use when installing or updating a Cloud Access Connector. If an option is not specified, the default registry docker.cloudsmith.io/teradici/cloud-access-connector will be used.

Welcome to the October 27th, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 34).

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Manager Management Interface Depreciation 

Teradici will be depreciating the Cloud Access Manager Management Interface by the end of 2020. It is being replaced by the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console. You will be able to use both interfaces until then but Teradici recommends moving to the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console as soon as possible. 

Welcome to the October 14th, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 33).

This release includes the following update:

ADsync system update

The POOL_GROUPS parameter is no longer set to "None" in ADsync.

Welcome to the August 26, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 32).

This release includes the following update:

New command added to update Active Directory Pool Group

A set of new command line options have been added to enable users to update the Active Directory pool groups. They apply changes to the Active Directory settings of Cloud Access Connector.

Command-line options

By providing the following options the appropriate update gets applied to the Cloud Access Connector settings. If no command-line option is provided cloud-access-connector will display all available options for this operation.

--cam-insecure: Skip certificate validation when connecting to Cloud Access Manager. This option should only be used when connecting to Cloud Access Manager deployed with self signed certificates.
--add-pool-group: Adds specified Active Directory group to the existing pool group settings. By providing all the existing pools groups in the Cloud Access Connector settings would get replaced by the user specified ones.
--remove-pool-group: Removes specified pool Active Directory group by its DN.
-clear-pools-groups: Clears all pools Active Directory groups. This operation is exclusive and cannot be combined with "remove-pool-group" or "-add-pool-group".
--get-cam-settings: Prints all CAM settings to console.

Welcome to the August 21, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 32).

Please note that versions 30 and 31 of the Cloud Access Connector were not publicly released. 

This release includes the following updates:

Security Update to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attack

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they're currently authenticated. An anti-CSRF token has been implemented with the Cloud Access Connector to prevent a CSRF attack.

Apache Tomcat Version Update

The broker and management interface has updated the Apache Tomcat version to 8.5.57 to address vul issue VUL-1114.

Welcome to the August 07, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 29).

This release includes the following update:

Cipher list updated in the Cloud Access Connector

The Cloud Access Connector cipher suites have been updated to remove unnecessary ciphers. 

Welcome to the July 17, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 27 & 28).

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector updated with PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway 20.07 release

The Cloud Access Connector has been updated as a result of the release of the PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway 20.07 release. For information on PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway 20.07, see here.

Welcome to the July 13, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 26).

This release includes the following update and fix:

Users can explictly set CIDRs for interal and external PCoIP Clients

Two flags have been added, --internal-client-cidr and --external-client-cidr, so that the CIDR(s) for the LAN subnet(s) or devices and CIDR(s) for WAN subnet(s) and devices can be set explicitly. For more information on these flags, see Installing the Cloud Access Connector and Updating and Reconfiguring the Cloud Access Connector sections of the Cloud Access Manager Admin guide.

Update to the Cloud Access Connector Installer

The Cloud Access Connector installer has been enhanced and updated to fix an AD sync filter issue.

Welcome to the July 3, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 25).

This release includes the following update:

Enhancements to enable pool brokering feature on beta-ui

Enhancements have been made to enable the pool brokering feature on the beta-ui version of the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console. A new parameter has been added to the Cloud Access Connector installer "pool-group" which specifies the Distinguished Name(DN) of LDAP groups . This enables AD groups to be used for pool brokering, and to also specify multiple AD groups with multiple options. One or more such groups can be entered by the user running the install or update command.

This feature is available on the beta-ui version of the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console.

Welcome to the June 23, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 23 & 24).

NOTE: Versions 23 and 24 of the Cloud Access Connector were released on the same day and both releases were as a result of the same update outlined below.

This release includes the following update:

Enhancements to support pool brokering feature on beta-ui

Enhancements have been made to support the pool brokering feature on the beta-ui version of the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console.

Welcome to the June 16, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 22).

This release includes the following update:

Gateway Health Status Fixed

An issue has been fixed that caused the gateway health status and certificate expiration to be unavailable.

Welcome to the May 27, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 21).

This release includes the following update:

Security Updates and Enhancements

Security updates and enhancements relating to the docker application have been made to the Cloud Access Connector.

Cloud Access Connector handles more power state/provisioning state combinations

Cloud Access Connector now handles power state/provisioning state combinations that previously weren't being handled properly by the Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the May 19, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 20).

This release includes the following update:

PCoIP License Server can be used by Cloud Access Connector sessions

The Cloud Access Connector can now be configured to refer PCoIP Agents to a PCoIP License Server if they have not been previously configured for a Cloud License Server.

This is configured during installation or when updating a Cloud Access Connector with the --local-license-server-url flag.

Note: Remote workstations provisioned by Cloud Access Manager continue to make use of the Cloud License Server for licensing (including when a local PCoIP License Server is configured).

Welcome to the May 08, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 20).

This release includes the following update:

Administrators can now restrict users and computers for entitlement

Flags have been added so that administrators can now restrict which users and computers appear in Cloud Access Manager for entitlement. This enables administrators to have a managed list that reduces the risk of adding the wrong user or computer from the Active Directory. These flags are available during installation of Cloud Access Connectors, as well as when updating an existing Cloud Access Connector.

The flag to search for users is --users-filter

The flag to search for computers is --computers-filter

Note: You need to use single quotes ('') in the command line to avoid command line errors.

Welcome to the May 04, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 19).

This release includes the following update:

Users can specify a Cloud Access Connector's docker network subnet

Users can now specify a custom subnet to be used for the Cloud Access Connector's docker network. For more information on these see Installing a Cloud Access Connector and Updating a Cloud Access Connector.

Updated System Versions

System versions have been updated for maintenance and security purposes.

Welcome to the April 28, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 18).

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector Library Updates

System libraries within the Cloud Access Connector have been updated to the latest versions for security and maintenance purposes.

Welcome to the April 27, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 17).

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector Security Update

A security update has been applied to the Cloud Access Connector, and all customers are advised to upgrade. For information on how to upgrade your Cloud Access Connector, see here.

Welcome to the April 20, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 16).

Please note that Version 15 of the Cloud Access Connector was not publicly released.

This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector Security Update

A security update has been applied to the Cloud Access Connector, and all customers are advised to upgrade. For information on how to upgrade your Cloud Access Connector, see here.

Welcome to the April 18, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 14). This release includes the following update:

User connectivity issue resolved

An issue has been resolved where a user's attempt to connect to their remote workstation would time out if they were entitled to connect to multiple remote workstations.

Welcome to the April 17, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 13). This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector Security Update

A security update has been applied to the Cloud Access Connector, and all customers are advised to upgrade. For information on how to upgrade your Cloud Access Connector, see here.

Welcome to the April 15, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 12). This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector Library Updates

Libraries used within the Cloud Access Connector have been updated to more recent versions.

Welcome to the April 08, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 11). This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector Release Notes available in the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console

Release notes for the Cloud Access Connector are now available, along with the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console release notes, from the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console by selecting the help icon and selecting release notes. 

Welcome to the March 31, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector (Version 11). This release includes the following update:

Enhanced resiliency for the Cloud Access Connector communication to Cloud Access Manager for the workstation state

The Cloud Access Connector request to the Cloud Access Manager for workstation state, when a user is presented the list of remote workstations, has been made more resilient to network delays and delays in the service due to large workstation entitlement lists through additional retries and long time until connection time outs.

Welcome to the March 19, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises (Version 10). This release includes the following fix:

Cloud Access Connector can distinguish between public and private IPs when using AWS ALB

A fix was made so that this type of direct connection using AWS ALB now correctly distinguishes between public and private addresses.

Welcome to the March 18, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises (Version 9). This release includes the following update:

Cloud Access Connector version visible in Cloud Access Manager Admin Console

The Cloud Access Connector now provides its version number to the Cloud Access Manager Admin Console. This enables you to identify when an upgrade to your Cloud Access Connector is available. For information around updating your Cloud Access Connector, see Updating your Cloud Access Connector.

Welcome to the February 27, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following fix:

Cloud Access Manager broker account expiration update

Previously the Cloud Access Manager would set an account to expire after 180 days when updating existing passwords. This has been resolved and the Cloud Access Manager broker will no longer set the account expiration on password updates. 

Welcome to the January 29, 2020 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following fixes and update:

Users can set set the IPv4 address for the Cloud Access Connector for external connections.

Using the --external-pcoip-ip command, users can now set the IPv4 address for the Cloud Access Connector for external connections. If this value is not set it will be determined automatically. 

Equals sign (=) in service account passwords caused the Cloud Access Connector to not sync users/machines to CAM

An issue has been fixed that caused some of the Cloud Access Connector docker containers to crash if one of the service account's passwords had an '=' in it.

Fetching LDAPS Certificates succeeds even if some Domain Controllers don't support it

If the number of discovered Domain Controllers with LDAPS was not greater than the number of discovered Domain Controllers without LDAPS, the installation of the Cloud Access Connector would fail due to some logic it did to verify certificates. As long as one Domain Controller has LDAPS enabled, installation of the Cloud Access Connector will now succeed.

cam.teradici.com is now used to determine an external IP address

The Cloud Access Connector now makes use of cam.teradici.com to determine it's external IP. This removes the need to ensure network access is available to myip.dnsomatic.com or resolver1.opendns.com.

Welcome to the October 25, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following fix:

Resolved invalid certificate error during session establishment

We resolved an issue where some session establishments would fail with an invalid certificate error due to an issue in how the Cloud Access Connector was handling connections to the Cloud Access Manager service.

Welcome to the October 17, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following update:

Increased resiliency between Cloud Access Connector and Cloud Access Manager service

Resiliency has been increased in the Cloud Access Connector when connecting to the Cloud Access Manager service to handle temporary network issues. The Cloud Access Connector will retry connections to the Cloud Access Manager service.

Welcome to the July 17, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following update:

Added configurable user and computer Active Directory DNs on upgrade

The configuration settings on the Cloud Access Connector for configuring specific DNs when querying Active Directory for users and computers has been extended to be available when running the update command in addition to the install command.
This permits existing deployments to be updated with new DNs without requiring a fresh install.

The options are:

• --users-dn The base DN to search for users within AD. This option may be specified multiple times to provide multiple DNs.
• --computers-dn The base DN to search for computers within AD. This option may be specified multiple times to provide multiple DNs.
• --sync-interval The interval (in minutes) for how often to sync AD users and computers with CAM Service. Must be at least 5 minutes.

These options may be provided to the install and update commands.

Note, this configuration is applied to the entire deployment. All connectors in a deployment will get this configuration, and the last connector to set this command will set the setting for the entire deployment.

Welcome to the July 12, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following updates:

AD groupName is no longer case sensitive 

The groupName defined in the Active Directory query was case sensitive. It would treat the value as a Distinguished Name or Group Name based on the string "DC=domain,DC=local".
If the value is provided with the incorrect case, then queries to the Active Directory may fail, and logging into the Management Interface on the Cloud Access Connector may fail.

This is no longer the case. If this error occurs, then download the latest Cloud Access Connector and try installing again.

PCoIP Agent state can be provided to clients

The list of resources (PCoIP Agents) a user can connect to after they have authenticated
using a PCoIP Client, can be sorted or display information on the state of the PCoIP Agent.
This feature is disabled by default on the Cloud Access Connector.
Users with a large number of resources assigned to them may experience a delay in the listing of the resources in their clients. If retrieval of the state of any resource takes too long, then the list will return and the state will be described as unknown.

To enable the determination of the state, when installing the Cloud Access Connector provide:

• --retrieve-agent-state for Cloud Access Connector v2

and provide the value true.

The Cloud Access Connector can be configured to send the state description of the resource in the name of the resource by passing the parameter:

• --show-agent-state for Cloud Access Connector v2

and pass in the value true.
This parameter only updates the name with the state if the Retrieve Agent State parameter is also set to true.

For more information see the administration guide for your version of the Cloud Access Connector.

Explicitly specify domain controllers during install or upgrade

Users can optionally specify one or more domain controllers to use with the Cloud Access Connector by providing the --domain-controller option with the install or update commands.

For example (other required options elided):
 

sudo ./cloud-access-connector install --domain-controller dc1.domain.com [--domain-controller dc2.domain.com]

Multiple domain controllers can be specified by providing multiple --domain-controller options. If domain controllers are explicitly provided like this, the Cloud Access Connector will only use these domain controllers when authenticating users or syncing user and computer information to CAM Service, regardless of whether other domain controllers are available.

Important: If provided, the domain controller must be specified as an FQDN (fully-qualified domain name), not an IP address.

DNS error during interactive installation resolved

During an interactive installation of the Cloud Access Connector the following error occurred:
[2019-07-10T20:17:30Z] DEBUG lookupDC: lookup _ldap._tcp. on 127.0.0.53:53: no such host
[2019-07-10T20:17:30Z] ERROR A DNS error occurred. Please verify the DNS configuration on your connector.

If this issue occurs, download the latest Cloud Access Connector and try installing again.

Configurable user and computer Active Directory DNs

The configuration settings on the Cloud Access Connector for configuring specific DNs when querying Active Directory for users and computers when running the install command.
This permits existing deployments to be updated with new DNs without requiring a fresh install.

The options are:

• --users-dn The base DN to search for users within AD. This option may be specified multiple times to provide multiple DNs.
• --computers-dn The base DN to search for computers within AD. This option may be specified multiple times to provide multiple DNs.
• --sync-interval The interval (in minutes) for how often to sync AD users and computers with CAM Service. Must be at least 5 minutes.

These options may be provided to the install command.

Note, this configuration is applied to the entire deployment. All connectors in a deployment will get this configuration, and the last connector to set this command will set the setting for the entire deployment.

Certificates can be replaced during a connector update

The certificate on the Cloud Access Connector can now be replaced when the connector is being updated.
sudo ./cloud-access-connector update --ssl-key key.pem --ssl-cert cert.pem

Alternatively, during an update, the self-signed certificate can now be recreated.
{{ sudo ./cloud-access-connector update --self-signed}}

Welcome to the May 17, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following updates:

Change password from PCoIP client succeeds

Previously, changing a user's password from a PCoIP client connected to Cloud Access Manager would fail. This occurred if the user was under an Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory. This is no longer an issue. 

FQDN of workstation determined by querying the directory

The FQDN of a remote workstation is more accurately determined by querying the domain controller.

Welcome to the May 10, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS, and On-Premises. This release includes the following update:

Introducing Cloud Access Manager Admin Console

Introducing a new SaaS administrator console for Cloud Access Manager to manage Cloud Access Software deployments. Cloud Access Manager Admin Console is released at https://cam.teradici.com/. The new admin console is currently best suited for GCP, AWS, on-premises customers. Azure customers, please continue using Cloud Access Connector Management Interface for Azure deployments

Welcome to the March 15, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS and On-Premises. This release includes the following update:

Active Directory User Groups configurable for Management Interface

During installation of the Cloud Access Connector, AD User Groups can be specified to define which users within the AD are permitted to access the Management Interface for management of a CAM deployment.
The user groups is defined by providing the distinguished name, such as: "CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com".

If no user group is defined, the default is to permit members of the Domain Admins group to access the Management Interface.

Welcome to the February 01, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS, and On-Premises. This release includes the following update:

Usernames containing a period now permitted

Usernames with a period are now able to log in to the Cloud Access Manager Management Interface. Usernames can be up to 64 characters.

Welcome to the January 21, 2019 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud, AWS, and On-Premises. This release includes the following update:

PCoIP sessions can be established for clients with hostnames containing a period

The Cloud Access Connector can now broker a PCoIP client that has a hostname containing a period in order to establish a PCoIP session with a host. This issue was more common with macOS clients as their hostnames are often in the form of "client.local".

Welcome to the December 21, 2018 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and On-Premises. This release includes the following updates:

List of Remote Workstations is no longer limited

Previously, the list of remote workstations in Active Directory was truncated after the first 1,000. That limitation has been removed and there is now no practical limit to the number of AD workstations in the interface.

Connector installation can now proceed even after a failed installation attempt

Previously, if an installation attempt failed, subsequent installation attempts would fail. That issue has been fixed. There are now two ways to force an installation to proceed:

• Run the installer normally. If an existing connector is detected, you will be prompted to delete and replace it.
• Run the installer with the --force-install option. The existing connector will be replaced with no confirmation step.

Cloud Access Connector now remains operational in a High Availability setup where one Domain Controller is inaccessible

If one of the Domain Controllers in a High Availability configured Active Directory is inaccessible, the Cloud Access Connector for GCP, AWS and on-premises will continue to work.

Welcome to the November 2, 2018 release of the Cloud Access Connector for Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and On-Premises. This release includes the following updates:

New Cloud Access Connector diagnostic tool

To verify whether the Cloud Access Connector can successfully communicate with the AD, SSH into the Cloud Access Connector VM and run the following command:

sudo ./cloud-access-connector diagnose --ad

To verify whether the Cloud Access Connector can successfully communicate with the remote workstation, SSH into the Cloud Access Connector VM and run the following command:

sudo ./cloud-access-connector diagnose --rw <RemoteWorkstationFQDN>

Renamed deploy command to install

When installing the Cloud Access Connector for GCP, AWS and On-Prem, one of the command options has changed.

The ./cloud-access-connector deploy command has been renamed to ./cloud-access-connector install