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3.17.0 release

Posted by Armin Novak on August 22, 2025

FreeRDP 3.17.0 has just been released and uploaded to

https://pub.freerdp.com/releases/

We’re happy to present a new release of FreeRDP.

This is a bugfix release with (lots) of format string issues along with a few minor parser issues fixed. Most notable (user visible) change is full X509 chain support for client/server.

What’s Changed

  • [client,sdl2] fix build with webview (#11685)
  • [core,nla] use wcslen for password length (#11687)
  • Clear channel error prior to call channel init event proc (#11688)
  • Warn args (#11689)
  • [client,common] fix -mouse-motion (#11690)
  • [core,proxy] fix IPv4 and IPv6 length (#11692)
  • Regression fix2 (#11696)
  • Log fixes (#11693)
  • [common,settings] fix int casts (#11699)
  • [core,connection] fix log level of several messages (#11697)
  • [client,sdl] print current video driver (#11701)
  • [crypto,tls] print big warning for /cert:ignore (#11704)
  • [client,desktop] fix StartupWMClass setting (#11708)
  • [cmake] unify version creation (#11711)
  • [common,settings] force reallocation on caps copy (#11715)
  • [manpages] Add example of keyboard remapping (#11718)
  • Some fixes in Negotiate and NLA (#11722)
  • [client,x11] fix clipboard issues (#11724)
  • kerberos: do various tries for TGT retrieval in u2u (#11723)
  • Cmdline escape strings (#11735)
  • [winpr,utils] do not log command line arguments (#11736)
  • [api,doc] Add stylesheed for doxygen (#11738)
  • [core,proxy] fix BIO read methods (#11739)
  • [client,common] fix sso_mib_get_access_token return value in error case (#11741)
  • [crypto,tls] do not use context->settings->instance (#11749)
  • winpr: re-introduce the credentials module (#11734)
  • [winpr,timezone] ensure thread-safe initialization (#11754)
  • core/redirection: Ensure stream has enough space for the certificate (#11762)
  • [client,common] do not log success (#11766)
  • Clean up bugs exposed on systems with high core counts (#11761)
  • [cmake] add installWithRPATH (#11747)
  • [clang-tidy] fix various warnings (#11769)
  • Wlog improve type checks (#11774)
  • [client,common] fix tenantid command line parsing (#11779)
  • Proxy module static and shared linking support (#11768)
  • LoadLibrary Null fix (#11786)
  • [client,common] add freerdp_client_populate_settings_from_rdp_file_un… (#11780)
  • Fullchain support (#11787)
  • [client,x11] ignore floatbar events (#11771)
  • [winpr,credentials] prefer utf-8 over utf-16-LE #11790
  • [proxy,modules] ignore bitmap-filter skip remaining #11789

New Contributors

  • @steelman made their first contribution in #11718
  • @pvachon made their first contribution in #11761

For a complete and detailed change log since the last release run: git log 3.17.0…3.16.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/compare/3.16.0…3.17.0