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3.23.0 release

Posted by Armin Novak on February 25, 2026

FreeRDP 3.23.0 has just been released and uploaded to

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

2026-02-25 Version 3.23.0

A new release and again a lot of changes:

  • We’ve received in depth analysis of FreeRDP client code and have addressed shortcomings uncovered by these. CVE-2026-26965 CVE-2026-26955 CVE-2026-26271 CVE-2026-25997 CVE-2026-25959 CVE-2026-25955 CVE-2026-25954 CVE-2026-25953 CVE-2026-25952 CVE-2026-25942 CVE-2026-25941

Another weakness was reported, see https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-qcfc-ghxr-h927

  • Configuration isolation was added. 3rd party client/server applications should check the new API freerdp_setApplicationDetails and winpr_setApplicationDetails which allows using a custom namespace for configuration files and runtime data per application
  • For developers, we’ve marked most of the API with [[nodiscard]] now so compilers might start complaining about unchecked return values now. This is intentional and should give some incentive to clean up code. Functions where the return is optional have been omitted. For the time being these checks are automatically applied for FreeRDP builds, external projects can opt in by defining WINPR_DEFINE_ATTR_NODISCARD in their build system.
  • For developers: Please start testing your applications against FreeRDP builds with -DWITHOUT_FREERDP_3x_DEPRECATED=ON to ensure you’re not using some soon to be removed API.
  • SDL client did get a huge update, multimonitor and high DPI modes are now much improved
  • We got a contribution for smartcard channel adding support for new attributes, so more applications might work now.

New Contributors

  • @tsz8899 made their first contribution in (#12279)
  • @morgan9e made their first contribution in (#12298)
  • @Wladefant made their first contribution in (#12309)

For a complete and detailed change log since the last release run: git log 3.23.0…3.22.0