Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 2308.

Release 7 2308 is now available for download, 27th September, 2023.

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 2308 is a CR release. Read more about CR here

Citrix Virtual Apps (former name: XenApp) Citrix Virtual Desktop (former name: XenDesktop)

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies:

• WebStudio 2308
• Director 2308
• Citrix Licensing 11.17.2 build 44000
• Virtual Delivery Agents 2308 for ServerOS and ClientOS
• Virtual Delivery Agent 2308 for Linux
• Citrix Federated Authentication Service 2308
• Citrix Provisioning 2308
• Profile Management 2308
• Workspace Environment Management 2308
• Session Recording 2308
• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Service (March-Jun 2023)
• Workspace App 2309 for Windows
• Workspace App 2309 for Linux
• Workspace App 2309 for Chrome
• Workspace App 2309 for Android
• Workspace App 2309 for MacOS
• Workspace App 2309 for HTML5
• Workspace App 2309 for ChromeOS

What’s new in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 2308

Support for Windows Server Core 2022

You can now use Windows Server Core 2022 for Delivery Controller, Studio, and Director. For more information, see System requirements.

PowerShell commands to manage Local Host Cache(LHC)

You can now use PowerShell commands to manage LHC on Delivery Controllers. For more information, see Local Host Cache PowerShell commands.

Support for SQL Server 2022

You can now also use SQL Server 2022 to save your site configurations. For more information, see System Requirements.

Vertical Load Balancing at site level for on-premises deployments

You can now use Vertical Load Balancing (VLB) at site level for on-premises deployments to save costs by packing as many sessions in one machine before moving to the next machine and powering it on.

Support for Cloud provisioning using a 30 day trial license

You can now have all cloud-related features that are part of the Citrix Universal subscription license using a 30 day trial with no license. However, if you do not purchase a Citrix Universal subscription license after the trial, then the already deployed cloud features won’t be available.

Support for local launch of MSIX and MSIX app attach packages

With this feature, you can now do the local launch of the MSIX and MSIX app attach packages on the VDA desktop if vPrefer is configured. For more information on controlling local launches with vPrefer, see Control local launch of applications on published desktops.

Adaptive transport

Support for audio over EDT Lossy protocol (Preview)

Audio is now supported over the EDT (Enlightened Data Transport) Lossy protocol. This feature increases the user experience for real-time streaming when users are connecting through networks with high latency and packet loss. When this feature is enabled, Adaptive Transport in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops use the EDT Lossy transport protocol for a better audio experience. This feature is disabled by default in 2308 and can be enabled by registry configuration. For more information, see Support for audio over EDT Lossy protocol.

Citrix Web Studio

Integrated Citrix Secure Private Access

The Citrix Secure Private Access service can now be integrated into the Web Studio console, letting you seamlessly access the service through Web Studio. To access the service, select Secure Private Access in the left pane of the Web Studio console. The service’s UI opens on a new tab of your web browser. For more information about Citrix Secure Private Access, see its document.

To enable the integration, follow these steps:

1. Open C:\Program Files\Citrix\Web Studio\Site\studio\assets\json\spa-config.json on the Web Studio server.
2. Locate the following string."Name": "Spa" "https://[spaserver]:4443/accessSecurity/ui"
3. Replace [spaserver] with the IP address or FQDN of the Secure Private Access server.

Configurable Studio inactivity timeout

As an administrator with Full Access, you can now configure the inactivity timeout for the Studio console. This setting determines how long administrators can remain inactive before being automatically signed out of the Studio console. The inactivity duration must be set between 10 minutes and 24 hours. For more information, see Set the inactivity timeout.

Integrated Windows authentication

You can now enable integrated Windows authentication for quick and seamless access to Web Studio. This feature allows your users to access Web Studio with their Windows credentials, using Kerberos or NTLM. For more information, see Manage authentication.

Image refresh option

When selecting master images for machine catalogs, you can now quickly get the most up-to-date master image list using the Refresh option at the top right corner. Note that Refresh option is not available for AWS catalogs. Also, a Refresh option is available for machine profiles and host groups in Azure catalogs.

Removed support for changing the OS type for Azure catalogs

When changing catalog images, only images with the same OS type as the image in use are shown. With this enhancement, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops no longer support changing the OS type for Azure catalogs after catalog creation.

Shared tenants for connections

You can now add tenants and subscriptions that share the Azure Compute Gallery with the subscription of the connection. As a result, when creating or updating catalogs, you can select shared images from those tenants and subscriptions. For more information, see Manage service principals and connections.

Support for organizing machine catalogs, delivery groups, and application groups using folders

You can now create nested folders to organize machine catalogs, delivery groups, and application groups for easy access.

Machine Creation Services (MCS)

Secure environment for GCP managed traffic

With this feature, you can now allow private Google access to your Google Cloud projects. This implementation enhances security to handle sensitive data. To achieve this, you can do one of the following:

• Allow ingress rule for Cloud Build Service Account in VPC service perimeter
• If you are using a private worker pool, add UsePrivateWorkerPool in CustomProperties.

For more information, see Create a secure environment for GCP managed traffic.

Support for machine profile in Citrix Hypervisor

In Citrix Hypervisor, you can now create an MCS machine catalog using a machine profile. The source of the machine profile input is a VM. The machine profile captures the hardware properties from a VM template and applies them to the newly provisioned VMs in the catalog. For more information, see Create a machine catalog using a machine profile.

Ability to reset the OS disk of a persistent VM in an MCS created machine catalog in SCVMM

You can now use the PowerShell command Reset-ProvVMDisk to reset the OS disk of a persistent VM in an MCS-created machine catalog. The feature automates the process of resetting the OS disk. For example, it helps in resetting the VM to its initial status of a persistent development desktop catalog created using MCS. Currently, this feature is applicable to Azure, Citrix Hypervisor, SCVMM, and VMware virtualization environments. For more information on using the PowerShell command to reset the OS disk, see Reset OS disk.

Restrict upload and download of managed disks

In Azure environments, you can use private endpoints to restrict access to disk contents. This implementation helps you to securely access data over a private link. However, as per Azure policy, you cannot upload or download more than five disks or snapshots at the same time with the same disk access object. For more information on using private endpoints to restrict the export and import of managed disks, see Restrict import/export access for managed disks using Azure Private Link.

With this feature, you can use disk access and private endpoints to lock down your Azure environment, without any risks of failures because of exceeding the limit. MCS runs only up to five concurrent operations. Any excess operations are queued to run when there is more bandwidth.

Support for assigning a specific drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk

Previously, the Windows operating system automatically assigned a drive letter to the MCS I/O write-back cache disk. With this feature, you can now assign a specific drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk. This implementation helps you to avoid conflicts between the drive letter of any applications that you use and the drive letter of the MCS I/O write-back cache disk. This feature is applicable to only the Windows operating system. For more information, see Assign a specific drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk.

Preserve NIC settings on provisioned VMs

Previously, the NIC settings of the master image were not retained in the provisioned VMs. For example, if you configured the DNS settings on the master image, the provisioned VMs did not retain the configured DNS settings of the master image. With this feature, the provisioned VMs can now retain the NIC settings of the master image. The settings are retained even after a Windows update. The filter driver is automatically installed if you do a fresh installation of VDA version 2308 or later on a Hyper-V deployed machine through the MCS master image installations. However, currently, if you upgrade from an older version of VDA (version less than 2308) and want to install the filter driver, then you must select the checkbox Citrix HyperV Filter Driver on the Additional Components page while upgrading the VDA. For more information, see Install additional components. This feature is applicable to:

• Hyper-V VMs (including Azure and SCVMM)
• Persistent and non-persistent MCS machine catalogs
• Non-persistent MCS machine catalogs with MCSIO
• Master image with multiple NICs

Support for sharing images across different Azure tenants

Previously, in Azure environments, you can share images only with shared subscriptions using the Azure Compute Gallery. With this feature, you can now select an image in the Azure Compute Gallery that belongs to a different shared subscription in a different tenant to create and update an MCS catalog. For more information, see Share images across tenants.

Update properties of individual VMs

You can now update the properties of individual VMs in a persistent MCS machine catalog using a PowerShell command. This implementation helps you to manage individual VMs efficiently without updating the entire machine catalog. Currently, this feature is applicable only to the Azure environment. For more information, see Update properties of individual VMs.

Support for vSAN 8.0

You can now use MCS to provision VMs in the vSAN 8.0 environment.

Citrix Director

Probes summary and drilldown

Application and desktop probing automates the process of checking the health of the apps and desktops that are published in a site by test launching them serially using StoreFront. The results of probing are available in Director.

Now, all probe related results are consolidated under the Trends > Probes tab with the following information:

The Overview tab provides a summary of all the configured probes in a single view. You can filter probes based on Time Period, Probe Type, Endpoint name, Application Name, Desktop Name and Probe Result Type. Probes that match the filter criteria are shown with the following details per probe, application/desktop, and endpoint.

• Completed Runs – the number of probe runs that ran to completion.
• Failed Runs – the number of probe runs that failed.

The Probe Runs tab provides the results of the completed probe runs in detail. You can filter the probe runs based on Time Period, Probe Type, Endpoint name, Application Name, Desktop Name and Probe Failure Stage. Clicking the Probe Name, Failed Runs, Application/Desktop name links also takes you to the Probe Runs page with the list of Probe runs matching the filter criteria.

For more information, see the Application and Desktop Probing article.

Citrix Probe Agent support for Citrix Gateway Multi-factor authentication

Citrix Probe Agent for application and desktop probing now supports authentication via Citrix Gateway Multi-factor authentication. This feature is available only for Citrix Gateway that is configured with LDAP and Native OTP using Single Login Schema. The comprehensive probe results available on Director help troubleshoot issues related to the applications, hosting machine, or connections before the users experience them. For more information, see the Application and Desktop Probing article.

Disable Hypervisor Alerts

You can now disable Hypervisor Alerts from Citrix Alerts Policy > Site Policy > Hypervisor Health. This helps optimize alerts if your role does not involve infrastructure monitoring. For more information, see Hypervisor Alerts Monitoring.

Trends for Session Experience metrics

Director is introducing a new  User Details > Session Experience tab with enhanced troubleshooting workflows starting with the ability to correlate real-time metrics in identifying issues within user sessions. Session Experience now contains trends of session metrics like ICARTT, ICA Latency, Frames Per Second, Output Bandwidth Available, and Output Bandwidth Consumed. This feature helps reduce the mean time for resolution by enabling you to correlate multiple performance metrics in a single view. For more information see the User Issues article.

Citrix Licensing 11.17.2 build 44000

OpenSSL version update

OpenSSL 1.1.1u

Virtual Delivery Agents (VDAs) 7 2308 for Windows Desktop/Server OS.

Audio volume synchronization

Audio volume is now synchronized between the VDA audio and your redirected audio devices. You can now tune the volume using the VDA audio volume slider and have the same volume on your device.

Virtual Delivery Agents (VDAs) 7 2308 for Linux

Support for RHEL 8.8, Rocky Linux 8.8, RHEL 9.2, and Rocky Linux 9.2

The Linux VDA now supports the following Linux distributions:

• RHEL 8.8
• Rocky Linux 8.8
• RHEL 9.2
• Rocky Linux 9.2

For more information, see System requirements.

Shared GPU acceleration on a multi-session Linux VDA

You can now enable shared GPU acceleration on a multi-session Linux VDA to accelerate OpenGL 3D applications. For more information, see Shared GPU acceleration on a multi-session Linux VDA.

Specific data formats can be copied and pasted between session and client

You can now allow specific data formats to be copied and pasted between the VDA session and the client device. This feature is achieved through Citrix policies. For more information, see Clipboard redirection.

Extended Quest support

We have extended Quest support to RHEL 8.X, Rocky Linux 8.x, RHEL 9.x, and Rocky Linux 9.x. For more information, see the Active Directory integration packages section in System requirements.

Server fetch and client render for browser content redirection

We have extended browser content redirection to support the server fetch and client render scenario. In this scenario, Citrix Workspace app (the client) contacts and fetches content from the web server through the VDA using a virtual channel (CTXPFWD). This option is useful when the client doesn’t have access to the web server (for example, thin clients). It lowers CPU and RAM consumption on the VDA, but bandwidth is consumed on the ICA virtual channel. For more information, see browser content redirection.

Enhanced EDT congestion control (preview)

A new congestion control algorithm is introduced to optimize the Enlightened Data Transport (EDT) protocol. This implementation allows EDT to achieve higher throughput and reduce latency for an enhanced user experience. This feature is disabled by default. For more information, see Adaptive transport.

More menu items in the system tray

We have extended the screen sharing system tray tool to accommodate more menu items. Currently, session users can click the system tray icon to access all the following menu items to perform corresponding actions:

• Screen sharing
• Desktop environment switch
• Graphics quality slider
• Real-time CQI

For more information, see System tray.

Enhanced H.265 hardware encoding

We have extended H.265 hardware encoding to allow lossless compression for the entire screen and lossy H.265 hardware codec for actively changing regions. For more information, see Graphics configuration and fine-tuning.

XDPing enhancement to support SQLite and RC4 issue checks

We have extended the scope of individual tests and VDA registration status checks that the Linux XDPing tool can perform to include SQLite tests and RC4 issue checks, respectively. For more information, see XDPing.

Realm thoroughly tested for Amazon Linux 2, RHEL 7.9, and CentOS 7.9

Using realm to join a Linux VM to an Active Directory domain is now thoroughly tested for Amazon Linux 2, RHEL 7.9, and CentOS 7.9. You can still use the net ads command to join the Linux VMs running on Amazon Linux 2, RHEL 7.9, and CentOS 7.9 to an Active Directory domain.

For more information, see Install the Linux VDA on Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, RHEL, and Rocky Linux manually.

Citrix Federated Authentication Service 2308

This release of Federated Authentication Service includes no new features.

Citrix Provisioning 2308

Support for provisioning target devices in untrusted domain

With this feature, you can now provision target devices in the domains that are not trusted by the domain to which the Citrix Provisioning Server belongs. To do this, use one of the following:

• Citrix Virtual Desktops Setup Wizard
• Streamed VM Setup Wizard

This feature is applicable to all supported on-premises and cloud hypervisors.

For more information, see the following:

• Run the wizard
• Using the Streamed VM Setup Wizard
• Create target VMs-Azure
• Create target VMs-GCP
• Adding untrusted domains to the domain list

Support for Azure secret region

Azure has a secret environment where the endpoints of Azure services are a secret. To support the Azure secret region, you can now configure endpoint URLs of required services. For more information, see Configure service endpoint URLs.

Support for providing information about the provisioning servers

While using the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Setup Wizard to create target VMs for on-premises hypervisors, you can now provide information about the provisioning servers that function as login servers for the UEFI target VMs when using the BDM boot option. For more information, see Run the wizard.

Support for restoring the database when using enhanced database encryption

You can now restore the database from a backup when using enhanced database encryption if you rotate the keys between taking the backup and restoring the database. For more information, see Restore database.

Support for Nutanix AHV 6.5 LTS

Citrix Provisioning now supports Windows 11 on Nutanix AHV 6.5 Long Term Support (LTS). Using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Setup Wizard, you can create single and multi-session Nutanix AHV 6.5 catalogs. For more information on Nutanix AHV, see the following Nutanix documents:

• AHV Overview
• Securing AHV VMs with vTPM

Support for new Linux streaming target devices

For Linux streaming, the following operating systems are now supported:

• RHEL 8.8
• RHEL 9.2
• Rocky Linux 8.8
• Rocky Linux 9.2

For more information, see Streaming Linux target devices.

Citrix Profile Management 2308

Extended app access control

The app access control feature now applies to users and machines outside the traditional domain environment. With this feature, you can implement app access control for non-domain-joined machines and control app access based on Active Directory and Azure Active Directory user accounts.

The built-in PowerShell rule generator has also been enhanced. With this tool, you can now set up app access rules not only for AD users and machines but also for Azure Active Directory users and non-domain-joined machines.

For more information, see Control access to applications.

Profile migration tool for Citrix container-based profile solution

Citrix Profile Management now offers a profile migration tool to facilitate the migration process to the Citrix container-based profile solution. With this tool, you can migrate user profiles from the following profile solutions to the Citrix container-based profile solution:

• Windows local profiles
• FSLogix Profile Container
• Citrix file-based profile solution

For more information, see Migrate user profiles.

Auto-expansion policies for profile containers

Citrix Profile Management now offers a set of storage auto-expansion policies for profile containers:

• Enable VHD auto-expansion for profile container
• Profile container auto-expansion threshold
• Profile container auto-expansion increment
• Profile container auto-expansion limit

With these policies, profile containers can automatically expand as user profiles grow, eliminating the need for manual expansion and delivering improved user experiences. For more information, see Enable and configure VHD auto-expansion for profile containers.

Support for enabling exclusive access to VHD containers

By default, VHD containers allow concurrent access. With a new policy, Enable exclusive access to VHD containers, you can disable concurrent access for profile containers and OneDrive containers, letting them allow only one access at a time. For more information, see Enable exclusive access to VHD containers.

UWP app roaming (preview)

With a new policy, UWP app roaming, UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps can now roam with users. As a result, users can access the same UWP apps from different devices. For more information, see Enable UWP apps roaming.

Citrix Workspace Environment Management 2308

Web console (Preview)

A new web-based Workspace Environment Management (WEM) console is now available. We have completed the process of migrating the critical features from the legacy console to the web console. The web console generally responds faster than the legacy console. The following features are available only in the web console.

• Scripted tasks
• Triggers
• Configure Windows GPOs by using Group Policy Administrative Templates
• Insights
• Save a backup of a configuration set automatically and more.

For more information, see Web console.

Enhanced WEM agent event logging

We have made enhancements to WEM agent event logging, aiming at improving troubleshooting capabilities. The enhancements include:

• Comprehensive event logs: We have provided comprehensive event logs, giving you a complete picture of agent activities.
• Unique event IDs: Each event log now has a distinct ID, making it easier for you to filter and identify specific events.

For more information, see Agent event logs.

Microsoft Edge browser support for WEM Transformer

The WEM Transformer now supports the latest version of the Microsoft Edge browser.

Enhancements to CPU spike protection

This release introduces enhancements to the CPU spike protection feature, giving you more granular control. The enhancements include the following changes:

• We have reorganized CPU spike protection options with intuitive logic for easier configuration, which applies only to the WEM Web console.
• When customizing CPU spike protection, you can now configure the CPU usage limit using non-integer values. This configuration applies to both legacy and the web console.
• A new option, Set limit relative to single CPU core, is now available and applicable to the web console, letting you set a limit on CPU usage based on a single CPU core as a reference.

For more information, see CPU spike protection option.

WiX support for WEM AdminConsole and Infrastructure installers

Citrix is offering WiX-based installers for the infrastructure services and administration console. The new installers include changes to the .Net framework, installation path, service name, event log name, parameters, and more.

For more information, see Administration console and Infrastructure services.

Dynamic token support for Group Policy settings

You can now use dynamic tokens in Group Policy settings. This feature allows for more adaptable policy configuration in different environments, reduces manual configuration, and simplifies policy management. For more information, see Dynamic token support for Group Policy settings.

Citrix Session Recording 2308

Audio recording for non-optimized HDX audio (preview)

You can now enable audio recording for non-optimized HDX audio when configuring session recording policies. The audio that is handled on the VDA and delivered to/from the client where the Citrix Workspace app is installed is referred to as non-optimized HDX audio. Unlike non-optimized HDX audio, optimized HDX audio has its processing offloaded to the client, as seen in the Browser Content Redirection (BCR) and Optimization for Microsoft Teams scenarios.

For information about enabling audio recording, see Configure session recording policies.

Fast seeking through ICA screen recording

You can now enable fast seeking through ICA screen recording by configuring how often an I-Frame is generated. This feature significantly improves the playback seeking experience. For more information, see Enable fast seeking.

Lossy video codec renamed to lossy screen recording

The lossy video codec feature has been renamed lossy screen recording, and its toggle switch is moved from the Session Recording Agent Properties to the Session Recording policy console.

You can now enable lossy screen recording in any of the following ways:

• Activate a system-defined session recording policy that has lossy screen recording enabled.
• Create and activate a custom session recording policy, and make sure to select Enable lossy screen recording when creating the custom policy.
• Select Enable lossy screen recording when configuring an event response policy. When a monitored event is detected later, lossy screen recording is triggered.

After you enable lossy screen recording, you can adjust compression options through the Lossy Screen tab of Session Recording Agent Properties.

For more information, see the following articles:

• Configure session recording policies
• Configure event response policies
• Enable or disable lossy screen recording

Support for installing the Session Recording database on Google Cloud SQL Server

You can now install the Session Recording database on Google Cloud SQL Server, either by running a command or by running the SessionRecordingAdministrationx64.msi package. You can find the SessionRecordingAdministrationx64.msi package on the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops ISO under \x64\Session Recording. For more information, see Install the Session Recording Database on cloud SQL database services.

Ability to close unresponsive or dormant live recordings

Previously, a live recording was considered unresponsive or dormant if no new data was written to the recording file for 48 hours. Unresponsive live recordings could not be closed. Starting with this release, you can configure this time threshold on the Storage tab of Session Recording Server Properties to close unresponsive or dormant live recordings automatically when the threshold is exceeded. You can also manually close unresponsive or dormant live recordings by using the ICLDB DORMANT command. For more information, see Manage recordings.

More parameters are available for ICLDB ARCHIVE, ICLDB REMOVE, and ICLDB DORMANT commands

You can now append the FILEID parameter when using the ICLDB ARCHIVE, ICLDB REMOVE, and ICLDB DORMANT commands to manipulate a specific session recording file. You can also append the CLOSEFILES parameter when using the ICLDB DORMANT command to manually close unresponsive or dormant live recordings. For more information, see Manage recordings.

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service

October 2023

New and enhanced features

Trends for Session Performance metrics. Monitor is introducing a new User Details > Session Performance tab with enhanced troubleshooting workflows starting with the ability to correlate real-time metrics in identifying issues within user sessions. Session Experience now contains trends of session metrics like ICARTT, ICA Latency, Frames Per Second, Output Bandwidth Available, and Output Bandwidth Consumed. This feature helps reduce the mean time for resolution by enabling you to correlate multiple performance metrics in a single view. For more information see the User Issues article.

Support VDA version on settings page of create/edit policy. As part of creating a policy, when configuring the settings, the system provides an option to view the settings type. You can view the following settings type:

• All settings – View all settings for all VDA versions
• Current settings only – View settings for only the current VDA versions
• Legacy settings only – View settings for only the deprecated VDA versions

For more information, see Create policies

Limit application visibility only supported for Active Directory accounts. The capability to limit the application visibility is available only for the Active Directory user accounts, and not for Azure Active Directory and Okta accounts. Note that to aid this feature, on the application setting workflow, on the Select Users or Groups page, Azure Active Directory, and Okta options in the Select Identity type field are disabled.

New UI option to delete VM records only from the Citrix site database. When catalog and VM deletion fails due to an unreachable hypervisor, you can now opt to only delete VM records from the Citrix site database, leaving the VMs intact on the host. For more information, see Delete a catalog.

Support for creating empty machine catalogs for non-MCS-provisioned machines. Creating empty machine catalogs now extends to non-MCS-provisioned machines, including:

• Virtual or blade machines provisioned using technologies other than Machine Creation Services.
• Physical machines not power managed by Citrix DaaS
• Remote PC Access machines

With this feature, you can now create machine catalogs without the need to add machines to them during catalog creation.

Image Refresh enhancements. Previously, when refreshing images, all images in the image tree were updated, irrespective of whether a specific node in the tree was selected. With the latest enhancement, if you’ve selected a node, only images in this node are refreshed. This enhancement ensures a more targeted refresh process, significantly improving the image refresh speed. Additionally, you can now clear a selected node in the image tree by holding CTRL and clicking the node. For more information, see Master image.

Peak Autoscale Assigned PowerOn. When persistent desktops are powered on but remain unused or if no user logs on, the administrators can define the wait time to take actions like, no action, suspend, or shutdown.

For assigned machines, where it is powered on but a session has not been connected to it within the set time after the start of peak time, then you can add a policy to the delivery group level to turn off the machine.

For assigned machines, where it is in resumed state but a session has not been connected to it within the set time after the start of peak time, then you can add a policy to the delivery group level to suspend the machine.

This feature is helpful if there is an end user who is on PTO, or has not logged on, or if a company has a long weekend, then you can set the wait time and machine disconnection actions to take in order to help reduce the Azure consumption cost. For more information, see Single-session OS random delivery groups and Single-session OS static delivery groups

Monitor multiple Citrix DaaS instances (Preview). You can now use Citrix Monitor to monitor and troubleshoot issues across multiple Citrix DaaS instances. Citrix DaaS allows customers to aggregate multiple service instances using a hub and spoke model. With this configuration, administrators can perform helpdesk search on all configured DaaS instances from a single Monitor console. For more information regarding the configuration required to aggregate the spoke service instances to a hub, see Aggregate multiple Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service instances. Monitor supports the aggregation of up to four DaaS tenants (spokes) under a single DaaS tenant (hub). To have unified monitoring across all DaaS tenants, use bi-directional enumeration of the hub and spoke instances. For more information, see Aggregated Search across multiple DaaS instances (Preview).

Support for vSAN 8.0. You can now use MCS to provision VMs in the vSAN 8.0 environment.

Preserve NIC settings on provisioned VMs. Previously, the NIC settings of the master image were not retained in the provisioned VMs. For example, if you configured the DNS settings on the master image, the provisioned VMs did not retain the configured DNS settings of the master image. With this feature, the provisioned VMs can now retain the NIC settings of the master image. The settings are retained even after a Windows update. The filter driver is automatically installed if you do a fresh installation of VDA version 2308 or later on a Hyper-V deployed machine through the MCS master image installations. However, currently, if you upgrade from an older version of VDA (version less than 2308) and want to install the filter driver, then you must select the checkbox Citrix HyperV Filter Driver on the Additional Components page while upgrading the VDA. For more information, see Install additional components.

This feature is applicable to:

• Hyper-V VMs (including Azure and SCVMM)
• Persistent and non-persistent MCS machine catalogs
• Non-persistent MCS machine catalogs with MCSIO
• Master image with multiple NICs

Detect Orphaned Azure resources. With this feature, you can now detect the orphaned resources in your Azure deployment, enabling efficient resource management. After the orphaned resources are identified, you can take further action, bringing in more productivity and cost reduction. For more information, see Detect Orphaned Azure resources in your deployment.

New image update status. When monitoring image update statuses for catalogs in Full Configuration, you can now view a new status Preparing image, in addition to the existing ones Fully updated, Partially updated, and Pending update. For more information, see Change the master image.

PowerShell commands to create Auto-tags (Preview). With this feature you can now create tags automatically by using the PowerShell command. For more information, see Auto Tags.

Notification sign is shown to user or delivery group. While creating or modifying a policy and configuring the settings, if all delivery groups are disabled, the system displays a warning that – None of the elements in this filter is enabled. If at least one delivery group is enabled, the system does not display the warning sign. For more information, see Policy settings

September 2023

New and enhanced features

PowerShell commands to manage Local Host Cache (LHC). You can now use PowerShell commands to manage LHC on Citrix Cloud Connectors. For more information, see Local Host Cache PowerShell commands.

Support for creating empty machine catalogs. In Full Configuration, you can now create a machine catalog without immediate VM creation. With this feature, you can postpone VM creation until back-end hosts are fully prepared or VM provisioning is completed, gaining more flexibility in creating catalogs. Currently, this feature applies only to Machine Creation Services-provisioned catalogs. For more information, see Create machine catalogs.

Data caching for the Home node. We’ve introduced data caching for the Citrix DaaS Home node. This enhancement improves the user experience by reducing the page load times when you navigate to the Home node.

Search enhancements for applications. We’ve revamped the search functionality in the Applications node to align with the new design introduced in the Search node. This new feature improves your application search experience and maintains a consistent search experience across DaaS. The keyword Application Name in the filter expression is renamed to Name, while retaining its original meaning. For more information, see Use Search in the Full Configuration management interface.

Enhanced scope management: showing objects in folder view. On the scope creation and management pages, machine catalogs, delivery groups, and application groups are now displayed in folder structures that align with their management in DaaS. This folder view simplifies the process of selecting objects for scope creation and management, making your choices more intuitive and straightforward. For more information, see Create and manage scopes.

Removed the Leave user management to Citrix Cloud option. When creating a delivery group in Manage > Full Configuration, on the Users page, the support for this option is removed. For delivery groups where user assignments were handled through Citrix Cloud, continue to manage user assignments within the Citrix Cloud library.

Removed the Azure Germany option. In line with the closure of Microsoft Cloud Deutschland on October 29, 2021, we’ve removed the Azure Germany option from the host connection creation page.

Proactive service alerts in Full Configuration. Alerts come at two levels — site-wide alerts shown in Home (flag icon) and zone-related alerts shown on the Troubleshoot tab of each zone. Currently, this feature gives you proactive warnings and alerts to make sure that your Local Host Cache and zones are configured correctly so that when an outage occurs, Local Host Cache works and your users are not impacted. For more information, see Service health alerts and Zones.

August 2023

New and enhanced features

Full Configuration: Support for provisioning AWS and GCP VMs using machine profiles. When provisioning AWS or GCP VMs using Machine Creation Services (MCS), you can now select an existing VM as the machine profile, letting VMs within the catalog inherit settings from the selected VM.

• For GCP VMs, the inherited settings include Disk Encryption Set ID, Machine size, Storage type, and Zone.
• For AWS VMs, the inherited settings vary based on the stage:
  • During catalog creation: Machine size, Tenancy type, Security group, and the number of NICs.
  • During catalog editing: Machine size and Security group.

For more information, see Create a machine catalog.

Introducing search functionality in Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups nodes. You can now directly search and locate machine catalogs and delivery groups within the Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups nodes. The search functionality in these nodes provides the same interface as the Search node, providing seamless search experience across DaaS. For more information, see Use Search in the Full Configuration management interface.

View endpoint device status in Session Launch Diagnostics using Device Posture. The Session Launch Diagnostics feature in Monitor helps narrow down to the exact component and stage where a session failure occurred. This helps identify the exact reason for a session launch failure and take the recommended action.

As the next step in making this check comprehensive across all the components involved in the session launch sequence, you can now view the endpoint device scan results. Clicking Endpoint Device in the list of components shows the Device Posture scan status. Device Posture Service scans the endpoint device for compliance based on policies defined by the administrator.

Ensure that the Device Posture service is configured with DaaS as described in the Device Posture article. Errors logged by Device Posture are described in Device Posture Error Logs.

For more information, see Steps to diagnose session launch failure

New options in Full Configuration to route API requests to Azure and GCP through Citrix Cloud Connectors. Previously, API requests to Azure and GCP could be routed only through public endpoints. With a new option in Full Configuration > Add Connection and Resources, you can now opt for a more secure approach by routing them through Citrix Cloud Connectors. For more information, see Create a service principal and connection using Full Configuration.

Search and filter enhancements. We’ve made the following enhancements to improve your search experience:

• Simplified search: Performing a search without filters now removes search recommendations, providing a clean and straightforward search experience.
• AND/OR operator update: “Match all(AND operator)” and “Match any(OR operator)” options are now available in the filters panel, accessible with a single click on the filters icon.
• Streamlined filter configuration: You can now specify and apply multiple filters seamlessly with the filters panel.
• Cleaner interface: The “filter pinning” ability has been removed, reducing UI clutter and making your search experience more intuitive.
• Quick filter addition: After applying filters, you can now use the plus sign to quickly add one more filter.
• Delete saved filter sets: You can now easily delete saved filter sets right within the search menu, without navigating to Manage filter sets.

For more information, see Use Search in the Full Configuration management interface.

VDA upgrade support for Azure Quick Deploy-created machine catalogs. With Full Configuration, you can now enable VDA Upgrade for machine catalogs created through Azure Quick Deploy and then perform Upgrade VDA on them for immediate or scheduled upgrades. For more information, see Upgrade VDAs using the Full Configuration interface.

Ability to reset the OS disk of a persistent VM in an MCS created machine catalog in SCVMM. You can now use the PowerShell command Reset-ProvVMDisk to reset the OS disk of a persistent VM in an MCS created machine catalog. The feature automates the process of resetting the OS disk. For example, it helps in resetting the VM to its initial status of a persistent development desktop catalog created using MCS. Currently, this feature is applicable to Azure, Citrix Hypervisor, SCVMM, and VMware virtualization environments. For more information on using the PowerShell command to reset the OS disk, see Reset OS disk.

Update properties of individual VMs. You can now update properties of individual VMs in a persistent MCS machine catalog using a PowerShell command. This implementation helps you to manage individual VMs efficiently without updating the entire machine catalog. Currently, this feature is applicable only to the Azure environment. For more information, see Update properties of individual VMs.

Restrict upload and download of managed disks. As per Azure policy, you cannot upload or download more than five disks or snapshots at the same time with the same disk access object. With this feature, the limit of five concurrent upload or download is not enforced if you:

• Configure ProxyHypervisorTrafficThroughConnector in CustomProperties, and
• Do not configure Azure policy to create Disk Accesses automatically for each new disk to use private endpoints.

Support for assigning a specific drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk. Previously, the Windows operating system automatically assigned a drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk. With this feature, you can now assign a specific drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk. This implementation helps you to avoid conflicts between the drive letter of any applications that you use and the drive letter of MCS I/O write-back cache disk. This feature is applicable to only Windows operating system. For more information, see Assign a specific drive letter to MCS I/O write-back cache disk.

Support for machine profile in Citrix Hypervisor. In Citrix Hypervisor, you can now create an MCS machine catalog using a machine profile. The source of the machine profile input is a VM. The machine profile captures the hardware properties from a VM template and applies them to the newly provisioned VMs in the catalog. For more information, see Create a machine catalog using a machine profile.

Support for creating a catalog of VMs enabled with Amazon Elastic Graphics. Using machine profile-based workflow, you can now create a catalog of VMs that are enabled with Amazon Elastic Graphics accelerator. You can use a VM or launch template as a machine profile input. For more information, see Create a catalog of VMs enabled with Elastic Graphics accelerator.

Retry creating catalog after failure. When catalog creation fails, you can now retry creating the catalog. To ensure successful creation, check the troubleshooting information and resolve the issues. The information describes the issues found and provides recommendations for resolving them. Failed catalogs are marked with an error icon. To see the details, go to the Troubleshoot tab of each catalog. For more information, see Manage machine catalogs.

Permission for managing configuration sets. To enable more precise control over WEM configuration set management, we’ve introduced a new permission called Manage configuration sets to the Machine catalogs permission set. This permission grants exclusive access to users who can perform tasks such as binding or unbinding a configuration set and switching to a different configuration set for catalogs. For more information, see Manage configuration set for a catalog.

New option in Full Configuration to enable cleanup of stale Azure AD joined devices. We’ve introduced an option in Full Configuration to simplify the cleanup of stale Azure AD joined devices in Citrix DaaS. Previously, you had to run a custom PowerShell script to perform the task. Enabling this option grants host connections permission to automatically clean stale Azure AD joined devices. For more information, see Azure host connections.

Monitor image update status for catalogs using Full Configuration. You can now monitor image update statuses for non-persistent machine catalogs using a new column, Image Update. This column indicates whether images of a catalog are Fully updated, Partially updated, or Pending update.

To show the column in the Machine Catalogs table, follow these steps:

1. In the Machine Catalogs node, select the Columns to Display icon in the action bar.
2. Select Machine Catalog > Image Status.
3. Click Save.

Displaying the Image update column might degrade the console performance. We recommend displaying it only when necessary.

Secure environment for GCP-managed traffic. With this feature, you can now allow only private Google access to your Google Cloud projects. This implementation enhances security to handle sensitive data. To do this, add ProxyHypervisorTrafficThroughConnector in CustomProperties in case of Citrix Cloud deployment. If you are using a private worker pool, add UsePrivateWorkerPool in CustomProperties. For more information, see Create a secure environment for GCP managed traffic.

July 2023

New and enhanced features

Support for getting a list of orphaned resources on Azure. In Azure environments, you can now get a list of orphaned resources that are created by MCS but are no longer used by MCS. This feature helps to avoid extra costs. For more information, see Retrieve a list of orphaned resources.

Support for creating persistent multi-session machines using Full Configuration. When creating a catalog of multi-session machines, you can now specify whether to make them persistent. For persistent multi-session machines, keep in mind that changes users make to the desktops are saved and accessible to all authorized users. For more information, see Create machine catalogs.

New capability in Full Configuration to filter the AWS AMI inventory. When selecting machine templates during AWS catalog creation, you can now filter the AWS AMI inventory for a target template using these search criteria:

• Image name
• Image ID
• Image tags

The machine template list loads dynamically as you scroll down the list – 25 items are initially loaded and more loaded as you scroll.

Support for deleting Azure AD devices. With this feature, stale Azure AD devices can be consistently deleted by assigning the Cloud Device Administrator role to the service principal and modifying the custom property of the hosting connection. If you do not delete the Azure stale AD devices, then the corresponding non-persistent VM stays in the initializing state until you manually remove it from the Azure AD portal. For more information, see Create Azure Active Directory joined catalogs.

Support for machine profile in AWS environment. When you create a catalog to provision machines using Machine Creation Services (MCS) in AWS, you can now use a machine profile to capture the hardware properties from a virtual machine and apply them to newly provisioned VMs in the catalog. However, if you add the parameters in the New-ProvScheme and Set-ProvScheme commands, then the values in the machine profile are overwritten by the values provided in the commands. You can use a VM and launch template as a machine profile input. You can update the input of a machine profile catalog from a VM to a launch template version and from a launch template version to a VM. For more information, see Create a catalog using a machine profile.

Export limit on search results extended to 30,000 from 10,000. We’ve extended the export limit on search results. Previously restricted to 10,000 items, you can now export up to 30,000 items to a CSV file. For more information, see Export search results to a CSV file.

Image refresh option. When selecting master images for machine catalogs, you can now quickly get the most up-to-date master image list using the Refresh option at the top right. Note that the Refresh option is not available for AWS catalogs. Additionally, a Refresh option is available for machine profiles and host groups in Azure catalogs.

Citrix Workspace App 2309 for Windows

Additional .NET prerequisite

In addition to .NET Framework 4.8, Citrix Workspace app requires the x86 version of.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0 for both x86 and x64 systems with admin privileges. For more information, see .NET requirements.

Improved virtual apps and desktops launch experience

NOTE:

From Citrix Workspace app version 2305.1 onwards, this feature is generally available for cloud stores and from 2309 for on-premises stores.

Previously, the launch progress dialog box wasn’t intuitive to the users. It made the users assume that the launch process is not responding and they closed the dialog box, as the notification messages were static.

The improved app and desktop launch experience is more informative, modern, and provides a user-friendly experience on Citrix Workspace app for Windows. This feature helps to keep the users engaged with timely and relevant information about the launch status.

For more information, see Improved virtual apps and desktops launch experience.

Addition of the Troubleshooting option in the system tray of Citrix Workspace app

The Troubleshooting option is introduced to improve the user experience and to easily proceed with the troubleshooting. You can right-click on the Citrix Workspace app icon in the system tray that is placed in the bottom-right corner of your screen and then select Troubleshooting to access it.

The options available under Troubleshooting are:

• Send Feedback
• Collect Logs
• Check Configuration
• Reset App Data
• Help

Send feedback on Citrix Workspace app

The Send feedback option allows you to inform Citrix about any issues that you might run into while using Citrix Workspace app. You can also send suggestions to help us improve your Citrix Workspace app experience.

For more information, see Addition of the Troubleshooting option in the system tray of Citrix Workspace app.

Sustainability initiative from Citrix Workspace app

When this feature is enabled, a prompt is displayed to sign out from the desktop session when a user closes a virtual desktop. This feature might help conserve energy if there are Windows OS policies that are used to shut down VMs when no users are logged in.

For more information, see Sustainability initiative from Citrix Workspace app.

Commands to configure keyboard layout synchronization using command-line interface

Previously, you could configure keyboard layout synchronization using the GUI or by updating the configuration file only. With this release, the new commands are introduced to configure keyboard layout synchronization using the command-line-interface.

For more information, see Configure keyboard layout synchronization using command-line interface.

Command to cleanup and install Citrix Workspace app

Use the CleanInstall command to cleanup any leftover traces such as files and registry values from a previous uninstall and then freshly install the new version of the Citrix Workspace app.

For example:CitrixWorkspaceApp.exe /CleanInstall

Optimized Microsoft Teams updates

Upcoming Microsoft Teams Single-Window EOL

On January 31, 2024, Microsoft will retire the Microsoft Teams support for Single-window UI when using VDI Microsoft Teams optimization and support only the Multi-Window experience. You must use a version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Workspace app that support the Multi-Window feature to continue using certain optimized Microsoft Teams functionalities. For more information, see Upcoming Microsoft Teams Single-Window EOL.

Deprecation announcement of the SDP format (Plan B) from WebRTC

Citrix is planning to deprecate the current SDP format (Plan B) support from WebRTC in future releases. You must use a version of Citrix Workspace app that supports the Unified Plan to continue using certain optimized Microsoft Teams functionalities. For more information, see Deprecation announcement of the SDP format (Plan B) from WebRTC.

App Protection

Important update on file names

In a future release for Citrix Workspace app for Windows, the following file names will be updated as follows:

Existing file name	New file name
EntryProtect.dll	ctxapdotnet.dll
entryprotect.sys	ctxapdriver.sys
epclient32.dll	ctxapclient32.dll
epclient64.dll	ctxapclient64.dll
epinject.sys	ctxapinject.sys
epusbfilter.sys	ctxapusbfilter.sys
entryprotectdrv	ctxapdriver
epinject6	ctxapinject

These files are installed at %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Citrix\ICA Client by default.

If you’ve added any of the preceding file names to the allow list in your environment, update the allow list.

Policy tampering detection

Policy tampering detection feature prevents the user from accessing the Virtual App or Desktop session if the App Protection anti-screen capture and anti-keylogging policies are tampered. If policy tampering is detected, the virtual app or desktop session will be terminated displaying the following error message:

NOTE:

This feature will be available only after the release of the upcoming version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.

For more information about the policy tampering detection feature, see Policy tampering detection.

Full desktop sharing capability from the VDA with Citrix Workspace app

Previously when App Protection is enabled, desktop sharing is disabled for Optimized Microsoft Teams as App Protection doesn’t allow you to capture the screen.

From Citrix Workspace app for Windows 2309 release onwards, desktop sharing is enabled for Optimized Microsoft Teams even if App Protection is enabled.

For more information, see Compatibility with HDX optimization for Microsoft Teams.

App Protection with DoubleHop scenario

App Protection features are not supported in a double hop scenario. Double hop means a Citrix Virtual App or desktop session running within a Citrix Virtual Desktop session. You were allowed to launch virtual apps and desktops enabled with App Protection policies in a double hop scenario. However, the App Protection features were not applied.

Now, a Windows Group Policy is introduced which allows you to block opening virtual apps and desktops enabled with App Protection policies in a double hop scenario. For more information about enabling the Block DoubleHop Launch setting, see Enable Block DoubleHop Launch setting.

Citrix Workspace App 2309 for iOS

Support for Transport Layer Security 1.3

Citrix Workspace app for iOS now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 that boosts performance and efficiency. TLS 1.3 provides robust security with its strong cipher suites and one-time session keys.

End users can enable it on Citrix Workspace app for iOS as follows.

1. Go to Advanced settings > TLS Versions.
2. Select TLS 1.3 version.

Support for AirPrint enabled printers

With AirPrint technology enabled printers, end users can now print documents from their active sessions on iOS devices. This eliminates the need to have printers connected via cable or network. The AirPrint enabled printers are listed along with the other available printers once users initiate a print command.

To print using an AirPrint enabled printer, users must ensure the following.

• The required printer must be AirPrint compatible and AirPrint enabled.
• The user’s device must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the AirPrint enabled printer.

This functionality is available for iOS platforms on both cloud and on-premises environments.

Addition of Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut to Session Toolbar

The session toolbar now has an option to perform the Ctrl+Alt+Del function with the tap of a button. This option facilitates users to sign out, switch users, lock system, or access Task Manager.

FIDO2-based authentication

Citrix Workspace app for iOS now supports password-less authentication within a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session using FIDO2-based authentication methods. This allows users to sign in to a WebAuthn-supported website in browsers such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge using FIDO2-supported Yubico security keys. Simply opening a WebAuthn-supported website triggers password-less authentication.

Only lightning port-based devices are supported (devices with USB-C or USB 4 ports aren’t supported). Signing in to the Citrix Workspace app or desktop session using password-less authentication isn’t supported.

For more information about the prerequisites for this feature, see Local authorization and virtual authentication using FIDO2 in the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops documentation.

Citrix Workspace App 2309 for Linux

Support for ARM64 architecture

Citrix Workspace app for Linux supports ARM64 architecture-based devices. For this feature, we have included binaries that allow to install Citrix Workspace app on ARM64-based devices in the installer package. The prerequisites and system requirements remain the same as installing the app on other architectures.

NOTE:

The following features aren’t supported on Citrix Workspace app for Linux when using ARM64 architecture-based devices:

• Optimized Microsoft Teams
• Optimized Skype for Business (RTOP/RTME)
• Browser Content Redirection (BCR)
• Multimedia redirection

Support for authentication using FIDO2 when connecting to on-premises stores

Users can authenticate using passwordless FIDO2 security keys when signing in to on-premises stores through Citrix Workspace app for Linux. The security keys support different types of security inputs such as security pins, biometrics, card swipe, smart card, Public Key Certificates, and so on. For more information about FIDO2 see FIDO2 Authentication.

Citrix Workspace app uses the Citrix Enterprise Browser as the default browser for FIDO2 authentication. Administrators can configure the type of browser to authenticate to Citrix Workspace app. For more information, see Support for authentication using FIDO2 when connecting to on-premises stores.

Support for 32-bit cursor

Previously, when you were using the custom 32-bit cursor, a black box might appear around the cursor.

Starting with Citrix Workspace app for Linux version 2212, support for the 32-bit cursor was enabled by default. As a result, the black box around the cursor issue is resolved.

With this release, you can disable the support for the 32-bit cursor. For this enhancement, a new parameter named Cursor32bitSupport is added in the wfclient.ini file.

For more information, see Support for 32-bit cursor.

Copy and paste files and folders between two virtual desktops

Previously, you can copy only text between two virtual desktops. With this release, you can copy and paste files and folders between two virtual desktops. In the Linux Virtual Delivery Agent, the maximum transfer of data in one single copy-paste operation is 200 MB. For more information, see File copy and paste documentation.

This feature is enabled by default. For more information, see Copy and paste files and folders between two virtual desktops.

Screen pinning in custom web stores

The screen pinning in custom web stores allows you to save the selection for multi-monitor screen layout in custom web stores.

For more information, see Screen pinning in custom web stores.

Keyboard input mode enhancements

Previously, you were able to enable different keyboard input modes only by updating the value of KeyboardEventMode in the configuration file. There was no UI option to select the keyboard input mode.

Starting with Citrix Workspace app 2209, you can configure different keyboard input modes from the newly introduced Keyboard input mode settings section. You can select Scancode or Unicode as keyboard input mode.

For more information, see Keyboard input mode enhancements.

Support for extended keyboard layouts

The Scancode keyboard input mode supports the following extended keyboard layouts:

• Japanese 106 keyboard
• Portuguese ABNT/ABNT2 keyboards
• Multimedia keyboards

For more information, see Support for extended keyboard layouts.

Improved error messages

Previously all error messages were having a default error code and a description that isn’t specific to the error. Currently, the error messages are improved to include the Error code, Transaction ID, and Description fields specific to the error.

For more information, see Improved error messages.

Enhancement to log collection

With this release, the following enhancements are available:

• Citrix Log Collection Utility
• Collect User Activity logs
• Disable DS logs

Citrix Log Collection Utility

The Citrix Log Collection Utility helps you collect both new and existing logs. This utility specifically collects verbose logs and saves all logs in a tar.gz file.

For more information, see Citrix Log Collection Utility.

Collecting user activity logs

You can collect the user activity logs. Activities related to most of the Storebrowse commands are saved in the log file. You can find the log files within the following location:

${HOME}/.ICAClient/logs/userActivityty.latest/`

By default, the user activity logs are enabled.

For more information, see Collect User Activity logs.

Disable collecting DS logs

DS logs collects all logs. If you don’t require the dslogs, you can disable it by adding the DsLogsDisabled key in the Authmanconfig.xml file:

For more information, see Disable DS logs.

Optimized Microsoft Teams updates

Upcoming Microsoft Teams Single-Window EOL

On January 31, 2024, Microsoft will retire the Microsoft Teams support for Single-window UI when using VDI Microsoft Teams optimization and support only the Multi-Window experience. You must use a version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix Workspace app that support the Multi-Window feature to continue using certain optimized Microsoft Teams functionalities. For more information, see Upcoming Microsoft Teams Single-Window EOL.

Deprecation announcement of the SDP format (Plan B) from WebRTC

Citrix is planning to deprecate the current SDP format (Plan B) support from WebRTC in future releases. You must use a version of Citrix Workspace app that supports the Unified Plan to continue using certain optimized Microsoft Teams functionalities. For more information, see Deprecation announcement of the SDP format (Plan B) from WebRTC.

Citrix Workspace App 23.9.5 for Android

Addition of Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut in session toolbar

Starting from the 23.9.5 version, the session toolbar has an option to do the Ctrl+Alt+Del function with the tap of a button. This option facilitates users to sign out, switch users, lock the device, or access the Task Manager.

Support for full-screen mode for app sessions

Previously, when you started an app session, you could view it in windowed mode.

Starting from the 23.9.5 version, Citrix Workspace app for Android introduces a new option to view the app session in full-screen mode. This feature is helpful when you:

• start a session in full immersion mode with touch devices
• try to duplicate the screen and cast it
• view the Citrix Workspace app on a smaller screen.

To enable the option, go to Citrix Workspace app for Android Settings > Advance > Fullscreen Window and toggle on. The following screenshot displays the option:

Accessibility and TalkBack

Citrix Workspace app provides an enhanced user experience with the TalkBack feature. The TalkBack feature helps end users who have difficulty seeing the screen. The narrator reads the screen elements aloud when using the UI.

To use the Android talkback feature, end users must enable it from Android Settings > Accessibility > Talkback.

For more information, see Accessibility and TalkBack in the help documentation.

Technical preview

• Separate session window from Citrix Workspace app for Samsung DeX

For the complete list of Technical Preview features, see the Features in Technical Preview page.

Fixed issues in 23.9.5

• In a multimonitor setup, when you tap the extend icon on the session toolbar, a gray bar might appear at the bottom of the extended session. The issue occurs when you start a session on the Samsung DeX, with some of the Samsung tablets as the external monitor. [CVADHELP-23269

Citrix Workspace App 2309 for Apple OSX

Support for macOS 14 Sonoma

Citrix Workspace app for Mac is supported on macOS 14 Sonoma.

Citrix Enterprise Browser

This release includes Citrix Enterprise Browser version 115.1.1.103, based on Chromium version 115. For more information, see Citrix Enterprise Browser documentation.

Citrix will now release independent upgrades for Citrix Enterprise Browser. Starting with Citrix Workspace app 2309 for Mac, you can upgrade Citrix Enterprise Browser independently to compatible versions through the auto-update feature or install manually when the upgrades are available at Downloads. The independent upgrades of Citrix Enterprise Browser are supported only on the latest version of Citrix Workspace app for Mac at any given point of time.

Citrix Workspace App 2309 for HTML5

Scan code input mode

Citrix Workspace app allows you to use external physical keyboards to collaborate with the server-side keyboard layout on the VDA. When administrators enable Scan code mode, the end user might find themselves using the keyboard layout of the server instead of the client.

This feature enhances the user experience particularly when using an East-Asian language physical keyboard.

NOTES:

• By default, this feature policy is disabled.
• On touch devices, when Scan code is enabled, the on-screen software keyboard doesn’t work from the Citrix Workspace app.

Configuration

You can configure the Scan code input method in the following way:

• Configuration.js

Configuration.js

NOTES:

• Citrix recommends you back up the configuration.js file before making changes.
• Administrator-level credentials are required to edit the configuration.js file.
• The configuration.js file is located under the C:\Program Files\Citrix\HTML5Client folder.

To enable the Scan code support feature, do the following:

1. Navigate to the configuration.js file.
2. Edit the file and set the scancode attribute to true.The following is an example of JSON data:"features" : { "ime": { "scancode": true, } }
3. Save the changes.

Citrix Workspace App 2309 for Chrome OS

What’s new

This release addresses areas that improve overall performance and stability.

Source

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 2308