v0.7.0

New Features

• Copy/Paste from host to host, from thinclient to host and from host to thinclient.
• Add --vnc-speeds flag.
• tower poweroff command.
• tower deprovision command.
• tower upgrade to upgrade the Thin Client.
• tower upgrade --host to upgrade several hosts in parallel via ssh.
• Automatically upgrade hosts at the end of the Thin Client upgrade.

Bug fixes

• Optimize x11vnc parameters.
• Fix contextual menu in Firefox with vnc.
• Fix capslock in host with vnc.
• Fix VNC viewer resize when menu is open.

Refactoring

• Clean vnc.py.
• Clean install-thinclient.sh: remove everything related to Tower tools.
• Install everything related to Tower with toweros-thinclient and toweros-host apks.
• Clean tower-lib package: remove all non python files not directly used by tower-lib.
• Refactor install-dev.sh script: split into configure-git.sh, connect-wifi.sh, open-ssh.sh and install-dev-usb.sh.
• Remove nx and waypipe support.

Misc.

• Update documentation.
• Add ConnectTimeout=1 for every hosts in the ssh config.

Upgrade instruction from previous version

After the first boot run the following commands:

[thinclient]$ python -c 'from towerlib import sshconf; sshconf.add_connect_timeout()'
[thinclient]$ rm ~/.profile

v0.6.0

New Features:

• Migration to VNC
  • Sound support
  • Colored headerbar
• Volume keys support (in terminal and labwc)
• Brightness keys support (only in labwc)

Important note
If you are upgrading, you MUST also upgrade the hosts before using tower run.

v0.5.0

New features:

• Tower CLI bash auto-completion.
• Auto-synchronize offline hosts and thinclient time with 'router' time.
• Hosts status in taskbar.
• Lock screen and suspend on lid close.
• Power-off button works.
• TowerOS config file (for wallpaper, screen lock timeout and Labwc autostart).
• Added 2 additional TowerS wallpapers to /var/towercomputers/wallpapers.
• Enable sound in Thin Client.
• Support one RJ45 cable for the Thin Client.
• startw alias.

Documentation:

• Update QA script and usage with new features.
• Improvements and tweaks.

Miscellaneous:

• Use APK to install tower-cli.
• Use doas instead sudo.
• Bugs fixes, code cleaning and tweaks.

v0.4.1

Fix typo in Thin Client installation prompt message: root device instead boot device.

v0.4.0

New features:

• Upgrade to Alpine v3.19.0
• Raspberry PI 5 support
• Faster disk encryption
• Better and nicer status
• man tower
• TowerOS Wallpaper
• Terminal screen locker

Documentation:

• Branding
• NPM installation guide
• Tower CLI manual
• QA Script

Tweaks and bugs fixes.

Migration from v0.2.1

Before starting labwc:

[thinclient]$ python -c 'from towerlib.utils.menu import generate_tower_widget; generate_tower_widget()'

v0.3.0

• Update host alpine version to v3.18
• Improve desktop bar and menu
• Integrate Github workflows: pylint, CodeQL, Bandit, license_scanner
• Fixes, tweaks and code linting

Migration from v0.2.1

Before starting labwc:

[thinclient]$ python -c 'from towerlib.utils.menu import generate_tower_widget; generate_tower_widget()'

v0.2.1

Fixes and tweaks.

see #190

v0.2.0

• Replace xfce4 with wayland, labwc and sfwbar
• Improve documentation and CLI messages
• Add flags: --no-wait, --timeout, --nx-link, --nx-limit, --nx-stream, --nx-data, --nx-cache, --nx-images, --nx-delta
• Copy/paste from host to host
• Randomize router wlan0 mac address
• Code linting
• Tweaks and fixes

v0.1.7

• Bug fixes and tweaks
• Documentation and CLI messages improvements
• Ensure eth0 exists and that it's always eth0
• Add tower update <host> command
• Add 'tower version' command
• Check network before provisioning
• Reorganize ~/.local/tower

v0.1.6

Add support for update in TowerOS installer.