Linux Virtual Delivery Agent

What’s new

What’s new in 2402 LTSR

Support for RHEL 8.9, Rocky Linux 8.9, RHEL 9.3, and Rocky Linux 9.3

The Linux VDA now supports the following Linux distributions:

  • RHEL 8.9
  • Rocky Linux 8.9
  • RHEL 9.3
  • Rocky Linux 9.3

For more information, see System requirements.

New .NET version required

Starting with this release, you must install .NET Runtime 8.0 on all supported Linux distributions except RHEL 7.9 and Amazon Linux 2 before you install the Linux VDA. For RHEL 7.9 and Amazon Linux 2, continue to install .NET Runtime 6.0.

If your Linux distribution contains the .NET version that you require, install it from the built-in feed. Otherwise, install .NET from the Microsoft package feed.

Xfce support for RHEL, Rocky Linux, and Ubuntu

You can now use the Xfce desktop environment in the VDA sessions hosted on RHEL 8/9, Rocky Linux 8/9, and Ubuntu 20.04/22.04.

For more information, see System requirements.

Smart card and Federated Authentication Service (FAS) support extended to Quest-joined Linux VDAs

Smart card and FAS support is now also available for the Linux VDAs that are joined to a domain using Quest. This feature is fully tested on RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu distributions that the Linux VDA supports for smart card and FAS authentication.

For more information, see Smart cards and Federated Authentication Service.

Ability to check what dependencies are installed

We have extended the XDPing capabilities so that you can now use XDPing to check what dependencies are installed on the Linux VDA. To do so, run the XDPing executable to display installed dependencies or save installed dependencies to a specific path while displaying them.

For more information, see Tasks that can be done with XDPing.

Support for new Linux streaming target devices

We have extended Linux streaming to the following distributions:

  • SUSE 15.5

For more information, see Create Linux VDAs using Citrix Provisioning and Streaming Linux target devices in the Citrix Provisioning documentation.

Logon duration breakdown

This feature displays the duration of each step that the user logon process takes in Citrix Director and Monitor. It helps you troubleshoot logon issues more effectively. The user logon process is broken down into phases such as HDX connection, Authentication, and GPOs. For more information, see Logon process phases and Linux VM and Linux session metrics.

Dynamic windows preview for published apps

You can now preview the onscreen content in the windows of published apps. For example, you can open multiple windows of Google Chrome sessions using Citrix Workspace app for Windows and then hover over the Chrome icon on the taskbar to preview the content.

The feature depends on the Dynamic windows preview policy that you can set in Citrix Studio. For more information, see Dynamic windows preview and Policy support list.

New and optimized session metric query utilities

This release introduces a new session metric query utility (ctxsession) to align with the Windows VDA and to provide a Windows user experience. With this utility, you can access more session metrics.

This release also optimizes the help information and adds access control for the legacy session metric query utilities including ctxqsession, ctxquser, ctxqfull, and ctxquery. Previously when there was no access control, any logged-in user of the Linux VDA was able to query the metrics of all sessions through one of the tools. Now with access control added, users can query only their own session metrics and only the root and ctxadm group users have permission to query other users’ session metrics.

For more information, see Session metric query utilities.

What’s new in earlier releases

For new features included in the releases that shipped after the 1912 LTSR through the 2311 CR, see What’s new history.

What’s new