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The December 2020 Turbo Server release includes the following major new features:
- Workspace items can now be grouped into Channels with customizable user and group permissions. Channels are ideal for assigning entitlements to specific classes, teams or departments. Channels are listed on the Portal Dashboard to permitted users.
- New Web Application and Link item types can now be added to workspaces, allowing users to open configurable URLs in a virtual browser sessions or in their native browser.
- New Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) integration allows students and instructors to access course applications directly within Canvas and other LTI-compliant Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Other improvements include:
- Google LDAP authentication is now supported.
- New Enable Drive Redirection setting configures the visibility of mapped drives when streaming remote applications.
- New Ticket Expiration Time setting configures the expiration time for user logins.
- New Up Time statistics and a Reboot Server action have been added to the Server Diagnostics page.
- OCSP Stapling has been enabled to improve SSL certificate verification.
- SSL certificate fields now allow .PEM file extensions.
- New Application Type selector has been added to the Repository Settings page.
- The workspace permissions form now supports user and group search.
- Streaming settings now update the application server's local group policies and no longer require a server restart.
- Broker resource allocation strategy allows falling back to unresponsive but potentially functional application servers.
- Portal authentication recovers faster when the API service restarts or has connectivity issues.
- The Last Modified Date is now preserved in Server log archives.
- Improved service user database permission checks during server installation
This update includes fixes for the following issues:
- HTML5 client text input lost when running Powershell and Xencenter.
- The Test button on the administration site uses cached application settings under certain circumstances.