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Royal TS 26.0
Public beta now available
Royal TS 26.0 will be the next major release and is now
available as public beta.
For information about the major new features in this release,
please see the dedicated section below.
Because Royal TS 26.0 will be a major upgrade it will require a new license key once the stable release is out. Customers with active software maintenance receive a free upgrade key. During the beta phase you can continue using your Royal TS V7 key.
To prevent potential data loss, please always create backups for your documents and for your %appdata%\code4ward folder before installing beta releases!
Major new features
More features will be added during the beta-phase
Application
- Ability to save and apply searches in the Navigation panel
- Information object can now also show the Notes in the Dashboard
- Ability to store KeePass password in Windows Credential Manager
- Configurable Royal Server certificate fingerprint warnings: always, only for invalid certificates, or never
- Secure Gateway support for post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation algorithm (mlkem768nistp256-sha256, mlkem1024nistp384-sha384, mlkem768x25519-sha256)
- Many localization updates
- Many performance and stability improvements
Remote Desktop
Microsoft
- Added external process mode using mstsc.exe
- Added multi-monitor full screen with individual screen selection for external process mode
- KDC proxy support
- Option to show the Windows credential prompt for embedded Microsoft RDP connections
Remote Desktop
FreeRDP
- Complete rewrite of the FreeRDP implementation
- Process isolation for better stability
- Experimental Microsoft Entra ID authentication with inline sign-in
File Transfer
FTP, SFTP, SCP and S3
- Connection support for Amazon S3 (and compatible services)
- SFTP/SCP support for post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation algorithm (mlkem768nistp256-sha256, mlkem1024nistp384-sha384, mlkem768x25519-sha256)
- Graphical SCP file browser (best-effort, requires POSIX)
Web
Microsoft Edge
- Edge-based WebView2 plugin replaces the legacy Internet Explorer plugin
- Improved WebView2 session isolation, browsing-data cleanup, proxy and client-certificate handling, downloads, and navigation recovery
Web
Google Chrome
- Disable Dark Mode option on the Engine page
- Royal Passwords context menu for inserting usernames, passwords, and MFA codes into editable fields
- Improved isolated-session sharing, browsing-data cleanup, proxy handling, and client-certificate behavior
Terminal
Rebex / Royal Terminal
- Includes Royal Terminal, a fast and modern ghostty based terminal emulator
- Royal Terminal supports Ligatures, Kitty and Sixel Graphics, and more
- RoyalTerminal can now automatically copy selected text to the clipboard when a selection is completed
- RoyalTerminal now supports Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste
- RoyalTerminal now supports double-click word selection, triple-click logical line selection, and double-click-drag selection extension by whole words
- RoyalTerminal now supports Shift+click selection extension and Shift+double-click selection extension by whole words
- RoyalTerminal page now includes interaction settings and key binding documentation
- Colors page configuration with RoyalTerminal specific settings
- Option to hide the mouse pointer while typing in Royal Terminal
- Royal Terminal ASCII cinema (
.cast) file playback in the Dashboard - Custom Terminal (PTY) support to run cmd.exe, powershell.exe or other pseudo-terminals
- Initial working directory support for Custom Terminal
- Support for environment variables with replacement token support in Custom Terminal
- File browser panel for SSH connections for quick and easy file transfers
- Optionally follow the current directory in the file browser
- SSH support for post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation algorithm (mlkem768nistp256-sha256, mlkem1024nistp384-sha384, mlkem768x25519-sha256)
VNC
Royal VNC
- Complete rewrite of the VNC implementation
- Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) protocol extensions
- ARD authentication support
- ARD screen selection support
- ARD drag’n’drop file transfer
- ARD dynamic resolution
- RealVNC authentication support
- UltraVNC MS-Logon authentication support
- Ability to cycle through displays when connected to UltraVNC server with multiple screens
- Process isolation for better stability
Management
Proxmox VE
- Manage virtual machines and containers across multiple hosts or clusters
- Start, stop, shut down, reboot, reset, and suspend Proxmox instances
- Connect to guests using the native VNC console
- Open the selected guest in the Proxmox web interface with automatic login
- Start ad hoc SSH sessions to Proxmox guests and hosts
- Support for local execution, Royal Server, and Secure Gateway routing
