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🚀 Remote Utilities 2.0.1 for macOS and Linux is available. It is the first non-beta release of the desktop edition for these platforms, and the first version on the new 2.x numbering.

📝 Release notes | ⬇️Download for macOS | ⬇️Download for Linux

Wayland: unattended access on modern Linux desktops

Remote Utilities 2.0.1 works on Wayland. With the Host installed you get:

- Full remote control of a Wayland desktop. No X11 session required.
- Unattended access: connect to the login screen, to a locked screen, and after a reboot, with nobody at the computer.
- No permission pop-ups on the remote side.
- Mouse cursor, multiple monitors and keyboard shortcuts behave as they do on Windows.
- Nothing to configure. The Host detects the session type on its own; existing X11 setups keep working. The "Set up X11" dialog is gone.

One limitation, so nobody has to discover it the hard way: the Agent (the run-without-installation module) cannot capture the screen in a Wayland session. For Wayland machines, use the Host.

Also in this release

- Interface in 23 languages, selectable in Viewer and Host settings.
- Proxy support (HTTP, SOCKS4/4A, SOCKS5) in Viewer and Host.
- Authentication through your own RU Server, with server selection and a user permissions page in the Host.
- Viewer: event log, license key sync with RU Server, address book import and export (XML), Wake-on-LAN, a remembered monitor per connection, keyboard fixes in the remote session.
- Host: Lock input on Linux, a Restart Host item in the tray menu, a Service state page in Settings.
- macOS: full Retina resolution capture, a tray application that stays out of the Dock, fixes for unsaved settings and for a crash on macOS 27.
- Packages: .deb, .rpm and .tar.xz on Linux (the .rpm has no hard dependencies and installs on RED OS, Astra Linux and ALT Linux); universal, notarized builds on macOS.

Coming from the beta

The version numbering and the file names have changed (details in the closing post of the beta thread). Install 2.0.1 over Beta 27 as a normal upgrade.

⚠️ Known limitations in 2.0.1

- Blank screen mode is not available on the macOS/Linux Host yet.
- Lock input is Linux only.
- Remote update of a macOS/Linux Host from the Viewer is not available yet; it is planned.

Questions and reports about 2.0.1 go in this thread. Thanks again to everyone who tested the betas.