PyRDP Files

Release Highlights

• PyPI pre-built packages for Linux, Windows and macOS (easier installation)
• Ported to QT6
• Docker images based on Ubuntu 22.04

Full list of changes follows.

Backwards Compatibility Changes

• All tools lost their .py suffix. For example, pyrdp-mitm.py is now pyrdp-mitm.
• Requires Python 3.7
• master Docker container tag renamed devel (master-slim to devel-slim)
• The log field sessionID changed format from <firstname><100000-999999> to <adjective>_<name>_<1000000-9999999> (#458)
• Stolen clipboard files are now stored hashed under the files/ hierarchy without sessionId and linked from filesystems/<sessionID>/clipboard/ hierarchy (#338)
• Python project name is now pyrdp-mitm since pyrdp was taken on PyPI (#456)

Enhancements

• Pre-built binaries available on PyPI for Linux, Windows and macOS! (#451)
• PyRDP now runs with QT6 which is better supported than QT5 nowadays (#436, [#453])
• Support for RDP version 10.11 (#433)
• Support for Python 3.11 by updating PyAV to get pre-built binary wheels (#437, [#438])
• MITM start and termination log messages are now part of the JSON logs (#447)
• Docker images are now based on Ubuntu 22.04 and dependencies were minimized (#455)
• Documented how to run pyrdp-convert through a Docker container (#455)
• Fixed sessionID duplication caused by a bad name library and added an extra digit (#458, [#460])
• Stolen clipboard files are deduplicated (via hashing) just like mapped drives files (#338, [#462])

Bug fixes

• JSON logging of files captured via the clipboard was fixed (#441)
• Fixed support for Windows on Python 3.8+ (#316, [#439], [#444])
• Updated Twisted's minimum version to 23 (#316, [#455])
• Added more missing dependencies for the GUI on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (#448)
• Fixed installation issue on Windows with Python 3.11 (#436)

Infrastructure

• Project packaging modernized, getting rid of pkg_resources deprecation warnings (#416, [#440])
• Added Python 3.10 tests on Windows to CI test configuration (#439)
• Then replaced Python 3.10 with Python 3.11 for CI test configuration (#438)
• Also added Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and Python 3.12 in CI test configurations (#455)
• Using cibuildwheel for cross-platform and cross-python builds Windows, Linux, macOS (#451)
• Deprecation cleanup in CI (#452)
• Updated our dependencies to the latest stable versions (#454)
• Renamed master branch to main (#450, [#459])

Credits

Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release:

@kszafran, Mason Shi (@Mas0nShi), Olivier Bilodeau (@obilodeau) and @plonxyz