Citrix Workspace app for Linux 2101 - Technology Preview

Note: This is an Early Access Build shared for the purpose of testing/validation with the intent to make organizations ready for the upcoming release and is NOT advised to be deployed in production environments.

We are excited to share with you the Early Access Release of our next version of Citrix Workspace app for Linux.   

Please provide your feedback here before 26th January 2021.   

What’s new with EAR build:    

App Protection [Experimental] 

Adding Debian package support along with tarball package for App Protection Tech Preview. There will be an interactive prompt during the deb installation as below for getting the user consent on app protection installation. 

The below limitations still stay the same. 

Known Limitations:

1. Screen capture protection will protect whole screen until all the protected apps are closed. 
2. After installation, please restart the machine or it will not work as expected. 

Note: App Protection is applicable to x64 and Armhf distributions 

To know more about the feature see App protection. 

Client Drive Mapping Enhancements 

With this release, Client Selective Trust Enhancement is introduced as an enhancement to client drive mapping. 

With this change you can select the access level for the mapped drive for every store inside a session. 

Teams Optimization Improvements 

With this release 

1. The Citrix Workspace app is now packaged with the Microsoft Teams ringtones. 
2. The audio device gets automatically switched to the default device, thus removing the need to manually change the output device in Teams app. 
3. With this release, support for Dual-Tone Multifrequency (DTMF) signaling interaction with telephony systems (for example, PSTN) and conference calls in Microsoft Teams is available. This feature is enabled by default. 

Fixed Issues   

1. In teams meeting, video gets frozen when switching two cameras 
2. Teams may crash while joining a meeting 

Known Issues    

1. Sporadically, the sign out functionality may fail. 
2. When playing long videos, the audio may stop coming. Please disconnect and reconnect the session in this case. 
3. For Armhf package, when downloading file, download bar appear at top of the page. 
4. Audio may be choppy when on Mute during the Teams call.