Royal TS Beta Release Notes

system · February 19, 2026, 10:29am

Dear Royal TS User!

If a beta release is ready for testing, you can find the download links and release notes below.

To install and run Royal TS using the zip archive:
Extract it to a directory of your choice (do not overwrite an existing installation of Royal TS. If you wish to use the same directory as a previous version, make sure you delete all the files in the destination directory first!) and start RoyalTS.exe

Caution:
It is strongly recommended to make backup copies of your .rtsz/.rtsx files and also backup the files in %appdata%\code4ward

system · May 13, 2026, 2:17pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 11 2026-05-13

General

New

Ability to store KeePass password in Windows Credential Manager

Remote Desktop (Microsoft)

New

Added external process mode using mstsc.exe

New

Added multi-monitor full screen with individual screen selection for external process mode

Remote Desktop (FreeRDP)

New

Complete rewrite of the FreeRDP implementation

New

Process isolation for better stability

VNC (Royal VNC)

New

Complete rewrite of the VNC implementation

New

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) protocol extensions

New

ARD authentication support

New

ARD drag’n’drop file transfer

New

ARD dynamic resolution

New

RealVNC authentication support

New

UltraVNC MS-Logon authentication support

New

Process isolation for better stability

Web Page (Google Chrome)

New

Disable Dark Mode option on the Engine page

Dynamic Folder (PowerShell)

Fixed

Issue when ExecutionPolicy AllSigned is active

system · May 27, 2026, 11:07am

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 12 2026-05-26

General

New

Ability to save and apply searches in the Navigation panel

New

Information object can now also show the Notes in the Dashboard

New

Ability to store KeePass password in Windows Credential Manager

Remote Desktop (Microsoft)

New

KDC proxy support

Terminal (Rebex)

New

Includes Royal Terminal, a fast and modern ghostty based terminal emulator

New

Royal Terminal supports Ligatures, Kitty and Sixel Graphics, and more

New

Custom Terminal (PTY) support to run cmd.exe, powershell.exe or other pseudo-terminals

New

File Browser panel for SSH connections for quick and easy file transfers

New

Optionally follow the current directory in the file browser

Terminal (PuTTY)

New

Updated PuTTY to version 0.84

File Transfer

New

Connection support for Amazon S3 (and compatible services)

New

Graphical SCP file browser (best-effort, requires POSIX)

system · May 29, 2026, 1:20pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 13 2026-05-29

General

Fixed

Ribbon item captions when only tabs are showing

Terminal (Rebex)

Improved

Performance and removed UI lags while connecting

Fixed

Crashes on some x64 systems or VMs not supporting AVX/AVX2/SSE

system · June 17, 2026, 9:40am

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 14 2026-06-16

General

Fixed

Executing a command task using the context menu now works

Terminal (Rebex)

New

ASCII cinema file (.cast file) support for playback in the dashboard

New

Working directory for Custom Terminal on the Advanced page

New

Environment variables for Custom Terminal on the Advanced page

Fixed

RoyalTerminal exit behavior aligned to Rebex terminal control

Fixed

Custom terminal (PTY) recording issue

system · June 25, 2026, 2:04pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 15 2026-06-25

General

Improved

Policy settings are now enforced to prevent saving local documents that contain Credential objects unless the document is password-protected

Fixed

Favorite icon in folder dashboard

Fixed

Installation directory handling when the default path uses %ProgramFiles%

Fixed

Occasional crash when the custom fields and properties menu was refreshed after the selected object was no longer available

Fixed

Rare crash when application is shutting down

Terminal (Rebex)

Improved

RoyalTerminal focus and keyboard handling for Tab, function keys, text input, and reconnect/disconnect scenarios

Improved

RoyalTerminal clear-screen and scrollback preservation behavior

Improved

RoyalTerminal rendering improvements

Fixed

Occasional crash in terminal sessions when text highlighting or search highlighting used custom palette colors

system · July 10, 2026, 2:16pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 16 2026-07-10

General

New

Secure Gateway support for post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation algorithm (mlkem768nistp256-sha256, mlkem1024nistp384-sha384, mlkem768x25519-sha256)

VNC (RoyalVNC)

New

Ability to cycle through displays when connected to UltraVNC server with multiple screens

Fixed

Stretch scaling mode

Terminal (Rebex)

New

SSH support for post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation algorithm (mlkem768nistp256-sha256, mlkem1024nistp384-sha384, mlkem768x25519-sha256)

New

Colors page configuration with RoyalTerminal specific settings

New

RoyalTerminal can now automatically copy selected text to the clipboard when a selection is completed

New

RoyalTerminal now supports Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste

New

RoyalTerminal now supports double-click word selection, triple-click logical line selection, and double-click-drag selection extension by whole words

New

RoyalTerminal now supports Shift+click selection extension and Shift+double-click selection extension by whole words

New

RoyalTerminal page now includes interaction settings and key binding documentation

Fixed

Right-click handling in RoyalTerminal now respects terminal mouse reporting, allowing mouse-aware terminal applications to handle right-clicks

Fixed

AltGr key is now correctly handled in RoyalTerminal

Fixed

RoyalTerminal no longer lets typed characters or Alt key combinations activate property page accelerator keys while the terminal has input focus

Fixed

Asciicast playback now correctly applies RoyalTerminal display/rendering options

File Transfer

New

SFTP/SCP support for post-quantum ML-KEM key encapsulation algorithm (mlkem768nistp256-sha256, mlkem1024nistp384-sha384, mlkem768x25519-sha256)

system · July 24, 2026, 3:10pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 17 2026-07-24

General

New

Royal Server certificate fingerprint warnings can now be shown always, only for invalid certificates, or never.

Fixed

Missing captions on Actions ribbon items when the ribbon is minimized

Improved

Responsiveness when selecting items and updating action commands in management connection dashboards

Remote Desktop (Microsoft)

New

Option to show the Windows credential prompt for embedded Microsoft RDP connections

Fixed

Microsoft Entra ID authentication for RDP connections

Fixed

Clipboard-redirection compatibility for embedded Microsoft RDP connections

Remote Desktop (FreeRDP)

New

Experimental Microsoft Entra ID authentication with inline sign-in

Terminal (Rebex)

New

Option to hide the mouse pointer while typing in Royal Terminal

Fixed

SFTP/SCP connections from SSH connections using replacement tokens

Fixed

Royal Terminal input no longer activates background property-page access keys

Fixed

Royal Terminal paste actions now use paste confirmation, normalize line endings, and exclude virtual trailing cells from copied selections

Terminal (PuTTY)

Fixed

SFTP/SCP connections from SSH connections using replacement tokens

Web Page (Edge)

New

Edge based WebView2 replaces Internet Explorer plugin

Web Page (Google Chrome)

Fixed

Chromium session sharing and browsing-data cleanup for dedicated web page connections

Proxmox

New

Plugin to manage Proxmox VE virtual machines and containers across multiple hosts or clusters, including start, stop, shutdown, reboot, reset, and suspend actions

New

Connect to Proxmox guests using the native VNC console, open the selected guest in the Proxmox web interface with automatic login, or start ad hoc SSH sessions to guests and hosts

New

Proxmox management and connection actions support local execution, Royal Server, and Secure Gateway routing

system · July 25, 2026, 7:52pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 18 2026-07-25

Web Page (Edge)

Fixed

Missing autofill configuration

Fixed

Initial focus issue when a key sequence task is executed

Proxmox

Fixed

Direct connection mode failed due to a missing module

system · July 28, 2026, 2:42pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 19 2026-07-28

Remote Desktop (FreeRDP)

Fixed

Input handling issue which might switch to a Properties tab

VNC (RoyalVNC)

Fixed

Input handling issue which might switch to a Properties tab

Terminal (Rebex)

Fixed

Scrollback buffer configuration issue

Fixed

Duplicate numbers when numpad is used in Royal Terminal

Web Page (Edge)

Fixed

Crash when a web page removes nested frames

PowerShell

Fixed

Support for custom WinRM ports and PowerShell session configurations

Proxmox

Fixed

Clipped icons on 100% DPI screens

Improved

Display of tags

Improved

SSH instance ad hoc connection shows credential picker

system · July 31, 2026, 11:58am

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 20 2026-07-31

Remote Desktop (Microsoft)

New

Support for RD Gateway Pluggable Authentication and Authorization (PAA) using access tokens

Remote Desktop (FreeRDP)

New

Support for Azure Virtual Desktop connections using Microsoft Entra ID authentication

New

Import and direct opening of .rdpw Azure Virtual Desktop workspace files

New

Support for RD Gateway Pluggable Authentication and Authorization (PAA) using access tokens (e.g. CyberArk SIA)

Improved

Certificate validation now verifies Windows trust and the server name according to the configured authentication level

Terminal (Rebex)

Fixed

Black screenshots for RoyalTerminal SSH connections

Web Page (Edge)

Fixed

Auto fill persistence issue when credential is dynamic object or read-only

Web Page (Google Chrome)

Fixed

Auto fill persistence issue when credential is dynamic object or read-only

Proxmox

New

Support for Proxmox API-token authentication

system · August 17, 2026, 8:50am

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 21 2026-08-17

General

Fixed

KeePass file import issue

Fixed

Performance issue that could make the UI unresponsive after loading large dynamic folders

Fixed

Favorite objects could appear without their primary icon in the dashboard and other object lists

VNC (RoyalVNC)

Fixed

Modifier-key shortcuts, including Ctrl combinations, not being forwarded correctly in VNC sessions

Terminal (Rebex)

Fixed

SSH connection freezes through CyberArk PAM by probing File Browser support

Web Page (Edge)

Fixed

Issue where the Secure Gateway section was missing

system · August 19, 2026, 1:54pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 22 2026-08-19

General

Improved

Command-line forwarding reliability

Fixed

Colorized folder icons issue

Fixed

Issue where the Navigation panel could appear empty after changing monitors

Fixed

Crash when opening copied KeePass databases containing duplicate object IDs

Fixed

Crash when opening the Dynamic Folder import page

Fixed

Crash that could occur when repeatedly opening the document selector menu

Fixed

Missing credential details and selection errors in the credential picker

system · August 20, 2026, 2:36pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 23 2026-08-20

General

Fixed

Command-line requests failing with System.InvalidOperationException

system · September 30, 2026, 3:39pm

Royal TS 26.0 Beta 24 2026-09-30

General

New

Option to hide connection tabs while their sessions are external or fullscreen; tabs return when connections are embedded again

New

Windows dropdown on the View ribbon to focus external and fullscreen connections

Improved

Reliability when switching Windows contrast themes

Improved

General form layout and icon usage in dialogs

Improved

QR code display for TOTP MFA credentials

Remote Desktop (Microsoft)

New

Plugin-wide diagnostic logging with configurable log level and file location

Improved

Connection cleanup when disconnecting, reconnecting, or closing tabs

Improved

Removed the option to use the deprecated Microsoft Remote Desktop Client

Remote Desktop (FreeRDP)

New

Plugin-wide diagnostic logging with configurable log level and file location

Fixed

FreeRDP authentication with saved, referenced, inherited, and temporarily overridden RD Gateway settings

Terminal (Rebex)

New

Royal Terminal notifications from supported terminal applications while working elsewhere; click a notification to return to its session

New

Royal Terminal Copy Special menu to copy output with formatting, as HTML source, or with ANSI colors

Improved

More reliable multiline and delayed pasting into terminal applications that support bracketed paste

Improved

Broadcast pasting respects each terminal session’s paste mode and character encoding

Improved

Ability to stop an ongoing delayed paste with CTRL+C

Improved

Royal Terminal text input when using input methods such as Chinese or Japanese

Fixed

Pending pasted text continuing into a reconnected terminal session

Fixed

Royal Terminal keyboard state not resetting correctly when switching focus

Fixed

Royal Terminal selections omitting partially visible rows when copied

Fixed

Royal Terminal initial search result selection, including searches through large histories

Fixed

Royal Terminal scrollback limits when connecting; changes to active sessions take effect after reconnecting

Fixed

Clipboard previews not displaying Unix-style line breaks correctly

Fixed

Multiline paste detection for text with carriage-return-only line breaks

Terminal (PuTTY)

New

Added xterm-style bitmap for Shift/Ctrl/Alt arrow keys

New

Added Xterm 216+ function-key support

Improved

Updated PuTTY to 0.85 with security fixes

Web Page (Edge)

Improved

The Edge web plugin now shows page loading, completion, and failure status in the browser view

Improved

Separate dashboard cookies and login sessions for each connection

Improved

Clear guidance for dashboard previews requiring a proxy or Secure Gateway

Fixed

Find panel visibility when switching tabs or using split views

Fixed

Ribbon actions becoming unavailable or targeting the wrong browser

Fixed

Dashboard previews causing session conflicts with connection tabs

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