Development changes

September 5, 2026

• Platforms: Android
• Added MyDeskViewer two-factor authentication (MFA/2FA) support to the Android client.
• Google and email/password sign-in now stop at the MFA challenge when two-factor authentication is enabled for the account.
• Android sign-in accepts both six-digit authenticator codes and one-time recovery codes before creating the local API session.
• Added Android account controls to check MFA status and enable or disable two-factor authentication.
• MFA setup can open an installed authenticator through the otpauth URI and also provides the manual setup key as a fallback.
• Recovery codes can be copied or shared/saved from the Android setup flow.
• The Android client can show the post-login MFA setup suggestion and dismiss it through the same account API used by the desktop client.
• Platforms: Linux
• Added full MyDeskViewer two-factor authentication (MFA/2FA) support to the Avalonia Linux client.
• Google and email/password sign-in now detect MFA challenges before any local authenticated session is saved.
• Linux sign-in accepts six-digit authenticator codes and one-time recovery codes, and stores the API session only after successful MFA verification.
• Added Linux 2FA account settings with status checking, enable, disable, TOTP setup, and recovery-code handling.
• MFA setup can open the otpauth URI through the Linux desktop and also provides a copyable manual setup key as a fallback.
• Added post-login MFA setup suggestion support using the same account API as the Android client.
• MFA secrets, authenticator codes, and recovery codes are not written to Linux application logs.
• Reworked the Linux startup/account screen to better match the Windows MyDeskViewer layout on smaller displays.
• Reduced the unused top spacing and made the main card more compact so the complete startup UI remains visible inside the fixed-size window.
• Widened the primary Login with account action and explicitly centered button labels and status/account text.
• Improved Machine ID and Copy alignment and centered the Copy button content.
• Moved Settings outside the vertical startup card into an independent bottom-right action so it no longer pushes the main content downward.

September 3, 2026

• Platforms: Windows
• Added an Explorer selection fallback for file Copy operations that temporarily expose only the internal component clipboard marker instead of Module 2 format.
• Physical files and folders selected in the active Explorer window are now resolved through Module 3 when standard clipboard formats are unavailable.
• Resolved Explorer file paths are cached by native clipboard sequence so later local-to-remote Paste and remote-to-local file requests can use the same payload even after RemoteWindow becomes foreground.
• Improved clipboard and file-transfer reliability.
• Remote-to-local FILE Copy now keeps metadata only until the user actually pastes on the host computer.
• Ctrl+V with a pending remote FILE copy captures the current Explorer destination and starts the existing file transfer directly into that folder.
• Direct Explorer paste no longer requires a temporary clipboard-cache copy before the destination file appears.
• A narrowly scoped host paste hook intercepts only Ctrl+V while the newest clipboard candidate is a remote FILE; all unrelated keyboard input passes through untouched.
• Improved the fallback path for file Paste outside Explorer.
• Added live cross-machine IMAGE clipboard payload transfer for Windows.
• Clipboard images are normalized to PNG for transport while Copy detection still accepts supported native image formats, PNG, and desktop framework bitmap sources.
• Local-to-remote IMAGE Paste now transfers the PNG payload, applies it to the active remote user's Windows clipboard, waits for acknowledgement, and then sends the remote Ctrl+V.
• Remote-to-local IMAGE Copy now prefetches the image payload into the local Windows clipboard so normal host Paste works without a separate file-style staging step.
• Platforms: Windows, Server/Linux
• Improved image clipboard compatibility with Windows applications.
• Improved internal clipboard diagnostics and compatibility.
• IMAGE Paste no longer leaves delayed-rendered desktop framework clipboard objects owned by MyDeskViewer after the transfer completes.
• Added account-wide clipboard preferences with synchronization enabled by default.
• Added Settings controls for Enable clipboard synchronization and Always show desktop notification on Copy.
• Clipboard synchronization can now be disabled without affecting normal native Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V inside the remote computer.
• Desktop balloons are now optional and limited to Copy events; RemoteWindow keeps user-facing Copy/Paste status overlays.
• Replaced clipboard revision/type debug text in user-facing notifications with concise text/file/image Copy and Paste messages.
• Added compact Select all, Copy, and Paste buttons at the start of the RemoteWindow toolbar before Files.
• Shortened toolbar labels to Cover, Reboot, Console, and Block input.
• Moved the connection Quality control to the far right after Tools.
• Platforms: Android
• Added explicit Android edge-to-edge safe-area handling for the system status and navigation bars.
• The top system status area now uses the MyDeskViewer green background with light system icons.
• The bottom Android navigation area now uses the dark session background and the app content is inset above it so controls no longer sit under the system navigation bar.
• Updated the WindowInsets listener signature to match nullable AndroidX interface annotations without warning suppression.
• Remote ON/OFF is now available without signing in to a MyDeskViewer account.
• Account sign-in remains optional for remote phone access and is still used for saved computers and account-backed features.
• Replaced the per-installation eViewUpdate.type marker and legacy text update-type files with a machine-wide ProgramData update-settings.json file.
• Update preference and installed update type are now stored together under [internal path] module so MyDeskViewer and MyDeskViewerSvc use the same values before and after user logon.
• Existing eViewUpdate.type, update-type.txt, and installed-update-type.txt values are migrated automatically and removed after the JSON settings file is saved successfully.
• The update apply script now writes the machine-wide JSON only after a successful file apply and no longer recreates eViewUpdate.type in the application directory.
• Removed MySqlConnector completely from the shared evilsoft library and therefore from the MyDeskViewer/MyDeskViewerSvc Windows runtime dependency graph.
• MySqlConnector.dll will disappear from future published update manifests; the existing updater cleanup removes stale local copies.
• Excluded the unused legacy PsExec-like one-shot service launcher from MyDeskViewerSvc, including its temporary CreateService/StartService/DeleteService flow and --psexec-system-run command mode.
• MyDeskViewerSvc now reuses the existing eViewCore ProcessInstanceGuard implementation for sender process/session detection and cleanup instead of compiling a second local implementation.
• Current pre-login and logged-in sender startup continues through InteractiveSystemProcess, so Windows service startup behavior is unchanged.
• Improved the Windows application/tray version label to show a friendly update channel and runtime instead of the raw Beta/net8 text.
• Version labels now use Stable channel or Beta channel together with .NET 8.0 or .NET 9.0, for example: 2026.9.3.2207 • Beta channel • .NET 8.0.

September 2, 2026

• Platforms: Windows
• Added a persistent Windows machine ID cache so the service keeps the same identity before login and after reboot.
• Unified machine ID resolution between the Windows UI, background sender, and Windows service startup.
• Replaced the Windows clipboard legacy helper brokers with native Windows clipboard handling.
• Removed global Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V low-level keyboard hooks from the Windows client clipboard path.
• Clipboard synchronization now reacts to actual Windows clipboard changes while a remote session is active.
• Remote clipboard changes are prefetched into the local Windows clipboard so normal Paste works in other applications.
• Replaced legacy-helper-based Explorer paste-target detection with in-process Windows and Module 3 handling.
• Rebuilt Windows clipboard synchronization around two independent internal module buffers for text and files, with the last copied type becoming the active paste source.
• Local Windows clipboard changes are now captured through Module 2 event without monitoring global keyboard input.
• Remote Copy now fetches the full remote clipboard payload immediately and mirrors it into the local Windows clipboard.
• Remote Paste now uses the active internal module text/file buffer and falls back to the remote Windows clipboard when the internal module buffer is empty.
• Remote file paste now stages files and applies Module 2 format through the native active-user clipboard before sending the remote Paste shortcut.
• Improved clipboard access for background and service sessions.
• Remote clipboard changes made through Explorer or context menus are detected from the active user clipboard instead of key events.
• Windows tray balloons are limited to short Copied feedback; clipboard and file-transfer status remains inside the RemoteWindow overlay.
• Improved internal clipboard diagnostics and compatibility.
• MyDeskViewer now observes local Windows Copy events continuously and classifies only text or file clipboard data.
• Active remote sessions now exchange clipboard Copy metadata only; this phase does not transfer clipboard payloads or execute Paste actions.
• RemoteWindow Copy now forwards the real remote Copy shortcut and waits for the remote internal module clipboard event instead of requesting a clipboard payload snapshot.
• RemoteWindow Paste is temporarily diagnostic-only and reports the newest known clipboard candidate without modifying either computer.
• Improved the Windows release signing and publishing workflow.
• Improved file and image Copy detection through an internal compatibility module.
• Kept text and image clipboard classification unchanged while giving file payloads priority over image and text representations.
• The uploader now starts automatically after resolving the marker while preserving the existing Normal-to-Beta synchronization behavior.
• Enabled phase-two live Windows clipboard Paste for text and files while keeping image payload transfer deferred.
• Remote Copy now prefetches text and file payloads into the local Windows clipboard so normal local Paste works outside RemoteWindow.
• RemoteWindow Paste now sends local text/files to the target and waits for clipboard-apply acknowledgement before issuing the remote Ctrl+V shortcut.
• Copy and Paste inside the same remote session now use the remote Windows clipboard directly without retransferring the payload.
• Added a private MyDeskViewer clipboard marker so programmatically mirrored clipboard writes are ignored by Module 2 event and do not become false local Copy revisions or feedback loops.
• Improved an internal module while keeping the public behavior unchanged.
• Image Copy remains fully classified and revisioned in local and remote metadata; cross-machine image payload transport is intentionally deferred to the next phase.
• File Copy classification can now resolve filesystem paths through Module 3 before falling back to raw Module 2 format.
• Extended event-scoped clipboard retries for unresolved Explorer internal component copies to observe delayed file-format materialization up to roughly 1.8 seconds after the clipboard event.

September 1, 2026

• Platforms: Windows, Android
• Added a default connection quality setting with Auto and fixed P1-P10 profiles.
• Automatic stream quality now keeps one profile of safety headroom below the confirmed stable ceiling.

August 25, 2026

• Platforms: Windows, Server/Linux
• Added per-machine unattended access with an optional local approval prompt.
• Incoming access prompts now show the authenticated remote user's name.