2.36.1101
Release 2.36 introduces the following new features:
-
Connect via VPN/Interconnect: In situations where you can't use IAP TCP forwarding, you can now
configure IAP Desktop to directly connect to the private IP address of a VM. You can find the new setting in
the Connection Settings window and you can configure it for individual VMs, zones, or entire projects. (#870) -
Tab coloring: IAP Desktop now uses different tab colors to help distinguish different types of sessions:
- Blue indicates that a session was connected via IAP TCP forwarding
- Gold indicates that a session was connected via VPN/Interconnect
- Plum/purple indicates that a session was initiated from a browser
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Session tooltips: Hovering over a tab now shows information about the session, including the user you
used to authenticate. -
Automatic theme selection: IAP Desktop now automatically selects a theme (light/dark) based on your
Windows settings. -
Credential callbacks: When launching IAP Desktop from a browser, you can now optionally provide a
credential callback URL that IAP Desktop can use to automatically obtain user credentials. (#872)
In addition, the release includes several stability improvements and fixes, including:
- After minimizing and restoring a full-screen RDP session, the window wasn't properly restored. (280783689)
- Opening an
iap-rdp:///
URL didn't work
correctly if you were already connected to the same VM and the IAP Desktop window was minimized. - If you set an operating system filter in the Project Explorer window, the filter was persisted.
This was inconsistent with how other filters worked. (273494372, 280659989) - In some circumstances, launching a second copy of IAP Desktop caused the first copy to fail (280666330, 278929559).
Additional notes:
- Google Cloud is changing the default session length to 16 hours for existing Google Cloud customers. This change affects IAP Desktop and as a result, you might soon have to re-authenticate more often.
- Future releases of IAP Desktop might only be made available for 64-bit versions of Windows.