We’re excited to announce that Fluid 2.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) is now available on beta channels.

Here's what's new in RC1 since Beta 4:

• Fixed microphone redirection not working correctly.
• Resolved a memory leak in Jump Desktop Connect with Fluid 2.0 connections.
• Fluid 2.0 encoder has been tuned to use up to 50% less bandwidth than Fluid 2.0 Beta 4.
• Plus, lots of other bug fixes.

Also, here's what's new in Fluid 2.0. Check the previous announcements for full details on Beta 1 and Beta 2:

• Superior Compression & Improved Color Fidelity: 50% better visuals with reduced bandwidth.
• Studio-quality color accuracy, crisper text and richer visuals, with 4:4:4 mode support for everyone and 10-bit color for Teams Enterprise customers.
• Networking Enhancements: Faster recovery from bandwidth drops and improved scalability. AES 256 encryption.
• Surround Sound: 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound support for Teams Enterprise users. 
• Dynamic Audio Input Switching: Seamless switching between audio sources during sessions.
• Web-Based Remote Desktop: Connect from any browser without needing a native client (yes, it supports Android!).
• Full backwards compatibility with older versions of Jump Desktop and Jump Desktop Connect.

How do I download updates?

Enable Beta updates for Jump Desktop Connect / Mac / Windows and check for updates.

To start using Fluid 2.0 you will need to have Jump Desktop 9.x locally and Jump Desktop Connect 7.x on the host machine. RC1 is now rolling out to the Jump Desktop Mac and Windows Beta channel and Jump Desktop for Windows Beta channels. Jump Desktop Connect updates will follow before the end of the week to beta channels.

Introducing Fluid 2.0!

We are excited to announce the release of Fluid 2.0 Beta 1. This update represents a significant leap forward from Fluid 1.0 with a major rewrite of the internal architecture.

Here’s what’s new:

• Fluid 2.0
• Networking Enhancements
• Surround Sound
• Dynamic Audio Input Switching
• Web-Base High Performance Remote Desktop and Screen Sharing
• How to start testing Fluid 2.0 Beta 

Fluid 2.0

Experience improved performance with Fluid 2.0, designed to support more colors and deliver faster speeds on modern hardware such as Apple Silicon and contemporary PCs.

1. Superior Color Fidelity: Fluid 2.0 offers up to 50% better color fidelity than Fluid 1.0. This means richer and more vibrant visuals, making your remote sessions look better than ever.
2. Enhanced Visual Clarity: You'll enjoy sharper, clearer images and videos without any increase in data usage. Fluid 2.0 provides up to 50% more visual clarity using the same bandwidth as Fluid 1.0. 
3. Support for 4:4:4 and 10bit color: Delivers incredible color accuracy and detail, giving you a truly crisp, studio-quality experience right on your remote desktop.
4. Advanced Compression: Optimized for both productivity applications and full-motion video, Fluid 2.0 delivers smoother and more detailed visuals. This ensures a better experience whether you're working on documents or streaming videos.
5. Support for Newer Codecs: Fluid 2.0 supports newer codecs with the ability to move to full hardware-based encoding and decoding. We will announce new features for this soon.
6. Backwards Compatibility: The clients and Connect apps are fully backwards compatible with older versions of the client or Jump Desktop Connect, ensuring a seamless upgrade without any worries.

Fluid 2.0 is enabled by default when connecting to Jump Desktop Connect 7.x or later. However, you can switch back to Fluid 1.0 via the menu option (Remote -> Codec).

Read more about 4:4:4 and 10bit color support here.

Networking Enhancements

Our revamped networking stack makes Jump more resilient to networking errors. It adapts to and recovers much quicker from bandwidth problems, and scales up faster to higher bandwidth connections.

Surround Sound

Teams Enterprise customers can now enjoy built-in support for 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound. The new Mac audio driver can handle up to 8 channels of audio. On Windows, it will automatically stream up to 8 channels if the host machine is set to use 8 channels. Clients will intelligently down-mix or up-mix as needed, making it perfect for tasks like video editing, gaming, and immersive audio experiences. A new Fluid performance stat called AudioChannels shows the maximum number of channels being streamed from the remote machine.

Dynamic Desktop Audio Input Switching

Switch desktop audio inputs at run-time. This allows you to change your audio setup without interrupting your session, providing flexibility and convenience.

Web-Based High-Performance Remote Desktop and Screen Sharing

1. Fluid 2.0 now supports connecting to machines directly from any web browser! You don't need to download a native client anymore. Experience zero friction, high performance remote desktop and screen sharing straight from your web browser. Simply log into your account at https://app.jumpdesktop.com, click My Computers and then click the computer to connect. Any computers running Jump Desktop Connect 7.0, and computers that you have access to will be listed there. Simply click to connect!

2. When Jump Desktop Connect 7.x is installed on the host machine, screen sharing links, users will see an option to connect via a native app or directly from their web browser:

3. Teams users will see Connect buttons with drop-downs where they can select the native app or web browser experience.

Tips: For best performance use Chrome or Edge. Don't worry, we will be optimizing for Safari and Firefox performance as we progress in the beta.

Downloads

These new features require Jump Desktop Connect 7.0 and new versions of Jump Desktop for Windows, iOS and Mac. At the moment these releases need to be downloaded manually. Over the coming weeks, we will be rolling this out to the beta channel. 

Enable Beta updates for Jump Desktop Connect / Mac / Windows and check for updates.

Jump Desktop for iOS 9.8.0 was released today to the App Store. This release has bug fixes and improves compatibility with the latest version of iOS.

We’re excited to announce that Jump Desktop for iOS 9.7.8 is now available! This new version includes optimizations for iOS and iPadOS 16, Retina support for Fluid connections and bug fixes.

Jump Desktop for iOS is available now from the App Store.

Jump Desktop for iOS 9.6.8 has the following changes:

• We've reverted back to the old Jump Desktop icon. Thank you everyone for the feedback! We're going back to the drawing board.
• In the last update we added the ability to lock the physical mouse cursor. In this update we've added support for customizing pointer acceleration and speed when the mouse cursor is locked. Adjust these settings in: Settings -> Mouse & Gestures -> Physical Mouse.
  
• Support for Cloudless Fluid connections
• Physical keyboard fixes
• Stability

In iOS 9.6.7 we added iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 compatibility. Also:

• We've updated to the new Jump Desktop icon. Let us know if you like it.
• We've added a new gaming gesture profile for Fluid! You can now control 3D first person games and 3D graphics applications by switching gesture profiles: Connect to a machine using Fluid and then tap the three dots at the top -> Settings icon -> Gesture Profiles -> Trackpad (Gaming) profile. This works with a physical mouse too!
• New Mouse Pointer Lock for iPadOS 14+ when using a physical mouse: This new feature makes it easier to use a physical mouse. It lets you lock the mouse pointer so that it always remains inside the remote screen. This way you don't have to worry about accidentally invoking the home screen bar or clicking on iPad's native UI buttons. To start using this feature open up Jump Desktop -> Settings -> Mouse and Gestures -> Lock Mouse Pointer -> ON. Quickly toggle this feature from the physical keyboard using the following shortcut: Cmd + Shift + P.
• Up to 2X Performance improvements for Fluid on newer iOS devices.
• Lots of bug fixes and stability work.