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AppStream 2.0 Agent Version History

The Amazon AppStream 2.0 agent software runs on your streaming instances, enabling end users to connect to and start their streaming applications. Starting December 7, 2017, your streaming instances can be automatically updated with the latest features, performance improvements, and security updates that are available from AWS. Before December 7, 2017, agent updates were included with new base image releases.

To use the latest AppStream 2.0 agent software, you need to rebuild your images by using new base images published by AWS on or after December 7, 2017. When you do this, the option to enable automatic updates of the agent is selected by default in the Image Assistant. We recommend that you leave this option selected so that any new image builder or fleet instance that is launched from your image always uses the latest version of the agent. For more information, see Tutorial: Create a Custom AppStream 2.0 Image.

The following table describes the latest updates that are available in released versions of the AppStream 2.0 agent.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 agent version Description
12-04-2018

  • Adds support for using a Japanese keyboard with web clients that run on Windows

  • Adds support for using the AppStream 2.0 dynamic application framework APIs to build a dynamic app provider

  • Resolves an issue with streaming the same session concurrently on multiple tabs or browsers

  • Includes a fix to make home folders, Google Drive, and OneDrive read-only until mounting is completed

  • Improves the mount time for home folders that are stored on fleet instances connected to an Amazon S3 VPC endpoint

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
11-14-2018

  • Adds support for launching streaming sessions using the AppStream 2.0 Windows client

  • Resolves an issue with opening applications that use environment variables for the fleet user name

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
10-30-2018

  • Resolves an issue with mounting home folders that are larger than 1 GB when application settings persistence is enabled

  • Resolves an issue with image creation when IPv6 is disabled

  • Session information is now provided as environment variables within streaming instances

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
10-24-2018

  • Includes a fix to display more than 1,000 files in the Amazon S3 home folders directory

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
10-01-2018

  • Improves the performance of application settings persistence

  • Includes a fix to unhide all drives on a fleet instance, except Drive C and Drive D, during user streaming sessions that are launched from the instance

  • Resolves an issue with accessing minimized application subwindows from the application switcher

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
08-29-2018

  • Adds support for application settings persistence

  • Resolves an issue with copying and pasting large amounts of data between applications within an AppStream 2.0 streaming session

  • Resolves an issue with accessing unresponsive applications from the application switcher

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
07-26-2018

  • Adds support for OneDrive persistent storage

  • Resolves an issue with saving Visio files to home folders and Google Drive

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
06-19-2018

  • Resolves an issue with optimizing images for application launch

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
06-06-2018

  • Adds support for regional settings and default application and Windows settings

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.619.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2644
05-31-2018

  • Adds support for Google Drive persistent storage

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.392.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2586
05-21-2018

  • Adds support for administrative controls for data transfer

  • Adds support for the Safari browser on macOS X

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.392.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2586
03-19-2018

  • Resolves an issue with minimizing the application window in certain environments

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.160.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.56

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2400.0
01-24-2018

  • Resolves an issue with the Alt Graph key not working on certain keyboard layouts

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.93.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.50

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2262.0
12-07-2017

  • Resolves issues with using ALT key combinations

  • Resolves an issue with file uploads from local computers to streaming sessions

  • Works with these software components:

    • Amazon SSM Agent — 2.2.93.0

    • Amazon WDDM Hook Driver — 1.0.0.21

    • EC2Config service — 4.9.2218.0