What are the functional differences between the various Citrix Receiver versions integrated in IGEL Linux 5.x and 10.x?



Feature

Citrix

Receiver 12

Citrix

Receiver 13.1

Citrix

Receiver 13.2

Citrix

Receiver 13.3

Citrix

Receiver 13.4

Citrix

Receiver 13.5

Citrix

Receiver 13.6

Citrix

Receiver 13.8

COM Port Redirection

Kerberos Passthrough Support in Web Interface (up to Citrix Server 6.5)

✓ (4)

✓ (4)

✓ (4)

✓ (4)

✓ (4)

Kerberos Passthrough Support in StoreFront (Citrix Server 7.x)









User & Password Passthrough Support

Drive Mapping

Digital Dictation

Printer Mapping

HDX Ready

HDX Premium


✓ (1)

✓ (1)

✓ (1)

✓ (1)

✓ (1)

✓ (1)

✓ (1)

Smartcard Redirection

StoreFront Support


Support for StoreFront 3.0 Features



StoreFront Legacy Mode

Password Change up to Citrix Server 6.5

Password Change Citrix Server 7.x

XenDesktop Appliance Mode

HTTP Connection Support

✓ (3)

✓ (3)

✓ (3)

✓ (3)

✓ (3)

✓ (3)

✓ (3)

HTTPS Connection Support

(1) For H.264 Hardware Decoding, refer to this How-To.

(2) No H.264 Hardware Decoding

(3) No StoreFront Support

(4) Not on IGEL Linux 10.x


Citrix Receiver 13.0.x, 13.1.x, 13.2.x, 13.3.x, 13.4.x and 13.5.x on Linux only support StoreFront connections via HTTPS while the Citrix server's default setting is HTTP in most cases - so the connection will fail. You have to enable HTTPS connections on Citrix server and you have to make sure the thin client has a valid root certificate of the Certificate Authority (CA) available! A best practice document on how to distribute the certificate is available in the IGEL Knowledge Base: Deploying Trusted Root Certificates


Citrix Receiver 13.0 does currently not support Kerberos authentication.


Citrix Receiver 13.1 supports Kerberos passthrough authentication only with XenApp 6.5 or older.



Users can only change their expired password if this option has been enabled on the Citrix server.


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