Leostream Corporation today released a significant update to the world-leading Leostream® Remote Desktop Access Platform that adds more features for security, control, performance, and scale-up, plus native support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Platform 2025.1 gives organizations more options for cloud integration, more control of high-performance display protocols, and other benefits that make Leostream the ideal tool for digital workstation management in multi-vendor, multi-cloud/any-cloud and hybrid environments. The new version offers improvements in cloud resource provisioning for better performance and expanded monitoring of virtual machine power states and remote sessions; large enterprises in particular will see immediate benefits provisioning in the cloud at scale.

Key additions to Platform 2025 include:

Complete control for RHEL 9

As organizations transition away from RHEL 8 (now in maintenance support phase until 2029) and standardize on RHEL 9, the updated Leostream Platform Connection Broker and Gateway can both now install and run on RHEL 9 and its derivatives, such as Rocky and Alma Linux. Customers no longer need to use Windows to run the management plane and can manage the underlying Linux operating system based on their standard corporate policies.

Platform 2025.1 now leverages more components of Linux natively, instead of including those packages as part of the platform’s installation process. This allows organizations to apply security patches and upgrades to those components, and the underlying OS, according to their security needs. The RHEL 9 Connection Broker also includes several new security enhancements based on feedback from customers. For example, the Connection Broker now leverages the version of PostgreSQL that is installed by the operating system, instead of including the PostgreSQL package as part of the Leostream RPM. This creates a "postgres" user on the machine, who is the superuser so the “leo” user no longer requires superuser-level permissions.

Because of its extensive changes, the updated Connection Broker requires a new installation rather than an in-app upgrade, but customers can easily migrate their existing Leostream configurations to the new Connection Broker, so the process is fast and simple.

As RHEL 8 nears the end of its lifecycle, existing Leostream Platform deployments on RHEL 8 will be maintained with bug fixes for one year to support customers who need time to plan their upgrades. Future feature work will be performed on the RHEL 9 version only. The RHEL 9 version of the Connection Broker also removes legacy functionality and third-party integrations. Existing Leostream customers using the RHEL 8 version of the Connection Broker can contact Leostream or reference the Leostream Platform Release Notes to learn if they are impacted.

Expanded Features for Amazon Environments

In addition to better support for large-scale cloud provisioning for performance, flexibility, and efficiency, Platform 2025.1 improves the user experience while working with GPU-enabled instances in AWS, which can take longer to power cycle.

Leostream has also added new ways to manage Amazon DCV, the sophisticated display protocol widely used in environments such as high-performance computing (HPC) and imaging/video applications. Platform 2025.1 gives administrators more control over how it establishes the user’s DCV session and can manipulate the DCV permissions for each session.

Expanded identity tracking and session recording

A core feature of the Leostream Platform is enabling organizations to manage identities in their hosted desktop environment. In many deployments, such as large enterprises and educational institutions, generic usernames may be used to log into and access certain resources rather than unique identities—for example, “student1” versus the student’s IT-assigned Active Directory identity of individual username and password.

In these scenarios for Amazon DCV connections, Platform 2025.1 can be configured to map the “student1” user to the username and password that logged into Leostream. This provides an added level of audit tracking, and shows which specific user is accessing resource even with a generic username.

For HTML5 sessions launched through the Leostream Gateway, Platform 2025.1 introduces a new preview feature to record users’ remote sessions. These sessions can then be viewed by administrators to ensure appropriate resource usage and stored for auditing purposes. Existing Leostream customers can contact Leostream to enable this new functionality.

“As large enterprise installations become the rule rather than the exception, it’s imperative that the Leostream Platform continue to rise to the occasion of increasing security, control, performance, and scalability as well as support for the latest and greatest OSes,” said Karen Gondoly, Leostream CEO. “Our engineering team, with the assistance and feedback of our customers, has implemented substantial updates in 2025.1 that enable the most modern and advanced digital workstation management.”

Leostream Platform 2025.1 is available now via solution providers, channel partners, and direct from Leostream; versions for Amazon and Azure marketplaces will follow. Current customers can update at no additional cost.

Leostream channel partners can learn about Platform 2025.1 directly from Leostream experts and access training, sales, and marketing materials in the partner portal at https://partners.leostream.com.

The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform for digital workstation management offers a comprehensive solution for remote access to maintain productivity, control costs, and ensure security with strict authentication and authorization built on zero-trust concepts. Its connection management system eliminates clunky corporate VPNs with an ultra-efficient gateway that gives users access to only the specific resources they have permission to use, automatically, regardless of their location or device. The Leostream Platform shines even in environments that rely on complex, specialty applications like energy and science; large files such as media and entertainment; real-time performance like financial services; and bulletproof network security like government and defense.

About Leostream

Leostream digital workspace management solutions embody over 20 years of Leostream research and development in supporting customers with hosted desktop environments, including VDI, hybrid cloud, and high-performance display protocols. The Leostream high performance Remote Desktop Access Platform provides the world’s most robust digital workspace connection management and remote access feature set, allowing today’s enterprises to choose the best-of-breed components to satisfy their complex security, cost, and flexibility needs while working with them as they evolve into tomorrow. The Leostream Privileged Remote Access service simplifies, secures, and monitors temporary access to corporate resources for vendors, service providers, and external contractors. Follow Leostream on LinkedIn and X.

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