WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more

WinBoat is a popular way to run Windows apps on Linux in a containerized environment that sorts all the configuration for you and a new update sounds great.

An interesting alternative to using the likes of Wine / Proton, to have Windows directly on your device inside Linux with containers. It's all quite clever, especially useful for things that won't run well or at all with Wine. Luckily, I have no need for it but I can see the appeal, far less annoying than dual-booting just for a few select things.

Release v0.9.0 arrived November 23rd with a number of big new features, plus some security improvements and bug fixes.

Here's everything that's changed:

Features:

• 🐳 Podman is now supported, you can pick it during installation, however USB passthrough on Podman is not supported yet
• UWP app support has been added, now you can see and start all your UWP apps
• A Custom App can now be created from an existing one if you'd like to modify it
• Apps can now be filtered
• Apps can now be launched via the context menu
• You can now adjust the Application Scaling in Configuration
• New WinBoat installations will now reserve the port range 47270 - 47370 on Docker for all used services, this is to avoid common ports and port conflicts in the future. In the meantime Podman does not support port ranges in compose files, so we're allocating random ports
• You can now add new or replace any existing FreeRDP arguments in Configuration
• A wm-class prefix has been added for folks who wanna style WinBoat FreeRDP windows in their WM
• Windows will now auto-synchronize the clock on new installations
• The default install path has been set to ~/winboat, of course you can still change it to whatever you prefer
• You can now disable animations within WinBoat if you're sensitive to motion or your compositor doesn't play nicely with Electron

Fixes:

• If you're using a Custom ISO for installation, that ISO will get auto-unmounted afterwards so the next time you start WinBoat with that ISO deleted, it will work properly
• Fixed the CPU usage spiking when RDP monitoring is enabled
• Corrected a few typos

Misc:

• dockur/windows version upgraded to 5.14
• All WinBoat ports are now bound by default to 127.0.0.1
• Improved the security of the Guest Server (thanks @mrsheepsheep and @matt0x00)

Source: GitHub