.. title:: What's new in Kasm 1.8.0

What's new in Kasm 1.8.0
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Features
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- SSH Keys are now generated for all users by default. When the **inject_ssh_keys** `Group Setting <../guide/groups.html#group-settings>`_ is enabled, the users SSH Private and Public Key are added to each new Kasm session. Users can update their profile with a new SSH keypair.
- Added support for :doc:`Custom Branding <../how_to/branding>`.
- Added **Same Site Cookie Policy** `Server Setting <../guide/settings.html#authentication>`_ to assist Kasm deployments that are embedded on other domains in iframes.
- Added the ability to :doc:`Disable Users <../guide/users>`
- Added the ability to customize the **Notice Title** for the custom login banner. See :doc:`Login Configurations <../guide/login>` for more details.
- Added a **Chat Sound Effects** user preference. Users can disable the the sound effects that play when new users join a session or when chat messages are sent.
- Expanded the Developer API
    - Added APIs to create / update / retrieve / delete Users.
    - Added APIs to list images.
    - Added APIs to add and remove users to groups.
    - Added APIs to generate a login link for a user.
    - Added **Session Component Control** to the :doc:`Kasm API <../developers/developer_api>` allowing developers to disabled certain visual elements when programmatically loading a session.
- Updated Image :ref:`pull_behavior` to better account `DockerHub Pull Rate Limiting <https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/download-rate-limit/>`__
    - Agents will pull Images immediately if they do not have an existing copy if the image locally.
    - Agents will issue a pull on existing images once per hour, up from the previous default of every 5 minutes.
- Updated session management to allow a users to be logged in from multiple browsers at once. Users are given an option to log out of all browsers (sessions) when logging out.


Bugfixes
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- Fixed issue where clipboard menu would be disabled if either **allow_kasm_clipboard_up** or **allow_kasm_clipboard_down** group setting was disabled.
- The Sessions list and Dashboard previously didn't display the number of days a Kasm session may have been alive.