VNC 4.0 Beta 4

[James ''Wez'' Weatherall]

RealVNC is pleased to announce a new public beta release of VNC 4.0.  VNC
4.0 is a complete redesign of the VNC system, but maintains backwards
compatibility with the old VNC 3 releases.

This release still omits a couple of features found in VNC 3.3.  In all
other respects it is not anticipated to differ substantially from the first
full VNC 4.0 release.  Beta 4 is believed to be stable on all supported
platforms, resolving issues found with the Beta 3 release.

New on all platforms:
- Additional colour levels for slow links
- Better colours on 8-bit palettized viewers
- Improved local cursor rendering
- Remote cursor movement visible even when local cursor is in use

New Unix features:
- Build fixes for several platforms
- Support for "-localhost" option in Xvnc

New Windows features:
- Saving of ".vnc" connection options files
- Support for Windows XP themes

Binaries and source can be downloaded from the RealVNC website at
http://www.realvnc.com/4.0b4-download.html

Documentation and notes on this release can be found at
http://www.realvnc.com/v4

Please direct bug reports for this release to v4bugs@realvnc.com.

Enjoy!

The VNC Team


--- Notes from the previous VNC 4.0 Beta 3 release

New features on all platforms:
- Local cursor rendering
- New Java viewer
- Improved performance
- Dynamic desktop resizing

New Unix features:
- Support for remoting the X11 console
- Xvnc is now based on the XFree86 4 X server
- Compatibility with a wider range of Unix platforms and features

New Windows features:
- Support for multiple monitors
- New keyboard handling code
- Simpler configuration system