VNC Personal Edition 4.1 - release notes

VNC Personal Edition 4.1.3

General Features and Improvements from VNC Personal Edition 4.1.3

  • FIXED: VNC Viewer alerting the user to errors in unauthenticated reverse connections.

VNC Personal Edition for Windows Changes

  • Trial license period increased to 14 days.
  • FIXED: Potential socket-leak in both server & viewer in some circumstances.
  • FIXED: VNC Viewer fails to restore from Minimized when scrollbars are in use.
  • FIXED: VNC Config fails to update NT Authentication settings on Apply.

VNC Personal Edition for Java Changes

  • VNC Viewer for Java signature has been updated.

VNC Personal Edition 4.1.2

General Features and Improvements from VNC Personal Edition 4.1.1

  • Server identities are now verified based on supplied hostname, rather than their address.
  • HTTP server (used to serve VNC Viewer for Java) is now non-blocking.
  • Preliminary support for IPv6.
  • Optimised desktop resize/switch handling.
  • Optimised timer subsystem.
  • FIXED: Viewer crash when receiving excessively large cursor for local cursor rendering.

VNC Personal Edition for Windows Changes

  • Viewer scale-to-window snaps to actual size of desktop when resizing.
  • Server Relative Pointer Motion improved to be compatible with cursor-warping applications.
  • Server now handles dynamic keyboard layout changes within applications.
  • Keyboard input now supports languages using non-ISO-Latin-1 characters, e.g. Hebrew.
  • FIXED: Server not removing desktop wallpaper until after initial screen update.
  • FIXED: Viewer failure to restore to full-screen mode after Show the Desktop used.
  • FIXED: Viewer Scale to Window failure to Preserve Aspect Ratio on first use.
  • FIXED: Viewer unable to continue connecting when .vnc file contains mismatched identity.
  • FIXED: Viewer F8 menu ticks becoming out of date.
  • FIXED: Viewer hang when second viewer run using New Connection option.
  • FIXED: Viewer crash when clipboard changes while AutoReconnect dialog displayed.
  • FIXED: Various listening viewer bugs, including reloading of defaults & listener shutdown.
  • FIXED: Problems loading password-less VNC 3 configuration files.

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