Parallels Desktop 19.4.1

What's new in this version:

Parallels Desktop 19.4.1
- Addresses overall stability and performance issues


Parallels Desktop 19.4.0
General:
- Adds OS badge to app icons displayed in macOS Spotlight search results, a helpful visual cue that tells you exactly which app you are about to launch
- Fixes the issue of USB devices not showing up correctly in virtual machines when connected to USB 2.0 ports. The fix requires macOS 14.5 beta or newer installed on your Mac.
- Introduces a new way to run Microsoft SQL Server for your development or learning needs. To learn more, read our KB article here.

Windows 11:
- Brings the redesigned version of shared Mac folders which are now symlinks, which act like pointers to the files in your Mac folders while still appearing to be located on the Windows’s local disk. To learn more, read our KB article here.
- Fixes the issue that prevented NinjaTrader from starting correctly due to a shared folder issue.
- Fixes the issue that prevented Mathematica and other apps from running correctly due to a shared folder issue.
- Fixes the issue that prevented a Windows 11 virtual machine from installing correctly if the user attempted to open a .exe file on their Mac during the installation process.
- Fixes the issue that triggered Windows crash (BSOD) when installing LabVIEW in Windows 11 virtual machines running on Apple Silicon Macs.
- Fixes the issue of right-click context menus disappearing in Coherence view mode for apps like Delphi IDE, Solidworks, etc.

Parallels Desktop Pro and Business Edition:
- Fixes the issue where installing Parallels Desktop for Business via an invitation email would not activate the product or launch the correct dialog to install a virtual machine provided by IT.

Command-line interface improvements:
- Brings a new action that helps you reclaim disk space for a virtual machine that is shut down: prlctl reclaim-disk
- Brings command-line support for network conditioner: a useful tool that helps you imitate different connectivity conditions for testing your software. To enable, run this command: prlctl set --network-conditioner on
- For more details on this and other CLI commands and arguments, refer to the Command-Line Interface section of our Developer’s Guide.
- Adds more output for the argument -i to the prlctl list command to include additional information about virtual machines, such as their IP address, network conditioning status, and whether it is a clone of another virtual machine.


Parallels Desktop 19.3.1
- Addresses overall stability and performance issues


Parallels Desktop 19.3.0
General:
- Fixes the issue with Parallels Desktop failing to launch on Apple Silicon Macs with a Virtual Machine Monitor error
- Enables Parallels Desktop Pro users and Parallels Desktop for Business administrators to control the direction of copy/paste clipboard sharing between macOS and virtual machines, allowing clipboard data to be shared not only in both directions, but also only from the Mac to the virtual machine, or only in reverse.
- Fixes the issue of Parallels Desktop for Business mass deploy package returning an error when installing with specific authentication options.
- Fixes the issue where users could not initiate the Parallels Toolbox installation process from the Settings panel

macOS (virtual machines on Macs with Apple silicon):
- Enables macOS virtual machine parameters (e.g., CPU cores, RAM size, disk size, etc.) to be configured graphically, just like with Windows and Linux virtual machines
- The default virtual disk size is now set to 128GB
- Enables Cmd+Tab, Cmd+Space system shortcuts and Fn button to be sent to a macOS virtual machine
- Fixes the issue where an active OpenVPN connection on your Mac would prevent a macOS virtual machine from maintaining an internet connection while in Shared network mode
- Fixes the issue where a macOS virtual machine could not access the Internet when zScaler VPN software was being run on the Mac
- Fixes the issue where a virtual machine with a public beta version of macOS Sonoma 14.4 (23E5191e) installed from a recovery partition or .app would not respond to the keyboard

What Will Be Deprecated or Removed from Parallels Desktop Soon:
- According to the statistics from the users who participate in the Parallels Customer Experience program, some product features are used very seldom or not at all. We have decided to either stop supporting them or completely remove them from Parallels Desktop and focus on frequently used features and further enhancements.
- Below is the list of features that are no longer supported and will be removed – not in version 19.3.0, but in the next major version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. None of the features mentioned below are business-critical, so these changes will have little to no effect on your workflow.

On all Mac computers, the following things are no longer supported:
- Travel Mode
- The option to launch a virtual machine when your Mac starts
- Parallels Virtualization SDK (see details here)
- The 32-bit version of Parallels Tools for Windows and Linux
- The resource usage slider in the virtual machine’s Optimization settings tab
- The option to download Parallels Access from the Parallels Desktop preferences panel

On Mac computers with Intel processors, the following things are no longer supported:
- The "Extended memory limit” option in the virtual machine’s CPU & Memory > Advanced settings tab
- Resource Monitor
- Support for macOS 10.5 to 10.8 virtual machines
- Support for the Visual Studio plugin for remote debugging
- Network boot for macOS virtual machines


Parallels Desktop 19.2.1
- Addresses overall stability and performance issues


Parallels Desktop 19.2
General:
- Introduces a new approach to VM cloning using native APFS mechanisms that drastically improves cloning operation speed
- Introduces a new approach to the “Sign in with Apple” option for signing into a Parallels account that supports Apple IDs with hardware security keys added as a second authentication factor
- Fixes an issue where a VM window becomes half transparent while running on a Mac with multiple displays
- Fixes an issue where Parallels Desktop loses network communication in an IPv6-only network

Windows 11:
- Fixes an issue where the Windows context menu appears behind the application window in Coherence mode
- Fixes an issue where Windows VM fails with BSOD while running on an external drive with macOS Sonoma as a primary OS
- Fixes an issue where a video timeline was not displayed correctly in the VIRBE video editor
- Sets A4 as a default paper size for new shared printers added to Windows machines

macOS (virtual machines on Macs with Apple silicon):
- Closing the virtual machine window automatically suspends the VM (requires macOS Sonoma 14.1 or newer)
- Adds the ability to disable automatic updates for Parallels Tools by executing the Terminal command ($ prlctl set --tools-autoupdate no)
- Adds the “Clone…” option to the VM context menu


Parallels Desktop 19.1
- For virtual machines on Mac computers with Apple silicon
- Adds the ability to suspend and resume a virtual machine (macOS Sonoma 14.1 is required as a primary OS);
- Fixes an issue where keyboard input stops working after upgrading a virtual machine from macOS Monterey to macOS Sonoma 14.


Parallels Desktop 19.0
- Optimized for macOS Sonoma 14
- Touch ID-enabled for Windows sign-in
- OpenGL 4.1 Support in Windows
- Designed to run CentOS 9 Stream on a Mac with Apple silicon
- Designed to run Intel-based software in Arm-based Linux
- Vast improvements for macOS virtual machine on Mac computers with Apple silicon