14.05.19 - 5.1.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Added TCP-Forwarding for running sessions.
Fixed Bugs
- Capture settings did not show any setting.
- The Whiteboard did not work on Windows XP and on Windows 7 when Aero was disabled.
- The request elevation feature did not work after switching sides.
- When AnyDesk was running in the background for some time and the main window was started,
it did not respond for several seconds under certain conditions. The main window
should now react instantly to user input.
- After installation no discovered clients where shown.
- Fixed Discovery working only for simultaneously running clients of the same type.
Now all instances of AnyDesk should be able to use Discovery simultaneously,
for example when using vanilla and custom client at the same time.
- The screenshot menu item was not available.
- Fixed crash on popup close.
- Fixed crash when pressing 'Retry' after session end.
- Fixed crash in case AnyDesk could not get a cursor.
- Fixed GDI fullscreen being resizable.
- Fixed fullscreen mode when connecting to multi-monitor setups.
- On incoming session request the screensaver did not turn off.
AnyDesk now stops the system from turning it on during an active session or session request.
- On incoming session request sleeping monitors did not turn on.
AnyDesk now stops the system from turning them off during an active session or session request.
- Improved performance by temporarily removing some tooltips.
- Fixed drag operations started after closing an addresses context menu.
- Fixed address items being clickable only in certain areas.
- Fixed file transfer button in search popup.
- Fixed bug that caused new entries to be added to the wrong Address Book.
- Fixed synchronization of printer settings when using multiple instances of AnyDesk.
- Minor fixes.
Other Changes
- The Address Book deletion confirmation dialog now lists the Address Books to be deleted.
- On incoming chat messages AnyDesk's toolbar and Windows' taskbar will now flash.
- Moved connection trace to system folder.
- Updated localizations.
12.04.2019 - 5.0.5 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- The loopback (monitor) audio device could not be selected as an audio source after
selecting a specific device once.
- Fixed a crash which could occur when going in or out of fullscreen mode in D3D render mode.
- Fixed a bug which could lead to image corruption when going in or out of fullscreen mode.
- Improved behaviour of fullscreen mode when the user switches to another application than
AnyDesk and back to AnyDesk.
- Fixed a bug where the installer would crash when started twice.
- Under certain conditions, Drag&Drop was started when it was not supposed to start.
This should not happen anymore.
- AnyDesk prevented the screensaver to engage when the Accept Window was open. This
behaviour was changed so the screensaver is only prevented while an incoming session
is active.
- Fixed a crash which could occur under rare conditions when using the whiteboard
feature in Windows Server.
- Using the Address Book could cause AnyDesk to stop responding in rare situations.
- The Address Book now remembers the selected items during actions.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Address Book to not update anymore when the option
'Open Address Book on startup' was enabled.
- Improved stability.
Other Changes
- Implemented a progress display for the installer.
- Updated polish translation.
- Updated the Welcome tab.
08.04.2019 - 5.0.4 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Generic stability improvements.
- Fixed default audio recording setting.
05.04.2019 - 5.0.3 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash which could occur when AnyDesk was terminated.
- Fixed a rare crash on Windows 8.1 which occured when AnyDesk was started.
- Fixed popup placement when there is not enough screen space available.
- Fixed some high-DPI issues.
- Fixed scrolling in Windows 8.
- Added scrollbar to the address book selection menu.
- Updated translations for Chinese, Portuguese, French and Russian.
04.04.2019 - 5.0.2 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a few minor bugs in the Address Book.
- No sessions can be created from the command line in case it is disabled in the client generator.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Other Changes
- Auto-Discovery is now only enabled when AnyDesk is installed. Otherwise, the user has to start it manually.
- Added a context menu to Address Book.
29.03.2019 - 5.0.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- User interface improvements
- Fixed a bug which could cause AnyDesk not to respond or crash in very rare cases.
- Fixed connection trace which sometimes was not stored correctly when AnyDesk was not installed.
27.03.2019 - 5.0.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- New user interface design in browser style.
- Improved Address Book with Drag&Drop and better handling.
- Implemented remote printing feature for Windows 7, 8 and 10.
- Implemented auto discovery feature to find other AnyDesk instances in the local network.
- Added colour id to identify every participant in the network with a unique colour.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed follow remote mouse cursor causing crashes and freezes.
- Fixed the command line parameter "--fullscreen".
- Added missing "Follow remote cursor" option in fullscreen mode.
- Improved stability.
Other Changes
- Updated localizations
14.12.2018 - 4.3.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Added a setting for Windows Terminal Servers to dis-/allow the remote user to see the list
of currently logged in users when asked for where to connect to.
- New command line parameter "--file-transfer" to start a file session from the command line.
- Added a feature which allows to terminate running sessions from inside AnyDesk. This allows
users to start sessions when the session limit of the licence is exceeded by freeing sessions.
- Windows Terminal Server: Added a dialog which allows to choose a user.
- AnyDesk now connects using port 6568 in addition to the standard ports 80 and 443.
- Support for perfect forward secrecy when communicating with the server.
New Features in my.anydesk.com
- A password for custom AnyDesk clients can now be preset in my.anydesk.com
- Implemented auto-add feature which allows preconfiguring a custom AnyDesk client so it gets
added to a specific address book on first installation.
Fixed Bugs
- In some cases, AnyDesk would display the unknown mouse cursor ("?") in cases where it could
have displayed the actual mouse cursor instead. The unknown mouse cursor is used in cases
when there is no mouse attached to the device and AnyDesk can not obtain a mouse cursor icon
or force the system to display a mouse cursor.
- Fixed problems which could occur when the horizontal resolution was not divisible by 16.
- Fixed a crash related to the cursor.
- Fixed a crash during registration of the first incoming session.
- Custom Client: For an incoming file transfer session AnyDesk did not check if file transfer
was set to disallowed by an override. As a result file transfer was still possible.
- Custom Client: In the security settings AnyDesk did not show if the file transfer permission
is overridden.
- Fixed a rare crash when using two main windows during installation.
- Fixed sorting using the list view header in the address book.
- Fixed filtering in the address book.
- Fixed cursor having a question mark if no mouse was plugged in, but a cursor was available.
- Fixed follow remote mouse cursor causing crashes and freezes.
22.08.2018 - 4.2.3 (Windows)
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New Features
- Added a setting to disallow direct connections (hole punching).
Default is allowed.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed auto-reconnect in the remote restart feature.
- Fixed a rare crash which could occur in incoming sessions.
- In some situations (for example virtual machines), no image was displayed by the
ddraw view. In this case, AnyDesk uses gdi now and displays an image.
- The standard distribution of AnyDesk did not start when a previously installed
MSI version of AnyDesk was not uninstalled correctly.
18.07.2018 - 4.2.2 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- An alias could not be registered in case '@ad' was not appended.
Other Changes
- On successful alias registration a hint is shown, that the user has to take
care of his alias and ID on his/her own.
17.07.2018 - 4.2.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash which could occur after one minute when there is no mouse attached
to the system.
- Fixed packets being dumped which should only be dumped in debug mode.
- Fixed a rare crash which occured immediately after starting AnyDesk.
11.07.2018 - 4.2.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Clipboard file transfer can now be disabled in the security settings.
- The preview image can now be disabled in the privacy settings.
- Most of the edits now support 'Ctrl'+'A'.
- The session comment section can now be disabled where it appears.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash in D3D render mode.
- Fixed a crash related to the 'Follow remote mouse cursor' feature.
- Fixed a bug which made it possible to set up a password which did not meet the password
safety requirements of AnyDesk for unattended access.
- Fixed a race condition that could occur during requesting an alias.
- When pasting a file after disabling the clipboard, the file copy operation got stuck.
The file copy operation is cancelled now when clipboard sync is disabled.
- Fixed a rare bug which made AnyDesk crash immediately on startup.
12.06.2018 - 4.1.3 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Made the session comment section multiline again.
- The disclaimer did not show up again, when it was rejected the last time AnyDesk started and has not been
changed in the meantime.
- File transfer sessions no longer transmit hotkeys.
- Fixed DLL preloading vulnerability in Windows 7 SP1.
Thanks go to Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs for reporting this vulnerability to us.
28.05.2018 - 4.1.2 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a bug in the security panel which made it impossible to set a password.
- Fixed navigation to the drive selection view in file transfer mode.
28.05.2018 - 4.1.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a bug which made it impossible to go up two folders in succession in file transfer mode.
- Fixed caps lock in translation keyboard mode.
16.05.2018 - 4.1.0 (Windows)
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This is an important security release, please update as soon as possible.
Security Fixes
- Prevented DLL preloading vulnerability in Windows 7 SP1.
Thanks go to Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs for reporting this vulnerability to us.
- Updated OpenSSL library to the latest version.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed monitor reactivation when the monitor is in sleep mode and there is an incoming connection.
- Fixed manual update link when auto-update is disabled.
- Fixed a bug that prevented further connections to a computer, if a previous connection to that computer failed.
- Fixed keyboard problems that occurred in conjunction with the right shift button.
Other Changes
- If a disclaimer has been set up, it will be shown on every change even if AnyDesk is installed already.
- Most of the edits in AnyDesk now support context menu operations (paste, cut, clear, undo).
- AnyDesk will no longer follow the remote cursor when the local user changed the tab himself.
- Improved address book update performance.
11.04.2018 - 4.0.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- SAS for Windows 8 and upwards was broken due to an extension handling Terminal Server.
- On Terminal Server switching to advanced view may have resulted in a crash.
10.04.2018 - 4.0.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Extended support for Terminal Server:
On connecting to a terminal server the user can choose now if to connect to the console session or
a specific user. As an alternative a fully specified address can be used to directly connect to a
a specific user.
- Added file manager session type. The file manager can also be used during a normal session.
- Session recording and playback. Enable this option under "privacy" in the options tab.
- Optional auto-locking of the Windows session on AnyDesk session end.
- Follow mouse cursor feature: When activated, the monitor selection follows the remote mouse cursor.
- Auto-Update
- The user can now choose an alias.
- Client Generator: Updates can now be disabled.
Fixed Bugs
- Directly after startup the main window did not show it was active.
- The min/max/close buttons of top-level windows show the correct hover state now.
- Fixed permissions in scam warn mode when authenticated with password.
- Fixed a bug in command line parsing when AnyDesk was started from a command prompt.
- Fixed a bug which made it impossible to connect to an IP/Hostname using the command line.
- Fixed a crash in the service when there were too many sessions or network cards.
The number of AnyDesk sessions is only limited by system memory now.
- Fixed a crash on session start when using D3D.
- Added a workaround in case Windows Update broke AnyDesk audio settings.
- Fixed a crash on HDD monitor failure. Instead the HDD monitor will be disabled only.
- If AnyDesk was not installed, it might not get a connection due to a race condition.
- On remote restart it was possible to doubly reconnect resulting in session termination.
- In some cases the screensaver was permanently disabled by AnyDesk.
Other Changes
- Modernized the design of AnyDesk.
- Updated localizations
- The link in the about panel that opened the folders containing trace and config files before, now
creates and opens a folder on the desktop containing copies of the trace files. This makes it easier
for the user to send the correct files to our customer support, especially in case multiple variants
of AnyDesk are used in parallel.
- The AnyDesk ID in the main window is now selectable.
- Sending a SAS (Ctrl+Alt+Del) is now disallowed in case input is disallowed.
- Adjusting remote resolution is now disallowed in case input is disallowed.
10.01.2018 - 3.7.0 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Security change: fixed a bug where the permissions could be reset during the session.
- In some cases, the AnyDesk main window was not rendered correctly in Windows 10 (showing
transparent areas).
17.11.2017 - 3.6.3 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash when terminating AnyDesk using the tray icon while sessions were running.
- Under rare conditions, connecting to Windows 10 showed no image/a black image.
- Clipboard permission works again.
- Disallowed to change the license key if settings are disabled.
- Fixed SAS (Ctrl+Alt+Del) which did not work under some conditions on Windows Vista and upwards.
- On some Windows 10 systems, AnyDesk did not work when the monitor was rotated. On these
systems, AnyDesk should now transmit the monitor content normally.
- Fixed two rarely occuring crashes on address book close.
17.10.2017 - 3.6.2 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Trying to add an address from the speed dial to an address book with a license of type free or lite
opened a dialog instead of the address book.
- Fixed screensaver settings on AnyDesk session close. This was broken due to a bug in Windows.
- Fixed session comment dialog which could appear twice.
- Fixed strange behaviour of custom version occuring in case a custom MSI version is installed.
This broke the clipboard for example.
Other Changes
- Made license key removal more explicit and added option 'Change license key' to the main menu.
05.09.2017 - 3.6.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Important security update, fixed dll injection vulnerability. Thanks to 0x09AL for reporting this.
01.09.2017 - 3.6.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Transmission of system information can now be blocked. Older versions of AnyDesk will show useless information in this case.
- Added a setting to disable the chat log.
- Added a setting to choose the path to the chat log.
- Added a setting to show the address book on startup.
- Added a setting to allow the accept window to go to foreground on chat message received.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash on opening the chat log on the backend side after a session request has been canceled.
- Fixed a crash on address book request failure, for example when trying to add an already contained address.
- Fixed a bug leading to an empty list of address books in the dialog shown on trying to add an address
from the speed dial to the address book when the address book has not been opened before.
- Fixed online states of speed dial entries on startup.
- Fixed strange button behavior in the accept window.
- Fixed some dpi and other graphical issues.
Other Changes
- Improved connect mechanism when using a proxy.
- On scam warning all standard permissions are set to disallowed now (regardless of settings).
- The user-defined name of an address is now italicized.
03.08.2017 - 3.5.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- The remote restart feature now even works when AnyDesk is not installed.
Please note: You will need to request elevation from the remote user before using the restart feature
in this case.
- Custom AnyDesk: Text and title of ID and Connect Group (Main Window) can now be customized.
- Custom AnyDesk: Before frontend startup a disclaimer can be shown now, which can be customized in
logo, title, text, background color and the text on the accept and cancel buttons. It is shown only,
if AnyDesk is not installed and the text contains non-whitespaces. All other settings are optional.
- Custom AnyDesk: Added support for environment variables in paths.
Fixed Bugs
- In the D3D fullscreen menu the keyboard mode has always been set to 'translate'.
- The invitation link in the main window has not been shown anymore after switching to advanced view and back.
- Fixed crash on opening the chat log in the backend after session close.
- Fixed crash when the session info panel was closed before the remote data was displayed.
- Fixed custom logo layout in the main window's advanced view.
- Fixed the connection panel's password edit showing clear text when disabled.
13.07.2017 - 3.4.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed dpi of comment session dialog.
- Fixed that the comment session dialog can be shown although the licence is of type Lite.
- Fixed a crash related to the comment session dialog.
- Fixed that the character right of '9' on the standard hungarian keyboard layout has not been recognized before.
11.07.2017 - 3.4.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Sessions can now be commented on close. The comment can then be looked up on my.anydesk.com.
If you don't want to comment, just clear the comment field. You will need a licence in order to use
this new feature. Please get an evaluation licence on
http://anydesk.com/trial-licence.- Address Book: AnyDesk now supports multiple address books. They can be added (up to a certain limit)
and deleted. The number of available address books depends on your licence.
- Status bars now also show the remote user name.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash on connecting due to monitor detection failure.
- Address Book: Fixed tag validation on rename.
- After elevation the backend user name in the chat was SYSTEM.
Other Changes
- Fixed and updated interfaces of installer, uninstaller, updater and global settings windows.
06.07.2017 - 3.3.2 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Important security update. Please update if you have version 3.3.1.
- Fixed a crash when using the drop to desktop feature.
26.06.2017 - 3.3.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash on connecting due to monitor detection failure.
- Fixed ACL denying access although the list is empty.
23.06.2017 - 3.3.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Address book: The name of an address can be set now on adding it to the address book.
- Address book: Tags can now be renamed and removed from the tag tree view directly (on the left).
Right click on a tag to choose.
- Address book: Added commands 'Expand All' and 'Collapse All' to the tag tree view.
Right click on a tag or the tag tree view itself to choose.
- Address Book: If a user action fails an error info dialog will be shown now.
- When adding an address from the speed dial to the address book, a dialog will be shown now.
- When connecting to a multi monitor system, AnyDesk now automatically switches to the primary monitor.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash after installing AnyDesk on Windows XP.
- Address book: Fixed selected tags view layout (on top).
- Fixed service crash after installation due to invalid install parameters.
- Fixed a crash on closing a session using OpenGL.
- Using the mirror driver the backend detected more monitors than physically available, in case a
software for virtual monitor creation is installed.
Other Changes
- Address Book: The list view now auto-sizes its columns.
- Most text edits now select their content on getting keyboard focus.
30.05.2017 - 3.2.5 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a crash after remote restart.
- Fixed a bug in feature availability indicator in menu.
- Fixed a bug in the address book that did not allow to add an item from the speed dial to the address
book directly after startup.
17.05.2017 - 3.2.4 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a bug which allowed two dialogs to be shown at the same time.
- Fixed remote cursor rendering at the edges of the view.
- Fixed a bug which let elevation fail when Windows denied access to the AnyDesk executable.
- Fixed a bug which led to the service shutting down automatically on elevating its backend, in case
AnyDesk has not been installed on that side and the main window there has been closed before elevation.
- Fixed the action menu showing elevation was available although the backend has been elevated already.
- Fixed a race condition in the address book which made it unusable in some situations.
- Fixed a bug in feature availability indicator in menu.
Other Changes
- Added a hint in the elevation dialog that the remote user usually has to accept an elevation request.
09.05.2017 - 3.2.3 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a regression which impaired AnyDesk's performance severely when connected to a Windows
8, 8.1 or 10 computer. Please update!
- Fixed a bug which caused the auto-reconnect feature after a remote restart to fail when the global
settings dialog was opened previously.
- Fixed a crash when using the "Retry" button in the remote desktop access denied dialog.
- Improved stability.
Other Changes
- Improved feature availability indicator in menu.
05.05.2017 - 3.2.2 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a bug which could lead to the service not starting timely after installing AnyDesk.
- Fixed a crash which occured when closing the address book and terminating AnyDesk.
- Fixed a crash by using ddraw as fallback for d3d when the graphics driver is not installed
correctly and causes an exception during initialization.
- Tags are validated now in the address book.
Other Changes
- Improved focus behaviour of controls.
03.05.2017 - 3.2.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Fixed crash on adding an address to the address book.
- Fixed elevation with credentials in case AnyDesk has been started from a user folder.
- Fixed a crash which could occur when terminating a session with an open address book or
multiple monitors.
- Fixed character keyboard input which was not working for certain programs (GTK, QT) when
connected from a mobile device.
Other Changes
- Improved prompt shown in the password dialog when connecting.
- Controls now show if focused.
27.04.2017 - 3.2.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- The address book now remembers the last used view type (list/tiles).
- The address book now offers sorting options.
- The address book now opens the tag dialog immediately after an address has been added.
- The accept window will no longer auto-close tabs when chat messages have been sent/received.
- Sessions can now be accepted via 'Enter' and dismissed via 'Esc'.
- Added session status messages to chat.
- The session time is now shown during a session and after disconnect.
- The remote user client ID is now shown during a session (additionally to its alias).
- Your fingerprint can now be seen in the about panel.
- The password for unattended access is now controlled via a dialog.
You have to enter your password twice to check for misspellings.
- Added language auto-selection (will select system language).
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed WoA.
- Fixed elevation with credentials.
- The direct connection icon in the backend was greyed out although there was a direct connection.
- The drop link feature dropped an invalid link (name instead of address).
- After disconnect it was no longer possible to mark/copy chat messages.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on sending chat messages.
- Some chat messages have not been recorded.
- Fixed some minor bugs in the chat.
- Fixed wrong message shown in the frontend on session request rejected.
- Fixed some bugs with keyboard focus.
- Fixed a bug with auto-selection of tabs in accept window.
- Sometimes the address book did not show online states on opening it the first time.
- Fixed some bugs with tag selection in the address book.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the main window with the address book opened.
- Fixed filtering of recent connections.
- Fixed recent connection being removed from favorites on name change.
- In some cases a wrong text has been shown on connection request.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
Other Changes
- The accept/dismiss buttons are now disabled for a short time when entering a new session state
to prevent accidentally clicking them.
- The accept window is now only always on top when there are not yet accepted sessions left.
And it will be back on top on session request.
- The accept window will now auto-select an incoming session tab in some situations.
- Added bottom right resize corner.
- Fixed some dpi issues.
- Added some localization.
05.01.2017 - 3.1.1 (Windows)
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Fixed Bugs
- Improved stability
- Fixed some bugs in the chat
Other Changes
- Signed the exe and msi files with two certificates.
29.12.2016 - 3.1.0 (Windows)
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New Features
- Reworked the chat in the client.
- Added an option to disable remote restart in the security settings.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a bug in DeskRT which caused it to be slow on certain monitor resolutions
indivisible by 16 (for example 1366x768). Responsiveness should be much higher
now in these cases.
- In some cases, the view mode settings for remote computers were not restored
correctly for future sessions.
- Fixed a crash which could occur when connecting to AnyDesk while it was
terminating.
- Fixed a bug which could lead to the system info feature not being available.
- Improved stability.
- Minor user interface layout fixes.
