Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac updates summary

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Version 15.1.5 (47309)

This update for Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac 15.1.5 (47309) addresses stability issues and includes the following fixes and improvements:

macOS Big Sur 11.0 Beta

 

Version 15.1.4 (47270)

This update for Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac 15.1.4 (47270) addresses overall stability and security issues, and includes the following fixes and improvements:

  • Adds support for Ubuntu 19.10.
  • Adds support for Fedora 31.
  • Resolves an issue with Parallels Tools failing to install in Fedora with kernel 5.5.8.
  • From now on, you can update Parallels Desktop without having to enter a password.

Note: If you update Parallels Desktop from build 15.1.3 to this one, there's no need to update Parallels Tools.

 

Version 15.1.3 (47255)

This update for Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac 15.1.3 (47255) addresses overall stability and security issues and includes the following fixes and improvements:

 

Version 15.1.2 (47123)

This update for Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac 15.1.2 (47123) addresses overall stability and security issues, and resolves an issue with the installation of Windows 10 November 2019 update (1909).

 

Version 15.1.1 (47117)

This update for Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac 15.1.1 (47117) addresses overall stability and security issues, and includes the following fixes and improvements:

 

Version 15.1.0 (47107)

This update for Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac 15.1.0 (47107) has been created, especially for the macOS 10.15 Catalina release. We have fixed the known issues that may happen when using Parallels Desktop and virtual machines in the latest version of macOS.

Parallels engineers made Parallels Desktop more stable, secure, and comfortable to use. This update includes the following new features, fixes, and improvements:

macOS 10.15 Catalina

New Features:

Resolved Issues:

Issues with Windows applications

Games

Integration

Devices

Linux

For Parallels Desktop 15 Business Edition only

Other

 

Version 15.0.0 (46967)

Graphics

Graphics in Parallels Desktop 15 have been significantly improved compared to previous product versions.

Performance

Despite continuous performance improvements every year and almost native performance in many scenarios, we managed to make the product even faster and efficient.

Getting ready for macOS 10.15 Catalina

Hardware

Convenience

         The default email application can be changed in Windows settings.

Look and Feel

For Parallels Desktop 15 Pro Edition and Business Edition Only

         Limitations: if the disk has an Apple partition scheme or Apple File System (HFS+ or APFS), the disk cannot be connected to a Windows virtual machine to prevent data loss.

For Parallels Desktop 15 Business Edition Only

 

What's Deprecated or Removed from Parallels Desktop 15

More than 5 million users rely on Parallels Desktop around the world. That’s why our goal is to ensure that our engineering teams are focused on providing the greatest benefit to the largest number of users. In addition to expanding Parallels Desktop functionality, we must ensure that an extensive list of existing features continues to work flawlessly in the ever-changing environment of Mac and Windows. For this reason, we must prioritize our engineering efforts.

This year, we decided to deprecate or remove little-used or not-used features from Parallels Desktop. The Parallels Team uses statistics collected from those who agreed to participate in the Customer Experience Program. If you care about usage scenarios being counted, please make sure you have it enabled in the Parallels Desktop Preferences.

Below you can find two lists: one is for deprecated features and the other for removed.

Deprecated features continue working in Parallels Desktop 15 but will no longer be supported and will be removed in the next versions of Parallels Desktop.

Removed features are no longer available in Parallels Desktop 15. They were removed either because they are no longer supported in the latest operating systems or not used at all (<50 vs 5 million users around the world).

Most of these features are not business critical, and there are alternate ways to achieve the desired effect.

Deprecated Features

This functionality is no longer supported because the API is no longer available in macOS 10.15 Catalina. There’s no way to easily remove non-App Store applications from LaunchPad.

Your Linux virtual machine may work in Coherence mode but this view mode is no longer supported. According to the statistics, it’s a rarely used feature but rather complicated to support. Instead, we’ve decided to invest more resources in running Linux in Window mode, Linux 3D acceleration, etc.

We think it’s a useful feature because it allows you to share passwords among virtual machines, but we cannot support it anymore because of the internal changes in Windows browsers. It already doesn’t work in Internet Explorer and will likely stop working in Edge soon.

Removed features:

Parallels Desktop allows you to encrypt your virtual machine data. By default, it is done with the AES encryption algorithm. But you could also use your own encryption plugin. This functionality is removed, as it was not used.

In the latest versions of macOS, access to your current location is controlled per application via the system policy. An additional checkbox in the virtual machine configuration could be useful only if a user wants to allow access to location in one virtual machine and prohibit in others. However, this checkbox was removed due to very low usage.

As most users switched to Windows 10 (where this feature doesn’t work), it was removed from the code and testing. If you think you need this feature in Windows 10, please let us know on the Feature Suggestions Forum.

As most users switched to Windows 10 (where this feature doesn’t work), it was removed from the code and testing. If you think you need this feature in Windows 10, please let us know on the Feature Suggestions Forum.

This feature doesn’t work in modern Office packages—only in Office 2013. If you use Microsoft Office 2013, you can still save files to the Mac-connected cloud folders that are displayed in File Explorer as Shared Folders.

This feature was removed due to low usage.

This feature was removed due to low usage.

This feature was removed due to complaints and low usage.

This feature was removed because Apple is introducing Voice Control in macOS 10.15 Catalina, which offers far more possibilities. We’d better invest resources into it.

A special checkbox in configuration of Windows virtual machines allowed you to disable or change the level of 3D acceleration in Windows. Most users worked with the default setting and the checkbox was removed due to very low usage.

Now Parallels Desktop supports either DirectX 10 or DirectX 11.0 for Windows, depending on the version of macOS installed on your Mac. If you have macOS 10.14.4 Mojave or later, Parallels Desktop supports DirectX 11.0.

 

Security updates

To maintain your Parallels Desktop product's security, we recommend installing all available product updates. To learn how to check for updates, visit KB 111603.

The following table contains a list of security vulnerabilities and a corresponding product version where the fix included.

Name or ID Fixed in version Release date
 ZDI-CAN-10520  15.1.4 (47270)

 April 21, 2020

 ZDI-CAN-10030
 ZDI-CAN-10032  15.1.3 (47255)  March 10, 2020
 ZDI-CAN-10031
 ZDI-CAN-10028
 ZDI-CAN-10029
 ZDI-CAN-9403
 ZDI-CAN-9428
 ZDI-CAN-8685  15.1.1 (47117)  October 31, 2019

 

 

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