PBI Private Access 20261103 (3 November 2026)
- New: Added support for deploying appliances on Nutanix hypervisor.
- New: Policy-based, AI-driven PII protection. Admins can configure policies to inspect clipboard, file upload, and file download actions for personal data. Actions can be blocked or clipboard text redacted, with optional user overrides.
- New: Insights: Added reporting dashboards providing visibility into sensitive data detection and data loss prevention events across sessions.
- New: Insights: Added reporting to track generative AI tool usage across browser sessions.
- New: Live policy updates. Policy updates are now pushed dynamically to active sessions without requiring a restart, accompanied by an in-session notification.
- New: Dedicated session closure screen. When a session terminates permanently without retry, a clear closure screen is displayed instead of an unresponsive tab.
- Improved: Faster application launch. Optimized client startup with parallelized initialization steps and improved start page caching.
- Improved: Appliance upgrades now handle necessary reboots automatically and introduce a "Pending reboot" status indicator.
- Improved: Improved label and value readability across Insights charts.
- Improved: Upgraded third-party dependencies and appliance base OS packages for enhanced security and stability.
- Fixed: Active sessions continued attempting to reconnect after signing out instead of terminating.
- Fixed: Clear error messages are now shown when no appliance is available or when an application has no matching appliance tags.
- Fixed: A clear error message is now shown when attempting to open an application that has been deleted.
- Fixed: Appliances could incorrectly display as "Offline" despite being active and healthy.
- Fixed: Appliance upgrade state incorrectly showed "Upgrade available" while an upgrade was already in progress.
- Fixed: Appliances in "Drain" mode reverted to "Online" after a reboot; drain state is now preserved across restarts.
- Fixed: Drained appliances could not be deleted until their status changed to "Offline".
- Fixed: Resetting an appliance via console could leave core services stuck in "Starting".
- Fixed: Registration tokens could expire on the appliance prior to the expiration time configured in the admin portal.
- Fixed: Appliance detail views continued showing previous names and descriptions after being updated.
- Fixed: Appliance resource metrics failed to display for appliances running older versions.
- Fixed: Domain auto-discovery now evaluates the application's tagged appliances instead of an arbitrary appliance.
- Fixed: Insights summary charts could render blank once surrounding cards finished loading.
- Fixed: Table timestamps are now displayed in UTC to match column headers.
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where certain SVG application icons rendered blank in preview.
- Fixed: CVE-2026-64535: nvmet-tcp use-after-free on data-digest mismatch.
- Fixed: CVE-2026-64541: SMC-R smc_cdc_rx_handler() use-after-free.
- Fixed: CVE-2026-64551: SCTP STALE_COOKIE out-of-bounds read leaking kernel memory.
- Fixed: CVE-2026-98432: IPv4 TCP ireq_opt use-after-free.
- Fixed: CVE-2026-99999: IPv4 checksum_start validation (guest-to-host).
PBI Private Access 20260902 (2 September 2026)
- New: Application-to-Appliance assignment via tags - Applications can now be assigned to specific appliances using tags, enabling flexible routing and multi-appliance topologies.
- New: Added custom environment domain URLs (
.pbi.parallels.com) with automatic IdP redirection.
- Fixed: Unable to add a new group in the Owner Portal when a similarly named group already existed.
- Fixed: File upload via drag & drop was broken in Google Drive and Microsoft Teams web clients.
- Fixed: Copy and Paste denied actions were reported as a single combined audit event instead of two separate events in Insights.
- Fixed: New tab rendered briefly zoomed out before snapping to the correct size.
- Fixed: Unexpected session disconnects under high network load.
- Fixed: Current Active Users counter on the Dashboard did not increment when a newly assigned admin signed in.
- Improved: Client reconnect logic now uses exponential backoff to prevent infinite reconnect loops for backgrounded or unstable tabs.
- Improved: Appliance images are now pre-baked with PBI container images, significantly reducing first-boot initialization time.
PBI Private Access 20260708 (8 July 2026)
- Fixed: VMware OVA template increased default disk size from 4 GB to 32 GB, preventing full-disk issues that could cause containers to fail to boot.
- Improved: Upgraded underlying OS (NixOS) to version 26.05.
PBI Private Access 20260623 (23 June 2026)
- New: VMware hypervisor OVA image support.
- New: AWS hypervisor image support.
- New: Administrators can block domains by categories. Added Trusted domains for exception handling.
- New: Users can upload files in the secure session using drag-and-drop.
- Fixed: The appliance incorrectly displayed a status of Online even after the underlying VM was stopped. The status now reflects the actual state.
- Fixed: Some web page components failed to render correctly on certain websites.
- Fixed: Various security vulnerabilities.
- Fixed: Various UI fixes.
PBI Private Access 20260428 (28 April 2026)
- New: Added support of AZERTY keyboard.
- New: Context menu is available in the client on the right click.
- Fixed: Issue where users weren’t able to launch applications from custom branded User portal.
- Fixed: Geolocation based policies were not applied to the secure session.
- Fixed: Middle mouse button clicking on a link did not open a new tab.
- Fixed: Admin could see "You are not authorized to view the requested page" message in Admin portal.
- Fixed: Secure Web Apps with custom ports were not working.
- Fixed: Features User event contained incorrect data for partial uploads disabled.
- Improved: Various UI improvements.
PBI Private Access is now generally available - 24 February 2026
- New: Admins can enable Drain mode on appliances to prevent them from accepting new sessions during maintenance.
- New: Appliances can be upgraded to the next version directly from the Admin portal.
- New: Admins can view near–real‑time CPU, disk, and memory utilization.
- New: Admins can block uploads entirely or restrict them by specific file types using Policies.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the session would sometimes load indefinitely after a page refresh.
- Improved: Various minor UI improvements.
For any assistance or direct support inquiries, please reach out to our support team by visiting Support | PBI Private Access
Parallels Browser Isolation Private Access (PBI PA) is in Tech Preview - August 2025
We are pleased to announce the Tech Preview of Parallels Browser Isolation - Private Access (PBI PA). This release enables customers to securely provide zero-trust access to private applications without exposing applications to the internet or requiring traditional network-based access.
This Tech Preview is intended to help customers evaluate functionality, provide feedback, and validate use cases before general availability.
Key Capabilities
With this Tech Preview, customers can:
Feedback & Next Steps
Customer feedback is critical during this Tech Preview. Participants are encouraged to:
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