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RealVNC is pleased to announce the release of VNC 4.0. VNC 4.0 is a
complete redesign of the VNC system, but maintains backwards compatibility
with the old VNC 3 releases.

New Features & Improvements vs VNC 3.3.7:
- Handling of dynamic changes to desktop size
- Local cursor rendering by VNC Viewer
- Simpler and more flexible configuration system
- Pointer rate-limiting and choice of colour levels for slow links

New Unix Features & Improvements vs VNC 3.3.7:
- Support for remoting the native X11 display (display ":0")
- Improved X selections (cut & paste) management
- Enhanced VNC Viewer

New Windows Features & Improvements vs VNC 3.3.7:
- Full support for multi-monitor systems
- New keyboard handling algorithms
- High performance VNC Viewer

Binaries and source can be downloaded from the RealVNC website at
http://www.realvnc.com/download.html

Documentation and notes on this release can be found at
http://www.realvnc.com/documentation.html

Please direct bug reports for this release to v4bugs@realvnc.com

Enjoy!

The VNC Team