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VNC Free Edition 4.1 released
RealVNC is pleased to announce the release of VNC Free Edition 4.1.

VNC Free Edition 4.1 is a major overhaul of the previous VNC 4.0
release, benefitting from the significant stability and performance
improvements made in the development of VNC Enterprise Edition
(http://www.realvnc.com/products/enterprise).

New Features & Improvements vs VNC Free Edition 4.0:
- New support for "?" (Query) action in the Hosts (Access Control)
parameter.
- New support for disabling idle timeouts, by setting IdleTimeout to zero.
- Improved support in ZRLE for large desktops.
- Improved handling of log files.
- Improved anti-brute-force measures.

New Unix Features & Improvements vs VNC Free Edition 4.0:
- New support for the QueryConnect option.
- Xvnc supports the X backing store, which is now enabled by default.
- Several important bug-fixes (see release notes for details).

New Windows Features & Improvements vs VNC Free Edition 4.0:
- New support for only querying the local user if they are logged on.
- New support for automatically reconnecting to servers.
- New support for direct pass-through of special Windows keys.
- Connection attempts may now be cancelled via the Viewer's Connecting
dialog.
- Improved VNC Hooks and polling implementations.
- Several important bug-fixes (see release notes for details).

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 "at" realvnc.com

Enjoy!

The VNC Team