VMware Workstation

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| Unsupported release

| Current or still supported release

| Future release

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 15 May 1999

| First release

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 14 June 1999

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• Added support of Linux kernel 2.3.x

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 25 June 1999

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|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 20 July 1999

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• New product logo and icons

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 11 October 1999

| First Linux release

• Added support of Windows 2000
• Added support of bidirectional parallel ports
• Added support of Linux kernel 2.2.10
• Improved support for raw disk file configuration via the Configuration Wizard and Editor
• Improved support for upgrading Linux kernels and for uninstalling the product
• Experimental support for RPM installations
• Improved SMP performance in Linux kernel versions 2.2.8 and later
• Improved built-in help

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 18 October 1999

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• Added support of Red Hat Linux 6.1

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 13 November 1999

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• Changes in the handling of virtual disks

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 15 November 1999

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|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 3 March 2000

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• Increased desktop performance
• Added support of memory and power user changes in Windows 2000
• Improved upgrade to new VMware Workstation releases
• Limited SCSI support for disks and CD-ROM devices
• Added support for suspending the virtual machine to disk
• Added support for shrinking the virtual disks
• Added support of floppy disk images
• Added support of serial connections
• Added support of sound input and improved sound output
• Added support for disconnecting, modifying and editing the removable devices while the virtual machine is running
• Improved support for raw disks
• Experimental support of plain disks

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 19 June 2000

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|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 1 August 2000

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|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 2 November 2000

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• Improved mouse performance
• Added support for wheel mouse
• Added support for installation of SVGA driver in a Windows Me guest machines

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 21 May 2001

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• Added support of Red Hat Linux 7.1 and SUSE Linux 7.1
• Increased default memory size of a Linux virtual machine to 64 MB
• Added support of Pentium 4 processors
• Added support for Windows 2000 hosts with CD-ROM drives configured for digital audio

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 11 November 2001

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• Added support of reading DVD discs
• Added support of reading enhanced CD discs in the raw access mode

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 29 March 2002

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• Increased performance

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 9 April 2002

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• Increased performance

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 16 September 2002

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|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 7 April 2003

| Single snapshots

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 15 March 2004

| Last version for Windows NT 4.0 on hosts

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 7 April 2005

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• Multiple snapshots
• Linked clones
• Teams

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 29 November 2005

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• Introduced support of Intel VT-x/AMD-V virtualization instructions, as well as x86-64 and multi-processor virtual machines{{cite web|title=VMware Announces Availability of New Feature-Packed Release of Its Powerful Desktop Virtualization Software|url=http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/ws55.html|date=2005-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051214105353/http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/ws55.html|access-date=2022-02-08|archive-date=2005-12-14}}

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 9 May 2007

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• Multiple monitor support
• Background virtual machines
• High-speed USB devices (EHCI)

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 23 September 2008

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• Final version to support CPUs without PAE{{Cite web|url=https://www.vmware.com/support/ws7/doc/releasenotes_ws7.html#upgradeissues|title=VMware Workstation 7.0 Release Notes|website=www.vmware.com|access-date=2016-09-13}}
• Record Replay{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/08/introducing-rep.html|title=Introducing Replay Debugging: the end of the heisbenbug? - VMTN Blog|date=2008-08-30|access-date=2016-09-12}}
• Unicode
• Unity mode
• Last version for Windows 2000 on hosts

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 10 October 2009

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• Replay Debugging (improved Record Replay){{Cite web|url=http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2010/01/replay-debugging-try-it-today.html|title=Replay Debugging – Try it Today! - VMware Workstation Zealot|date=2010-01-19|access-date=2016-09-12}}

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 25 May 2010

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|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 14 September 2011

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• Shared Virtual Machines
• Workstation 8 is the first version that requires an x64-compatible CPU.
• Replay Debugging removed{{Cite web|url=http://www.replaydebugging.com/2011/09/goodbye-replay-debugging.html|title=Better Software Development with Replay Debugging: Goodbye, Replay Debugging…|website=www.replaydebugging.com|access-date=2016-09-12}}

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 23 August 2012

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• USB 3.0 support for Linux and Windows 8 guests
• OpenGL driver for Linux guests
• Improved graphics subsystem
• Restricted Virtual Machines
• Added support of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 12.04

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 3 September 2013

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• Added support of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Ubuntu 13.10
• VMware hardware version 10
• 16 vCPUs
• 8 TB disks
• New virtual SATA disk controller
• USB 3.0 streams support
• SSD pass-through
• Expiring Virtual Machines
• Virtual tablet sensors
• Accelerometer
• Gyroscope
• Compass
• Ambient light sensor
• User interface enhancements
• Cloud Management Tools
• VMware KVM
• WSX 1.1

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 24 October 2013

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• Improved compatibility with some AMD Piledriver CPUs
• Easy Install support for Windows 8.1 RTM and Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM
• Fixes for certain hangs and freezes

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 17 April 2014

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• The compatibility and performance of USB audio and video devices with virtual machines has been improved.
• Resolved an issue that prevents a USB device from being connected to Linux RHEL 5 guest operating system.
• Easy installation option supports Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 as a guest operating system.
• openSUSE 13.1 is now supported as a host operating system.
• Resolved an issue causing burning CDs with Blu-ray drives to fail while connected to the virtual machine.
• Resolved an issue that caused using Microsoft Word and Excel in unity mode causes a beep.
• Resolved an issue causing host application windows to be blanked out in the UAC dialog on the Linux host of the Windows 8 virtual machine.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Sound Card from being automatically added to the VM when powering on the virtual machine on a Linux host.
• Resolved an issue that could cause a Windows 8.1 guest operating system to display a black screen when launching Metro style applications in the launch menu.
• Resolved a hotkey conflict in the Preference dialog of the KVM mode.
• Resolved a compatibility issue of GL renderer with some new Nvidia drivers.
• Resolved graphics errors with for Solidworks applications.
• Resolved an issue causing virtual machines imported from a physical PC to crash on startup.
• Resolved an issue about shared folder when the user read and write file using two threads.
• Resolved an issue that caused Linux virtual machines to see stale file contents when using shared folders.
• Resolved the virtual machine performance issues when using the E1000e adapter.
• Resolved an issue preventing Workstation from starting on Ubuntu 14.04.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 1 July 2014

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• VMware Workstation 10.0.3 has been updated to the OPENSSL library version openssl-0.9.8za where necessary to address {{CVE|2014-0224|2014-0198|2010-5298|2014-3470}}.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 30 October 2014

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• Fixes memory issue in Workstation on Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 27 January 2015

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• Bug fixes
• At power-on, a virtual machine hangs and a .dmp file is created.
• The VideoReDo application does not display the video properly and parts of the application's screen are scrambled.
• Copying and pasting a large file from host to guest may fail.
• Memory leak in the HGFS server (for shared folders) causes VMware Tools to crash randomly with the error: Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
• New VMs have the same location UUID and MAC address so that the UUID and MAC address are not unique. This problem occurs with WS 9 and WS 10 VMs but not WS 7 and WS 8 VMs.
• On RHEL 6.6, vmmon cannot be loaded due to incompatible kernel symbol versions. With gcc, kernel-headers, kernel-devel installed, vmmon module will be recompiled automatically.
• Memory leak by the process vmtoolsd.exe when the guest NIC is disabled causes memory consumption by Workstation processes to increase over time.
• When USB devices are autoconnected with a hub to a Renesas host controller, the devices are not redirected to the guest.
• WS 11 license is accepted by WS 10.0.5 and future 10.0 updates.
• When WS is installed on Linux in a non-default location, the Virtual Network Editor fails to run.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 5 May 2015

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• Fixed a problem when uploading a virtual machine with Workstation 10.0.x to ESXi 6.0.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 2 July 2015

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• Security fixes
• Last version for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 on hosts
• Final version to support 32-bit Windows editions on hosts

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 1 December 2014

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• Added support of Windows 10, Ubuntu 14.10, RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Fedora 20 and Debian 7.6
• VMware hardware version 11
• 2 GB Video memory per VM
• Connection to VMware vCloud Air

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 17 February 2015

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• Added support for VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
• Bug fixes:
• A Linux guest OS booted on EFI firmware sometimes failed to respond to the keyboard and mouse if any mouse motion occurred during a short window of time during OS boot.
• Outlook 2010 would occasionally crash when running in Unity mode.
• You could not compact or defragment a persistent disk.
• The UI sometimes crashed when a user copied and pasted a file between two Windows guests.
• Rendering corruption in UI elements in Fedora 20 guests with 3D enabled.
• When creating a new virtual machine with SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12, the Easy Install path was not available.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 9 June 2015

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• Critical security fix for {{CVE|2012-0897|2015-2336|2015-2337|2015-2338|2015-2339|2015-2340|2015-2341}}
• VMware Workstation and Horizon Client TPView.ddl and TPInt.dll incorrectly handle memory allocation. On Workstation, this may allow a guest to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS that runs Workstation.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 15 June 2015

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• Security Issues
• VMware Workstation 11.1.2 has been updated to OpenSSL library version openssl-1.0.1m.
• Bug Fixes
• Two interface items on the Access Control screen used the same hot-key combination.
• Attempting to suspend a Windows virtual machine with the Sensor Diagnostic Tool running caused the virtual machine to become unresponsive.
• Using audio conferencing software on a Windows 8 guest operating system caused a severe echo during both video and audio calls.
• On the Windows 95 guest operating system, the mouse cursor jumped.
• Symbolic links created within a Windows guest operating system on a Linux host did not list files under subdirectories.
• Workstation did not display Regions in the VMware vCloud Air Subscription node.
• Workstation could not automatically detect the Fedora 21 ISO when creating a new Fedora 21 virtual machine.
• Under specific conditions, when the alipaybsm.exe file was installed on the Workstation host, network service was disrupted.
• After connecting to vCloud Air from Workstation, no virtual machines were listed in the Workstation virtual machine library.
• Using Easy Install for the Ubuntu 15.04 guest operating system with kernel 3.19.0-15-generic prevented you from enabling folder sharing.
• Reverting to a snapshot failed following a specific set of steps.
• A Windows 10 guest operating system running idly caused Workstation to crash.
• Using the Easy Install option to install the Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 15.04 guest operating system failed to install VMware Tools.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 24 August 2015

| The following features have reached end of life in Workstation 12 Pro and have been removed:

• Unity mode on Linux guest and host operating systems
• Virtual Debugger Visual Studio
• Connection to the VMware vCloud Air subscription service

Added support for, amongst other things:

• Later operating system versions, including Windows 10
• DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3
• IPv6 NAT

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 29 October 2015

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• Bug fixes
• Last version for Windows Server 2008 R2 on hosts

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 8 December 2015

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 21 April 2016

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 27 October 2016

| Bug fixes, security updates for undisclosed vulnerabilities and performance improvements.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 13 November 2016

| This release of VMware Workstation 12 Pro addresses an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability related to the drag-and-drop feature. This may allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs VMware Workstation 12 Pro.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 9 March 2017

| Bug fixes, security updates, and performance improvements.

• Workstation Pro fails to launch on a Linux platform that uses kernel 4.9.0
• Occasionally, the Workstation Pro user interface crashes in Workstation 12 Pro version 12.5 and displays an error
• When you use a USB device that does not follow USB specifications in a virtual machine in USB passthrough mode, the guest becomes unusable
• You cannot connect a parallel port to a virtual machine
• Connecting an Active Braille device to the virtual machines fails
• After users execute Active FTP in the guest operating system, the vmnat.exe process continues to use a TCP port of the host
• ThinPrint technology does not work in a Windows XP guest operating system with VMware Tools 10.0.10
• VMware Tools service is not started in Ubuntu 16.10 guest
• You cannot use shared folders in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 virtual machine

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 14 March 2017

| This release addresses an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability related to the drag-and-drop feature. This vulnerability might allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs VMware Workstation 12 Pro.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 28 March 2017

| This release of VMware Workstation Pro addresses the following issues:

• VMware Workstation Pro has a heap buffer overflow and uninitialized stack memory usage in SVGA. These issues might allow a guest virtual machine to execute code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers {{CVE|2017-4902}} (heap issue) and {{CVE|2017-4903}} (stack issue) to these issues.
• The VMware Workstation Pro XHCI driver has uninitialized memory usage. This issue might allow a guest virtual machine to execute code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier {{CVE|2017-4904}} to this issue.
• VMware Workstation Pro has uninitialized memory usage. This issue might lead to an information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier {{CVE|2017-4905}} to this issue.

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 18 May 2017

| This release includes the following highlights:

• Day 0 support of the Windows 10 Creators Update (v1703)
• Bug fixes and security updates

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 22 June 2017

| This release of VMware Workstation Pro includes some bug fixes and security updates.

| 16 November 2017

| Support added for:

• RHEL 7.4
• Oracle Linux 7.3

| 10 January 2018

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• This update of VMware Workstation Pro exposes hardware support for branch target injection mitigation to VMware guests. This hardware is used by some guest operating systems to mitigate {{CVE|2018-5715}} (also called by the name "Spectre").

|style="white-space:nowrap;" | 26 September 2017

| This major version release includes the following highlights:

• Updated to support the newest versions of Microsoft Windows 10 (including Enterprise), and Windows Server editions, as well as various Linux distributions
• Updated support for the latest Intel and AMD processors and limited or no support for pre-2011 CPUs
• Improved virtual firmware support, such as UEFI, and new Secure Boot support
• Support for Virtualization Based Security (VBS)
• Improved Virtual Networking
• New and improved support and controls for working with vSphere and the vCenter Server Appliance
• Network latency simulator
• New remote vSphere controls
• Last version for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 on hosts

| 21 December 2017

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• This release delivers improved guest support of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (v1709)

| 9 January 2018

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• This update of VMware Workstation Pro exposes hardware support for branch target injection mitigation to VMware guests. This hardware is used by some guest operating systems to mitigate {{CVE|2018-5715}} (also called by the name "Spectre").

| 21 May 2018

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• This update delivers guest access to the SSBD feature in IA32_SPEC_CTRL.
• This release delivers improved guest support of Windows 10 Spring Creators Update (v1803)
• Ubuntu 18.04 support as host and guest

| 14 August 2018

| 11 September 2018

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• VMware Workstation Pro has an uninitialized stack memory usage vulnerability in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter that might allow a guest to execute code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6981 to this issue.

| 23 November 2018

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• VMware Workstation Pro contains an integer overflow vulnerability in the virtual network devices which may allow a guest to execute code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6983 to this issue.

| 14 March 2019

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This release of VMware Workstation Pro addresses the following issues:

• Workstation does not handle paths appropriately. This may allow the path to the VMX executable, on a Windows host, to be hijacked by a non-administrator leading to elevation of privilege. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2019-5511 to this issue.
• COM classes are not handled appropriately. This may allow hijacking of COM classes used by the VMX process, on a Windows host, leading to elevation of privilege. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2019-5512 to this issue.

| 29 March 2019

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• Workstation contains an out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability and a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the virtual USB UHCI (Universal Host Controller Interface). These issues may allow a guest to execute code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifiers CVE-2019-5518 (out-of-bounds read/write) and CVE-2019-5519 (TOCTOU) to these issues.

| 12 November 2019

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This release of VMware Workstation Pro addresses the following issue:

• VMware Workstation Pro and Player versions 14.x and earlier failed to launch on Windows 10 1903 after Windows 10 KB updates were applied.

| 24 September 2018

| This major version release includes the following highlights:

• Support for new Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise) as well as various Linux distributions
• 4K resolution.
• DirectX 10.1.
• Shared graphics memory limit increased to 3 GB.
• RESTful API to automate common virtual machine tasks using standard JSON over HTTP/HTTPS.
• This version adds new Hosts and Clusters view when connect to remote vSphere.
• USB devices can be connected automatically to a powered on virtual machine.
• SSH login to Linux virtual machine.
• Guest display stretch.
• Wayland protocol.
• Improves performance for virtual NVMe storage.

| 9 November 2018

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• Support for the new versions of various Linux distributions.
• Bug fixes and security updates.

| 22 November 2018

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• Support for new Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise) and Windows Server 2019.
• Bug fixes and security updates.

| 14 March 2019

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• Bug fixes and security updates.

| 29 March 2019

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• Bug fixes and security updates.

| 14 May 2019

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• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise)
• Ubuntu 19.04
• RHEL 8
• Fedora 30
• VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 2
• Guest display can be stretched for all guests running on Windows hosts.
• Bug fixes and security updates

| 19 September 2019

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• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise)
• Debian 9.11 & 10
• Oracle Linux 8.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• FreeBSD 12.0
• PhotonOS 3.0
• Virtual networks with configurable MTU up to 9 000 bytes
• Allows to save network settings after upgrades and to import and export network configurations
• VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controllers (PVSCSI)
• Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools), previously known as VMWare Tools, is made default for applicable Linux guests in this version
• Bug fixes and security updates.

| 12 November 2019

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• Bug fixes and security updates

| 12 March 2020

| 28 May 2020

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• VMware Workstation 15.5.5 now runs on Windows hosts with Hyper-V features (For example: virtualization based security) enabled.
• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise)
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Fedora 32
• Bug fixes and security updates

| 9 June 2020

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• Bug fixes and security updates

| 19 November 2020

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• Bug fixes and security updates
• Last version for Windows 7 on hosts

|15 September 2020

|This major version release includes the following highlights:

• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise)
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Fedora 32
• Debian 10.5
• RHEL 8.2
• CentOS 8.2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 GA
• FreeBSD 11.4
• VMware ESXi 7.0
• DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1
• USB 3.2 Gen 2 controller (up to 10 Gbit/s)
• VMs up to 32 virtual CPUs, 128 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM
• Dark Mode in Windows 10
• vSphere 7.0 compatibility
• VMs security enhanced by removing graphics render from vmx and running it as a separate sandbox process
• Improves file transfer speeds (drag and drop, copy and paste), VMs shutdown time and virtual NVMe storage performance
• Improves accessibility (compliant with WCAG 2.1 criteria)
• The deprecation of shared VMs and restricted VMs features
• Bug fixes

|19 November 2020

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• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 10 builds (including Enterprise)
• Ubuntu 20.10
• Fedora 33
• RHEL 8.3
• vctl kind updated to support Kubernetes IN Docker v0.9.0
• Docker Machine VMware Driver (docker-machine-driver-vmware)
• Bug fixes

|1 April 2021

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• Bug fixes
• VMNet driver related security improvements

|17 May 2021

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• Security updates

|14 October 2021

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• Added support for Vulkan renderer on a Linux host with Intel, Nvidia, and AMD GPUs
• Added partial support for Windows 11 as host or guest machines{{Cite web |last=Michael |first=Roy |date=October 14, 2021 |title=Workstation 16.2 Now Available |url=https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2021/10/workstation-16-2-now-available.html}}
• Host GPUs that do not support DirectX feature level 11.1 are supported but deprecated https://us.informatiweb-pro.net/virtualization/vmware/vmware-workstation-17-16-3d-acceleration-disabled-directx-11-1-not-supported-solution.html
• Host CPUs that do not support Mode-based Execution Control are supported but deprecated
• Security updates and bug fixes

|9 November 2021

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• Bug fixes

|18 January 2022

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• Security updates

|10 March 2022

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• Bug fixes

|21 July 2022

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• Bug fixes

|7 December 2022

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• Bug fixes
• Last version for Windows 8.1 on hosts

|17 November 2022

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• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 11 builds (including Enterprise)
• Windows Server 2022
• Ubuntu 22.04
• RHEL 9
• Debian 11.x
• New auto-start virtual machine feature
• New virtual Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0
• New full or fast encryption features
• Support for OpenGL 4.3 and WDDM 1.2
• Bug fixes

|2 February 2023

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• Security updates and bug fixes

|25 April 2023

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• Security updates and bug fixes

|19 October 2023

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• Support for up to 256 NVMe devices (4 controllers and 64 devices per controller)
• Support for NVMe 1.3
• Upgraded encryption algorithm from CBC to XTS
• New {{code|VMRUN}} command line utility for controlling virtual machines
• Support for importing or exporting virtual machines with vTPM device
• Support for managing power operations of encrypted virtual machines using VMREST API
• Security updates and bug fixes

|27 February 2024

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• Fixed CVE-2024-22251 vulnerability

|14 May 2024

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• Copyrights of program now link to Broadcom, VMware LLC's new owner
• Introduced commercial and personal use subscriptions licensing model. For personal use, a product key won't be required
• Workstation Player was discontinued as Workstation Pro became free for personal use
• Fixed CVE-2024-22267, CVE-2024-22268, CVE-2024-22269, and CVE-2024-22270 vulnerabilities
• Last version for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 on hosts

|3 September 2024

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• Support for new guest operating systems
• New Microsoft Windows 11 builds (including Enterprise)
• Windows Server 2025
• Ubuntu 24.04
• Fedora 40
• New {{code|vmcli}} command line utility for directly interacting with the hypervisor from a Linux or macOS terminal, or the Windows command prompt

Removed features:

• Legacy operating systems Tools ISOs omitted from program download (still available for separate download)
• Bluetooth hub pass-through
• Physical parallel port pass-through
• Unity mode
• Enhanced keyboard driver

|10 October 2024

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• Bug fixes

|17 December 2024

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• Bug fixes
• Introduced a free licensing model for commercial, education, and personal use

|4 March 2025

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• Fixed CVE-2025-22224 and CVE-2025-22226 vulnerabilities
• Bug fixes

|+Current operating systems compatibility matrix

| 16.2 and later{{Cite web|url=https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80807|title=Supported host operating systems for Workstation Pro 16.x, 17.x and Workstation Player 16.x, 17.x (80807)|date=2022-11-18|work=VMware Knowledge Base|access-date=2024-10-10}}

| 16.0 and later

| 17.6 and later

| 17.0 and later

| 15.5 and later

| Varies{{r|support1}}{{Cite web|url=https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2088579|title=Supported host operating systems for VMware Workstation (2088579)|date=September 25, 2018|work=VMware Knowledge Base|access-date=January 26, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2129859|title=Supported host operating systems for Workstation Pro 12.x, 14.x and 15.x (2129859)|date=September 24, 2018|work=VMware Knowledge Base|access-date=January 26, 2019}}

|+Legacy operating systems compatibility matrix

| 15.5.5 and later

| 14.1.8 and later

| 15.0 and later

| 14.0 and later

| 14.0–15.5{{r|support3}}

| 15.0–15.5{{r|support3}}

| 12.5–14.0{{r|support3}}

| 11.0–14.0{{r|support3}}

| 10.0–16.2{{r|support1}}

| 9.0–14.0{{r|support3}}

| 7.1–15.5{{r|support3}}

| 6.0–10.0

| 3.0–10.0{{Cite web|url=https://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/whatsnew_ws.html|title=VMware Workstation 3.2|work=VMware|access-date=January 26, 2019}}

| 2.0–6.5{{Cite web|url=https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/vmware-workstation-20|title=VMware Workstation 2.0|website=ITProToday|author=William F. Katz|date=January 16, 2001|access-date=January 26, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.vmware.com/support/ws65/doc/releasenotes_ws650.html|title=VMware Workstation 6.5.0 Release Notes|work=VMware|date=October 15, 2008|access-date=January 26, 2019}}

| 1.0–4.5

| 14.0–17.5{{r|support1}}

| 10.0–17.5{{r|support1}}

| 9.0–14.0{{r|support3}}

| 8.0–12.0{{r|support3}}

| 6.0–10.0

| 6.0–10.0

| 4.0–10.0{{Cite web|url=https://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/intro_supguest_ws.html|title=VMware Workstation 4.0|work=VMware|access-date=January 26, 2019}}