TightVNC Server versions

TightVNC Server can be used to configure IP access control rules
2.7
Oct 7, 2014
Review
2.6
May 15, 2014
2.0
Nov 23, 2010
Review

What's new

v2.7 [Oct 7, 2014]
TightVNC 2.7.10
TightVNC Server
Now all displays are shown in Viewer when monitors are connected to different graphics cards, rather then showing only one.
No more cursor disappearing or freezing when an application window controlled remotely is dragged by its title bar.
TightVNC Viewer
Added detection of a Windows key press (alone or in combination with other keys), as well as Alt -Tab combination in the full-screen mode.
Improved a File transfer window: file listing in the directory is now case insensitive.
Added sorting of files by Name, Size or date Modified either in ascending or descending order.
For both Server and Viewer, performance gain is achieved when TightVNC encoding is used due to accelerated JPG encoding and decoding. It is noticeable mostly on old hardware configurations.
TightVNC 2.7.7
Server for Windows
Fixed a bug with multi-monitor configurations running on Windows 8. The main display can be safely set to any monitor in a row or column.
On Windows 8, data is no longer corrupted when the screen resolution is not divided by four (native resolution for some laptops).
No more issues on the Server side when a zero compression level is set in the Viewer settings (Options > Set custom compression level > level: 0).
Fixed incompatibility with older versions of TightVNC Viewer (1.3.10).
Viewer for Windows
Fixed a keyboard bug: it stopped working after a file transfer window is opened.
TightVNC 2.7.3
Server for Windows
Improved performance when the remote desktop is shown in its original size. Moreover, the image quality is now improved in case pixel-size checkerboard patterns are used.
Fixed an issue on connection to a server from a built-in remote desktop client on Mac.
You can safely change screen properties (resolution, etc.) on the server running on Windows.
No more bad desktop size issues if the server is running on Windows 7 (SP1) or Windows Server 2008 (SP1) while there are no drivers installed. A server can be run on a virtual machine as well.
Added more verbose logging (when a logging level is set to 9).
Optimized Tight encoding to work faster.
Increased speed of ZRLE encoding up to 25%.
Java Viewer
Fixed a compatibility issue with non-TightVNC servers (Mac remote desktop, UltraVNC) when ZRLE encoding is used.
Optimized memory usage when Tight or ZRLE encoding is used.

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