14 DAY TRIAL // Apple this week seeded a new beta version of its Remote Desktop utility for Mac testers, adding some new fixes but also listing some newly emerged bugs.
Apple Remote Desktop 3.7 is not yet finalized, but Apple is hard at work ironing out all the bugs to ship the software later this year. It adds support for OS X Mavericks, so whenever Apple decides to ship one piece of software, the other will launch as well.
The new Remote Desktop allows automatic copy and paste between local and remote computers during screen sharing sessions, this being one of the key additions in the new version, which is not yet ready for general consumption.
Version 3.7 also improves support for multiple displays and supports managing computers with multiple IP addresses, according to people who are familiar with the software.
The newest build, labeled as 370A54 on Apple’s developer portal, includes some noteworthy changes, but also a few known issues that need to be fixed sooner rather than later.
According to those who’ve seen the software (and the seed notes), focus areas include: “sharing the display(s) of an administrator’s computer or another computer; controlling, observing and multi-observing of remote computers; generating reports; and performing tasks for multiple client computers.”
The same people enumerate the following known issues: “multi-observe may fail to connect to some computers; screens in multi-observe may become very small with many computers per page; the lock message sheet may not draw properly after entering and exiting curtain mode multiple times.”
Issues fixed in this release range from Remote Desktop unexpectedly quitting in certain scenarios to issues preventing the task notification script from functioning.
Apple has also improved the performance of carouseling in multi-observe, according to the release notes.