This page contains the release notes for RealVNC Connect 8.4.0 / 8.4.1, including details of new features, improvements and fixes included in the release.

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Release Date

April 2026

Changes

• NEW: Teams using Entra ID SSO can now authenticate device connections with their Entra credentials. Admins can configure this through policy and manage access using Entra ID groups.

• NEW: Connections to 3rd party VNC servers can now be made from the RealVNC Connect app. (Only available on Essentials, Plus, Premium, and Enterprise plans).

• NEW: You can now use the F8 menu to send the username from your connection directly to the Windows logon screen. This is an advanced parameter and requires enabling to use.

• FIXED: The proxy settings page is now accessible from the sign in screen.

• FIXED: Connecting to devices with multiple monitors will no longer cause app crashes.

• FIXED: Enabling the DisableClose setting now prevents the Stop RealVNC Server tray icon/menu action from being used.

• FIXED: Corrupted user preferences files will no longer cause connection issuses and will be automatically repaired.

• FIXED: An issue preventing RealVNC Connect for Linux from starting successfully when installed on a device using NFS-mounted home directories with root squash enabled.

Improved security protections

This release includes additional security hardening to help protect against unauthorised code being loaded into the application on Windows systems.

By default, the application will now only load trusted, Microsoft‑signed system components, reducing the risk of malicious software interfering with the application at runtime.

This protection is enabled automatically. In rare cases where compatibility issues are encountered, it can be disabled using the RestrictedMode=0 setting. For more information, please see our Help Center article here.