2.8.2 Release Notes

Date: April 9, 2026

Features

Windows Specific

• Users can now launch Verify Privilege Vault Session Connector launchers directly from Verify Privilege Vault Remote. See Launchers for more information.

• Users can now update the Debug configuration without admin rights. See Log Files for more information.

• Users can now install Verify Privilege Vault Remote without admin rights on Windows. See Installing on Windows for more information.

MacOS Specific

• FIDO2 WebAuthn authentication is now available on MacOS, which enables secure passwordless authentication using hardware security keys, biometrics or platform authenticators during remote RDP sessions. See Authenticating With WebAuthn for more information.

• The RDP experience on MacOS was upgraded for improved usability and convenience including the ability to resize without initiating a reconnect flow. The updated FreeRDP version now supports auto-resize. See Desktop Size and Auto Expand for more information.

Improvements

• Users now have more consistency between application configuration and CLI installation settings with the ability to insert command line arguments during installation. See Command Line Arguments for more information.

• User configuration settings are now preserved between upgrades.

• Added connection failed reason for INFO log level.

• Updated the password copy notification for property panel.

• Verify Privilege Vault Remote now offers unicode clipboard support.

Windows Specific

• Users may now modify RDP rendering settings in order to reduce memory. See RDP Rendering Settings for more information.

• Application configuration settings along with their values were moved from the Application Configuration file to the Registry on Windows. See Application Configuration via Windows Registry Editor for more information.

• Users now have configuration options for external browser authentication including incognito mode so users can automatically close authentication tabs, authenticate with multiple accounts, adjust authentication window location, etc. See Customizing External Browser Authentication and Authenticating to Verify Privilege Vault via External Browser for more information.

MacOS Specific

• Verify Privilege Vault Remote now supports MacOS 26 (Tahoe).

• Addressed scaling issues with MacOS icons.

Fixed Issues

Windows Specific

• Fixed an issue where the IWA would not allow refresh tokens for Verify Privilege Vault Remote. [701833]

• Fixed an issue where the AVBlocks library was using the http protocol instead of https. [636930]

• Fixed an issue where sessions launched with the SAP launcher were not recorded correctly. [668994]

• Fixed an issue where token refresh after expiry was causing an error to occur. [652745]

• Fixed an issue where audit logs were showing a "Launcher did not start" error. [660209]

• Fixed an issue where Verify Privilege Vault Remote was throwing an ObjectDisposedException error during session video upload via Distributed Engine/Proxy. [714249]

• Fixed an issue where sessions with Session Monitoring launched via Verify Privilege Vault Remote were a showing "Launcher did not start" error. [649218]

• Fixed an issue where Verify Privilege Vault auditing was affected when connecting to a machine that does not exist. [713693]

MacOS Specific

• Fixed an issue where Verify Privilege Vault Remote would launch a secret with an incorrect launcher. [704562]

• Fixed an issue where Verify Privilege Vault Remote failed to launch connections with certain username formats. [704582]

• Fixed an issue where Verify Privilege Vault Remote would display an error after signing out from an RDP session guarded by MFA. [698144]

• Fixed and issue where copy-paste from remote to local device caused instability issues on Verify Privilege Vault Remote. [648913]

Known Issues

• Verify Privilege Vault Remote does not preserve collapsed state after upgrade from 1.9.2 to the latest version. [674591]

 

For your application settings to be automatically migrated from the configuration file to the Registry, you need to run Verify Privilege Vault Remote as an administrator. [699913]