Fusion 3.0.1 was released this morning. For those running on 3.0, the auto-update-check should let you know that a new version is available. You can download the new version here.
As always, here’s the what’s new from the release notes:
VMware Fusion 3.0.1 is a maintenance release of VMware Fusion 3. It is a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 3 customers, and provides the following enhancements and fixes:
Highlighted New and Improved Features
- Faster 3D performance, with Windows Experience scores 20-80% faster than before on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Reduced time for resuming virtual machines
- Supports import of standalone VHD disks into VMware virtual machines
- Supports import of Parallels Desktop 5 virtual machines into VMware virtual machines
- New 64-bit native networking subsystem to match the 64-bit native engine
- PC Migration Agent and Migration Assistant Improvements
- Adds support for Windows Server 2008 R2
- Installer localized into all supported languages
- Shows progress that VMware Tools are being installed in last step of migrating the PC
- Does not automatically show the PC Migration Agent application in the resulting virtual machine
- Adds only one network adapter to imported PC virtual machines
- Unity View Improvements
- “Always On” Applications menu defaults to the active virtual machine, and if more than one virtual machine is running, the menu defaults to the one that has focus
- Fixes a problem in which the “Always On” Application menu was not populated in some cases
- Improves the Aero-in-Unity experience with better interactive performance and easier readability of window titles
- Improves Unity view interactive performance for 32-bit Windows applications running on 64-bit Windows operating systems
- Ability to dismiss system tray menus in Unity view with only one click
- Small mouse wheel scroll increments work correctly in Unity view
- Fixes keyboard focus issues in Unity view when multiple windows are opened and closed
- Fixes a problem in which Adobe Fireworks, Photoshop, and some other applications would drop out of Unity view, causing the Waiting for Unity window to appear
- Fixes a problem in which VMware Fusion would fail when processing very large icons from Windows applications
- Fixes a problem in which VMware Fusion could not create Windows applications in the dock for those with really long application names
- Shared/Mirrored Folders Improvements
- Outlook 2007 preview works with Mirrored Folders enabled
- Applications no longer crash when saving exceedingly long path and file names with mapped drives
- Saving files in shared folders with a PC using ZoneAlarm antivirus software no longer causes Windows to fail
- WDDM (Windows Vista and Windows 7) Graphics Improvements
- Windows Experience graphics scores are 20-80% better than VMware Fusion 3.0
- Greatly improved HD video playback for Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Older games (including Diablo II, Homeworld, and others) play now on Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Windows Media Player no longer stretches video
- Fuzzy text in Windows Aero is fixed
- Interactive performance on ATI video cards with Aero is greatly improved in combination with Mac OS X 10.6.2
- Windows 7 no longer boots to an incorrect resolution
General Graphics Improvements
- Fixes fuzzy text in WPF applications
- Improved 3D performance
- Linux Improvements
- Adds support for Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit and 64-bit editions, including Easy Install and Unity view
- Fixes choppy sound problems with newest Linux guests with kernel version 2.6.30+
- Fixes Easy Install problems when double quotes were used in password
- Improves Tools support for latest 2.6.z kernels
- FreeBSD Improvements
- Prebuilt modules for FreeBSD 8.x
- Mac OS X Server Improvements
- Faster boot times for Mac OS X Server guests
- Other Fixes and Improvements
- Multicore support for Windows 7 works correctly for all editions of Windows 7. Previously it did not work for Windows Home Premium, Home Basic, and Starter editions
- Fixes a performance problem in which Spotlight would continually search the Mac for virtual machines when the Virtual Machine Library was left open, causing slow downs
- Fixes a problem in which the VMware Tools included with VMware Fusion 2.0.5 would not be updated correctly
- Fixes a problem in which it was not possible to use a CD drive on certain hardware-specific versions of Mac OS X 10.6.1. This is also fixed by upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6.2
- Fixes a problem in which the ThinPrint driver would cause printing problems in 64-bit Windows Boot Camp partitions
- Favorite virtual machine opens correctly when launching VMware Fusion 3
- Contains a fix for Link State Propagation for bridged networking that previously failed, in some cases, after installing VMware Fusion 3.0
- Fixes a problem in which you could not switch Spaces desktops away from a full-screen virtual machine if the Full Screen view title bar was hidden
- Fixes miscellaneous memory leaks in the VMware Fusion UI and during AutoProtect snapshots
- Speeds up navigation in the Virtual Machine Library when you have 10 or more virtual machines
- Removes console log spew by VMware Fusion Helper
- In the Preview window, the View mode buttons show enabled and selected state
- Fixes black flash when suspending a virtual machine in Single Window view
- Virtual Machine Library and Preview window previously had poor quality for European language users