So what changed since a week ago? - skyo63

This is the first version having reached a Release Candidate status AFAIK

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Friday, November 30 2007 @ 11:08 AM PST

So what changed since a week ago? - mmueck

The answer to my own question appeared in the read me stuff during installation. Looks like it's still in Beta:

What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Release Candidate (Build 5580)
• Primary OS support - Leopard compatibility improvement
• Virtual devices - USB devices compatibility improvement (including National Instruments)
• Shared Applications and SmartSelect - Option 'Remove SmartSelect file associations' during Parallels Desktop uninstallation added

Bugfixes and improvements in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Release Candidate (Build 5580)
• Primary OS support
• Leopard support - improved
• Stability and resources usage
• Suspend and resume are extremely slow on Leopard - fixed
• Parallels Desktop hangs with spinning ball during suspending process - fixed
• Parallels Desktop crashes during long work in Coherence - fixed
• Several fatal errors during VM startup - fixed
• Guest BSOD after resume - fixed
• Parallels Desktop crashes during Fedora Core 6 booting - fixed
• Guest OS/2 Warp 3 hangs during installation - fixed
• Virtual devices
• CD tray on Mac Pro closed itself right after ejecting from guest - fixed
• Parallels NAT and Host-Only network adapters cannot be configured after wake up Mac from sleep - fixed
• USB floppy drive doesn't work in guest - fixed
• USB flash drives don't work in guest - fixed
• Some other USB fixes
• Parallels Tools
• Unicode symbols are incorrectly displayed in console of Linux guests - fixed
• SmartSelect and Shared Applications
• Windows applications can't be started via icons in Dock or from Recent Applications list - fixed
• Disks and folders sharing
• Problem with opening and saving file with spaces in name to shared folder - fixed
• File located on the mounted Windows disk can't be opened with Windows applications - fixed
• Video and 3D
• Parallels Desktop crashes when trying to start Vista default games - fixed
• Several applications compatibility fixes
• OpenGL fixes
• Parallels Explorer&Mounter
• Parallels Explorer can't find virtual machines stored in /Users/Shared - fixed
• Can't drag-n-drop alias files from Finder to mounted virtual disk - fixed
• Sometimes Explorer shows that virtual disk is empty - fixed
• Eplorer crashes when drag-n-drop folders to the empty column in Column view - fixed
• Can't copy files from Finder to mounted virtual disk when VM is running - fixed
• Saving files downloaded by Mac-side internet browser to mounted virtual disk - fixed

Known issues in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Release Candidate (Build 5580)
• Stability and resources usage
• Mounted USB device may seriously increase CPU usage
• Coherence
• Small artefacts in Expose' may appear
• Parallels Tools
• Parallels Tools Center sometimes may use 100% CPU after drag-and-drop operation
• Shared Applications and SmartSelect
• Shared Mac Applications may not be turned off
• Video and 3D
• Windows Media Player doesn`t work in IE on Vista
• Parallels Transporter
• Vista Boot Camp migration via network may fail (if Vista launched in Parallels Desktop)
• Applications compatibility
• TypeIt4Me causes unexpected operations in guest Windows

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Friday, November 30 2007 @ 11:14 AM PST