-#open-vm-tools 10.0.0 Release Notes
-
-Updated on 1 SEP 2015
-##What's in the Release Notes
-The release notes cover the following topics:
-
-- What's New
-- Internationalization
-- Compatibility
-- Installation and Upgrades for This Release
-- Known Issues
-
-##What's New
-VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release below:
-
-- **Common versioning**: Infrastructure changes to enable reporting of the true version of open-vm-tools. This feature is dependent on host support.
-- **Quiesced snapshots enhancements for Linux guests running IO workload**: Robustness related enhancements in quiesced snapshot operation. The _vmtoolsd_ service supports caching of log messages when guest IO has been quiesced. Enhancements in the _vmbackup_ plugin use a separate thread to quiesce the guest OS to avoid timeout issues due to heavy I/O in the guest.
-- **Shared Folders**: For Linux distributions with kernel version 4.0.0 and higher, there is a new FUSE based Shared Folders client which is used as a replacement for the kernel mode client.
-- **ESXi Serviceability**: Default _vmtoolsd_ logging is directed to a file instead of syslog. _vmware-toolbox-cmd_ is enhanced for setting _vmtoolsd_ logging levels.
-- **GuestInfo Enhancements**: Plugin enhancements to report more than 64 IP addresses from the guest. These enhancements will be available only after upgrading the host because the guest IP addresses limit also exists on the host side.
-
-## Internationalization
-open-vm-tools 10.0.0 supports the following languages:
-
-- English
-- French
-- German
-- Spanish
-- Italian
-- Japanese
-- Korean
-- Simplified Chinese
-- Traditional Chinese
-
-## Compatibility
-open-vm-tools 10.0.0 is compatible with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.0 and VMware Fusion 8.0.
-## Installation and Upgrades for This Release
-The steps to install open-vm-tools vary depending on your VMware product and the guest operating system you have installed. For general steps to install open-vm-tools in most VMware products, see https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/README.md
-## Known Issues
-The known issues are as follows:
-
-- **The status of IPv6 address is displayed as "unknown"**
-
- The status of IPv6 address from vim-cmd is displayed as "unknown" even when the address is valid.
-
- Workaround: None
-- **TextCopyPaste between host and guest systems fail**
-
- Copy and Paste of text between host and guest systems fail if the text size 50KB or higher.
-
- Workaround: Copy and Paste smaller amounts of text.
-- **Definition of the field _ipAddress_ in guestinfo is ambiguous**
-
- The field _ipAddress_ is defined as "Primary IP address assigned to the guest operating system, if known".
-
- Workaround: The field _ipAddress_ in this context for Linux is defined as the first IP address fetched by open-vm-tools.
+# Open-vm-tools 11.3.0 Release Notes
+
+Updated on: 17 JUN 2021
+
+Open-vm-tools | 17 JUN 2021 | Build 17901274
+
+Check back for additions and updates to these release notes.
+
+What's in the Release Notes
+---------------------------
+
+The release notes cover the following topics:
+
+* [What's New](#whatsnew)
+* [Internationalization](#i18n)
+* [End of Feature Support Notice](#endoffeaturesupport)
+* [Guest Operating System Customization Support](#guestop)
+* [Interoperability Matrix](#interop)
+* [Resolved Issues](#resolvedissues)
+* [Known Issues](#knownissues)
+
+What's New
+----------
+
+* A small command line tool, **vmwgfxctrl**, has been added to open-vm-tools for Linux that can be used to control various aspects of the vmwgfx Linux kernel module. Currently it can both display and set the current topology of the vmwgfx kernel driver. It is useful when trying to configure custom resolutions on recent Linux distributions, including multi-monitor setups.
+* A command line tool, **vmware-alias-import**, has been added to open-vm-tools that can be used to import vgauth config data and apply it to the running vgauth service.
+
+Internationalization
+--------------------
+
+Open-vm-tools 11.3.0 is available in the following languages:
+
+* English
+* French
+* German
+* Spanish
+* Italian
+* Japanese
+* Korean
+* Simplified Chinese
+* Traditional Chinese
+
+End of Feature Support Notice
+-----------------------------
+
+* The tar tools (linux.iso) and OSPs shipped with VMware Tools 10.3.x release will continue to be supported. However, releases after VMware Tools 10.3.5 will only include critical and security fixes and no new feature support in these types of VMware Tools (tar tools and OSP's). It is recommended that customers use open-vm-tools for those operating systems that support open-vm-tools. For more information on different types of VMware Tools, see [https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/02/understanding-the-three-types-of-vm-tools.html](https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/02/understanding-the-three-types-of-vm-tools.html)
+
+Guest Operating System Customization Support
+--------------------------------------------
+
+The [Guest OS Customization Support Matrix](http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf) provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization.
+
+Interoperability Matrix
+-----------------------
+
+The [VMware Product Interoperability Matrix](http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php) provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware Products.
+
+Resolved Issues
+---------------
+
+* **Open-vm-tools does not report "per second rate" type of guest stats for Linux VMs with some non en-US locales.**
+
+ For Linux VMs with some non en-US locales (such as es\_ES locale), open-vm-tools does not report "per second rate" type of guest stats on vROps. For example, Guest|Page In Rate per second.
+
+ This issue is fixed in 11.3.0 open-vm-tools release. For earlier versions of open-vm-tools, the workaround is:
+
+ Add export LANG=en\_US.UTF-8 in vmtoolsd daemon start script.
+
+* A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed and some false positives have been annotated.
+
+* **The following issues and pull requests reported on [github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools) have been addressed:**
+<br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/509](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/509) <br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/505](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/505) <br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/500](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/500) <br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/481](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/481) <br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/474](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/474) <br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/446](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/446) <br>
+
+* **A complete list of the granular changes that are in the open-vm-tools 11.3.0 release is available at:**
+<br>
+ > [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-11.3.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-11.3.0/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog)
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+**Open-vm-tools Issues in VMware Workstation or Fusion**
+
+* **Shared Folders mount is unavailable on Linux VM.**
+
+ If the **Shared Folders** feature is enabled on a Linux VM while it is powered off, the shared folders mount is not available on restart.
+
+ Note: This issue is applicable to open-vm-tools running on Workstation and Fusion.
+
+ Workaround:
+
+ If the VM is powered on, disable and enable the **Shared Folders** feature from the interface. For resolving the issue permanently, edit **/etc/fstab** and add an entry to mount the Shared Folders automatically on boot. For example, add the line:
+
+ `
+ vmhgfs-fuse /mnt/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0
+ `
+
+* **Drag functionality fails to work in Ubuntu 16.04.**
+
+ Drag functionality fails to work in an Ubuntu 16.04.4 32-bit virtual machine installed using Easy Install. Also, failure of the copy and paste functionality is observed in the same system.
+
+ Note: This issue is applicable to open-vm-tools running on Workstation and Fusion.
+
+ Workaround:
+
+ * Add the modprobe.blacklist=vmwgfx linux kernel boot option.
+ * To gain access to larger resolutions, remove svga.guestBackedPrimaryAware = "TRUE" option from the VMX file.
+
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