What's New​

• This release contains security updates and bug fixes.

• Vulkan Renderer Support for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia GPUs on Linux 
  Workstation 16.2.0 Pro supports Vulkan renderer on a Linux host with Intel, Nvidia, and AMD GPUs. Vulkan renderer provides support for Direct3D 11 (and earlier) and OpenGL 4.1 (and earlier) in the guest.
  
  The Vulkan renderer support is limited to the following GPUs:

  • Intel Skylake and later GPUs (for example, Kaby Lake and Ice Lake)

  • AMD RDNA/NAVI14 and later GPUs (for example, the Radeon RX/Pro 5300 and 5500 series)
    Note: Presently, for AMD GPUs, use the AMDVLK driver. You can download the AMDVLK driver from here: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/releases

  • Nvidia Turing and later GPUs (for example, the RTX series)
    Note: For pre-Turing GPUs, Workstation will use the legacy OpenGL renderer.

Important Fixes

This release of VMware Workstation Pro addresses the following issue:

• Implemented clipboard-related security improvements suggested by Albert Priego Bravo of Group-IB.

Product Support Notices

• The shared virtual machine feature is no longer supported from Workstation 16.2.0 Pro.

Prior Releases

Features and Known Issues from prior releases of VMware Workstation 16 Pro are described in the release notes for each release. To view the release notes for a prior release, click the appropriate link:

• VMware Workstation 16.1.2 Pro
• VMware Workstation 16.1.1 Pro