This morning, when starting VMware Workstation 8.0.4, it indicated that 9.0.0 was available.
No news on the VMware website (it still shows adverts for Workstation 8), nor on Wikipedia VMware Workstation page so is their auto-update system in an identity crisis or what?
Two links on VMware Workstation 9.0.0 Build 812388, but not sure if nsane is a good source of information. On the other hand, there is also news on the Bulgarian Kaldata about VMware Player 5.0.0 Build 812388.
Since VMware Player and Workstation share build numbers, and there has been a VMware Workstation Technology Preview 2012 for about 6 months, something could be in the midst of release in time zones where it is not yet 20120823.
VMware workstation checks https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds and https://ueip.vmware.com/, but I didn’t decrypt the traffic there yet.
Anyone with the latest official news on this?
Edit 20120823 0631UTC:
Two links I just found:
- https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation/9_0
- https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/5_0
So yes, there was a temporary 2b || !2b crisis in the update service.
Edit 20120823 0711UTC:
Now it is 20120823 in California too, so now the VMware Workstation pages and VMware Workstation What”s new pages got updated and shows that VMware Workstation 9 is out.
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