Important Releases and KB Updates
- The VMworld 2021 Content Catalog Is Now Live
- 600+ sessions, 8 learning tracks, hands-on labs, access to experts and more.
- Browse the catalog now and find out more about the exciting sessions at VMworld 2021
- Navigate to: https://myevents.vmware.com/widget/vmware/vmworld2021/catalog
- Third-Party SDK apps Package Visibility for Android API level 30 (85161)
- Android SDK 21.5 onwards supports apps targeting Android 11. Starting from November 2021 all app updates will be required to target Android API level 30.
- The purpose of this article is to help third-party SDK apps targetting API 30 with package visibility.
- To comply with Android 11, SDK 21.5 has made the following changes:
- Support Android 11 Package visibility
- Apps targeting API level 30, are restricted to query about the installed apps on the system. This is done to minimize the sensitive information shared by the apps, which is not required. Client SDK 21.5 has included a query parameter to support this behavior.
- Changes in Network libraries
- If the app is using AWOkHttpClient, it’s preferable to set the trust manager. This is in accordance with the latest update for okhttpclient library – 4.9.0
- AWHttpClient is a wrapper class for DefaultHttpClient
- This is deprecated and advised to use AWUrlConnection.
- Support Android 11 Package visibility
- KB-Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/85161?lang=en_US
- Article Update: Getting Ready for Android 12 (82775)
- As of February 18th, 2021, the Android 12 developer preview is available for users on Pixel devices.
- Updated Section:
- VMware Workspace ONE Console support for Android 12
VMware automatically updates the device seed data in our Workspace ONE UEM Console on SaaS to support Android 12 enrollments, enrollment restrictions, and any filters targeting Android 12.
In case the seed data is needed for an On-Premise environment, the cumulative seed data update script below can be used to support Android 12.https://resources.workspaceone.com/view/gcbjqx3jlwq5krkx9v3p
- VMware Workspace ONE Console support for Android 12
- Full KB Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/82775?lang=en_US
- Techzone, Podcast and Blog Updates
- What is the Horizon Cloud Connector and why is it so important?
- Updating the Horizon Cloud Connector Certificates
- Deploying and Pairing the Horizon Cloud Connector
- Microsoft Teams Optimization Is Now Available for VMware Horizon Client on Linux Endpoints
- Horizon Cloud Connector Know-How Series: Monitoring Horizon Cloud Connector with SNMP
- Enabling Registered Mode for Windows 10 And DEEM – Feature Walk-through
- Techzone Podcast: iOS and Android Multi-User with Imprivata
- What’s New in Horizon 8 (2106)
- Industry, Third Party and Partner Blog Updates
- Week 29 Software Updates

- Component: WS1 Assist for Android
- New Release: 21.07
- Changes:
- One version will support Android OS 4.4 only with TLS 1.2 enabled. This will function in the unattended privacy mode only. (Unattended- KITKAT 21.07.00.08)
- The second version will support Android OS 5.0 and above only and contain bug fixes for this release. (Attended 21.07.00.08 / Unattended 21.07.00.08)
- Android OS 5.0 and aboveVMware Workspace ONE Assist 21.07 for Android (Attended) – https://resources.workspaceone.com/view/k6r9yt8zjbch39fcpr2d/en
- VMware Workspace ONE Assist 21.07 for Android (Unattended) – https://resources.workspaceone.com/view/7zm2kd9twpvsn2nz4w84/en
- Android OS 4.4 onlyVMware Workspace ONE Assist 21.07 for Android KitKat (Unattended) – https://resources.workspaceone.com/view/xdhykqlm5stg6pgjnfyh/en
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: WS1 Intelligent Hub for macOS
- New Release: 21.07
- Changes:
- App Catalog Reinstall Improvements
- The reinstall button in the Hub App Catalog has been improved to perform a forceful reinstall, regardless of existing application install state. This behavior will apply to both UEM Internal Apps and Apple Business Manager (VPP) apps.
- Parallel Downloads for Software Distribution
- Intelligent Hub will now process Internal App downloads in parallel to speed up deployment times of software provisioning. Depending on network capacity, Hub will now download up to 3 items at the same time, instead of one by one.
- App Restrictions Improvements
- App & Process Restrictions was released as part of macOS Intelligent Hub 21.04 to block specific software from running on a managed device. In the 21.07 release, administrators now can target apps using the main app bundle path, rather than the app binary path within the bundle
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: WS1 Content for Android
- New Release: 21.07
- Changes:
- Updated user experience in Settings: Accounts, enable features, feedback, support and about
- Update user experience for notifications
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: WS1 Intelligent Hub for Windows
- New Release: 21.07
- Changes:
- ARES-19367: Not able to Install Patch to the already Installed Application
- CRSVC-23081: Baseline status is pending reboot after reapply
- HUBW-5643: After upgrade to 21.05, workflows shows as blocked for user context apps only on Pure Azure OOBE enrolled devices
- HUBW-5651: Add Drive Letter check in disk encryption sample
- HUBW-5652: Citrix app launch fails with Windows Hub 21.05
- HUBW-5655: Issues with the 21.05 agent for Windows where Groups randomly fail in Workflows.
- HUBW-5658: Workflow execution failing with no response from powershell
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: WS1 SDK for iOS
- New Release: 21.7
- Changes:
- Additional SDK logging is added for troubleshooting biometric related logs
- iOS 15 Beta 2 – iPAD on iPadOS – Dynamic JailBreak False Positive is fixed
- iOS 15.0 Beta – Fixed where Biometric authentication had stopped working when alternate faceID was added
- Fixed SDK Apps crash with XCode 13 beta with Older device running on iOS 15 beta when proxy is used.
- Release Date: 20.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: Workspace ONE UEM
- New Release: 20.5.0.50
- Changes:
- Patch Update
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: Workspace ONE UEM
- New Release: 20.8.0.31
- Changes:
- Patch Update
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes

- Component: Workspace ONE UEM
- New Release: 21.5.0.7
- Changes:
- Patch Update
- Release Date: 21.07.21
- Release Notes