v4.1.2 (Beta)

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Highlights

• QEMU backend updated to v7.1.0
• (iOS) TrollStore build (UTM.HV.ipa) now supports JIT. Additionally, there is now in-app settings.
• (macOS) AppleScript (OSA) support and CLI interface. You can control parts of UTM through the OSA interface. Currently there is support for listing VMs as well as start/stop/suspend operations and the ability to print out the guest serial port connections. More functionality will be added in the future. A command line application is also provided in UTM.app/Contents/MacOS/utmctl (which you can symlink to /usr/local/bin/utmctl if desired) that can be used for automation tasks without needing to learn AppleScript.
• (macOS 13+) Menu bar extra. You can enable the menu bar extra icon in Preferences (Cmd+,) as well as disable the dock icon. The menu bar extra provides a minimal interface to start/stop/suspend VMs and is useful when paired with headless VMs (a VM that does not have any display or terminal console installed).

Notes

• iOS 14 and macOS 11.3 are the minimum supported systems for UTM v4.x. Please use UTM v3.x for support down to iOS 11 and macOS 11
• The configuration backend has been massively rewritten. Please backup all VMs prior to updating as you will not be able to re-open VMs saved by UTM v4 on older versions of UTM if you decide to downgrade.

Changes (v4.1.2)

• Localization: updated Spanish (Latin America) (thanks @JezerM)
• Localization: updated Japanese (thanks @MMP0 and @skyarrow87)
• Localization: updated Chinese Simplified (thanks @changanmoon)
• (iOS) Fix new VM wizard not appearing on < iOS 14.5 (Bug in Beta | Can't create vm's on v4.1.X from the main menu #4776)
• (macOS) Implement OSA interface for AppleScript
• (macOS) Introduce a CLI application (UTM.app/Contents/MacOS/utmctl) that wraps around the OSA interface for automation
• (macOS 13+) New settings option to enable a menu bar extra icon for controlling VMs
• (macOS 13+) New settings option to disable the dock icon
• (macOS) Fix various alignment issues in settings (Config window text and control elements alignment issues (again) #4596) (thanks @JezerM)
• (macOS) Fix a crash when the pasteboard is updated (Crash in NSPasteboard #4745)
• (macOS) Support custom resolutions for Apple Virtualization VMs
• (macOS) Fixed a UI freeze when canceling out of the settings for an Apple Virtualization VM

Changes (v4.1.1)

• Fixed launching SPARC machines (Starting a qemu-system-sparc SS-5 VM Dies with "QEMU exited from an error: qemu-sparc-softmmu: -device virtio-serial: 'virtio-serial' (alias 'virtio-serial-pci') is not a valid device model name" #4575)
• Fixed an error when attempting to save a VM where one of its removable drives is linked to a file that has been deleted
• Fixed IPSW/.utm download failing when the device goes to sleep (the download should resume after wake up)
• Restored scroll bars when system is set to always show scroll bars. Added a new SwiftUI crash workaround thanks to @Evelyneee.
• Display all sizes in binary (MiB/GiB) mode in order to be consistent (Mismatch in drive size during creation (GB vs GiB) #4396)
• Localization: added Polish (thanks @mavethee)
• Localization: updated Japanese (thanks @MMP0)
• Localization: updated Spanish (Latin America) (thanks @JezerM)
• Localization: updated French (thanks @FRtranslator)
• (macOS) Fixed the port forward UI on macOS 11 and introduce a new port forward UI for macOS 12+ (Interface broken on edit Port Forward #4690)
• (macOS) Fixed "This virtual machine cannot be run on this machine." error on a newly created Apple VM (Freshly created macOS VM cannot be started #4595)
• (macOS) Added new 21:9 widescreen resolution for Apple VMs (thanks @Tandolf)
• (macOS) Added a clarifying message about shared directory support on older macOS guests (Shared Directories don't work for macOS 12 guests #4594)
• (macOS) Added new shutdown options (software request and force kill) which can be toggled by long pressing the power button in the VM window (Add button for ACPI shutdown #4001)
• (macOS) Added a confirmation dialog when deleting a drive (Confirmation when deleting drive  #4687)

Changes (v4.1.0)

• Updated QEMU to v7.1.0
• Updated ANGLE and virglrenderer to latest commit
• Fixed an issue where user override of machine property settings was not applied properly
• Localization: updated Japanese (thanks @MMP0)
• Localization: updated Spanish (Latin America) (thanks @JezerM)
• (iOS) Added in-app settings popover which synchronizes with the Settings app (useful for TrollStore installs where the Settings app page is inaccessible) (Integrated settings for TrollStore installations #4446)
• (iOS) TrollStore: support JIT without needing a separate JIT enabler (thanks @PojavLauncherTeam for the idea)

Issues

Please check the full list on Github and help report any bug you find that is not listed.

Installation

• iOS
• macOS

File	Description	Installation	JIT	Hypervisor	USB
UTM.deb	Jailbroken iOS version	Open in Cydia, dpkg, or Sileo	Yes	Yes(1)	Yes
UTM.dmg	macOS version	Mounting and copying UTM.app to /Applications	Yes	Yes	Yes
UTM.ipa	Non-jailbroken iOS version (sideloading)	AltStore, etc (see guide)	Yes(2)	No	No
UTM.HV.ipa	Non-jailbroken iOS version (TrollStore)	TrollStore	Yes	Yes(1)	Yes
UTM.SE.ipa	Non-jailbroken iOS version (sideloading)	AltStore, enterprise signing, etc	No	No	No

1. Hypervisor on iOS requires an M1 iPad.
2. Enabling JIT may require a separate JIT enabler such as Jitterbug or Jitstreamer.

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This discussion was created from the release v4.1.2 (Beta).