Yet arguably, this is the most significant release of Parallels Desktop since it first appeared in 2006. Overall it’s not even consequential enough to warrant a full ticking up of the version number.
For them, this update to the popular virtualisation software tidies up a few bugs and adds support for the latest version of the Linux kernel, but that’s largely it. After sixteen major releases, you might think there’s not much left to be added to Parallels Desktop – and for the vast majority of Mac users who are still using Intel CPUs, there isn’t.
