NVDA 2025.1 Beta 3 is now available for testing. As well as all the NVDA 2025.1 updates, beta3 adds:
- Updates to translations
- Disallow new Remote Access session in Secure Mode
- Update Remote Access interface
- Add unassigned command for Remote Access settings
- SAPI 4 bug fixes

Read the full release notes (including all the 2025.1 features & fixes) & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS #PreRelease #News #Testing #Test #FreeSoftware #ScreenReader

in reply to Dave Taylor

@davetaylor2112 I don't think the update routine has changed recently? You should still get the beep beep beep of the progress bar - unless you have turned that off in your settings perhaps? You get an error message if the update fails. if it works, then your new copy starts. That is how it has worked previously, but perhaps you are used to updating to a new beta by downloading the launcher from the release announcement rather than updating from within NVDA?
in reply to NV Access

EDIT: There's an unmerged pull request to fix this (see replies).
Hey I hate to be a pest, but I'm wondering if anyone has noticed issue #17965. Basically, some code was added to NVDA remote to prevent a controller from sending keys when no machine is connected. The problem is, the check is in the wrong place. If I'm controlling another machine and that machine disconnects, I'm now stuck in limbo, sending keys to nowhere, and I can't toggle back to my own machine because the same check is blocking the toggle and telling me no computer is connected. I'm effectively locked out of my own computer until I use another machine to connect to the same server with the same key, at which point I can go back to the original computer and stop sending keys. Seems like a matter of just rearranging an if statement a bit, but as of a couple of days ago this still affects alpha versions.
This entry was edited (2 weeks ago)
in reply to Simon Jaeger

@simon Looking at that issue it links to this pull request which will fix it: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… Sean has tagged that with the 2025.1 milestone today, so looks like the intention is to include that in perhaps the next beta.