{"id":38456,"date":"2025-06-23T23:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=38456"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:17:36","slug":"vmware-tools-13-0-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2025\/06\/23\/vmware-tools-13-0-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Tools 13.0.0 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-9.png\" alt=\"VMware\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/vmware-tools-13-0-0-veroeffentlicht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]VMware by Broadcom has just released Vmware Tools 13.0.0 build 24696409. The package also contains updates to the versions of OpenSSL 3.0.15, 7zip 24.09 and uriparser 0.9.7.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Norddeutsch had pointed out the release in the discussion area of my German blog and provided the following information (thanks). I'll pull it out into a blog post here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changelog or release notes <a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vsphere\/tools\/13-0-0\/release-notes\/vmware-tools-1300-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The version mapping is on <a href=\"https:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/versions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vmware<\/a> and under <a href=\"https:\/\/packages-prod.broadcom.com\/tools\/versions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadcom<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Direct links to <a href=\"https:\/\/packages-prod.broadcom.com\/tools\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">Broadcom<\/a>, and to old VMware <a href=\"https:\/\/packages.vmware.com\/tools\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Broadcom continues to limit downloads for direct links to installers. For example, the URL <em>softwareupdate.broadcom.com\/cds<\/em> stored in the player does not have a successful lookup. An update in the program is therefore not possible and a manual download via the customer login is required. This was already evident during the takeover of previous player and workstation versions:<\/p>\n<p>Vmware <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloud-foundation\/2025\/03\/24\/download-changes-vmware-software-binaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> on \"in-product URLs\" or \"download tokens\" in May 2024, VirtualizationHOWTO talks about locking in March, and Major Geeks writes about the lack of update functionality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorgeeks.com\/content\/page\/how_to_fix_vmware_workstation_the_update_server_could_not_be_resolved_error_installing_vmware_tools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the above-mentioned tool update URLs currently resolve to the same IPs. There is simply no destination or redirection for updates from Workstation or Player. The behavior seems to be desired without a token or prior login to Broadcom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]VMware by Broadcom has just released Vmware Tools 13.0.0 build 24696409. The package also contains updates to the versions of OpenSSL 3.0.15, 7zip 24.09 and uriparser 0.9.7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,22,1218],"tags":[195,1710],"class_list":["post-38456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-update","category-virtualization","tag-update","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38457,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions\/38457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}