Hot off the Press! View 5.3 Pieces are available to download.

I will have a couple of posts detailing the upgrade process from 5.2 in the next few weeks (holidays will slow this down) but for now here are the download links:

• Horizon View 5.3 Connection Server – MyVMware Account required
• Horizon View 5.3 Agent x86 – MyVMware Account required
• Horizon View 5.3 Agent x64 – MyVMware Account required
• Horizon Persona Management x86 – MyVMware Account required
• Horizon Persona Management x64 – MyVMware Acconut required
• Horizon View 5.3 Feature Pack 1 – MyVMware Account required
• Horizon View 5.3 Feature Pack 1 Release Notes
• Horizon View 5.3 Feature Pack 1 – Installation and Administration
• Horizon View 5.3 Agent Direct-Connection Plugin – MyVMware Account Required
• Horizon View 5.3 Agent Direct-Connection Plugin – Installation and Administration
• Horizon View Client Pieces – Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android/Windows
• Horizon View 5.3 Client Documentation for Windows
• Horizon View 5.3 Release Notes
• Horizon View 5.3 Read Me
• Other Horizon View 5.3 Documentation will be updated as it becomes available

Quick overview of some of the features for Horizon View 5.3:

• vDGA is no longer Tech Preview, full support for NVIDIA GPU’s passed directly to VM’s
• VSAN Tech Preview – this will be a lot of fun to play around in the lab!
• Windows 8.1 Support
• Multimedia Redirection for H.264 media encoding
• View Blast protocol now supports Audio, Copy/Paste and GFX improvements (View 5.3 Feature Pack 1 and HTML Access install required)
• USB 3.0 Support (Thin/Zero Clients must have USB 3.0 for support)
• VCAI is fully supported (offload composer operations to your SAN – a dream come true!)
• iOS 7 – New View Client (released last week)
• and much more!

Andre Leibovici has a great article detailing what really is in View 5.3, you can find it here.