Luxembourg, July 29th, 2025

NoMachine makes available new version 8 packages updated to sport OpenSSL-3.0.17 and other third party components like nxhtd, now based on httpd-2.4.65. They also provide fixes for some problems like white
screen on KDE Wayland, freeze of the macOS screen and others.

The complete list of trouble reports solved by this 8.18.4 release is:

TR06W11413 - The nxnode process terminates unexpectedly on a Ubuntu 24.04 headless machines
TR07W11459 - White screen with KDE Plasma on Fedora 42 with Wayland
TR07W11484 - Hardware encoding fails on macOS 15.1 due to an invalid encoder parameter
TR06W11427 - Sudden freeze of the remote macOS screen with server v9 and other possible misbehaviours
TR04W11310 - Operations like add a node, delete and edit a node are not tracked at default log level
TR07W11433 - Unable to Mute HDMI (IEC958) Audio Output via NoMachine Player Interface on Linux
TR07W11448 - Sporadic black screen when connecting NoMachine virtual desktops
TR06W11378 - Cannot connect to Linux system using Firewalld
TR07W11476 - The nxnode process terminates unexpectedly when the libinput
library is not found
TR10U11023 - ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/NX/lib/libnxegl.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded when opening an application
TR06W11430 - Leftover processes after logout of old user on version 9 with KDE Display Manager (KDM)
TR03W11291 - NoMachine USB driver doesn't compile on RHEL 9.5

Supported Platforms

Windows 32-bit/64-bit 7/8/8.1/10/11
Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022

Mac OS X Intel 64-bit 10.9 to 10.11/macOS Intel 10.12 to 15/macOS Apple Silicon 11 to 15

Linux 32-bit and 64-bit
RHEL 6.0 to RHEL 9
CentOS 6.0 to CentOS 8.5
CentOS Stream 8 to CentOS Stream 10
SLED 11 to SLED 15
SLES 11 to SLES 15
openSUSE 11.x to openSUSE 15.x
Fedora 10 to Fedora 42
Debian 5 to Debian 12
Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 25.04

Raspberry Pi 2 ARMv6/ARMv7
Raspberry Pi 3 ARMv6/ARMv7/ARMv8/
Raspberry Pi 4 ARMv7/ARMv8
Raspberry Pi 5 ARMv7/ARMv8

ARMv7/ARMv8

Important Notice

Customers of Enterprise Cloud Server Cluster v8 who wish to upgrade to v9 should refer to the instructions at: https://www.nomachine.com/AR11V01257. 'Online' subscriptions v9 for the enterprise products require a NoMachine server v9 and are not compatible with servers v8 or earlier. Please do not hesitate to contact us via any of the available channels for assistance. 

Download NoMachine Packages

You can download the latest packages suitable for your Operating System from the NoMachine Web site at the following URL: https://download.nomachine.com . Customers with valid subscriptions can log in to their User Area and download the appropriate server package for their subscription from the Enterprise > Downloads section. Note that Support Contacts are no longer entitled to access packages from the Customer's User Area. They can however download the appropriate package from the https://download.nomachine.com/enterprise/ page.

Automatic updates

The automatic check for updates is scheduled to check our repositories every two days.

To update the free NoMachine package:

• - Open the NoMachine User Interface from your Programs Menu.
• - From the Machines panel click on 'Settings', then on 'Server' and finally on 'Updates'.
• - Then click on the 'Check now' button.

To update the NoMachine Enterprise Client immediately:

• - Click on 'Settings', from the Player panel click 'Updates'.
• - Then click on the 'Check now' button.

More information about the check for automatic updates is available here:

https://www.nomachine.com/AR05M00847

Manual package installation or update

Please follow the instructions to install the package or update your installation manually:

On Windows:

• - Download and save the EXE file.
• - Double click on the NoMachine executable file.
• - The Setup Wizard will take you through all steps necessary for installing or updating NoMachine.

On macOS:

• - Download and save the DMG file.
• - Double-click on the Disk Image to open it and double-click on the NoMachine program icon.
• - The Installer will take you through through all steps necessary for installing or updating NoMachine.

On Linux:

You can use the graphical package manager provided by your Linux distribution or update NoMachine by command line by following instructions below. If you don't have the sudo utility installed, log on as superuser ("root") and run the commands without sudo.

RPM

• - Download and save the RPM file.
• - Install the package by running:
  # rpm -ivh <pkgName>_<pkgVersion>_<arch>.rpmor
• - Update your NoMachine installation by running:
• # rpm -Uvh <pkgName>_<pkgVersion>_<arch>.rpm

DEB

• - Download and save the DEB file.
• - Install the package by running:
  $ sudo dpkg -i <pkgName>_<pkgVersion>_<arch>.debor
• - Update your NoMachine installation by running:
• $ sudo dpkg -i <pkgName>_<pkgVersion>_<arch>.deb

TAR.GZ

• - Download and save the TAR.GZ file.
• - Install the package by running:
  $ cd /usr
  $ sudo tar xvzf <pkgName>_<pkgVersion>_<arch>.tar.gz
  $ sudo /usr/NX/nxserver --installor
• - Update your NoMachine installation by running:
  • $ cd /usr
  • $ sudo tar xvzf <pkgName>_<pkgVersion>_<arch>.tar.gz
  • $ sudo /usr/NX/nxserver --update
• If you are installing Enterprise Client or Node run respectively:
  • $ sudo /usr/NX/nxclient --update
  • $ sudo /usr/NX/nxnode --update

Documents

Installation and configuration guides for the NoMachine products are available at:

https://www.nomachine.com/support/documents

The NoMachine Development Team