Hi Maher, in general all those questions/reports would be new bugs as it is not reopening or advancing this old bug. Giving you an answer now, but for the future it would be great if you could open new bugs for those.
It depends on the Ubuntu version you are at.
SRU [1] releases are always a tradeoff between the improved features/security vs the potential regressions - especially if we are not talking abotu single bug fixes but full version upgrades. Due to that together with VMWare we decided a while ago to backport the most recent open-vm-tools back to the latest LTS but then keep them frozen except for individual bugfixes.
Due to that you have:
>=Bionic (latest LTS) all on 10.3.10
Xenial: frozen at 10.2
If you really need a version >10.2 you should upgrade your system to Ubuntu 18.04 or later.
Hi Maher, in general all those questions/reports would be new bugs as it is not reopening or advancing this old bug. Giving you an answer now, but for the future it would be great if you could open new bugs for those.
It depends on the Ubuntu version you are at.
SRU [1] releases are always a tradeoff between the improved features/security vs the potential regressions - especially if we are not talking abotu single bug fixes but full version upgrades. Due to that together with VMWare we decided a while ago to backport the most recent open-vm-tools back to the latest LTS but then keep them frozen except for individual bugfixes.
Due to that you have:
>=Bionic (latest LTS) all on 10.3.10
Xenial: frozen at 10.2
If you really need a version >10.2 you should upgrade your system to Ubuntu 18.04 or later.
[1]: https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/StableRelea seUpdates