.NET: Improved renaming of virtual methods
.NET: Fixed a bug that occurred inside finally blocks of virtualized methods
Mach-O: Improved support of macOS 12 Monterey
PE: Improved antidebug

.NET: Added support of volatile and calli
PE: Added support of Windows for ARM (for Intel binaries only)
PE: Improved support of WINE
PE: Added support of MAP files for Free Pascal and MinGW
Added the ability to create segments with random symbols using mask ‘?’

.NET: Many bugs are fixed
Fixed critical vulnerability in the licensing system of Ultimate that allows to change the open RSA key

Mach-O: Improved support of Objective-C
ELF: Improved support of DT_PREINIT_ARRAY
PE: Improved support of TLS data with relocations
PE: Improved compatible with Device Guard

.NET: Added symbols renaming when the “Strip Debug Information” was used
.NET: Added support of ObfuscationAttribute with the following Feature: “virtualization”, “mutation”, “ultra”, “virtualizationlockbykey”, “ultralockbykey”, “renaming” and “strings”
.NET: Added the section “Assemblies” for embedding third-party assemblies inside the protected application (available for Ultimate only)
PE: Added exception handling for VS2019
Mach-O: Added support of “-flat_namespace”
Intel: Added automatic detection of noreturn functions
Added support of unicode for script function “io.open()”
Added the ability to lock a protected program to a specific HWID without usage of SDK functions (available for Ultimate only)

.NET: Many bugs are fixed
ELF: Fixed a bug that occurred inside VMProtectGetCurrentHWID while getting HDD information

Mach-O: Improved support of sections with types S_THREAD_LOCAL_VARIABLES and S_THREAD_LOCAL_REGULAR 
Mach-O: Improved support of Objective-C 
ELF: Improved support of relocations with type R_386_PC32 
PE: Improved antidebug

.NET: Added support of .NET Core (3.0+) and .NET Standard (2.1+)
.NET: Added import protection
.NET: Added resources protection
.NET: Added support of mixed assemblies

Fixed a bug that occurred during virtualization of BT [m16], POP [m64]

ELF: Improved disassembling of SWITCH
ELF: Improved support of relocations with type R_386_PC32
PE: Improved exception handling
PE: Improved support of Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

Added support of .NET applications
Added disassembling PMULLD
PE: Added support of COFF symbols

ELF: Fixed a bug that occurred when the “Pack the Output File” option was used

PE: Improved exception handling fo x64 applications 
PE: Improved detection of virtualization tools under the Hyper-V role 
PE: Improved demagling of MSVC symbols 
Mach-O: Improved exception handling 
Mach-O: Improved support of Objective-C

PE: Added support of “Control Flow Guard”
PE: Added support of PDB files for loading symbols
Mach-O: Added support of OS X 10.13 and later
ELF: Added support of statically linked libstdc++.so
ELF: Added support of CentOS 5 and CentOS 6
ELF: Added support of TLS segments
ELF: Added support of HTTPS for VMProtectActivateLicense

PE: Fixed an error that occurred in VMProtectIsValidImageCRC in protected driver
Fixed an error that occurred during virtualization of XOR with relocations

PE: Improved packing of sections with the TLS directory
PE: Improved antidebug
PE: The Taggant System has been removed
Accelerated unpacking when the “Packing output file” option was used

Added support of ELF format
Added disassembling of AVX commands

We have received the following email:

Hello!
This letter is to notify you that the Taggant System, a component of the IEEE Anti-Malware Support Service (AMSS), will shut down on 31 July 2018. Taggants have not been adopted as much as we had expected. Too few are using the Taggant System to justify the cost of maintaining the Taggant System.
All Taggant-related email aliases and listservs will also be deleted on 31 July 2018. VMProtect Software has an active IEEE AMSS SPV License. Per the AMSS SPV License, IEEE may cease operation of AMSS or any of its component services at any time upon ninety (90) days written notice to all AMSS licensees.
We expect to make a decision on the Clean file Metadata eXchange (CMX) component of AMSS later this year.
Thank you for supporting AMSS. We regret any inconvenience this change in direction might cause you.
Please let me know if you have any questions.

So the Taggant System will be removed from the next version of VMProtect.

PE: Fixed “Initialization error 1″ that occurred on Windows 10 x86

Fixed crashes at the compilation time

Fixed an error that occurred during disassembling of MOVUPS with REX prefix 0×41
Fixed an error that occurred during virtualization of XLAT and FSIN

Improved exceptions handling
Improved VM architecture
Improved checking the integrity of a file on disk when the “Memory protection” option was used
PE: Improved support of Delphi 6 when the “Import protection” option was used
PE: Improved antidebug

Added virtualization of ADD, AND, SUB, XOR, OR with LOCK prefix
Added virtualization of CQO
Added virtualizationdisassembling PINSRB, PINSRD, PINSRQ, PMINSD, PMINUW, PMINUD, PMAXSB, PMAXSD, PMAXUW and PMAXUD
Mach-O: Added support of LC_LOAD_WEAK_DYLIB
Mach-O: Added support of Delphi Berlin
PE: Added support of Windows 10 for kernel drivers
PE: Now the “Rich Header” is deleted when the “Strip debug information” option was used
Ultimate: Functionality of “Files” has been enhanced. Now you can create folders and use symbols “..” for indication of the parent directory
GUI: At displaying of protected ANSI strings the code page from Windows settings is used now