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We use SC extensively—every day, all day—and it’s become an essential tool in our workflow. Unfortunately, the copy-and-paste functionality has recently started causing significant issues. While this problem is relatively new for us, discussions in the forums suggest it may have been a long-standing concern.

Is there a plan to address this issue? Or are we facing the possibility that SC may no longer meet our needs?

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jessica l koehn

Hi Colin and Doug, 

Thank you all for the candid feedback and apologies on the delay of this response. 

We recognize the need for timely, reliable updates.

Today, our official communication channels are:

  • ConnectWise Home – for product-related updates, announcements, and known issues.

Immediate actions in progress:

  • We are actively updating ConnectWise Home and the status page to ensure consistent, real-time visibility into stability, remediation progress, and timelines
  • We are aligning internally to ensure all critical updates are communicated across channels in a coordinated and timely manner

We recognize that these channels alone have not provided the level of visibility or timeliness you’re looking for.

Here is what you can expect going forward:ConnectWise Home will remain the primary source of truth for product-related updates, announcements, and known issues

  • Status page will remain the primary source for real-time incident status and restoration progress
  • Email notifications may be used for critical incidents and security events to ensure proactive communication
  • To ensure email delivery, confirm that proper permissions are set in your environment to prevent ConnectWise communications from being sent to spam.
  • Public partner-facing communications (ScreenConnect Community / forums) will be leveraged to provide additional context and increased visibility
  • And as always, please reach out to our support team for product support needs

We also understand that beyond providing patches, releases, updates and enhancements, bringing systems back to expected performance levels is critical. Our teams are actively working on this.

We appreciate your feedback as we work through this. Please continue to raise concerns and share input. We are listening and adjusting. Thank you.

-Jessica Koehn

Director, Brand Voice & Communities 

ConnectWise

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Doug Terborg
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Sean,

Appreciate all your efforts. Is there any official channel that this stuff is being communicated over? There are a lot of partners dealing with major stability and productivity issues. I'm hoping I'm ignorant of some channel through which to get updates as to status, but at the moment I'm watching Discord, Reddit and watching the output stream and download sites. Surely there is a better and more official way?

Fully understand the need to fix the vulnerability - but unforutnately doing so has caused a lot of fallout. We need CW/SC management to communicate with us as to when baseline functionality and stability will be restored.

Thanks again

Colin, I echo this. Here and Reddit have been my primary sources of information, and I received the security alert from BleepingComputer.com. Unlike the issues last summer requiring the certificate change, I received zero communication from Connectwise regarding what is considered to be a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.0, and Sean, while I know that's not on your end, I'm unsure why I received no e-mails regarding this vulnerability or other notifications. Communication is key to us, and lack of communication does not go unnoticed either, be it for the actual vulnerabilities, or the issues in the product and the timeline to fix.

Sean, I appreciate your following up with me here, just as I appreciate when someone from Connectwise follows up with me on the ScreenConnect subreddit, but unless there's an official channel I'm not in that sent out notices, the communication regarding this is of real concern.

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colin g mcguire
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I was expecting a build yesterday; however, we ran into some testing issues. We have been working to resolve those and have tested 2 builds today. One more build is in the works and if final testing goes well, we will release tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for patience and understanding and rest assured that our team is literally working 24/7 to get this pushed.

Sean,

Appreciate all your efforts. Is there any official channel that this stuff is being communicated over? There are a lot of partners dealing with major stability and productivity issues. I'm hoping I'm ignorant of some channel through which to get updates as to status, but at the moment I'm watching Discord, Reddit and watching the output stream and download sites. Surely there is a better and more official way?

Fully understand the need to fix the vulnerability - but unforutnately doing so has caused a lot of fallout. We need CW/SC management to communicate with us as to when baseline functionality and stability will be restored.

Thanks again

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Sean White Team Member

I was expecting a build yesterday; however, we ran into some testing issues. We have been working to resolve those and have tested 2 builds today. One more build is in the works and if final testing goes well, we will release tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for patience and understanding and rest assured that our team is literally working 24/7 to get this pushed.

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Doug Terborg
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It's looking like Wednesday for on premise; I'll be sure to update this thread when it is available.

Sean,

Any update on this for an expected on-premise release date? The issues with 26.1 are killing us; sessions just crash in the middle of file transfers or the file transfers fail, and we're really losing productivity across our staff as they need to repeat tasks. I'm actually contemplating rolling us back to previous release despite the security risk, as this is preventing everyone from doing their job well.

To everyone in the cloud...has the latest cloud update resolved your issues?

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Sean White Team Member
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Sean,

Can we get an ETA on when we'll see this for On-Premise folks? The issue is also present for us.

It's looking like Wednesday for on premise; I'll be sure to update this thread when it is available.

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Doug Terborg
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A new cloud release is available as a Preview which contains fixes for Windows 7/2008 as well as the clipboard crash.

ScreenConnect 26.1 / ScreenConnect

Please let us know if you experience either of these issues after upgrading to version 26.1.24.x

Sean,

Can we get an ETA on when we'll see this for On-Premise folks? The issue is also present for us.

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PITW

26.1.24.9579 doesnt solve problem with Copy & Paste (Ctrl + V) for us. 

Copy & pasting passwords doesnt work - always adds some special chars. What it makes it even worse is that long text / code or script blocks cant be copy pasted - and the "send keystrokes function" isn't very helpful for long scripts...

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Sean White Team Member

A new cloud release is available as a Preview which contains fixes for Windows 7/2008 as well as the clipboard crash.

ScreenConnect 26.1 / ScreenConnect

Please let us know if you experience either of these issues after upgrading to version 26.1.24.x

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Doug Terborg

I am being told by our staff that this is occurring not just for file transfers, but for pasting login and password information as well. Using "Send Clipboard Keystrokes" works, but Ctrl+V kills the session at least some of the time.

We are on-premise, running version 26.1.20.9571 at this time, but I've also seen reports that this has not been resolved with the 26.1.22.9573 point release either. Because of that, I'm inclined to do what I do any time I see a ScreenConnect update as of the past six months --wait to update until I've seen more information. I would have done so for the 26.1 release if it were not for the CVSS 9.0, as security comes before functionality for such a high CVSS score in this case.