Getting old versions of Parallels Desktop

  • By Stefan
  • on April 13, 2022

There might be some issues with the current release or something else, where you need an older minor release of the software. Gladly they are still online and just hidden.

There are various download pages:

But neither of them provide the download links for older minor releases. But luckily one can derive the download link from the changelog.

Getting the download url

To date, the latest version, according to the changelog v17: “Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac updates summary” is Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac 17.1.2 (51548). Taking this information we can build our download link:

Requested Version: Parallels Desktop 17 for Mac 17.1.2 (51548)

MAJOR = 17
VERSION = 17.1.2
BUILD = 51548

https://download.parallels.com/desktop/v[MAJOR]/[VERSION]-[BUILD]/ParallelsDesktop-[VERSION]-[BUILD].dmg

Which results in our final download link:

https://download.parallels.com/desktop/v17/17.1.2-51548/ParallelsDesktop-17.1.2-51548.dmg

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