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Dante Controller v4.18.0.11 Package (Windows)

Release Date: 5th of May 2026

Dante Controller v4.18 package is a recommended maintenance release with many minor fixes and improvements.

The installer includes 4 applications: Dante Controller v4.18.0, Dante Updater v2.9.0, Dante Activator v2.7.2 and Dante Update Helper v1.5.0.

User Guide

Supported Platforms

  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10

Requirements

All operating systems should be updated to the latest available version.

Note: Dante Controller requires 64-bit capable hardware.

Notes

Installing or Updating Dante Controller

To install Dante Controller you will need to be logged on with administrator privileges.

Note: You do not need to uninstall the previous version before installing this update.

To install Dante Controller:

  1. Ensure you are logged on to your computer as an administrator.
  2. Navigate to and double-click the downloaded Dante Controller installer file.
  3. Read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms, select the ‘I agree’ checkbox and click Install.
  4. If you do not agree to the terms, click Close.
  5. Confirm / acknowledge any Windows security prompts that are displayed.

New Features in Dante Controller v4.18.0

Improvements

  • Customer option to receive beta releases of Dante Controller
  • AES67 flows are sorted by session name alphabetically
  • Type‑ahead filtering added to the Domain Select list
  • Devices on 10 Mbps networks are now highlighted in red in the Matrix and Network View
  • TX and RX flow information can now be dumped to a log file for troubleshooting by Audinate Support

Usability

  • Confirmation dialogs now appear more consistently
  • Channel labels longer than 32 characters are now truncated when pasted instead of being rejected

Networking & Enrollment

  • Improved device enrollment handling when DC is used with VPN and DNS discovery
  • Additional enrolment details are now passed to Director to aid support

Platform & Dependencies

  • Updated third‑party dependencies, including the JDK and JxBrowser

New Features in Dante Updater v2.9.0

  • Imported Firmware Files section now indicates when a device is locked
  • Updated third‑party dependencies, nw.js.

Dante Controller v4.18.0

  • CS-1754: Multicast flows cannot be created on certain resolution monitors
  • CS-1838 / ETS-5954: Closing a remote desktop session can cause DC to crash
  • CS-2055: Unplugged devices may still show link speed warnings
  • CS-2075: Field validation for IP address sometimes fails
  • CS-1930: Flow latency information in the multicast transmit flow field is misleading
  • CS-2025: Unsupported latency warning message overflows avaialble space
  • CS-2026: Event Log filter may not display messages for the selected filter option.

Dante Updater v2.9.0

  • CS-2059 / ETS-6461: Users cannot log in to DDM in Dante Updater using trailing period in mDNS name

Dante Controller v4.18.0

  • No new known issues

Pre-existing known issues (from Dante Controller v4.17.1)

  • CM-1432: DDM interop: Dante Controller shows SMPTE clock domains 1, 2 and 3 as sample rate pull-up clock domains in the clocking status tab.

Dante Updater v2.9.0

  • No new known issues

Pre-existing known issues (from Dante Updater v2.8.5)

  • CS-1489: When a firmware file is uploaded in the Library, the device does not immediately display in the Imported Firmware Files section. Workaround: Toggle the network interface on DU to find the imported firmware file.
  • ETS-5541: Dante Updater does not work when a previously selected interface is no longer available
  • ETS-5547: Unable to update using local firmware imported to the Dante Updater Library
  • PP-78: DDM interop: No prompt shown when DDM is down
  • NIMBUS-670: The Select All Button in Library does not react to the search filter

Dante Activator v2.7.2

  • CS-1191: On some systems the Dante Activator application can take up to a minute to launch

Audinate’s Support for Inclusive Language

To our customers: some of the terminology used in Dante products has been changed to align with modern usage. Specifically, areas related to Dante clocking now refer to “Primary Leader Clock”, “Leader Clocks” and “Follower Clocks” to describe the functions of each role more clearly.