NV Access

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.3.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

This is a patch release to fix a security issue and a bug.

Read the full changes and download at https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3-1/

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NV Access | NVDA 2025.3.1 Released

Oct 27 at 6:19amWeb
Show threadAmir has movedOct 27
@NVAccess It's odd. I'm running NVDA V2025.3.1rc1 on my work machine, but when I check for updates, I'm told no update is available.
Show threadAmir has movedOct 27
@NVAccess I ended up updating manually as the auto-updater didn't work at all.
Show threadNV AccessOct 27

@amir It's a quirk of the way we do things:
- Stable versions only update to stable versions.

- Beta and RC versions will update to newer beta or RC versions but not stable. So NVDA 2025.3.1 RC will automatically update to NVDA 2026.1 Beta 1 when it comes out.

The last RC is identical to the final stable version in all but version number - so if you are running NVDA 2025.3.1 RC, you have exactly the same code as someone with NVDA 2025.3.1 (stable), even though it may seem a little odd :)

Show threadAmir has movedOct 27
@NVAccess Thanks for the explanation! As I'm an alpha person, switching to RC or beta has these oddities for me - LOL! Once 64-Bit becomes more stable and a couple more add-ons become compatible, I'll switch to alpha.
Show threadNV AccessOct 27
@amir It's one of the reasons some people prefer the "Update CHannel Selector" add-on, as it does allow you to more easily jump between channels (note that with that add-on, as we also recommend to anyone doing it manually - say an alpha build comes out today and you install that - if you change your mind and switch back to the stable channel, it WON'T change until the NEXT build for that channel comes out.
Show threadNV AccessOct 27
@amir This is because NVDA accounts for things which may change when updating - for instance sometimes the format of the settings file changes (eg when we added "Only in edit controls" to speak typed words and characters - those values changed from boolean on or off, to having three states - but it doesn't account for any changes when downgrading.