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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.2.0 Beta 1 (2012-08-03)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
21	</listitem>
22
23	<listitem>
24	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
25	</listitem>
26
27	<listitem>
28	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
29	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
30	</listitem>
31
32	<listitem>
33	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
34	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /></para>
35	</listitem>
36
37	<listitem>
38	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
39	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
40	</listitem>
41
42	<listitem>
43	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
44	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
45	planned. (bug #81)</para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>Added support for Host parallel port passthrough on Windows platform</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	</itemizedlist>
53
54	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
55
56	<itemizedlist>
57
58	<listitem>
59	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
60	nested paging</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
65	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
70	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
75	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
76	</listitem>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
92	</listitem>
93
94	<listitem>
95	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
100	</listitem>
101
102	<listitem>
103	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
104	guests</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
109	used ISO images</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
114	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
115	</listitem>
116
117	<listitem>
118	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
119	(bug #9973)</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
124	snapshot when powering off a VM (bug #10491)</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
137	</listitem>
138
139	<listitem>
140	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
141	</listitem>
142
143	<listitem>
144	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
145	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
146	</listitem>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
154	support for v2 images)</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
167	VirtualBox update</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
172	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	</itemizedlist>
176	</sect1>
177
178	<sect1>
179	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
180
181	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
182	added:</para>
183
184	<itemizedlist>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
188	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
189	and others)</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
194	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
195	</listitem>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
199	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
204	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
209	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
214	(bug #10631)</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
219	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
220	(bug #10624)</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
229	updated (bug #9887)</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
234	</listitem>
235
236	</itemizedlist>
237	</sect1>
238
239	<sect1>
240	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
241
242	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
243	added:</para>
244
245	<itemizedlist>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
249	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
250	</listitem>
251
252	<listitem>
253	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
254	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	<listitem>
258	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
259	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
260	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
265	guests in rare cases</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
274	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
279	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
280	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
285	</listitem>
286
287	<listitem>
288	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
293	reason (bug #6189)</para>
294	</listitem>
295
296	<listitem>
297	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
302	paused</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
307	(bug #10267)</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
316	(bug #10418)</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
321	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
322	(bug #10581)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
327	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
332	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
333	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	</itemizedlist>
341
342	</sect1>
343
344	<sect1>
345	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
346
347	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
348	added:</para>
349
350	<itemizedlist>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
354	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
355	(bug #3783)</para>
356	</listitem>
357
358	<listitem>
359	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
360	</listitem>
361
362	<listitem>
363	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
364	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	</itemizedlist>
372
373	</sect1>
374
375	<sect1>
376	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
377
378	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
379	added:</para>
380
381	<itemizedlist>
382
383	<listitem>
384	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
385	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
386	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
391	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
396	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
405	</listitem>
406
407	<listitem>
408	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
409	4.1.10 regression)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
418	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
427	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
432	4.1.10 regression)</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
437	closed (bug #6473)</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
442	properly installed</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	</itemizedlist>
450	</sect1>
451
452	<sect1>
453	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
454
455	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
456	added:</para>
457
458	<itemizedlist>
459
460	<listitem>
461	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
462	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
467	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
472	fusion</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
477	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	<listitem>
481	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
482	and network mask attributes</para>
483	</listitem>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
487	(bug #10030)</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
492	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
497	</listitem>
498
499	<listitem>
500	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
505	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
514	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
519	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
524	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
541	</listitem>
542
543	<listitem>
544	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
553	in a zone</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
558	</listitem>
559
560	<listitem>
561	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
562	(bug #9651)</para>
563	</listitem>
564
565	<listitem>
566	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
571	#10010)</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
576	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
581	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
590	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
591	</listitem>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
595	(bug #10151)</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
600	guests.</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
609	</listitem>
610
611	<listitem>
612	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
613	</listitem>
614
615	</itemizedlist>
616	</sect1>
617
618	<sect1>
619	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
620
621	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
622	added:</para>
623
624	<itemizedlist>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
628	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
637	(bug #9642)</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
642	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
643	</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
652	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
657	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
662	</listitem>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
674	circumstances</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
683	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
684	</listitem>
685
686	<listitem>
687	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
688	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
689	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
690	and for 3D support in general</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
699	</listitem>
700
701	<listitem>
702	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
703	</listitem>
704
705	<listitem>
706	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
707	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	</itemizedlist>
711	</sect1>
712
713	<sect1>
714	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
715
716	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
717	added:</para>
718
719	<itemizedlist>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
727	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
732	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
737	certain guests</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
746	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
747	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
752	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
761	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
770	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
775	guests</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
780	folders</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
785	shared folders</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
790	users and stale sessions</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
795	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	</itemizedlist>
799	</sect1>
800
801	<sect1>
802	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
803
804	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
805	added:</para>
806
807	<itemizedlist>
808
809	<listitem>
810	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
811	bug #9458)</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
816	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	<listitem>
820	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
821	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
830	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
831	</listitem>
832
833	<listitem>
834	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
835	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
840	(bug #9308)</para>
841	</listitem>
842
843	<listitem>
844	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
845	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
846	</listitem>
847
848	<listitem>
849	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
850	(bug #9503)</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
855	(bug #9242)</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
860	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
861	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
870	images</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
875	(Windows hosts only)</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
880	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
885	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
890	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
895	#9387)</para>
896	</listitem>
897
898	<listitem>
899	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
900	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
901	</listitem>
902
903	<listitem>
904	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
905	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
906	</listitem>
907
908	<listitem>
909	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
910	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
915	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
928	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
933	(bug #1578)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
938	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
943	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
948	(bug #9535)</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
953	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
958	help file (bug #9646)</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
963	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
968	console window (bug #3549)</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
973	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
978	</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
983	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
984	</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
989	(bug #6229)
990	</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
995	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1000	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1005	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1010	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1015	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1020	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1025	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1030	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	</itemizedlist>
1034	</sect1>
1035
1036	<sect1>
1037	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1038
1039	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1040	added:</para>
1041
1042	<itemizedlist>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1050	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1059	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1060	</listitem>
1061
1062	<listitem>
1063	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1064	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1065	</listitem>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1069	a live snapshot</para>
1070	</listitem>
1071
1072	<listitem>
1073	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1074	due to a library version conflict</para>
1075	</listitem>
1076
1077	<listitem>
1078	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1079	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1084	at a time by default</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1089	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1090	#9368)</para>
1091	</listitem>
1092
1093	<listitem>
1094	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1095	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1096	</listitem>
1097
1098	<listitem>
1099	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1100	VMs</para>
1101	</listitem>
1102
1103	<listitem>
1104	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1105	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1106	</listitem>
1107
1108	<listitem>
1109	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1110	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1111	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1116	(bug #9308)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1121	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1122	</listitem>
1123
1124	<listitem>
1125	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1130	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1135	(bug #9242)</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1140	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1141	</listitem>
1142
1143	<listitem>
1144	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1145	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1146	</listitem>
1147
1148	<listitem>
1149	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1150	USB devices</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1155	and warn about it</para>
1156	</listitem>
1157
1158	<listitem>
1159	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1168	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1173	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1178	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1183	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1188	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1193	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1198	2.6.37 and above</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	</itemizedlist>
1202	</sect1>
1203
1204	<sect1>
1205	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1206
1207	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1208	were added:</para>
1209
1210	<itemizedlist>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1214	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1215	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1228	bug #7822)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1237	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1242	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1243	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1244	anymore)</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1249	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1254	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1255	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1260	</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1265	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1266	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1267	</listitem>
1268
1269	<listitem>
1270	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1271	with VBoxManage</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1276	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279
1280	</itemizedlist>
1281
1282	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1283
1284	<itemizedlist>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1300	of the current state</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1305	</listitem>
1306
1307	<listitem>
1308	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1309	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1310	</listitem>
1311
1312	<listitem>
1313	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1314	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1315	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1316	</listitem>
1317
1318	<listitem>
1319	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1320	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1333	dialog</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1338	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1339	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1344	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1349	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1350	</listitem>
1351
1352	<listitem>
1353	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1354	be a valid UUID</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1359	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1360	</listitem>
1361
1362	<listitem>
1363	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1364	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1365	cases</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1370	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1371	improve performance</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1376	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1377	on a temporary basis</para>
1378	</listitem>
1379
1380	<listitem>
1381	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1382	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1383	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1388	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1393	images in VDI format</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1398	VMDK format</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1403	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1404	</listitem>
1405
1406	<listitem>
1407	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1408	</listitem>
1409
1410	<listitem>
1411	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1424	</listitem>
1425
1426	<listitem>
1427	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1428	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1433	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1438	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1443	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1448	RDP clients</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1457	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1462	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1467	simultaneously</para>
1468	</listitem>
1469
1470	<listitem>
1471	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1472	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1473	location values in many places</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1482	builds</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1491	window (bug #4491)</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1496	removing a VM</para>
1497	</listitem>
1498
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1509	166 and above)</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1514	hosts</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1523	from the host</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	</itemizedlist>
1531
1532	</sect1>
1533
1534	<sect1>
1535	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1536
1537	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1538	added:</para>
1539
1540	<itemizedlist>
1541
1542	<listitem>
1543	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1548	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1553	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1558	a live snapshot</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1563	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1576	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1581	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1586	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1595	images</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1600	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1604	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1609	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1618	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1623	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1632	(bug #9370)</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1637	(bug #9535)</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1642	(bug #1578)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1647	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1652	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1653	</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1658	</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1663	2.6.37 and above</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1668	(bug #6229)</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1673	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1674	</listitem>
1675
1676	</itemizedlist>
1677	</sect1>
1678
1679	<sect1>
1680	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1681
1682	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1683	added:</para>
1684
1685	<itemizedlist>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1689	</listitem>
1690
1691	<listitem>
1692	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1693	166 and above)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1698	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1699	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1704	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1709	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1718	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1723	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1728	builds</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	</itemizedlist>
1736	</sect1>
1737	<sect1>
1738	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1739
1740	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1741	added:</para>
1742
1743	<itemizedlist>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1755	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1760	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	<listitem>
1764	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1765	</listitem>
1766
1767	<listitem>
1768	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1769	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1778	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1783	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1796	file was not written during export</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1805	</listitem>
1806
1807	<listitem>
1808	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1809	</listitem>
1810
1811	<listitem>
1812	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1813	binaries</para>
1814	</listitem>
1815
1816	<listitem>
1817	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1818	</listitem>
1819
1820	<listitem>
1821	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1822	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1823	</listitem>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1827	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1836	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	</itemizedlist>
1840	</sect1>
1841
1842	<sect1>
1843	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1844
1845	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1846	added:</para>
1847
1848	<itemizedlist>
1849
1850	<listitem>
1851	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1852	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1857	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1862	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1863	</listitem>
1864
1865	<listitem>
1866	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1867	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1872	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1873	</listitem>
1874
1875	<listitem>
1876	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1877	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1882	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1887	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1892	</listitem>
1893
1894	<listitem>
1895	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1896	</listitem>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1900	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1905	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1918	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1923	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1928	window</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1933	Fedora 15</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1938	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	<listitem>
1942	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1943	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1948	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1949	</listitem>
1950
1951	<listitem>
1952	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1957	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1958	</listitem>
1959
1960	</itemizedlist>
1961	</sect1>
1962
1963	<sect1>
1964	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1965
1966	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1967	added:</para>
1968
1969	<itemizedlist>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1973	a VMM from a saved state</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
1978	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
1979	</listitem>
1980
1981	<listitem>
1982	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
1983	(bug #8006)</para>
1984	</listitem>
1985
1986	<listitem>
1987	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
1988	(bug #8726)</para>
1989	</listitem>
1990
1991	<listitem>
1992	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2001	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2006	(bug #8469)</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2011	selectors</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2016	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2021	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2026	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2027	</listitem>
2028
2029	<listitem>
2030	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2031	</listitem>
2032
2033	<listitem>
2034	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2035	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2036	</listitem>
2037
2038	<listitem>
2039	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2048	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2053	I/O error occurred</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2058	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2063	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2068	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2069	if no medium is present</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2078	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2083	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2088	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2097	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2102	library (bug #8063)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2107	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2124	changed on import</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2133	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2138	(bug #8593)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2143	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2144	</listitem>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2148	captured</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2153	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2158	</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2163	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2168	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2173	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2174	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2179	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2184	</listitem>
2185
2186	<listitem>
2187	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2188	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2193	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2194	</listitem>
2195
2196	<listitem>
2197	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2198	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2203	</listitem>
2204
2205	<listitem>
2206	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2215	</listitem>
2216
2217	<listitem>
2218	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2219	(bug #7946)</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2224	</listitem>
2225
2226	<listitem>
2227	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2228	</listitem>
2229
2230	<listitem>
2231	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	</itemizedlist>
2235
2236	</sect1>
2237
2238	<sect1>
2239	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2240
2241	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2242	added:</para>
2243
2244	<itemizedlist>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2248	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2253	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2258	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	<listitem>
2262	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2263	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2264	</listitem>
2265
2266	<listitem>
2267	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2268	number of host network interfaces</para>
2269	</listitem>
2270
2271	<listitem>
2272	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2273	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2282	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2287	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2292	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2301	(bug #6577)</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2306	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2307	(bug #8235)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2312	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2313	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2314	</listitem>
2315
2316	<listitem>
2317	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2322	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2331	(bug #7966)</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2348	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2361	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2366	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2375	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2376	</listitem>
2377
2378	<listitem>
2379	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2380	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2381	(bug #8122)</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2386	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2391	</listitem>
2392
2393	<listitem>
2394	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2399	(bug #1548)</para>
2400	</listitem>
2401
2402	<listitem>
2403	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2408	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2413	</listitem>
2414
2415	<listitem>
2416	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2417	(bug #8231)</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2422	11.04 Alpha</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2427	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2428	</listitem>
2429
2430	<listitem>
2431	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2432	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2437	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2442	with VBoxGINA</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	</itemizedlist>
2446
2447	</sect1>
2448
2449	<sect1>
2450	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2451
2452	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2453	added:</para>
2454
2455	<itemizedlist>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2459	settings vanished</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2464	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2469	created (bug #8031)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2478	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2479	</listitem>
2480
2481	<listitem>
2482	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2483	an extension pack</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2488	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2497	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2502	host-only interface</para>
2503	</listitem>
2504
2505	<listitem>
2506	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2507	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2512	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2517	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2522	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2527	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2528	</listitem>
2529
2530	<listitem>
2531	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2540	guests</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2549	</listitem>
2550
2551	<listitem>
2552	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2553	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2558	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2563	a VM start</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2568	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2569	</listitem>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2573	(bug #6067)</para>
2574	</listitem>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2578	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2583	not saved to machine XML</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2588	#7983)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2593	#7981)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2602	regression)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2607	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2612	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	</itemizedlist>
2616
2617	</sect1>
2618
2619	<sect1>
2620	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2621
2622	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2623	were added:</para>
2624
2625	<itemizedlist>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2629	</listitem>
2630
2631	<listitem>
2632	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2633	</listitem>
2634
2635	<listitem>
2636	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2637	<itemizedlist>
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	<listitem>
2643	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2648	</listitem>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2656	states, and optionally including attached
2657	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2658	can do the same now)</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	</itemizedlist>
2666	</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>New virtual hardware:
2675	<itemizedlist>
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2678	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2683	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2684	</listitem>
2685	</itemizedlist>
2686	</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2691	<itemizedlist>
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2698	</para>
2699	</listitem>
2700
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2703	now</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	</itemizedlist>
2711	</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2716	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2721	Parallels images</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2730	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2735	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	</itemizedlist>
2739
2740	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2741
2742	<itemizedlist>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2746	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2755	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2756	</listitem>
2757
2758	<listitem>
2759	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2760	(bug #1657)</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2773	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2778	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2779	</listitem>
2780
2781	<listitem>
2782	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2783	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2784	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2789	again (bug #6864)</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2794	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2795	</listitem>
2796
2797	<listitem>
2798	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2799	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2820	</listitem>
2821
2822	<listitem>
2823	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2824	</listitem>
2825
2826	<listitem>
2827	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2832	(bug #7058)</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2837	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2838	</listitem>
2839
2840	<listitem>
2841	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2842	circumstances</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2847	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2848	#5578)
2849	</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2854	</listitem>
2855
2856	<listitem>
2857	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2858	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2863	</listitem>
2864
2865	<listitem>
2866	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2867	#6760)</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2872	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2873	</listitem>
2874
2875	<listitem>
2876	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2877	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2878	</listitem>
2879
2880	<listitem>
2881	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2882	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2883	</listitem>
2884
2885	<listitem>
2886	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2887	</listitem>
2888
2889	<listitem>
2890	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2891	file</para>
2892	</listitem>
2893
2894	<listitem>
2895	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2896	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2897	</listitem>
2898
2899	</itemizedlist>
2900
2901	</sect1>
2902
2903	<sect1>
2904	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2905
2906	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2907	added:</para>
2908
2909	<itemizedlist>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2913	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2918	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2919	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2932	</listitem>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2936	the VM is running</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2941	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2942	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2943	starting from a saved state</para>
2944	</listitem>
2945
2946	<listitem>
2947	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2948	</listitem>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2968	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2973	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
2978	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
2987	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
2988	</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
2993	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
2994	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
2999	only)</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3004	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3009	</listitem>
3010
3011	<listitem>
3012	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3013	</listitem>
3014
3015	<listitem>
3016	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3017	</listitem>
3018
3019	<listitem>
3020	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3021	state (bug #4124)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3026	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3035	(bug #2996)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3040	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3049	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3054	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3059	user accounts for VM information</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	</itemizedlist>
3063
3064	</sect1>
3065
3066	<sect1>
3067	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3068
3069	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3070	added:</para>
3071
3072	<itemizedlist>
3073
3074	<listitem>
3075	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3076	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3081	</listitem>
3082
3083	<listitem>
3084	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3093	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3098	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3103	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3108	(bug #4952)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3113	bug #6122)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3118	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3123	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3124	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3133	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3134	</listitem>
3135
3136	<listitem>
3137	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3138	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3139	</listitem>
3140
3141	<listitem>
3142	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3143	canceled</para>
3144	</listitem>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3164	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3173	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3178	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3187	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3196	circumstances</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3201	printers</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3210	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3215	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3216	</listitem>
3217
3218	<listitem>
3219	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3220	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3221	circumstances</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3226	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3231	as supported extension</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3236	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3241	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3246	</listitem>
3247
3248	<listitem>
3249	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3250	(bug #7366)</para>
3251	</listitem>
3252
3253	<listitem>
3254	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3259	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3264	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3269	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3274	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3279	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3292	more than one environment variable</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3297	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3302	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3307	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3312	enumerating logged in users</para>
3313	</listitem>
3314
3315	<listitem>
3316	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3329	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3334	</listitem>
3335
3336	<listitem>
3337	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3338	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3343	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3348	(bug #7448)</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	</itemizedlist>
3364
3365	</sect1>
3366
3367	<sect1>
3368	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3369
3370	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3371	added:</para>
3372
3373	<itemizedlist>
3374
3375	<listitem>
3376	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3377	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3378	</listitem>
3379
3380	<listitem>
3381	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3382	</listitem>
3383
3384	<listitem>
3385	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3386	bug #6809)</para>
3387	</listitem>
3388
3389	<listitem>
3390	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3391	</listitem>
3392
3393	<listitem>
3394	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3395	</listitem>
3396
3397	<listitem>
3398	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3399	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3400	</listitem>
3401
3402	<listitem>
3403	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3404	changes</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3413	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3418	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3419	</listitem>
3420
3421	<listitem>
3422	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3439	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3448	(bug #6832)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3453	guests</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3462	without external tools and tricks</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3467	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3476	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3481	shutdown</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3486	fixes</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3491	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3492	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3493	</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3498	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3503	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3508	</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	</itemizedlist>
3524
3525	</sect1>
3526
3527	<sect1>
3528	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3529
3530	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3531	added:</para>
3532
3533	<itemizedlist>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3537	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3542	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3547	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3568	assigned</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3573	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3578	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3587	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3588	</listitem>
3589
3590	<listitem>
3591	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3592	again (bug #7022).
3593	</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3598	(bug #6768)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3603	(bug #6927)</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3608	bug #7031)</para>
3609	</listitem>
3610
3611	<listitem>
3612	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3613	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3618	bug #6987)</para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3631	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3640	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3641	</listitem>
3642
3643	<listitem>
3644	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3645	</listitem>
3646
3647	<listitem>
3648	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3649	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3650	bug #6872)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3659	(performance tweak)</para>
3660	</listitem>
3661
3662	<listitem>
3663	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3664	is currently paused</para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3669	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3670	</listitem>
3671
3672	<listitem>
3673	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3674	</listitem>
3675
3676	<listitem>
3677	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3678	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3683	not properly saved</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3688	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3701	</listitem>
3702
3703	<listitem>
3704	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3705	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3706	</listitem>
3707
3708	<listitem>
3709	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3710	</listitem>
3711
3712	<listitem>
3713	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3714	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3715	</listitem>
3716
3717	<listitem>
3718	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3719	(bug #5251)</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3724	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3737	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	</itemizedlist>
3753	</sect1>
3754
3755	<sect1>
3756	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3757
3758	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3759	added:</para>
3760
3761	<itemizedlist>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3765	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3766	</listitem>
3767
3768	<listitem>
3769	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3774	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3779	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3788	again (bug #6864)</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3793	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3802	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	</itemizedlist>
3810
3811	</sect1>
3812
3813	<sect1>
3814	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3815
3816	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3817	added:</para>
3818
3819	<itemizedlist>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3823	</listitem>
3824
3825	<listitem>
3826	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3827	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3832	</listitem>
3833
3834	<listitem>
3835	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3836	state</para>
3837	</listitem>
3838
3839	<listitem>
3840	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3845	</listitem>
3846
3847	<listitem>
3848	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3865	</listitem>
3866
3867	<listitem>
3868	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	<listitem>
3872	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875	<listitem>
3876	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3877	</listitem>
3878
3879	<listitem>
3880	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3881	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3882	</listitem>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3886	(bug #6784)</para>
3887	</listitem>
3888
3889	<listitem>
3890	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3899	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3912	host only</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3917	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3922	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3931	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3944	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3953	</listitem>
3954
3955	<listitem>
3956	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3961	(bug #6714)</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	</itemizedlist>
3985
3986	</sect1>
3987
3988	<sect1>
3989	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
3990
3991	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3992	were added:</para>
3993
3994	<itemizedlist>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
3998	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
3999	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4008	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4013	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4014	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4019	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4024	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4025	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4026	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4027	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4036	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4041	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4062	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4063	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4068	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	</itemizedlist>
4072
4073	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4074
4075	<itemizedlist>
4076
4077	<listitem>
4078	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4079	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4080	</listitem>
4081
4082	<listitem>
4083	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4084	</listitem>
4085
4086	<listitem>
4087	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4088	VM</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4093	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4094	</listitem>
4095
4096	<listitem>
4097	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4098	#1669)</para>
4099	</listitem>
4100
4101	<listitem>
4102	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4103	#6442)</para>
4104	</listitem>
4105
4106	<listitem>
4107	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4108	combination (bug #684)</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4113	the VM from the GUI</para>
4114	</listitem>
4115
4116	<listitem>
4117	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4118	medium is not accessible</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	<listitem>
4122	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4127	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4132	#3106)</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4137	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4138	it</para>
4139	</listitem>
4140
4141	<listitem>
4142	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4151	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4156	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4169	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4178	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4187	in VirtualBox</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4192	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4197	VirtualBox</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4206	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	</itemizedlist>
4210	</sect1>
4211
4212	<sect1>
4213	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4214
4215	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4216	added:</para>
4217
4218	<itemizedlist>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4222	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4231	</listitem>
4232
4233	<listitem>
4234	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4235	only) </para>
4236	</listitem>
4237
4238	<listitem>
4239	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4240	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4245	interface version</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4250	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4251	slot empty</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4256	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4257	(bug #4220)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4266	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4271	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4276	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4281	attached</para>
4282	</listitem>
4283
4284	<listitem>
4285	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4286	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4291	</listitem>
4292
4293	<listitem>
4294	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4295	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4300	is bug #6408)</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4309	fail to initialize</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4318	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4323	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4324	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	<listitem>
4332	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4333	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4338	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4343	(bug #6435)</para>
4344	</listitem>
4345
4346	<listitem>
4347	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4348	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4349	</listitem>
4350
4351	<listitem>
4352	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4353	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4354	(bug #6488)</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4359	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4364	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4369	#5227)</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4374	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4383	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	</itemizedlist>
4387	</sect1>
4388
4389	<sect1>
4390	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4391
4392	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4393	added:</para>
4394
4395	<itemizedlist>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4399	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4404	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4409	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4414	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4427	</listitem>
4428
4429	<listitem>
4430	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4431	</listitem>
4432
4433	<listitem>
4434	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4435	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4436	</listitem>
4437
4438	<listitem>
4439	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4440	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4445	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4458	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4463	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4464	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4469	(bug #5297)</para>
4470	</listitem>
4471
4472	<listitem>
4473	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4474	(bug #4962)</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4479	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4484	(bug #6176)</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4489	certain circumstances</para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4494	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4507	(bug #3571)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4512	devices</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4517	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4518	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4523	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4524	</listitem>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4532	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4537	response</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	<listitem>
4557	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4558	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4559	</listitem>
4560
4561	<listitem>
4562	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4567	</listitem>
4568
4569	<listitem>
4570	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4571	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4572	</listitem>
4573
4574	<listitem>
4575	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	</itemizedlist>
4591	</sect1>
4592
4593	<sect1>
4594	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4595
4596	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4597	added:</para>
4598
4599	<itemizedlist>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4611	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4616	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4621	(bug #3945)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4626	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4627	</listitem>
4628
4629	<listitem>
4630	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4631	and AMD-V only) </para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4640	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4641	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4646	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4651	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4656	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4661	snapshots command</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4670	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4687	(KWin bug)</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4692	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4701	</listitem>
4702
4703	<listitem>
4704	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4713	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4718	bug #5787)</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4723	DHCP requests</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4728	(bug #3217)</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4733	range (bug #5923)</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4754	file (bug #5681)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4759	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4764	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4769	regression)</para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4790	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4791	</listitem>
4792
4793	<listitem>
4794	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4803	</listitem>
4804
4805	<listitem>
4806	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4807	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4808	</listitem>
4809
4810	<listitem>
4811	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4816	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4825	</listitem>
4826
4827	<listitem>
4828	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4829	</listitem>
4830
4831	<listitem>
4832	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4833	(bug #5731)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4838	again</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	</itemizedlist>
4842
4843	</sect1>
4844
4845	<sect1>
4846	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4847
4848	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4849	added:</para>
4850
4851	<itemizedlist>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4859	</listitem>
4860
4861	<listitem>
4862	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4863	</listitem>
4864
4865	<listitem>
4866	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4875	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4876	</listitem>
4877
4878	<listitem>
4879	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4896	</listitem>
4897
4898	<listitem>
4899	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4900	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4905	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4910	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4911	#1762)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4916	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4921	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4926	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4939	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4952	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4957	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4962	</listitem>
4963
4964	<listitem>
4965	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4966	guests</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4971	and on some 64bit guests</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4976	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
4981	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
4986	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
4995	</listitem>
4996
4997	<listitem>
4998	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
4999	</listitem>
5000
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5007	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5008	</listitem>
5009
5010	<listitem>
5011	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5012	</listitem>
5013
5014	</itemizedlist>
5015
5016	</sect1>
5017
5018	<sect1>
5019	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5020
5021	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5022	were added:</para>
5023
5024	<itemizedlist>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5028	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5033	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5034	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5039	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5040	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5045	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5046	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5047	</listitem>
5048
5049	<listitem>
5050	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5051	running</para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5056	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5061	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5066	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5071	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	</itemizedlist>
5075
5076	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5077
5078	<itemizedlist>
5079
5080	<listitem>
5081	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5094	(bug #5291)</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5103	</listitem>
5104
5105	<listitem>
5106	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5107	</listitem>
5108
5109	<listitem>
5110	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5111	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5116	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5121	</listitem>
5122
5123	<listitem>
5124	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5133	</listitem>
5134
5135	<listitem>
5136	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5141	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5146	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5151	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5156	(bug #2723)</para>
5157	</listitem>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5165	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5170	optional manifest file on import</para>
5171	</listitem>
5172
5173	<listitem>
5174	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5179	(bug #3773)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5192	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5197	(bug #4866)</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5202	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5203	</listitem>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5207	certain conditions</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5224	</listitem>
5225
5226	<listitem>
5227	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5228	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5237	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5258	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	<listitem>
5262	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5263	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5264	(bug #928)</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5269	</listitem>
5270
5271	</itemizedlist>
5272
5273	</sect1>
5274
5275	<sect1>
5276	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5277
5278	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5279	added:</para>
5280
5281	<itemizedlist>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5285	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5290	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5291	</listitem>
5292
5293	<listitem>
5294	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5295	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	<listitem>
5299	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5300	enabled</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5305	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5306	</listitem>
5307
5308	<listitem>
5309	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5310	(bug #2676)</para>
5311	</listitem>
5312
5313	<listitem>
5314	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5315	is connected to a raw file</para>
5316	</listitem>
5317
5318	<listitem>
5319	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5320	(bug #5355)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5325	</listitem>
5326
5327	<listitem>
5328	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5329	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5330	</listitem>
5331
5332	<listitem>
5333	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5334	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5335	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5348	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5353	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5354	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	</itemizedlist>
5358
5359	</sect1>
5360
5361	<sect1>
5362	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5363
5364	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5365	added:</para>
5366
5367	<itemizedlist>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5379	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5380	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5385	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5390	</listitem>
5391
5392	<listitem>
5393	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5410	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5411	</listitem>
5412
5413	<listitem>
5414	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5423	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5424	</listitem>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5432	exhaustion</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5437	</listitem>
5438
5439	<listitem>
5440	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5441	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5446	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5447	</listitem>
5448
5449	<listitem>
5450	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5451	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5452	</listitem>
5453
5454	<listitem>
5455	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5456	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5457	(bug #2921)</para>
5458	</listitem>
5459
5460	<listitem>
5461	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5462	hosts only)</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5467	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5472	</listitem>
5473
5474	<listitem>
5475	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5476	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5477	</listitem>
5478
5479	<listitem>
5480	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5481	</listitem>
5482
5483	<listitem>
5484	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5485	image inconsistency </para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5498	(bug #2025)</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5503	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	</itemizedlist>
5507
5508	</sect1>
5509
5510	<sect1>
5511	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5512
5513	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5514	added:</para>
5515
5516	<itemizedlist>
5517
5518	<listitem>
5519	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5520	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5525	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5530	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5539	software virtualization only) </para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5544	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5545	</listitem>
5546
5547	<listitem>
5548	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5549	with root privileges</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5554	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5559	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5560	</listitem>
5561
5562	<listitem>
5563	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5564	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5565	</listitem>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5569	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5570	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5575	available</para>
5576	</listitem>
5577
5578	<listitem>
5579	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5580	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5585	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5590	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5595	(bug #4907)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5600	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5605	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5622	</listitem>
5623
5624	<listitem>
5625	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5626	are installed</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5631	(bug #4771)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5636	</listitem>
5637
5638	<listitem>
5639	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5640	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5645	command</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5658	(bug #5089)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5663	</listitem>
5664
5665	</itemizedlist>
5666
5667	</sect1>
5668
5669	<sect1>
5670	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5671
5672	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5673	added:</para>
5674
5675	<itemizedlist>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5679	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5684	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5689	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5694	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5699	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5712	</listitem>
5713
5714	<listitem>
5715	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5716	</listitem>
5717
5718	<listitem>
5719	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5724	onlined or offlined</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5733	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5738	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5747	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5764	</listitem>
5765
5766	<listitem>
5767	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5772	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5773	</listitem>
5774
5775	<listitem>
5776	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5777	</listitem>
5778
5779	<listitem>
5780	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5781	</listitem>
5782
5783	<listitem>
5784	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5785	</listitem>
5786
5787	<listitem>
5788	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5789	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5790	</listitem>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5794	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5803	</listitem>
5804
5805	<listitem>
5806	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5827	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5828	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5829	phase collapse</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5834	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5835	</listitem>
5836
5837	<listitem>
5838	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5839	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5848	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5853	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5862	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5863	#4698, #4790)</para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5868	less than the configured range</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5889	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5890	</listitem>
5891
5892	<listitem>
5893	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5894	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5895	</listitem>
5896
5897	<listitem>
5898	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5899	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5908	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5913	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5914	</listitem>
5915
5916	<listitem>
5917	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5918	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5919	</listitem>
5920
5921	<listitem>
5922	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5923	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	</itemizedlist>
5935
5936	</sect1>
5937
5938	<sect1>
5939	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5940
5941	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5942	added:</para>
5943
5944	<itemizedlist>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5960	</listitem>
5961
5962	<listitem>
5963	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	<listitem>
5967	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5972	</listitem>
5973
5974	<listitem>
5975	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5976	</listitem>
5977
5978	<listitem>
5979	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
5980	</listitem>
5981
5982	<listitem>
5983	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
5984	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
5985	</listitem>
5986
5987	<listitem>
5988	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
5989	</listitem>
5990
5991	<listitem>
5992	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6005	</listitem>
6006
6007	<listitem>
6008	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6009	</listitem>
6010
6011	<listitem>
6012	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6013	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6018	(bug #4654)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6027	interfaces</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6032	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6037	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6042	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6047	(bug #1461)</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6056	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6061	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6066	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6079	</listitem>
6080
6081	<listitem>
6082	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6083	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6088	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6093	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6098	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	</itemizedlist>
6102
6103	</sect1>
6104	<sect1>
6105	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6106
6107	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6108	added:</para>
6109
6110	<itemizedlist>
6111
6112	<listitem>
6113	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6114	</listitem>
6115
6116	<listitem>
6117	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6118	</listitem>
6119
6120	<listitem>
6121	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6122	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6123	</listitem>
6124
6125	<listitem>
6126	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6127	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6136	</listitem>
6137
6138	<listitem>
6139	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6140	</listitem>
6141
6142	<listitem>
6143	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6144	</listitem>
6145
6146	<listitem>
6147	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6148	</listitem>
6149
6150	<listitem>
6151	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6156	</listitem>
6157
6158	<listitem>
6159	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6160	</listitem>
6161
6162	<listitem>
6163	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6164	</listitem>
6165
6166	<listitem>
6167	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6168	</listitem>
6169
6170	<listitem>
6171	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6172	</listitem>
6173
6174	<listitem>
6175	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6176	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6177	</listitem>
6178
6179	<listitem>
6180	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6185	</listitem>
6186
6187	<listitem>
6188	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6189	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6194	</listitem>
6195
6196	<listitem>
6197	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6198	</listitem>
6199
6200	<listitem>
6201	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6202	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	</itemizedlist>
6230
6231	</sect1>
6232
6233	<sect1>
6234	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6235
6236	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6237	were added:</para>
6238
6239	<itemizedlist>
6240
6241	<listitem>
6242	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6243	</listitem>
6244
6245	<listitem>
6246	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6247	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6248	</listitem>
6249
6250	<listitem>
6251	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6252	</listitem>
6253
6254	</itemizedlist>
6255
6256	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6257
6258	<itemizedlist>
6259
6260	<listitem>
6261	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6262	</listitem>
6263
6264	<listitem>
6265	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6266	certain conditions</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	<listitem>
6282	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6283	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6284	</listitem>
6285
6286	<listitem>
6287	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6288	</listitem>
6289
6290	<listitem>
6291	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6292	</listitem>
6293
6294	<listitem>
6295	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6296	</listitem>
6297
6298	<listitem>
6299	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6300	</listitem>
6301
6302	<listitem>
6303	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	<listitem>
6307	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6308	</listitem>
6309
6310	<listitem>
6311	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6312	</listitem>
6313
6314	<listitem>
6315	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6320	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6321	</listitem>
6322
6323	<listitem>
6324	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6325	</listitem>
6326
6327	<listitem>
6328	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6329	</listitem>
6330
6331	<listitem>
6332	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6333	</listitem>
6334
6335	<listitem>
6336	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6345	</listitem>
6346
6347	<listitem>
6348	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6349	</listitem>
6350
6351	<listitem>
6352	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6353	</listitem>
6354
6355	<listitem>
6356	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6357	</listitem>
6358
6359	<listitem>
6360	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6361	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6362	</listitem>
6363
6364	<listitem>
6365	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6366	</listitem>
6367
6368	<listitem>
6369	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6370	</listitem>
6371
6372	<listitem>
6373	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6374	</listitem>
6375
6376	<listitem>
6377	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6378	</listitem>
6379
6380	<listitem>
6381	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6382	</listitem>
6383
6384	<listitem>
6385	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6386	</listitem>
6387
6388	<listitem>
6389	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	<listitem>
6393	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6394	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6395	</listitem>
6396
6397	<listitem>
6398	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6399	</listitem>
6400
6401	<listitem>
6402	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6407	</listitem>
6408
6409	<listitem>
6410	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6411	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6412	</listitem>
6413
6414	<listitem>
6415	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6416	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6421	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6426	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6431	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6432	</listitem>
6433
6434	<listitem>
6435	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6436	</listitem>
6437
6438	<listitem>
6439	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6440	</listitem>
6441
6442	<listitem>
6443	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6444	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6449	guest property lookup</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6454	basic network information)</para>
6455	</listitem>
6456
6457	<listitem>
6458	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6459	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6460	</listitem>
6461
6462	<listitem>
6463	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6464	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6465	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6466	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6467	</listitem>
6468
6469	<listitem>
6470	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6471	</listitem>
6472
6473	<listitem>
6474	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6475	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6476	web service</para>
6477	</listitem>
6478
6479	<listitem>
6480	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6481	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6486	unavailable</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	</itemizedlist>
6494	</sect1>
6495
6496	<sect1>
6497	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6498
6499	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6500	added:</para>
6501
6502	<itemizedlist>
6503
6504	<listitem>
6505	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6506	installation</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6511	</listitem>
6512
6513	<listitem>
6514	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6515	later (bug #3981)</para>
6516	</listitem>
6517
6518	<listitem>
6519	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6520	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6521	</listitem>
6522
6523	<listitem>
6524	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6525	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6526	(bug #4034)
6527	</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6532	networking</para>
6533	</listitem>
6534
6535	<listitem>
6536	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6537	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6542	clicks</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	<listitem>
6546	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6547	Windows 7 guests</para>
6548	</listitem>
6549
6550	<listitem>
6551	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6552	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6553	</listitem>
6554
6555	<listitem>
6556	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6557	</listitem>
6558
6559	<listitem>
6560	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6561	</listitem>
6562
6563	<listitem>
6564	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6565	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6566	</listitem>
6567
6568	<listitem>
6569	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6570	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6571	</listitem>
6572
6573	<listitem>
6574	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6575	</listitem>
6576
6577	<listitem>
6578	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6583	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6584	(bug #3864)</para>
6585	</listitem>
6586
6587	<listitem>
6588	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6589	now flushes the output stream</para>
6590	</listitem>
6591
6592	<listitem>
6593	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6594	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6595	</listitem>
6596
6597	<listitem>
6598	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6599	</listitem>
6600
6601	<listitem>
6602	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6603	</listitem>
6604
6605	<listitem>
6606	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6607	</listitem>
6608
6609	<listitem>
6610	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6611	</listitem>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6615	(bug #3964)</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6620	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6621	</listitem>
6622
6623	<listitem>
6624	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6625	hosts</para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6630	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6631	e1000 adapter</para>
6632	</listitem>
6633
6634	<listitem>
6635	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6636	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6637	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6638	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6639	</listitem>
6640
6641	<listitem>
6642	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6651	</listitem>
6652
6653	<listitem>
6654	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6655	file (bug #1023)</para>
6656	</listitem>
6657
6658	<listitem>
6659	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6664	</listitem>
6665
6666	</itemizedlist>
6667	</sect1>
6668
6669	<sect1>
6670	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6671
6672	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6673	added:</para>
6674
6675	<itemizedlist>
6676
6677	<listitem>
6678	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6679	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6680	</listitem>
6681
6682	<listitem>
6683	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6684	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6685	and later</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6690	running services</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6695	terminates</para>
6696	</listitem>
6697
6698	<listitem>
6699	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6700	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6701	</listitem>
6702
6703	<listitem>
6704	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6705	installed on the guest</para>
6706	</listitem>
6707
6708	<listitem>
6709	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6710	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6711	</listitem>
6712
6713	<listitem>
6714	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6715	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6716	</listitem>
6717
6718	<listitem>
6719	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6720	(bug #2628)</para>
6721	</listitem>
6722
6723	<listitem>
6724	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6725	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6726	</listitem>
6727
6728	<listitem>
6729	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6730	(bug #3657)</para>
6731	</listitem>
6732
6733	<listitem>
6734	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6735	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6736	</listitem>
6737
6738	<listitem>
6739	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6740	virtualization only)
6741	</para>
6742	</listitem>
6743
6744	<listitem>
6745	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6746	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6747	</listitem>
6748
6749	<listitem>
6750	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6751	</listitem>
6752
6753	<listitem>
6754	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6755	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6756	</listitem>
6757
6758	<listitem>
6759	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6760	bug #3689)</para>
6761	</listitem>
6762
6763	<listitem>
6764	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6765	bug #3679)</para>
6766	</listitem>
6767
6768	<listitem>
6769	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6770	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6771	</listitem>
6772
6773	<listitem>
6774	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6775	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6776	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6777	</listitem>
6778
6779	<listitem>
6780	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6781	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6782	</listitem>
6783
6784	<listitem>
6785	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6786	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6787	</listitem>
6788
6789	<listitem>
6790	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6791	(bug #3667)</para>
6792	</listitem>
6793
6794	<listitem>
6795	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6796	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6797	</listitem>
6798
6799	<listitem>
6800	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6801	</listitem>
6802
6803	<listitem>
6804	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6805	</listitem>
6806
6807	<listitem>
6808	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6809	</listitem>
6810
6811	<listitem>
6812	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6813	</listitem>
6814
6815	<listitem>
6816	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6817	</listitem>
6818
6819	<listitem>
6820	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6821	</listitem>
6822
6823	<listitem>
6824	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6825	</listitem>
6826
6827	</itemizedlist>
6828	</sect1>
6829
6830	<sect1>
6831	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6832
6833	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6834	were added:</para>
6835
6836	<itemizedlist>
6837
6838	<listitem>
6839	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6848	</listitem>
6849
6850	<listitem>
6851	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6852	</listitem>
6853
6854	<listitem>
6855	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6856	</listitem>
6857
6858	<listitem>
6859	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6868	</listitem>
6869
6870	<listitem>
6871	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6872	</listitem>
6873
6874	<listitem>
6875	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6876	</listitem>
6877
6878	</itemizedlist>
6879
6880	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6881
6882	<itemizedlist>
6883
6884	<listitem>
6885	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6886	</listitem>
6887
6888	<listitem>
6889	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6890	</listitem>
6891
6892	<listitem>
6893	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6894	</listitem>
6895
6896	<listitem>
6897	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6898	</listitem>
6899
6900	<listitem>
6901	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6902	</listitem>
6903
6904	<listitem>
6905	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6918	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6923	</listitem>
6924
6925	<listitem>
6926	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6927	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6928	</listitem>
6929
6930	<listitem>
6931	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6932	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6933	</listitem>
6934
6935	<listitem>
6936	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6937	</listitem>
6938
6939	<listitem>
6940	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6941	</listitem>
6942
6943	<listitem>
6944	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6945	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6954	ESX server images)</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6959	writable</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6964	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6965	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6966	</listitem>
6967
6968	<listitem>
6969	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6970	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6971	</listitem>
6972
6973	<listitem>
6974	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
6979	</listitem>
6980
6981	<listitem>
6982	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
6983	hosts when creating files</para>
6984	</listitem>
6985
6986	<listitem>
6987	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
6988	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
6989	</listitem>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
6993	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
6994	#2306)</para>
6995	</listitem>
6996
6997	<listitem>
6998	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
6999	(bug #3555)</para>
7000	</listitem>
7001
7002	<listitem>
7003	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7004	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	<listitem>
7008	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7009	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7010	</listitem>
7011
7012	<listitem>
7013	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7014	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7019	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7024	(bug #3586)</para>
7025	</listitem>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7029	from Scratch systems</para>
7030	</listitem>
7031
7032	<listitem>
7033	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7034	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7043	default to compact format</para>
7044	</listitem>
7045
7046	<listitem>
7047	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7048	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7049	</listitem>
7050
7051	<listitem>
7052	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7053	</listitem>
7054
7055	<listitem>
7056	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7057	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7058	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7059	</listitem>
7060
7061	<listitem>
7062	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7063	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7064	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7065	</listitem>
7066
7067	<listitem>
7068	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7069	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7070	</listitem>
7071
7072	<listitem>
7073	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7078	</listitem>
7079
7080	<listitem>
7081	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7082	</listitem>
7083
7084	<listitem>
7085	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7086	</listitem>
7087
7088	<listitem>
7089	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7090	</listitem>
7091
7092	<listitem>
7093	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7102	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7103	</listitem>
7104
7105	<listitem>
7106	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7107	</listitem>
7108
7109	<listitem>
7110	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7111	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7112	</listitem>
7113
7114	<listitem>
7115	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7116	</listitem>
7117
7118	<listitem>
7119	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7120	</listitem>
7121
7122	<listitem>
7123	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7128	#2536)</para>
7129	</listitem>
7130
7131	<listitem>
7132	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7133	</listitem>
7134
7135	<listitem>
7136	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7137	(bug #3548)</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	</itemizedlist>
7141	</sect1>
7142
7143	<sect1>
7144	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7145
7146	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7147	added:</para>
7148
7149	<itemizedlist>
7150
7151	<listitem>
7152	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7153	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7154	</listitem>
7155
7156	<listitem>
7157	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7162	</listitem>
7163
7164	<listitem>
7165	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7166	</listitem>
7167
7168	<listitem>
7169	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7170	(bug #3115)</para>
7171	</listitem>
7172
7173	<listitem>
7174	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7175	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7176	</listitem>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7180	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7181	(bug #3215)</para>
7182	</listitem>
7183
7184	<listitem>
7185	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7186	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7191	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7196	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7197	</listitem>
7198
7199	<listitem>
7200	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7201	in parallel</para>
7202	</listitem>
7203
7204	<listitem>
7205	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7206	</listitem>
7207
7208	<listitem>
7209	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7210	</listitem>
7211
7212	<listitem>
7213	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7218	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7227	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7232	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7237	</listitem>
7238
7239	<listitem>
7240	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7241	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7246	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7247	</listitem>
7248
7249	<listitem>
7250	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7251	</listitem>
7252
7253	<listitem>
7254	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	<listitem>
7258	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7259	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7264	</listitem>
7265
7266	<listitem>
7267	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7268	</listitem>
7269
7270	<listitem>
7271	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7272	</listitem>
7273
7274	<listitem>
7275	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7276	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7281	</listitem>
7282
7283	<listitem>
7284	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7285	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7286	</listitem>
7287
7288	<listitem>
7289	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7290	</listitem>
7291
7292	<listitem>
7293	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7294	</listitem>
7295
7296	<listitem>
7297	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7298	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7299	</listitem>
7300
7301	<listitem>
7302	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7303	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7304	</listitem>
7305
7306	<listitem>
7307	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7308	</listitem>
7309
7310	<listitem>
7311	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7312	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7313	</listitem>
7314
7315	<listitem>
7316	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7317	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7318	</listitem>
7319
7320	<listitem>
7321	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7322	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7323	</listitem>
7324
7325	<listitem>
7326	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7327	(bug #3213)</para>
7328	</listitem>
7329
7330	<listitem>
7331	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7332	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7333	</listitem>
7334
7335	<listitem>
7336	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7337	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7338	</listitem>
7339
7340	</itemizedlist>
7341	</sect1>
7342
7343	<sect1>
7344	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7345
7346	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7347	added:</para>
7348
7349	<itemizedlist>
7350
7351	<listitem>
7352	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7353	</listitem>
7354
7355	<listitem>
7356	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7357	</listitem>
7358
7359	<listitem>
7360	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7361	</listitem>
7362
7363	<listitem>
7364	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7365	</listitem>
7366
7367	<listitem>
7368	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7369	</listitem>
7370
7371	<listitem>
7372	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7373	</listitem>
7374
7375	<listitem>
7376	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7377	</listitem>
7378
7379	<listitem>
7380	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7381	</listitem>
7382
7383	<listitem>
7384	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7389	</listitem>
7390
7391	<listitem>
7392	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7397	</listitem>
7398
7399	<listitem>
7400	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7401	</listitem>
7402
7403	<listitem>
7404	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7405	</listitem>
7406
7407	<listitem>
7408	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7409	</listitem>
7410
7411	<listitem>
7412	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7417	(bug #3067)</para>
7418	</listitem>
7419
7420	<listitem>
7421	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7422	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7423	</listitem>
7424
7425	<listitem>
7426	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7427	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7436	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7441	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7450	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7459	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7460	</listitem>
7461
7462	<listitem>
7463	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7464	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7465	</listitem>
7466
7467	<listitem>
7468	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7469	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7470	</para>
7471	</listitem>
7472
7473	<listitem>
7474	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7475	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7476	</para>
7477	</listitem>
7478
7479	<listitem>
7480	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7481	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7482	</para>
7483	</listitem>
7484
7485	<listitem>
7486	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7487	</listitem>
7488
7489	<listitem>
7490	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7491	</listitem>
7492
7493	<listitem>
7494	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7495	</listitem>
7496
7497	<listitem>
7498	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7499	</listitem>
7500
7501	<listitem>
7502	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7503	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7504	</listitem>
7505
7506	<listitem>
7507	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7508	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7509	</listitem>
7510
7511	<listitem>
7512	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7513	formatting a drive</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7522	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7523	</listitem>
7524
7525	<listitem>
7526	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7527	</listitem>
7528
7529	<listitem>
7530	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7531	</listitem>
7532
7533	<listitem>
7534	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7535	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7536	</listitem>
7537
7538	<listitem>
7539	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7540	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7541	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7542	</listitem>
7543
7544	<listitem>
7545	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7546	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7547	</listitem>
7548
7549	<listitem>
7550	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7551	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7552	</listitem>
7553
7554	<listitem>
7555	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7556	(bug #2768)</para>
7557	</listitem>
7558
7559	<listitem>
7560	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7565	</listitem>
7566
7567	<listitem>
7568	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7569	single, unified package</para>
7570	</listitem>
7571
7572	<listitem>
7573	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7574	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7579	</listitem>
7580
7581	<listitem>
7582	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7583	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7588	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7589	</listitem>
7590
7591	<listitem>
7592	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7593	</listitem>
7594
7595	<listitem>
7596	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7597	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7598	doing 3D</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7603	</listitem>
7604
7605	<listitem>
7606	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7607	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	<listitem>
7611	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7612	</listitem>
7613
7614	<listitem>
7615	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7616	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7617	</listitem>
7618
7619	<listitem>
7620	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7621	</listitem>
7622
7623	<listitem>
7624	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7625	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7626	</listitem>
7627
7628	<listitem>
7629	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7630	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7631	(bug #2938)</para>
7632	</listitem>
7633
7634	<listitem>
7635	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7636	Linux guests</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7641	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7642	(bug #1776)</para>
7643	</listitem>
7644
7645	<listitem>
7646	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7647	(bug #1612)</para>
7648	</listitem>
7649
7650	<listitem>
7651	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7652	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7653	</listitem>
7654
7655	<listitem>
7656	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7657	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7658	</listitem>
7659
7660	<listitem>
7661	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7662	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7663	</listitem>
7664
7665	</itemizedlist>
7666	</sect1>
7667
7668	<sect1>
7669	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7670
7671	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7672	were added:</para>
7673
7674	<itemizedlist>
7675	<listitem>
7676	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7677	</listitem>
7678
7679	<listitem>
7680	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7681	</listitem>
7682
7683	<listitem>
7684	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7685	</listitem>
7686
7687	<listitem>
7688	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7689	</listitem>
7690
7691	<listitem>
7692	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7693	</listitem>
7694
7695	<listitem>
7696	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7697	</listitem>
7698
7699	<listitem>
7700	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7701	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7702	</listitem>
7703
7704	<listitem>
7705	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7706	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7707	</listitem>
7708
7709	</itemizedlist>
7710
7711	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7712
7713	<itemizedlist>
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7716	</listitem>
7717
7718	<listitem>
7719	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7720	</listitem>
7721
7722	<listitem>
7723	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7724	</listitem>
7725
7726	<listitem>
7727	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7728	</listitem>
7729
7730	<listitem>
7731	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7732	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7733	</listitem>
7734
7735	<listitem>
7736	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7737	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7738	</listitem>
7739
7740	<listitem>
7741	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7742	</listitem>
7743
7744	<listitem>
7745	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7746	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7747	</listitem>
7748
7749	<listitem>
7750	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7755	</listitem>
7756
7757	<listitem>
7758	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7759	</listitem>
7760
7761	<listitem>
7762	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7763	</listitem>
7764
7765	<listitem>
7766	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7767	</listitem>
7768
7769	<listitem>
7770	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7771	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	<listitem>
7775	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7776	the compiz window manager</para>
7777	</listitem>
7778
7779	<listitem>
7780	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7781	</listitem>
7782
7783	<listitem>
7784	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7785	</listitem>
7786
7787	<listitem>
7788	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7789	</listitem>
7790
7791	<listitem>
7792	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7793	</listitem>
7794
7795	<listitem>
7796	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7797	</listitem>
7798
7799	<listitem>
7800	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7805	</listitem>
7806
7807	<listitem>
7808	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7809	</listitem>
7810
7811	<listitem>
7812	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7813	</listitem>
7814
7815	<listitem>
7816	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7817	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7818	</listitem>
7819
7820	<listitem>
7821	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7822	for direct device access</para>
7823	</listitem>
7824
7825	<listitem>
7826	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7827	</listitem>
7828
7829	<listitem>
7830	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7831	</listitem>
7832
7833	<listitem>
7834	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7835	</listitem>
7836
7837	<listitem>
7838	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7839	</listitem>
7840
7841	<listitem>
7842	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7843	</listitem>
7844
7845	<listitem>
7846	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7847	</listitem>
7848
7849	<listitem>
7850	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7851	</listitem>
7852
7853	<listitem>
7854	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7855	</listitem>
7856
7857	</itemizedlist>
7858	</sect1>
7859
7860	<sect1>
7861	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7862
7863	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7864	added:</para>
7865
7866	<itemizedlist>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7870	states/snapshots</para>
7871	</listitem>
7872
7873	<listitem>
7874	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7875	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7880	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7885	collisions</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7890	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7891	</listitem>
7892
7893	<listitem>
7894	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7895	</listitem>
7896
7897	<listitem>
7898	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7899	reliably</para>
7900	</listitem>
7901
7902	<listitem>
7903	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7904	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7905	</listitem>
7906
7907	<listitem>
7908	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7909	a reboot</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	<listitem>
7917	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7918	in parallel</para>
7919	</listitem>
7920
7921	<listitem>
7922	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7923	</listitem>
7924
7925	<listitem>
7926	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7927	correctly</para>
7928	</listitem>
7929
7930	<listitem>
7931	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7932	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7933	</listitem>
7934
7935	</itemizedlist>
7936	</sect1>
7937
7938	<sect1>
7939	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7940
7941	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7942	added:</para>
7943
7944	<itemizedlist>
7945
7946	<listitem>
7947	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7948	(bug #2220)</para>
7949	</listitem>
7950
7951	<listitem>
7952	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7953	</listitem>
7954
7955	<listitem>
7956	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7957	</listitem>
7958
7959	<listitem>
7960	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7961	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7962	</listitem>
7963
7964	<listitem>
7965	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7966	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7967	</listitem>
7968
7969	<listitem>
7970	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7971	(bug #2624)</para>
7972	</listitem>
7973
7974	<listitem>
7975	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7976	(bug #2024)</para>
7977	</listitem>
7978
7979	<listitem>
7980	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
7981	</listitem>
7982
7983	<listitem>
7984	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
7985	</listitem>
7986
7987	<listitem>
7988	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
7989	</listitem>
7990
7991	<listitem>
7992	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
7993	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
7994	</listitem>
7995
7996	<listitem>
7997	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
7998	applications when updating the installation</para>
7999	</listitem>
8000
8001	<listitem>
8002	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8003	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8004	</listitem>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8008	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8009	</listitem>
8010
8011	<listitem>
8012	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8013	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8018	connected to a host device</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8023	</listitem>
8024
8025	<listitem>
8026	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8027	</listitem>
8028
8029	<listitem>
8030	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8031	</listitem>
8032
8033	<listitem>
8034	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8035	when using native RDP connections</para>
8036	</listitem>
8037
8038	<listitem>
8039	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8040	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8041	</listitem>
8042
8043	<listitem>
8044	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8045	(bug #2591)</para>
8046	</listitem>
8047
8048	<listitem>
8049	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8050	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8051	</listitem>
8052
8053	<listitem>
8054	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8055	</listitem>
8056
8057	</itemizedlist>
8058	</sect1>
8059
8060	<sect1>
8061	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8062
8063	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8064	added:</para>
8065
8066	<itemizedlist>
8067	<listitem>
8068	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8069	</listitem>
8070
8071	<listitem>
8072	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8073	</listitem>
8074
8075	<listitem>
8076	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8077	</listitem>
8078
8079	<listitem>
8080	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	<listitem>
8084	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8085	</listitem>
8086
8087	<listitem>
8088	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8089	</listitem>
8090
8091	<listitem>
8092	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8093	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8094	</listitem>
8095
8096	<listitem>
8097	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8098	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8099	</listitem>
8100
8101	<listitem>
8102	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8103	</listitem>
8104
8105	<listitem>
8106	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8107	equal to the client resolution</para>
8108	</listitem>
8109
8110	<listitem>
8111	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8112	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8113	</listitem>
8114
8115	<listitem>
8116	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8117	</listitem>
8118
8119	<listitem>
8120	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8121	</listitem>
8122
8123	<listitem>
8124	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8125	</listitem>
8126
8127	<listitem>
8128	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8129	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8130	</listitem>
8131
8132	<listitem>
8133	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8134	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8135	</listitem>
8136
8137	<listitem>
8138	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8139	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8144	</listitem>
8145
8146	<listitem>
8147	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8148	</listitem>
8149
8150	<listitem>
8151	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8156	</listitem>
8157
8158	<listitem>
8159	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8160	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8161	</listitem>
8162
8163	<listitem>
8164	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8165	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8166	</listitem>
8167
8168	<listitem>
8169	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8170	</listitem>
8171
8172	<listitem>
8173	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8174	</listitem>
8175
8176	<listitem>
8177	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8178	</listitem>
8179
8180	</itemizedlist>
8181
8182	</sect1>
8183
8184	<sect1>
8185	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8186
8187	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8188	added:</para>
8189
8190	<itemizedlist>
8191
8192	<listitem>
8193	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8194	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8195	</listitem>
8196
8197	<listitem>
8198	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8199	</listitem>
8200
8201	<listitem>
8202	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8203	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8204	</listitem>
8205
8206	<listitem>
8207	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8208	</listitem>
8209
8210	<listitem>
8211	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8212	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8213	</listitem>
8214
8215	<listitem>
8216	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8217	</listitem>
8218
8219	<listitem>
8220	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8221	the virtual disk manager</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8226	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8231	</listitem>
8232
8233	<listitem>
8234	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8235	</listitem>
8236
8237	<listitem>
8238	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8239	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8240	</listitem>
8241
8242	<listitem>
8243	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8244	bug #2067)</para>
8245	</listitem>
8246
8247	<listitem>
8248	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8249	</listitem>
8250
8251	<listitem>
8252	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8253	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8258	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8259	(bug #2184)</para>
8260	</listitem>
8261
8262	<listitem>
8263	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8264	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8265	</listitem>
8266
8267	<listitem>
8268	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8269	(Windows guests only)</para>
8270	</listitem>
8271
8272	<listitem>
8273	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8274	</listitem>
8275
8276	<listitem>
8277	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8278	</listitem>
8279
8280	<listitem>
8281	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8282	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8287	</listitem>
8288
8289	<listitem>
8290	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8291	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8292	</para>
8293	</listitem>
8294
8295	<listitem>
8296	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8297	</listitem>
8298
8299	<listitem>
8300	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8301	</listitem>
8302
8303	<listitem>
8304	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8305	a VM reboot</para>
8306	</listitem>
8307
8308	<listitem>
8309	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8310	</listitem>
8311
8312	<listitem>
8313	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8314	buggy X servers</para>
8315	</listitem>
8316
8317	<listitem>
8318	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8319	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8320	</listitem>
8321
8322	<listitem>
8323	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8324	</listitem>
8325
8326	<listitem>
8327	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8328	(bug #2128)</para>
8329	</listitem>
8330
8331	<listitem>
8332	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8333	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8334	</listitem>
8335
8336	<listitem>
8337	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8338	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8339	</listitem>
8340
8341	<listitem>
8342	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8343	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8344	</listitem>
8345
8346	<listitem>
8347	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8348	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8349	</listitem>
8350
8351	<listitem>
8352	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8353	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8354	</listitem>
8355
8356	<listitem>
8357	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8358	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8359	</listitem>
8360
8361	<listitem>
8362	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8363	installer into a single package</para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8368	port to the guest
8369	</para>
8370	</listitem>
8371
8372	</itemizedlist>
8373
8374	</sect1>
8375
8376	<sect1>
8377	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8378
8379	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8380	were added:<itemizedlist>
8381
8382	<listitem>
8383	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8384	</listitem>
8385
8386	<listitem>
8387	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8388	</listitem>
8389
8390	<listitem>
8391	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8392	</listitem>
8393
8394	<listitem>
8395	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8396	</listitem>
8397
8398	<listitem>
8399	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8400	</listitem>
8401
8402	<listitem>
8403	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8404	</listitem>
8405
8406	<listitem>
8407	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8408	</listitem>
8409
8410	<listitem>
8411	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8412	</listitem>
8413
8414	<listitem>
8415	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8416	</listitem>
8417
8418	<listitem>
8419	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8420	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8421	</listitem>
8422
8423	<listitem>
8424	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8425	</listitem>
8426
8427	<listitem>
8428	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8429	</listitem>
8430
8431	<listitem>
8432	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8433	</listitem>
8434
8435	</itemizedlist></para>
8436
8437	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8438
8439	<itemizedlist>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8447	</listitem>
8448
8449	<listitem>
8450	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8451	</listitem>
8452
8453	<listitem>
8454	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8455	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8456	</listitem>
8457
8458	<listitem>
8459	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8460	restored</para>
8461	</listitem>
8462
8463	<listitem>
8464	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8465	</listitem>
8466
8467	<listitem>
8468	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8469	</listitem>
8470
8471	<listitem>
8472	<para>Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn't simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	</itemizedlist>
8476
8477	</sect1>
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