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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.2.0 Release Candidate 4 (2012-09-08)</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" /> (bug #3653)</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 parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
54	documentation for more information</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	</itemizedlist>
58
59	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
60
61	<itemizedlist>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
65	on Mountain Lion</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
70	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
71	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
72	</listitem>
73
74	<listitem>
75	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
76	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
81	nested paging</para>
82	</listitem>
83
84	<listitem>
85	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
86	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
87	</listitem>
88
89	<listitem>
90	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
91	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
92	</listitem>
93
94	<listitem>
95	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
96	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
109	</listitem>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
121	</listitem>
122
123	<listitem>
124	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
129	guests</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
134	used ISO images</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
139	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
144	(bug #9973)</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
149	(bug #9864)</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
154	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
155	immediately (bug )</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
160	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
161	</listitem>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
165	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
166	any time using the VM menu.</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
191	</listitem>
192
193	<listitem>
194	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
195	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
204	support for v2 images)</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
213	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
214	</listitem>
215
216	<listitem>
217	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
226	VirtualBox update</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
231	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
236	</listitem>
237
238	</itemizedlist>
239	</sect1>
240
241	<sect1>
242	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
243
244	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
245	added:</para>
246
247	<itemizedlist>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
251	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
252	and others)</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
257	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
262	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
267	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
272	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
277	(bug #10631)</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
282	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
283	(bug #10624)</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
292	updated (bug #9887)</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	</itemizedlist>
300	</sect1>
301
302	<sect1>
303	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
304
305	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
306	added:</para>
307
308	<itemizedlist>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
312	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
313	</listitem>
314
315	<listitem>
316	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
317	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
318	</listitem>
319
320	<listitem>
321	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
322	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
323	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
328	guests in rare cases</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
337	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
342	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
343	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
352	</listitem>
353
354	<listitem>
355	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
356	reason (bug #6189)</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
365	paused</para>
366	</listitem>
367
368	<listitem>
369	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
370	(bug #10267)</para>
371	</listitem>
372
373	<listitem>
374	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
379	(bug #10418)</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
384	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
385	(bug #10581)</para>
386	</listitem>
387
388	<listitem>
389	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
390	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
391	</listitem>
392
393	<listitem>
394	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
395	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
396	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
397	</listitem>
398
399	<listitem>
400	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	</itemizedlist>
404
405	</sect1>
406
407	<sect1>
408	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
409
410	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
411	added:</para>
412
413	<itemizedlist>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
417	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
418	(bug #3783)</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
427	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	</itemizedlist>
435
436	</sect1>
437
438	<sect1>
439	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
440
441	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
442	added:</para>
443
444	<itemizedlist>
445
446	<listitem>
447	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
448	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
449	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
454	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
459	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
464	</listitem>
465
466	<listitem>
467	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
472	4.1.10 regression)</para>
473	</listitem>
474
475	<listitem>
476	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
481	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
482	</listitem>
483
484	<listitem>
485	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
490	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
495	4.1.10 regression)</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
500	closed (bug #6473)</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
505	properly installed</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	</itemizedlist>
513	</sect1>
514
515	<sect1>
516	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
517
518	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
519	added:</para>
520
521	<itemizedlist>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
525	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
530	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
531	</listitem>
532
533	<listitem>
534	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
535	fusion</para>
536	</listitem>
537
538	<listitem>
539	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
540	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
541	</listitem>
542
543	<listitem>
544	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
545	and network mask attributes</para>
546	</listitem>
547
548	<listitem>
549	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
550	(bug #10030)</para>
551	</listitem>
552
553	<listitem>
554	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
555	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
560	</listitem>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
568	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
577	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
582	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
587	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
604	</listitem>
605
606	<listitem>
607	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
608	</listitem>
609
610	<listitem>
611	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
616	in a zone</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
625	(bug #9651)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
634	#10010)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
639	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	<listitem>
643	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
644	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
645	</listitem>
646
647	<listitem>
648	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
653	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
658	(bug #10151)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
663	guests.</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	</itemizedlist>
679	</sect1>
680
681	<sect1>
682	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
683
684	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
685	added:</para>
686
687	<itemizedlist>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
691	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
700	(bug #9642)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
705	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
706	</para>
707	</listitem>
708
709	<listitem>
710	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
715	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
716	</listitem>
717
718	<listitem>
719	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
720	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
721	</listitem>
722
723	<listitem>
724	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
737	circumstances</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
746	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
751	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
752	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
753	and for 3D support in general</para>
754	</listitem>
755
756	<listitem>
757	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
770	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	</itemizedlist>
774	</sect1>
775
776	<sect1>
777	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
778
779	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
780	added:</para>
781
782	<itemizedlist>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
790	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
795	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
800	certain guests</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
809	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
810	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
815	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
816	</listitem>
817
818	<listitem>
819	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
824	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
833	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
838	guests</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
843	folders</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
848	shared folders</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
853	users and stale sessions</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
858	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	</itemizedlist>
862	</sect1>
863
864	<sect1>
865	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
866
867	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
868	added:</para>
869
870	<itemizedlist>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
874	bug #9458)</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
879	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
884	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
893	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
894	</listitem>
895
896	<listitem>
897	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
898	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
899	</listitem>
900
901	<listitem>
902	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
903	(bug #9308)</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
908	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
913	(bug #9503)</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
918	(bug #9242)</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
923	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
924	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
933	images</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
938	(Windows hosts only)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
943	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
948	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
949	</listitem>
950
951	<listitem>
952	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
953	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
954	</listitem>
955
956	<listitem>
957	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
958	#9387)</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
963	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
968	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
973	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
978	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
983	</listitem>
984
985	<listitem>
986	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
991	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
996	(bug #1578)</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1001	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1006	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1007	</listitem>
1008
1009	<listitem>
1010	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1011	(bug #9535)</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	<listitem>
1015	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1016	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1017	</listitem>
1018
1019	<listitem>
1020	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1021	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1022	</listitem>
1023
1024	<listitem>
1025	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1026	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1027	</listitem>
1028
1029	<listitem>
1030	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1031	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1032	</listitem>
1033
1034	<listitem>
1035	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1036	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1037	</listitem>
1038
1039	<listitem>
1040	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1041	</para>
1042	</listitem>
1043
1044	<listitem>
1045	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1046	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1047	</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1052	(bug #6229)
1053	</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1058	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1063	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1068	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1073	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1078	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1079	</listitem>
1080
1081	<listitem>
1082	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1083	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1084	</listitem>
1085
1086	<listitem>
1087	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1088	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1093	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	</itemizedlist>
1097	</sect1>
1098
1099	<sect1>
1100	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1101
1102	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1103	added:</para>
1104
1105	<itemizedlist>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1113	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1122	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1127	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1132	a live snapshot</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	<listitem>
1136	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1137	due to a library version conflict</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1142	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1147	at a time by default</para>
1148	</listitem>
1149
1150	<listitem>
1151	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1152	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1153	#9368)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1158	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1163	VMs</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1168	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1173	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1174	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1179	(bug #9308)</para>
1180	</listitem>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1184	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1185	</listitem>
1186
1187	<listitem>
1188	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1193	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1198	(bug #9242)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1203	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1208	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1209	</listitem>
1210
1211	<listitem>
1212	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1213	USB devices</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	<listitem>
1217	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1218	and warn about it</para>
1219	</listitem>
1220
1221	<listitem>
1222	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1227	</listitem>
1228
1229	<listitem>
1230	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1231	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1232	</listitem>
1233
1234	<listitem>
1235	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1236	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1237	</listitem>
1238
1239	<listitem>
1240	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1241	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1246	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1251	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1256	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1257	</listitem>
1258
1259	<listitem>
1260	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1261	2.6.37 and above</para>
1262	</listitem>
1263
1264	</itemizedlist>
1265	</sect1>
1266
1267	<sect1>
1268	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1269
1270	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1271	were added:</para>
1272
1273	<itemizedlist>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1277	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1278	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1291	bug #7822)</para>
1292	</listitem>
1293
1294	<listitem>
1295	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1300	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1305	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1306	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1307	anymore)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1312	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1317	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1318	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1323	</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1328	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1329	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1334	with VBoxManage</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1339	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342
1343	</itemizedlist>
1344
1345	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1346
1347	<itemizedlist>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1363	of the current state</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1372	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1377	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1378	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1383	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1388	</listitem>
1389
1390	<listitem>
1391	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1392	</listitem>
1393
1394	<listitem>
1395	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1396	dialog</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1401	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1402	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1403	</listitem>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1407	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1408	</listitem>
1409
1410	<listitem>
1411	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1412	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1413	</listitem>
1414
1415	<listitem>
1416	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1417	be a valid UUID</para>
1418	</listitem>
1419
1420	<listitem>
1421	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1422	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1423	</listitem>
1424
1425	<listitem>
1426	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1427	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1428	cases</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1433	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1434	improve performance</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1439	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1440	on a temporary basis</para>
1441	</listitem>
1442
1443	<listitem>
1444	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1445	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1446	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1447	</listitem>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1451	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1452	</listitem>
1453
1454	<listitem>
1455	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1456	images in VDI format</para>
1457	</listitem>
1458
1459	<listitem>
1460	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1461	VMDK format</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1466	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1475	</listitem>
1476
1477	<listitem>
1478	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1491	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1496	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1497	</listitem>
1498
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1501	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1506	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1511	RDP clients</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1520	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1525	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1530	simultaneously</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1535	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1536	location values in many places</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1545	builds</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1554	window (bug #4491)</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	<listitem>
1558	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1559	removing a VM</para>
1560	</listitem>
1561
1562	<listitem>
1563	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1572	166 and above)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1577	hosts</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1586	from the host</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	</itemizedlist>
1594
1595	</sect1>
1596
1597	<sect1>
1598	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1599
1600	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1601	added:</para>
1602
1603	<itemizedlist>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1611	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1616	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1621	a live snapshot</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1626	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1627	</listitem>
1628
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1631	</listitem>
1632
1633	<listitem>
1634	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1639	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1640	</listitem>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1644	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1645	</listitem>
1646
1647	<listitem>
1648	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1649	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1658	images</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1663	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1667	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1672	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1681	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1686	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1695	(bug #9370)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1700	(bug #9535)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1705	(bug #1578)</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1710	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1715	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1716	</para>
1717	</listitem>
1718
1719	<listitem>
1720	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1721	</para>
1722	</listitem>
1723
1724	<listitem>
1725	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1726	2.6.37 and above</para>
1727	</listitem>
1728
1729	<listitem>
1730	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1731	(bug #6229)</para>
1732	</listitem>
1733
1734	<listitem>
1735	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1736	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	</itemizedlist>
1740	</sect1>
1741
1742	<sect1>
1743	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1744
1745	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1746	added:</para>
1747
1748	<itemizedlist>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1756	166 and above)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1761	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1762	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1767	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1772	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	<listitem>
1780	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1781	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1782	</listitem>
1783
1784	<listitem>
1785	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1786	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1787	</listitem>
1788
1789	<listitem>
1790	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1791	builds</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1796	</listitem>
1797
1798	</itemizedlist>
1799	</sect1>
1800	<sect1>
1801	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1802
1803	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1804	added:</para>
1805
1806	<itemizedlist>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1810	</listitem>
1811
1812	<listitem>
1813	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1814	</listitem>
1815
1816	<listitem>
1817	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1818	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1823	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1832	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1841	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1846	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1851	</listitem>
1852
1853	<listitem>
1854	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1859	file was not written during export</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1868	</listitem>
1869
1870	<listitem>
1871	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1872	</listitem>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1876	binaries</para>
1877	</listitem>
1878
1879	<listitem>
1880	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1885	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1890	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1899	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	</itemizedlist>
1903	</sect1>
1904
1905	<sect1>
1906	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1907
1908	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1909	added:</para>
1910
1911	<itemizedlist>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1915	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1920	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1925	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1926	</listitem>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1930	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1935	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	<listitem>
1939	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1940	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1945	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1950	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1955	</listitem>
1956
1957	<listitem>
1958	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1963	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1964	</listitem>
1965
1966	<listitem>
1967	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1968	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1973	</listitem>
1974
1975	<listitem>
1976	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1981	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1986	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1991	window</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1996	Fedora 15</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2001	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2006	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2011	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2020	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	</itemizedlist>
2024	</sect1>
2025
2026	<sect1>
2027	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2028
2029	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2030	added:</para>
2031
2032	<itemizedlist>
2033
2034	<listitem>
2035	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2036	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2037	</listitem>
2038
2039	<listitem>
2040	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2041	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2042	</listitem>
2043
2044	<listitem>
2045	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2046	(bug #8006)</para>
2047	</listitem>
2048
2049	<listitem>
2050	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2051	(bug #8726)</para>
2052	</listitem>
2053
2054	<listitem>
2055	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2060	</listitem>
2061
2062	<listitem>
2063	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2064	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2065	</listitem>
2066
2067	<listitem>
2068	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2069	(bug #8469)</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2074	selectors</para>
2075	</listitem>
2076
2077	<listitem>
2078	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2079	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2084	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2089	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2090	</listitem>
2091
2092	<listitem>
2093	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2098	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2111	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2116	I/O error occurred</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2121	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2126	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2131	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2132	if no medium is present</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2141	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2146	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2151	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2152	</listitem>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2160	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2165	library (bug #8063)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2170	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2175	</listitem>
2176
2177	<listitem>
2178	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2187	changed on import</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2196	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2201	(bug #8593)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2206	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2211	captured</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2216	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2221	</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2226	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2231	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2236	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2237	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2242	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2247	</listitem>
2248
2249	<listitem>
2250	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2251	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2252	</listitem>
2253
2254	<listitem>
2255	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2256	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2261	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2282	(bug #7946)</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	</itemizedlist>
2298
2299	</sect1>
2300
2301	<sect1>
2302	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2303
2304	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2305	added:</para>
2306
2307	<itemizedlist>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2311	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2316	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2321	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2326	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2331	number of host network interfaces</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2336	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2345	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2350	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2351	</listitem>
2352
2353	<listitem>
2354	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2355	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2356	</listitem>
2357
2358	<listitem>
2359	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2360	</listitem>
2361
2362	<listitem>
2363	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2364	(bug #6577)</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	<listitem>
2368	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2369	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2370	(bug #8235)</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2375	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2376	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2381	</listitem>
2382
2383	<listitem>
2384	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2385	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2386	</listitem>
2387
2388	<listitem>
2389	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2394	(bug #7966)</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2399	</listitem>
2400
2401	<listitem>
2402	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2403	</listitem>
2404
2405	<listitem>
2406	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2411	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2420	</listitem>
2421
2422	<listitem>
2423	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2424	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2429	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2438	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2439	</listitem>
2440
2441	<listitem>
2442	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2443	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2444	(bug #8122)</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2449	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2462	(bug #1548)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2471	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2480	(bug #8231)</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2485	11.04 Alpha</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2490	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2495	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2500	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2505	with VBoxGINA</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	</itemizedlist>
2509
2510	</sect1>
2511
2512	<sect1>
2513	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2514
2515	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2516	added:</para>
2517
2518	<itemizedlist>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2522	settings vanished</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2527	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2528	</listitem>
2529
2530	<listitem>
2531	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2532	created (bug #8031)</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2541	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2546	an extension pack</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2551	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2560	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2565	host-only interface</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2570	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2575	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2580	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2585	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2590	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2595	</listitem>
2596
2597	<listitem>
2598	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2603	guests</para>
2604	</listitem>
2605
2606	<listitem>
2607	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2616	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2621	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2626	a VM start</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2631	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2636	(bug #6067)</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2641	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2646	not saved to machine XML</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2651	#7983)</para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2656	#7981)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2665	regression)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2670	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2675	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	</itemizedlist>
2679
2680	</sect1>
2681
2682	<sect1>
2683	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2684
2685	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2686	were added:</para>
2687
2688	<itemizedlist>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2700	<itemizedlist>
2701	<listitem>
2702	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712
2713	<listitem>
2714	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2715	</listitem>
2716
2717	<listitem>
2718	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2719	states, and optionally including attached
2720	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2721	can do the same now)</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	</itemizedlist>
2729	</para>
2730	</listitem>
2731
2732	<listitem>
2733	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>New virtual hardware:
2738	<itemizedlist>
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2741	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2746	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748	</itemizedlist>
2749	</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2754	<itemizedlist>
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2761	</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2766	now</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	</itemizedlist>
2774	</para>
2775	</listitem>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2779	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2784	Parallels images</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2793	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2798	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2799	</listitem>
2800
2801	</itemizedlist>
2802
2803	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2804
2805	<itemizedlist>
2806
2807	<listitem>
2808	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2809	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2810	</listitem>
2811
2812	<listitem>
2813	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2818	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2823	(bug #1657)</para>
2824	</listitem>
2825
2826	<listitem>
2827	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2836	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2841	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2846	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2847	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2852	again (bug #6864)</para>
2853	</listitem>
2854
2855	<listitem>
2856	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2857	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2858	</listitem>
2859
2860	<listitem>
2861	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2862	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2863	</listitem>
2864
2865	<listitem>
2866	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2867	</listitem>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2879	</listitem>
2880
2881	<listitem>
2882	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2883	</listitem>
2884
2885	<listitem>
2886	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2887	</listitem>
2888
2889	<listitem>
2890	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2895	(bug #7058)</para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2900	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2905	circumstances</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2910	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2911	#5578)
2912	</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2921	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2926	</listitem>
2927
2928	<listitem>
2929	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2930	#6760)</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2935	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2936	</listitem>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2940	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2945	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2946	</listitem>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2954	file</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2959	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	</itemizedlist>
2963
2964	</sect1>
2965
2966	<sect1>
2967	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2968
2969	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2970	added:</para>
2971
2972	<itemizedlist>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2976	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2981	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2982	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2995	</listitem>
2996
2997	<listitem>
2998	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2999	the VM is running</para>
3000	</listitem>
3001
3002	<listitem>
3003	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3004	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3005	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3006	starting from a saved state</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3019	</listitem>
3020
3021	<listitem>
3022	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3031	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3036	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3041	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3042	</listitem>
3043
3044	<listitem>
3045	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3050	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3051	</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3056	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3057	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3062	only)</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3067	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3072	</listitem>
3073
3074	<listitem>
3075	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3076	</listitem>
3077
3078	<listitem>
3079	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3084	state (bug #4124)</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3089	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3098	(bug #2996)</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3103	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3112	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3117	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3122	user accounts for VM information</para>
3123	</listitem>
3124
3125	</itemizedlist>
3126
3127	</sect1>
3128
3129	<sect1>
3130	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3131
3132	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3133	added:</para>
3134
3135	<itemizedlist>
3136
3137	<listitem>
3138	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3139	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3144	</listitem>
3145
3146	<listitem>
3147	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3156	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3161	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3166	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3167	</listitem>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3171	(bug #4952)</para>
3172	</listitem>
3173
3174	<listitem>
3175	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3176	bug #6122)</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3181	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3186	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3187	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3196	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3201	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3206	canceled</para>
3207	</listitem>
3208
3209	<listitem>
3210	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3227	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3236	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3241	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3246	</listitem>
3247
3248	<listitem>
3249	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3250	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3251	</listitem>
3252
3253	<listitem>
3254	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3259	circumstances</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3264	printers</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3273	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3278	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3283	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3284	circumstances</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3289	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3290	</listitem>
3291
3292	<listitem>
3293	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3294	as supported extension</para>
3295	</listitem>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3299	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3300	</listitem>
3301
3302	<listitem>
3303	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3304	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3305	</listitem>
3306
3307	<listitem>
3308	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3309	</listitem>
3310
3311	<listitem>
3312	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3313	(bug #7366)</para>
3314	</listitem>
3315
3316	<listitem>
3317	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3318	</listitem>
3319
3320	<listitem>
3321	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3322	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3327	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3328	</listitem>
3329
3330	<listitem>
3331	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3332	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3333	</listitem>
3334
3335	<listitem>
3336	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3337	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3338	</listitem>
3339
3340	<listitem>
3341	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3342	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3347	</listitem>
3348
3349	<listitem>
3350	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3355	more than one environment variable</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3360	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3365	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3370	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3375	enumerating logged in users</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3392	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3401	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3406	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3411	(bug #7448)</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3416	</listitem>
3417
3418	<listitem>
3419	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3424	</listitem>
3425
3426	</itemizedlist>
3427
3428	</sect1>
3429
3430	<sect1>
3431	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3432
3433	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3434	added:</para>
3435
3436	<itemizedlist>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3440	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3449	bug #6809)</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3462	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3467	changes</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3476	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3481	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	<listitem>
3493	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3498	</listitem>
3499
3500	<listitem>
3501	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3502	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3511	(bug #6832)</para>
3512	</listitem>
3513
3514	<listitem>
3515	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3516	guests</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3525	without external tools and tricks</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3530	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3539	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3544	shutdown</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3549	fixes</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3554	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3555	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3556	</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3561	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3566	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3571	</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3576	</listitem>
3577
3578	<listitem>
3579	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3580	</listitem>
3581
3582	<listitem>
3583	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3584	</listitem>
3585
3586	</itemizedlist>
3587
3588	</sect1>
3589
3590	<sect1>
3591	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3592
3593	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3594	added:</para>
3595
3596	<itemizedlist>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3600	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3605	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3610	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3619	</listitem>
3620
3621	<listitem>
3622	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3631	assigned</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3636	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3641	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3650	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3655	again (bug #7022).
3656	</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3661	(bug #6768)</para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3666	(bug #6927)</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3671	bug #7031)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3676	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3681	bug #6987)</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3694	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3695	</listitem>
3696
3697	<listitem>
3698	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3699	</listitem>
3700
3701	<listitem>
3702	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3703	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3712	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3713	bug #6872)</para>
3714	</listitem>
3715
3716	<listitem>
3717	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3722	(performance tweak)</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3727	is currently paused</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3732	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3741	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3746	not properly saved</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3751	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3768	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	<listitem>
3776	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3777	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3782	(bug #5251)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3787	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3800	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3805	</listitem>
3806
3807	<listitem>
3808	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3809	</listitem>
3810
3811	<listitem>
3812	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	</itemizedlist>
3816	</sect1>
3817
3818	<sect1>
3819	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3820
3821	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3822	added:</para>
3823
3824	<itemizedlist>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3828	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3837	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3842	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3847	</listitem>
3848
3849	<listitem>
3850	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3851	again (bug #6864)</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3856	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3865	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	</itemizedlist>
3873
3874	</sect1>
3875
3876	<sect1>
3877	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3878
3879	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3880	added:</para>
3881
3882	<itemizedlist>
3883
3884	<listitem>
3885	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3886	</listitem>
3887
3888	<listitem>
3889	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3890	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3891	</listitem>
3892
3893	<listitem>
3894	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3899	state</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3920	</listitem>
3921
3922	<listitem>
3923	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3924	</listitem>
3925
3926	<listitem>
3927	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3928	</listitem>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3944	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3949	(bug #6784)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3962	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3971	</listitem>
3972
3973	<listitem>
3974	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3975	host only</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3980	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3981	</listitem>
3982
3983	<listitem>
3984	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3985	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3994	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4003	</listitem>
4004
4005	<listitem>
4006	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4007	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4024	(bug #6714)</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	</itemizedlist>
4048
4049	</sect1>
4050
4051	<sect1>
4052	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4053
4054	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4055	were added:</para>
4056
4057	<itemizedlist>
4058
4059	<listitem>
4060	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4061	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4062	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4063	</listitem>
4064
4065	<listitem>
4066	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4071	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4076	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4077	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4082	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4087	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4088	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4089	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4090	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4099	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4104	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4125	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4126	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4127	</listitem>
4128
4129	<listitem>
4130	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4131	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4132	</listitem>
4133
4134	</itemizedlist>
4135
4136	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4137
4138	<itemizedlist>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4142	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4151	VM</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4156	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4161	#1669)</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4166	#6442)</para>
4167	</listitem>
4168
4169	<listitem>
4170	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4171	combination (bug #684)</para>
4172	</listitem>
4173
4174	<listitem>
4175	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4176	the VM from the GUI</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4181	medium is not accessible</para>
4182	</listitem>
4183
4184	<listitem>
4185	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4186	</listitem>
4187
4188	<listitem>
4189	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4190	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4195	#3106)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4200	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4201	it</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4214	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4219	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	<listitem>
4227	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4232	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4241	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4250	in VirtualBox</para>
4251	</listitem>
4252
4253	<listitem>
4254	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4255	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4256	</listitem>
4257
4258	<listitem>
4259	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4260	VirtualBox</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4269	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	</itemizedlist>
4273	</sect1>
4274
4275	<sect1>
4276	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4277
4278	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4279	added:</para>
4280
4281	<itemizedlist>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4285	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4298	only) </para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4303	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4308	interface version</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4313	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4314	slot empty</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4319	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4320	(bug #4220)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4329	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4334	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4339	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4344	attached</para>
4345	</listitem>
4346
4347	<listitem>
4348	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4349	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4358	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4359	</listitem>
4360
4361	<listitem>
4362	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4363	is bug #6408)</para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4368	</listitem>
4369
4370	<listitem>
4371	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4372	fail to initialize</para>
4373	</listitem>
4374
4375	<listitem>
4376	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4381	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4386	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4387	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4396	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4401	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4402	</listitem>
4403
4404	<listitem>
4405	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4406	(bug #6435)</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	<listitem>
4410	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4411	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4416	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4417	(bug #6488)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4422	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4427	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4432	#5227)</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4437	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4446	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	</itemizedlist>
4450	</sect1>
4451
4452	<sect1>
4453	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4454
4455	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4456	added:</para>
4457
4458	<itemizedlist>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4462	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4467	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4472	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4477	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4498	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4503	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4508	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4521	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4526	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4527	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4532	(bug #5297)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4537	(bug #4962)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4542	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4547	(bug #6176)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4552	certain circumstances</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4557	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4558	</listitem>
4559
4560	<listitem>
4561	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4562	</listitem>
4563
4564	<listitem>
4565	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4570	(bug #3571)</para>
4571	</listitem>
4572
4573	<listitem>
4574	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4575	devices</para>
4576	</listitem>
4577
4578	<listitem>
4579	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4580	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4581	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4586	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4587	</listitem>
4588
4589	<listitem>
4590	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4595	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4600	response</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4605	</listitem>
4606
4607	<listitem>
4608	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4621	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4634	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	</itemizedlist>
4654	</sect1>
4655
4656	<sect1>
4657	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4658
4659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4660	added:</para>
4661
4662	<itemizedlist>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4674	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4679	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4684	(bug #3945)</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4689	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4690	</listitem>
4691
4692	<listitem>
4693	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4694	and AMD-V only) </para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4703	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4704	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4709	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4714	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4719	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4724	snapshots command</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4733	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4750	(KWin bug)</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4755	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4764	</listitem>
4765
4766	<listitem>
4767	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4768	</listitem>
4769
4770	<listitem>
4771	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4772	</listitem>
4773
4774	<listitem>
4775	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4776	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4781	bug #5787)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4786	DHCP requests</para>
4787	</listitem>
4788
4789	<listitem>
4790	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4791	(bug #3217)</para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4796	range (bug #5923)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4801	</listitem>
4802
4803	<listitem>
4804	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4817	file (bug #5681)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4822	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4827	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4832	regression)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4837	</listitem>
4838
4839	<listitem>
4840	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4841	</listitem>
4842
4843	<listitem>
4844	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4845	</listitem>
4846
4847	<listitem>
4848	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4849	</listitem>
4850
4851	<listitem>
4852	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4853	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4854	</listitem>
4855
4856	<listitem>
4857	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	<listitem>
4869	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4870	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4879	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4892	</listitem>
4893
4894	<listitem>
4895	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4896	(bug #5731)</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4901	again</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	</itemizedlist>
4905
4906	</sect1>
4907
4908	<sect1>
4909	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4910
4911	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4912	added:</para>
4913
4914	<itemizedlist>
4915
4916	<listitem>
4917	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4938	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4947	</listitem>
4948
4949	<listitem>
4950	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4963	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4968	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4969	</listitem>
4970
4971	<listitem>
4972	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4973	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4974	#1762)</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4979	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4980	</listitem>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4984	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4989	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4990	</listitem>
4991
4992	<listitem>
4993	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4998	</listitem>
4999
5000	<listitem>
5001	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5002	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5015	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5016	</listitem>
5017
5018	<listitem>
5019	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5020	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5029	guests</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5034	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5039	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5044	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5049	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5066	</listitem>
5067
5068	<listitem>
5069	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5070	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5071	</listitem>
5072
5073	<listitem>
5074	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	</itemizedlist>
5078
5079	</sect1>
5080
5081	<sect1>
5082	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5083
5084	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5085	were added:</para>
5086
5087	<itemizedlist>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5091	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5092	</listitem>
5093
5094	<listitem>
5095	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5096	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5097	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5102	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5103	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5108	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5109	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5114	running</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5119	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5124	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5129	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5134	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	</itemizedlist>
5138
5139	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5140
5141	<itemizedlist>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5149	</listitem>
5150
5151	<listitem>
5152	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5153	</listitem>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5157	(bug #5291)</para>
5158	</listitem>
5159
5160	<listitem>
5161	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5162	</listitem>
5163
5164	<listitem>
5165	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5174	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5179	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5192	</listitem>
5193
5194	<listitem>
5195	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5196	</listitem>
5197
5198	<listitem>
5199	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5204	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5209	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	<listitem>
5213	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5214	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5219	(bug #2723)</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5224	</listitem>
5225
5226	<listitem>
5227	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5228	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5233	optional manifest file on import</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5242	(bug #3773)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5255	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5260	(bug #4866)</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5265	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5270	certain conditions</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5287	</listitem>
5288
5289	<listitem>
5290	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5291	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	<listitem>
5299	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5300	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5301	</listitem>
5302
5303	<listitem>
5304	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5305	</listitem>
5306
5307	<listitem>
5308	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5321	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5326	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5327	(bug #928)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	</itemizedlist>
5335
5336	</sect1>
5337
5338	<sect1>
5339	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5340
5341	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5342	added:</para>
5343
5344	<itemizedlist>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5348	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5353	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	<listitem>
5357	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5358	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5363	enabled</para>
5364	</listitem>
5365
5366	<listitem>
5367	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5368	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5373	(bug #2676)</para>
5374	</listitem>
5375
5376	<listitem>
5377	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5378	is connected to a raw file</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5383	(bug #5355)</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5392	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5397	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5398	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5399	</listitem>
5400
5401	<listitem>
5402	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	<listitem>
5410	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5411	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5416	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5417	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5418	</listitem>
5419
5420	</itemizedlist>
5421
5422	</sect1>
5423
5424	<sect1>
5425	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5426
5427	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5428	added:</para>
5429
5430	<itemizedlist>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5442	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5443	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5448	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	<listitem>
5456	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5457	</listitem>
5458
5459	<listitem>
5460	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5473	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5486	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5491	</listitem>
5492
5493	<listitem>
5494	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5495	exhaustion</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5504	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5505	</listitem>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5509	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5514	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5519	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5520	(bug #2921)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5525	hosts only)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5530	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5539	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5548	image inconsistency </para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5561	(bug #2025)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5566	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	</itemizedlist>
5570
5571	</sect1>
5572
5573	<sect1>
5574	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5575
5576	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5577	added:</para>
5578
5579	<itemizedlist>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5583	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5584	</listitem>
5585
5586	<listitem>
5587	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5588	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5589	</listitem>
5590
5591	<listitem>
5592	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5593	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5594	</listitem>
5595
5596	<listitem>
5597	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5598	</listitem>
5599
5600	<listitem>
5601	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5602	software virtualization only) </para>
5603	</listitem>
5604
5605	<listitem>
5606	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5607	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5612	with root privileges</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5617	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5622	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5627	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5632	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5633	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5634	</listitem>
5635
5636	<listitem>
5637	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5638	available</para>
5639	</listitem>
5640
5641	<listitem>
5642	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5643	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5648	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5653	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5658	(bug #4907)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5663	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5668	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5681	</listitem>
5682
5683	<listitem>
5684	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5689	are installed</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5694	(bug #4771)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5699	</listitem>
5700
5701	<listitem>
5702	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5703	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5708	command</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5717	</listitem>
5718
5719	<listitem>
5720	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5721	(bug #5089)</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5726	</listitem>
5727
5728	</itemizedlist>
5729
5730	</sect1>
5731
5732	<sect1>
5733	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5734
5735	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5736	added:</para>
5737
5738	<itemizedlist>
5739
5740	<listitem>
5741	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5742	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5747	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5752	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5753	</listitem>
5754
5755	<listitem>
5756	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5757	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5758	</listitem>
5759
5760	<listitem>
5761	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5762	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5787	onlined or offlined</para>
5788	</listitem>
5789
5790	<listitem>
5791	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5792	</listitem>
5793
5794	<listitem>
5795	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5796	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5801	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5806	</listitem>
5807
5808	<listitem>
5809	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5810	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5811	</listitem>
5812
5813	<listitem>
5814	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5815	</listitem>
5816
5817	<listitem>
5818	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5831	</listitem>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5835	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5836	</listitem>
5837
5838	<listitem>
5839	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5852	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5857	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5866	</listitem>
5867
5868	<listitem>
5869	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5870	</listitem>
5871
5872	<listitem>
5873	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5874	</listitem>
5875
5876	<listitem>
5877	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5878	</listitem>
5879
5880	<listitem>
5881	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5890	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5891	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5892	phase collapse</para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5897	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5902	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5907	</listitem>
5908
5909	<listitem>
5910	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5911	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5916	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5925	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5926	#4698, #4790)</para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5931	less than the configured range</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5936	</listitem>
5937
5938	<listitem>
5939	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5952	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5953	</listitem>
5954
5955	<listitem>
5956	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5957	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5958	</listitem>
5959
5960	<listitem>
5961	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5962	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5971	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5972	</listitem>
5973
5974	<listitem>
5975	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5976	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5977	</listitem>
5978
5979	<listitem>
5980	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5981	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5986	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	</itemizedlist>
5998
5999	</sect1>
6000
6001	<sect1>
6002	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6003
6004	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6005	added:</para>
6006
6007	<itemizedlist>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6027	</listitem>
6028
6029	<listitem>
6030	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6031	</listitem>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6035	</listitem>
6036
6037	<listitem>
6038	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6039	</listitem>
6040
6041	<listitem>
6042	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6047	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6056	</listitem>
6057
6058	<listitem>
6059	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6060	</listitem>
6061
6062	<listitem>
6063	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6064	</listitem>
6065
6066	<listitem>
6067	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6068	</listitem>
6069
6070	<listitem>
6071	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6072	</listitem>
6073
6074	<listitem>
6075	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6076	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6081	(bug #4654)</para>
6082	</listitem>
6083
6084	<listitem>
6085	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6086	</listitem>
6087
6088	<listitem>
6089	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6090	interfaces</para>
6091	</listitem>
6092
6093	<listitem>
6094	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6095	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6096	</listitem>
6097
6098	<listitem>
6099	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6100	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6101	</listitem>
6102
6103	<listitem>
6104	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6105	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6106	</listitem>
6107
6108	<listitem>
6109	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6110	(bug #1461)</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6115	</listitem>
6116
6117	<listitem>
6118	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6119	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6124	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6125	</listitem>
6126
6127	<listitem>
6128	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6129	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6130	</listitem>
6131
6132	<listitem>
6133	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6146	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6151	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6156	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6161	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	</itemizedlist>
6165
6166	</sect1>
6167	<sect1>
6168	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6169
6170	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6171	added:</para>
6172
6173	<itemizedlist>
6174
6175	<listitem>
6176	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6177	</listitem>
6178
6179	<listitem>
6180	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6185	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6190	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6199	</listitem>
6200
6201	<listitem>
6202	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6207	</listitem>
6208
6209	<listitem>
6210	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6211	</listitem>
6212
6213	<listitem>
6214	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6231	</listitem>
6232
6233	<listitem>
6234	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6235	</listitem>
6236
6237	<listitem>
6238	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6239	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6240	</listitem>
6241
6242	<listitem>
6243	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6244	</listitem>
6245
6246	<listitem>
6247	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6248	</listitem>
6249
6250	<listitem>
6251	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6252	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6253	</listitem>
6254
6255	<listitem>
6256	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6257	</listitem>
6258
6259	<listitem>
6260	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6265	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6270	</listitem>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6274	</listitem>
6275
6276	<listitem>
6277	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6278	</listitem>
6279
6280	<listitem>
6281	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6282	</listitem>
6283
6284	<listitem>
6285	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6286	</listitem>
6287
6288	<listitem>
6289	<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>
6290	</listitem>
6291
6292	</itemizedlist>
6293
6294	</sect1>
6295
6296	<sect1>
6297	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6298
6299	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6300	were added:</para>
6301
6302	<itemizedlist>
6303
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6310	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	</itemizedlist>
6318
6319	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6320
6321	<itemizedlist>
6322
6323	<listitem>
6324	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6325	</listitem>
6326
6327	<listitem>
6328	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6329	certain conditions</para>
6330	</listitem>
6331
6332	<listitem>
6333	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6334	</listitem>
6335
6336	<listitem>
6337	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6338	</listitem>
6339
6340	<listitem>
6341	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6342	</listitem>
6343
6344	<listitem>
6345	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6346	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6347	</listitem>
6348
6349	<listitem>
6350	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6351	</listitem>
6352
6353	<listitem>
6354	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6355	</listitem>
6356
6357	<listitem>
6358	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6359	</listitem>
6360
6361	<listitem>
6362	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6363	</listitem>
6364
6365	<listitem>
6366	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6367	</listitem>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	<listitem>
6378	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6379	</listitem>
6380
6381	<listitem>
6382	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6383	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6384	</listitem>
6385
6386	<listitem>
6387	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6388	</listitem>
6389
6390	<listitem>
6391	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6392	</listitem>
6393
6394	<listitem>
6395	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6396	</listitem>
6397
6398	<listitem>
6399	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6400	</listitem>
6401
6402	<listitem>
6403	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6404	</listitem>
6405
6406	<listitem>
6407	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6412	</listitem>
6413
6414	<listitem>
6415	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6416	</listitem>
6417
6418	<listitem>
6419	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6420	</listitem>
6421
6422	<listitem>
6423	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6424	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6429	</listitem>
6430
6431	<listitem>
6432	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6449	</listitem>
6450
6451	<listitem>
6452	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6453	</listitem>
6454
6455	<listitem>
6456	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6457	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6458	</listitem>
6459
6460	<listitem>
6461	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6462	</listitem>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6470	</listitem>
6471
6472	<listitem>
6473	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6474	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6475	</listitem>
6476
6477	<listitem>
6478	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6479	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6480	</listitem>
6481
6482	<listitem>
6483	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6484	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	<listitem>
6488	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6489	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6490	</listitem>
6491
6492	<listitem>
6493	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6494	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6503	</listitem>
6504
6505	<listitem>
6506	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6507	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6508	</listitem>
6509
6510	<listitem>
6511	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6512	guest property lookup</para>
6513	</listitem>
6514
6515	<listitem>
6516	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6517	basic network information)</para>
6518	</listitem>
6519
6520	<listitem>
6521	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6522	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	<listitem>
6526	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6527	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6528	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6529	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6530	</listitem>
6531
6532	<listitem>
6533	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6538	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6539	web service</para>
6540	</listitem>
6541
6542	<listitem>
6543	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6544	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6549	unavailable</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6554	</listitem>
6555
6556	</itemizedlist>
6557	</sect1>
6558
6559	<sect1>
6560	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6561
6562	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6563	added:</para>
6564
6565	<itemizedlist>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6569	installation</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6578	later (bug #3981)</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6583	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6588	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6589	(bug #4034)
6590	</para>
6591	</listitem>
6592
6593	<listitem>
6594	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6595	networking</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6600	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6601	</listitem>
6602
6603	<listitem>
6604	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6605	clicks</para>
6606	</listitem>
6607
6608	<listitem>
6609	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6610	Windows 7 guests</para>
6611	</listitem>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6615	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6624	</listitem>
6625
6626	<listitem>
6627	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6628	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6629	</listitem>
6630
6631	<listitem>
6632	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6633	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6634	</listitem>
6635
6636	<listitem>
6637	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6642	</listitem>
6643
6644	<listitem>
6645	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6646	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6647	(bug #3864)</para>
6648	</listitem>
6649
6650	<listitem>
6651	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6652	now flushes the output stream</para>
6653	</listitem>
6654
6655	<listitem>
6656	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6657	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6658	</listitem>
6659
6660	<listitem>
6661	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6662	</listitem>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6678	(bug #3964)</para>
6679	</listitem>
6680
6681	<listitem>
6682	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6683	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6684	</listitem>
6685
6686	<listitem>
6687	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6688	hosts</para>
6689	</listitem>
6690
6691	<listitem>
6692	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6693	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6694	e1000 adapter</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6699	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6700	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6701	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6702	</listitem>
6703
6704	<listitem>
6705	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6706	</listitem>
6707
6708	<listitem>
6709	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6710	</listitem>
6711
6712	<listitem>
6713	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6718	file (bug #1023)</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6723	</listitem>
6724
6725	<listitem>
6726	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6727	</listitem>
6728
6729	</itemizedlist>
6730	</sect1>
6731
6732	<sect1>
6733	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6734
6735	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6736	added:</para>
6737
6738	<itemizedlist>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6742	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6743	</listitem>
6744
6745	<listitem>
6746	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6747	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6748	and later</para>
6749	</listitem>
6750
6751	<listitem>
6752	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6753	running services</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6758	terminates</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6763	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6768	installed on the guest</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6773	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6778	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	<listitem>
6782	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6783	(bug #2628)</para>
6784	</listitem>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6788	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6793	(bug #3657)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6798	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6803	virtualization only)
6804	</para>
6805	</listitem>
6806
6807	<listitem>
6808	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6809	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6814	</listitem>
6815
6816	<listitem>
6817	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6818	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6819	</listitem>
6820
6821	<listitem>
6822	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6823	bug #3689)</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	<listitem>
6827	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6828	bug #3679)</para>
6829	</listitem>
6830
6831	<listitem>
6832	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6833	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6838	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6839	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6844	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6845	</listitem>
6846
6847	<listitem>
6848	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6849	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6850	</listitem>
6851
6852	<listitem>
6853	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6854	(bug #3667)</para>
6855	</listitem>
6856
6857	<listitem>
6858	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6859	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6868	</listitem>
6869
6870	<listitem>
6871	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6872	</listitem>
6873
6874	<listitem>
6875	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6876	</listitem>
6877
6878	<listitem>
6879	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6884	</listitem>
6885
6886	<listitem>
6887	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6888	</listitem>
6889
6890	</itemizedlist>
6891	</sect1>
6892
6893	<sect1>
6894	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6895
6896	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6897	were added:</para>
6898
6899	<itemizedlist>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6903	</listitem>
6904
6905	<listitem>
6906	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6907	</listitem>
6908
6909	<listitem>
6910	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6911	</listitem>
6912
6913	<listitem>
6914	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6915	</listitem>
6916
6917	<listitem>
6918	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6919	</listitem>
6920
6921	<listitem>
6922	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6923	</listitem>
6924
6925	<listitem>
6926	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6927	</listitem>
6928
6929	<listitem>
6930	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6931	</listitem>
6932
6933	<listitem>
6934	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	</itemizedlist>
6942
6943	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6944
6945	<itemizedlist>
6946
6947	<listitem>
6948	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6949	</listitem>
6950
6951	<listitem>
6952	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6953	</listitem>
6954
6955	<listitem>
6956	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6957	</listitem>
6958
6959	<listitem>
6960	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6961	</listitem>
6962
6963	<listitem>
6964	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6981	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6982	</listitem>
6983
6984	<listitem>
6985	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6986	</listitem>
6987
6988	<listitem>
6989	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6990	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6991	</listitem>
6992
6993	<listitem>
6994	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6995	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6996	</listitem>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7000	</listitem>
7001
7002	<listitem>
7003	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7004	</listitem>
7005
7006	<listitem>
7007	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7008	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7009	</listitem>
7010
7011	<listitem>
7012	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7013	</listitem>
7014
7015	<listitem>
7016	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7017	ESX server images)</para>
7018	</listitem>
7019
7020	<listitem>
7021	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7022	writable</para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7027	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7028	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7029	</listitem>
7030
7031	<listitem>
7032	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7033	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7034	</listitem>
7035
7036	<listitem>
7037	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7038	</listitem>
7039
7040	<listitem>
7041	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7046	hosts when creating files</para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7051	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7056	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7057	#2306)</para>
7058	</listitem>
7059
7060	<listitem>
7061	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7062	(bug #3555)</para>
7063	</listitem>
7064
7065	<listitem>
7066	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7067	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7068	</listitem>
7069
7070	<listitem>
7071	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7072	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7073	</listitem>
7074
7075	<listitem>
7076	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7077	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7078	</listitem>
7079
7080	<listitem>
7081	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7082	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7083	</listitem>
7084
7085	<listitem>
7086	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7087	(bug #3586)</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7092	from Scratch systems</para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7097	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7102	</listitem>
7103
7104	<listitem>
7105	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7106	default to compact format</para>
7107	</listitem>
7108
7109	<listitem>
7110	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7111	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7112	</listitem>
7113
7114	<listitem>
7115	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7116	</listitem>
7117
7118	<listitem>
7119	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7120	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7121	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7126	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7127	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7128	</listitem>
7129
7130	<listitem>
7131	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7132	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7133	</listitem>
7134
7135	<listitem>
7136	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7137	</listitem>
7138
7139	<listitem>
7140	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7141	</listitem>
7142
7143	<listitem>
7144	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7145	</listitem>
7146
7147	<listitem>
7148	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7149	</listitem>
7150
7151	<listitem>
7152	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7157	</listitem>
7158
7159	<listitem>
7160	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7161	</listitem>
7162
7163	<listitem>
7164	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7165	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7166	</listitem>
7167
7168	<listitem>
7169	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7170	</listitem>
7171
7172	<listitem>
7173	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7174	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7175	</listitem>
7176
7177	<listitem>
7178	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7179	</listitem>
7180
7181	<listitem>
7182	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7191	#2536)</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7196	</listitem>
7197
7198	<listitem>
7199	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7200	(bug #3548)</para>
7201	</listitem>
7202
7203	</itemizedlist>
7204	</sect1>
7205
7206	<sect1>
7207	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7208
7209	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7210	added:</para>
7211
7212	<itemizedlist>
7213
7214	<listitem>
7215	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7216	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7217	</listitem>
7218
7219	<listitem>
7220	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7221	</listitem>
7222
7223	<listitem>
7224	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7225	</listitem>
7226
7227	<listitem>
7228	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7229	</listitem>
7230
7231	<listitem>
7232	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7233	(bug #3115)</para>
7234	</listitem>
7235
7236	<listitem>
7237	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7238	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7239	</listitem>
7240
7241	<listitem>
7242	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7243	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7244	(bug #3215)</para>
7245	</listitem>
7246
7247	<listitem>
7248	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7249	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7250	</listitem>
7251
7252	<listitem>
7253	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7254	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	<listitem>
7258	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7259	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7264	in parallel</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7281	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7282	</listitem>
7283
7284	<listitem>
7285	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7286	</listitem>
7287
7288	<listitem>
7289	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7290	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7295	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7296	</listitem>
7297
7298	<listitem>
7299	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7300	</listitem>
7301
7302	<listitem>
7303	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7304	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7305	</listitem>
7306
7307	<listitem>
7308	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7309	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7310	</listitem>
7311
7312	<listitem>
7313	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7314	</listitem>
7315
7316	<listitem>
7317	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7318	</listitem>
7319
7320	<listitem>
7321	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7322	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7323	</listitem>
7324
7325	<listitem>
7326	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7327	</listitem>
7328
7329	<listitem>
7330	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7331	</listitem>
7332
7333	<listitem>
7334	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7339	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7344	</listitem>
7345
7346	<listitem>
7347	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7348	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7349	</listitem>
7350
7351	<listitem>
7352	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7353	</listitem>
7354
7355	<listitem>
7356	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7357	</listitem>
7358
7359	<listitem>
7360	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7361	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7362	</listitem>
7363
7364	<listitem>
7365	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7366	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7367	</listitem>
7368
7369	<listitem>
7370	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7371	</listitem>
7372
7373	<listitem>
7374	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7375	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7380	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7381	</listitem>
7382
7383	<listitem>
7384	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7385	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7386	</listitem>
7387
7388	<listitem>
7389	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7390	(bug #3213)</para>
7391	</listitem>
7392
7393	<listitem>
7394	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7395	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7396	</listitem>
7397
7398	<listitem>
7399	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7400	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7401	</listitem>
7402
7403	</itemizedlist>
7404	</sect1>
7405
7406	<sect1>
7407	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7408
7409	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7410	added:</para>
7411
7412	<itemizedlist>
7413
7414	<listitem>
7415	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7416	</listitem>
7417
7418	<listitem>
7419	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7436	</listitem>
7437
7438	<listitem>
7439	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7440	</listitem>
7441
7442	<listitem>
7443	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7444	</listitem>
7445
7446	<listitem>
7447	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7448	</listitem>
7449
7450	<listitem>
7451	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7452	</listitem>
7453
7454	<listitem>
7455	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7456	</listitem>
7457
7458	<listitem>
7459	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7460	</listitem>
7461
7462	<listitem>
7463	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7464	</listitem>
7465
7466	<listitem>
7467	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7468	</listitem>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7472	</listitem>
7473
7474	<listitem>
7475	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	<listitem>
7479	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7480	(bug #3067)</para>
7481	</listitem>
7482
7483	<listitem>
7484	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7485	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7486	</listitem>
7487
7488	<listitem>
7489	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7490	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7491	</listitem>
7492
7493	<listitem>
7494	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7495	</listitem>
7496
7497	<listitem>
7498	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7499	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7500	</listitem>
7501
7502	<listitem>
7503	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7504	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7505	</listitem>
7506
7507	<listitem>
7508	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7509	</listitem>
7510
7511	<listitem>
7512	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7513	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7522	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7523	</listitem>
7524
7525	<listitem>
7526	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7527	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7528	</listitem>
7529
7530	<listitem>
7531	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7532	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7533	</para>
7534	</listitem>
7535
7536	<listitem>
7537	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7538	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7539	</para>
7540	</listitem>
7541
7542	<listitem>
7543	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7544	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7545	</para>
7546	</listitem>
7547
7548	<listitem>
7549	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7550	</listitem>
7551
7552	<listitem>
7553	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7554	</listitem>
7555
7556	<listitem>
7557	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7558	</listitem>
7559
7560	<listitem>
7561	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7562	</listitem>
7563
7564	<listitem>
7565	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7566	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7567	</listitem>
7568
7569	<listitem>
7570	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7571	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7572	</listitem>
7573
7574	<listitem>
7575	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7576	formatting a drive</para>
7577	</listitem>
7578
7579	<listitem>
7580	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7581	</listitem>
7582
7583	<listitem>
7584	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7585	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7586	</listitem>
7587
7588	<listitem>
7589	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7590	</listitem>
7591
7592	<listitem>
7593	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7598	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7603	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7604	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7605	</listitem>
7606
7607	<listitem>
7608	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7609	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7610	</listitem>
7611
7612	<listitem>
7613	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7614	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7615	</listitem>
7616
7617	<listitem>
7618	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7619	(bug #2768)</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7624	</listitem>
7625
7626	<listitem>
7627	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7628	</listitem>
7629
7630	<listitem>
7631	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7632	single, unified package</para>
7633	</listitem>
7634
7635	<listitem>
7636	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7637	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7638	</listitem>
7639
7640	<listitem>
7641	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7646	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7651	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7656	</listitem>
7657
7658	<listitem>
7659	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7660	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7661	doing 3D</para>
7662	</listitem>
7663
7664	<listitem>
7665	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7670	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7675	</listitem>
7676
7677	<listitem>
7678	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7679	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7688	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7689	</listitem>
7690
7691	<listitem>
7692	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7693	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7694	(bug #2938)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7699	Linux guests</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7704	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7705	(bug #1776)</para>
7706	</listitem>
7707
7708	<listitem>
7709	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7710	(bug #1612)</para>
7711	</listitem>
7712
7713	<listitem>
7714	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7715	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7716	</listitem>
7717
7718	<listitem>
7719	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7720	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7721	</listitem>
7722
7723	<listitem>
7724	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7725	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7726	</listitem>
7727
7728	</itemizedlist>
7729	</sect1>
7730
7731	<sect1>
7732	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7733
7734	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7735	were added:</para>
7736
7737	<itemizedlist>
7738	<listitem>
7739	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7740	</listitem>
7741
7742	<listitem>
7743	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7744	</listitem>
7745
7746	<listitem>
7747	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7748	</listitem>
7749
7750	<listitem>
7751	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7752	</listitem>
7753
7754	<listitem>
7755	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7760	</listitem>
7761
7762	<listitem>
7763	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7764	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7769	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	</itemizedlist>
7773
7774	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7775
7776	<itemizedlist>
7777	<listitem>
7778	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7779	</listitem>
7780
7781	<listitem>
7782	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7783	</listitem>
7784
7785	<listitem>
7786	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7787	</listitem>
7788
7789	<listitem>
7790	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7795	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7800	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	<listitem>
7804	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7805	</listitem>
7806
7807	<listitem>
7808	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7809	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7810	</listitem>
7811
7812	<listitem>
7813	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7814	</listitem>
7815
7816	<listitem>
7817	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7818	</listitem>
7819
7820	<listitem>
7821	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7822	</listitem>
7823
7824	<listitem>
7825	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	<listitem>
7829	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7830	</listitem>
7831
7832	<listitem>
7833	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7834	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7835	</listitem>
7836
7837	<listitem>
7838	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7839	the compiz window manager</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	<listitem>
7843	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7844	</listitem>
7845
7846	<listitem>
7847	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7848	</listitem>
7849
7850	<listitem>
7851	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7852	</listitem>
7853
7854	<listitem>
7855	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7856	</listitem>
7857
7858	<listitem>
7859	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7860	</listitem>
7861
7862	<listitem>
7863	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7864	</listitem>
7865
7866	<listitem>
7867	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7868	</listitem>
7869
7870	<listitem>
7871	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7872	</listitem>
7873
7874	<listitem>
7875	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7880	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7885	for direct device access</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7890	</listitem>
7891
7892	<listitem>
7893	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7894	</listitem>
7895
7896	<listitem>
7897	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7898	</listitem>
7899
7900	<listitem>
7901	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7902	</listitem>
7903
7904	<listitem>
7905	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7906	</listitem>
7907
7908	<listitem>
7909	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	<listitem>
7917	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7918	</listitem>
7919
7920	</itemizedlist>
7921	</sect1>
7922
7923	<sect1>
7924	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7925
7926	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7927	added:</para>
7928
7929	<itemizedlist>
7930
7931	<listitem>
7932	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7933	states/snapshots</para>
7934	</listitem>
7935
7936	<listitem>
7937	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7938	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7939	</listitem>
7940
7941	<listitem>
7942	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7943	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7944	</listitem>
7945
7946	<listitem>
7947	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7948	collisions</para>
7949	</listitem>
7950
7951	<listitem>
7952	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7953	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7954	</listitem>
7955
7956	<listitem>
7957	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7958	</listitem>
7959
7960	<listitem>
7961	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7962	reliably</para>
7963	</listitem>
7964
7965	<listitem>
7966	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7967	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7968	</listitem>
7969
7970	<listitem>
7971	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7972	a reboot</para>
7973	</listitem>
7974
7975	<listitem>
7976	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7977	</listitem>
7978
7979	<listitem>
7980	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7981	in parallel</para>
7982	</listitem>
7983
7984	<listitem>
7985	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7986	</listitem>
7987
7988	<listitem>
7989	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7990	correctly</para>
7991	</listitem>
7992
7993	<listitem>
7994	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7995	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7996	</listitem>
7997
7998	</itemizedlist>
7999	</sect1>
8000
8001	<sect1>
8002	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8003
8004	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8005	added:</para>
8006
8007	<itemizedlist>
8008
8009	<listitem>
8010	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8011	(bug #2220)</para>
8012	</listitem>
8013
8014	<listitem>
8015	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8016	</listitem>
8017
8018	<listitem>
8019	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8020	</listitem>
8021
8022	<listitem>
8023	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8024	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8025	</listitem>
8026
8027	<listitem>
8028	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8029	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8030	</listitem>
8031
8032	<listitem>
8033	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8034	(bug #2624)</para>
8035	</listitem>
8036
8037	<listitem>
8038	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8039	(bug #2024)</para>
8040	</listitem>
8041
8042	<listitem>
8043	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8044	</listitem>
8045
8046	<listitem>
8047	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8052	</listitem>
8053
8054	<listitem>
8055	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8056	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8057	</listitem>
8058
8059	<listitem>
8060	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8061	applications when updating the installation</para>
8062	</listitem>
8063
8064	<listitem>
8065	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8066	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8067	</listitem>
8068
8069	<listitem>
8070	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8071	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8072	</listitem>
8073
8074	<listitem>
8075	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8076	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8077	</listitem>
8078
8079	<listitem>
8080	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8081	connected to a host device</para>
8082	</listitem>
8083
8084	<listitem>
8085	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8090	</listitem>
8091
8092	<listitem>
8093	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8094	</listitem>
8095
8096	<listitem>
8097	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8098	when using native RDP connections</para>
8099	</listitem>
8100
8101	<listitem>
8102	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8103	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8104	</listitem>
8105
8106	<listitem>
8107	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8108	(bug #2591)</para>
8109	</listitem>
8110
8111	<listitem>
8112	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8113	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8114	</listitem>
8115
8116	<listitem>
8117	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8118	</listitem>
8119
8120	</itemizedlist>
8121	</sect1>
8122
8123	<sect1>
8124	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8125
8126	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8127	added:</para>
8128
8129	<itemizedlist>
8130	<listitem>
8131	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8136	</listitem>
8137
8138	<listitem>
8139	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8144	</listitem>
8145
8146	<listitem>
8147	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8148	</listitem>
8149
8150	<listitem>
8151	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8156	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8157	</listitem>
8158
8159	<listitem>
8160	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8161	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8162	</listitem>
8163
8164	<listitem>
8165	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8166	</listitem>
8167
8168	<listitem>
8169	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8170	equal to the client resolution</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8175	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8176	</listitem>
8177
8178	<listitem>
8179	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8180	</listitem>
8181
8182	<listitem>
8183	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8188	</listitem>
8189
8190	<listitem>
8191	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8192	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8193	</listitem>
8194
8195	<listitem>
8196	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8197	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8198	</listitem>
8199
8200	<listitem>
8201	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8202	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8203	</listitem>
8204
8205	<listitem>
8206	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8207	</listitem>
8208
8209	<listitem>
8210	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8211	</listitem>
8212
8213	<listitem>
8214	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8215	</listitem>
8216
8217	<listitem>
8218	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8219	</listitem>
8220
8221	<listitem>
8222	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8223	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8224	</listitem>
8225
8226	<listitem>
8227	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8228	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8229	</listitem>
8230
8231	<listitem>
8232	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8233	</listitem>
8234
8235	<listitem>
8236	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8241	</listitem>
8242
8243	</itemizedlist>
8244
8245	</sect1>
8246
8247	<sect1>
8248	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8249
8250	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8251	added:</para>
8252
8253	<itemizedlist>
8254
8255	<listitem>
8256	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8257	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8258	</listitem>
8259
8260	<listitem>
8261	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8262	</listitem>
8263
8264	<listitem>
8265	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8266	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8267	</listitem>
8268
8269	<listitem>
8270	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8271	</listitem>
8272
8273	<listitem>
8274	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8275	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8276	</listitem>
8277
8278	<listitem>
8279	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8280	</listitem>
8281
8282	<listitem>
8283	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8284	the virtual disk manager</para>
8285	</listitem>
8286
8287	<listitem>
8288	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8289	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8290	</listitem>
8291
8292	<listitem>
8293	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8294	</listitem>
8295
8296	<listitem>
8297	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8298	</listitem>
8299
8300	<listitem>
8301	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8302	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8303	</listitem>
8304
8305	<listitem>
8306	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8307	bug #2067)</para>
8308	</listitem>
8309
8310	<listitem>
8311	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8316	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8317	</listitem>
8318
8319	<listitem>
8320	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8321	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8322	(bug #2184)</para>
8323	</listitem>
8324
8325	<listitem>
8326	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8327	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8328	</listitem>
8329
8330	<listitem>
8331	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8332	(Windows guests only)</para>
8333	</listitem>
8334
8335	<listitem>
8336	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8337	</listitem>
8338
8339	<listitem>
8340	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8341	</listitem>
8342
8343	<listitem>
8344	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8345	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8346	</listitem>
8347
8348	<listitem>
8349	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8350	</listitem>
8351
8352	<listitem>
8353	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8354	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8355	</para>
8356	</listitem>
8357
8358	<listitem>
8359	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8360	</listitem>
8361
8362	<listitem>
8363	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8368	a VM reboot</para>
8369	</listitem>
8370
8371	<listitem>
8372	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8377	buggy X servers</para>
8378	</listitem>
8379
8380	<listitem>
8381	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8382	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8383	</listitem>
8384
8385	<listitem>
8386	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8391	(bug #2128)</para>
8392	</listitem>
8393
8394	<listitem>
8395	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8396	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8397	</listitem>
8398
8399	<listitem>
8400	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8401	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8402	</listitem>
8403
8404	<listitem>
8405	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8406	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8407	</listitem>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8411	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8412	</listitem>
8413
8414	<listitem>
8415	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8416	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8417	</listitem>
8418
8419	<listitem>
8420	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8421	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8422	</listitem>
8423
8424	<listitem>
8425	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8426	installer into a single package</para>
8427	</listitem>
8428
8429	<listitem>
8430	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8431	port to the guest
8432	</para>
8433	</listitem>
8434
8435	</itemizedlist>
8436
8437	</sect1>
8438
8439	<sect1>
8440	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8441
8442	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8443	were added:<itemizedlist>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8447	</listitem>
8448
8449	<listitem>
8450	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8451	</listitem>
8452
8453	<listitem>
8454	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8455	</listitem>
8456
8457	<listitem>
8458	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8459	</listitem>
8460
8461	<listitem>
8462	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8467	</listitem>
8468
8469	<listitem>
8470	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8471	</listitem>
8472
8473	<listitem>
8474	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8475	</listitem>
8476
8477	<listitem>
8478	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8479	</listitem>
8480
8481	<listitem>
8482	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8483	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8484	</listitem>
8485
8486	<listitem>
8487	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8488	</listitem>
8489
8490	<listitem>
8491	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8496	</listitem>
8497
8498	</itemizedlist></para>
8499
8500	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8501
8502	<itemizedlist>
8503
8504	<listitem>
8505	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8506	</listitem>
8507
8508	<listitem>
8509	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8510	</listitem>
8511
8512	<listitem>
8513	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8514	</listitem>
8515
8516	<listitem>
8517	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8518	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8519	</listitem>
8520
8521	<listitem>
8522	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8523	restored</para>
8524	</listitem>
8525
8526	<listitem>
8527	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8528	</listitem>
8529
8530	<listitem>
8531	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8532	</listitem>
8533
8534	<listitem>
8535	<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>
8536	</listitem>
8537
8538	</itemizedlist>
8539
8540	</sect1>
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