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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</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>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code including many bug fixes and
13	performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	</itemizedlist>
21
22	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
23
24	<itemizedlist>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
28	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
33	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
38	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
43	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
44	option to show really all available details</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
49	the automatic Guest Additions update.</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest session and
54	guest processes via
55	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes></computeroutput>
56	</para>
57	</listitem>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
65	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
66	</listitem>
67
68	<listitem>
69	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
70	by François Revol</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
79	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>Windows guests: ability to track guest user idle times through
84	the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	</itemizedlist>
88
89	</sect1>
90
91	<sect1>
92
93	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
94
95	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
96	were added:</para>
97
98	<itemizedlist>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
118	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
123	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
128	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
133	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
134	planned. (bug #81)</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
143	documentation for more information</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	</itemizedlist>
147
148	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
149
150	<itemizedlist>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
154	on Mountain Lion</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
159	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
160	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
161	</listitem>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
165	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
166	</listitem>
167
168	<listitem>
169	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
170	nested paging</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
175	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
180	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
181	</listitem>
182
183	<listitem>
184	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
185	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
186	</listitem>
187
188	<listitem>
189	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
190	</listitem>
191
192	<listitem>
193	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
194	</listitem>
195
196	<listitem>
197	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
210	</listitem>
211
212	<listitem>
213	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
214	</listitem>
215
216	<listitem>
217	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
222	guests</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
227	used ISO images</para>
228	</listitem>
229
230	<listitem>
231	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
232	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
237	(bug #9973)</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
242	(bug #9864)</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
247	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
248	immediately</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
253	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
258	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
259	any time using the VM menu</para>
260	</listitem>
261
262	<listitem>
263	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
272	</listitem>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
276	</listitem>
277
278	<listitem>
279	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
292	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
301	support for v2 images)</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	<listitem>
309	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
310	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
311	</listitem>
312
313	<listitem>
314	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
323	VirtualBox update</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
328	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	</itemizedlist>
336	</sect1>
337
338	<sect1>
339	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
340
341	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
342	added:</para>
343
344	<itemizedlist>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
348	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
349	and others)</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
354	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	<listitem>
358	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
359	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
360	</listitem>
361
362	<listitem>
363	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
364	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	<listitem>
368	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
369	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
374	(bug #10631)</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
379	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
380	(bug #10624)</para>
381	</listitem>
382
383	<listitem>
384	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
385	</listitem>
386
387	<listitem>
388	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
389	updated (bug #9887)</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
394	</listitem>
395
396	</itemizedlist>
397	</sect1>
398
399	<sect1>
400	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
401
402	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
403	added:</para>
404
405	<itemizedlist>
406
407	<listitem>
408	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
409	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
414	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
419	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
420	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	<listitem>
424	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
425	guests in rare cases</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
434	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
439	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
440	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
449	</listitem>
450
451	<listitem>
452	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
453	reason (bug #6189)</para>
454	</listitem>
455
456	<listitem>
457	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
458	</listitem>
459
460	<listitem>
461	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
462	paused</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
467	(bug #10267)</para>
468	</listitem>
469
470	<listitem>
471	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	<listitem>
475	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
476	(bug #10418)</para>
477	</listitem>
478
479	<listitem>
480	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
481	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
482	(bug #10581)</para>
483	</listitem>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
487	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
492	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
493	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	</itemizedlist>
501
502	</sect1>
503
504	<sect1>
505	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
506
507	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
508	added:</para>
509
510	<itemizedlist>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
514	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
515	(bug #3783)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
524	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	</itemizedlist>
532
533	</sect1>
534
535	<sect1>
536	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
537
538	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
539	added:</para>
540
541	<itemizedlist>
542
543	<listitem>
544	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
545	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
546	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
551	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
556	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
565	</listitem>
566
567	<listitem>
568	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
569	4.1.10 regression)</para>
570	</listitem>
571
572	<listitem>
573	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
578	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
579	</listitem>
580
581	<listitem>
582	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
587	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
592	4.1.10 regression)</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
597	closed (bug #6473)</para>
598	</listitem>
599
600	<listitem>
601	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
602	properly installed</para>
603	</listitem>
604
605	<listitem>
606	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	</itemizedlist>
610	</sect1>
611
612	<sect1>
613	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
614
615	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
616	added:</para>
617
618	<itemizedlist>
619
620	<listitem>
621	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
622	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
623	</listitem>
624
625	<listitem>
626	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
627	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
632	fusion</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
637	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
642	and network mask attributes</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
647	(bug #10030)</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
652	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
657	</listitem>
658
659	<listitem>
660	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
665	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
674	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
679	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
680	</listitem>
681
682	<listitem>
683	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
684	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
713	in a zone</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
722	(bug #9651)</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
727	</listitem>
728
729	<listitem>
730	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
731	#10010)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
736	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
737	</listitem>
738
739	<listitem>
740	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
741	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
750	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
755	(bug #10151)</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
760	guests</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
769	</listitem>
770
771	<listitem>
772	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	</itemizedlist>
776	</sect1>
777
778	<sect1>
779	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
780
781	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
782	added:</para>
783
784	<itemizedlist>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
788	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
797	(bug #9642)</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
802	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
803	</para>
804	</listitem>
805
806	<listitem>
807	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
812	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
817	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
826	</listitem>
827
828	<listitem>
829	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
830	</listitem>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
834	circumstances</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
843	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
848	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
849	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
850	and for 3D support in general</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
855	</listitem>
856
857	<listitem>
858	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
867	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	</itemizedlist>
871	</sect1>
872
873	<sect1>
874	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
875
876	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
877	added:</para>
878
879	<itemizedlist>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
887	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
892	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
897	certain guests</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
906	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
907	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
912	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
917	</listitem>
918
919	<listitem>
920	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
921	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
922	</listitem>
923
924	<listitem>
925	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
930	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
935	guests</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
940	folders</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
945	shared folders</para>
946	</listitem>
947
948	<listitem>
949	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
950	users and stale sessions</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
955	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	</itemizedlist>
959	</sect1>
960
961	<sect1>
962	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
963
964	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
965	added:</para>
966
967	<itemizedlist>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
971	bug #9458)</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
976	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
981	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
982	</listitem>
983
984	<listitem>
985	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
990	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
995	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1000	(bug #9308)</para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
1005	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
1010	(bug #9503)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
1015	(bug #9242)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
1020	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
1021	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
1022	</listitem>
1023
1024	<listitem>
1025	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1026	</listitem>
1027
1028	<listitem>
1029	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1030	images</para>
1031	</listitem>
1032
1033	<listitem>
1034	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1035	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1036	</listitem>
1037
1038	<listitem>
1039	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1040	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1041	</listitem>
1042
1043	<listitem>
1044	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1045	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1046	</listitem>
1047
1048	<listitem>
1049	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1050	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1055	#9387)</para>
1056	</listitem>
1057
1058	<listitem>
1059	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1060	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1061	</listitem>
1062
1063	<listitem>
1064	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1065	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1070	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1075	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1084	</listitem>
1085
1086	<listitem>
1087	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1088	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1093	(bug #1578)</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1098	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1099	</listitem>
1100
1101	<listitem>
1102	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1103	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1108	(bug #9535)</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1113	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1118	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1123	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1128	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1133	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1138	</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1143	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1144	</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1149	(bug #6229)
1150	</para>
1151	</listitem>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1155	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1156	</listitem>
1157
1158	<listitem>
1159	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1160	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1161	</listitem>
1162
1163	<listitem>
1164	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1165	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1166	</listitem>
1167
1168	<listitem>
1169	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1170	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1171	</listitem>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1175	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1176	</listitem>
1177
1178	<listitem>
1179	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1180	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1181	</listitem>
1182
1183	<listitem>
1184	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1185	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1186	</listitem>
1187
1188	<listitem>
1189	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1190	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1191	</listitem>
1192
1193	</itemizedlist>
1194	</sect1>
1195
1196	<sect1>
1197	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1198
1199	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1200	added:</para>
1201
1202	<itemizedlist>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1206	</listitem>
1207
1208	<listitem>
1209	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1210	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1219	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1224	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1225	</listitem>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1229	a live snapshot</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1234	due to a library version conflict</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1239	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1244	at a time by default</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1249	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1250	#9368)</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1255	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1260	VMs</para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1265	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1266	</listitem>
1267
1268	<listitem>
1269	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1270	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1271	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1276	(bug #9308)</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1281	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1282	</listitem>
1283
1284	<listitem>
1285	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1286	</listitem>
1287
1288	<listitem>
1289	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1290	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1295	(bug #9242)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1300	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1301	</listitem>
1302
1303	<listitem>
1304	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1305	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1306	</listitem>
1307
1308	<listitem>
1309	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1310	USB devices</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1315	and warn about it</para>
1316	</listitem>
1317
1318	<listitem>
1319	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1328	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1333	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1334	</listitem>
1335
1336	<listitem>
1337	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1338	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1343	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1344	</listitem>
1345
1346	<listitem>
1347	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1348	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1349	</listitem>
1350
1351	<listitem>
1352	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1353	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1358	2.6.37 and above</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	</itemizedlist>
1362	</sect1>
1363
1364	<sect1>
1365	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1366
1367	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1368	were added:</para>
1369
1370	<itemizedlist>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1374	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1375	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1384	</listitem>
1385
1386	<listitem>
1387	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1388	bug #7822)</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1397	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1402	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1403	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1404	anymore)</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1409	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1414	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1415	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1420	</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1425	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1426	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1427	</listitem>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1431	with VBoxManage</para>
1432	</listitem>
1433
1434	<listitem>
1435	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1436	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1437	</listitem>
1438
1439
1440	</itemizedlist>
1441
1442	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1443
1444	<itemizedlist>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1452	</listitem>
1453
1454	<listitem>
1455	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1456	</listitem>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1460	of the current state</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1469	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1470	</listitem>
1471
1472	<listitem>
1473	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1474	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1475	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1480	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1493	dialog</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1498	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1499	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1500	</listitem>
1501
1502	<listitem>
1503	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1504	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1509	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1514	be a valid UUID</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1519	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1524	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1525	cases</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1530	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1531	improve performance</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1536	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1537	on a temporary basis</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1542	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1543	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1548	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1553	images in VDI format</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1558	VMDK format</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1563	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1576	</listitem>
1577
1578	<listitem>
1579	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	<listitem>
1583	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1584	</listitem>
1585
1586	<listitem>
1587	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1588	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1593	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1598	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1603	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1608	RDP clients</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1617	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1618	</listitem>
1619
1620	<listitem>
1621	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1622	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1627	simultaneously</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1632	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1633	location values in many places</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1642	builds</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1651	window (bug #4491)</para>
1652	</listitem>
1653
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1656	removing a VM</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	<listitem>
1660	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1669	166 and above)</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1674	hosts</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1683	from the host</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	</itemizedlist>
1691
1692	</sect1>
1693
1694	<sect1>
1695	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1696
1697	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1698	added:</para>
1699
1700	<itemizedlist>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1704	</listitem>
1705
1706	<listitem>
1707	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1708	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1709	</listitem>
1710
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1713	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1718	a live snapshot</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1723	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1732	</listitem>
1733
1734	<listitem>
1735	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1736	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1741	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1746	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1755	images</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1760	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762	<listitem>
1763	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1764	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1765	</listitem>
1766
1767	<listitem>
1768	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1769	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1778	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1783	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1792	(bug #9370)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1797	(bug #9535)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1802	(bug #1578)</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1807	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1812	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1813	</para>
1814	</listitem>
1815
1816	<listitem>
1817	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1818	</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1823	2.6.37 and above</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1828	(bug #6229)</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1833	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	</itemizedlist>
1837	</sect1>
1838
1839	<sect1>
1840	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1841
1842	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1843	added:</para>
1844
1845	<itemizedlist>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1853	166 and above)</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1858	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1859	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1864	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1865	</listitem>
1866
1867	<listitem>
1868	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1869	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1878	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1883	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1888	builds</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	</itemizedlist>
1896	</sect1>
1897	<sect1>
1898	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1899
1900	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1901	added:</para>
1902
1903	<itemizedlist>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1915	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1920	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1929	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1938	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	<listitem>
1942	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1943	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1944	</listitem>
1945
1946	<listitem>
1947	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1948	</listitem>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1956	file was not written during export</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1969	</listitem>
1970
1971	<listitem>
1972	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1973	binaries</para>
1974	</listitem>
1975
1976	<listitem>
1977	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1982	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1987	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1988	</listitem>
1989
1990	<listitem>
1991	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1996	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	</itemizedlist>
2000	</sect1>
2001
2002	<sect1>
2003	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
2004
2005	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2006	added:</para>
2007
2008	<itemizedlist>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
2012	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
2017	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
2018	</listitem>
2019
2020	<listitem>
2021	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
2022	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
2023	</listitem>
2024
2025	<listitem>
2026	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2027	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2028	</listitem>
2029
2030	<listitem>
2031	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2032	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2037	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2042	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2047	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2052	</listitem>
2053
2054	<listitem>
2055	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2060	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2061	</listitem>
2062
2063	<listitem>
2064	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2065	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2066	</listitem>
2067
2068	<listitem>
2069	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2074	</listitem>
2075
2076	<listitem>
2077	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2078	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2079	</listitem>
2080
2081	<listitem>
2082	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2083	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2088	window</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2093	Fedora 15</para>
2094	</listitem>
2095
2096	<listitem>
2097	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2098	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2099	</listitem>
2100
2101	<listitem>
2102	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2103	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2104	</listitem>
2105
2106	<listitem>
2107	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2108	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2109	</listitem>
2110
2111	<listitem>
2112	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2117	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2118	</listitem>
2119
2120	</itemizedlist>
2121	</sect1>
2122
2123	<sect1>
2124	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2125
2126	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2127	added:</para>
2128
2129	<itemizedlist>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2133	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2134	</listitem>
2135
2136	<listitem>
2137	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2138	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2143	(bug #8006)</para>
2144	</listitem>
2145
2146	<listitem>
2147	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2148	(bug #8726)</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2161	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2162	</listitem>
2163
2164	<listitem>
2165	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2166	(bug #8469)</para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2171	selectors</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2176	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2181	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2186	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2195	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2200	</listitem>
2201
2202	<listitem>
2203	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2204	</listitem>
2205
2206	<listitem>
2207	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2208	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2209	</listitem>
2210
2211	<listitem>
2212	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2213	I/O error occurred</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2218	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2219	</listitem>
2220
2221	<listitem>
2222	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2223	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2224	</listitem>
2225
2226	<listitem>
2227	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2228	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2229	if no medium is present</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2238	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2239	</listitem>
2240
2241	<listitem>
2242	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2243	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2244	</listitem>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2248	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2257	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2262	library (bug #8063)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2267	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2280	</listitem>
2281
2282	<listitem>
2283	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2284	changed on import</para>
2285	</listitem>
2286
2287	<listitem>
2288	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2289	</listitem>
2290
2291	<listitem>
2292	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2293	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2294	</listitem>
2295
2296	<listitem>
2297	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2298	(bug #8593)</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2303	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2308	captured</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2313	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2314	</listitem>
2315
2316	<listitem>
2317	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2318	</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2323	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2328	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2333	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2334	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2339	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2348	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2353	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2358	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2375	</listitem>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2379	(bug #7946)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	<listitem>
2387	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	</itemizedlist>
2395
2396	</sect1>
2397
2398	<sect1>
2399	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2400
2401	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2402	added:</para>
2403
2404	<itemizedlist>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2408	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2413	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2418	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2423	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2428	number of host network interfaces</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2433	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2434	</listitem>
2435
2436	<listitem>
2437	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2442	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2447	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2448	</listitem>
2449
2450	<listitem>
2451	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2452	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2461	(bug #6577)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2466	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2467	(bug #8235)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2472	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2473	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2482	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2491	(bug #7966)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2508	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2521	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2526	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2535	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2540	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2541	(bug #8122)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2546	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2559	(bug #1548)</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2568	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2569	</listitem>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2577	(bug #8231)</para>
2578	</listitem>
2579
2580	<listitem>
2581	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2582	11.04 Alpha</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2587	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2588	</listitem>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2592	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2597	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2602	with VBoxGINA</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	</itemizedlist>
2606
2607	</sect1>
2608
2609	<sect1>
2610	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2611
2612	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2613	added:</para>
2614
2615	<itemizedlist>
2616
2617	<listitem>
2618	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2619	settings vanished</para>
2620	</listitem>
2621
2622	<listitem>
2623	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2624	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2629	created (bug #8031)</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	<listitem>
2637	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2638	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2639	</listitem>
2640
2641	<listitem>
2642	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2643	an extension pack</para>
2644	</listitem>
2645
2646	<listitem>
2647	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2648	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2649	</listitem>
2650
2651	<listitem>
2652	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2653	</listitem>
2654
2655	<listitem>
2656	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2657	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2658	</listitem>
2659
2660	<listitem>
2661	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2662	host-only interface</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2667	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2672	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2673	</listitem>
2674
2675	<listitem>
2676	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2677	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2682	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2687	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2700	guests</para>
2701	</listitem>
2702
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2713	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2718	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2719	</listitem>
2720
2721	<listitem>
2722	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2723	a VM start</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2728	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2733	(bug #6067)</para>
2734	</listitem>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2738	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2743	not saved to machine XML</para>
2744	</listitem>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2748	#7983)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2753	#7981)</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2762	regression)</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2767	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2772	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	</itemizedlist>
2776
2777	</sect1>
2778
2779	<sect1>
2780	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2781
2782	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2783	were added:</para>
2784
2785	<itemizedlist>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2797	<itemizedlist>
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2816	states, and optionally including attached
2817	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2818	can do the same now)</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	</itemizedlist>
2826	</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>New virtual hardware:
2835	<itemizedlist>
2836	<listitem>
2837	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2838	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2843	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2844	</listitem>
2845	</itemizedlist>
2846	</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2851	<itemizedlist>
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2854	</listitem>
2855
2856	<listitem>
2857	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2858	</para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2863	now</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	</itemizedlist>
2871	</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2876	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2881	Parallels images</para>
2882	</listitem>
2883
2884	<listitem>
2885	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2890	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2895	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	</itemizedlist>
2899
2900	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2901
2902	<itemizedlist>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2906	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2915	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2920	(bug #1657)</para>
2921	</listitem>
2922
2923	<listitem>
2924	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2933	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	<listitem>
2937	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2938	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2943	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2944	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2949	again (bug #6864)</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2954	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2959	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2980	</listitem>
2981
2982	<listitem>
2983	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2984	</listitem>
2985
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2988	</listitem>
2989
2990	<listitem>
2991	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2992	(bug #7058)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2997	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2998	</listitem>
2999
3000	<listitem>
3001	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
3002	circumstances</para>
3003	</listitem>
3004
3005	<listitem>
3006	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
3007	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
3008	#5578)
3009	</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
3014	</listitem>
3015
3016	<listitem>
3017	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
3018	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
3019	</listitem>
3020
3021	<listitem>
3022	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3027	#6760)</para>
3028	</listitem>
3029
3030	<listitem>
3031	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3032	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3037	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3038	</listitem>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3042	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3051	file</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3056	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	</itemizedlist>
3060
3061	</sect1>
3062
3063	<sect1>
3064	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3065
3066	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3067	added:</para>
3068
3069	<itemizedlist>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3073	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3078	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3079	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3096	the VM is running</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3101	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3102	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3103	starting from a saved state</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3120	</listitem>
3121
3122	<listitem>
3123	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3128	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3133	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3134	</listitem>
3135
3136	<listitem>
3137	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3138	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3139	</listitem>
3140
3141	<listitem>
3142	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3147	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3148	</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	<listitem>
3152	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3153	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3154	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3159	only)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3164	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3173	</listitem>
3174
3175	<listitem>
3176	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3177	</listitem>
3178
3179	<listitem>
3180	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3181	state (bug #4124)</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3186	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3195	(bug #2996)</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3200	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3209	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3214	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3219	user accounts for VM information</para>
3220	</listitem>
3221
3222	</itemizedlist>
3223
3224	</sect1>
3225
3226	<sect1>
3227	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3228
3229	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3230	added:</para>
3231
3232	<itemizedlist>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3236	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3241	</listitem>
3242
3243	<listitem>
3244	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	<listitem>
3248	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3253	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3258	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3259	</listitem>
3260
3261	<listitem>
3262	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3263	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3264	</listitem>
3265
3266	<listitem>
3267	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3268	(bug #4952)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3273	bug #6122)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3278	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3283	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3284	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3293	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3298	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3303	canceled</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	<listitem>
3307	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3316	</listitem>
3317
3318	<listitem>
3319	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3320	</listitem>
3321
3322	<listitem>
3323	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3324	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3329	</listitem>
3330
3331	<listitem>
3332	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3333	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3334	</listitem>
3335
3336	<listitem>
3337	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3338	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3347	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3356	circumstances</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3361	printers</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3370	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3375	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3380	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3381	circumstances</para>
3382	</listitem>
3383
3384	<listitem>
3385	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3386	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3387	</listitem>
3388
3389	<listitem>
3390	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3391	as supported extension</para>
3392	</listitem>
3393
3394	<listitem>
3395	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3396	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3401	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3410	(bug #7366)</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	<listitem>
3414	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3415	</listitem>
3416
3417	<listitem>
3418	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3419	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3420	</listitem>
3421
3422	<listitem>
3423	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3424	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3425	</listitem>
3426
3427	<listitem>
3428	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3429	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3434	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3439	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3448	</listitem>
3449
3450	<listitem>
3451	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3452	more than one environment variable</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3457	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3462	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3467	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3472	enumerating logged in users</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3489	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	<listitem>
3493	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	<listitem>
3497	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3498	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3503	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3508	(bug #7448)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3513	</listitem>
3514
3515	<listitem>
3516	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	</itemizedlist>
3524
3525	</sect1>
3526
3527	<sect1>
3528	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3529
3530	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3531	added:</para>
3532
3533	<itemizedlist>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3537	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3546	bug #6809)</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3551	</listitem>
3552
3553	<listitem>
3554	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3559	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3564	changes</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3573	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3578	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3595	</listitem>
3596
3597	<listitem>
3598	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3599	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3600	</listitem>
3601
3602	<listitem>
3603	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3604	</listitem>
3605
3606	<listitem>
3607	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3608	(bug #6832)</para>
3609	</listitem>
3610
3611	<listitem>
3612	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3613	guests</para>
3614	</listitem>
3615
3616	<listitem>
3617	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3622	without external tools and tricks</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3627	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3636	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3641	shutdown</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3646	fixes</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3651	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3652	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3653	</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3658	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3663	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3668	</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	</itemizedlist>
3684
3685	</sect1>
3686
3687	<sect1>
3688	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3689
3690	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3691	added:</para>
3692
3693	<itemizedlist>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3697	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3702	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3707	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3728	assigned</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3733	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3734	</listitem>
3735
3736	<listitem>
3737	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3738	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3739	</listitem>
3740
3741	<listitem>
3742	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3747	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3752	again (bug #7022).
3753	</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3758	(bug #6768)</para>
3759	</listitem>
3760
3761	<listitem>
3762	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3763	(bug #6927)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3768	bug #7031)</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3773	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3778	bug #6987)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3791	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3792	</listitem>
3793
3794	<listitem>
3795	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3800	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3805	</listitem>
3806
3807	<listitem>
3808	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3809	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3810	bug #6872)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3819	(performance tweak)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3824	is currently paused</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3829	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3838	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3843	not properly saved</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3848	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3865	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3870	</listitem>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3874	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3879	(bug #5251)</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3884	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3885	</listitem>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	<listitem>
3896	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3897	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3902	</listitem>
3903
3904	<listitem>
3905	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3906	</listitem>
3907
3908	<listitem>
3909	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3910	</listitem>
3911
3912	</itemizedlist>
3913	</sect1>
3914
3915	<sect1>
3916	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3917
3918	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3919	added:</para>
3920
3921	<itemizedlist>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3925	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3934	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3939	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3944	</listitem>
3945
3946	<listitem>
3947	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3948	again (bug #6864)</para>
3949	</listitem>
3950
3951	<listitem>
3952	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3953	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3962	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	</itemizedlist>
3970
3971	</sect1>
3972
3973	<sect1>
3974	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3975
3976	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3977	added:</para>
3978
3979	<itemizedlist>
3980
3981	<listitem>
3982	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3987	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3996	state</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
4021	</listitem>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4041	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4046	(bug #6784)</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4059	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4072	host only</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4077	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4082	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4091	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	<listitem>
4095	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4104	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4105	</listitem>
4106
4107	<listitem>
4108	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4121	(bug #6714)</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4130	</listitem>
4131
4132	<listitem>
4133	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4134	</listitem>
4135
4136	<listitem>
4137	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	</itemizedlist>
4145
4146	</sect1>
4147
4148	<sect1>
4149	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4150
4151	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4152	were added:</para>
4153
4154	<itemizedlist>
4155
4156	<listitem>
4157	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4158	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4159	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4168	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4173	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4174	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4179	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4184	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4185	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4186	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4187	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4196	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4201	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4214	</listitem>
4215
4216	<listitem>
4217	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4222	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4223	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	<listitem>
4227	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4228	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	</itemizedlist>
4232
4233	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4234
4235	<itemizedlist>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4239	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4248	VM</para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4253	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4258	#1669)</para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4263	#6442)</para>
4264	</listitem>
4265
4266	<listitem>
4267	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4268	combination (bug #684)</para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4273	the VM from the GUI</para>
4274	</listitem>
4275
4276	<listitem>
4277	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4278	medium is not accessible</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4287	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4292	#3106)</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4297	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4298	it</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4311	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4316	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4329	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4334	</listitem>
4335
4336	<listitem>
4337	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4338	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4339	</listitem>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4347	in VirtualBox</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4352	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4353	</listitem>
4354
4355	<listitem>
4356	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4357	VirtualBox</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4366	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	</itemizedlist>
4370	</sect1>
4371
4372	<sect1>
4373	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4374
4375	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4376	added:</para>
4377
4378	<itemizedlist>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4382	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4395	only) </para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4400	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4405	interface version</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4410	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4411	slot empty</para>
4412	</listitem>
4413
4414	<listitem>
4415	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4416	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4417	(bug #4220)</para>
4418	</listitem>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4422	</listitem>
4423
4424	<listitem>
4425	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4426	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4427	</listitem>
4428
4429	<listitem>
4430	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4431	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4436	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4441	attached</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4446	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	<listitem>
4454	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4455	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4456	</listitem>
4457
4458	<listitem>
4459	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4460	is bug #6408)</para>
4461	</listitem>
4462
4463	<listitem>
4464	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4465	</listitem>
4466
4467	<listitem>
4468	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4469	fail to initialize</para>
4470	</listitem>
4471
4472	<listitem>
4473	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4474	</listitem>
4475
4476	<listitem>
4477	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4478	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4483	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4484	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4485	</listitem>
4486
4487	<listitem>
4488	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	<listitem>
4492	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4493	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4498	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4503	(bug #6435)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4508	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4513	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4514	(bug #6488)</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4519	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4520	</listitem>
4521
4522	<listitem>
4523	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4524	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4525	</listitem>
4526
4527	<listitem>
4528	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4529	#5227)</para>
4530	</listitem>
4531
4532	<listitem>
4533	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4534	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4539	</listitem>
4540
4541	<listitem>
4542	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4543	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	</itemizedlist>
4547	</sect1>
4548
4549	<sect1>
4550	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4551
4552	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4553	added:</para>
4554
4555	<itemizedlist>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4559	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4564	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4569	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4574	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4587	</listitem>
4588
4589	<listitem>
4590	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4591	</listitem>
4592
4593	<listitem>
4594	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4595	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4596	</listitem>
4597
4598	<listitem>
4599	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4600	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4601	</listitem>
4602
4603	<listitem>
4604	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4605	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4610	</listitem>
4611
4612	<listitem>
4613	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4618	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4623	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4624	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4625	</listitem>
4626
4627	<listitem>
4628	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4629	(bug #5297)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4634	(bug #4962)</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4639	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4640	</listitem>
4641
4642	<listitem>
4643	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4644	(bug #6176)</para>
4645	</listitem>
4646
4647	<listitem>
4648	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4649	certain circumstances</para>
4650	</listitem>
4651
4652	<listitem>
4653	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4654	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4667	(bug #3571)</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4672	devices</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4677	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4678	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4683	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4692	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4697	response</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4718	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4719	</listitem>
4720
4721	<listitem>
4722	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4723	</listitem>
4724
4725	<listitem>
4726	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4727	</listitem>
4728
4729	<listitem>
4730	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4731	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	</itemizedlist>
4751	</sect1>
4752
4753	<sect1>
4754	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4755
4756	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4757	added:</para>
4758
4759	<itemizedlist>
4760
4761	<listitem>
4762	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4763	</listitem>
4764
4765	<listitem>
4766	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4767	</listitem>
4768
4769	<listitem>
4770	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4771	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4772	</listitem>
4773
4774	<listitem>
4775	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4776	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4781	(bug #3945)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4786	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4787	</listitem>
4788
4789	<listitem>
4790	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4791	and AMD-V only) </para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4796	</listitem>
4797
4798	<listitem>
4799	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4800	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4801	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4806	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4811	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4816	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4821	snapshots command</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4830	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4847	(KWin bug)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4852	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4873	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4878	bug #5787)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4883	DHCP requests</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4888	(bug #3217)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4893	range (bug #5923)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4902	</listitem>
4903
4904	<listitem>
4905	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4906	</listitem>
4907
4908	<listitem>
4909	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4910	</listitem>
4911
4912	<listitem>
4913	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4914	file (bug #5681)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4919	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4920	</listitem>
4921
4922	<listitem>
4923	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4924	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4925	</listitem>
4926
4927	<listitem>
4928	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4929	regression)</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4938	</listitem>
4939
4940	<listitem>
4941	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4942	</listitem>
4943
4944	<listitem>
4945	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4950	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4951	</listitem>
4952
4953	<listitem>
4954	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4967	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4976	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4981	</listitem>
4982
4983	<listitem>
4984	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4993	(bug #5731)</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4998	again</para>
4999	</listitem>
5000
5001	</itemizedlist>
5002
5003	</sect1>
5004
5005	<sect1>
5006	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
5007
5008	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5009	added:</para>
5010
5011	<itemizedlist>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
5015	</listitem>
5016
5017	<listitem>
5018	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
5023	</listitem>
5024
5025	<listitem>
5026	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5027	</listitem>
5028
5029	<listitem>
5030	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5035	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5048	</listitem>
5049
5050	<listitem>
5051	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5060	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5061	</listitem>
5062
5063	<listitem>
5064	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5065	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5066	</listitem>
5067
5068	<listitem>
5069	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5070	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5071	#1762)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5076	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5081	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5086	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5099	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5108	</listitem>
5109
5110	<listitem>
5111	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5112	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	<listitem>
5116	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5117	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5126	guests</para>
5127	</listitem>
5128
5129	<listitem>
5130	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5131	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5136	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5141	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5142	</listitem>
5143
5144	<listitem>
5145	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5146	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5147	</listitem>
5148
5149	<listitem>
5150	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5151	</listitem>
5152
5153	<listitem>
5154	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5159	</listitem>
5160
5161	<listitem>
5162	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5163	</listitem>
5164
5165	<listitem>
5166	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5167	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5172	</listitem>
5173
5174	</itemizedlist>
5175
5176	</sect1>
5177
5178	<sect1>
5179	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5180
5181	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5182	were added:</para>
5183
5184	<itemizedlist>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5188	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5193	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5194	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5199	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5200	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5201	</listitem>
5202
5203	<listitem>
5204	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5205	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5206	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5211	running</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5216	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5217	</listitem>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5221	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5226	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5231	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	</itemizedlist>
5235
5236	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5237
5238	<itemizedlist>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5254	(bug #5291)</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	<listitem>
5262	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5271	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5272	</listitem>
5273
5274	<listitem>
5275	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5276	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5301	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5306	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5311	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5316	(bug #2723)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5325	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5330	optional manifest file on import</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5335	</listitem>
5336
5337	<listitem>
5338	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5339	(bug #3773)</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5352	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5357	(bug #4866)</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5362	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5367	certain conditions</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5380	</listitem>
5381
5382	<listitem>
5383	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5388	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5389	</listitem>
5390
5391	<listitem>
5392	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5393	</listitem>
5394
5395	<listitem>
5396	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5397	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	<listitem>
5409	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5410	</listitem>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5414	</listitem>
5415
5416	<listitem>
5417	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5418	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5423	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5424	(bug #928)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	</itemizedlist>
5432
5433	</sect1>
5434
5435	<sect1>
5436	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5437
5438	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5439	added:</para>
5440
5441	<itemizedlist>
5442
5443	<listitem>
5444	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5445	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5450	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5455	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5460	enabled</para>
5461	</listitem>
5462
5463	<listitem>
5464	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5465	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5466	</listitem>
5467
5468	<listitem>
5469	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5470	(bug #2676)</para>
5471	</listitem>
5472
5473	<listitem>
5474	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5475	is connected to a raw file</para>
5476	</listitem>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5480	(bug #5355)</para>
5481	</listitem>
5482
5483	<listitem>
5484	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5485	</listitem>
5486
5487	<listitem>
5488	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5489	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5494	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5495	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5496	</listitem>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5508	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5513	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5514	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	</itemizedlist>
5518
5519	</sect1>
5520
5521	<sect1>
5522	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5523
5524	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5525	added:</para>
5526
5527	<itemizedlist>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5539	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5540	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5541	</listitem>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5545	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5570	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5583	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5584	</listitem>
5585
5586	<listitem>
5587	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5588	</listitem>
5589
5590	<listitem>
5591	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5592	exhaustion</para>
5593	</listitem>
5594
5595	<listitem>
5596	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5601	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5602	</listitem>
5603
5604	<listitem>
5605	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5606	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5607	</listitem>
5608
5609	<listitem>
5610	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5611	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5612	</listitem>
5613
5614	<listitem>
5615	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5616	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5617	(bug #2921)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5622	hosts only)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5627	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5636	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5645	image inconsistency </para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5658	(bug #2025)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5663	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	</itemizedlist>
5667
5668	</sect1>
5669
5670	<sect1>
5671	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5672
5673	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5674	added:</para>
5675
5676	<itemizedlist>
5677
5678	<listitem>
5679	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5680	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5681	</listitem>
5682
5683	<listitem>
5684	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5685	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	<listitem>
5689	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5690	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5691	</listitem>
5692
5693	<listitem>
5694	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5699	software virtualization only) </para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5704	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5709	with root privileges</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5714	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5719	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5724	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5729	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5730	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5735	available</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5740	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5745	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5746	</listitem>
5747
5748	<listitem>
5749	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5750	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5755	(bug #4907)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5760	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5765	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5774	</listitem>
5775
5776	<listitem>
5777	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5778	</listitem>
5779
5780	<listitem>
5781	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	<listitem>
5785	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5786	are installed</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5791	(bug #4771)</para>
5792	</listitem>
5793
5794	<listitem>
5795	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5796	</listitem>
5797
5798	<listitem>
5799	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5800	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5801	</listitem>
5802
5803	<listitem>
5804	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5805	command</para>
5806	</listitem>
5807
5808	<listitem>
5809	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5810	</listitem>
5811
5812	<listitem>
5813	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5814	</listitem>
5815
5816	<listitem>
5817	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5818	(bug #5089)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	</itemizedlist>
5826
5827	</sect1>
5828
5829	<sect1>
5830	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5831
5832	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5833	added:</para>
5834
5835	<itemizedlist>
5836
5837	<listitem>
5838	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5839	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5840	</listitem>
5841
5842	<listitem>
5843	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5844	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5849	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5854	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5855	</listitem>
5856
5857	<listitem>
5858	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5859	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5860	</listitem>
5861
5862	<listitem>
5863	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5864	</listitem>
5865
5866	<listitem>
5867	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5880	</listitem>
5881
5882	<listitem>
5883	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5884	onlined or offlined</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5893	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5898	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5903	</listitem>
5904
5905	<listitem>
5906	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5907	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5920	</listitem>
5921
5922	<listitem>
5923	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5932	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5937	</listitem>
5938
5939	<listitem>
5940	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5941	</listitem>
5942
5943	<listitem>
5944	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5945	</listitem>
5946
5947	<listitem>
5948	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5949	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5950	</listitem>
5951
5952	<listitem>
5953	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5954	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5987	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5988	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5989	phase collapse</para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5994	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5999	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
6000	</listitem>
6001
6002	<listitem>
6003	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
6004	</listitem>
6005
6006	<listitem>
6007	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
6008	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
6009	</listitem>
6010
6011	<listitem>
6012	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
6013	interface bringup on Linux</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
6022	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
6023	#4698, #4790)</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6028	less than the configured range</para>
6029	</listitem>
6030
6031	<listitem>
6032	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6049	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6054	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6059	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6060	</listitem>
6061
6062	<listitem>
6063	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6064	</listitem>
6065
6066	<listitem>
6067	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6068	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6069	</listitem>
6070
6071	<listitem>
6072	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6073	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6074	</listitem>
6075
6076	<listitem>
6077	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6078	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6079	</listitem>
6080
6081	<listitem>
6082	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6083	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6088	</listitem>
6089
6090	<listitem>
6091	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6092	</listitem>
6093
6094	</itemizedlist>
6095
6096	</sect1>
6097
6098	<sect1>
6099	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6100
6101	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6102	added:</para>
6103
6104	<itemizedlist>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6124	</listitem>
6125
6126	<listitem>
6127	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6136	</listitem>
6137
6138	<listitem>
6139	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6140	</listitem>
6141
6142	<listitem>
6143	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6144	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6145	</listitem>
6146
6147	<listitem>
6148	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6149	</listitem>
6150
6151	<listitem>
6152	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6153	</listitem>
6154
6155	<listitem>
6156	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6161	</listitem>
6162
6163	<listitem>
6164	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6165	</listitem>
6166
6167	<listitem>
6168	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6169	</listitem>
6170
6171	<listitem>
6172	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6173	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6174	</listitem>
6175
6176	<listitem>
6177	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6178	(bug #4654)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6187	interfaces</para>
6188	</listitem>
6189
6190	<listitem>
6191	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6192	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6193	</listitem>
6194
6195	<listitem>
6196	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6197	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6198	</listitem>
6199
6200	<listitem>
6201	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6202	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6207	(bug #1461)</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6212	</listitem>
6213
6214	<listitem>
6215	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6216	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6217	</listitem>
6218
6219	<listitem>
6220	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6221	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6222	</listitem>
6223
6224	<listitem>
6225	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6226	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6231	</listitem>
6232
6233	<listitem>
6234	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6235	</listitem>
6236
6237	<listitem>
6238	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6239	</listitem>
6240
6241	<listitem>
6242	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6243	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6244	</listitem>
6245
6246	<listitem>
6247	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6248	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6249	</listitem>
6250
6251	<listitem>
6252	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6253	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	<listitem>
6257	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6258	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6259	</listitem>
6260
6261	</itemizedlist>
6262
6263	</sect1>
6264	<sect1>
6265	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6266
6267	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6268	added:</para>
6269
6270	<itemizedlist>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6274	</listitem>
6275
6276	<listitem>
6277	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6278	</listitem>
6279
6280	<listitem>
6281	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6282	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6283	</listitem>
6284
6285	<listitem>
6286	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6287	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6288	</listitem>
6289
6290	<listitem>
6291	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6292	</listitem>
6293
6294	<listitem>
6295	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6296	</listitem>
6297
6298	<listitem>
6299	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6300	</listitem>
6301
6302	<listitem>
6303	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	<listitem>
6307	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6308	</listitem>
6309
6310	<listitem>
6311	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6312	</listitem>
6313
6314	<listitem>
6315	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6320	</listitem>
6321
6322	<listitem>
6323	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6324	</listitem>
6325
6326	<listitem>
6327	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6336	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6337	</listitem>
6338
6339	<listitem>
6340	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6345	</listitem>
6346
6347	<listitem>
6348	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6349	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6350	</listitem>
6351
6352	<listitem>
6353	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6354	</listitem>
6355
6356	<listitem>
6357	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6358	</listitem>
6359
6360	<listitem>
6361	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6362	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6363	</listitem>
6364
6365	<listitem>
6366	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6367	</listitem>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6375	</listitem>
6376
6377	<listitem>
6378	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6379	</listitem>
6380
6381	<listitem>
6382	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6383	</listitem>
6384
6385	<listitem>
6386	<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>
6387	</listitem>
6388
6389	</itemizedlist>
6390
6391	</sect1>
6392
6393	<sect1>
6394	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6395
6396	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6397	were added:</para>
6398
6399	<itemizedlist>
6400
6401	<listitem>
6402	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6407	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6412	</listitem>
6413
6414	</itemizedlist>
6415
6416	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6417
6418	<itemizedlist>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6426	certain conditions</para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6435	</listitem>
6436
6437	<listitem>
6438	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6439	</listitem>
6440
6441	<listitem>
6442	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6443	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6444	</listitem>
6445
6446	<listitem>
6447	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6448	</listitem>
6449
6450	<listitem>
6451	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6452	</listitem>
6453
6454	<listitem>
6455	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6456	</listitem>
6457
6458	<listitem>
6459	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6460	</listitem>
6461
6462	<listitem>
6463	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6468	</listitem>
6469
6470	<listitem>
6471	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6472	</listitem>
6473
6474	<listitem>
6475	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6476	</listitem>
6477
6478	<listitem>
6479	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6480	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6481	</listitem>
6482
6483	<listitem>
6484	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	<listitem>
6488	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6489	</listitem>
6490
6491	<listitem>
6492	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6493	</listitem>
6494
6495	<listitem>
6496	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6497	</listitem>
6498
6499	<listitem>
6500	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6501	</listitem>
6502
6503	<listitem>
6504	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6505	</listitem>
6506
6507	<listitem>
6508	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6513	</listitem>
6514
6515	<listitem>
6516	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6517	</listitem>
6518
6519	<listitem>
6520	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6521	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6522	</listitem>
6523
6524	<listitem>
6525	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6530	</listitem>
6531
6532	<listitem>
6533	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6542	</listitem>
6543
6544	<listitem>
6545	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6554	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6559	</listitem>
6560
6561	<listitem>
6562	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6563	</listitem>
6564
6565	<listitem>
6566	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6567	</listitem>
6568
6569	<listitem>
6570	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6571	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6572	</listitem>
6573
6574	<listitem>
6575	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6576	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6577	</listitem>
6578
6579	<listitem>
6580	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6581	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6582	</listitem>
6583
6584	<listitem>
6585	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6586	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6587	</listitem>
6588
6589	<listitem>
6590	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6591	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6592	</listitem>
6593
6594	<listitem>
6595	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6604	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6605	</listitem>
6606
6607	<listitem>
6608	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6609	guest property lookup</para>
6610	</listitem>
6611
6612	<listitem>
6613	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6614	basic network information)</para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6619	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6624	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6625	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6626	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6627	</listitem>
6628
6629	<listitem>
6630	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6631	</listitem>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6635	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6636	web service</para>
6637	</listitem>
6638
6639	<listitem>
6640	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6641	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6642	</listitem>
6643
6644	<listitem>
6645	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6646	unavailable</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6651	</listitem>
6652
6653	</itemizedlist>
6654	</sect1>
6655
6656	<sect1>
6657	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6658
6659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6660	added:</para>
6661
6662	<itemizedlist>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6666	installation</para>
6667	</listitem>
6668
6669	<listitem>
6670	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6671	</listitem>
6672
6673	<listitem>
6674	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6675	later (bug #3981)</para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6680	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6685	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6686	(bug #4034)
6687	</para>
6688	</listitem>
6689
6690	<listitem>
6691	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6692	networking</para>
6693	</listitem>
6694
6695	<listitem>
6696	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6697	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6698	</listitem>
6699
6700	<listitem>
6701	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6702	clicks</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6707	Windows 7 guests</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6712	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6713	</listitem>
6714
6715	<listitem>
6716	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6717	</listitem>
6718
6719	<listitem>
6720	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6721	</listitem>
6722
6723	<listitem>
6724	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6725	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6726	</listitem>
6727
6728	<listitem>
6729	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6730	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6731	</listitem>
6732
6733	<listitem>
6734	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6735	</listitem>
6736
6737	<listitem>
6738	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6739	</listitem>
6740
6741	<listitem>
6742	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6743	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6744	(bug #3864)</para>
6745	</listitem>
6746
6747	<listitem>
6748	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6749	now flushes the output stream</para>
6750	</listitem>
6751
6752	<listitem>
6753	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6754	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	<listitem>
6758	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6763	</listitem>
6764
6765	<listitem>
6766	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6767	</listitem>
6768
6769	<listitem>
6770	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6771	</listitem>
6772
6773	<listitem>
6774	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6775	(bug #3964)</para>
6776	</listitem>
6777
6778	<listitem>
6779	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6780	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6781	</listitem>
6782
6783	<listitem>
6784	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6785	hosts</para>
6786	</listitem>
6787
6788	<listitem>
6789	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6790	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6791	e1000 adapter</para>
6792	</listitem>
6793
6794	<listitem>
6795	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6796	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6797	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6798	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	<listitem>
6806	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6807	</listitem>
6808
6809	<listitem>
6810	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6811	</listitem>
6812
6813	<listitem>
6814	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6815	file (bug #1023)</para>
6816	</listitem>
6817
6818	<listitem>
6819	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6820	</listitem>
6821
6822	<listitem>
6823	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	</itemizedlist>
6827	</sect1>
6828
6829	<sect1>
6830	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6831
6832	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6833	added:</para>
6834
6835	<itemizedlist>
6836
6837	<listitem>
6838	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6839	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6844	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6845	and later</para>
6846	</listitem>
6847
6848	<listitem>
6849	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6850	running services</para>
6851	</listitem>
6852
6853	<listitem>
6854	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6855	terminates</para>
6856	</listitem>
6857
6858	<listitem>
6859	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6860	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6865	installed on the guest</para>
6866	</listitem>
6867
6868	<listitem>
6869	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6870	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6871	</listitem>
6872
6873	<listitem>
6874	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6875	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6876	</listitem>
6877
6878	<listitem>
6879	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6880	(bug #2628)</para>
6881	</listitem>
6882
6883	<listitem>
6884	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6885	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6886	</listitem>
6887
6888	<listitem>
6889	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6890	(bug #3657)</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6895	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6900	virtualization only)
6901	</para>
6902	</listitem>
6903
6904	<listitem>
6905	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6906	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6907	</listitem>
6908
6909	<listitem>
6910	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6911	</listitem>
6912
6913	<listitem>
6914	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6915	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6916	</listitem>
6917
6918	<listitem>
6919	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6920	bug #3689)</para>
6921	</listitem>
6922
6923	<listitem>
6924	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6925	bug #3679)</para>
6926	</listitem>
6927
6928	<listitem>
6929	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6930	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6931	</listitem>
6932
6933	<listitem>
6934	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6935	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6936	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6937	</listitem>
6938
6939	<listitem>
6940	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6941	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6946	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6947	</listitem>
6948
6949	<listitem>
6950	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6951	(bug #3667)</para>
6952	</listitem>
6953
6954	<listitem>
6955	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6956	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6957	</listitem>
6958
6959	<listitem>
6960	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6961	</listitem>
6962
6963	<listitem>
6964	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6981	</listitem>
6982
6983	<listitem>
6984	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	</itemizedlist>
6988	</sect1>
6989
6990	<sect1>
6991	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6992
6993	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6994	were added:</para>
6995
6996	<itemizedlist>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
7000	</listitem>
7001
7002	<listitem>
7003	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
7004	</listitem>
7005
7006	<listitem>
7007	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
7008	</listitem>
7009
7010	<listitem>
7011	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
7012	</listitem>
7013
7014	<listitem>
7015	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
7016	</listitem>
7017
7018	<listitem>
7019	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
7020	</listitem>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
7024	</listitem>
7025
7026	<listitem>
7027	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7028	</listitem>
7029
7030	<listitem>
7031	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7032	</listitem>
7033
7034	<listitem>
7035	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7036	</listitem>
7037
7038	</itemizedlist>
7039
7040	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7041
7042	<itemizedlist>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7046	</listitem>
7047
7048	<listitem>
7049	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7050	</listitem>
7051
7052	<listitem>
7053	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7054	</listitem>
7055
7056	<listitem>
7057	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7058	</listitem>
7059
7060	<listitem>
7061	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7070	</listitem>
7071
7072	<listitem>
7073	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7078	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7083	</listitem>
7084
7085	<listitem>
7086	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7087	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7092	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7097	</listitem>
7098
7099	<listitem>
7100	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7101	</listitem>
7102
7103	<listitem>
7104	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7105	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7106	</listitem>
7107
7108	<listitem>
7109	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7110	</listitem>
7111
7112	<listitem>
7113	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7114	ESX server images)</para>
7115	</listitem>
7116
7117	<listitem>
7118	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7119	writable</para>
7120	</listitem>
7121
7122	<listitem>
7123	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7124	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7125	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7126	</listitem>
7127
7128	<listitem>
7129	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7130	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7131	</listitem>
7132
7133	<listitem>
7134	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7135	</listitem>
7136
7137	<listitem>
7138	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7143	hosts when creating files</para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7148	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7149	</listitem>
7150
7151	<listitem>
7152	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7153	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7154	#2306)</para>
7155	</listitem>
7156
7157	<listitem>
7158	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7159	(bug #3555)</para>
7160	</listitem>
7161
7162	<listitem>
7163	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7164	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7165	</listitem>
7166
7167	<listitem>
7168	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7169	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7170	</listitem>
7171
7172	<listitem>
7173	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7174	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7175	</listitem>
7176
7177	<listitem>
7178	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7179	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7180	</listitem>
7181
7182	<listitem>
7183	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7184	(bug #3586)</para>
7185	</listitem>
7186
7187	<listitem>
7188	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7189	from Scratch systems</para>
7190	</listitem>
7191
7192	<listitem>
7193	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7194	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7195	</listitem>
7196
7197	<listitem>
7198	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7203	default to compact format</para>
7204	</listitem>
7205
7206	<listitem>
7207	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7208	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7209	</listitem>
7210
7211	<listitem>
7212	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7217	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7218	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7223	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7224	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7225	</listitem>
7226
7227	<listitem>
7228	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7229	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7230	</listitem>
7231
7232	<listitem>
7233	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7234	</listitem>
7235
7236	<listitem>
7237	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7250	</listitem>
7251
7252	<listitem>
7253	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7254	</listitem>
7255
7256	<listitem>
7257	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7258	</listitem>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7262	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7263	</listitem>
7264
7265	<listitem>
7266	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7267	</listitem>
7268
7269	<listitem>
7270	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7271	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7272	</listitem>
7273
7274	<listitem>
7275	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7276	</listitem>
7277
7278	<listitem>
7279	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7280	</listitem>
7281
7282	<listitem>
7283	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7284	</listitem>
7285
7286	<listitem>
7287	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7288	#2536)</para>
7289	</listitem>
7290
7291	<listitem>
7292	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7293	</listitem>
7294
7295	<listitem>
7296	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7297	(bug #3548)</para>
7298	</listitem>
7299
7300	</itemizedlist>
7301	</sect1>
7302
7303	<sect1>
7304	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7305
7306	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7307	added:</para>
7308
7309	<itemizedlist>
7310
7311	<listitem>
7312	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7313	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7314	</listitem>
7315
7316	<listitem>
7317	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7318	</listitem>
7319
7320	<listitem>
7321	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7322	</listitem>
7323
7324	<listitem>
7325	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7326	</listitem>
7327
7328	<listitem>
7329	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7330	(bug #3115)</para>
7331	</listitem>
7332
7333	<listitem>
7334	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7335	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7336	</listitem>
7337
7338	<listitem>
7339	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7340	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7341	(bug #3215)</para>
7342	</listitem>
7343
7344	<listitem>
7345	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7346	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7347	</listitem>
7348
7349	<listitem>
7350	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7351	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7352	</listitem>
7353
7354	<listitem>
7355	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7356	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7357	</listitem>
7358
7359	<listitem>
7360	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7361	in parallel</para>
7362	</listitem>
7363
7364	<listitem>
7365	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7374	</listitem>
7375
7376	<listitem>
7377	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7378	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7379	</listitem>
7380
7381	<listitem>
7382	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7383	</listitem>
7384
7385	<listitem>
7386	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7387	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7388	</listitem>
7389
7390	<listitem>
7391	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7392	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7397	</listitem>
7398
7399	<listitem>
7400	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7401	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7402	</listitem>
7403
7404	<listitem>
7405	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7406	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7407	</listitem>
7408
7409	<listitem>
7410	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7411	</listitem>
7412
7413	<listitem>
7414	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7415	</listitem>
7416
7417	<listitem>
7418	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7419	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7436	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7441	</listitem>
7442
7443	<listitem>
7444	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7445	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7450	</listitem>
7451
7452	<listitem>
7453	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7454	</listitem>
7455
7456	<listitem>
7457	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7458	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7459	</listitem>
7460
7461	<listitem>
7462	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7463	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7464	</listitem>
7465
7466	<listitem>
7467	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7468	</listitem>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7472	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7473	</listitem>
7474
7475	<listitem>
7476	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7477	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	<listitem>
7481	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7482	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7483	</listitem>
7484
7485	<listitem>
7486	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7487	(bug #3213)</para>
7488	</listitem>
7489
7490	<listitem>
7491	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7492	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7493	</listitem>
7494
7495	<listitem>
7496	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7497	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	</itemizedlist>
7501	</sect1>
7502
7503	<sect1>
7504	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7505
7506	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7507	added:</para>
7508
7509	<itemizedlist>
7510
7511	<listitem>
7512	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7513	</listitem>
7514
7515	<listitem>
7516	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7517	</listitem>
7518
7519	<listitem>
7520	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7521	</listitem>
7522
7523	<listitem>
7524	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7525	</listitem>
7526
7527	<listitem>
7528	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7529	</listitem>
7530
7531	<listitem>
7532	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7533	</listitem>
7534
7535	<listitem>
7536	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7537	</listitem>
7538
7539	<listitem>
7540	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7541	</listitem>
7542
7543	<listitem>
7544	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7545	</listitem>
7546
7547	<listitem>
7548	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7549	</listitem>
7550
7551	<listitem>
7552	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7553	</listitem>
7554
7555	<listitem>
7556	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7557	</listitem>
7558
7559	<listitem>
7560	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7565	</listitem>
7566
7567	<listitem>
7568	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7569	</listitem>
7570
7571	<listitem>
7572	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7573	</listitem>
7574
7575	<listitem>
7576	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7577	(bug #3067)</para>
7578	</listitem>
7579
7580	<listitem>
7581	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7582	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7583	</listitem>
7584
7585	<listitem>
7586	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7587	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7592	</listitem>
7593
7594	<listitem>
7595	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7596	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7597	</listitem>
7598
7599	<listitem>
7600	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7601	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	<listitem>
7609	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7610	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7611	</listitem>
7612
7613	<listitem>
7614	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7615	</listitem>
7616
7617	<listitem>
7618	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7619	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7624	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7625	</listitem>
7626
7627	<listitem>
7628	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7629	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7630	</para>
7631	</listitem>
7632
7633	<listitem>
7634	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7635	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7636	</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7641	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7642	</para>
7643	</listitem>
7644
7645	<listitem>
7646	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7651	</listitem>
7652
7653	<listitem>
7654	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7655	</listitem>
7656
7657	<listitem>
7658	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7659	</listitem>
7660
7661	<listitem>
7662	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7663	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7664	</listitem>
7665
7666	<listitem>
7667	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7668	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7669	</listitem>
7670
7671	<listitem>
7672	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7673	formatting a drive</para>
7674	</listitem>
7675
7676	<listitem>
7677	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7678	</listitem>
7679
7680	<listitem>
7681	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7682	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7683	</listitem>
7684
7685	<listitem>
7686	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7687	</listitem>
7688
7689	<listitem>
7690	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7691	</listitem>
7692
7693	<listitem>
7694	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7695	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7696	</listitem>
7697
7698	<listitem>
7699	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7700	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7701	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7702	</listitem>
7703
7704	<listitem>
7705	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7706	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7707	</listitem>
7708
7709	<listitem>
7710	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7711	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7716	(bug #2768)</para>
7717	</listitem>
7718
7719	<listitem>
7720	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7721	</listitem>
7722
7723	<listitem>
7724	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7725	</listitem>
7726
7727	<listitem>
7728	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7729	single, unified package</para>
7730	</listitem>
7731
7732	<listitem>
7733	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7734	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7735	</listitem>
7736
7737	<listitem>
7738	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7739	</listitem>
7740
7741	<listitem>
7742	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7743	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7744	</listitem>
7745
7746	<listitem>
7747	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7748	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7749	</listitem>
7750
7751	<listitem>
7752	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7753	</listitem>
7754
7755	<listitem>
7756	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7757	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7758	doing 3D</para>
7759	</listitem>
7760
7761	<listitem>
7762	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7763	</listitem>
7764
7765	<listitem>
7766	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7767	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7768	</listitem>
7769
7770	<listitem>
7771	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	<listitem>
7775	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7776	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7777	</listitem>
7778
7779	<listitem>
7780	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7781	</listitem>
7782
7783	<listitem>
7784	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7785	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7790	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7791	(bug #2938)</para>
7792	</listitem>
7793
7794	<listitem>
7795	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7796	Linux guests</para>
7797	</listitem>
7798
7799	<listitem>
7800	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7801	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7802	(bug #1776)</para>
7803	</listitem>
7804
7805	<listitem>
7806	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7807	(bug #1612)</para>
7808	</listitem>
7809
7810	<listitem>
7811	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7812	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7813	</listitem>
7814
7815	<listitem>
7816	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7817	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7818	</listitem>
7819
7820	<listitem>
7821	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7822	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7823	</listitem>
7824
7825	</itemizedlist>
7826	</sect1>
7827
7828	<sect1>
7829	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7830
7831	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7832	were added:</para>
7833
7834	<itemizedlist>
7835	<listitem>
7836	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7837	</listitem>
7838
7839	<listitem>
7840	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7841	</listitem>
7842
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7849	</listitem>
7850
7851	<listitem>
7852	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7853	</listitem>
7854
7855	<listitem>
7856	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7857	</listitem>
7858
7859	<listitem>
7860	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7861	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7866	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7867	</listitem>
7868
7869	</itemizedlist>
7870
7871	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7872
7873	<itemizedlist>
7874	<listitem>
7875	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7880	</listitem>
7881
7882	<listitem>
7883	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7884	</listitem>
7885
7886	<listitem>
7887	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7888	</listitem>
7889
7890	<listitem>
7891	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7892	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7893	</listitem>
7894
7895	<listitem>
7896	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7897	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7898	</listitem>
7899
7900	<listitem>
7901	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7902	</listitem>
7903
7904	<listitem>
7905	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7906	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	<listitem>
7910	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7911	</listitem>
7912
7913	<listitem>
7914	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7915	</listitem>
7916
7917	<listitem>
7918	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7919	</listitem>
7920
7921	<listitem>
7922	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7923	</listitem>
7924
7925	<listitem>
7926	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7931	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7936	the compiz window manager</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7941	</listitem>
7942
7943	<listitem>
7944	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7949	</listitem>
7950
7951	<listitem>
7952	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7953	</listitem>
7954
7955	<listitem>
7956	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7957	</listitem>
7958
7959	<listitem>
7960	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7961	</listitem>
7962
7963	<listitem>
7964	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7965	</listitem>
7966
7967	<listitem>
7968	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7969	</listitem>
7970
7971	<listitem>
7972	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7973	</listitem>
7974
7975	<listitem>
7976	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7977	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7978	</listitem>
7979
7980	<listitem>
7981	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7982	for direct device access</para>
7983	</listitem>
7984
7985	<listitem>
7986	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7987	</listitem>
7988
7989	<listitem>
7990	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7991	</listitem>
7992
7993	<listitem>
7994	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7999	</listitem>
8000
8001	<listitem>
8002	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
8003	</listitem>
8004
8005	<listitem>
8006	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
8007	</listitem>
8008
8009	<listitem>
8010	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
8011	</listitem>
8012
8013	<listitem>
8014	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
8015	</listitem>
8016
8017	</itemizedlist>
8018	</sect1>
8019
8020	<sect1>
8021	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
8022
8023	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8024	added:</para>
8025
8026	<itemizedlist>
8027
8028	<listitem>
8029	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8030	states/snapshots</para>
8031	</listitem>
8032
8033	<listitem>
8034	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8035	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8036	</listitem>
8037
8038	<listitem>
8039	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8040	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8041	</listitem>
8042
8043	<listitem>
8044	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8045	collisions</para>
8046	</listitem>
8047
8048	<listitem>
8049	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8050	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8051	</listitem>
8052
8053	<listitem>
8054	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8055	</listitem>
8056
8057	<listitem>
8058	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8059	reliably</para>
8060	</listitem>
8061
8062	<listitem>
8063	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8064	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8065	</listitem>
8066
8067	<listitem>
8068	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8069	a reboot</para>
8070	</listitem>
8071
8072	<listitem>
8073	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8074	</listitem>
8075
8076	<listitem>
8077	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8078	in parallel</para>
8079	</listitem>
8080
8081	<listitem>
8082	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8083	</listitem>
8084
8085	<listitem>
8086	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8087	correctly</para>
8088	</listitem>
8089
8090	<listitem>
8091	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8092	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8093	</listitem>
8094
8095	</itemizedlist>
8096	</sect1>
8097
8098	<sect1>
8099	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8100
8101	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8102	added:</para>
8103
8104	<itemizedlist>
8105
8106	<listitem>
8107	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8108	(bug #2220)</para>
8109	</listitem>
8110
8111	<listitem>
8112	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8113	</listitem>
8114
8115	<listitem>
8116	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8117	</listitem>
8118
8119	<listitem>
8120	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8121	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8122	</listitem>
8123
8124	<listitem>
8125	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8126	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8127	</listitem>
8128
8129	<listitem>
8130	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8131	(bug #2624)</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8136	(bug #2024)</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8141	</listitem>
8142
8143	<listitem>
8144	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8145	</listitem>
8146
8147	<listitem>
8148	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8149	</listitem>
8150
8151	<listitem>
8152	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8153	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8154	</listitem>
8155
8156	<listitem>
8157	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8158	applications when updating the installation</para>
8159	</listitem>
8160
8161	<listitem>
8162	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8163	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8164	</listitem>
8165
8166	<listitem>
8167	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8168	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8169	</listitem>
8170
8171	<listitem>
8172	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8173	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8174	</listitem>
8175
8176	<listitem>
8177	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8178	connected to a host device</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8183	</listitem>
8184
8185	<listitem>
8186	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8187	</listitem>
8188
8189	<listitem>
8190	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8191	</listitem>
8192
8193	<listitem>
8194	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8195	when using native RDP connections</para>
8196	</listitem>
8197
8198	<listitem>
8199	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8200	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8201	</listitem>
8202
8203	<listitem>
8204	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8205	(bug #2591)</para>
8206	</listitem>
8207
8208	<listitem>
8209	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8210	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8211	</listitem>
8212
8213	<listitem>
8214	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8215	</listitem>
8216
8217	</itemizedlist>
8218	</sect1>
8219
8220	<sect1>
8221	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8222
8223	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8224	added:</para>
8225
8226	<itemizedlist>
8227	<listitem>
8228	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8229	</listitem>
8230
8231	<listitem>
8232	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8233	</listitem>
8234
8235	<listitem>
8236	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8241	</listitem>
8242
8243	<listitem>
8244	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8245	</listitem>
8246
8247	<listitem>
8248	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8249	</listitem>
8250
8251	<listitem>
8252	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8253	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8258	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8259	</listitem>
8260
8261	<listitem>
8262	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8263	</listitem>
8264
8265	<listitem>
8266	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8267	equal to the client resolution</para>
8268	</listitem>
8269
8270	<listitem>
8271	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8272	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8277	</listitem>
8278
8279	<listitem>
8280	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8281	</listitem>
8282
8283	<listitem>
8284	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8285	</listitem>
8286
8287	<listitem>
8288	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8289	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8290	</listitem>
8291
8292	<listitem>
8293	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8294	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8295	</listitem>
8296
8297	<listitem>
8298	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8299	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8300	</listitem>
8301
8302	<listitem>
8303	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8308	</listitem>
8309
8310	<listitem>
8311	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8316	</listitem>
8317
8318	<listitem>
8319	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8320	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8321	</listitem>
8322
8323	<listitem>
8324	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8325	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8326	</listitem>
8327
8328	<listitem>
8329	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8330	</listitem>
8331
8332	<listitem>
8333	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8334	</listitem>
8335
8336	<listitem>
8337	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8338	</listitem>
8339
8340	</itemizedlist>
8341
8342	</sect1>
8343
8344	<sect1>
8345	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8346
8347	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8348	added:</para>
8349
8350	<itemizedlist>
8351
8352	<listitem>
8353	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8354	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8355	</listitem>
8356
8357	<listitem>
8358	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8359	</listitem>
8360
8361	<listitem>
8362	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8363	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8368	</listitem>
8369
8370	<listitem>
8371	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8372	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8377	</listitem>
8378
8379	<listitem>
8380	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8381	the virtual disk manager</para>
8382	</listitem>
8383
8384	<listitem>
8385	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8386	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8391	</listitem>
8392
8393	<listitem>
8394	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8395	</listitem>
8396
8397	<listitem>
8398	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8399	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8400	</listitem>
8401
8402	<listitem>
8403	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8404	bug #2067)</para>
8405	</listitem>
8406
8407	<listitem>
8408	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8409	</listitem>
8410
8411	<listitem>
8412	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8413	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8414	</listitem>
8415
8416	<listitem>
8417	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8418	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8419	(bug #2184)</para>
8420	</listitem>
8421
8422	<listitem>
8423	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8424	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8425	</listitem>
8426
8427	<listitem>
8428	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8429	(Windows guests only)</para>
8430	</listitem>
8431
8432	<listitem>
8433	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8434	</listitem>
8435
8436	<listitem>
8437	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8438	</listitem>
8439
8440	<listitem>
8441	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8442	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8447	</listitem>
8448
8449	<listitem>
8450	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8451	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8452	</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8457	</listitem>
8458
8459	<listitem>
8460	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8461	</listitem>
8462
8463	<listitem>
8464	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8465	a VM reboot</para>
8466	</listitem>
8467
8468	<listitem>
8469	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8470	</listitem>
8471
8472	<listitem>
8473	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8474	buggy X servers</para>
8475	</listitem>
8476
8477	<listitem>
8478	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8479	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8480	</listitem>
8481
8482	<listitem>
8483	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8484	</listitem>
8485
8486	<listitem>
8487	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8488	(bug #2128)</para>
8489	</listitem>
8490
8491	<listitem>
8492	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8493	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8494	</listitem>
8495
8496	<listitem>
8497	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8498	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8499	</listitem>
8500
8501	<listitem>
8502	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8503	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8504	</listitem>
8505
8506	<listitem>
8507	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8508	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8509	</listitem>
8510
8511	<listitem>
8512	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8513	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8514	</listitem>
8515
8516	<listitem>
8517	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8518	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8519	</listitem>
8520
8521	<listitem>
8522	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8523	installer into a single package</para>
8524	</listitem>
8525
8526	<listitem>
8527	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8528	port to the guest
8529	</para>
8530	</listitem>
8531
8532	</itemizedlist>
8533
8534	</sect1>
8535
8536	<sect1>
8537	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8538
8539	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8540	were added:<itemizedlist>
8541
8542	<listitem>
8543	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8544	</listitem>
8545
8546	<listitem>
8547	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8548	</listitem>
8549
8550	<listitem>
8551	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8552	</listitem>
8553
8554	<listitem>
8555	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8556	</listitem>
8557
8558	<listitem>
8559	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8560	</listitem>
8561
8562	<listitem>
8563	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8564	</listitem>
8565
8566	<listitem>
8567	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8568	</listitem>
8569
8570	<listitem>
8571	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8572	</listitem>
8573
8574	<listitem>
8575	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	<listitem>
8579	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8580	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8581	</listitem>
8582
8583	<listitem>
8584	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8585	</listitem>
8586
8587	<listitem>
8588	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8589	</listitem>
8590
8591	<listitem>
8592	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8593	</listitem>
8594
8595	</itemizedlist></para>
8596
8597	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8598
8599	<itemizedlist>
8600
8601	<listitem>
8602	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8603	</listitem>
8604
8605	<listitem>
8606	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8607	</listitem>
8608
8609	<listitem>
8610	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8611	</listitem>
8612
8613	<listitem>
8614	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8615	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8616	</listitem>
8617
8618	<listitem>
8619	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8620	restored</para>
8621	</listitem>
8622
8623	<listitem>
8624	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8625	</listitem>
8626
8627	<listitem>
8628	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8629	</listitem>
8630
8631	<listitem>
8632	<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>
8633	</listitem>
8634
8635	</itemizedlist>
8636
8637	</sect1>
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