Version X.Y.Z (date tbd) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Version 7.1.2 (2024-09-26) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180) NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty 3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings 3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs 3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling 3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174) Version 7.1.0 (2024-09-09) This is a major update. The following new features were added: GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs OCI Integration: Clone compute instances OCI Integration: Reset compute instances Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires NAT: New engine with IPv6 support macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808) Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961) virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201) EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption GUI: Improved overall accessibility GUI: Update the version of Qt used Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3 VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility