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