This is a major update. The following major new features were added: VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations (for example with networking, bug #15295) VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode GUI: overall migration to Qt5 GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time Audio: added HDA (High Definition Audio) support for newer Linux guests Audio: added on-demand timers which should improve the overall performance and reduce the CPU consumption Audio: more fine-grained volume control for the AC'97 emulation, which now also takes the master volume control into account better support for Python 3 In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: many fixes GUI: the Detach UI action is now a part of the VM Machine menu GUI: reworked session information window GUI: the new VM wizard now allows to choose the VM location for the VM which is being created GUI: fixed location of touch events in unscaled HiDPI mode (bugs #105381, #14366) GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup Storage: use fallocate() or similar if present to speed up creating fixed-sized disk images Storage: implemented NVMHCI-compatible storage controller Audio: various bugfixes and infrastructure improvements E1000: implemented interrupt throttling for performance improvements EFI: many improvements, for example allow to boot from USB OVF: improved handling of signed manifests API: Windows XP guests and Windows 2003 server guests now default to the E1000 T Server network card API: activate the x2APIC by default for Linux guests VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images Installers: ship VBoxBugReport Windows hosts: reworked COM proxy (e.g. bug #8298) Linux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller (5.0.18 regression; bug #15317) Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy (same problem as in bug #14736 for NAT) NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules (bug #13570) NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all NAT traffic Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3) Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336) VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo (bug #15334) Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled (bug #15327) Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bug #15337) Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again (5.0.18 regression) Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch in consistence with default-behavior (bug #15226) GUI: fixed the View menu / Full-screen Mode behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an empty password GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector when entering a group PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only; bug #627) Drag and drop: several fixes SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI controllers (bug #14812) Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the BusLogic SCSI controller is used USB: properly purge non-ASCII characters from USB strings (bugs #8801, #15222) NAT Network: fixed 100% CPU load in VBoxNetNAT on Mac OS X under certain circumstances (bug #15223) ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management settings available again for older Windows versions (4.3.22 regression) Guest Control: fixed VBoxManage copyfrom command (bug #14336) Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots (bug #15206) VBoxManage: fixed --verbose output of the guestcontrol command Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bugs #15245, #15296) Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged networking (5.0.16 regression; bug #15209) Windows hosts: don't prevent receiving multicast traffic if host-only adapters are installed (bug #8698) Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when creating raw disks Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules (bug #12608) Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.5 fixes (bug #15251) Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.6 fixes (bug #15298) Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics when X.Org does not have root rights (bug #14732) Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis guests using software rendering when 3D acceleration is available Windows Additions: fixed a hang with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM drivers if Aero is disabled This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on AMD CPUs (bugs #14831 and #15186) GUI: don't try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not active or if it's minimized (Windows / Mac OS X hosts only; bug #14302) GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions GUI: sub-menu option to disable the guest-OS type overlay in the application dock icon on Mac OS X GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch GUI: hide the VT-x/AMD-V checkbox if raw-mode is not supported (usually Mac OS X hosts; bug #15178) PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on Linux host only Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests Audio: properly handle default audio device changes (Windows hosts) USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller (e.g. for webcam passthrough) BIOS: fixed int15/AH=83/AL=00 function (4.2.0 regression) iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628) Shared folders: fixed a failure to load the saved state under certain circumstances (bug #6314) Guest Control: added support for (cached) Active Directory authentication in case the domain controller is not reachable (anymore) Serial ports: raised the number of serial ports per VM from 2 to 4 (bug #9109) Serial ports: fix for the TCP/IP backend (Windows hosts only; bug #15188) SDK: make the Python webservice API binding work again (5.0 regression) Seamless mode: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #15106) Linux hosts: fixed the /sbin/rcvboxdrv script as well as the missing shebang in two scripts (bugs #15055 and #15057) Linux hosts: properly uninstall Python files installed by the .run installer Windows hosts: hardening fix required for recent Windows insider builds (bug #14052) Windows hosts: fixed Python installation path (bug #13131) Windows hosts: support MTU larger than 2 KB with bridged networking (bug #15140) Windows hosts / guests: properly sign binaries using a sha-256 certificate (bug #15054) Windows Additions: fixed guest property enumeration of logged-in users Windows Additions: fixed sporadical failure of the graphics driver in Windows 10 guests (bug #14409) Windows Additions: under rare circumstances no mouse movement events were delivered to the guest This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical cores on Mac OS X (bug #15018) Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state of a saved guests with HDA emulation (5.0.12 regression; bug #14981) Audio: don't crash if the backend is unable to initialize (bug #14960) Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X (bug #14386) Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image multiple times to the same VM (bug #14951) BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the device under certain circumstances (5.0.10 regression; bug #15042) ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy to fail (bug #14958) Linux hosts: properly create the /sbin/rcvboxdrv symbolic link (5.0.12 regression; bug #14989) Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan (bug #14677) Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5 (bug #15032) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is inserted using the selector UI GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes (bug #14927) GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer (bug #750) Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare conditions (5.0.6 regression; bug #14841) Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened to check the attributes (Windows hosts only; bug #14450) Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Mac OS X hosts only) XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used XHCI: several fixes 3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions (bug #13487) Audio: several fixes BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks(bug #7415) EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are VMs running to prevent file system locking issues rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for VRDP external authentication (bug #14931) Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled (bug #14578) Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters to be shown as a single adapter (bugs #14558, #14622) Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only adapters to not appear in the list (bug #14437) Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related to Windows 10 (bugs #14040, #14545) Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue (bug #14808) Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2 (bug #14866) Linux hosts: the command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed again, to /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup (bug #14723) Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental) Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances (bug #14933) Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or output audio device changes Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication (bug #14497) Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none' Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service during while upgrading the Additions This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs (bug #14773) VMM: system register emulation fix (5.0 regression; bug #14515) GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue (bug #14108) GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts GUI: fixed help index (bug #14722) GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause (bug #14784) Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work (bug #14653) USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3 USB: better identification of certain USB devices NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy (bug #14736) NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts (bug #13899) API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split (bug #14764) API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only) VBoxManage: don't crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm addencpassword (bug #14729) Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix (5.0 regression; bug #14651) Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions (bug #14799) Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows (it was hidden in previous release to avoid native full-screen issues). For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the Option key. Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659) API: fixed a 5.0 regression in VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend (bug #14696) VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in a disk image containing all zeroes Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed to /sbin/vboxconfig Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526) Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553) Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution displays Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670) Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by default GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912, #12749) GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565) GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486) GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings need to be changed at VM startup (5.0 regression; bug #14601) GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646) Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615). Audio: latency fixes (Windows hosts only; bug #4088) Guest Control: correctly set USERNAME and USERPROFILE environment variables (Windows guests only) Guest Control: several fixes API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to a snapshot Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports for a VM VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of debugvm show command VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with debugvm log starting with h, for example hex Windows hosts: renamed VBoxStartup.log to VBoxHardening.log and provide this log file in the GUI log viewer Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled (bug #14562) Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll is not available (bug #14574) Windows hosts: another fix for VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE errors (bug #14579) Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking (bugs #14326, #14457) Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed Linux hosts: Linux 4.3 compile fixes Linux hosts: installer fix for certain systems (bug #14627) Linux hosts / guests: native systemd support for the host/guest installer scripts. The scripts for re-compiling the kernel modules are now located at /sbin/rcvboxdrv (host) and /sbin/rcvboxadd (Guest Additions) Mac OS X hosts: GUI-related fixes for El Capitan Mac OS X hosts: fixed a problem with capturing USB devices under El Capitan Mac OS X hosts: allow colon character on shared folders (bug #14554) Linux Additions: properly set the VBoxService process ID in the PID file (bug #14571) Linux Additions: Guest Control fixes (bug #14573) Windows Additions: fixed shutting down VBoxTray when running with older VirtualBox host versions Windows Additions: fixed video playback with VLC and Windows Media Player when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is not used Windows Additions: prevent a possible VLC crash when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is enabled by implementing YV12 surfaces This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the 'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x (bug #14512) GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7 GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution (bug #14384) GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096) GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts (bug #14302) GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only) GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend) Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream and host device don't match Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression; bugs #14425, #14461) Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted (bug #14496) VGA: fix for certain graphics modes (bug #14516) NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF (bug #14462) Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue (bug #14434) Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest transfers VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308) VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol <VM-Name> list command (5.0 regression) VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression) Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #14412) Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression; bug #14476) Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix Linux hosts: don't crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus service isn't running (bug #14543) Windows hosts: fixed the VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE error message (bug #14420) Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later (bug #14502) Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10 (bug #14437) Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during VM start/shutdown with bridged networking (bug #14500) Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function (bug #14415) Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the vboxvideo module fails (bug #14547) X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic resizing and full-screen and seamless modes. This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization VMM: fixed an issue causing artificially high load averages on Linux hosts VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (5.0 regression; bug #14304) VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370) VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility (5.0 regression) VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262). GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transparency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257) GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers (bug #14284) GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage) GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized', watch for the strict window geometry instead GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances (5.0 regression; bug #14303) VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308) VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216) Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination (5.0 regression) Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host (bug #14219) 3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares (bug #14252) Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators (bug #14153) API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started (bug #13957) API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid) UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350) API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which have a session open OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting for paravirtualization (bug #14390) Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351) Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on Windows 10 (bug #14040) Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432) Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961) Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host network interface (bug #13795) Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes (bug #14227) Linux Additions: improved the performance of stat() to speed up certain file operations on shared folders Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver with Windows 10 (bug #14190) Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17 X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including invisible windows under LXDE. This is a major update. The following major new features were added: Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see ) Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see ) Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests Disk image encryption (see ) VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM. GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration) GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration) GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later) In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and guest timekeeping VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts VMM: several fixes GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts. The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state. GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the preview window GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM is already paused VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting (bug #13157) USB: added USB traffic capturing (see ) Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379) API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232) API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were previously paused due to a host-suspend API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162) VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when the VM is powered off VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during VM poweroff ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters (bug #14159) 3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM termination 3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see ) Storage: added USB mass storage device class (see ) Storage: added vbox-img standalone tool for direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions (bug #13105) NAT: fixed several potential crashes NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes down Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name at VM runtime Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device more than once on OS X Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should fix old Linux guests with AHCI USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs) BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021) VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038) rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3 Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore certain events (bug #12264) Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service (see ) Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux) Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI) Linux Additions: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151) Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris' fast-reboot feature This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR Guru Meditations (VT-x only) GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only) GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain hosts 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737) 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772) VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3 VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038) Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message Floppy: several fixes Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device emulation USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only) PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only) NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090) NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475) NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485) BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah (4.2.0 regression; bug #14096) Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests (bug #13157) Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam models API: don't fail starting a VM with VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE under certain conditions (bug #13617) API: be more verbose on VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560) API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize events with multi-monitor guests rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066) rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3 Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052) Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961) Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081) Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare circumstances Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI) X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955) NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918) NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935) Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885) VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943) rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901) USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628) Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951) Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: emulation fix for the ENTER instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839) NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #13874) PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13842) Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression; bug #13786) Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend VBoxManage: when executing the controlvm command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently (bug #13892) Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876) Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835) OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression; bug #13825) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only) GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts (bug #12969) GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings (bug #10250) ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360) Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205) SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769) Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller (bug #12310) NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871) NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525) NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681) Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network" (bug #9688) Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #13714) Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722) VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed (bug #13773) Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile directory (bug #7689) API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling (bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov) API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander Urakov) SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox webservice API binding (bug #13817) Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later, bug #13820) X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287) X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17 X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770) Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection. Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bugs #13319, #13462) VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585) GUI: fix 3D overlay window reparenting issue when VM goes to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems (4.3.16 regression) GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button (bug #12541) GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878) API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port (bug #8534) VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing showvminfo command under certain circumstances (bug #13190) ACPI: fixed occassional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521) EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022) EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs (bugs #11103 and #13211) Storage: fixed a crash under certain cicrumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM (4.3.16 regression) Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression) Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886) Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy SDK: Java COM bindings fixes iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628) Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization (bug #13038) Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187) Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions (bug #13418) Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216) Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369) GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365) GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see (bug #13365) GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448) GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960) Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474) Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386, #13435) NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076) Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434) Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478) Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187) Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243) Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111) Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression) GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see (bug #3506) Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression) Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on Mac OS X host 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073) 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support 3D: several fixes Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts) NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309) NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338) NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136) NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320) Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain Mac OS X guests (e.g. Mountain Lion) Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187) Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216) X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745) X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238) Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085) Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called (bug #13265) Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335) X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107) X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207) X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748) VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/ This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12784, #12949, #13034) VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only relevant for the ICH9 chipset) VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit and the SYSCALL instruction (VT-x only; 4.3 regression; bug #13008) VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI GUI: fixed a potential crash GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537) GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087) GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096) VBoxManage: fixed typo in showvminfo --machinereadable (bug #13176) NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116) NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions (bug #10034) NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP connections over IPv6 NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP ifConnectorPresent value on Windows (bug #13143) Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under certain circumstances Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED or QCOW image (bug #12613) Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare circumstances AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances USB: performance fixes ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after resuming the host 3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than 4GB guest memory 3D: several fixes API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090) ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638) Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941) Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123) Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider BlueRay devices Mac OS X hosts: fixed host shutdown and reboot delay caused by running VBoxSVC process in some cases OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785) Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #12727, #12954) VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only) VMM: fixed a VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED Guru Meditation seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7 VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12240, #12875) GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059) GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878) GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting full-screen/seamless mode Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot (bug #12700) AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression) NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused by iSCSI service activity USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038) 3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04 VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858) VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509) VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038) Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems (bug #12262) Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper (bug #12879) Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for users without a password (bug #12994) Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process terminated with VERR_INTERRUPTED to the host This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686, #12770) VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636) VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is not available GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292) GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default; bug #12758) GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu (bug #12862) OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export (bug #12586) 3D support: several fixes HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots under certain conditions VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path exists under /dev (bug #12760) API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage medium was attached or removed at VM runtime Windows installer: make the --silent parameter work again (bug #12764) Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from leaking to wire (bug #12750) Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes (4.3.8 regression; bug #12782) Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with multiple guest screens under certain conditions Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745) Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513) X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544) VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350) VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651) VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104) GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199) GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533) GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657) GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730) GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression) VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417) AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441) NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1 NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly NAT Network: ping proxy implemented OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345) OVF: several fixes 3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124) 3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666) 3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758) VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649) USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232) VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see ) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925) VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569) VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713) Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578) Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241) Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171) Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720) Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596) Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control) Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563) Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505) Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410) VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481) VMM: fixed a VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414) VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245) GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression; bug #12205) GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480) Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424) Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017) Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063) Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp() (bug #12498) API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability Storage: fix for BLKCACHE_IOERR runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030) Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426) E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021) Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression; bug #12271) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240) VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled (4.3.2 regression; bug #12291) VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947) VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296) VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only) VMM: fixed occasional VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT errors on hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198) GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no Guest Additions are installed GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen resize GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to the exported appliance GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333) GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual look and feel styles (bug #11743) GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after VM reboot or shutdown GUI: fixes for medium enumeration GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139) GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254) Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces (4.3.0 regression; bug #12182) NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300) NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225) NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting / terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration changes VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating (bug #12264) 2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches (bug #9194) BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI controller enabled Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289) VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0 regression) VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization (bug #12349) OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple VMs OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format during OVF import API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense API: fixed information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379) SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help (bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371) Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency (bug #6242) Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional, contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009) Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks hosts (bug #12256) Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241) Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275) Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358) Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996) Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1 (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4) Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319) Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228) Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video modes for each virtual monitor Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows guests (bug #12332) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts (bug #12237) VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on certain hosts VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227) VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized VMs (bug #12222) VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured to use software virtualization GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change (when switching from normal to full screen etc) GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a saved state if the host screen size changed GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization (Mac OS X hosts only) Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see ) Guest Control: implemented more IGuestSession methods Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in VBoxManage Guest Control: various bugfixes API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244) 3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled (Mac OS X hosts only) 3D support: miscellaneous fixes Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain circumstances NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent storage Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias from the VM selector Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade (bug #12258) Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing (bug #12166) X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, thank you Sam Spilsbury) X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905) X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331) Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes This is a major update. The following major new features were added: VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659) VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for situations not handled by hardware virtualization GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information) GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine) GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766) Added USB touch device emulation Added experimental support for webcam passthrough complementing USB passthrough (see ) Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support VRDP: support for IPv6 Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed) Guest Control: implemented IGuestFile support NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are attached to the same internal network and share one NAT service (see ) In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x guests on host systems without nested paging support VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch (bug #10532) VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more information if that is not possible GUI: update check uses https GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s) and host (Mac OS X hosts only) GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311) GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned too many virtual CPUs to the guest Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255) Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455) Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected) Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used to change existing media geometry) Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration, useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced by a global hwvirtexclusive property Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more than approximately 100 VMs Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of .VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099) Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy media, and support the --long option to show really all available details VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for the automatic Guest Additions update VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest processes and/or guest files via guestcontrol list <all|sessions|processes|files> VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>| --session-name <name or pattern>|--all VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via guestcontrol process kill|close|terminate --session-id <ID>| --session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n> or guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>| --session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n> VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via guestcontrol watch VBoxManage: added modifyvm --triplefaultreset to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation (see ) 3D support: several fixes 3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts OVF: several fixes Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with special characters Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del for the USB keyboard emulation Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed by François Revol Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940) Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242) Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information (bug #11962) Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible when plugged into USB 3.0 ports Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170) Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation() on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072) Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through the newly introduced event IGuestUserStateChangedEvent Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script with Linux 3.x kernels