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2	<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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4	<para>
5	<sect1>
6	<title>Version 3.3.0 (2010-xx-xx)</title>
7
8	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9	were added:</para>
10
11	<itemizedlist>
12
13	<listitem>
14	<para>Language bindings: implemented uniform Java bindings for both local
15	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
16	</listitem>
17
18	</itemizedlist>
19
20	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
21
22	<itemizedlist>
23
24	<listitem>
25	<para>VMM: Support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
26	</listitem>
27
28	<listitem>
29	<para>Settings: Deleting a machine now automatically deletes all
30	snapshots and saved states as well, it is no longer necessary
31	to manually delete snapshots first; VBoxManage unregistervm --delete
32	can do the same now</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
37	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
42	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
43	</listitem>
44
45	<listitem>
46	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
47	again (bug #6864)</para>
48	</listitem>
49
50	<listitem>
51	<para>3D support: fix host assertion for some mt guest apps (bug #5236)</para>
52	</listitem>
53
54	<listitem>
55	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nvidia drivers on wddm startup</para>
56	</listitem>
57
58	<listitem>
59	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps under 64bit Windows guests</para>
60	</listitem>
61
62	<listitem>
63	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
64	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
65	</listitem>
66
67	<listitem>
68	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
69	without external tools and tricks</para>
70	</listitem>
71
72	<listitem>
73	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
74	(bug #6832)</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
79	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	</itemizedlist>
83
84	</sect1>
85
86	<sect1>
87	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
88
89	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
90	added:</para>
91
92	<itemizedlist>
93
94	<listitem>
95	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
100	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
105	</listitem>
106
107	<listitem>
108	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
109	state</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
122	</listitem>
123
124	<listitem>
125	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
126	</listitem>
127
128	<listitem>
129	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
138	</listitem>
139
140	<listitem>
141	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
142	</listitem>
143
144	<listitem>
145	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
146	</listitem>
147
148	<listitem>
149	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
154	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
159	(bug #6784)</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
172	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
181	</listitem>
182
183	<listitem>
184	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
185	host only</para>
186	</listitem>
187
188	<listitem>
189	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
190	probability for lossing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
191	</listitem>
192
193	<listitem>
194	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
195	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	<listitem>
203	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
204	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
205	</listitem>
206
207	<listitem>
208	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction id mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
217	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
226	</listitem>
227
228	<listitem>
229	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
230	</listitem>
231
232	<listitem>
233	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
234	(bug #6714)</para>
235	</listitem>
236
237	<listitem>
238	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice.</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit apps on windows guests</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (#2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	</itemizedlist>
258
259	</sect1>
260
261	<sect1>
262	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
263
264	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
265	were added:</para>
266
267	<itemizedlist>
268
269	<listitem>
270	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
271	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
272	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
281	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
286	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
287	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
292	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
297	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
298	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
299	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
300	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
301	</listitem>
302
303	<listitem>
304	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
309	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
310	</listitem>
311
312	<listitem>
313	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
314	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
327	</listitem>
328
329	<listitem>
330	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
335	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
336	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
337	</listitem>
338
339	<listitem>
340	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
341	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
342	</listitem>
343
344	</itemizedlist>
345
346	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
347
348	<itemizedlist>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
352	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
361	VM</para>
362	</listitem>
363
364	<listitem>
365	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
366	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	<listitem>
370	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
371	#1669)</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	<listitem>
375	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
376	#6442)</para>
377	</listitem>
378
379	<listitem>
380	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
381	combination (bug #684)</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
386	the VM from the GUI</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
391	medium is not accessible</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	<listitem>
399	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
400	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
405	#3106)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
410	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
411	it</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
416	</listitem>
417
418	<listitem>
419	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
424	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
429	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
434	</listitem>
435
436	<listitem>
437	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
438	</listitem>
439
440	<listitem>
441	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
442	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
451	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
460	in VirtualBox</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
465	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
470	VirtualBox</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	<listitem>
474	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
479	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
480	</listitem>
481
482	</itemizedlist>
483	</sect1>
484
485	<sect1>
486	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
487
488	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
489	added:</para>
490
491	<itemizedlist>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
495	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
504	</listitem>
505
506	<listitem>
507	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
508	only) </para>
509	</listitem>
510
511	<listitem>
512	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
513	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
518	interface version</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
523	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
524	slot empty</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
529	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
530	(bug #4220)</para>
531	</listitem>
532
533	<listitem>
534	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
539	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
540	</listitem>
541
542	<listitem>
543	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
544	using the drivers from LSI</para>
545	</listitem>
546
547	<listitem>
548	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
549	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
550	</listitem>
551
552	<listitem>
553	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
554	attached</para>
555	</listitem>
556
557	<listitem>
558	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
559	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
560	</listitem>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
568	booting from SCSI devices</para>
569	</listitem>
570
571	<listitem>
572	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
573	is bug #6408)</para>
574	</listitem>
575
576	<listitem>
577	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>Solaris Hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
582	fail to initialize</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>Solaris Hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Shared folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
591	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>Shared folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
596	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
597	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
598	</listitem>
599
600	<listitem>
601	<para>Shared folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>Shared folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
606	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
611	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
616	(bug #6435)</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
621	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
626	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
627	(bug #6488)</para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
632	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
633	</listitem>
634
635	<listitem>
636	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
637	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
642	#5227)</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
647	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
652	</listitem>
653
654	<listitem>
655	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
656	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
657	</listitem>
658
659	</itemizedlist>
660	</sect1>
661
662	<sect1>
663	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
664
665	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
666	added:</para>
667
668	<itemizedlist>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
672	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
677	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
682	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
687	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
688	</listitem>
689
690	<listitem>
691	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	<listitem>
707	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
708	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
709	</listitem>
710
711	<listitem>
712	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
713	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
718	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
723	</listitem>
724
725	<listitem>
726	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
727	</listitem>
728
729	<listitem>
730	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
731	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	<listitem>
735	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
736	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
737	calls (bug #6165)</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
742	(bug #5297)</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
747	(bug #4962)</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
752	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
757	(bug #6176)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
762	certain circumstances</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
767	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	<listitem>
771	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
780	(bug #3571)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
785	devices</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
790	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
791	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
792	</listitem>
793
794	<listitem>
795	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
796	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
797	</listitem>
798
799	<listitem>
800	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
801	</listitem>
802
803	<listitem>
804	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
805	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
806	</listitem>
807
808	<listitem>
809	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
810	response</para>
811	</listitem>
812
813	<listitem>
814	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	<listitem>
830	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
831	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
844	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
845	</listitem>
846
847	<listitem>
848	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	</itemizedlist>
864	</sect1>
865
866	<sect1>
867	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
868
869	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
870	added:</para>
871
872	<itemizedlist>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
884	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
889	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
894	(bug #3945)</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
899	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
904	and AMD-V only) </para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
913	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
914	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
919	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
924	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
929	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
930	</listitem>
931
932	<listitem>
933	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
934	snapshots command</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
943	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
944	</listitem>
945
946	<listitem>
947	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
948	</listitem>
949
950	<listitem>
951	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	<listitem>
959	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
960	(KWin bug)</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
965	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
978	</listitem>
979
980	<listitem>
981	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
982	</listitem>
983
984	<listitem>
985	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
986	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
991	bug #5787)</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
996	DHCP requests</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
1001	(bug #3217)</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
1006	range (bug #5923)</para>
1007	</listitem>
1008
1009	<listitem>
1010	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
1027	file (bug #5681)</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
1032	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
1037	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
1042	regression)</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
1047	</listitem>
1048
1049	<listitem>
1050	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
1051	</listitem>
1052
1053	<listitem>
1054	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
1055	</listitem>
1056
1057	<listitem>
1058	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
1059	</listitem>
1060
1061	<listitem>
1062	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
1063	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
1064	</listitem>
1065
1066	<listitem>
1067	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
1080	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
1081	</listitem>
1082
1083	<listitem>
1084	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
1085	</listitem>
1086
1087	<listitem>
1088	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
1089	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
1090	</listitem>
1091
1092	<listitem>
1093	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
1106	(bug #5731)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
1111	again</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	</itemizedlist>
1115
1116	</sect1>
1117
1118	<sect1>
1119	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
1120
1121	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1122	added:</para>
1123
1124	<itemizedlist>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
1136	</listitem>
1137
1138	<listitem>
1139	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
1148	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
1153	</listitem>
1154
1155	<listitem>
1156	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
1157	</listitem>
1158
1159	<listitem>
1160	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
1161	</listitem>
1162
1163	<listitem>
1164	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
1173	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
1178	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
1183	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
1184	#1762)</para>
1185	</listitem>
1186
1187	<listitem>
1188	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
1189	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
1190	</listitem>
1191
1192	<listitem>
1193	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
1194	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
1195	</listitem>
1196
1197	<listitem>
1198	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
1199	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
1212	several virtual CPU cores.</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
1217	</listitem>
1218
1219	<listitem>
1220	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
1225	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
1230	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
1239	guests</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
1244	and on some 64bit guests</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
1249	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
1254	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
1259	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
1276	</listitem>
1277
1278	<listitem>
1279	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
1280	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
1281	</listitem>
1282
1283	<listitem>
1284	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
1285	</listitem>
1286
1287	</itemizedlist>
1288
1289	</sect1>
1290
1291	<sect1>
1292	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
1293
1294	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1295	were added:</para>
1296
1297	<itemizedlist>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
1301	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
1306	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
1307	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
1312	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
1313	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
1314	</listitem>
1315
1316	<listitem>
1317	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
1318	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
1319	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
1320	</listitem>
1321
1322	<listitem>
1323	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
1324	running</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
1329	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
1330	</listitem>
1331
1332	<listitem>
1333	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
1334	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
1339	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
1340	</listitem>
1341
1342	<listitem>
1343	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
1344	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	</itemizedlist>
1348
1349	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1350
1351	<itemizedlist>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
1367	(bug #5291)</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
1384	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
1389	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
1398	</listitem>
1399
1400	<listitem>
1401	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
1402	</listitem>
1403
1404	<listitem>
1405	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408	<listitem>
1409	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
1414	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
1419	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
1424	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
1429	(bug #2723)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
1438	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
1443	optional manifest file on import</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
1452	(bug #3773)</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
1457	</listitem>
1458
1459	<listitem>
1460	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
1465	layout (bug #2302)</para>
1466	</listitem>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
1470	(bug #4866)</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
1475	left click (bug #5049)</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
1480	certain conditions</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Shared folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
1497	</listitem>
1498
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
1501	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	<listitem>
1505	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
1506	</listitem>
1507
1508	<listitem>
1509	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
1510	properties (bug #5337)</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
1531	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
1536	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
1537	(bug #928)</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	</itemizedlist>
1545
1546	</sect1>
1547
1548	<sect1>
1549	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
1550
1551	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1552	added:</para>
1553
1554	<itemizedlist>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
1558	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
1563	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
1564	</listitem>
1565
1566	<listitem>
1567	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
1568	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
1569	</listitem>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
1573	enabled</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
1578	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
1579	</listitem>
1580
1581	<listitem>
1582	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
1583	(bug #2676)</para>
1584	</listitem>
1585
1586	<listitem>
1587	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
1588	is connected to a raw file</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
1593	(bug #5355)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
1598	</listitem>
1599
1600	<listitem>
1601	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
1602	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
1607	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
1608	guest (bug #4496)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>Shared folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
1617	</listitem>
1618
1619	<listitem>
1620	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
1621	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
1622	</listitem>
1623
1624	<listitem>
1625	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
1626	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
1627	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	</itemizedlist>
1631
1632	</sect1>
1633
1634	<sect1>
1635	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
1636
1637	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1638	added:</para>
1639
1640	<itemizedlist>
1641
1642	<listitem>
1643	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
1652	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
1653	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
1654	</listitem>
1655
1656	<listitem>
1657	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
1658	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
1659	</listitem>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
1667	</listitem>
1668
1669	<listitem>
1670	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
1683	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
1684	</listitem>
1685
1686	<listitem>
1687	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
1696	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
1705	exhaustion</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
1714	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
1719	folders (bug #4106)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
1724	folders (bug #4299)</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
1729	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
1730	(bug #2921)</para>
1731	</listitem>
1732
1733	<listitem>
1734	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
1735	hosts only)</para>
1736	</listitem>
1737
1738	<listitem>
1739	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
1740	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
1741	</listitem>
1742
1743	<listitem>
1744	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
1745	</listitem>
1746
1747	<listitem>
1748	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
1749	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
1750	</listitem>
1751
1752	<listitem>
1753	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
1754	</listitem>
1755
1756	<listitem>
1757	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
1758	image inconsistency </para>
1759	</listitem>
1760
1761	<listitem>
1762	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
1771	(bug #2025)</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
1776	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	</itemizedlist>
1780
1781	</sect1>
1782
1783	<sect1>
1784	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
1785
1786	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1787	added:</para>
1788
1789	<itemizedlist>
1790
1791	<listitem>
1792	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
1793	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
1794	</listitem>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
1798	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
1799	</listitem>
1800
1801	<listitem>
1802	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
1803	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
1804	</listitem>
1805
1806	<listitem>
1807	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
1812	software virtualization only) </para>
1813	</listitem>
1814
1815	<listitem>
1816	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
1817	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
1818	</listitem>
1819
1820	<listitem>
1821	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
1822	with root privileges</para>
1823	</listitem>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
1827	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
1832	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
1837	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
1842	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
1843	selector (bug #5063)</para>
1844	</listitem>
1845
1846	<listitem>
1847	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
1848	available</para>
1849	</listitem>
1850
1851	<listitem>
1852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
1853	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
1858	networking (bug #4775)</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
1863	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
1868	(bug #4907)</para>
1869	</listitem>
1870
1871	<listitem>
1872	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
1873	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
1878	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
1887	</listitem>
1888
1889	<listitem>
1890	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
1899	are installed</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
1904	(bug #4771)</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
1909	</listitem>
1910
1911	<listitem>
1912	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
1913	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
1918	command</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
1931	(bug #5089)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
1936	</listitem>
1937
1938	</itemizedlist>
1939
1940	</sect1>
1941
1942	<sect1>
1943	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
1944
1945	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1946	added:</para>
1947
1948	<itemizedlist>
1949
1950	<listitem>
1951	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
1952	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
1953	</listitem>
1954
1955	<listitem>
1956	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
1957	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
1958	</listitem>
1959
1960	<listitem>
1961	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
1962	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
1963	</listitem>
1964
1965	<listitem>
1966	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
1967	guests (bug #2258)</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
1972	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
1973	</listitem>
1974
1975	<listitem>
1976	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU id in Linux </para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
1989	</listitem>
1990
1991	<listitem>
1992	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
1997	onlined or offlined</para>
1998	</listitem>
1999
2000	<listitem>
2001	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
2006	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
2011	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
2020	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
2037	</listitem>
2038
2039	<listitem>
2040	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
2041	</listitem>
2042
2043	<listitem>
2044	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
2045	filters in machine settings XML</para>
2046	</listitem>
2047
2048	<listitem>
2049	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
2062	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
2067	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
2084	</listitem>
2085
2086	<listitem>
2087	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
2092	</listitem>
2093
2094	<listitem>
2095	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
2096	</listitem>
2097
2098	<listitem>
2099	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
2100	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
2101	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
2102	phase collapse</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
2107	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
2112	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
2121	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
2126	interface bringup on Linux</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
2135	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
2136	#4698, #4790)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
2141	less than the configured range</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
2158	</listitem>
2159
2160	<listitem>
2161	<para>Bridged Network: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
2162	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
2167	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
2172	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
2181	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
2186	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
2191	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
2196	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
2205	</listitem>
2206
2207	</itemizedlist>
2208
2209	</sect1>
2210
2211	<sect1>
2212	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
2213
2214	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2215	added:</para>
2216
2217	<itemizedlist>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	<listitem>
2228	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
2229	</listitem>
2230
2231	<listitem>
2232	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
2233	</listitem>
2234
2235	<listitem>
2236	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
2237	</listitem>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
2257	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
2266	</listitem>
2267
2268	<listitem>
2269	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
2286	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
2291	(bug #4654)</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
2300	interfaces</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
2305	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
2310	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
2311	</listitem>
2312
2313	<listitem>
2314	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
2315	properties (bug #3415)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
2320	(bug #1461)</para>
2321	</listitem>
2322
2323	<listitem>
2324	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
2329	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
2334	fails to find any DVD drives.</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
2339	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
2352	</listitem>
2353
2354	<listitem>
2355	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
2356	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
2361	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
2366	guest-drawn mouse pointers.</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
2371	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238).</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	</itemizedlist>
2375
2376	</sect1>
2377	<sect1>
2378	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
2379
2380	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2381	added:</para>
2382
2383	<itemizedlist>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
2391	</listitem>
2392
2393	<listitem>
2394	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
2395	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
2396	</listitem>
2397
2398	<listitem>
2399	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
2400	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
2401	</listitem>
2402
2403	<listitem>
2404	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
2413	</listitem>
2414
2415	<listitem>
2416	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
2425	</listitem>
2426
2427	<listitem>
2428	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
2449	guest (bug #4381)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
2462	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
2475	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).</para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<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>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	</itemizedlist>
2503
2504	</sect1>
2505
2506	<sect1>
2507	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
2508
2509	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2510	were added:</para>
2511
2512	<itemizedlist>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
2520	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	</itemizedlist>
2528
2529	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2530
2531	<itemizedlist>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
2539	certain conditions</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
2548	</listitem>
2549
2550	<listitem>
2551	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
2556	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
2569	</listitem>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
2573	</listitem>
2574
2575	<listitem>
2576	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
2577	</listitem>
2578
2579	<listitem>
2580	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
2585	</listitem>
2586
2587	<listitem>
2588	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
2593	(non Windows hosts)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
2610	</listitem>
2611
2612	<listitem>
2613	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
2614	</listitem>
2615
2616	<listitem>
2617	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	<listitem>
2629	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
2634	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
2635	</listitem>
2636
2637	<listitem>
2638	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
2639	</listitem>
2640
2641	<listitem>
2642	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
2643	</listitem>
2644
2645	<listitem>
2646	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
2667	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
2672	</listitem>
2673
2674	<listitem>
2675	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
2680	</listitem>
2681
2682	<listitem>
2683	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
2684	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
2689	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
2694	correct file mode when creating files</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
2699	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
2704	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
2705	</listitem>
2706
2707	<listitem>
2708	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
2709	</listitem>
2710
2711	<listitem>
2712	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
2717	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
2722	guest property lookup</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
2727	basic network information)</para>
2728	</listitem>
2729
2730	<listitem>
2731	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
2732	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
2737	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
2738	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
2739	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).</para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
2744	</listitem>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
2748	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
2749	web service.</para>
2750	</listitem>
2751
2752	<listitem>
2753	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
2754	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
2755	</listitem>
2756
2757	<listitem>
2758	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
2759	unavailable</para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	<listitem>
2763	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
2764	</listitem>
2765
2766	</itemizedlist>
2767	</sect1>
2768
2769	<sect1>
2770	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
2771
2772	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2773	added:</para>
2774
2775	<itemizedlist>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
2779	installation</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
2788	later (bug #3981)</para>
2789	</listitem>
2790
2791	<listitem>
2792	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
2793	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
2794	</listitem>
2795
2796	<listitem>
2797	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
2798	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
2799	(bug #4034)
2800	</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
2805	networking</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
2810	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
2811	</listitem>
2812
2813	<listitem>
2814	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
2815	clicks</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
2820	Windows 7 guests</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
2825	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
2830	</listitem>
2831
2832	<listitem>
2833	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
2834	</listitem>
2835
2836	<listitem>
2837	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
2838	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
2843	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
2844	</listitem>
2845
2846	<listitem>
2847	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
2848	</listitem>
2849
2850	<listitem>
2851	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
2852	</listitem>
2853
2854	<listitem>
2855	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
2856	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
2857	(bug #3864)</para>
2858	</listitem>
2859
2860	<listitem>
2861	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
2862	now flushes the output stream</para>
2863	</listitem>
2864
2865	<listitem>
2866	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
2867	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
2868	</listitem>
2869
2870	<listitem>
2871	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
2888	(bug #3964)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
2893	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
2898	hosts</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
2903	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
2904	e1000 adapter</para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
2909	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
2910	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
2911	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	<listitem>
2923	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
2928	file (bug #1023)</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	</itemizedlist>
2940	</sect1>
2941
2942	<sect1>
2943	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
2944
2945	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2946	added:</para>
2947
2948	<itemizedlist>
2949
2950	<listitem>
2951	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
2952	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
2957	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
2958	and later</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
2963	running services</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
2968	terminates</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
2973	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
2974	</listitem>
2975
2976	<listitem>
2977	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
2978	installed on the guest</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
2983	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
2984	</listitem>
2985
2986	<listitem>
2987	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
2988	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
2989	</listitem>
2990
2991	<listitem>
2992	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
2993	(bug #2628)</para>
2994	</listitem>
2995
2996	<listitem>
2997	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
2998	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
2999	</listitem>
3000
3001	<listitem>
3002	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
3003	(bug #3657)</para>
3004	</listitem>
3005
3006	<listitem>
3007	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
3008	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
3009	</listitem>
3010
3011	<listitem>
3012	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
3013	virtualization only)
3014	</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
3019	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
3020	</listitem>
3021
3022	<listitem>
3023	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
3024	</listitem>
3025
3026	<listitem>
3027	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
3028	networks (bug #3702)</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
3033	bug #3689)</para>
3034	</listitem>
3035
3036	<listitem>
3037	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
3038	bug #3679)</para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
3043	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
3044	</listitem>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3048	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
3049	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
3054	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
3059	lease (bug #3655)</para>
3060	</listitem>
3061
3062	<listitem>
3063	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
3064	(bug #3667)</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
3069	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
3082	</listitem>
3083
3084	<listitem>
3085	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
3086	</listitem>
3087
3088	<listitem>
3089	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	</itemizedlist>
3101	</sect1>
3102
3103	<sect1>
3104	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
3105
3106	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3107	were added:</para>
3108
3109	<itemizedlist>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
3113	</listitem>
3114
3115	<listitem>
3116	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
3149	</listitem>
3150
3151	</itemizedlist>
3152
3153	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3154
3155	<itemizedlist>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
3159	</listitem>
3160
3161	<listitem>
3162	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
3167	</listitem>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
3191	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
3200	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
3205	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
3218	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
3227	ESX server images)</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
3232	writable</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
3237	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
3238	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
3243	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
3256	hosts when creating files</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
3261	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
3266	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
3267	#2306)</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
3272	(bug #3555)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
3277	installer (bug #3524)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
3282	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
3287	interface (bug #3414)</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
3292	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
3297	(bug #3586)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
3302	from Scratch systems</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
3307	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
3316	default to compact format</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
3321	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
3322	</listitem>
3323
3324	<listitem>
3325	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
3330	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
3331	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
3332	</listitem>
3333
3334	<listitem>
3335	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
3336	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
3337	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
3338	</listitem>
3339
3340	<listitem>
3341	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
3342	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
3343	</listitem>
3344
3345	<listitem>
3346	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
3347	</listitem>
3348
3349	<listitem>
3350	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
3359	</listitem>
3360
3361	<listitem>
3362	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
3363	</listitem>
3364
3365	<listitem>
3366	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
3375	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
3384	regression; bug #2065)</para>
3385	</listitem>
3386
3387	<listitem>
3388	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
3401	#2536)</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
3406	</listitem>
3407
3408	<listitem>
3409	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
3410	(bug #3548)</para>
3411	</listitem>
3412
3413	</itemizedlist>
3414	</sect1>
3415
3416	<sect1>
3417	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
3418
3419	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3420	added:</para>
3421
3422	<itemizedlist>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
3426	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
3443	(bug #3115)</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
3448	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
3453	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
3454	(bug #3215)</para>
3455	</listitem>
3456
3457	<listitem>
3458	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
3459	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
3460	</listitem>
3461
3462	<listitem>
3463	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
3464	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
3465	</listitem>
3466
3467	<listitem>
3468	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
3469	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	<listitem>
3473	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
3474	in parallel</para>
3475	</listitem>
3476
3477	<listitem>
3478	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
3491	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
3500	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
3505	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
3506	</listitem>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
3514	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
3519	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
3532	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
3537	</listitem>
3538
3539	<listitem>
3540	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
3549	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
3558	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
3563	</listitem>
3564
3565	<listitem>
3566	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
3571	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
3576	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
3581	</listitem>
3582
3583	<listitem>
3584	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
3585	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
3590	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
3595	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
3600	(bug #3213)</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
3605	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
3610	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	</itemizedlist>
3614	</sect1>
3615
3616	<sect1>
3617	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
3618
3619	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3620	added:</para>
3621
3622	<itemizedlist>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
3634	</listitem>
3635
3636	<listitem>
3637	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
3658	</listitem>
3659
3660	<listitem>
3661	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
3670	</listitem>
3671
3672	<listitem>
3673	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
3674	</listitem>
3675
3676	<listitem>
3677	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
3678	</listitem>
3679
3680	<listitem>
3681	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
3690	(bug #3067)</para>
3691	</listitem>
3692
3693	<listitem>
3694	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
3695	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
3700	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
3701	</listitem>
3702
3703	<listitem>
3704	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
3705	</listitem>
3706
3707	<listitem>
3708	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
3709	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
3710	</listitem>
3711
3712	<listitem>
3713	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
3714	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
3715	</listitem>
3716
3717	<listitem>
3718	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
3719	</listitem>
3720
3721	<listitem>
3722	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
3723	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
3732	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
3737	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
3742	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
3743	</para>
3744	</listitem>
3745
3746	<listitem>
3747	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
3748	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
3749	</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
3754	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
3755	</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
3768	</listitem>
3769
3770	<listitem>
3771	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
3772	</listitem>
3773
3774	<listitem>
3775	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
3776	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	<listitem>
3780	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
3781	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
3782	</listitem>
3783
3784	<listitem>
3785	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
3786	formatting a drive</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
3795	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
3800	</listitem>
3801
3802	<listitem>
3803	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
3804	</listitem>
3805
3806	<listitem>
3807	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
3808	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
3809	</listitem>
3810
3811	<listitem>
3812	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
3813	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
3814	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
3819	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
3824	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
3829	(bug #2768)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
3842	single, unified package</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
3847	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
3856	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
3861	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
3870	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
3871	doing 3D</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
3880	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
3881	</listitem>
3882
3883	<listitem>
3884	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
3885	</listitem>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
3889	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
3890	</listitem>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
3898	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
3903	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
3904	(bug #2938)</para>
3905	</listitem>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
3909	Linux guests</para>
3910	</listitem>
3911
3912	<listitem>
3913	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
3914	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
3915	(bug #1776)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	<listitem>
3919	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
3920	(bug #1612)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
3925	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
3930	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
3935	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	</itemizedlist>
3939	</sect1>
3940
3941	<sect1>
3942	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
3943
3944	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3945	were added:</para>
3946
3947	<itemizedlist>
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
3974	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
3979	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	</itemizedlist>
3983
3984	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3985
3986	<itemizedlist>
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
3993	</listitem>
3994
3995	<listitem>
3996	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
4005	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
4010	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
4019	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
4044	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
4049	the compiz window manager</para>
4050	</listitem>
4051
4052	<listitem>
4053	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
4074	</listitem>
4075
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
4090	of two (bug #2724)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
4095	for direct device access</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	<listitem>
4099	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
4104	</listitem>
4105
4106	<listitem>
4107	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
4108	</listitem>
4109
4110	<listitem>
4111	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	</itemizedlist>
4131	</sect1>
4132
4133	<sect1>
4134	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
4135
4136	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4137	added:</para>
4138
4139	<itemizedlist>
4140
4141	<listitem>
4142	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
4143	states/snapshots</para>
4144	</listitem>
4145
4146	<listitem>
4147	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
4148	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4153	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4154	</listitem>
4155
4156	<listitem>
4157	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
4158	collisions</para>
4159	</listitem>
4160
4161	<listitem>
4162	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4163	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
4172	reliably</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4177	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
4182	a reboot</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4191	in parallel</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
4200	correctly</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4205	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	</itemizedlist>
4209	</sect1>
4210
4211	<sect1>
4212	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
4213
4214	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4215	added:</para>
4216
4217	<itemizedlist>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
4221	(bug #2220)</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
4226	</listitem>
4227
4228	<listitem>
4229	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	<listitem>
4233	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
4234	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
4235	</listitem>
4236
4237	<listitem>
4238	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
4239	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
4240	</listitem>
4241
4242	<listitem>
4243	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
4244	(bug #2624)</para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
4249	(bug #2024)</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
4266	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
4267	</listitem>
4268
4269	<listitem>
4270	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
4271	applications when updating the installation</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
4276	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
4281	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
4282	</listitem>
4283
4284	<listitem>
4285	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
4286	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
4287	</listitem>
4288
4289	<listitem>
4290	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
4291	connected to a host device</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
4308	when using native RDP connections</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
4313	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
4318	(bug #2591)</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
4323	guests (bug #2550)</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	</itemizedlist>
4331	</sect1>
4332
4333	<sect1>
4334	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
4335
4336	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4337	added:</para>
4338
4339	<itemizedlist>
4340	<listitem>
4341	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
4354	</listitem>
4355
4356	<listitem>
4357	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
4358	</listitem>
4359
4360	<listitem>
4361	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
4366	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
4371	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
4380	equal to the client resolution</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
4385	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
4394	</listitem>
4395
4396	<listitem>
4397	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
4402	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
4403	</listitem>
4404
4405	<listitem>
4406	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
4407	networking (bug #2474)</para>
4408	</listitem>
4409
4410	<listitem>
4411	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
4412	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
4413	</listitem>
4414
4415	<listitem>
4416	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
4417	</listitem>
4418
4419	<listitem>
4420	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	<listitem>
4424	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
4433	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
4438	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
4451	</listitem>
4452
4453	</itemizedlist>
4454
4455	</sect1>
4456
4457	<sect1>
4458	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
4459
4460	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4461	added:</para>
4462
4463	<itemizedlist>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
4467	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
4476	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
4485	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
4490	</listitem>
4491
4492	<listitem>
4493	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
4494	the virtual disk manager</para>
4495	</listitem>
4496
4497	<listitem>
4498	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
4499	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
4500	</listitem>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
4512	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
4517	bug #2067)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
4526	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
4531	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
4532	(bug #2184)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
4537	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
4542	(Windows guests only)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
4555	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
4564	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
4565	</para>
4566	</listitem>
4567
4568	<listitem>
4569	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
4578	a VM reboot</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
4587	buggy X servers</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
4592	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
4597	</listitem>
4598
4599	<listitem>
4600	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
4601	(bug #2128)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
4606	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
4611	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
4616	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
4621	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
4626	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
4627	</listitem>
4628
4629	<listitem>
4630	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
4631	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
4636	installer into a single package</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
4641	port to the guest
4642	</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	</itemizedlist>
4646
4647	</sect1>
4648
4649	<sect1>
4650	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
4651
4652	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4653	were added:<itemizedlist>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>New-version notifier</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4677	</listitem>
4678
4679	<listitem>
4680	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
4693	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	</itemizedlist></para>
4709
4710	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4711
4712	<itemizedlist>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
4728	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
4729	</listitem>
4730
4731	<listitem>
4732	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
4733	restored</para>
4734	</listitem>
4735
4736	<listitem>
4737	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
4738	</listitem>
4739
4740	<listitem>
4741	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<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>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	</itemizedlist>
4749
4750	</sect1>
4751
4752	<para>In VirtualBox 3.2, changelog information for versions before 2.0 were removed in order to save space.
4753	To access this information, please consult the user manual of VirtualBox 3.1 or earlier.</para>
4754
4755	</para>

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