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