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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>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
118	guests</para>
119	</listitem>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
123	used ISO images</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
128	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
129	</listitem>
130
131	<listitem>
132	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
133	(bug #9973)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
138	(bug #9864)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
143	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
148	</listitem>
149
150	<listitem>
151	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
152	</listitem>
153
154	<listitem>
155	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
156	</listitem>
157
158	<listitem>
159	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
160	</listitem>
161
162	<listitem>
163	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
164	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
173	support for v2 images)</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
186	VirtualBox update</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
191	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	</itemizedlist>
199	</sect1>
200
201	<sect1>
202	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
203
204	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
205	added:</para>
206
207	<itemizedlist>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
211	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
212	and others)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
217	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
222	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
227	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
228	</listitem>
229
230	<listitem>
231	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
232	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
237	(bug #10631)</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
242	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
243	(bug #10624)</para>
244	</listitem>
245
246	<listitem>
247	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
252	updated (bug #9887)</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	</itemizedlist>
260	</sect1>
261
262	<sect1>
263	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
264
265	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
266	added:</para>
267
268	<itemizedlist>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
272	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
277	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
282	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
283	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
288	guests in rare cases</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
297	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
302	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
303	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
316	reason (bug #6189)</para>
317	</listitem>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
325	paused</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
330	(bug #10267)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
339	(bug #10418)</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
344	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
345	(bug #10581)</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
350	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
355	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
356	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
357	</listitem>
358
359	<listitem>
360	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	</itemizedlist>
364
365	</sect1>
366
367	<sect1>
368	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
369
370	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
371	added:</para>
372
373	<itemizedlist>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
377	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
378	(bug #3783)</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
387	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	</itemizedlist>
395
396	</sect1>
397
398	<sect1>
399	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
400
401	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
402	added:</para>
403
404	<itemizedlist>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
408	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
409	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
414	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
415	</listitem>
416
417	<listitem>
418	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
419	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
420	</listitem>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
424	</listitem>
425
426	<listitem>
427	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
432	4.1.10 regression)</para>
433	</listitem>
434
435	<listitem>
436	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
441	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
450	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
451	</listitem>
452
453	<listitem>
454	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
455	4.1.10 regression)</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
460	closed (bug #6473)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
465	properly installed</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	</itemizedlist>
473	</sect1>
474
475	<sect1>
476	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
477
478	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
479	added:</para>
480
481	<itemizedlist>
482
483	<listitem>
484	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
485	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
486	</listitem>
487
488	<listitem>
489	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
490	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
491	</listitem>
492
493	<listitem>
494	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
495	fusion</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
500	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
505	and network mask attributes</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
510	(bug #10030)</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
515	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
528	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
537	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
542	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
547	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
560	</listitem>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
568	</listitem>
569
570	<listitem>
571	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
576	in a zone</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
585	(bug #9651)</para>
586	</listitem>
587
588	<listitem>
589	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
594	#10010)</para>
595	</listitem>
596
597	<listitem>
598	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
599	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
600	</listitem>
601
602	<listitem>
603	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
604	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
605	</listitem>
606
607	<listitem>
608	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
609	</listitem>
610
611	<listitem>
612	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
613	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
614	</listitem>
615
616	<listitem>
617	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
618	(bug #10151)</para>
619	</listitem>
620
621	<listitem>
622	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
623	guests.</para>
624	</listitem>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
632	</listitem>
633
634	<listitem>
635	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	</itemizedlist>
639	</sect1>
640
641	<sect1>
642	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
643
644	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
645	added:</para>
646
647	<itemizedlist>
648
649	<listitem>
650	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
651	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
652	</listitem>
653
654	<listitem>
655	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
660	(bug #9642)</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
665	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
666	</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
675	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
680	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
697	circumstances</para>
698	</listitem>
699
700	<listitem>
701	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
706	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
707	</listitem>
708
709	<listitem>
710	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
711	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
712	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
713	and for 3D support in general</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
730	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
731	</listitem>
732
733	</itemizedlist>
734	</sect1>
735
736	<sect1>
737	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
738
739	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
740	added:</para>
741
742	<itemizedlist>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
750	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
755	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
760	certain guests</para>
761	</listitem>
762
763	<listitem>
764	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
769	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
770	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
775	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
784	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
793	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
798	guests</para>
799	</listitem>
800
801	<listitem>
802	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
803	folders</para>
804	</listitem>
805
806	<listitem>
807	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
808	shared folders</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
813	users and stale sessions</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
818	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	</itemizedlist>
822	</sect1>
823
824	<sect1>
825	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
826
827	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
828	added:</para>
829
830	<itemizedlist>
831
832	<listitem>
833	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
834	bug #9458)</para>
835	</listitem>
836
837	<listitem>
838	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
839	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
840	</listitem>
841
842	<listitem>
843	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
844	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
845	</listitem>
846
847	<listitem>
848	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
853	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
854	</listitem>
855
856	<listitem>
857	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
858	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	<listitem>
862	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
863	(bug #9308)</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
868	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
869	</listitem>
870
871	<listitem>
872	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
873	(bug #9503)</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
878	(bug #9242)</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
883	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
884	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
893	images</para>
894	</listitem>
895
896	<listitem>
897	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
898	(Windows hosts only)</para>
899	</listitem>
900
901	<listitem>
902	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
903	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
908	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
913	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
918	#9387)</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
923	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
928	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
933	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
938	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
951	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
956	(bug #1578)</para>
957	</listitem>
958
959	<listitem>
960	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
961	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
962	</listitem>
963
964	<listitem>
965	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
966	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
967	</listitem>
968
969	<listitem>
970	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
971	(bug #9535)</para>
972	</listitem>
973
974	<listitem>
975	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
976	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
977	</listitem>
978
979	<listitem>
980	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
981	help file (bug #9646)</para>
982	</listitem>
983
984	<listitem>
985	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
986	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
991	console window (bug #3549)</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
996	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
997	</listitem>
998
999	<listitem>
1000	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1001	</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1006	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1007	</para>
1008	</listitem>
1009
1010	<listitem>
1011	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1012	(bug #6229)
1013	</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1018	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1023	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1028	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1033	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1038	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1043	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1048	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1053	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	</itemizedlist>
1057	</sect1>
1058
1059	<sect1>
1060	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1061
1062	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1063	added:</para>
1064
1065	<itemizedlist>
1066
1067	<listitem>
1068	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1069	</listitem>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1073	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1074	</listitem>
1075
1076	<listitem>
1077	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1082	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1087	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1092	a live snapshot</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1097	due to a library version conflict</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1102	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1107	at a time by default</para>
1108	</listitem>
1109
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1112	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1113	#9368)</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1118	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1119	</listitem>
1120
1121	<listitem>
1122	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1123	VMs</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1128	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1133	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1134	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1139	(bug #9308)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1144	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1153	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1158	(bug #9242)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1163	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1168	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1173	USB devices</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1178	and warn about it</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1191	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1196	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1197	</listitem>
1198
1199	<listitem>
1200	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1201	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1202	</listitem>
1203
1204	<listitem>
1205	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1206	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1207	</listitem>
1208
1209	<listitem>
1210	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1211	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1216	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1217	</listitem>
1218
1219	<listitem>
1220	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1221	2.6.37 and above</para>
1222	</listitem>
1223
1224	</itemizedlist>
1225	</sect1>
1226
1227	<sect1>
1228	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1229
1230	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1231	were added:</para>
1232
1233	<itemizedlist>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1237	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1238	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1251	bug #7822)</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1260	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1261	</listitem>
1262
1263	<listitem>
1264	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1265	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1266	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1267	anymore)</para>
1268	</listitem>
1269
1270	<listitem>
1271	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1272	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1277	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1278	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1283	</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1288	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1289	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1290	</listitem>
1291
1292	<listitem>
1293	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1294	with VBoxManage</para>
1295	</listitem>
1296
1297	<listitem>
1298	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1299	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302
1303	</itemizedlist>
1304
1305	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1306
1307	<itemizedlist>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1311	</listitem>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1323	of the current state</para>
1324	</listitem>
1325
1326	<listitem>
1327	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1332	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1333	</listitem>
1334
1335	<listitem>
1336	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1337	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1338	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1343	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1344	</listitem>
1345
1346	<listitem>
1347	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	<listitem>
1355	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1356	dialog</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1361	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1362	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1367	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1368	</listitem>
1369
1370	<listitem>
1371	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1372	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1373	</listitem>
1374
1375	<listitem>
1376	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1377	be a valid UUID</para>
1378	</listitem>
1379
1380	<listitem>
1381	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1382	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1387	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1388	cases</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1393	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1394	improve performance</para>
1395	</listitem>
1396
1397	<listitem>
1398	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1399	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1400	on a temporary basis</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1405	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1406	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1411	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1412	</listitem>
1413
1414	<listitem>
1415	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1416	images in VDI format</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1421	VMDK format</para>
1422	</listitem>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1426	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1427	</listitem>
1428
1429	<listitem>
1430	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1447	</listitem>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1451	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1452	</listitem>
1453
1454	<listitem>
1455	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1456	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1457	</listitem>
1458
1459	<listitem>
1460	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1461	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1466	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1471	RDP clients</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1480	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1485	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1486	</listitem>
1487
1488	<listitem>
1489	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1490	simultaneously</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1495	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1496	location values in many places</para>
1497	</listitem>
1498
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1505	builds</para>
1506	</listitem>
1507
1508	<listitem>
1509	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1514	window (bug #4491)</para>
1515	</listitem>
1516
1517	<listitem>
1518	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1519	removing a VM</para>
1520	</listitem>
1521
1522	<listitem>
1523	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1532	166 and above)</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	<listitem>
1536	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1537	hosts</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1546	from the host</para>
1547	</listitem>
1548
1549	<listitem>
1550	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	</itemizedlist>
1554
1555	</sect1>
1556
1557	<sect1>
1558	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1559
1560	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1561	added:</para>
1562
1563	<itemizedlist>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1571	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1576	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1581	a live snapshot</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1586	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1599	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1604	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1609	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1618	images</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1623	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1627	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1632	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	<listitem>
1640	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1641	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1642	</listitem>
1643
1644	<listitem>
1645	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1646	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1655	(bug #9370)</para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1660	(bug #9535)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1665	(bug #1578)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	<listitem>
1669	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1670	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1671	</listitem>
1672
1673	<listitem>
1674	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1675	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1676	</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1681	</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1686	2.6.37 and above</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1691	(bug #6229)</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1696	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	</itemizedlist>
1700	</sect1>
1701
1702	<sect1>
1703	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1704
1705	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1706	added:</para>
1707
1708	<itemizedlist>
1709
1710	<listitem>
1711	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1712	</listitem>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1716	166 and above)</para>
1717	</listitem>
1718
1719	<listitem>
1720	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1721	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1722	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1723	</listitem>
1724
1725	<listitem>
1726	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1727	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1732	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1741	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1746	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1751	builds</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	</itemizedlist>
1759	</sect1>
1760	<sect1>
1761	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1762
1763	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1764	added:</para>
1765
1766	<itemizedlist>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1778	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1779	</listitem>
1780
1781	<listitem>
1782	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1783	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1784	</listitem>
1785
1786	<listitem>
1787	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1792	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1801	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1806	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1819	file was not written during export</para>
1820	</listitem>
1821
1822	<listitem>
1823	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1836	binaries</para>
1837	</listitem>
1838
1839	<listitem>
1840	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1845	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1846	</listitem>
1847
1848	<listitem>
1849	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1850	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1851	</listitem>
1852
1853	<listitem>
1854	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1859	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	</itemizedlist>
1863	</sect1>
1864
1865	<sect1>
1866	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1867
1868	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1869	added:</para>
1870
1871	<itemizedlist>
1872
1873	<listitem>
1874	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1875	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1880	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1881	</listitem>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1885	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1886	</listitem>
1887
1888	<listitem>
1889	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1890	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1891	</listitem>
1892
1893	<listitem>
1894	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1895	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1896	</listitem>
1897
1898	<listitem>
1899	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1900	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1905	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1910	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1923	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1928	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1929	</listitem>
1930
1931	<listitem>
1932	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1941	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1946	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1951	window</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1956	Fedora 15</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1961	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1966	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1971	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1980	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1981	</listitem>
1982
1983	</itemizedlist>
1984	</sect1>
1985
1986	<sect1>
1987	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1988
1989	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1990	added:</para>
1991
1992	<itemizedlist>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
1996	a VMM from a saved state</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2001	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2006	(bug #8006)</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2011	(bug #8726)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2024	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2029	(bug #8469)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2034	selectors</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2039	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2040	</listitem>
2041
2042	<listitem>
2043	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2044	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2045	</listitem>
2046
2047	<listitem>
2048	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2049	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2050	</listitem>
2051
2052	<listitem>
2053	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2058	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2071	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2076	I/O error occurred</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2081	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2086	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2091	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2092	if no medium is present</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2101	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2106	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2111	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2120	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2125	library (bug #8063)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2130	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2147	changed on import</para>
2148	</listitem>
2149
2150	<listitem>
2151	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2152	</listitem>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2156	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2157	</listitem>
2158
2159	<listitem>
2160	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2161	(bug #8593)</para>
2162	</listitem>
2163
2164	<listitem>
2165	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2166	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2167	</listitem>
2168
2169	<listitem>
2170	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2171	captured</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2176	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2181	</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2186	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2191	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2196	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2197	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2198	</listitem>
2199
2200	<listitem>
2201	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2202	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2203	</listitem>
2204
2205	<listitem>
2206	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2211	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2216	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2221	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2242	(bug #7946)</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2247	</listitem>
2248
2249	<listitem>
2250	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	</itemizedlist>
2258
2259	</sect1>
2260
2261	<sect1>
2262	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2263
2264	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2265	added:</para>
2266
2267	<itemizedlist>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2271	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2276	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2281	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2286	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2291	number of host network interfaces</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2296	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2305	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2306	</listitem>
2307
2308	<listitem>
2309	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2310	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2311	</listitem>
2312
2313	<listitem>
2314	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2315	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2320	</listitem>
2321
2322	<listitem>
2323	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2324	(bug #6577)</para>
2325	</listitem>
2326
2327	<listitem>
2328	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2329	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2330	(bug #8235)</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2335	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2336	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2345	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2354	(bug #7966)</para>
2355	</listitem>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2371	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	<listitem>
2375	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2376	</listitem>
2377
2378	<listitem>
2379	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2384	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2385	</listitem>
2386
2387	<listitem>
2388	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2389	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2394	</listitem>
2395
2396	<listitem>
2397	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2398	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2399	</listitem>
2400
2401	<listitem>
2402	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2403	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2404	(bug #8122)</para>
2405	</listitem>
2406
2407	<listitem>
2408	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2409	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2410	</listitem>
2411
2412	<listitem>
2413	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2422	(bug #1548)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2431	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2440	(bug #8231)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2445	11.04 Alpha</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2450	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2455	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2460	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2465	with VBoxGINA</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	</itemizedlist>
2469
2470	</sect1>
2471
2472	<sect1>
2473	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2474
2475	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2476	added:</para>
2477
2478	<itemizedlist>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2482	settings vanished</para>
2483	</listitem>
2484
2485	<listitem>
2486	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2487	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2492	created (bug #8031)</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2501	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2502	</listitem>
2503
2504	<listitem>
2505	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2506	an extension pack</para>
2507	</listitem>
2508
2509	<listitem>
2510	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2511	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2520	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	<listitem>
2524	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2525	host-only interface</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2530	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2535	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2536	</listitem>
2537
2538	<listitem>
2539	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2540	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2541	</listitem>
2542
2543	<listitem>
2544	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2545	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2550	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2563	guests</para>
2564	</listitem>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2576	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2577	</listitem>
2578
2579	<listitem>
2580	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2581	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2582	</listitem>
2583
2584	<listitem>
2585	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2586	a VM start</para>
2587	</listitem>
2588
2589	<listitem>
2590	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2591	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2592	</listitem>
2593
2594	<listitem>
2595	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2596	(bug #6067)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2601	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2606	not saved to machine XML</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2611	#7983)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2616	#7981)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2625	regression)</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	<listitem>
2629	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2630	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2635	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	</itemizedlist>
2639
2640	</sect1>
2641
2642	<sect1>
2643	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2644
2645	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2646	were added:</para>
2647
2648	<itemizedlist>
2649
2650	<listitem>
2651	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2660	<itemizedlist>
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2679	states, and optionally including attached
2680	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2681	can do the same now)</para>
2682	</listitem>
2683
2684	<listitem>
2685	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	</itemizedlist>
2689	</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>New virtual hardware:
2698	<itemizedlist>
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2701	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2706	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708	</itemizedlist>
2709	</para>
2710	</listitem>
2711
2712	<listitem>
2713	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2714	<itemizedlist>
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2721	</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2726	now</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	</itemizedlist>
2734	</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	<listitem>
2738	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2739	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2740	</listitem>
2741
2742	<listitem>
2743	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2744	Parallels images</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2753	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2754	</listitem>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2758	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	</itemizedlist>
2762
2763	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2764
2765	<itemizedlist>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2769	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2770	</listitem>
2771
2772	<listitem>
2773	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2778	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2779	</listitem>
2780
2781	<listitem>
2782	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2783	(bug #1657)</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2796	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	<listitem>
2800	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2801	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2802	</listitem>
2803
2804	<listitem>
2805	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2806	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2807	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2812	again (bug #6864)</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2817	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2822	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2855	(bug #7058)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2860	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2861	</listitem>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2865	circumstances</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2870	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2871	#5578)
2872	</para>
2873	</listitem>
2874
2875	<listitem>
2876	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2881	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2882	</listitem>
2883
2884	<listitem>
2885	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2890	#6760)</para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2895	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2900	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2905	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2914	file</para>
2915	</listitem>
2916
2917	<listitem>
2918	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2919	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2920	</listitem>
2921
2922	</itemizedlist>
2923
2924	</sect1>
2925
2926	<sect1>
2927	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2928
2929	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2930	added:</para>
2931
2932	<itemizedlist>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2936	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2941	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2942	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2959	the VM is running</para>
2960	</listitem>
2961
2962	<listitem>
2963	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2964	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2965	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2966	starting from a saved state</para>
2967	</listitem>
2968
2969	<listitem>
2970	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2991	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
2996	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3001	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3010	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3011	</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3016	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3017	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3018	</listitem>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3022	only)</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3027	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3028	</listitem>
3029
3030	<listitem>
3031	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3044	state (bug #4124)</para>
3045	</listitem>
3046
3047	<listitem>
3048	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3049	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3050	</listitem>
3051
3052	<listitem>
3053	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3058	(bug #2996)</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3063	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3064	</listitem>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3072	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3077	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3082	user accounts for VM information</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	</itemizedlist>
3086
3087	</sect1>
3088
3089	<sect1>
3090	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3091
3092	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3093	added:</para>
3094
3095	<itemizedlist>
3096
3097	<listitem>
3098	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3099	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3100	</listitem>
3101
3102	<listitem>
3103	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3116	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3121	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3126	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3131	(bug #4952)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3136	bug #6122)</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3141	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3146	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3147	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3148	</listitem>
3149
3150	<listitem>
3151	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3156	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3157	</listitem>
3158
3159	<listitem>
3160	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3161	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3166	canceled</para>
3167	</listitem>
3168
3169	<listitem>
3170	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3187	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3196	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3201	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3202	</listitem>
3203
3204	<listitem>
3205	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3210	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3211	</listitem>
3212
3213	<listitem>
3214	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3219	circumstances</para>
3220	</listitem>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3224	printers</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3233	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3238	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3239	</listitem>
3240
3241	<listitem>
3242	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3243	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3244	circumstances</para>
3245	</listitem>
3246
3247	<listitem>
3248	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3249	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3250	</listitem>
3251
3252	<listitem>
3253	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3254	as supported extension</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3259	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3264	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3273	(bug #7366)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3282	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3287	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3292	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3297	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3302	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3315	more than one environment variable</para>
3316	</listitem>
3317
3318	<listitem>
3319	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3320	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3325	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3330	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3335	enumerating logged in users</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3352	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3361	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3366	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3371	(bug #7448)</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	</itemizedlist>
3387
3388	</sect1>
3389
3390	<sect1>
3391	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3392
3393	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3394	added:</para>
3395
3396	<itemizedlist>
3397
3398	<listitem>
3399	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3400	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3401	</listitem>
3402
3403	<listitem>
3404	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3409	bug #6809)</para>
3410	</listitem>
3411
3412	<listitem>
3413	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3422	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3423	</listitem>
3424
3425	<listitem>
3426	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3427	changes</para>
3428	</listitem>
3429
3430	<listitem>
3431	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3436	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3441	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3462	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3471	(bug #6832)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3476	guests</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3485	without external tools and tricks</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3490	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3499	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3504	shutdown</para>
3505	</listitem>
3506
3507	<listitem>
3508	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3509	fixes</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3514	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3515	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3516	</para>
3517	</listitem>
3518
3519	<listitem>
3520	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3521	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3522	</listitem>
3523
3524	<listitem>
3525	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3526	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3527	</listitem>
3528
3529	<listitem>
3530	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3531	</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	</itemizedlist>
3547
3548	</sect1>
3549
3550	<sect1>
3551	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3552
3553	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3554	added:</para>
3555
3556	<itemizedlist>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3560	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3565	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3566	</listitem>
3567
3568	<listitem>
3569	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3570	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3571	</listitem>
3572
3573	<listitem>
3574	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3591	assigned</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3596	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3601	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3610	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3615	again (bug #7022).
3616	</para>
3617	</listitem>
3618
3619	<listitem>
3620	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3621	(bug #6768)</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3626	(bug #6927)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3631	bug #7031)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3636	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3641	bug #6987)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3654	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3663	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3664	</listitem>
3665
3666	<listitem>
3667	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3672	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3673	bug #6872)</para>
3674	</listitem>
3675
3676	<listitem>
3677	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3678	</listitem>
3679
3680	<listitem>
3681	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3682	(performance tweak)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3687	is currently paused</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3692	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3701	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3706	not properly saved</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3711	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3728	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3737	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3742	(bug #5251)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3747	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3760	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	</itemizedlist>
3776	</sect1>
3777
3778	<sect1>
3779	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3780
3781	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3782	added:</para>
3783
3784	<itemizedlist>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3788	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3797	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3802	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3811	again (bug #6864)</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3816	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3825	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	</itemizedlist>
3833
3834	</sect1>
3835
3836	<sect1>
3837	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3838
3839	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3840	added:</para>
3841
3842	<itemizedlist>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3850	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3859	state</para>
3860	</listitem>
3861
3862	<listitem>
3863	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3888	</listitem>
3889
3890	<listitem>
3891	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3904	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3905	</listitem>
3906
3907	<listitem>
3908	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3909	(bug #6784)</para>
3910	</listitem>
3911
3912	<listitem>
3913	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3914	</listitem>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3922	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3935	host only</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3940	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3945	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3954	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3955	</listitem>
3956
3957	<listitem>
3958	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3967	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3984	(bug #6714)</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3993	</listitem>
3994
3995	<listitem>
3996	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	</itemizedlist>
4008
4009	</sect1>
4010
4011	<sect1>
4012	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4013
4014	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4015	were added:</para>
4016
4017	<itemizedlist>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4021	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4022	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4031	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4036	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4037	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4042	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4043	</listitem>
4044
4045	<listitem>
4046	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4047	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4048	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4049	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4050	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4059	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4064	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4085	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4086	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4091	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4092	</listitem>
4093
4094	</itemizedlist>
4095
4096	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4097
4098	<itemizedlist>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4102	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4111	VM</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4116	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4121	#1669)</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4126	#6442)</para>
4127	</listitem>
4128
4129	<listitem>
4130	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4131	combination (bug #684)</para>
4132	</listitem>
4133
4134	<listitem>
4135	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4136	the VM from the GUI</para>
4137	</listitem>
4138
4139	<listitem>
4140	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4141	medium is not accessible</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4150	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	<listitem>
4154	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4155	#3106)</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4160	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4161	it</para>
4162	</listitem>
4163
4164	<listitem>
4165	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4174	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4179	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4192	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4201	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4210	in VirtualBox</para>
4211	</listitem>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4215	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4216	</listitem>
4217
4218	<listitem>
4219	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4220	VirtualBox</para>
4221	</listitem>
4222
4223	<listitem>
4224	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4229	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4230	</listitem>
4231
4232	</itemizedlist>
4233	</sect1>
4234
4235	<sect1>
4236	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4237
4238	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4239	added:</para>
4240
4241	<itemizedlist>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4245	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4246	</listitem>
4247
4248	<listitem>
4249	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4258	only) </para>
4259	</listitem>
4260
4261	<listitem>
4262	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4263	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4264	</listitem>
4265
4266	<listitem>
4267	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4268	interface version</para>
4269	</listitem>
4270
4271	<listitem>
4272	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4273	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4274	slot empty</para>
4275	</listitem>
4276
4277	<listitem>
4278	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4279	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4280	(bug #4220)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4289	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4294	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4299	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4300	</listitem>
4301
4302	<listitem>
4303	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4304	attached</para>
4305	</listitem>
4306
4307	<listitem>
4308	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4309	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4318	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4319	</listitem>
4320
4321	<listitem>
4322	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4323	is bug #6408)</para>
4324	</listitem>
4325
4326	<listitem>
4327	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	<listitem>
4331	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4332	fail to initialize</para>
4333	</listitem>
4334
4335	<listitem>
4336	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4341	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4346	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4347	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4348	</listitem>
4349
4350	<listitem>
4351	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4356	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4361	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4362	</listitem>
4363
4364	<listitem>
4365	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4366	(bug #6435)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4371	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4372	</listitem>
4373
4374	<listitem>
4375	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4376	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4377	(bug #6488)</para>
4378	</listitem>
4379
4380	<listitem>
4381	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4382	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4383	</listitem>
4384
4385	<listitem>
4386	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4387	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4392	#5227)</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4397	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4398	</listitem>
4399
4400	<listitem>
4401	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4402	</listitem>
4403
4404	<listitem>
4405	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4406	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4407	</listitem>
4408
4409	</itemizedlist>
4410	</sect1>
4411
4412	<sect1>
4413	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4414
4415	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4416	added:</para>
4417
4418	<itemizedlist>
4419
4420	<listitem>
4421	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4422	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4427	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4432	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4437	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4458	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4463	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4468	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4481	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4486	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4487	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4492	(bug #5297)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4497	(bug #4962)</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4502	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4507	(bug #6176)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4512	certain circumstances</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4517	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4518	</listitem>
4519
4520	<listitem>
4521	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4526	</listitem>
4527
4528	<listitem>
4529	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4530	(bug #3571)</para>
4531	</listitem>
4532
4533	<listitem>
4534	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4535	devices</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4540	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4541	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4546	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4547	</listitem>
4548
4549	<listitem>
4550	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4555	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4560	response</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4577	</listitem>
4578
4579	<listitem>
4580	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4581	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4582	</listitem>
4583
4584	<listitem>
4585	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4594	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4595	</listitem>
4596
4597	<listitem>
4598	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	</itemizedlist>
4614	</sect1>
4615
4616	<sect1>
4617	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4618
4619	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4620	added:</para>
4621
4622	<itemizedlist>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4626	</listitem>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4634	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4635	</listitem>
4636
4637	<listitem>
4638	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4639	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4640	</listitem>
4641
4642	<listitem>
4643	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4644	(bug #3945)</para>
4645	</listitem>
4646
4647	<listitem>
4648	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4649	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4650	</listitem>
4651
4652	<listitem>
4653	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4654	and AMD-V only) </para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4663	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4664	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4669	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4674	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4679	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4684	snapshots command</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4693	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4710	(KWin bug)</para>
4711	</listitem>
4712
4713	<listitem>
4714	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4715	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4736	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4737	</listitem>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4741	bug #5787)</para>
4742	</listitem>
4743
4744	<listitem>
4745	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4746	DHCP requests</para>
4747	</listitem>
4748
4749	<listitem>
4750	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4751	(bug #3217)</para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4756	range (bug #5923)</para>
4757	</listitem>
4758
4759	<listitem>
4760	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4769	</listitem>
4770
4771	<listitem>
4772	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4773	</listitem>
4774
4775	<listitem>
4776	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4777	file (bug #5681)</para>
4778	</listitem>
4779
4780	<listitem>
4781	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4782	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4783	</listitem>
4784
4785	<listitem>
4786	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4787	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4792	regression)</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4801	</listitem>
4802
4803	<listitem>
4804	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4813	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4830	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4839	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4840	</listitem>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4856	(bug #5731)</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4861	again</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	</itemizedlist>
4865
4866	</sect1>
4867
4868	<sect1>
4869	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4870
4871	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4872	added:</para>
4873
4874	<itemizedlist>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4886	</listitem>
4887
4888	<listitem>
4889	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4890	</listitem>
4891
4892	<listitem>
4893	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4898	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4899	</listitem>
4900
4901	<listitem>
4902	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4923	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4928	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4933	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4934	#1762)</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4939	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4944	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4949	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4962	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4971	</listitem>
4972
4973	<listitem>
4974	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4975	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4976	</listitem>
4977
4978	<listitem>
4979	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4980	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4981	</listitem>
4982
4983	<listitem>
4984	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4989	guests</para>
4990	</listitem>
4991
4992	<listitem>
4993	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4994	and on some 64bit guests</para>
4995	</listitem>
4996
4997	<listitem>
4998	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
4999	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5004	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5009	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5010	</listitem>
5011
5012	<listitem>
5013	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5030	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	</itemizedlist>
5038
5039	</sect1>
5040
5041	<sect1>
5042	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5043
5044	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5045	were added:</para>
5046
5047	<itemizedlist>
5048
5049	<listitem>
5050	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5051	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5052	</listitem>
5053
5054	<listitem>
5055	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5056	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5057	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	<listitem>
5061	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5062	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5063	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5068	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5069	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5074	running</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5079	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5084	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5089	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5090	</listitem>
5091
5092	<listitem>
5093	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5094	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	</itemizedlist>
5098
5099	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5100
5101	<itemizedlist>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5105	</listitem>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	<listitem>
5116	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5117	(bug #5291)</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5134	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5135	</listitem>
5136
5137	<listitem>
5138	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5139	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5140	</listitem>
5141
5142	<listitem>
5143	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5164	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5169	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5174	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5179	(bug #2723)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5188	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5189	</listitem>
5190
5191	<listitem>
5192	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5193	optional manifest file on import</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5202	(bug #3773)</para>
5203	</listitem>
5204
5205	<listitem>
5206	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5215	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5220	(bug #4866)</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5225	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5230	certain conditions</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5251	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5260	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5269	</listitem>
5270
5271	<listitem>
5272	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5281	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5282	</listitem>
5283
5284	<listitem>
5285	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5286	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5287	(bug #928)</para>
5288	</listitem>
5289
5290	<listitem>
5291	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	</itemizedlist>
5295
5296	</sect1>
5297
5298	<sect1>
5299	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5300
5301	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5302	added:</para>
5303
5304	<itemizedlist>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5308	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5313	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5314	</listitem>
5315
5316	<listitem>
5317	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5318	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5319	</listitem>
5320
5321	<listitem>
5322	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5323	enabled</para>
5324	</listitem>
5325
5326	<listitem>
5327	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5328	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5329	</listitem>
5330
5331	<listitem>
5332	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5333	(bug #2676)</para>
5334	</listitem>
5335
5336	<listitem>
5337	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5338	is connected to a raw file</para>
5339	</listitem>
5340
5341	<listitem>
5342	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5343	(bug #5355)</para>
5344	</listitem>
5345
5346	<listitem>
5347	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5352	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5357	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5358	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5371	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5372	</listitem>
5373
5374	<listitem>
5375	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5376	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5377	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	</itemizedlist>
5381
5382	</sect1>
5383
5384	<sect1>
5385	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5386
5387	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5388	added:</para>
5389
5390	<itemizedlist>
5391
5392	<listitem>
5393	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5402	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5403	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5404	</listitem>
5405
5406	<listitem>
5407	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5408	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5409	</listitem>
5410
5411	<listitem>
5412	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5433	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5446	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5447	</listitem>
5448
5449	<listitem>
5450	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5455	exhaustion</para>
5456	</listitem>
5457
5458	<listitem>
5459	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5464	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5469	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5470	</listitem>
5471
5472	<listitem>
5473	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5474	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5475	</listitem>
5476
5477	<listitem>
5478	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5479	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5480	(bug #2921)</para>
5481	</listitem>
5482
5483	<listitem>
5484	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5485	hosts only)</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5490	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5491	</listitem>
5492
5493	<listitem>
5494	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5495	</listitem>
5496
5497	<listitem>
5498	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5499	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5508	image inconsistency </para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5521	(bug #2025)</para>
5522	</listitem>
5523
5524	<listitem>
5525	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5526	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	</itemizedlist>
5530
5531	</sect1>
5532
5533	<sect1>
5534	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5535
5536	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5537	added:</para>
5538
5539	<itemizedlist>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5543	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5548	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5553	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5554	</listitem>
5555
5556	<listitem>
5557	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5562	software virtualization only) </para>
5563	</listitem>
5564
5565	<listitem>
5566	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5567	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5568	</listitem>
5569
5570	<listitem>
5571	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5572	with root privileges</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5577	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5582	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5583	</listitem>
5584
5585	<listitem>
5586	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5587	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5588	</listitem>
5589
5590	<listitem>
5591	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5592	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5593	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5594	</listitem>
5595
5596	<listitem>
5597	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5598	available</para>
5599	</listitem>
5600
5601	<listitem>
5602	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5603	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5604	</listitem>
5605
5606	<listitem>
5607	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5608	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5613	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5618	(bug #4907)</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5623	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5628	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	<listitem>
5636	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5649	are installed</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5654	(bug #4771)</para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5663	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5668	command</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5681	(bug #5089)</para>
5682	</listitem>
5683
5684	<listitem>
5685	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	</itemizedlist>
5689
5690	</sect1>
5691
5692	<sect1>
5693	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5694
5695	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5696	added:</para>
5697
5698	<itemizedlist>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5702	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5707	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5708	</listitem>
5709
5710	<listitem>
5711	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5712	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5713	</listitem>
5714
5715	<listitem>
5716	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5717	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5718	</listitem>
5719
5720	<listitem>
5721	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5722	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5727	</listitem>
5728
5729	<listitem>
5730	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5747	onlined or offlined</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5756	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5757	</listitem>
5758
5759	<listitem>
5760	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5761	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5762	</listitem>
5763
5764	<listitem>
5765	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5770	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5771	</listitem>
5772
5773	<listitem>
5774	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5795	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5796	</listitem>
5797
5798	<listitem>
5799	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5812	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5813	</listitem>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5817	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5818	</listitem>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5822	</listitem>
5823
5824	<listitem>
5825	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5826	</listitem>
5827
5828	<listitem>
5829	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5850	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5851	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5852	phase collapse</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5857	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5862	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5871	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5876	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5885	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5886	#4698, #4790)</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5891	less than the configured range</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5912	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5917	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5922	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5923	</listitem>
5924
5925	<listitem>
5926	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5931	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5936	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5937	</listitem>
5938
5939	<listitem>
5940	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5941	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5946	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5947	</listitem>
5948
5949	<listitem>
5950	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	</itemizedlist>
5958
5959	</sect1>
5960
5961	<sect1>
5962	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5963
5964	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5965	added:</para>
5966
5967	<itemizedlist>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
5971	</listitem>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
5999	</listitem>
6000
6001	<listitem>
6002	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6003	</listitem>
6004
6005	<listitem>
6006	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6007	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6008	</listitem>
6009
6010	<listitem>
6011	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6036	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6041	(bug #4654)</para>
6042	</listitem>
6043
6044	<listitem>
6045	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6046	</listitem>
6047
6048	<listitem>
6049	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6050	interfaces</para>
6051	</listitem>
6052
6053	<listitem>
6054	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6055	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6056	</listitem>
6057
6058	<listitem>
6059	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6060	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6065	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6066	</listitem>
6067
6068	<listitem>
6069	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6070	(bug #1461)</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6079	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6080	</listitem>
6081
6082	<listitem>
6083	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6084	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6089	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6106	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6107	</listitem>
6108
6109	<listitem>
6110	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6111	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6116	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6117	</listitem>
6118
6119	<listitem>
6120	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6121	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6122	</listitem>
6123
6124	</itemizedlist>
6125
6126	</sect1>
6127	<sect1>
6128	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6129
6130	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6131	added:</para>
6132
6133	<itemizedlist>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6141	</listitem>
6142
6143	<listitem>
6144	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6145	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6146	</listitem>
6147
6148	<listitem>
6149	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6150	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6151	</listitem>
6152
6153	<listitem>
6154	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6159	</listitem>
6160
6161	<listitem>
6162	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6163	</listitem>
6164
6165	<listitem>
6166	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6175	</listitem>
6176
6177	<listitem>
6178	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6187	</listitem>
6188
6189	<listitem>
6190	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6199	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6212	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6213	</listitem>
6214
6215	<listitem>
6216	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6217	</listitem>
6218
6219	<listitem>
6220	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6221	</listitem>
6222
6223	<listitem>
6224	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6225	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6226	</listitem>
6227
6228	<listitem>
6229	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6230	</listitem>
6231
6232	<listitem>
6233	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6234	</listitem>
6235
6236	<listitem>
6237	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6246	</listitem>
6247
6248	<listitem>
6249	<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>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	</itemizedlist>
6253
6254	</sect1>
6255
6256	<sect1>
6257	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6258
6259	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6260	were added:</para>
6261
6262	<itemizedlist>
6263
6264	<listitem>
6265	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6270	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	</itemizedlist>
6278
6279	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6280
6281	<itemizedlist>
6282
6283	<listitem>
6284	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6289	certain conditions</para>
6290	</listitem>
6291
6292	<listitem>
6293	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6298	</listitem>
6299
6300	<listitem>
6301	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6302	</listitem>
6303
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6306	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6307	</listitem>
6308
6309	<listitem>
6310	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	<listitem>
6318	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6335	</listitem>
6336
6337	<listitem>
6338	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6339	</listitem>
6340
6341	<listitem>
6342	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6343	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6368	</listitem>
6369
6370	<listitem>
6371	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6372	</listitem>
6373
6374	<listitem>
6375	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	<listitem>
6383	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6384	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6385	</listitem>
6386
6387	<listitem>
6388	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6389	</listitem>
6390
6391	<listitem>
6392	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6393	</listitem>
6394
6395	<listitem>
6396	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	<listitem>
6408	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6409	</listitem>
6410
6411	<listitem>
6412	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6417	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6418	</listitem>
6419
6420	<listitem>
6421	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6434	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6435	</listitem>
6436
6437	<listitem>
6438	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6439	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6440	</listitem>
6441
6442	<listitem>
6443	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6444	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6449	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6454	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6455	</listitem>
6456
6457	<listitem>
6458	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6463	</listitem>
6464
6465	<listitem>
6466	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6467	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6468	</listitem>
6469
6470	<listitem>
6471	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6472	guest property lookup</para>
6473	</listitem>
6474
6475	<listitem>
6476	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6477	basic network information)</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6482	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6483	</listitem>
6484
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6487	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6488	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6489	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6490	</listitem>
6491
6492	<listitem>
6493	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6494	</listitem>
6495
6496	<listitem>
6497	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6498	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6499	web service</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6504	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6505	</listitem>
6506
6507	<listitem>
6508	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6509	unavailable</para>
6510	</listitem>
6511
6512	<listitem>
6513	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	</itemizedlist>
6517	</sect1>
6518
6519	<sect1>
6520	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6521
6522	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6523	added:</para>
6524
6525	<itemizedlist>
6526
6527	<listitem>
6528	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6529	installation</para>
6530	</listitem>
6531
6532	<listitem>
6533	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6538	later (bug #3981)</para>
6539	</listitem>
6540
6541	<listitem>
6542	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6543	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6544	</listitem>
6545
6546	<listitem>
6547	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6548	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6549	(bug #4034)
6550	</para>
6551	</listitem>
6552
6553	<listitem>
6554	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6555	networking</para>
6556	</listitem>
6557
6558	<listitem>
6559	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6560	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6561	</listitem>
6562
6563	<listitem>
6564	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6565	clicks</para>
6566	</listitem>
6567
6568	<listitem>
6569	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6570	Windows 7 guests</para>
6571	</listitem>
6572
6573	<listitem>
6574	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6575	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6576	</listitem>
6577
6578	<listitem>
6579	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6588	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6593	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6594	</listitem>
6595
6596	<listitem>
6597	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6602	</listitem>
6603
6604	<listitem>
6605	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6606	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6607	(bug #3864)</para>
6608	</listitem>
6609
6610	<listitem>
6611	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6612	now flushes the output stream</para>
6613	</listitem>
6614
6615	<listitem>
6616	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6617	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6618	</listitem>
6619
6620	<listitem>
6621	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6622	</listitem>
6623
6624	<listitem>
6625	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6634	</listitem>
6635
6636	<listitem>
6637	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6638	(bug #3964)</para>
6639	</listitem>
6640
6641	<listitem>
6642	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6643	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6644	</listitem>
6645
6646	<listitem>
6647	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6648	hosts</para>
6649	</listitem>
6650
6651	<listitem>
6652	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6653	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6654	e1000 adapter</para>
6655	</listitem>
6656
6657	<listitem>
6658	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6659	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6660	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6661	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6662	</listitem>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6678	file (bug #1023)</para>
6679	</listitem>
6680
6681	<listitem>
6682	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6683	</listitem>
6684
6685	<listitem>
6686	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6687	</listitem>
6688
6689	</itemizedlist>
6690	</sect1>
6691
6692	<sect1>
6693	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6694
6695	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6696	added:</para>
6697
6698	<itemizedlist>
6699
6700	<listitem>
6701	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6702	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6703	</listitem>
6704
6705	<listitem>
6706	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6707	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6708	and later</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6713	running services</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6718	terminates</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6723	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6724	</listitem>
6725
6726	<listitem>
6727	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6728	installed on the guest</para>
6729	</listitem>
6730
6731	<listitem>
6732	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6733	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6734	</listitem>
6735
6736	<listitem>
6737	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6738	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6739	</listitem>
6740
6741	<listitem>
6742	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6743	(bug #2628)</para>
6744	</listitem>
6745
6746	<listitem>
6747	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6748	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6749	</listitem>
6750
6751	<listitem>
6752	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6753	(bug #3657)</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6758	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6763	virtualization only)
6764	</para>
6765	</listitem>
6766
6767	<listitem>
6768	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6769	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6770	</listitem>
6771
6772	<listitem>
6773	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6778	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	<listitem>
6782	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6783	bug #3689)</para>
6784	</listitem>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6788	bug #3679)</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6793	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6798	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6799	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6800	</listitem>
6801
6802	<listitem>
6803	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6804	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6805	</listitem>
6806
6807	<listitem>
6808	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6809	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6814	(bug #3667)</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6819	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6820	</listitem>
6821
6822	<listitem>
6823	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	<listitem>
6827	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6828	</listitem>
6829
6830	<listitem>
6831	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6832	</listitem>
6833
6834	<listitem>
6835	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6836	</listitem>
6837
6838	<listitem>
6839	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6848	</listitem>
6849
6850	</itemizedlist>
6851	</sect1>
6852
6853	<sect1>
6854	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6855
6856	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6857	were added:</para>
6858
6859	<itemizedlist>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6863	</listitem>
6864
6865	<listitem>
6866	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6867	</listitem>
6868
6869	<listitem>
6870	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6871	</listitem>
6872
6873	<listitem>
6874	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	<listitem>
6878	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	</itemizedlist>
6902
6903	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6904
6905	<itemizedlist>
6906
6907	<listitem>
6908	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6913	</listitem>
6914
6915	<listitem>
6916	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6917	</listitem>
6918
6919	<listitem>
6920	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6921	</listitem>
6922
6923	<listitem>
6924	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6933	</listitem>
6934
6935	<listitem>
6936	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6937	</listitem>
6938
6939	<listitem>
6940	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6941	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6950	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6951	</listitem>
6952
6953	<listitem>
6954	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6955	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6956	</listitem>
6957
6958	<listitem>
6959	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6964	</listitem>
6965
6966	<listitem>
6967	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6968	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6977	ESX server images)</para>
6978	</listitem>
6979
6980	<listitem>
6981	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6982	writable</para>
6983	</listitem>
6984
6985	<listitem>
6986	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6987	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6988	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6989	</listitem>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6993	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6994	</listitem>
6995
6996	<listitem>
6997	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7006	hosts when creating files</para>
7007	</listitem>
7008
7009	<listitem>
7010	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7011	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7012	</listitem>
7013
7014	<listitem>
7015	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7016	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7017	#2306)</para>
7018	</listitem>
7019
7020	<listitem>
7021	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7022	(bug #3555)</para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7027	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7028	</listitem>
7029
7030	<listitem>
7031	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7032	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7033	</listitem>
7034
7035	<listitem>
7036	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7037	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7038	</listitem>
7039
7040	<listitem>
7041	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7042	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7047	(bug #3586)</para>
7048	</listitem>
7049
7050	<listitem>
7051	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7052	from Scratch systems</para>
7053	</listitem>
7054
7055	<listitem>
7056	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7057	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7058	</listitem>
7059
7060	<listitem>
7061	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7066	default to compact format</para>
7067	</listitem>
7068
7069	<listitem>
7070	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7071	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7072	</listitem>
7073
7074	<listitem>
7075	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7080	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7081	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7082	</listitem>
7083
7084	<listitem>
7085	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7086	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7087	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7092	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7097	</listitem>
7098
7099	<listitem>
7100	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7101	</listitem>
7102
7103	<listitem>
7104	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7105	</listitem>
7106
7107	<listitem>
7108	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7117	</listitem>
7118
7119	<listitem>
7120	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7121	</listitem>
7122
7123	<listitem>
7124	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7125	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7126	</listitem>
7127
7128	<listitem>
7129	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7130	</listitem>
7131
7132	<listitem>
7133	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7134	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7135	</listitem>
7136
7137	<listitem>
7138	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7147	</listitem>
7148
7149	<listitem>
7150	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7151	#2536)</para>
7152	</listitem>
7153
7154	<listitem>
7155	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7156	</listitem>
7157
7158	<listitem>
7159	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7160	(bug #3548)</para>
7161	</listitem>
7162
7163	</itemizedlist>
7164	</sect1>
7165
7166	<sect1>
7167	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7168
7169	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7170	added:</para>
7171
7172	<itemizedlist>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7176	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7177	</listitem>
7178
7179	<listitem>
7180	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7181	</listitem>
7182
7183	<listitem>
7184	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7185	</listitem>
7186
7187	<listitem>
7188	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7189	</listitem>
7190
7191	<listitem>
7192	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7193	(bug #3115)</para>
7194	</listitem>
7195
7196	<listitem>
7197	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7198	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7203	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7204	(bug #3215)</para>
7205	</listitem>
7206
7207	<listitem>
7208	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7209	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7210	</listitem>
7211
7212	<listitem>
7213	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7214	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7215	</listitem>
7216
7217	<listitem>
7218	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7219	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7220	</listitem>
7221
7222	<listitem>
7223	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7224	in parallel</para>
7225	</listitem>
7226
7227	<listitem>
7228	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7229	</listitem>
7230
7231	<listitem>
7232	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7237	</listitem>
7238
7239	<listitem>
7240	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7241	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7250	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7251	</listitem>
7252
7253	<listitem>
7254	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7255	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7256	</listitem>
7257
7258	<listitem>
7259	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7264	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7265	</listitem>
7266
7267	<listitem>
7268	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7269	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7270	</listitem>
7271
7272	<listitem>
7273	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7274	</listitem>
7275
7276	<listitem>
7277	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7278	</listitem>
7279
7280	<listitem>
7281	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7282	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7283	</listitem>
7284
7285	<listitem>
7286	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7287	</listitem>
7288
7289	<listitem>
7290	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	<listitem>
7298	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7299	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7300	</listitem>
7301
7302	<listitem>
7303	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7304	</listitem>
7305
7306	<listitem>
7307	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7308	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7309	</listitem>
7310
7311	<listitem>
7312	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7313	</listitem>
7314
7315	<listitem>
7316	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7317	</listitem>
7318
7319	<listitem>
7320	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7321	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7322	</listitem>
7323
7324	<listitem>
7325	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7326	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7327	</listitem>
7328
7329	<listitem>
7330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7331	</listitem>
7332
7333	<listitem>
7334	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7335	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7336	</listitem>
7337
7338	<listitem>
7339	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7340	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7341	</listitem>
7342
7343	<listitem>
7344	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7345	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7346	</listitem>
7347
7348	<listitem>
7349	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7350	(bug #3213)</para>
7351	</listitem>
7352
7353	<listitem>
7354	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7355	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7360	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7361	</listitem>
7362
7363	</itemizedlist>
7364	</sect1>
7365
7366	<sect1>
7367	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7368
7369	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7370	added:</para>
7371
7372	<itemizedlist>
7373
7374	<listitem>
7375	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7384	</listitem>
7385
7386	<listitem>
7387	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7388	</listitem>
7389
7390	<listitem>
7391	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7392	</listitem>
7393
7394	<listitem>
7395	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7396	</listitem>
7397
7398	<listitem>
7399	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7400	</listitem>
7401
7402	<listitem>
7403	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7404	</listitem>
7405
7406	<listitem>
7407	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7412	</listitem>
7413
7414	<listitem>
7415	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7416	</listitem>
7417
7418	<listitem>
7419	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7436	</listitem>
7437
7438	<listitem>
7439	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7440	(bug #3067)</para>
7441	</listitem>
7442
7443	<listitem>
7444	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7445	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7450	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7459	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7460	</listitem>
7461
7462	<listitem>
7463	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7464	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7465	</listitem>
7466
7467	<listitem>
7468	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7469	</listitem>
7470
7471	<listitem>
7472	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7473	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7474	</listitem>
7475
7476	<listitem>
7477	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	<listitem>
7481	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7482	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7483	</listitem>
7484
7485	<listitem>
7486	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7487	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7488	</listitem>
7489
7490	<listitem>
7491	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7492	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7493	</para>
7494	</listitem>
7495
7496	<listitem>
7497	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7498	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7499	</para>
7500	</listitem>
7501
7502	<listitem>
7503	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7504	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7505	</para>
7506	</listitem>
7507
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7526	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7527	</listitem>
7528
7529	<listitem>
7530	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7531	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7532	</listitem>
7533
7534	<listitem>
7535	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7536	formatting a drive</para>
7537	</listitem>
7538
7539	<listitem>
7540	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7541	</listitem>
7542
7543	<listitem>
7544	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7545	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7546	</listitem>
7547
7548	<listitem>
7549	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7550	</listitem>
7551
7552	<listitem>
7553	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7554	</listitem>
7555
7556	<listitem>
7557	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7558	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7559	</listitem>
7560
7561	<listitem>
7562	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7563	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7564	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7565	</listitem>
7566
7567	<listitem>
7568	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7569	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7570	</listitem>
7571
7572	<listitem>
7573	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7574	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7579	(bug #2768)</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7592	single, unified package</para>
7593	</listitem>
7594
7595	<listitem>
7596	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7597	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7598	</listitem>
7599
7600	<listitem>
7601	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7606	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7607	</listitem>
7608
7609	<listitem>
7610	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7611	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7612	</listitem>
7613
7614	<listitem>
7615	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7616	</listitem>
7617
7618	<listitem>
7619	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7620	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7621	doing 3D</para>
7622	</listitem>
7623
7624	<listitem>
7625	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7626	</listitem>
7627
7628	<listitem>
7629	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7630	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7631	</listitem>
7632
7633	<listitem>
7634	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7635	</listitem>
7636
7637	<listitem>
7638	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7639	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7640	</listitem>
7641
7642	<listitem>
7643	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7644	</listitem>
7645
7646	<listitem>
7647	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7648	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7649	</listitem>
7650
7651	<listitem>
7652	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7653	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7654	(bug #2938)</para>
7655	</listitem>
7656
7657	<listitem>
7658	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7659	Linux guests</para>
7660	</listitem>
7661
7662	<listitem>
7663	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7664	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7665	(bug #1776)</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7670	(bug #1612)</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7675	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7680	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7681	</listitem>
7682
7683	<listitem>
7684	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7685	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7686	</listitem>
7687
7688	</itemizedlist>
7689	</sect1>
7690
7691	<sect1>
7692	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7693
7694	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7695	were added:</para>
7696
7697	<itemizedlist>
7698	<listitem>
7699	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7700	</listitem>
7701
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	<listitem>
7707	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7716	</listitem>
7717
7718	<listitem>
7719	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7720	</listitem>
7721
7722	<listitem>
7723	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7724	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7725	</listitem>
7726
7727	<listitem>
7728	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7729	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7730	</listitem>
7731
7732	</itemizedlist>
7733
7734	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7735
7736	<itemizedlist>
7737	<listitem>
7738	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7739	</listitem>
7740
7741	<listitem>
7742	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7743	</listitem>
7744
7745	<listitem>
7746	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7747	</listitem>
7748
7749	<listitem>
7750	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7755	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7760	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7761	</listitem>
7762
7763	<listitem>
7764	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7769	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7774	</listitem>
7775
7776	<listitem>
7777	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7778	</listitem>
7779
7780	<listitem>
7781	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7782	</listitem>
7783
7784	<listitem>
7785	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7794	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7795	</listitem>
7796
7797	<listitem>
7798	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7799	the compiz window manager</para>
7800	</listitem>
7801
7802	<listitem>
7803	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7804	</listitem>
7805
7806	<listitem>
7807	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7808	</listitem>
7809
7810	<listitem>
7811	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7812	</listitem>
7813
7814	<listitem>
7815	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	<listitem>
7819	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7820	</listitem>
7821
7822	<listitem>
7823	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7824	</listitem>
7825
7826	<listitem>
7827	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7828	</listitem>
7829
7830	<listitem>
7831	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7832	</listitem>
7833
7834	<listitem>
7835	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7836	</listitem>
7837
7838	<listitem>
7839	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7840	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7841	</listitem>
7842
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7845	for direct device access</para>
7846	</listitem>
7847
7848	<listitem>
7849	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7854	</listitem>
7855
7856	<listitem>
7857	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7858	</listitem>
7859
7860	<listitem>
7861	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	<listitem>
7873	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7874	</listitem>
7875
7876	<listitem>
7877	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7878	</listitem>
7879
7880	</itemizedlist>
7881	</sect1>
7882
7883	<sect1>
7884	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7885
7886	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7887	added:</para>
7888
7889	<itemizedlist>
7890
7891	<listitem>
7892	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7893	states/snapshots</para>
7894	</listitem>
7895
7896	<listitem>
7897	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7898	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7899	</listitem>
7900
7901	<listitem>
7902	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7903	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7904	</listitem>
7905
7906	<listitem>
7907	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7908	collisions</para>
7909	</listitem>
7910
7911	<listitem>
7912	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7913	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	<listitem>
7917	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7918	</listitem>
7919
7920	<listitem>
7921	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7922	reliably</para>
7923	</listitem>
7924
7925	<listitem>
7926	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7927	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7928	</listitem>
7929
7930	<listitem>
7931	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7932	a reboot</para>
7933	</listitem>
7934
7935	<listitem>
7936	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7941	in parallel</para>
7942	</listitem>
7943
7944	<listitem>
7945	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7946	</listitem>
7947
7948	<listitem>
7949	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7950	correctly</para>
7951	</listitem>
7952
7953	<listitem>
7954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7955	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7956	</listitem>
7957
7958	</itemizedlist>
7959	</sect1>
7960
7961	<sect1>
7962	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7963
7964	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7965	added:</para>
7966
7967	<itemizedlist>
7968
7969	<listitem>
7970	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7971	(bug #2220)</para>
7972	</listitem>
7973
7974	<listitem>
7975	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7976	</listitem>
7977
7978	<listitem>
7979	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7984	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7985	</listitem>
7986
7987	<listitem>
7988	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7989	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7990	</listitem>
7991
7992	<listitem>
7993	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7994	(bug #2624)</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
7999	(bug #2024)</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8004	</listitem>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8008	</listitem>
8009
8010	<listitem>
8011	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8012	</listitem>
8013
8014	<listitem>
8015	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8016	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8017	</listitem>
8018
8019	<listitem>
8020	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8021	applications when updating the installation</para>
8022	</listitem>
8023
8024	<listitem>
8025	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8026	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8027	</listitem>
8028
8029	<listitem>
8030	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8031	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8032	</listitem>
8033
8034	<listitem>
8035	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8036	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8037	</listitem>
8038
8039	<listitem>
8040	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8041	connected to a host device</para>
8042	</listitem>
8043
8044	<listitem>
8045	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8046	</listitem>
8047
8048	<listitem>
8049	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8050	</listitem>
8051
8052	<listitem>
8053	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8054	</listitem>
8055
8056	<listitem>
8057	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8058	when using native RDP connections</para>
8059	</listitem>
8060
8061	<listitem>
8062	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8063	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8064	</listitem>
8065
8066	<listitem>
8067	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8068	(bug #2591)</para>
8069	</listitem>
8070
8071	<listitem>
8072	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8073	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8074	</listitem>
8075
8076	<listitem>
8077	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8078	</listitem>
8079
8080	</itemizedlist>
8081	</sect1>
8082
8083	<sect1>
8084	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8085
8086	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8087	added:</para>
8088
8089	<itemizedlist>
8090	<listitem>
8091	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8092	</listitem>
8093
8094	<listitem>
8095	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8096	</listitem>
8097
8098	<listitem>
8099	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8104	</listitem>
8105
8106	<listitem>
8107	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8108	</listitem>
8109
8110	<listitem>
8111	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8112	</listitem>
8113
8114	<listitem>
8115	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8116	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8117	</listitem>
8118
8119	<listitem>
8120	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8121	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8122	</listitem>
8123
8124	<listitem>
8125	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8126	</listitem>
8127
8128	<listitem>
8129	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8130	equal to the client resolution</para>
8131	</listitem>
8132
8133	<listitem>
8134	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8135	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8136	</listitem>
8137
8138	<listitem>
8139	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8144	</listitem>
8145
8146	<listitem>
8147	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8148	</listitem>
8149
8150	<listitem>
8151	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8152	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8153	</listitem>
8154
8155	<listitem>
8156	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8157	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8158	</listitem>
8159
8160	<listitem>
8161	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8162	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8163	</listitem>
8164
8165	<listitem>
8166	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8167	</listitem>
8168
8169	<listitem>
8170	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8175	</listitem>
8176
8177	<listitem>
8178	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8183	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8188	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8189	</listitem>
8190
8191	<listitem>
8192	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8193	</listitem>
8194
8195	<listitem>
8196	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8197	</listitem>
8198
8199	<listitem>
8200	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8201	</listitem>
8202
8203	</itemizedlist>
8204
8205	</sect1>
8206
8207	<sect1>
8208	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8209
8210	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8211	added:</para>
8212
8213	<itemizedlist>
8214
8215	<listitem>
8216	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8217	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8226	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8231	</listitem>
8232
8233	<listitem>
8234	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8235	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8236	</listitem>
8237
8238	<listitem>
8239	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8240	</listitem>
8241
8242	<listitem>
8243	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8244	the virtual disk manager</para>
8245	</listitem>
8246
8247	<listitem>
8248	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8249	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8250	</listitem>
8251
8252	<listitem>
8253	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8258	</listitem>
8259
8260	<listitem>
8261	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8262	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8263	</listitem>
8264
8265	<listitem>
8266	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8267	bug #2067)</para>
8268	</listitem>
8269
8270	<listitem>
8271	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8272	</listitem>
8273
8274	<listitem>
8275	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8276	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8277	</listitem>
8278
8279	<listitem>
8280	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8281	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8282	(bug #2184)</para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8287	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8288	</listitem>
8289
8290	<listitem>
8291	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8292	(Windows guests only)</para>
8293	</listitem>
8294
8295	<listitem>
8296	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8297	</listitem>
8298
8299	<listitem>
8300	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8301	</listitem>
8302
8303	<listitem>
8304	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8305	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8306	</listitem>
8307
8308	<listitem>
8309	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8310	</listitem>
8311
8312	<listitem>
8313	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8314	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8315	</para>
8316	</listitem>
8317
8318	<listitem>
8319	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8320	</listitem>
8321
8322	<listitem>
8323	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8324	</listitem>
8325
8326	<listitem>
8327	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8328	a VM reboot</para>
8329	</listitem>
8330
8331	<listitem>
8332	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8333	</listitem>
8334
8335	<listitem>
8336	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8337	buggy X servers</para>
8338	</listitem>
8339
8340	<listitem>
8341	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8342	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8343	</listitem>
8344
8345	<listitem>
8346	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8347	</listitem>
8348
8349	<listitem>
8350	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8351	(bug #2128)</para>
8352	</listitem>
8353
8354	<listitem>
8355	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8356	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8357	</listitem>
8358
8359	<listitem>
8360	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8361	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8362	</listitem>
8363
8364	<listitem>
8365	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8366	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8367	</listitem>
8368
8369	<listitem>
8370	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8371	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8372	</listitem>
8373
8374	<listitem>
8375	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8376	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8377	</listitem>
8378
8379	<listitem>
8380	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8381	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8382	</listitem>
8383
8384	<listitem>
8385	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8386	installer into a single package</para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8391	port to the guest
8392	</para>
8393	</listitem>
8394
8395	</itemizedlist>
8396
8397	</sect1>
8398
8399	<sect1>
8400	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8401
8402	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8403	were added:<itemizedlist>
8404
8405	<listitem>
8406	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8407	</listitem>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8411	</listitem>
8412
8413	<listitem>
8414	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8415	</listitem>
8416
8417	<listitem>
8418	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8419	</listitem>
8420
8421	<listitem>
8422	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8423	</listitem>
8424
8425	<listitem>
8426	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8427	</listitem>
8428
8429	<listitem>
8430	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8431	</listitem>
8432
8433	<listitem>
8434	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8435	</listitem>
8436
8437	<listitem>
8438	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8439	</listitem>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8443	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8444	</listitem>
8445
8446	<listitem>
8447	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8452	</listitem>
8453
8454	<listitem>
8455	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8456	</listitem>
8457
8458	</itemizedlist></para>
8459
8460	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8461
8462	<itemizedlist>
8463
8464	<listitem>
8465	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8466	</listitem>
8467
8468	<listitem>
8469	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8470	</listitem>
8471
8472	<listitem>
8473	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8474	</listitem>
8475
8476	<listitem>
8477	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8478	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8479	</listitem>
8480
8481	<listitem>
8482	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8483	restored</para>
8484	</listitem>
8485
8486	<listitem>
8487	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8488	</listitem>
8489
8490	<listitem>
8491	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<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>
8496	</listitem>
8497
8498	</itemizedlist>
8499
8500	</sect1>
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