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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: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
168	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
177	support for v2 images)</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
186	</listitem>
187
188	<listitem>
189	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
190	VirtualBox update</para>
191	</listitem>
192
193	<listitem>
194	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
195	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
200	</listitem>
201
202	</itemizedlist>
203	</sect1>
204
205	<sect1>
206	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
207
208	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
209	added:</para>
210
211	<itemizedlist>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
215	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
216	and others)</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
221	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
226	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
231	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
236	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
241	(bug #10631)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
246	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
247	(bug #10624)</para>
248	</listitem>
249
250	<listitem>
251	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
256	updated (bug #9887)</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	</itemizedlist>
264	</sect1>
265
266	<sect1>
267	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
268
269	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
270	added:</para>
271
272	<itemizedlist>
273
274	<listitem>
275	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
276	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
281	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	<listitem>
285	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
286	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
287	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
292	guests in rare cases</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
301	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
306	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
307	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
308	</listitem>
309
310	<listitem>
311	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
312	</listitem>
313
314	<listitem>
315	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
316	</listitem>
317
318	<listitem>
319	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
320	reason (bug #6189)</para>
321	</listitem>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
325	</listitem>
326
327	<listitem>
328	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
329	paused</para>
330	</listitem>
331
332	<listitem>
333	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
334	(bug #10267)</para>
335	</listitem>
336
337	<listitem>
338	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
343	(bug #10418)</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
348	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
349	(bug #10581)</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
354	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
355	</listitem>
356
357	<listitem>
358	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
359	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
360	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
361	</listitem>
362
363	<listitem>
364	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
365	</listitem>
366
367	</itemizedlist>
368
369	</sect1>
370
371	<sect1>
372	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
373
374	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
375	added:</para>
376
377	<itemizedlist>
378
379	<listitem>
380	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
381	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
382	(bug #3783)</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
391	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	</itemizedlist>
399
400	</sect1>
401
402	<sect1>
403	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
404
405	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
406	added:</para>
407
408	<itemizedlist>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
412	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
413	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
418	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
423	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
424	</listitem>
425
426	<listitem>
427	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
436	4.1.10 regression)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
445	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
454	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
459	4.1.10 regression)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
464	closed (bug #6473)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
469	properly installed</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	</itemizedlist>
477	</sect1>
478
479	<sect1>
480	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
481
482	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
483	added:</para>
484
485	<itemizedlist>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
489	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
494	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	<listitem>
498	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
499	fusion</para>
500	</listitem>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
504	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
505	</listitem>
506
507	<listitem>
508	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
509	and network mask attributes</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
514	(bug #10030)</para>
515	</listitem>
516
517	<listitem>
518	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
519	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
532	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
541	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
546	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
551	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
560	</listitem>
561
562	<listitem>
563	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
564	</listitem>
565
566	<listitem>
567	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
568	</listitem>
569
570	<listitem>
571	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
580	in a zone</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	<listitem>
588	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
589	(bug #9651)</para>
590	</listitem>
591
592	<listitem>
593	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
594	</listitem>
595
596	<listitem>
597	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
598	#10010)</para>
599	</listitem>
600
601	<listitem>
602	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
603	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
604	</listitem>
605
606	<listitem>
607	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
608	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
609	</listitem>
610
611	<listitem>
612	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
613	</listitem>
614
615	<listitem>
616	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
617	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
618	</listitem>
619
620	<listitem>
621	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
622	(bug #10151)</para>
623	</listitem>
624
625	<listitem>
626	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
627	guests.</para>
628	</listitem>
629
630	<listitem>
631	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
632	</listitem>
633
634	<listitem>
635	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
636	</listitem>
637
638	<listitem>
639	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
640	</listitem>
641
642	</itemizedlist>
643	</sect1>
644
645	<sect1>
646	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
647
648	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
649	added:</para>
650
651	<itemizedlist>
652
653	<listitem>
654	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
655	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
664	(bug #9642)</para>
665	</listitem>
666
667	<listitem>
668	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
669	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
670	</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
679	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
680	</listitem>
681
682	<listitem>
683	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
684	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
689	</listitem>
690
691	<listitem>
692	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
693	</listitem>
694
695	<listitem>
696	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
697	</listitem>
698
699	<listitem>
700	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
701	circumstances</para>
702	</listitem>
703
704	<listitem>
705	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
710	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
715	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
716	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
717	and for 3D support in general</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	<listitem>
725	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
734	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	</itemizedlist>
738	</sect1>
739
740	<sect1>
741	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
742
743	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
744	added:</para>
745
746	<itemizedlist>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
750	</listitem>
751
752	<listitem>
753	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
754	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
755	</listitem>
756
757	<listitem>
758	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
759	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
764	certain guests</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
769	</listitem>
770
771	<listitem>
772	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
773	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
774	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
779	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
780	</listitem>
781
782	<listitem>
783	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
788	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
797	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
802	guests</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
807	folders</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
812	shared folders</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
817	users and stale sessions</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
822	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	</itemizedlist>
826	</sect1>
827
828	<sect1>
829	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
830
831	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
832	added:</para>
833
834	<itemizedlist>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
838	bug #9458)</para>
839	</listitem>
840
841	<listitem>
842	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
843	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
844	</listitem>
845
846	<listitem>
847	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
848	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
849	</listitem>
850
851	<listitem>
852	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
853	</listitem>
854
855	<listitem>
856	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
857	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
858	</listitem>
859
860	<listitem>
861	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
862	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
863	</listitem>
864
865	<listitem>
866	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
867	(bug #9308)</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
872	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
873	</listitem>
874
875	<listitem>
876	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
877	(bug #9503)</para>
878	</listitem>
879
880	<listitem>
881	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
882	(bug #9242)</para>
883	</listitem>
884
885	<listitem>
886	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
887	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
888	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
893	</listitem>
894
895	<listitem>
896	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
897	images</para>
898	</listitem>
899
900	<listitem>
901	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
902	(Windows hosts only)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
907	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
912	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
913	</listitem>
914
915	<listitem>
916	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
917	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
918	</listitem>
919
920	<listitem>
921	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
922	#9387)</para>
923	</listitem>
924
925	<listitem>
926	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
927	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
928	</listitem>
929
930	<listitem>
931	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
932	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
933	</listitem>
934
935	<listitem>
936	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
937	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
938	</listitem>
939
940	<listitem>
941	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
942	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
943	</listitem>
944
945	<listitem>
946	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
955	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
956	</listitem>
957
958	<listitem>
959	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
960	(bug #1578)</para>
961	</listitem>
962
963	<listitem>
964	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
965	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
966	</listitem>
967
968	<listitem>
969	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
970	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
971	</listitem>
972
973	<listitem>
974	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
975	(bug #9535)</para>
976	</listitem>
977
978	<listitem>
979	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
980	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
985	help file (bug #9646)</para>
986	</listitem>
987
988	<listitem>
989	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
990	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
995	console window (bug #3549)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1000	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1001	</listitem>
1002
1003	<listitem>
1004	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1005	</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1010	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1011	</para>
1012	</listitem>
1013
1014	<listitem>
1015	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1016	(bug #6229)
1017	</para>
1018	</listitem>
1019
1020	<listitem>
1021	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1022	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1023	</listitem>
1024
1025	<listitem>
1026	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1027	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1032	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1037	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1042	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1047	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1052	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1057	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	</itemizedlist>
1061	</sect1>
1062
1063	<sect1>
1064	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1065
1066	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1067	added:</para>
1068
1069	<itemizedlist>
1070
1071	<listitem>
1072	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1077	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1086	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1091	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1096	a live snapshot</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1101	due to a library version conflict</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1106	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1111	at a time by default</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1116	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1117	#9368)</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1122	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1127	VMs</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1132	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1133	</listitem>
1134
1135	<listitem>
1136	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1137	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1138	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1143	(bug #9308)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1148	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1153	</listitem>
1154
1155	<listitem>
1156	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1157	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	<listitem>
1161	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1162	(bug #9242)</para>
1163	</listitem>
1164
1165	<listitem>
1166	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1167	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1168	</listitem>
1169
1170	<listitem>
1171	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1172	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1173	</listitem>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1177	USB devices</para>
1178	</listitem>
1179
1180	<listitem>
1181	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1182	and warn about it</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1187	</listitem>
1188
1189	<listitem>
1190	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1191	</listitem>
1192
1193	<listitem>
1194	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1195	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1196	</listitem>
1197
1198	<listitem>
1199	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1200	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1201	</listitem>
1202
1203	<listitem>
1204	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1205	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1206	</listitem>
1207
1208	<listitem>
1209	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1210	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1211	</listitem>
1212
1213	<listitem>
1214	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1215	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1220	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1225	2.6.37 and above</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	</itemizedlist>
1229	</sect1>
1230
1231	<sect1>
1232	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1233
1234	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1235	were added:</para>
1236
1237	<itemizedlist>
1238
1239	<listitem>
1240	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1241	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1242	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1247	</listitem>
1248
1249	<listitem>
1250	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1255	bug #7822)</para>
1256	</listitem>
1257
1258	<listitem>
1259	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1264	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1269	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1270	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1271	anymore)</para>
1272	</listitem>
1273
1274	<listitem>
1275	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1276	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1277	</listitem>
1278
1279	<listitem>
1280	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1281	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1282	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1287	</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1292	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1293	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1298	with VBoxManage</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1303	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306
1307	</itemizedlist>
1308
1309	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1310
1311	<itemizedlist>
1312
1313	<listitem>
1314	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1315	</listitem>
1316
1317	<listitem>
1318	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1319	</listitem>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1323	</listitem>
1324
1325	<listitem>
1326	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1327	of the current state</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1336	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1341	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1342	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1347	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	<listitem>
1355	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1356	</listitem>
1357
1358	<listitem>
1359	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1360	dialog</para>
1361	</listitem>
1362
1363	<listitem>
1364	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1365	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1366	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1371	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1376	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1377	</listitem>
1378
1379	<listitem>
1380	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1381	be a valid UUID</para>
1382	</listitem>
1383
1384	<listitem>
1385	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1386	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1387	</listitem>
1388
1389	<listitem>
1390	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1391	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1392	cases</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1397	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1398	improve performance</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1403	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1404	on a temporary basis</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1409	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1410	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1415	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1420	images in VDI format</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1425	VMDK format</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1430	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1447	</listitem>
1448
1449	<listitem>
1450	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1451	</listitem>
1452
1453	<listitem>
1454	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1455	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1456	</listitem>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1460	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1465	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1466	</listitem>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1470	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1475	RDP clients</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1480	</listitem>
1481
1482	<listitem>
1483	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1484	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1489	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1494	simultaneously</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1499	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1500	location values in many places</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1509	builds</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1514	</listitem>
1515
1516	<listitem>
1517	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1518	window (bug #4491)</para>
1519	</listitem>
1520
1521	<listitem>
1522	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1523	removing a VM</para>
1524	</listitem>
1525
1526	<listitem>
1527	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1536	166 and above)</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1541	hosts</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1550	from the host</para>
1551	</listitem>
1552
1553	<listitem>
1554	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1555	</listitem>
1556
1557	</itemizedlist>
1558
1559	</sect1>
1560
1561	<sect1>
1562	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1563
1564	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1565	added:</para>
1566
1567	<itemizedlist>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1571	</listitem>
1572
1573	<listitem>
1574	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1575	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1576	</listitem>
1577
1578	<listitem>
1579	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1580	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1581	</listitem>
1582
1583	<listitem>
1584	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1585	a live snapshot</para>
1586	</listitem>
1587
1588	<listitem>
1589	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1590	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1595	</listitem>
1596
1597	<listitem>
1598	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1599	</listitem>
1600
1601	<listitem>
1602	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1603	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1604	</listitem>
1605
1606	<listitem>
1607	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1608	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1613	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1618	</listitem>
1619
1620	<listitem>
1621	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1622	images</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1627	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629	<listitem>
1630	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1631	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1632	</listitem>
1633
1634	<listitem>
1635	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1636	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	<listitem>
1640	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1641	</listitem>
1642
1643	<listitem>
1644	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1645	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1646	</listitem>
1647
1648	<listitem>
1649	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1650	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1651	</listitem>
1652
1653	<listitem>
1654	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1659	(bug #9370)</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1664	(bug #9535)</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1669	(bug #1578)</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1674	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1675	</listitem>
1676
1677	<listitem>
1678	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1679	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1680	</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1685	</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1690	2.6.37 and above</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1695	(bug #6229)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1700	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	</itemizedlist>
1704	</sect1>
1705
1706	<sect1>
1707	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1708
1709	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1710	added:</para>
1711
1712	<itemizedlist>
1713
1714	<listitem>
1715	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1720	166 and above)</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1725	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1726	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1727	</listitem>
1728
1729	<listitem>
1730	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1731	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1732	</listitem>
1733
1734	<listitem>
1735	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1736	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1741	</listitem>
1742
1743	<listitem>
1744	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1745	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1746	</listitem>
1747
1748	<listitem>
1749	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1750	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1755	builds</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1760	</listitem>
1761
1762	</itemizedlist>
1763	</sect1>
1764	<sect1>
1765	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1766
1767	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1768	added:</para>
1769
1770	<itemizedlist>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1782	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1787	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1796	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1805	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1806	</listitem>
1807
1808	<listitem>
1809	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1810	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1811	</listitem>
1812
1813	<listitem>
1814	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1815	</listitem>
1816
1817	<listitem>
1818	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1823	file was not written during export</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1840	binaries</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1845	</listitem>
1846
1847	<listitem>
1848	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1849	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1854	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1855	</listitem>
1856
1857	<listitem>
1858	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1863	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	</itemizedlist>
1867	</sect1>
1868
1869	<sect1>
1870	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1871
1872	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1873	added:</para>
1874
1875	<itemizedlist>
1876
1877	<listitem>
1878	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1879	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1884	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1889	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1894	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1895	</listitem>
1896
1897	<listitem>
1898	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1899	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1900	</listitem>
1901
1902	<listitem>
1903	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1904	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1909	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1914	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1915	</listitem>
1916
1917	<listitem>
1918	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
1919	</listitem>
1920
1921	<listitem>
1922	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
1927	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
1932	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
1945	(Linux hosts only)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	<listitem>
1949	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
1950	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
1955	window</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
1960	Fedora 15</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
1965	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
1970	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
1971	</listitem>
1972
1973	<listitem>
1974	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
1975	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
1976	</listitem>
1977
1978	<listitem>
1979	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
1984	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	</itemizedlist>
1988	</sect1>
1989
1990	<sect1>
1991	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
1992
1993	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1994	added:</para>
1995
1996	<itemizedlist>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2000	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2005	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2010	(bug #8006)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2015	(bug #8726)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2024	</listitem>
2025
2026	<listitem>
2027	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2028	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2033	(bug #8469)</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2038	selectors</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2043	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2048	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2053	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2062	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2071	</listitem>
2072
2073	<listitem>
2074	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2075	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2076	</listitem>
2077
2078	<listitem>
2079	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2080	I/O error occurred</para>
2081	</listitem>
2082
2083	<listitem>
2084	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2085	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2086	</listitem>
2087
2088	<listitem>
2089	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2090	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	<listitem>
2094	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2095	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2096	if no medium is present</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	<listitem>
2104	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2105	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2110	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2115	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2124	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2129	library (bug #8063)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2134	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2139	</listitem>
2140
2141	<listitem>
2142	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2143	</listitem>
2144
2145	<listitem>
2146	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2147	</listitem>
2148
2149	<listitem>
2150	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2151	changed on import</para>
2152	</listitem>
2153
2154	<listitem>
2155	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2160	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2161	</listitem>
2162
2163	<listitem>
2164	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2165	(bug #8593)</para>
2166	</listitem>
2167
2168	<listitem>
2169	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2170	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2171	</listitem>
2172
2173	<listitem>
2174	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2175	captured</para>
2176	</listitem>
2177
2178	<listitem>
2179	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2180	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2181	</listitem>
2182
2183	<listitem>
2184	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2185	</para>
2186	</listitem>
2187
2188	<listitem>
2189	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2190	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2195	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2196	</listitem>
2197
2198	<listitem>
2199	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2200	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2201	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2206	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2211	</listitem>
2212
2213	<listitem>
2214	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2215	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2216	</listitem>
2217
2218	<listitem>
2219	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2220	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2225	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2230	</listitem>
2231
2232	<listitem>
2233	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2242	</listitem>
2243
2244	<listitem>
2245	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2246	(bug #7946)</para>
2247	</listitem>
2248
2249	<listitem>
2250	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2255	</listitem>
2256
2257	<listitem>
2258	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2259	</listitem>
2260
2261	</itemizedlist>
2262
2263	</sect1>
2264
2265	<sect1>
2266	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2267
2268	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2269	added:</para>
2270
2271	<itemizedlist>
2272
2273	<listitem>
2274	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2275	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2276	</listitem>
2277
2278	<listitem>
2279	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2280	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2281	</listitem>
2282
2283	<listitem>
2284	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2285	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2286	</listitem>
2287
2288	<listitem>
2289	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2290	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2295	number of host network interfaces</para>
2296	</listitem>
2297
2298	<listitem>
2299	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2300	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2301	</listitem>
2302
2303	<listitem>
2304	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2305	</listitem>
2306
2307	<listitem>
2308	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2309	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2310	</listitem>
2311
2312	<listitem>
2313	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2314	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2315	</listitem>
2316
2317	<listitem>
2318	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2319	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2320	</listitem>
2321
2322	<listitem>
2323	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2328	(bug #6577)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2333	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2334	(bug #8235)</para>
2335	</listitem>
2336
2337	<listitem>
2338	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2339	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2340	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2349	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2358	(bug #7966)</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2371	</listitem>
2372
2373	<listitem>
2374	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2375	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2376	</listitem>
2377
2378	<listitem>
2379	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2384	</listitem>
2385
2386	<listitem>
2387	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2388	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2389	</listitem>
2390
2391	<listitem>
2392	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2393	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2394	</listitem>
2395
2396	<listitem>
2397	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	<listitem>
2401	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2402	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2403	</listitem>
2404
2405	<listitem>
2406	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2407	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2408	(bug #8122)</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2413	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2426	(bug #1548)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2435	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2444	(bug #8231)</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2449	11.04 Alpha</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2454	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2459	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2464	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2469	with VBoxGINA</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	</itemizedlist>
2473
2474	</sect1>
2475
2476	<sect1>
2477	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2478
2479	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2480	added:</para>
2481
2482	<itemizedlist>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2486	settings vanished</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2491	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2492	</listitem>
2493
2494	<listitem>
2495	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2496	created (bug #8031)</para>
2497	</listitem>
2498
2499	<listitem>
2500	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2505	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2510	an extension pack</para>
2511	</listitem>
2512
2513	<listitem>
2514	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2515	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2524	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2529	host-only interface</para>
2530	</listitem>
2531
2532	<listitem>
2533	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2534	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2539	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2540	</listitem>
2541
2542	<listitem>
2543	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2544	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2545	</listitem>
2546
2547	<listitem>
2548	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2549	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2554	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2567	guests</para>
2568	</listitem>
2569
2570	<listitem>
2571	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	<listitem>
2575	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2580	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	<listitem>
2584	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2585	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2586	</listitem>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2590	a VM start</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2595	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2596	</listitem>
2597
2598	<listitem>
2599	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2600	(bug #6067)</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2605	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2606	</listitem>
2607
2608	<listitem>
2609	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2610	not saved to machine XML</para>
2611	</listitem>
2612
2613	<listitem>
2614	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2615	#7983)</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2620	#7981)</para>
2621	</listitem>
2622
2623	<listitem>
2624	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2625	</listitem>
2626
2627	<listitem>
2628	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2629	regression)</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2634	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2635	</listitem>
2636
2637	<listitem>
2638	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2639	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2640	</listitem>
2641
2642	</itemizedlist>
2643
2644	</sect1>
2645
2646	<sect1>
2647	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2648
2649	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2650	were added:</para>
2651
2652	<itemizedlist>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2660	</listitem>
2661
2662	<listitem>
2663	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2664	<itemizedlist>
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2671	</listitem>
2672
2673	<listitem>
2674	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2675	</listitem>
2676
2677	<listitem>
2678	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2683	states, and optionally including attached
2684	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2685	can do the same now)</para>
2686	</listitem>
2687
2688	<listitem>
2689	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	</itemizedlist>
2693	</para>
2694	</listitem>
2695
2696	<listitem>
2697	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>New virtual hardware:
2702	<itemizedlist>
2703	<listitem>
2704	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2705	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	<listitem>
2709	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2710	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2711	</listitem>
2712	</itemizedlist>
2713	</para>
2714	</listitem>
2715
2716	<listitem>
2717	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2718	<itemizedlist>
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2721	</listitem>
2722
2723	<listitem>
2724	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2725	</para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2730	now</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2735	</listitem>
2736
2737	</itemizedlist>
2738	</para>
2739	</listitem>
2740
2741	<listitem>
2742	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2743	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2744	</listitem>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2748	Parallels images</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2757	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2762	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	</itemizedlist>
2766
2767	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2768
2769	<itemizedlist>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2773	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2774	</listitem>
2775
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2782	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2783	</listitem>
2784
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2787	(bug #1657)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2800	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2805	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2810	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2811	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2816	again (bug #6864)</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2821	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823
2824	<listitem>
2825	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2826	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2839	</listitem>
2840
2841	<listitem>
2842	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2843	</listitem>
2844
2845	<listitem>
2846	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2847	</listitem>
2848
2849	<listitem>
2850	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2859	(bug #7058)</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2864	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2869	circumstances</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2874	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2875	#5578)
2876	</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2885	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2894	#6760)</para>
2895	</listitem>
2896
2897	<listitem>
2898	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2899	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2900	</listitem>
2901
2902	<listitem>
2903	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2904	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2905	</listitem>
2906
2907	<listitem>
2908	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2909	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2910	</listitem>
2911
2912	<listitem>
2913	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
2918	file</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
2923	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	</itemizedlist>
2927
2928	</sect1>
2929
2930	<sect1>
2931	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
2932
2933	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2934	added:</para>
2935
2936	<itemizedlist>
2937
2938	<listitem>
2939	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
2940	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
2945	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
2946	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
2951	</listitem>
2952
2953	<listitem>
2954	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
2955	</listitem>
2956
2957	<listitem>
2958	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
2963	the VM is running</para>
2964	</listitem>
2965
2966	<listitem>
2967	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
2968	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
2969	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
2970	starting from a saved state</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
2975	</listitem>
2976
2977	<listitem>
2978	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2991	</listitem>
2992
2993	<listitem>
2994	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
2995	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3000	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3005	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3014	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3015	</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3020	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3021	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3022	</listitem>
3023
3024	<listitem>
3025	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3026	only)</para>
3027	</listitem>
3028
3029	<listitem>
3030	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3031	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3032	</listitem>
3033
3034	<listitem>
3035	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3040	</listitem>
3041
3042	<listitem>
3043	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3044	</listitem>
3045
3046	<listitem>
3047	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3048	state (bug #4124)</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3053	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3054	</listitem>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3062	(bug #2996)</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3067	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3068	</listitem>
3069
3070	<listitem>
3071	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3072	</listitem>
3073
3074	<listitem>
3075	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3076	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3081	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3082	</listitem>
3083
3084	<listitem>
3085	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3086	user accounts for VM information</para>
3087	</listitem>
3088
3089	</itemizedlist>
3090
3091	</sect1>
3092
3093	<sect1>
3094	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3095
3096	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3097	added:</para>
3098
3099	<itemizedlist>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3103	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3120	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3125	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3126	</listitem>
3127
3128	<listitem>
3129	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3130	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3135	(bug #4952)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3140	bug #6122)</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3145	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3150	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3151	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3152	</listitem>
3153
3154	<listitem>
3155	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3160	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3161	</listitem>
3162
3163	<listitem>
3164	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3165	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3170	canceled</para>
3171	</listitem>
3172
3173	<listitem>
3174	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3175	</listitem>
3176
3177	<listitem>
3178	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3191	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3200	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3205	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3214	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3223	circumstances</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3228	printers</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3237	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3242	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3247	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3248	circumstances</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3253	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3258	as supported extension</para>
3259	</listitem>
3260
3261	<listitem>
3262	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3263	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3264	</listitem>
3265
3266	<listitem>
3267	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3268	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3277	(bug #7366)</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3286	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3291	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3296	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3301	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3306	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3319	more than one environment variable</para>
3320	</listitem>
3321
3322	<listitem>
3323	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3324	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3329	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3334	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3339	enumerating logged in users</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3356	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3357	</listitem>
3358
3359	<listitem>
3360	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3365	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3370	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3375	(bug #7448)</para>
3376	</listitem>
3377
3378	<listitem>
3379	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	</itemizedlist>
3391
3392	</sect1>
3393
3394	<sect1>
3395	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3396
3397	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3398	added:</para>
3399
3400	<itemizedlist>
3401
3402	<listitem>
3403	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3404	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3405	</listitem>
3406
3407	<listitem>
3408	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3413	bug #6809)</para>
3414	</listitem>
3415
3416	<listitem>
3417	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3426	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3431	changes</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3440	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3445	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3466	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3471	</listitem>
3472
3473	<listitem>
3474	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3475	(bug #6832)</para>
3476	</listitem>
3477
3478	<listitem>
3479	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3480	guests</para>
3481	</listitem>
3482
3483	<listitem>
3484	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3485	</listitem>
3486
3487	<listitem>
3488	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3489	without external tools and tricks</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	<listitem>
3493	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3494	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3503	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3508	shutdown</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3513	fixes</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3518	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3519	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3520	</para>
3521	</listitem>
3522
3523	<listitem>
3524	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3525	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3526	</listitem>
3527
3528	<listitem>
3529	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3530	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3531	</listitem>
3532
3533	<listitem>
3534	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3535	</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	<listitem>
3547	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	</itemizedlist>
3551
3552	</sect1>
3553
3554	<sect1>
3555	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3556
3557	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3558	added:</para>
3559
3560	<itemizedlist>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3564	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3569	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3574	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3579	</listitem>
3580
3581	<listitem>
3582	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3595	assigned</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3600	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3605	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3614	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3619	again (bug #7022).
3620	</para>
3621	</listitem>
3622
3623	<listitem>
3624	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3625	(bug #6768)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3630	(bug #6927)</para>
3631	</listitem>
3632
3633	<listitem>
3634	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3635	bug #7031)</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3640	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3641	</listitem>
3642
3643	<listitem>
3644	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3645	bug #6987)</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	<listitem>
3657	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3658	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3667	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3668	</listitem>
3669
3670	<listitem>
3671	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3676	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3677	bug #6872)</para>
3678	</listitem>
3679
3680	<listitem>
3681	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3682	</listitem>
3683
3684	<listitem>
3685	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3686	(performance tweak)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3691	is currently paused</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3696	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3701	</listitem>
3702
3703	<listitem>
3704	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3705	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3706	</listitem>
3707
3708	<listitem>
3709	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3710	not properly saved</para>
3711	</listitem>
3712
3713	<listitem>
3714	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3715	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3720	</listitem>
3721
3722	<listitem>
3723	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3724	</listitem>
3725
3726	<listitem>
3727	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3732	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3741	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3746	(bug #5251)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3751	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3764	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	<listitem>
3776	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3777	</listitem>
3778
3779	</itemizedlist>
3780	</sect1>
3781
3782	<sect1>
3783	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3784
3785	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3786	added:</para>
3787
3788	<itemizedlist>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3792	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3797	</listitem>
3798
3799	<listitem>
3800	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3801	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3806	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3815	again (bug #6864)</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3820	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3821	</listitem>
3822
3823	<listitem>
3824	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3829	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	</itemizedlist>
3837
3838	</sect1>
3839
3840	<sect1>
3841	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3842
3843	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3844	added:</para>
3845
3846	<itemizedlist>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3850	</listitem>
3851
3852	<listitem>
3853	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3854	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	<listitem>
3862	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3863	state</para>
3864	</listitem>
3865
3866	<listitem>
3867	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3888	</listitem>
3889
3890	<listitem>
3891	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3896	</listitem>
3897
3898	<listitem>
3899	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3900	</listitem>
3901
3902	<listitem>
3903	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3908	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3909	</listitem>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3913	(bug #6784)</para>
3914	</listitem>
3915
3916	<listitem>
3917	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
3926	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
3935	</listitem>
3936
3937	<listitem>
3938	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
3939	host only</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	<listitem>
3943	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
3944	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	<listitem>
3948	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
3949	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
3958	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
3959	</listitem>
3960
3961	<listitem>
3962	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
3963	</listitem>
3964
3965	<listitem>
3966	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
3971	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
3988	(bug #6714)</para>
3989	</listitem>
3990
3991	<listitem>
3992	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
3993	</listitem>
3994
3995	<listitem>
3996	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
3997	</listitem>
3998
3999	<listitem>
4000	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4005	</listitem>
4006
4007	<listitem>
4008	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	</itemizedlist>
4012
4013	</sect1>
4014
4015	<sect1>
4016	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4017
4018	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4019	were added:</para>
4020
4021	<itemizedlist>
4022
4023	<listitem>
4024	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4025	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4026	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4035	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4040	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4041	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4046	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4051	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4052	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4053	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4054	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4063	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4068	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4089	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4090	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4095	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4096	</listitem>
4097
4098	</itemizedlist>
4099
4100	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4101
4102	<itemizedlist>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4106	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4115	VM</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4120	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4121	</listitem>
4122
4123	<listitem>
4124	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4125	#1669)</para>
4126	</listitem>
4127
4128	<listitem>
4129	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4130	#6442)</para>
4131	</listitem>
4132
4133	<listitem>
4134	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4135	combination (bug #684)</para>
4136	</listitem>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4140	the VM from the GUI</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4145	medium is not accessible</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4154	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	<listitem>
4158	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4159	#3106)</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4164	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4165	it</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4174	</listitem>
4175
4176	<listitem>
4177	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4178	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4183	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4196	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4205	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4214	in VirtualBox</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4219	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4224	VirtualBox</para>
4225	</listitem>
4226
4227	<listitem>
4228	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4233	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4234	</listitem>
4235
4236	</itemizedlist>
4237	</sect1>
4238
4239	<sect1>
4240	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4241
4242	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4243	added:</para>
4244
4245	<itemizedlist>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4249	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4254	</listitem>
4255
4256	<listitem>
4257	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4262	only) </para>
4263	</listitem>
4264
4265	<listitem>
4266	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4267	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4268	</listitem>
4269
4270	<listitem>
4271	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4272	interface version</para>
4273	</listitem>
4274
4275	<listitem>
4276	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4277	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4278	slot empty</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4283	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4284	(bug #4220)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4289	</listitem>
4290
4291	<listitem>
4292	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4293	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4298	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4303	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4304	</listitem>
4305
4306	<listitem>
4307	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4308	attached</para>
4309	</listitem>
4310
4311	<listitem>
4312	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4313	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4314	</listitem>
4315
4316	<listitem>
4317	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4318	</listitem>
4319
4320	<listitem>
4321	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4322	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4323	</listitem>
4324
4325	<listitem>
4326	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4327	is bug #6408)</para>
4328	</listitem>
4329
4330	<listitem>
4331	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4336	fail to initialize</para>
4337	</listitem>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4341	</listitem>
4342
4343	<listitem>
4344	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4345	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4350	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4351	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4360	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4361	</listitem>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4365	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4370	(bug #6435)</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4375	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4380	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4381	(bug #6488)</para>
4382	</listitem>
4383
4384	<listitem>
4385	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4386	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4391	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4392	</listitem>
4393
4394	<listitem>
4395	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4396	#5227)</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4401	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4402	</listitem>
4403
4404	<listitem>
4405	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4410	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	</itemizedlist>
4414	</sect1>
4415
4416	<sect1>
4417	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4418
4419	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4420	added:</para>
4421
4422	<itemizedlist>
4423
4424	<listitem>
4425	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4426	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4427	</listitem>
4428
4429	<listitem>
4430	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4431	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4432	</listitem>
4433
4434	<listitem>
4435	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4436	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4441	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4442	</listitem>
4443
4444	<listitem>
4445	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4446	</listitem>
4447
4448	<listitem>
4449	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4450	</listitem>
4451
4452	<listitem>
4453	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4462	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4467	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4472	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4481	</listitem>
4482
4483	<listitem>
4484	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4485	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4486	</listitem>
4487
4488	<listitem>
4489	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4490	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4491	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4496	(bug #5297)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4501	(bug #4962)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4506	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4507	</listitem>
4508
4509	<listitem>
4510	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4511	(bug #6176)</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4516	certain circumstances</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4521	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4526	</listitem>
4527
4528	<listitem>
4529	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4530	</listitem>
4531
4532	<listitem>
4533	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4534	(bug #3571)</para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4539	devices</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4544	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4545	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4550	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4551	</listitem>
4552
4553	<listitem>
4554	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4559	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4564	response</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4577	</listitem>
4578
4579	<listitem>
4580	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4581	</listitem>
4582
4583	<listitem>
4584	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4585	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4586	</listitem>
4587
4588	<listitem>
4589	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4590	</listitem>
4591
4592	<listitem>
4593	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4598	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4607	</listitem>
4608
4609	<listitem>
4610	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4615	</listitem>
4616
4617	</itemizedlist>
4618	</sect1>
4619
4620	<sect1>
4621	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4622
4623	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4624	added:</para>
4625
4626	<itemizedlist>
4627
4628	<listitem>
4629	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4630	</listitem>
4631
4632	<listitem>
4633	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4634	</listitem>
4635
4636	<listitem>
4637	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4638	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4639	</listitem>
4640
4641	<listitem>
4642	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4643	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4644	</listitem>
4645
4646	<listitem>
4647	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4648	(bug #3945)</para>
4649	</listitem>
4650
4651	<listitem>
4652	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4653	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4654	</listitem>
4655
4656	<listitem>
4657	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4658	and AMD-V only) </para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4667	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4668	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4673	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4678	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4683	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4688	snapshots command</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4697	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4698	</listitem>
4699
4700	<listitem>
4701	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4702	</listitem>
4703
4704	<listitem>
4705	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4706	</listitem>
4707
4708	<listitem>
4709	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4714	(KWin bug)</para>
4715	</listitem>
4716
4717	<listitem>
4718	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4719	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4740	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4745	bug #5787)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4750	DHCP requests</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4755	(bug #3217)</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4760	range (bug #5923)</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4769	</listitem>
4770
4771	<listitem>
4772	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4773	</listitem>
4774
4775	<listitem>
4776	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4777	</listitem>
4778
4779	<listitem>
4780	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4781	file (bug #5681)</para>
4782	</listitem>
4783
4784	<listitem>
4785	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4786	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4787	</listitem>
4788
4789	<listitem>
4790	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4791	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4796	regression)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4801	</listitem>
4802
4803	<listitem>
4804	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4805	</listitem>
4806
4807	<listitem>
4808	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4817	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4834	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4843	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4844	</listitem>
4845
4846	<listitem>
4847	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4856	</listitem>
4857
4858	<listitem>
4859	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4860	(bug #5731)</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4865	again</para>
4866	</listitem>
4867
4868	</itemizedlist>
4869
4870	</sect1>
4871
4872	<sect1>
4873	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4874
4875	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4876	added:</para>
4877
4878	<itemizedlist>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4886	</listitem>
4887
4888	<listitem>
4889	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4890	</listitem>
4891
4892	<listitem>
4893	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4902	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
4927	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
4932	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
4933	</listitem>
4934
4935	<listitem>
4936	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
4937	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
4938	#1762)</para>
4939	</listitem>
4940
4941	<listitem>
4942	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
4943	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
4948	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
4953	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
4962	</listitem>
4963
4964	<listitem>
4965	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
4966	several virtual CPU cores</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
4971	</listitem>
4972
4973	<listitem>
4974	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
4975	</listitem>
4976
4977	<listitem>
4978	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
4979	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
4980	</listitem>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
4984	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
4993	guests</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
4998	and on some 64bit guests</para>
4999	</listitem>
5000
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5003	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5008	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5013	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5034	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	</itemizedlist>
5042
5043	</sect1>
5044
5045	<sect1>
5046	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5047
5048	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5049	were added:</para>
5050
5051	<itemizedlist>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5055	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5060	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5061	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5066	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5067	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5072	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5073	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5074	</listitem>
5075
5076	<listitem>
5077	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5078	running</para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5083	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5088	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5093	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5094	</listitem>
5095
5096	<listitem>
5097	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5098	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	</itemizedlist>
5102
5103	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5104
5105	<itemizedlist>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5113	</listitem>
5114
5115	<listitem>
5116	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5121	(bug #5291)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5126	</listitem>
5127
5128	<listitem>
5129	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5130	</listitem>
5131
5132	<listitem>
5133	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5134	</listitem>
5135
5136	<listitem>
5137	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5138	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5139	</listitem>
5140
5141	<listitem>
5142	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5143	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5168	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5173	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5178	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5183	(bug #2723)</para>
5184	</listitem>
5185
5186	<listitem>
5187	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5188	</listitem>
5189
5190	<listitem>
5191	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5192	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5193	</listitem>
5194
5195	<listitem>
5196	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5197	optional manifest file on import</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5206	(bug #3773)</para>
5207	</listitem>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5219	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5224	(bug #4866)</para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5229	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5234	certain conditions</para>
5235	</listitem>
5236
5237	<listitem>
5238	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5239	</listitem>
5240
5241	<listitem>
5242	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5243	</listitem>
5244
5245	<listitem>
5246	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5247	</listitem>
5248
5249	<listitem>
5250	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5255	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5260	</listitem>
5261
5262	<listitem>
5263	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5264	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5269	</listitem>
5270
5271	<listitem>
5272	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5273	</listitem>
5274
5275	<listitem>
5276	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5277	</listitem>
5278
5279	<listitem>
5280	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5285	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5290	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5291	(bug #928)</para>
5292	</listitem>
5293
5294	<listitem>
5295	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5296	</listitem>
5297
5298	</itemizedlist>
5299
5300	</sect1>
5301
5302	<sect1>
5303	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5304
5305	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5306	added:</para>
5307
5308	<itemizedlist>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5312	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5317	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5322	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5327	enabled</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5332	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5333	</listitem>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5337	(bug #2676)</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5342	is connected to a raw file</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5347	(bug #5355)</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5356	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5361	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5362	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5375	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5380	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5381	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5382	</listitem>
5383
5384	</itemizedlist>
5385
5386	</sect1>
5387
5388	<sect1>
5389	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5390
5391	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5392	added:</para>
5393
5394	<itemizedlist>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5406	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5407	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5408	</listitem>
5409
5410	<listitem>
5411	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5412	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5413	</listitem>
5414
5415	<listitem>
5416	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5417	</listitem>
5418
5419	<listitem>
5420	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5421	</listitem>
5422
5423	<listitem>
5424	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5433	</listitem>
5434
5435	<listitem>
5436	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5437	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5438	</listitem>
5439
5440	<listitem>
5441	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5442	</listitem>
5443
5444	<listitem>
5445	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5450	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5451	</listitem>
5452
5453	<listitem>
5454	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5459	exhaustion</para>
5460	</listitem>
5461
5462	<listitem>
5463	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5468	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5473	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5478	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5483	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5484	(bug #2921)</para>
5485	</listitem>
5486
5487	<listitem>
5488	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5489	hosts only)</para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5494	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5495	</listitem>
5496
5497	<listitem>
5498	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5503	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5512	image inconsistency </para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5525	(bug #2025)</para>
5526	</listitem>
5527
5528	<listitem>
5529	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5530	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	</itemizedlist>
5534
5535	</sect1>
5536
5537	<sect1>
5538	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5539
5540	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5541	added:</para>
5542
5543	<itemizedlist>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5547	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5552	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5557	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5558	</listitem>
5559
5560	<listitem>
5561	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5566	software virtualization only) </para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5571	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5576	with root privileges</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5581	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5586	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5591	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5596	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5597	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5598	</listitem>
5599
5600	<listitem>
5601	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5602	available</para>
5603	</listitem>
5604
5605	<listitem>
5606	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5607	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5612	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5617	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5622	(bug #4907)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5627	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5632	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	<listitem>
5636	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5653	are installed</para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5658	(bug #4771)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5663	</listitem>
5664
5665	<listitem>
5666	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5667	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5672	command</para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5681	</listitem>
5682
5683	<listitem>
5684	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5685	(bug #5089)</para>
5686	</listitem>
5687
5688	<listitem>
5689	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	</itemizedlist>
5693
5694	</sect1>
5695
5696	<sect1>
5697	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5698
5699	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5700	added:</para>
5701
5702	<itemizedlist>
5703
5704	<listitem>
5705	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5706	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5707	</listitem>
5708
5709	<listitem>
5710	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5711	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5712	</listitem>
5713
5714	<listitem>
5715	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5716	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5717	</listitem>
5718
5719	<listitem>
5720	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5721	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5722	</listitem>
5723
5724	<listitem>
5725	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5726	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5727	</listitem>
5728
5729	<listitem>
5730	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5751	onlined or offlined</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5760	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5765	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5766	</listitem>
5767
5768	<listitem>
5769	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5774	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5791	</listitem>
5792
5793	<listitem>
5794	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5795	</listitem>
5796
5797	<listitem>
5798	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5799	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5800	</listitem>
5801
5802	<listitem>
5803	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5808	</listitem>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5816	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5817	</listitem>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5821	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5822	</listitem>
5823
5824	<listitem>
5825	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5826	</listitem>
5827
5828	<listitem>
5829	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5830	</listitem>
5831
5832	<listitem>
5833	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5854	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5855	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5856	phase collapse</para>
5857	</listitem>
5858
5859	<listitem>
5860	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5861	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5866	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5875	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5880	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5889	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5890	#4698, #4790)</para>
5891	</listitem>
5892
5893	<listitem>
5894	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5895	less than the configured range</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5916	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
5921	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
5926	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
5927	</listitem>
5928
5929	<listitem>
5930	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
5931	</listitem>
5932
5933	<listitem>
5934	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
5935	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
5936	</listitem>
5937
5938	<listitem>
5939	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
5940	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
5941	</listitem>
5942
5943	<listitem>
5944	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
5945	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
5946	</listitem>
5947
5948	<listitem>
5949	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
5950	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
5951	</listitem>
5952
5953	<listitem>
5954	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
5955	</listitem>
5956
5957	<listitem>
5958	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	</itemizedlist>
5962
5963	</sect1>
5964
5965	<sect1>
5966	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
5967
5968	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5969	added:</para>
5970
5971	<itemizedlist>
5972
5973	<listitem>
5974	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
5975	</listitem>
5976
5977	<listitem>
5978	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
5979	</listitem>
5980
5981	<listitem>
5982	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
5995	</listitem>
5996
5997	<listitem>
5998	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
5999	</listitem>
6000
6001	<listitem>
6002	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6003	</listitem>
6004
6005	<listitem>
6006	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6011	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6012	</listitem>
6013
6014	<listitem>
6015	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6016	</listitem>
6017
6018	<listitem>
6019	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6020	</listitem>
6021
6022	<listitem>
6023	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6032	</listitem>
6033
6034	<listitem>
6035	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6040	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	<listitem>
6044	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6045	(bug #4654)</para>
6046	</listitem>
6047
6048	<listitem>
6049	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6054	interfaces</para>
6055	</listitem>
6056
6057	<listitem>
6058	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6059	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6060	</listitem>
6061
6062	<listitem>
6063	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6064	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6065	</listitem>
6066
6067	<listitem>
6068	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6069	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6070	</listitem>
6071
6072	<listitem>
6073	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6074	(bug #1461)</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6079	</listitem>
6080
6081	<listitem>
6082	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6083	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6084	</listitem>
6085
6086	<listitem>
6087	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6088	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6093	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6106	</listitem>
6107
6108	<listitem>
6109	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6110	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6111	</listitem>
6112
6113	<listitem>
6114	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6115	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6120	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6121	</listitem>
6122
6123	<listitem>
6124	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6125	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	</itemizedlist>
6129
6130	</sect1>
6131	<sect1>
6132	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6133
6134	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6135	added:</para>
6136
6137	<itemizedlist>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6141	</listitem>
6142
6143	<listitem>
6144	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6145	</listitem>
6146
6147	<listitem>
6148	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6149	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6150	</listitem>
6151
6152	<listitem>
6153	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6154	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6155	</listitem>
6156
6157	<listitem>
6158	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6159	</listitem>
6160
6161	<listitem>
6162	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6163	</listitem>
6164
6165	<listitem>
6166	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6175	</listitem>
6176
6177	<listitem>
6178	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6183	</listitem>
6184
6185	<listitem>
6186	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6187	</listitem>
6188
6189	<listitem>
6190	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6199	</listitem>
6200
6201	<listitem>
6202	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6203	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6212	</listitem>
6213
6214	<listitem>
6215	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6216	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6217	</listitem>
6218
6219	<listitem>
6220	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6221	</listitem>
6222
6223	<listitem>
6224	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6225	</listitem>
6226
6227	<listitem>
6228	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6229	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6230	</listitem>
6231
6232	<listitem>
6233	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6234	</listitem>
6235
6236	<listitem>
6237	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6238	</listitem>
6239
6240	<listitem>
6241	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6246	</listitem>
6247
6248	<listitem>
6249	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6250	</listitem>
6251
6252	<listitem>
6253	<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>
6254	</listitem>
6255
6256	</itemizedlist>
6257
6258	</sect1>
6259
6260	<sect1>
6261	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6262
6263	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6264	were added:</para>
6265
6266	<itemizedlist>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6270	</listitem>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6274	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	</itemizedlist>
6282
6283	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6284
6285	<itemizedlist>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6293	certain conditions</para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6298	</listitem>
6299
6300	<listitem>
6301	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6302	</listitem>
6303
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6310	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	<listitem>
6318	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6335	</listitem>
6336
6337	<listitem>
6338	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6339	</listitem>
6340
6341	<listitem>
6342	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6343	</listitem>
6344
6345	<listitem>
6346	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6347	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	<listitem>
6363	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6364	</listitem>
6365
6366	<listitem>
6367	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6368	</listitem>
6369
6370	<listitem>
6371	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6372	</listitem>
6373
6374	<listitem>
6375	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	<listitem>
6383	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6384	</listitem>
6385
6386	<listitem>
6387	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6388	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6389	</listitem>
6390
6391	<listitem>
6392	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6393	</listitem>
6394
6395	<listitem>
6396	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	<listitem>
6408	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6409	</listitem>
6410
6411	<listitem>
6412	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6421	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6434	</listitem>
6435
6436	<listitem>
6437	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6438	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6439	</listitem>
6440
6441	<listitem>
6442	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6443	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6444	</listitem>
6445
6446	<listitem>
6447	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6448	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6449	</listitem>
6450
6451	<listitem>
6452	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6453	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6458	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6463	</listitem>
6464
6465	<listitem>
6466	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6467	</listitem>
6468
6469	<listitem>
6470	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6471	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6472	</listitem>
6473
6474	<listitem>
6475	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6476	guest property lookup</para>
6477	</listitem>
6478
6479	<listitem>
6480	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6481	basic network information)</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6486	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6491	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6492	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6493	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6494	</listitem>
6495
6496	<listitem>
6497	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6498	</listitem>
6499
6500	<listitem>
6501	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6502	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6503	web service</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6508	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6513	unavailable</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6518	</listitem>
6519
6520	</itemizedlist>
6521	</sect1>
6522
6523	<sect1>
6524	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6525
6526	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6527	added:</para>
6528
6529	<itemizedlist>
6530
6531	<listitem>
6532	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6533	installation</para>
6534	</listitem>
6535
6536	<listitem>
6537	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6538	</listitem>
6539
6540	<listitem>
6541	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6542	later (bug #3981)</para>
6543	</listitem>
6544
6545	<listitem>
6546	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6547	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6548	</listitem>
6549
6550	<listitem>
6551	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6552	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6553	(bug #4034)
6554	</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6559	networking</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6564	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6569	clicks</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6574	Windows 7 guests</para>
6575	</listitem>
6576
6577	<listitem>
6578	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6579	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6592	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6597	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6602	</listitem>
6603
6604	<listitem>
6605	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6606	</listitem>
6607
6608	<listitem>
6609	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6610	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6611	(bug #3864)</para>
6612	</listitem>
6613
6614	<listitem>
6615	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6616	now flushes the output stream</para>
6617	</listitem>
6618
6619	<listitem>
6620	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6621	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6622	</listitem>
6623
6624	<listitem>
6625	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6634	</listitem>
6635
6636	<listitem>
6637	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6642	(bug #3964)</para>
6643	</listitem>
6644
6645	<listitem>
6646	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6647	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6648	</listitem>
6649
6650	<listitem>
6651	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6652	hosts</para>
6653	</listitem>
6654
6655	<listitem>
6656	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6657	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6658	e1000 adapter</para>
6659	</listitem>
6660
6661	<listitem>
6662	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6663	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6664	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6665	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6674	</listitem>
6675
6676	<listitem>
6677	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6678	</listitem>
6679
6680	<listitem>
6681	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6682	file (bug #1023)</para>
6683	</listitem>
6684
6685	<listitem>
6686	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6687	</listitem>
6688
6689	<listitem>
6690	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	</itemizedlist>
6694	</sect1>
6695
6696	<sect1>
6697	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6698
6699	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6700	added:</para>
6701
6702	<itemizedlist>
6703
6704	<listitem>
6705	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6706	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6707	</listitem>
6708
6709	<listitem>
6710	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6711	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6712	and later</para>
6713	</listitem>
6714
6715	<listitem>
6716	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6717	running services</para>
6718	</listitem>
6719
6720	<listitem>
6721	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6722	terminates</para>
6723	</listitem>
6724
6725	<listitem>
6726	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6727	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6732	installed on the guest</para>
6733	</listitem>
6734
6735	<listitem>
6736	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6737	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6738	</listitem>
6739
6740	<listitem>
6741	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6742	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6743	</listitem>
6744
6745	<listitem>
6746	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6747	(bug #2628)</para>
6748	</listitem>
6749
6750	<listitem>
6751	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6752	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6753	</listitem>
6754
6755	<listitem>
6756	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6757	(bug #3657)</para>
6758	</listitem>
6759
6760	<listitem>
6761	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6762	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6763	</listitem>
6764
6765	<listitem>
6766	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6767	virtualization only)
6768	</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6773	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6774	</listitem>
6775
6776	<listitem>
6777	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6778	</listitem>
6779
6780	<listitem>
6781	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6782	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6783	</listitem>
6784
6785	<listitem>
6786	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6787	bug #3689)</para>
6788	</listitem>
6789
6790	<listitem>
6791	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6792	bug #3679)</para>
6793	</listitem>
6794
6795	<listitem>
6796	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6797	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6798	</listitem>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6802	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6803	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6804	</listitem>
6805
6806	<listitem>
6807	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6808	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6809	</listitem>
6810
6811	<listitem>
6812	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6813	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6814	</listitem>
6815
6816	<listitem>
6817	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6818	(bug #3667)</para>
6819	</listitem>
6820
6821	<listitem>
6822	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6823	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	<listitem>
6827	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6828	</listitem>
6829
6830	<listitem>
6831	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6832	</listitem>
6833
6834	<listitem>
6835	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6836	</listitem>
6837
6838	<listitem>
6839	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6848	</listitem>
6849
6850	<listitem>
6851	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6852	</listitem>
6853
6854	</itemizedlist>
6855	</sect1>
6856
6857	<sect1>
6858	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6859
6860	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6861	were added:</para>
6862
6863	<itemizedlist>
6864
6865	<listitem>
6866	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6867	</listitem>
6868
6869	<listitem>
6870	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6871	</listitem>
6872
6873	<listitem>
6874	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	<listitem>
6878	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6879	</listitem>
6880
6881	<listitem>
6882	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6903	</listitem>
6904
6905	</itemizedlist>
6906
6907	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6908
6909	<itemizedlist>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6913	</listitem>
6914
6915	<listitem>
6916	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6917	</listitem>
6918
6919	<listitem>
6920	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
6921	</listitem>
6922
6923	<listitem>
6924	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
6929	</listitem>
6930
6931	<listitem>
6932	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6933	</listitem>
6934
6935	<listitem>
6936	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
6937	</listitem>
6938
6939	<listitem>
6940	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
6941	</listitem>
6942
6943	<listitem>
6944	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
6945	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
6954	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
6959	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
6960	</listitem>
6961
6962	<listitem>
6963	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
6964	</listitem>
6965
6966	<listitem>
6967	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
6968	</listitem>
6969
6970	<listitem>
6971	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
6972	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
6981	ESX server images)</para>
6982	</listitem>
6983
6984	<listitem>
6985	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
6986	writable</para>
6987	</listitem>
6988
6989	<listitem>
6990	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
6991	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
6992	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
6997	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7010	hosts when creating files</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7015	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7016	</listitem>
7017
7018	<listitem>
7019	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7020	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7021	#2306)</para>
7022	</listitem>
7023
7024	<listitem>
7025	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7026	(bug #3555)</para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7031	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7032	</listitem>
7033
7034	<listitem>
7035	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7036	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7037	</listitem>
7038
7039	<listitem>
7040	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7041	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7046	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7051	(bug #3586)</para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7056	from Scratch systems</para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7061	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7070	default to compact format</para>
7071	</listitem>
7072
7073	<listitem>
7074	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7075	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7080	</listitem>
7081
7082	<listitem>
7083	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7084	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7085	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7086	</listitem>
7087
7088	<listitem>
7089	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7090	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7091	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7092	</listitem>
7093
7094	<listitem>
7095	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7096	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7097	</listitem>
7098
7099	<listitem>
7100	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7101	</listitem>
7102
7103	<listitem>
7104	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7105	</listitem>
7106
7107	<listitem>
7108	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7117	</listitem>
7118
7119	<listitem>
7120	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7121	</listitem>
7122
7123	<listitem>
7124	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7125	</listitem>
7126
7127	<listitem>
7128	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7129	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7130	</listitem>
7131
7132	<listitem>
7133	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7138	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7147	</listitem>
7148
7149	<listitem>
7150	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7151	</listitem>
7152
7153	<listitem>
7154	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7155	#2536)</para>
7156	</listitem>
7157
7158	<listitem>
7159	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7160	</listitem>
7161
7162	<listitem>
7163	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7164	(bug #3548)</para>
7165	</listitem>
7166
7167	</itemizedlist>
7168	</sect1>
7169
7170	<sect1>
7171	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7172
7173	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7174	added:</para>
7175
7176	<itemizedlist>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7180	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7181	</listitem>
7182
7183	<listitem>
7184	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7185	</listitem>
7186
7187	<listitem>
7188	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7189	</listitem>
7190
7191	<listitem>
7192	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7193	</listitem>
7194
7195	<listitem>
7196	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7197	(bug #3115)</para>
7198	</listitem>
7199
7200	<listitem>
7201	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7202	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7207	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7208	(bug #3215)</para>
7209	</listitem>
7210
7211	<listitem>
7212	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7213	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7214	</listitem>
7215
7216	<listitem>
7217	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7218	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7223	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7224	</listitem>
7225
7226	<listitem>
7227	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7228	in parallel</para>
7229	</listitem>
7230
7231	<listitem>
7232	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7237	</listitem>
7238
7239	<listitem>
7240	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7241	</listitem>
7242
7243	<listitem>
7244	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7245	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7246	</listitem>
7247
7248	<listitem>
7249	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7250	</listitem>
7251
7252	<listitem>
7253	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7254	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7255	</listitem>
7256
7257	<listitem>
7258	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7259	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7260	</listitem>
7261
7262	<listitem>
7263	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7264	</listitem>
7265
7266	<listitem>
7267	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7268	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7269	</listitem>
7270
7271	<listitem>
7272	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7273	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7274	</listitem>
7275
7276	<listitem>
7277	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7278	</listitem>
7279
7280	<listitem>
7281	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7282	</listitem>
7283
7284	<listitem>
7285	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7286	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7287	</listitem>
7288
7289	<listitem>
7290	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	<listitem>
7298	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7299	</listitem>
7300
7301	<listitem>
7302	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7303	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7304	</listitem>
7305
7306	<listitem>
7307	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7308	</listitem>
7309
7310	<listitem>
7311	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7312	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7313	</listitem>
7314
7315	<listitem>
7316	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7317	</listitem>
7318
7319	<listitem>
7320	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7321	</listitem>
7322
7323	<listitem>
7324	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7325	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7326	</listitem>
7327
7328	<listitem>
7329	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7330	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7331	</listitem>
7332
7333	<listitem>
7334	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7339	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7344	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7345	</listitem>
7346
7347	<listitem>
7348	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7349	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7350	</listitem>
7351
7352	<listitem>
7353	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7354	(bug #3213)</para>
7355	</listitem>
7356
7357	<listitem>
7358	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7359	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7360	</listitem>
7361
7362	<listitem>
7363	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7364	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7365	</listitem>
7366
7367	</itemizedlist>
7368	</sect1>
7369
7370	<sect1>
7371	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7372
7373	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7374	added:</para>
7375
7376	<itemizedlist>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7384	</listitem>
7385
7386	<listitem>
7387	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7388	</listitem>
7389
7390	<listitem>
7391	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7392	</listitem>
7393
7394	<listitem>
7395	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7396	</listitem>
7397
7398	<listitem>
7399	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7400	</listitem>
7401
7402	<listitem>
7403	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7404	</listitem>
7405
7406	<listitem>
7407	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7412	</listitem>
7413
7414	<listitem>
7415	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7416	</listitem>
7417
7418	<listitem>
7419	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7420	</listitem>
7421
7422	<listitem>
7423	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7436	</listitem>
7437
7438	<listitem>
7439	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7440	</listitem>
7441
7442	<listitem>
7443	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7444	(bug #3067)</para>
7445	</listitem>
7446
7447	<listitem>
7448	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7449	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7450	</listitem>
7451
7452	<listitem>
7453	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7454	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7459	</listitem>
7460
7461	<listitem>
7462	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7463	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7464	</listitem>
7465
7466	<listitem>
7467	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7468	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7469	</listitem>
7470
7471	<listitem>
7472	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7473	</listitem>
7474
7475	<listitem>
7476	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7477	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	<listitem>
7481	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7482	</listitem>
7483
7484	<listitem>
7485	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7486	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7487	</listitem>
7488
7489	<listitem>
7490	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7491	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7492	</listitem>
7493
7494	<listitem>
7495	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7496	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7497	</para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	<listitem>
7501	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7502	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7503	</para>
7504	</listitem>
7505
7506	<listitem>
7507	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7508	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7509	</para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7530	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7531	</listitem>
7532
7533	<listitem>
7534	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7535	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7536	</listitem>
7537
7538	<listitem>
7539	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7540	formatting a drive</para>
7541	</listitem>
7542
7543	<listitem>
7544	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7545	</listitem>
7546
7547	<listitem>
7548	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7549	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7550	</listitem>
7551
7552	<listitem>
7553	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7554	</listitem>
7555
7556	<listitem>
7557	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7558	</listitem>
7559
7560	<listitem>
7561	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7562	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7563	</listitem>
7564
7565	<listitem>
7566	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7567	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7568	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7569	</listitem>
7570
7571	<listitem>
7572	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7573	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7574	</listitem>
7575
7576	<listitem>
7577	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7578	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7579	</listitem>
7580
7581	<listitem>
7582	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7583	(bug #2768)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7592	</listitem>
7593
7594	<listitem>
7595	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7596	single, unified package</para>
7597	</listitem>
7598
7599	<listitem>
7600	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7601	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	<listitem>
7609	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7610	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7611	</listitem>
7612
7613	<listitem>
7614	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7615	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7616	</listitem>
7617
7618	<listitem>
7619	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7624	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7625	doing 3D</para>
7626	</listitem>
7627
7628	<listitem>
7629	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7630	</listitem>
7631
7632	<listitem>
7633	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7634	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7635	</listitem>
7636
7637	<listitem>
7638	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7639	</listitem>
7640
7641	<listitem>
7642	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7643	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7644	</listitem>
7645
7646	<listitem>
7647	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7648	</listitem>
7649
7650	<listitem>
7651	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7652	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7653	</listitem>
7654
7655	<listitem>
7656	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7657	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7658	(bug #2938)</para>
7659	</listitem>
7660
7661	<listitem>
7662	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7663	Linux guests</para>
7664	</listitem>
7665
7666	<listitem>
7667	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7668	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7669	(bug #1776)</para>
7670	</listitem>
7671
7672	<listitem>
7673	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7674	(bug #1612)</para>
7675	</listitem>
7676
7677	<listitem>
7678	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7679	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7684	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7685	</listitem>
7686
7687	<listitem>
7688	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7689	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	</itemizedlist>
7693	</sect1>
7694
7695	<sect1>
7696	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7697
7698	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7699	were added:</para>
7700
7701	<itemizedlist>
7702	<listitem>
7703	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	<listitem>
7707	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7716	</listitem>
7717
7718	<listitem>
7719	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7720	</listitem>
7721
7722	<listitem>
7723	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7724	</listitem>
7725
7726	<listitem>
7727	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7728	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7729	</listitem>
7730
7731	<listitem>
7732	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7733	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7734	</listitem>
7735
7736	</itemizedlist>
7737
7738	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7739
7740	<itemizedlist>
7741	<listitem>
7742	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7743	</listitem>
7744
7745	<listitem>
7746	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7747	</listitem>
7748
7749	<listitem>
7750	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7755	</listitem>
7756
7757	<listitem>
7758	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7759	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7760	</listitem>
7761
7762	<listitem>
7763	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7764	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7769	</listitem>
7770
7771	<listitem>
7772	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7773	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7774	</listitem>
7775
7776	<listitem>
7777	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7778	</listitem>
7779
7780	<listitem>
7781	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7782	</listitem>
7783
7784	<listitem>
7785	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7794	</listitem>
7795
7796	<listitem>
7797	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7798	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7799	</listitem>
7800
7801	<listitem>
7802	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7803	the compiz window manager</para>
7804	</listitem>
7805
7806	<listitem>
7807	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7808	</listitem>
7809
7810	<listitem>
7811	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7812	</listitem>
7813
7814	<listitem>
7815	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	<listitem>
7819	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7820	</listitem>
7821
7822	<listitem>
7823	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7824	</listitem>
7825
7826	<listitem>
7827	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7828	</listitem>
7829
7830	<listitem>
7831	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7832	</listitem>
7833
7834	<listitem>
7835	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7836	</listitem>
7837
7838	<listitem>
7839	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	<listitem>
7843	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7844	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7849	for direct device access</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7854	</listitem>
7855
7856	<listitem>
7857	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7858	</listitem>
7859
7860	<listitem>
7861	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	<listitem>
7873	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7874	</listitem>
7875
7876	<listitem>
7877	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7878	</listitem>
7879
7880	<listitem>
7881	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7882	</listitem>
7883
7884	</itemizedlist>
7885	</sect1>
7886
7887	<sect1>
7888	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7889
7890	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7891	added:</para>
7892
7893	<itemizedlist>
7894
7895	<listitem>
7896	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7897	states/snapshots</para>
7898	</listitem>
7899
7900	<listitem>
7901	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7902	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7903	</listitem>
7904
7905	<listitem>
7906	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7907	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7908	</listitem>
7909
7910	<listitem>
7911	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7912	collisions</para>
7913	</listitem>
7914
7915	<listitem>
7916	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7917	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7918	</listitem>
7919
7920	<listitem>
7921	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7922	</listitem>
7923
7924	<listitem>
7925	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
7926	reliably</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7931	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
7936	a reboot</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7941	</listitem>
7942
7943	<listitem>
7944	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7945	in parallel</para>
7946	</listitem>
7947
7948	<listitem>
7949	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
7954	correctly</para>
7955	</listitem>
7956
7957	<listitem>
7958	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7959	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7960	</listitem>
7961
7962	</itemizedlist>
7963	</sect1>
7964
7965	<sect1>
7966	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
7967
7968	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7969	added:</para>
7970
7971	<itemizedlist>
7972
7973	<listitem>
7974	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
7975	(bug #2220)</para>
7976	</listitem>
7977
7978	<listitem>
7979	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
7984	</listitem>
7985
7986	<listitem>
7987	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
7988	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
7989	</listitem>
7990
7991	<listitem>
7992	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
7993	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
7994	</listitem>
7995
7996	<listitem>
7997	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
7998	(bug #2624)</para>
7999	</listitem>
8000
8001	<listitem>
8002	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8003	(bug #2024)</para>
8004	</listitem>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8008	</listitem>
8009
8010	<listitem>
8011	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8012	</listitem>
8013
8014	<listitem>
8015	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8016	</listitem>
8017
8018	<listitem>
8019	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8020	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8021	</listitem>
8022
8023	<listitem>
8024	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8025	applications when updating the installation</para>
8026	</listitem>
8027
8028	<listitem>
8029	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8030	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8031	</listitem>
8032
8033	<listitem>
8034	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8035	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8036	</listitem>
8037
8038	<listitem>
8039	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8040	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8041	</listitem>
8042
8043	<listitem>
8044	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8045	connected to a host device</para>
8046	</listitem>
8047
8048	<listitem>
8049	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8050	</listitem>
8051
8052	<listitem>
8053	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8054	</listitem>
8055
8056	<listitem>
8057	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8058	</listitem>
8059
8060	<listitem>
8061	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8062	when using native RDP connections</para>
8063	</listitem>
8064
8065	<listitem>
8066	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8067	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8068	</listitem>
8069
8070	<listitem>
8071	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8072	(bug #2591)</para>
8073	</listitem>
8074
8075	<listitem>
8076	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8077	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8078	</listitem>
8079
8080	<listitem>
8081	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8082	</listitem>
8083
8084	</itemizedlist>
8085	</sect1>
8086
8087	<sect1>
8088	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8089
8090	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8091	added:</para>
8092
8093	<itemizedlist>
8094	<listitem>
8095	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8096	</listitem>
8097
8098	<listitem>
8099	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8104	</listitem>
8105
8106	<listitem>
8107	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8108	</listitem>
8109
8110	<listitem>
8111	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8112	</listitem>
8113
8114	<listitem>
8115	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8116	</listitem>
8117
8118	<listitem>
8119	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8120	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8121	</listitem>
8122
8123	<listitem>
8124	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8125	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8126	</listitem>
8127
8128	<listitem>
8129	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8130	</listitem>
8131
8132	<listitem>
8133	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8134	equal to the client resolution</para>
8135	</listitem>
8136
8137	<listitem>
8138	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8139	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8144	</listitem>
8145
8146	<listitem>
8147	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8148	</listitem>
8149
8150	<listitem>
8151	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8156	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8157	</listitem>
8158
8159	<listitem>
8160	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8161	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8162	</listitem>
8163
8164	<listitem>
8165	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8166	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8167	</listitem>
8168
8169	<listitem>
8170	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8171	</listitem>
8172
8173	<listitem>
8174	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8175	</listitem>
8176
8177	<listitem>
8178	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8183	</listitem>
8184
8185	<listitem>
8186	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8187	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8188	</listitem>
8189
8190	<listitem>
8191	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8192	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8193	</listitem>
8194
8195	<listitem>
8196	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8197	</listitem>
8198
8199	<listitem>
8200	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8201	</listitem>
8202
8203	<listitem>
8204	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8205	</listitem>
8206
8207	</itemizedlist>
8208
8209	</sect1>
8210
8211	<sect1>
8212	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8213
8214	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8215	added:</para>
8216
8217	<itemizedlist>
8218
8219	<listitem>
8220	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8221	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8226	</listitem>
8227
8228	<listitem>
8229	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8230	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8231	</listitem>
8232
8233	<listitem>
8234	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8235	</listitem>
8236
8237	<listitem>
8238	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8239	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8240	</listitem>
8241
8242	<listitem>
8243	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8244	</listitem>
8245
8246	<listitem>
8247	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8248	the virtual disk manager</para>
8249	</listitem>
8250
8251	<listitem>
8252	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8253	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8258	</listitem>
8259
8260	<listitem>
8261	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8262	</listitem>
8263
8264	<listitem>
8265	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8266	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8267	</listitem>
8268
8269	<listitem>
8270	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8271	bug #2067)</para>
8272	</listitem>
8273
8274	<listitem>
8275	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8276	</listitem>
8277
8278	<listitem>
8279	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8280	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8281	</listitem>
8282
8283	<listitem>
8284	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8285	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8286	(bug #2184)</para>
8287	</listitem>
8288
8289	<listitem>
8290	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8291	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8292	</listitem>
8293
8294	<listitem>
8295	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8296	(Windows guests only)</para>
8297	</listitem>
8298
8299	<listitem>
8300	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8301	</listitem>
8302
8303	<listitem>
8304	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8305	</listitem>
8306
8307	<listitem>
8308	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8309	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8310	</listitem>
8311
8312	<listitem>
8313	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8314	</listitem>
8315
8316	<listitem>
8317	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8318	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8319	</para>
8320	</listitem>
8321
8322	<listitem>
8323	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8324	</listitem>
8325
8326	<listitem>
8327	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8328	</listitem>
8329
8330	<listitem>
8331	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8332	a VM reboot</para>
8333	</listitem>
8334
8335	<listitem>
8336	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8337	</listitem>
8338
8339	<listitem>
8340	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8341	buggy X servers</para>
8342	</listitem>
8343
8344	<listitem>
8345	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8346	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8347	</listitem>
8348
8349	<listitem>
8350	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8351	</listitem>
8352
8353	<listitem>
8354	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8355	(bug #2128)</para>
8356	</listitem>
8357
8358	<listitem>
8359	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8360	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8361	</listitem>
8362
8363	<listitem>
8364	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8365	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8366	</listitem>
8367
8368	<listitem>
8369	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8370	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8371	</listitem>
8372
8373	<listitem>
8374	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8375	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8376	</listitem>
8377
8378	<listitem>
8379	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8380	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8381	</listitem>
8382
8383	<listitem>
8384	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8385	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8386	</listitem>
8387
8388	<listitem>
8389	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8390	installer into a single package</para>
8391	</listitem>
8392
8393	<listitem>
8394	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8395	port to the guest
8396	</para>
8397	</listitem>
8398
8399	</itemizedlist>
8400
8401	</sect1>
8402
8403	<sect1>
8404	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8405
8406	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8407	were added:<itemizedlist>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8411	</listitem>
8412
8413	<listitem>
8414	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8415	</listitem>
8416
8417	<listitem>
8418	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8419	</listitem>
8420
8421	<listitem>
8422	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8423	</listitem>
8424
8425	<listitem>
8426	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8427	</listitem>
8428
8429	<listitem>
8430	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8431	</listitem>
8432
8433	<listitem>
8434	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8435	</listitem>
8436
8437	<listitem>
8438	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8439	</listitem>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8447	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8452	</listitem>
8453
8454	<listitem>
8455	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8456	</listitem>
8457
8458	<listitem>
8459	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8460	</listitem>
8461
8462	</itemizedlist></para>
8463
8464	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8465
8466	<itemizedlist>
8467
8468	<listitem>
8469	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8470	</listitem>
8471
8472	<listitem>
8473	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8474	</listitem>
8475
8476	<listitem>
8477	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8478	</listitem>
8479
8480	<listitem>
8481	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8482	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8483	</listitem>
8484
8485	<listitem>
8486	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8487	restored</para>
8488	</listitem>
8489
8490	<listitem>
8491	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8496	</listitem>
8497
8498	<listitem>
8499	<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>
8500	</listitem>
8501
8502	</itemizedlist>
8503
8504	</sect1>
8505

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