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3 | <chapter> <!-- HACK ALERT! Seems we must have a single top level element for xi:include to work.
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5 | <sect1>
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6 | <title>Version x.x.x (2015-xx-xx)</title>
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7 |
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8 | <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
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9 | were added:</para>
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10 |
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11 | <itemizedlist>
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12 |
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13 | <listitem>
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14 | <para>dummy</para>
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15 | </listitem>
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16 |
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17 | </itemizedlist>
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18 |
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19 | </sect1>
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20 |
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21 | <sect1>
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22 | <title>Version 5.0.2 (2015-08-13)</title>
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23 |
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24 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
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25 | added:</para>
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26 |
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27 | <itemizedlist>
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28 |
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29 | <listitem>
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30 | <para>VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V
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31 | paravirtualization</para>
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32 | </listitem>
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33 |
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34 | <listitem>
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35 | <para>VMM: fixed an issue causing artificially high load averages on
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36 | Linux hosts</para>
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37 | </listitem>
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38 |
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39 | <listitem>
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40 | <para>VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by
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41 | incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels</para>
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42 | </listitem>
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43 |
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44 | <listitem>
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45 | <para>VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled
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46 | (5.0 regression; bug #14304)</para>
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47 | </listitem>
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48 |
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49 | <listitem>
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50 | <para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED</emphasis>
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51 | Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370)</para>
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52 | </listitem>
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53 |
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54 | <listitem>
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55 | <para>VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM
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56 | debug facility (5.0 regression)</para>
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57 | </listitem>
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58 |
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59 | <listitem>
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60 | <para>VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and
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61 | AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be
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62 | properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262).</para>
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63 | </listitem>
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64 |
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65 | <listitem>
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66 | <para>GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff</para>
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67 | </listitem>
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68 |
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69 | <listitem>
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70 | <para>GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt <emphasis>alien
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71 | widgets</emphasis> feature</para>
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72 | </listitem>
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73 |
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74 | <listitem>
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75 | <para>GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order,
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76 | transparency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257)</para>
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77 | </listitem>
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78 |
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79 | <listitem>
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80 | <para>GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers
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81 | (bug #14284)</para>
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82 | </listitem>
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83 |
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84 | <listitem>
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85 | <para>GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on
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86 | full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches</para>
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87 | </listitem>
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88 |
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89 | <listitem>
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90 | <para>GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed
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91 | when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol</para>
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92 | </listitem>
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93 |
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94 | <listitem>
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95 | <para>GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly
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96 | created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)</para>
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97 | </listitem>
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98 |
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99 | <listitem>
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100 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized',
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101 | watch for the strict window geometry instead</para>
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102 | </listitem>
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103 |
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104 | <listitem>
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105 | <para>GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances
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106 | (5.0 regression; bug #14303)</para>
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107 | </listitem>
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108 |
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109 | <listitem>
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110 | <para>VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at
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111 | VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)</para>
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112 | </listitem>
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113 |
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114 | <listitem>
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115 | <para>VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216)</para>
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116 | </listitem>
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117 |
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118 | <listitem>
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119 | <para>Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination
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120 | (5.0 regression)</para>
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121 | </listitem>
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122 |
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123 | <listitem>
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124 | <para>Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting
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125 | any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt
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126 | by the host (bug #14219)</para>
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127 | </listitem>
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128 |
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129 | <listitem>
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130 | <para>3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists</para>
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131 | </listitem>
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132 |
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133 | <listitem>
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134 | <para>Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts</para>
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135 | </listitem>
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136 |
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137 | <listitem>
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138 | <para>Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests</para>
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139 | </listitem>
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140 |
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141 | <listitem>
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142 | <para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares
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143 | (bug #14252)</para>
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144 | </listitem>
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145 |
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146 | <listitem>
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147 | <para>Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and
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148 | guests with different path separators (bug #14153)</para>
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149 | </listitem>
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150 |
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151 | <listitem>
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152 | <para>API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved
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153 | state is started (bug #13957)</para>
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154 | </listitem>
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155 |
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156 | <listitem>
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157 | <para>API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid)
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158 | UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350)</para>
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159 | </listitem>
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160 |
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161 | <listitem>
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162 | <para>API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which
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163 | have a session open</para>
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164 | </listitem>
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165 |
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166 | <listitem>
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167 | <para>OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting
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168 | for paravirtualization (bug #14390)</para>
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169 | </listitem>
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170 |
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171 | <listitem>
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172 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan USB fixes</para>
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173 | </listitem>
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174 |
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175 | <listitem>
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176 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs
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177 | from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351)</para>
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178 | </listitem>
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179 |
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180 | <listitem>
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181 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on
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182 | Windows 10 (bug #14040)</para>
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183 | </listitem>
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184 |
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185 | <listitem>
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186 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432)</para>
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187 | </listitem>
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188 |
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189 | <listitem>
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190 | <para>Linux hosts: more fixes for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
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191 | and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
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192 | </listitem>
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193 |
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194 | <listitem>
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195 | <para>Linux hosts: check then name space before attaching to a host
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196 | network interface (bug #13795)</para>
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197 | </listitem>
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198 |
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199 | <listitem>
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200 | <para>Linux Additions: Linux 4.2 fixes (bug #14227)</para>
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201 | </listitem>
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202 |
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203 | <listitem>
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204 | <para>Linux Additions: improved the performance of
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205 | <emphasis>stat()</emphasis> to speed up certain file operations
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206 | on shared folders</para>
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207 | </listitem>
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208 |
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209 | <listitem>
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210 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver
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211 | with Windows 10 (bug #14190)</para>
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212 | </listitem>
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213 |
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214 | <listitem>
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215 | <para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.17</para>
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216 | </listitem>
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217 |
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218 | <listitem>
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219 | <para>X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including
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220 | invisible windows under LXDE.</para>
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221 | </listitem>
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222 |
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223 | </itemizedlist>
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224 | </sect1>
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225 |
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226 | <sect1>
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227 | <title>Version 5.0.0 (2015-07-09)</title>
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228 |
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229 | <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
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230 | were added:</para>
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231 |
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232 | <itemizedlist>
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233 |
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234 | <listitem>
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235 | <para>Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve
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236 | time-keeping accuracy and performance (see <xref linkend="gimproviders" />)</para>
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237 | </listitem>
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238 |
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239 | <listitem>
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240 | <para>Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when
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241 | running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among
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242 | others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI,
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243 | <emphasis>POPCNT</emphasis>, <emphasis>RDRAND</emphasis> and
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244 | <emphasis>RDSEED</emphasis></para>
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245 | </listitem>
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246 |
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247 | <listitem>
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248 | <para>xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices
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249 | (see <xref linkend="settings-usb" />)</para>
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250 | </listitem>
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251 |
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252 | <listitem>
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253 | <para>Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
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254 | </listitem>
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255 |
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256 | <listitem>
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257 | <para>Disk image encryption (see <xref linkend="diskencryption" />)</para>
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258 | </listitem>
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259 |
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260 | <listitem>
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261 | <para>VMs can now be started in <emphasis>separate mode</emphasis>. The VM
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262 | process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process
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263 | which can be terminated without stopping the VM.</para>
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264 | </listitem>
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265 |
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266 | <listitem>
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267 | <para>GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)</para>
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268 | </listitem>
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269 |
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270 | <listitem>
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271 | <para>GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar,
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272 | menu-bar and guest-content scaling</para>
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273 | </listitem>
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274 |
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275 | <listitem>
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276 | <para>GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for
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277 | disk images</para>
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278 | </listitem>
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279 |
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280 | <listitem>
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281 | <para>GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI
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282 | output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)</para>
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283 | </listitem>
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284 |
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285 | <listitem>
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286 | <para>GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks</para>
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287 | </listitem>
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288 |
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289 | <listitem>
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290 | <para>New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host
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291 | audio backends</para>
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292 | </listitem>
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293 |
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294 | <listitem>
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295 | <para>Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista
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296 | and later)</para>
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297 | </listitem>
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298 |
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299 | </itemizedlist>
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300 |
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301 | <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
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302 |
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303 | <itemizedlist>
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304 |
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305 | <listitem>
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306 | <para>VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts
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307 | without preemption timers</para>
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308 | </listitem>
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309 |
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310 | <listitem>
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311 | <para>VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and
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312 | guest timekeeping</para>
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313 | </listitem>
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314 |
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315 | <listitem>
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316 | <para>VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's
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317 | FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump</para>
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318 | </listitem>
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319 |
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320 | <listitem>
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321 | <para>VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts</para>
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322 | </listitem>
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323 |
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324 | <listitem>
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325 | <para>VMM: several fixes</para>
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326 | </listitem>
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327 |
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328 | <listitem>
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329 | <para>GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts.
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330 | The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state.</para>
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331 | </listitem>
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332 |
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333 | <listitem>
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334 | <para>GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the
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335 | preview window</para>
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336 | </listitem>
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337 |
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338 | <listitem>
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339 | <para>GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector</para>
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340 | </listitem>
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341 |
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342 | <listitem>
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343 | <para>GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM
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344 | is already paused</para>
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345 | </listitem>
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346 |
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347 | <listitem>
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348 | <para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
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349 | of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
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350 | import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
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351 | several times</para>
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352 | </listitem>
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353 |
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354 | <listitem>
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355 | <para>VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers</para>
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356 | </listitem>
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357 |
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358 | <listitem>
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359 | <para>Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting
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360 | (bug #13157)</para>
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361 | </listitem>
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362 |
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363 | <listitem>
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364 | <para>USB: added USB traffic capturing (see <xref linkend="usbtrafficcapturing" />)</para>
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365 | </listitem>
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366 |
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367 | <listitem>
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368 | <para>Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably</para>
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369 | </listitem>
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370 |
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371 | <listitem>
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372 | <para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
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373 | snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
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374 | their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
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375 | config corruption</para>
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376 | </listitem>
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377 |
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378 | <listitem>
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379 | <para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
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380 | as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
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381 | </listitem>
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382 |
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383 | <listitem>
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384 | <para>API: fix information for some automatically generated events
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385 | (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
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386 | errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
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387 | (bug #12379)</para>
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388 | </listitem>
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389 |
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390 | <listitem>
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391 | <para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
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392 | happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
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393 | </listitem>
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394 |
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395 | <listitem>
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396 | <para>API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also
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397 | be changed when the VM is in saved state</para>
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398 | </listitem>
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399 |
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400 | <listitem>
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401 | <para>API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were
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402 | previously paused due to a host-suspend</para>
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403 | </listitem>
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404 |
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405 | <listitem>
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406 | <para>API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag
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407 | during cloning of a VM</para>
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408 | </listitem>
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409 |
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410 | <listitem>
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411 | <para>API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162)</para>
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412 | </listitem>
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413 |
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414 | <listitem>
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415 | <para>VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open</para>
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416 | </listitem>
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417 |
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418 | <listitem>
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419 | <para>Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when
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420 | the VM is powered off</para>
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421 | </listitem>
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422 |
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423 | <listitem>
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424 | <para>VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during
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425 | VM poweroff</para>
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426 | </listitem>
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427 |
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428 | <listitem>
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429 | <para>ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1
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430 | characters (bug #14159)</para>
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431 | </listitem>
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432 |
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433 | <listitem>
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434 | <para>3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM
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435 | termination</para>
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436 | </listitem>
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437 |
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438 | <listitem>
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439 | <para>3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service</para>
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440 | </listitem>
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441 |
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442 | <listitem>
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443 | <para>Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see <xref linkend="serialports"/>)</para>
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444 | </listitem>
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445 |
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446 | <listitem>
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447 | <para>Storage: added USB mass storage device class
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448 | (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers"/>)</para>
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449 | </listitem>
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450 |
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451 | <listitem>
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452 | <para>Storage: added <emphasis>vbox-img</emphasis> standalone tool for
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453 | direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage</para>
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454 | </listitem>
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455 |
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456 | <listitem>
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457 | <para>Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions
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458 | (bug #13105)</para>
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459 | </listitem>
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460 |
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461 | <listitem>
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462 | <para>NAT: fixed several potential crashes</para>
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463 | </listitem>
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464 |
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465 | <listitem>
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466 | <para>NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes
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467 | down</para>
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468 | </listitem>
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469 |
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470 | <listitem>
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471 | <para>Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name
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472 | at VM runtime</para>
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473 | </listitem>
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474 |
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475 | <listitem>
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476 | <para>Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device
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477 | more than once on OS X</para>
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478 | </listitem>
|
---|
479 |
|
---|
480 | <listitem>
|
---|
481 | <para>Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances</para>
|
---|
482 | </listitem>
|
---|
483 |
|
---|
484 | <listitem>
|
---|
485 | <para>ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should
|
---|
486 | fix old Linux guests with AHCI</para>
|
---|
487 | </listitem>
|
---|
488 |
|
---|
489 | <listitem>
|
---|
490 | <para>USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated
|
---|
491 | OHCI controller</para>
|
---|
492 | </listitem>
|
---|
493 |
|
---|
494 | <listitem>
|
---|
495 | <para>Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux
|
---|
496 | ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)</para>
|
---|
497 | </listitem>
|
---|
498 |
|
---|
499 | <listitem>
|
---|
500 | <para>BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media</para>
|
---|
501 | </listitem>
|
---|
502 |
|
---|
503 | <listitem>
|
---|
504 | <para>BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021)</para>
|
---|
505 | </listitem>
|
---|
506 |
|
---|
507 | <listitem>
|
---|
508 | <para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
|
---|
509 | </listitem>
|
---|
510 |
|
---|
511 | <listitem>
|
---|
512 | <para>rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3</para>
|
---|
513 | </listitem>
|
---|
514 |
|
---|
515 | <listitem>
|
---|
516 | <para>Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore
|
---|
517 | certain events (bug #12264)</para>
|
---|
518 | </listitem>
|
---|
519 |
|
---|
520 | <listitem>
|
---|
521 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes</para>
|
---|
522 | </listitem>
|
---|
523 |
|
---|
524 | <listitem>
|
---|
525 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic
|
---|
526 | if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active</para>
|
---|
527 | </listitem>
|
---|
528 |
|
---|
529 | <listitem>
|
---|
530 | <para>Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix</para>
|
---|
531 | </listitem>
|
---|
532 |
|
---|
533 | <listitem>
|
---|
534 | <para>Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service
|
---|
535 | (see <xref linkend="heartbeatservice" />)</para>
|
---|
536 | </listitem>
|
---|
537 |
|
---|
538 | <listitem>
|
---|
539 | <para>Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd
|
---|
540 | without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux)</para>
|
---|
541 | </listitem>
|
---|
542 |
|
---|
543 | <listitem>
|
---|
544 | <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and
|
---|
545 | allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
|
---|
546 | </para>
|
---|
547 | </listitem>
|
---|
548 |
|
---|
549 | <listitem>
|
---|
550 | <para>Linux Additions: added <emphasis>-s</emphasis> parameter to
|
---|
551 | <emphasis>mount.vboxsf</emphasis> to be sloppy with invalid parameters</para>
|
---|
552 | </listitem>
|
---|
553 |
|
---|
554 | <listitem>
|
---|
555 | <para>X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151)</para>
|
---|
556 | </listitem>
|
---|
557 |
|
---|
558 | <listitem>
|
---|
559 | <para>Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests</para>
|
---|
560 | </listitem>
|
---|
561 |
|
---|
562 | <listitem>
|
---|
563 | <para>Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris'
|
---|
564 | fast-reboot feature</para>
|
---|
565 | </listitem>
|
---|
566 |
|
---|
567 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
568 |
|
---|
569 | </sect1>
|
---|
570 |
|
---|
571 | <sect1>
|
---|
572 | <title>Version 4.3.28 (2015-05-13)</title>
|
---|
573 |
|
---|
574 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
575 | added:</para>
|
---|
576 |
|
---|
577 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
578 |
|
---|
579 | <listitem>
|
---|
580 | <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for
|
---|
581 | example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI</para>
|
---|
582 | </listitem>
|
---|
583 |
|
---|
584 | <listitem>
|
---|
585 | <para>VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare
|
---|
586 | <emphasis>VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR</emphasis> Guru Meditations (VT-x only)</para>
|
---|
587 | </listitem>
|
---|
588 |
|
---|
589 | <listitem>
|
---|
590 | <para>GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus
|
---|
591 | (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
|
---|
592 | </listitem>
|
---|
593 |
|
---|
594 | <listitem>
|
---|
595 | <para>GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on
|
---|
596 | certain hosts</para>
|
---|
597 | </listitem>
|
---|
598 |
|
---|
599 | <listitem>
|
---|
600 | <para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)</para>
|
---|
601 | </listitem>
|
---|
602 |
|
---|
603 | <listitem>
|
---|
604 | <para>3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state</para>
|
---|
605 | </listitem>
|
---|
606 |
|
---|
607 | <listitem>
|
---|
608 | <para>3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)</para>
|
---|
609 | </listitem>
|
---|
610 |
|
---|
611 | <listitem>
|
---|
612 | <para>VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3</para>
|
---|
613 | </listitem>
|
---|
614 |
|
---|
615 | <listitem>
|
---|
616 | <para>VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)</para>
|
---|
617 | </listitem>
|
---|
618 |
|
---|
619 | <listitem>
|
---|
620 | <para>Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context
|
---|
621 | fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message</para>
|
---|
622 | </listitem>
|
---|
623 |
|
---|
624 | <listitem>
|
---|
625 | <para>Floppy: several fixes</para>
|
---|
626 | </listitem>
|
---|
627 |
|
---|
628 | <listitem>
|
---|
629 | <para>Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the
|
---|
630 | HD audio device emulation</para>
|
---|
631 | </listitem>
|
---|
632 |
|
---|
633 | <listitem>
|
---|
634 | <para>USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5
|
---|
635 | (Windows hosts only)</para>
|
---|
636 | </listitem>
|
---|
637 |
|
---|
638 | <listitem>
|
---|
639 | <para>PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore
|
---|
640 | (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
|
---|
641 | </listitem>
|
---|
642 |
|
---|
643 | <listitem>
|
---|
644 | <para>NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs,
|
---|
645 | only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)</para>
|
---|
646 | </listitem>
|
---|
647 |
|
---|
648 | <listitem>
|
---|
649 | <para>NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)</para>
|
---|
650 | </listitem>
|
---|
651 |
|
---|
652 | <listitem>
|
---|
653 | <para>NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)</para>
|
---|
654 | </listitem>
|
---|
655 |
|
---|
656 | <listitem>
|
---|
657 | <para>BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah
|
---|
658 | (4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)</para>
|
---|
659 | </listitem>
|
---|
660 |
|
---|
661 | <listitem>
|
---|
662 | <para>Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests
|
---|
663 | (bug #13157)</para>
|
---|
664 | </listitem>
|
---|
665 |
|
---|
666 | <listitem>
|
---|
667 | <para>Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more
|
---|
668 | webcam models</para>
|
---|
669 | </listitem>
|
---|
670 |
|
---|
671 | <listitem>
|
---|
672 | <para>API: don't fail starting a VM with <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
|
---|
673 | under certain conditions (bug #13617)</para>
|
---|
674 | </listitem>
|
---|
675 |
|
---|
676 | <listitem>
|
---|
677 | <para>API: be more verbose on <emphasis>VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE</emphasis>
|
---|
678 | if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)</para>
|
---|
679 | </listitem>
|
---|
680 |
|
---|
681 | <listitem>
|
---|
682 | <para>API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize
|
---|
683 | events with multi-monitor guests</para>
|
---|
684 | </listitem>
|
---|
685 |
|
---|
686 | <listitem>
|
---|
687 | <para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)</para>
|
---|
688 | </listitem>
|
---|
689 |
|
---|
690 | <listitem>
|
---|
691 | <para>rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3</para>
|
---|
692 | </listitem>
|
---|
693 |
|
---|
694 | <listitem>
|
---|
695 | <para>Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)</para>
|
---|
696 | </listitem>
|
---|
697 |
|
---|
698 | <listitem>
|
---|
699 | <para>Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19
|
---|
700 | and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)</para>
|
---|
701 | </listitem>
|
---|
702 |
|
---|
703 | <listitem>
|
---|
704 | <para>Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)</para>
|
---|
705 | </listitem>
|
---|
706 |
|
---|
707 | <listitem>
|
---|
708 | <para>Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based
|
---|
709 | bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names</para>
|
---|
710 | </listitem>
|
---|
711 |
|
---|
712 | <listitem>
|
---|
713 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare
|
---|
714 | circumstances</para>
|
---|
715 | </listitem>
|
---|
716 |
|
---|
717 | <listitem>
|
---|
718 | <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow
|
---|
719 | more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)</para>
|
---|
720 | </listitem>
|
---|
721 |
|
---|
722 | <listitem>
|
---|
723 | <para>X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor</para>
|
---|
724 | </listitem>
|
---|
725 |
|
---|
726 | <listitem>
|
---|
727 | <para>Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while
|
---|
728 | installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)</para>
|
---|
729 | </listitem>
|
---|
730 |
|
---|
731 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
732 | </sect1>
|
---|
733 |
|
---|
734 | <sect1>
|
---|
735 | <title>Version 4.3.26 (2015-03-16)</title>
|
---|
736 |
|
---|
737 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
738 | added:</para>
|
---|
739 |
|
---|
740 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
741 |
|
---|
742 | <listitem>
|
---|
743 | <para>GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against
|
---|
744 | wrong host time (bug #13955)</para>
|
---|
745 | </listitem>
|
---|
746 |
|
---|
747 | <listitem>
|
---|
748 | <para>NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS
|
---|
749 | name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
|
---|
750 | (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)</para>
|
---|
751 | </listitem>
|
---|
752 |
|
---|
753 | <listitem>
|
---|
754 | <para>NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on
|
---|
755 | Windows hosts</para>
|
---|
756 | </listitem>
|
---|
757 |
|
---|
758 | <listitem>
|
---|
759 | <para>Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare
|
---|
760 | conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression;
|
---|
761 | bug #13935)</para>
|
---|
762 | </listitem>
|
---|
763 |
|
---|
764 | <listitem>
|
---|
765 | <para>Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the
|
---|
766 | change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)</para>
|
---|
767 | </listitem>
|
---|
768 |
|
---|
769 | <listitem>
|
---|
770 | <para>VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests</para>
|
---|
771 | </listitem>
|
---|
772 |
|
---|
773 | <listitem>
|
---|
774 | <para>SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)</para>
|
---|
775 | </listitem>
|
---|
776 |
|
---|
777 | <listitem>
|
---|
778 | <para>rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again
|
---|
779 | (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)</para>
|
---|
780 | </listitem>
|
---|
781 |
|
---|
782 | <listitem>
|
---|
783 | <para>USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions</para>
|
---|
784 | </listitem>
|
---|
785 |
|
---|
786 | <listitem>
|
---|
787 | <para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)</para>
|
---|
788 | </listitem>
|
---|
789 |
|
---|
790 | <listitem>
|
---|
791 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell
|
---|
792 | and later; bug #13951)</para>
|
---|
793 | </listitem>
|
---|
794 |
|
---|
795 | <listitem>
|
---|
796 | <para>Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)</para>
|
---|
797 | </listitem>
|
---|
798 |
|
---|
799 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
800 | </sect1>
|
---|
801 |
|
---|
802 | <sect1>
|
---|
803 | <title>Version 4.3.24 (2015-03-02)</title>
|
---|
804 |
|
---|
805 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
806 | added:</para>
|
---|
807 |
|
---|
808 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
809 |
|
---|
810 | <listitem>
|
---|
811 | <para>VMM: emulation fix for the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> instruction
|
---|
812 | under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without
|
---|
813 | unrestricted guest execution)</para>
|
---|
814 | </listitem>
|
---|
815 |
|
---|
816 | <listitem>
|
---|
817 | <para>VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled</para>
|
---|
818 | </listitem>
|
---|
819 |
|
---|
820 | <listitem>
|
---|
821 | <para>NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease
|
---|
822 | was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)</para>
|
---|
823 | </listitem>
|
---|
824 |
|
---|
825 | <listitem>
|
---|
826 | <para>NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the
|
---|
827 | DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only;
|
---|
828 | bug #13874)</para>
|
---|
829 | </listitem>
|
---|
830 |
|
---|
831 | <listitem>
|
---|
832 | <para>PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts
|
---|
833 | only; bug #13842)
|
---|
834 | </para>
|
---|
835 | </listitem>
|
---|
836 |
|
---|
837 | <listitem>
|
---|
838 | <para>Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression;
|
---|
839 | bug #13786)</para>
|
---|
840 | </listitem>
|
---|
841 |
|
---|
842 | <listitem>
|
---|
843 | <para>Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio
|
---|
844 | backend</para>
|
---|
845 | </listitem>
|
---|
846 |
|
---|
847 | <listitem>
|
---|
848 | <para>VBoxManage: when executing the <emphasis>controlvm</emphasis> command
|
---|
849 | take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently
|
---|
850 | (bug #13892)</para>
|
---|
851 | </listitem>
|
---|
852 |
|
---|
853 | <listitem>
|
---|
854 | <para>Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll
|
---|
855 | on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)</para>
|
---|
856 | </listitem>
|
---|
857 |
|
---|
858 | <listitem>
|
---|
859 | <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)</para>
|
---|
860 | </listitem>
|
---|
861 |
|
---|
862 | <listitem>
|
---|
863 | <para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression;
|
---|
864 | bug #13825)</para>
|
---|
865 | </listitem>
|
---|
866 |
|
---|
867 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
868 | </sect1>
|
---|
869 |
|
---|
870 | <sect1>
|
---|
871 | <title>Version 4.3.22 (2015-02-12)</title>
|
---|
872 |
|
---|
873 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
874 | added:</para>
|
---|
875 |
|
---|
876 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
877 |
|
---|
878 | <listitem>
|
---|
879 | <para>VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves
|
---|
880 | timekeeping for guests</para>
|
---|
881 | </listitem>
|
---|
882 |
|
---|
883 | <listitem>
|
---|
884 | <para>VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the
|
---|
885 | virtual APIC</para>
|
---|
886 | </listitem>
|
---|
887 |
|
---|
888 | <listitem>
|
---|
889 | <para>VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using
|
---|
890 | the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)</para>
|
---|
891 | </listitem>
|
---|
892 |
|
---|
893 | <listitem>
|
---|
894 | <para>GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential
|
---|
895 | misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content</para>
|
---|
896 | </listitem>
|
---|
897 |
|
---|
898 | <listitem>
|
---|
899 | <para>GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update
|
---|
900 | check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)</para>
|
---|
901 | </listitem>
|
---|
902 |
|
---|
903 | <listitem>
|
---|
904 | <para>GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest,
|
---|
905 | we have the ACPI power button for that</para>
|
---|
906 | </listitem>
|
---|
907 |
|
---|
908 | <listitem>
|
---|
909 | <para>GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from
|
---|
910 | snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances</para>
|
---|
911 | </listitem>
|
---|
912 |
|
---|
913 | <listitem>
|
---|
914 | <para>VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings
|
---|
915 | (bug #10250)</para>
|
---|
916 | </listitem>
|
---|
917 |
|
---|
918 | <listitem>
|
---|
919 | <para>ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)</para>
|
---|
920 | </listitem>
|
---|
921 |
|
---|
922 | <listitem>
|
---|
923 | <para>Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio
|
---|
924 | input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)</para>
|
---|
925 | </listitem>
|
---|
926 |
|
---|
927 | <listitem>
|
---|
928 | <para>SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)</para>
|
---|
929 | </listitem>
|
---|
930 |
|
---|
931 | <listitem>
|
---|
932 | <para>Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the
|
---|
933 | IDE controller (bug #12310)</para>
|
---|
934 | </listitem>
|
---|
935 |
|
---|
936 | <listitem>
|
---|
937 | <para>NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)</para>
|
---|
938 | </listitem>
|
---|
939 |
|
---|
940 | <listitem>
|
---|
941 | <para>NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to
|
---|
942 | guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)</para>
|
---|
943 | </listitem>
|
---|
944 |
|
---|
945 | <listitem>
|
---|
946 | <para>NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP
|
---|
947 | and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)</para>
|
---|
948 | </listitem>
|
---|
949 |
|
---|
950 | <listitem>
|
---|
951 | <para>Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified
|
---|
952 | network" (bug #9688)</para>
|
---|
953 | </listitem>
|
---|
954 |
|
---|
955 | <listitem>
|
---|
956 | <para>Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to
|
---|
957 | the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface
|
---|
958 | (bug #13714)</para>
|
---|
959 | </listitem>
|
---|
960 |
|
---|
961 | <listitem>
|
---|
962 | <para>Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading
|
---|
963 | to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)</para>
|
---|
964 | </listitem>
|
---|
965 |
|
---|
966 | <listitem>
|
---|
967 | <para>VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed
|
---|
968 | (bug #13773)</para>
|
---|
969 | </listitem>
|
---|
970 |
|
---|
971 | <listitem>
|
---|
972 | <para>Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME
|
---|
973 | at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile
|
---|
974 | directory (bug #7689)</para>
|
---|
975 | </listitem>
|
---|
976 |
|
---|
977 | <listitem>
|
---|
978 | <para>API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling
|
---|
979 | (bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)</para>
|
---|
980 | </listitem>
|
---|
981 |
|
---|
982 | <listitem>
|
---|
983 | <para>API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads,
|
---|
984 | sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander
|
---|
985 | Urakov)</para>
|
---|
986 | </listitem>
|
---|
987 |
|
---|
988 | <listitem>
|
---|
989 | <para>SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox
|
---|
990 | webservice API binding (bug #13817)</para>
|
---|
991 | </listitem>
|
---|
992 |
|
---|
993 | <listitem>
|
---|
994 | <para>Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later,
|
---|
995 | bug #13820)</para>
|
---|
996 | </listitem>
|
---|
997 |
|
---|
998 | <listitem>
|
---|
999 | <para>X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens
|
---|
1000 | on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)</para>
|
---|
1001 | </listitem>
|
---|
1002 |
|
---|
1003 | <listitem>
|
---|
1004 | <para>X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17</para>
|
---|
1005 | </listitem>
|
---|
1006 |
|
---|
1007 | <listitem>
|
---|
1008 | <para>X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus
|
---|
1009 | is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)</para>
|
---|
1010 | </listitem>
|
---|
1011 |
|
---|
1012 | <listitem>
|
---|
1013 | <para>Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host
|
---|
1014 | reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over
|
---|
1015 | Remote Desktop connection.</para>
|
---|
1016 | </listitem>
|
---|
1017 |
|
---|
1018 | <listitem>
|
---|
1019 | <para>Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews</para>
|
---|
1020 | </listitem>
|
---|
1021 |
|
---|
1022 | <listitem>
|
---|
1023 | <para>Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit
|
---|
1024 | Linux 2.4 kernels</para>
|
---|
1025 | </listitem>
|
---|
1026 |
|
---|
1027 | <listitem>
|
---|
1028 | <para>Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading
|
---|
1029 | the VBoxGuest module</para>
|
---|
1030 | </listitem>
|
---|
1031 |
|
---|
1032 | <listitem>
|
---|
1033 | <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)</para>
|
---|
1034 | </listitem>
|
---|
1035 |
|
---|
1036 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1037 | </sect1>
|
---|
1038 |
|
---|
1039 | <sect1>
|
---|
1040 | <title>Version 4.3.20 (2014-11-21)</title>
|
---|
1041 |
|
---|
1042 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1043 | added:</para>
|
---|
1044 |
|
---|
1045 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1046 |
|
---|
1047 | <listitem>
|
---|
1048 | <para>VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bugs #13319,
|
---|
1049 | #13462)</para>
|
---|
1050 | </listitem>
|
---|
1051 |
|
---|
1052 | <listitem>
|
---|
1053 | <para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
|
---|
1054 | legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)</para>
|
---|
1055 | </listitem>
|
---|
1056 |
|
---|
1057 | <listitem>
|
---|
1058 | <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
|
---|
1059 | on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only;
|
---|
1060 | bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)</para>
|
---|
1061 | </listitem>
|
---|
1062 |
|
---|
1063 | <listitem>
|
---|
1064 | <para>GUI: fix 3D overlay window reparenting issue when VM goes to
|
---|
1065 | fullscreen mode on X11 hosts</para>
|
---|
1066 | </listitem>
|
---|
1067 |
|
---|
1068 | <listitem>
|
---|
1069 | <para>GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11
|
---|
1070 | host systems (4.3.16 regression)</para>
|
---|
1071 | </listitem>
|
---|
1072 |
|
---|
1073 | <listitem>
|
---|
1074 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button
|
---|
1075 | (bug #12541)</para>
|
---|
1076 | </listitem>
|
---|
1077 |
|
---|
1078 | <listitem>
|
---|
1079 | <para>GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the
|
---|
1080 | new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)</para>
|
---|
1081 | </listitem>
|
---|
1082 |
|
---|
1083 | <listitem>
|
---|
1084 | <para>API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port
|
---|
1085 | (bug #8534)</para>
|
---|
1086 | </listitem>
|
---|
1087 |
|
---|
1088 | <listitem>
|
---|
1089 | <para>VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
|
---|
1090 | command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)</para>
|
---|
1091 | </listitem>
|
---|
1092 |
|
---|
1093 | <listitem>
|
---|
1094 | <para>ACPI: fixed occassional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code
|
---|
1095 | (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)</para>
|
---|
1096 | </listitem>
|
---|
1097 |
|
---|
1098 | <listitem>
|
---|
1099 | <para>EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access</para>
|
---|
1100 | </listitem>
|
---|
1101 |
|
---|
1102 | <listitem>
|
---|
1103 | <para>EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented
|
---|
1104 | Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)</para>
|
---|
1105 | </listitem>
|
---|
1106 |
|
---|
1107 | <listitem>
|
---|
1108 | <para>EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs
|
---|
1109 | (bugs #11103 and #13211)</para>
|
---|
1110 | </listitem>
|
---|
1111 |
|
---|
1112 | <listitem>
|
---|
1113 | <para>Storage: fixed a crash under certain cicrumstances when a medium
|
---|
1114 | was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without
|
---|
1115 | inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM
|
---|
1116 | (4.3.16 regression) </para>
|
---|
1117 | </listitem>
|
---|
1118 |
|
---|
1119 | <listitem>
|
---|
1120 | <para>Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests
|
---|
1121 | or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)</para>
|
---|
1122 | </listitem>
|
---|
1123 |
|
---|
1124 | <listitem>
|
---|
1125 | <para>Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to
|
---|
1126 | a full disk if host I/O caching is used</para>
|
---|
1127 | </listitem>
|
---|
1128 |
|
---|
1129 | <listitem>
|
---|
1130 | <para>Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when
|
---|
1131 | using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode
|
---|
1132 | (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)</para>
|
---|
1133 | </listitem>
|
---|
1134 |
|
---|
1135 | <listitem>
|
---|
1136 | <para>Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during
|
---|
1137 | recursive copy</para>
|
---|
1138 | </listitem>
|
---|
1139 |
|
---|
1140 | <listitem>
|
---|
1141 | <para>SDK: Java COM bindings fixes</para>
|
---|
1142 | </listitem>
|
---|
1143 |
|
---|
1144 | <listitem>
|
---|
1145 | <para>iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)</para>
|
---|
1146 | </listitem>
|
---|
1147 |
|
---|
1148 | <listitem>
|
---|
1149 | <para>Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads
|
---|
1150 | during initialization (bug #13038)</para>
|
---|
1151 | </listitem>
|
---|
1152 |
|
---|
1153 | <listitem>
|
---|
1154 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
|
---|
1155 | to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
|
---|
1156 | (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
|
---|
1157 | </listitem>
|
---|
1158 |
|
---|
1159 | <listitem>
|
---|
1160 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions
|
---|
1161 | (bug #13418)</para>
|
---|
1162 | </listitem>
|
---|
1163 |
|
---|
1164 | <listitem>
|
---|
1165 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression
|
---|
1166 | whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
|
---|
1167 | </listitem>
|
---|
1168 |
|
---|
1169 | <listitem>
|
---|
1170 | <para>Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing
|
---|
1171 | Windows 7 or newer guests</para>
|
---|
1172 | </listitem>
|
---|
1173 |
|
---|
1174 | <listitem>
|
---|
1175 | <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)</para>
|
---|
1176 | </listitem>
|
---|
1177 |
|
---|
1178 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1179 | </sect1>
|
---|
1180 |
|
---|
1181 | <sect1>
|
---|
1182 | <title>Version 4.3.18 (2014-10-10)</title>
|
---|
1183 |
|
---|
1184 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1185 | added:</para>
|
---|
1186 |
|
---|
1187 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1188 |
|
---|
1189 | <listitem>
|
---|
1190 | <para>VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state
|
---|
1191 | from a saved state</para>
|
---|
1192 | </listitem>
|
---|
1193 |
|
---|
1194 | <listitem>
|
---|
1195 | <para>GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions
|
---|
1196 | for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)</para>
|
---|
1197 | </listitem>
|
---|
1198 |
|
---|
1199 | <listitem>
|
---|
1200 | <para>GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by
|
---|
1201 | mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)</para>
|
---|
1202 | </listitem>
|
---|
1203 |
|
---|
1204 | <listitem>
|
---|
1205 | <para>GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode
|
---|
1206 | as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see
|
---|
1207 | <xref linkend="legacy-fullscreen-mode" xreflabel="here"/> (bug #13365)</para>
|
---|
1208 | </listitem>
|
---|
1209 |
|
---|
1210 | <listitem>
|
---|
1211 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen
|
---|
1212 | when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)</para>
|
---|
1213 | </listitem>
|
---|
1214 |
|
---|
1215 | <listitem>
|
---|
1216 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to
|
---|
1217 | VBox in full-screen mode</para>
|
---|
1218 | </listitem>
|
---|
1219 |
|
---|
1220 | <listitem>
|
---|
1221 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen
|
---|
1222 | mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control</para>
|
---|
1223 | </listitem>
|
---|
1224 |
|
---|
1225 | <listitem>
|
---|
1226 | <para>Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under
|
---|
1227 | certain circumstances (bug #11960)</para>
|
---|
1228 | </listitem>
|
---|
1229 |
|
---|
1230 | <listitem>
|
---|
1231 | <para>Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the
|
---|
1232 | storage devices attached to the SATA controller</para>
|
---|
1233 | </listitem>
|
---|
1234 |
|
---|
1235 | <listitem>
|
---|
1236 | <para>Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)</para>
|
---|
1237 | </listitem>
|
---|
1238 |
|
---|
1239 | <listitem>
|
---|
1240 | <para>Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386,
|
---|
1241 | #13435)</para>
|
---|
1242 | </listitem>
|
---|
1243 |
|
---|
1244 | <listitem>
|
---|
1245 | <para>NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP
|
---|
1246 | rules</para>
|
---|
1247 | </listitem>
|
---|
1248 |
|
---|
1249 | <listitem>
|
---|
1250 | <para>USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and
|
---|
1251 | several other fixes</para>
|
---|
1252 | </listitem>
|
---|
1253 |
|
---|
1254 | <listitem>
|
---|
1255 | <para>ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)</para>
|
---|
1256 | </listitem>
|
---|
1257 |
|
---|
1258 | <listitem>
|
---|
1259 | <para>Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)</para>
|
---|
1260 | </listitem>
|
---|
1261 |
|
---|
1262 | <listitem>
|
---|
1263 | <para>Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file
|
---|
1264 | which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)</para>
|
---|
1265 | </listitem>
|
---|
1266 |
|
---|
1267 | <listitem>
|
---|
1268 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
|
---|
1269 | to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting
|
---|
1270 | (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
|
---|
1271 | </listitem>
|
---|
1272 |
|
---|
1273 | <listitem>
|
---|
1274 | <para>Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child
|
---|
1275 | process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)</para>
|
---|
1276 | </listitem>
|
---|
1277 |
|
---|
1278 | <listitem>
|
---|
1279 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)</para>
|
---|
1280 | </listitem>
|
---|
1281 |
|
---|
1282 | <listitem>
|
---|
1283 | <para>Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks</para>
|
---|
1284 | </listitem>
|
---|
1285 |
|
---|
1286 | <listitem>
|
---|
1287 | <para>X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties
|
---|
1288 | which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting</para>
|
---|
1289 | </listitem>
|
---|
1290 |
|
---|
1291 | <listitem>
|
---|
1292 | <para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel
|
---|
1293 | log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)</para>
|
---|
1294 | </listitem>
|
---|
1295 |
|
---|
1296 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1297 | </sect1>
|
---|
1298 |
|
---|
1299 | <sect1>
|
---|
1300 | <title>Version 4.3.16 (2014-09-09)</title>
|
---|
1301 |
|
---|
1302 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1303 | added:</para>
|
---|
1304 |
|
---|
1305 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1306 |
|
---|
1307 | <listitem>
|
---|
1308 | <para>VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs
|
---|
1309 | and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)</para>
|
---|
1310 | </listitem>
|
---|
1311 |
|
---|
1312 | <listitem>
|
---|
1313 | <para>GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size
|
---|
1314 | after exiting full-screen/seamless mode</para>
|
---|
1315 | </listitem>
|
---|
1316 |
|
---|
1317 | <listitem>
|
---|
1318 | <para>GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with
|
---|
1319 | 3D guest rendering</para>
|
---|
1320 | </listitem>
|
---|
1321 |
|
---|
1322 | <listitem>
|
---|
1323 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition
|
---|
1324 | was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute</para>
|
---|
1325 | </listitem>
|
---|
1326 |
|
---|
1327 | <listitem>
|
---|
1328 | <para>GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen
|
---|
1329 | multi-screen mapping API</para>
|
---|
1330 | </listitem>
|
---|
1331 |
|
---|
1332 | <listitem>
|
---|
1333 | <para>GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture
|
---|
1334 | behavior, see <xref linkend="mouse-capture" xreflabel="here"/>
|
---|
1335 | (bug #3506)</para>
|
---|
1336 | </listitem>
|
---|
1337 |
|
---|
1338 | <listitem>
|
---|
1339 | <para>Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with
|
---|
1340 | authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)</para>
|
---|
1341 | </listitem>
|
---|
1342 |
|
---|
1343 | <listitem>
|
---|
1344 | <para>Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another
|
---|
1345 | allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range</para>
|
---|
1346 | </listitem>
|
---|
1347 |
|
---|
1348 | <listitem>
|
---|
1349 | <para>Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products</para>
|
---|
1350 | </listitem>
|
---|
1351 |
|
---|
1352 | <listitem>
|
---|
1353 | <para>Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller</para>
|
---|
1354 | </listitem>
|
---|
1355 |
|
---|
1356 | <listitem>
|
---|
1357 | <para>Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running
|
---|
1358 | under control of QEMM</para>
|
---|
1359 | </listitem>
|
---|
1360 |
|
---|
1361 | <listitem>
|
---|
1362 | <para>3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host</para>
|
---|
1363 | </listitem>
|
---|
1364 |
|
---|
1365 | <listitem>
|
---|
1366 | <para>3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on Mac OS X host</para>
|
---|
1367 | </listitem>
|
---|
1368 |
|
---|
1369 | <listitem>
|
---|
1370 | <para>3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)</para>
|
---|
1371 | </listitem>
|
---|
1372 |
|
---|
1373 | <listitem>
|
---|
1374 | <para>3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support</para>
|
---|
1375 | </listitem>
|
---|
1376 |
|
---|
1377 | <listitem>
|
---|
1378 | <para>3D: several fixes</para>
|
---|
1379 | </listitem>
|
---|
1380 |
|
---|
1381 | <listitem>
|
---|
1382 | <para>Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging
|
---|
1383 | to a wireless interface</para>
|
---|
1384 | </listitem>
|
---|
1385 |
|
---|
1386 | <listitem>
|
---|
1387 | <para>NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode
|
---|
1388 | when host was switched from one network to another one while host was
|
---|
1389 | sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
|
---|
1390 | </listitem>
|
---|
1391 |
|
---|
1392 | <listitem>
|
---|
1393 | <para>NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying
|
---|
1394 | outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)</para>
|
---|
1395 | </listitem>
|
---|
1396 |
|
---|
1397 | <listitem>
|
---|
1398 | <para>NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)</para>
|
---|
1399 | </listitem>
|
---|
1400 |
|
---|
1401 | <listitem>
|
---|
1402 | <para>NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on
|
---|
1403 | Windows hosts (bug #12136)</para>
|
---|
1404 | </listitem>
|
---|
1405 |
|
---|
1406 | <listitem>
|
---|
1407 | <para>NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option</para>
|
---|
1408 | </listitem>
|
---|
1409 |
|
---|
1410 | <listitem>
|
---|
1411 | <para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts</para>
|
---|
1412 | </listitem>
|
---|
1413 |
|
---|
1414 | <listitem>
|
---|
1415 | <para>NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS
|
---|
1416 | and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP
|
---|
1417 | datagrams</para>
|
---|
1418 | </listitem>
|
---|
1419 |
|
---|
1420 | <listitem>
|
---|
1421 | <para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input</para>
|
---|
1422 | </listitem>
|
---|
1423 |
|
---|
1424 | <listitem>
|
---|
1425 | <para>USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)</para>
|
---|
1426 | </listitem>
|
---|
1427 |
|
---|
1428 | <listitem>
|
---|
1429 | <para>Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain Mac OS X guests
|
---|
1430 | (e.g. Mountain Lion)</para>
|
---|
1431 | </listitem>
|
---|
1432 |
|
---|
1433 | <listitem>
|
---|
1434 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due
|
---|
1435 | to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)</para>
|
---|
1436 | </listitem>
|
---|
1437 |
|
---|
1438 | <listitem>
|
---|
1439 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped
|
---|
1440 | working for some people (bug #13216)</para>
|
---|
1441 | </listitem>
|
---|
1442 |
|
---|
1443 | <listitem>
|
---|
1444 | <para>X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work
|
---|
1445 | (bug #8745)</para>
|
---|
1446 | </listitem>
|
---|
1447 |
|
---|
1448 | <listitem>
|
---|
1449 | <para>X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately
|
---|
1450 | released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)</para>
|
---|
1451 | </listitem>
|
---|
1452 |
|
---|
1453 | <listitem>
|
---|
1454 | <para>Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages
|
---|
1455 | when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)</para>
|
---|
1456 | </listitem>
|
---|
1457 |
|
---|
1458 | <listitem>
|
---|
1459 | <para>Linux guests: stop applications crashing when <emphasis>drm_wait_vblank</emphasis>
|
---|
1460 | is called (bug #13265)</para>
|
---|
1461 | </listitem>
|
---|
1462 |
|
---|
1463 | <listitem>
|
---|
1464 | <para>Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)</para>
|
---|
1465 | </listitem>
|
---|
1466 |
|
---|
1467 | <listitem>
|
---|
1468 | <para>X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection
|
---|
1469 | (bug #13107)</para>
|
---|
1470 | </listitem>
|
---|
1471 |
|
---|
1472 | <listitem>
|
---|
1473 | <para>X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)</para>
|
---|
1474 | </listitem>
|
---|
1475 |
|
---|
1476 | <listitem>
|
---|
1477 | <para>X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which
|
---|
1478 | caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)</para>
|
---|
1479 | </listitem>
|
---|
1480 |
|
---|
1481 | <listitem>
|
---|
1482 | <para>VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows
|
---|
1483 | kernel debugging, details see <ulink type=""
|
---|
1484 | url="http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/">http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/</ulink></para>
|
---|
1485 | </listitem>
|
---|
1486 |
|
---|
1487 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1488 | </sect1>
|
---|
1489 |
|
---|
1490 | <sect1>
|
---|
1491 | <title>Version 4.3.14 (2014-07-15)</title>
|
---|
1492 |
|
---|
1493 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1494 | added:</para>
|
---|
1495 |
|
---|
1496 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1497 |
|
---|
1498 | <listitem>
|
---|
1499 | <para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs
|
---|
1500 | #12784, #12949, #13034)</para>
|
---|
1501 | </listitem>
|
---|
1502 |
|
---|
1503 | <listitem>
|
---|
1504 | <para>VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only
|
---|
1505 | relevant for the ICH9 chipset)</para>
|
---|
1506 | </listitem>
|
---|
1507 |
|
---|
1508 | <listitem>
|
---|
1509 | <para>VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit
|
---|
1510 | and the <emphasis>SYSCALL</emphasis> instruction (VT-x only;
|
---|
1511 | 4.3 regression; bug #13008)</para>
|
---|
1512 | </listitem>
|
---|
1513 |
|
---|
1514 | <listitem>
|
---|
1515 | <para>VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests</para>
|
---|
1516 | </listitem>
|
---|
1517 |
|
---|
1518 | <listitem>
|
---|
1519 | <para>VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI</para>
|
---|
1520 | </listitem>
|
---|
1521 |
|
---|
1522 | <listitem>
|
---|
1523 | <para>GUI: fixed a potential crash</para>
|
---|
1524 | </listitem>
|
---|
1525 |
|
---|
1526 | <listitem>
|
---|
1527 | <para>GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)</para>
|
---|
1528 | </listitem>
|
---|
1529 |
|
---|
1530 | <listitem>
|
---|
1531 | <para>GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check</para>
|
---|
1532 | </listitem>
|
---|
1533 |
|
---|
1534 | <listitem>
|
---|
1535 | <para>GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other
|
---|
1536 | trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)</para>
|
---|
1537 | </listitem>
|
---|
1538 |
|
---|
1539 | <listitem>
|
---|
1540 | <para>GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the
|
---|
1541 | location of the root certificates (bug #13096)</para>
|
---|
1542 | </listitem>
|
---|
1543 |
|
---|
1544 | <listitem>
|
---|
1545 | <para>VBoxManage: fixed typo in <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
|
---|
1546 | (bug #13176)</para>
|
---|
1547 | </listitem>
|
---|
1548 |
|
---|
1549 | <listitem>
|
---|
1550 | <para>NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)</para>
|
---|
1551 | </listitem>
|
---|
1552 |
|
---|
1553 | <listitem>
|
---|
1554 | <para>NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions
|
---|
1555 | (bug #10034)</para>
|
---|
1556 | </listitem>
|
---|
1557 |
|
---|
1558 | <listitem>
|
---|
1559 | <para>NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data</para>
|
---|
1560 | </listitem>
|
---|
1561 |
|
---|
1562 | <listitem>
|
---|
1563 | <para>NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP
|
---|
1564 | connections over IPv6</para>
|
---|
1565 | </listitem>
|
---|
1566 |
|
---|
1567 | <listitem>
|
---|
1568 | <para>NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows
|
---|
1569 | hosts</para>
|
---|
1570 | </listitem>
|
---|
1571 |
|
---|
1572 | <listitem>
|
---|
1573 | <para>NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts</para>
|
---|
1574 | </listitem>
|
---|
1575 |
|
---|
1576 | <listitem>
|
---|
1577 | <para>NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts</para>
|
---|
1578 | </listitem>
|
---|
1579 |
|
---|
1580 | <listitem>
|
---|
1581 | <para>NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X
|
---|
1582 | and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X</para>
|
---|
1583 | </listitem>
|
---|
1584 |
|
---|
1585 | <listitem>
|
---|
1586 | <para>Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP <emphasis>ifConnectorPresent</emphasis>
|
---|
1587 | value on Windows (bug #13143)</para>
|
---|
1588 | </listitem>
|
---|
1589 |
|
---|
1590 | <listitem>
|
---|
1591 | <para>Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under
|
---|
1592 | certain circumstances</para>
|
---|
1593 | </listitem>
|
---|
1594 |
|
---|
1595 | <listitem>
|
---|
1596 | <para>Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED
|
---|
1597 | or QCOW image (bug #12613)</para>
|
---|
1598 | </listitem>
|
---|
1599 |
|
---|
1600 | <listitem>
|
---|
1601 | <para>Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare
|
---|
1602 | circumstances</para>
|
---|
1603 | </listitem>
|
---|
1604 |
|
---|
1605 | <listitem>
|
---|
1606 | <para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
|
---|
1607 | </listitem>
|
---|
1608 |
|
---|
1609 | <listitem>
|
---|
1610 | <para>USB: performance fixes</para>
|
---|
1611 | </listitem>
|
---|
1612 |
|
---|
1613 | <listitem>
|
---|
1614 | <para>ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset</para>
|
---|
1615 | </listitem>
|
---|
1616 |
|
---|
1617 | <listitem>
|
---|
1618 | <para>Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after
|
---|
1619 | resuming the host</para>
|
---|
1620 | </listitem>
|
---|
1621 |
|
---|
1622 | <listitem>
|
---|
1623 | <para>3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than
|
---|
1624 | 4GB guest memory</para>
|
---|
1625 | </listitem>
|
---|
1626 |
|
---|
1627 | <listitem>
|
---|
1628 | <para>3D: several fixes</para>
|
---|
1629 | </listitem>
|
---|
1630 |
|
---|
1631 | <listitem>
|
---|
1632 | <para>API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)</para>
|
---|
1633 | </listitem>
|
---|
1634 |
|
---|
1635 | <listitem>
|
---|
1636 | <para>ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories</para>
|
---|
1637 | </listitem>
|
---|
1638 |
|
---|
1639 | <listitem>
|
---|
1640 | <para>Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)</para>
|
---|
1641 | </listitem>
|
---|
1642 |
|
---|
1643 | <listitem>
|
---|
1644 | <para>Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions
|
---|
1645 | of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)</para>
|
---|
1646 | </listitem>
|
---|
1647 |
|
---|
1648 | <listitem>
|
---|
1649 | <para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)</para>
|
---|
1650 | </listitem>
|
---|
1651 |
|
---|
1652 | <listitem>
|
---|
1653 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider
|
---|
1654 | BlueRay devices</para>
|
---|
1655 | </listitem>
|
---|
1656 |
|
---|
1657 | <listitem>
|
---|
1658 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed host shutdown and reboot delay caused by running VBoxSVC
|
---|
1659 | process in some cases</para>
|
---|
1660 | </listitem>
|
---|
1661 |
|
---|
1662 | <listitem>
|
---|
1663 | <para>OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)</para>
|
---|
1664 | </listitem>
|
---|
1665 |
|
---|
1666 | <listitem>
|
---|
1667 | <para>Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories
|
---|
1668 | located on shared folders</para>
|
---|
1669 | </listitem>
|
---|
1670 |
|
---|
1671 | <listitem>
|
---|
1672 | <para>Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after
|
---|
1673 | installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation</para>
|
---|
1674 | </listitem>
|
---|
1675 |
|
---|
1676 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1677 |
|
---|
1678 | </sect1>
|
---|
1679 |
|
---|
1680 | <sect1>
|
---|
1681 | <title>Version 4.3.12 (2014-05-16)</title>
|
---|
1682 |
|
---|
1683 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1684 | added:</para>
|
---|
1685 |
|
---|
1686 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1687 |
|
---|
1688 | <listitem>
|
---|
1689 | <para>VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only;
|
---|
1690 | bugs #12727, #12954)</para>
|
---|
1691 | </listitem>
|
---|
1692 |
|
---|
1693 | <listitem>
|
---|
1694 | <para>VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB
|
---|
1695 | entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)</para>
|
---|
1696 | </listitem>
|
---|
1697 |
|
---|
1698 | <listitem>
|
---|
1699 | <para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> Guru Meditation
|
---|
1700 | seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7</para>
|
---|
1701 | </listitem>
|
---|
1702 |
|
---|
1703 | <listitem>
|
---|
1704 | <para>VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12240,
|
---|
1705 | #12875)</para>
|
---|
1706 | </listitem>
|
---|
1707 |
|
---|
1708 | <listitem>
|
---|
1709 | <para>GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and
|
---|
1710 | multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)</para>
|
---|
1711 | </listitem>
|
---|
1712 |
|
---|
1713 | <listitem>
|
---|
1714 | <para>GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)</para>
|
---|
1715 | </listitem>
|
---|
1716 |
|
---|
1717 | <listitem>
|
---|
1718 | <para>GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting
|
---|
1719 | full-screen/seamless mode</para>
|
---|
1720 | </listitem>
|
---|
1721 |
|
---|
1722 | <listitem>
|
---|
1723 | <para>Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot
|
---|
1724 | (bug #12700)</para>
|
---|
1725 | </listitem>
|
---|
1726 |
|
---|
1727 | <listitem>
|
---|
1728 | <para>AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances</para>
|
---|
1729 | </listitem>
|
---|
1730 |
|
---|
1731 | <listitem>
|
---|
1732 | <para>API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions</para>
|
---|
1733 | </listitem>
|
---|
1734 |
|
---|
1735 | <listitem>
|
---|
1736 | <para>NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)</para>
|
---|
1737 | </listitem>
|
---|
1738 |
|
---|
1739 | <listitem>
|
---|
1740 | <para>NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy</para>
|
---|
1741 | </listitem>
|
---|
1742 |
|
---|
1743 | <listitem>
|
---|
1744 | <para>NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time</para>
|
---|
1745 | </listitem>
|
---|
1746 |
|
---|
1747 | <listitem>
|
---|
1748 | <para>NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused
|
---|
1749 | by iSCSI service activity</para>
|
---|
1750 | </listitem>
|
---|
1751 |
|
---|
1752 | <listitem>
|
---|
1753 | <para>USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host
|
---|
1754 | when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
|
---|
1755 | </listitem>
|
---|
1756 |
|
---|
1757 | <listitem>
|
---|
1758 | <para>3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04</para>
|
---|
1759 | </listitem>
|
---|
1760 |
|
---|
1761 | <listitem>
|
---|
1762 | <para>VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)</para>
|
---|
1763 | </listitem>
|
---|
1764 |
|
---|
1765 | <listitem>
|
---|
1766 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after
|
---|
1767 | the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)</para>
|
---|
1768 | </listitem>
|
---|
1769 |
|
---|
1770 | <listitem>
|
---|
1771 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming</para>
|
---|
1772 | </listitem>
|
---|
1773 |
|
---|
1774 | <listitem>
|
---|
1775 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter
|
---|
1776 | (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)</para>
|
---|
1777 | </listitem>
|
---|
1778 |
|
---|
1779 | <listitem>
|
---|
1780 | <para>Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems</para>
|
---|
1781 | </listitem>
|
---|
1782 |
|
---|
1783 | <listitem>
|
---|
1784 | <para>Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support</para>
|
---|
1785 | </listitem>
|
---|
1786 |
|
---|
1787 | <listitem>
|
---|
1788 | <para>Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems
|
---|
1789 | (bug #12262)</para>
|
---|
1790 | </listitem>
|
---|
1791 |
|
---|
1792 | <listitem>
|
---|
1793 | <para>Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper
|
---|
1794 | (bug #12879)</para>
|
---|
1795 | </listitem>
|
---|
1796 |
|
---|
1797 | <listitem>
|
---|
1798 | <para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for
|
---|
1799 | users without a password (bug #12994)</para>
|
---|
1800 | </listitem>
|
---|
1801 |
|
---|
1802 | <listitem>
|
---|
1803 | <para>Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process
|
---|
1804 | terminated with <emphasis>VERR_INTERRUPTED</emphasis> to the host</para>
|
---|
1805 | </listitem>
|
---|
1806 |
|
---|
1807 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1808 |
|
---|
1809 | </sect1>
|
---|
1810 |
|
---|
1811 | <sect1>
|
---|
1812 | <title>Version 4.3.10 (2014-03-26)</title>
|
---|
1813 |
|
---|
1814 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1815 | added:</para>
|
---|
1816 |
|
---|
1817 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1818 |
|
---|
1819 | <listitem>
|
---|
1820 | <para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
|
---|
1821 | on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686,
|
---|
1822 | #12770)</para>
|
---|
1823 | </listitem>
|
---|
1824 |
|
---|
1825 | <listitem>
|
---|
1826 | <para>VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without
|
---|
1827 | unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)</para>
|
---|
1828 | </listitem>
|
---|
1829 |
|
---|
1830 | <listitem>
|
---|
1831 | <para>VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is
|
---|
1832 | not available</para>
|
---|
1833 | </listitem>
|
---|
1834 |
|
---|
1835 | <listitem>
|
---|
1836 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for
|
---|
1837 | Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)</para>
|
---|
1838 | </listitem>
|
---|
1839 |
|
---|
1840 | <listitem>
|
---|
1841 | <para>GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which
|
---|
1842 | doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway</para>
|
---|
1843 | </listitem>
|
---|
1844 |
|
---|
1845 | <listitem>
|
---|
1846 | <para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts:
|
---|
1847 | fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default;
|
---|
1848 | bug #12758)</para>
|
---|
1849 | </listitem>
|
---|
1850 |
|
---|
1851 | <listitem>
|
---|
1852 | <para>GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu
|
---|
1853 | (bug #12862)</para>
|
---|
1854 | </listitem>
|
---|
1855 |
|
---|
1856 | <listitem>
|
---|
1857 | <para>OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest
|
---|
1858 | export (bug #12586)</para>
|
---|
1859 | </listitem>
|
---|
1860 |
|
---|
1861 | <listitem>
|
---|
1862 | <para>3D support: several fixes</para>
|
---|
1863 | </listitem>
|
---|
1864 |
|
---|
1865 | <listitem>
|
---|
1866 | <para>HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several
|
---|
1867 | guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state</para>
|
---|
1868 | </listitem>
|
---|
1869 |
|
---|
1870 | <listitem>
|
---|
1871 | <para>Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots
|
---|
1872 | under certain conditions</para>
|
---|
1873 | </listitem>
|
---|
1874 |
|
---|
1875 | <listitem>
|
---|
1876 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path
|
---|
1877 | exists under /dev (bug #12760)</para>
|
---|
1878 | </listitem>
|
---|
1879 |
|
---|
1880 | <listitem>
|
---|
1881 | <para>API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage
|
---|
1882 | medium was attached or removed at VM runtime</para>
|
---|
1883 | </listitem>
|
---|
1884 |
|
---|
1885 | <listitem>
|
---|
1886 | <para>Windows installer: make the <emphasis>--silent</emphasis>
|
---|
1887 | parameter work again (bug #12764)</para>
|
---|
1888 | </listitem>
|
---|
1889 |
|
---|
1890 | <listitem>
|
---|
1891 | <para>Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from
|
---|
1892 | leaking to wire (bug #12750)</para>
|
---|
1893 | </listitem>
|
---|
1894 |
|
---|
1895 | <listitem>
|
---|
1896 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes
|
---|
1897 | (4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)</para>
|
---|
1898 | </listitem>
|
---|
1899 |
|
---|
1900 | <listitem>
|
---|
1901 | <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with
|
---|
1902 | multiple guest screens under certain conditions</para>
|
---|
1903 | </listitem>
|
---|
1904 |
|
---|
1905 | <listitem>
|
---|
1906 | <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video
|
---|
1907 | acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)</para>
|
---|
1908 | </listitem>
|
---|
1909 |
|
---|
1910 | <listitem>
|
---|
1911 | <para>Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems
|
---|
1912 | with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)</para>
|
---|
1913 | </listitem>
|
---|
1914 |
|
---|
1915 | <listitem>
|
---|
1916 | <para>X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting
|
---|
1917 | correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time</para>
|
---|
1918 | </listitem>
|
---|
1919 |
|
---|
1920 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
1921 | </sect1>
|
---|
1922 |
|
---|
1923 | <sect1>
|
---|
1924 | <title>Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)</title>
|
---|
1925 |
|
---|
1926 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
1927 | added:</para>
|
---|
1928 |
|
---|
1929 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
1930 |
|
---|
1931 | <listitem>
|
---|
1932 | <para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
|
---|
1933 | (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)</para>
|
---|
1934 | </listitem>
|
---|
1935 |
|
---|
1936 | <listitem>
|
---|
1937 | <para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_INVALID_RPL</emphasis> Guru Meditation
|
---|
1938 | when booting certain guests (bug #11350)</para>
|
---|
1939 | </listitem>
|
---|
1940 |
|
---|
1941 | <listitem>
|
---|
1942 | <para>VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see
|
---|
1943 | the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651)</para>
|
---|
1944 | </listitem>
|
---|
1945 |
|
---|
1946 | <listitem>
|
---|
1947 | <para>VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization</para>
|
---|
1948 | </listitem>
|
---|
1949 |
|
---|
1950 | <listitem>
|
---|
1951 | <para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see
|
---|
1952 | <xref linkend="hidledssync" xreflabel="here"/></para>
|
---|
1953 | </listitem>
|
---|
1954 |
|
---|
1955 | <listitem>
|
---|
1956 | <para>GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and
|
---|
1957 | the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)</para>
|
---|
1958 | </listitem>
|
---|
1959 |
|
---|
1960 | <listitem>
|
---|
1961 | <para>GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in
|
---|
1962 | full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)</para>
|
---|
1963 | </listitem>
|
---|
1964 |
|
---|
1965 | <listitem>
|
---|
1966 | <para>GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box
|
---|
1967 | replaced with corresponding button</para>
|
---|
1968 | </listitem>
|
---|
1969 |
|
---|
1970 | <listitem>
|
---|
1971 | <para>GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through
|
---|
1972 | the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar
|
---|
1973 | indicator</para>
|
---|
1974 | </listitem>
|
---|
1975 |
|
---|
1976 | <listitem>
|
---|
1977 | <para>GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts
|
---|
1978 | by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types
|
---|
1979 | (bug #12533)</para>
|
---|
1980 | </listitem>
|
---|
1981 |
|
---|
1982 | <listitem>
|
---|
1983 | <para>GUI: better error message if appliance import fails
|
---|
1984 | (bug #12657)</para>
|
---|
1985 | </listitem>
|
---|
1986 |
|
---|
1987 | <listitem>
|
---|
1988 | <para>GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings
|
---|
1989 | / Input page (bug #12730)</para>
|
---|
1990 | </listitem>
|
---|
1991 |
|
---|
1992 | <listitem>
|
---|
1993 | <para>GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot
|
---|
1994 | merge (4.3 regression)</para>
|
---|
1995 | </listitem>
|
---|
1996 |
|
---|
1997 | <listitem>
|
---|
1998 | <para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
|
---|
1999 | of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
|
---|
2000 | import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
|
---|
2001 | several times</para>
|
---|
2002 | </listitem>
|
---|
2003 |
|
---|
2004 | <listitem>
|
---|
2005 | <para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances</para>
|
---|
2006 | </listitem>
|
---|
2007 |
|
---|
2008 | <listitem>
|
---|
2009 | <para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain
|
---|
2010 | circumstances</para>
|
---|
2011 | </listitem>
|
---|
2012 |
|
---|
2013 | <listitem>
|
---|
2014 | <para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
|
---|
2015 | SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
|
---|
2016 | </listitem>
|
---|
2017 |
|
---|
2018 | <listitem>
|
---|
2019 | <para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
|
---|
2020 | </listitem>
|
---|
2021 |
|
---|
2022 | <listitem>
|
---|
2023 | <para>AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions</para>
|
---|
2024 | </listitem>
|
---|
2025 |
|
---|
2026 | <listitem>
|
---|
2027 | <para>AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes</para>
|
---|
2028 | </listitem>
|
---|
2029 |
|
---|
2030 | <listitem>
|
---|
2031 | <para>NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration
|
---|
2032 | changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used
|
---|
2033 | (bug #12441)</para>
|
---|
2034 | </listitem>
|
---|
2035 |
|
---|
2036 | <listitem>
|
---|
2037 | <para>NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with
|
---|
2038 | ICMP packets having TTL=1</para>
|
---|
2039 | </listitem>
|
---|
2040 |
|
---|
2041 | <listitem>
|
---|
2042 | <para>NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly</para>
|
---|
2043 | </listitem>
|
---|
2044 |
|
---|
2045 | <listitem>
|
---|
2046 | <para>NAT Network: ping proxy implemented</para>
|
---|
2047 | </listitem>
|
---|
2048 |
|
---|
2049 | <listitem>
|
---|
2050 | <para>OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element
|
---|
2051 | (4.3 regression; bug #12345)</para>
|
---|
2052 | </listitem>
|
---|
2053 |
|
---|
2054 | <listitem>
|
---|
2055 | <para>OVF: several fixes</para>
|
---|
2056 | </listitem>
|
---|
2057 |
|
---|
2058 | <listitem>
|
---|
2059 | <para>3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)</para>
|
---|
2060 | </listitem>
|
---|
2061 |
|
---|
2062 | <listitem>
|
---|
2063 | <para>3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)</para>
|
---|
2064 | </listitem>
|
---|
2065 |
|
---|
2066 | <listitem>
|
---|
2067 | <para>3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)</para>
|
---|
2068 | </listitem>
|
---|
2069 |
|
---|
2070 | <listitem>
|
---|
2071 | <para>VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest
|
---|
2072 | Additions are active (bug #6649)</para>
|
---|
2073 | </listitem>
|
---|
2074 |
|
---|
2075 | <listitem>
|
---|
2076 | <para>USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare
|
---|
2077 | circumstances</para>
|
---|
2078 | </listitem>
|
---|
2079 |
|
---|
2080 | <listitem>
|
---|
2081 | <para>BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives</para>
|
---|
2082 | </listitem>
|
---|
2083 |
|
---|
2084 | <listitem>
|
---|
2085 | <para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
|
---|
2086 | happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
|
---|
2087 | </listitem>
|
---|
2088 |
|
---|
2089 | <listitem>
|
---|
2090 | <para>VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events
|
---|
2091 | (see <xref linkend="hostpowertweaks" xreflabel="here"/>) and
|
---|
2092 | added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low
|
---|
2093 | event (bug #9925)</para>
|
---|
2094 | </listitem>
|
---|
2095 |
|
---|
2096 | <listitem>
|
---|
2097 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot
|
---|
2098 | was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups
|
---|
2099 | (bug #12569)</para>
|
---|
2100 | </listitem>
|
---|
2101 |
|
---|
2102 | <listitem>
|
---|
2103 | <para>VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in <emphasis>/bin</emphasis>
|
---|
2104 | (bug #12713)</para>
|
---|
2105 | </listitem>
|
---|
2106 |
|
---|
2107 | <listitem>
|
---|
2108 | <para>Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders
|
---|
2109 | when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)</para>
|
---|
2110 | </listitem>
|
---|
2111 |
|
---|
2112 | <listitem>
|
---|
2113 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in
|
---|
2114 | the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network
|
---|
2115 | (bug #12241)</para>
|
---|
2116 | </listitem>
|
---|
2117 |
|
---|
2118 | <listitem>
|
---|
2119 | <para>Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining
|
---|
2120 | the number of physical CPU cores</para>
|
---|
2121 | </listitem>
|
---|
2122 |
|
---|
2123 | <listitem>
|
---|
2124 | <para>Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation
|
---|
2125 | fails (bug #11171)</para>
|
---|
2126 | </listitem>
|
---|
2127 |
|
---|
2128 | <listitem>
|
---|
2129 | <para>Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)</para>
|
---|
2130 | </listitem>
|
---|
2131 |
|
---|
2132 | <listitem>
|
---|
2133 | <para>Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar
|
---|
2134 | environment contents (bug #12596)</para>
|
---|
2135 | </listitem>
|
---|
2136 |
|
---|
2137 | <listitem>
|
---|
2138 | <para>Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
|
---|
2139 | environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)</para>
|
---|
2140 | </listitem>
|
---|
2141 |
|
---|
2142 | <listitem>
|
---|
2143 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)</para>
|
---|
2144 | </listitem>
|
---|
2145 |
|
---|
2146 | <listitem>
|
---|
2147 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users</para>
|
---|
2148 | </listitem>
|
---|
2149 |
|
---|
2150 | <listitem>
|
---|
2151 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on
|
---|
2152 | XPDM -> WDDM upgrade</para>
|
---|
2153 | </listitem>
|
---|
2154 |
|
---|
2155 | <listitem>
|
---|
2156 | <para>Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
|
---|
2157 | environment variables</para>
|
---|
2158 | </listitem>
|
---|
2159 |
|
---|
2160 | <listitem>
|
---|
2161 | <para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
|
---|
2162 | (bug #12505)</para>
|
---|
2163 | </listitem>
|
---|
2164 |
|
---|
2165 | <listitem>
|
---|
2166 | <para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
|
---|
2167 | </listitem>
|
---|
2168 |
|
---|
2169 | <listitem>
|
---|
2170 | <para>Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already
|
---|
2171 | mounted</para>
|
---|
2172 | </listitem>
|
---|
2173 |
|
---|
2174 | <listitem>
|
---|
2175 | <para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)</para>
|
---|
2176 | </listitem>
|
---|
2177 |
|
---|
2178 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
2179 |
|
---|
2180 | </sect1>
|
---|
2181 |
|
---|
2182 | <sect1>
|
---|
2183 | <title>Version 4.3.6 (2013-12-18)</title>
|
---|
2184 |
|
---|
2185 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
2186 | added:</para>
|
---|
2187 |
|
---|
2188 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
2189 |
|
---|
2190 | <listitem>
|
---|
2191 | <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
|
---|
2192 | caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)</para>
|
---|
2193 | </listitem>
|
---|
2194 |
|
---|
2195 | <listitem>
|
---|
2196 | <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE</emphasis>
|
---|
2197 | while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)</para>
|
---|
2198 | </listitem>
|
---|
2199 |
|
---|
2200 | <listitem>
|
---|
2201 | <para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT</emphasis>
|
---|
2202 | while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)</para>
|
---|
2203 | </listitem>
|
---|
2204 |
|
---|
2205 | <listitem>
|
---|
2206 | <para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC</emphasis> error when trying
|
---|
2207 | to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately,
|
---|
2208 | VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard
|
---|
2209 | these states (bug #12414)</para>
|
---|
2210 | </listitem>
|
---|
2211 |
|
---|
2212 | <listitem>
|
---|
2213 | <para>VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests
|
---|
2214 | (bug #12245)</para>
|
---|
2215 | </listitem>
|
---|
2216 |
|
---|
2217 | <listitem>
|
---|
2218 | <para>GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression; bug
|
---|
2219 | #12205)</para>
|
---|
2220 | </listitem>
|
---|
2221 |
|
---|
2222 | <listitem>
|
---|
2223 | <para>GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors
|
---|
2224 | (bug #12480)</para>
|
---|
2225 | </listitem>
|
---|
2226 |
|
---|
2227 | <listitem>
|
---|
2228 | <para>Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if
|
---|
2229 | VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)</para>
|
---|
2230 | </listitem>
|
---|
2231 |
|
---|
2232 | <listitem>
|
---|
2233 | <para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
|
---|
2234 | (bug #12017)</para>
|
---|
2235 | </listitem>
|
---|
2236 |
|
---|
2237 | <listitem>
|
---|
2238 | <para>Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change
|
---|
2239 | (bug #7063)</para>
|
---|
2240 | </listitem>
|
---|
2241 |
|
---|
2242 | <listitem>
|
---|
2243 | <para>Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling
|
---|
2244 | <emphasis>IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()</emphasis> (bug #12498)</para>
|
---|
2245 | </listitem>
|
---|
2246 |
|
---|
2247 | <listitem>
|
---|
2248 | <para>API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes
|
---|
2249 | due to GUI unavailability</para>
|
---|
2250 | </listitem>
|
---|
2251 |
|
---|
2252 | <listitem>
|
---|
2253 | <para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
|
---|
2254 | rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
|
---|
2255 | </listitem>
|
---|
2256 |
|
---|
2257 | <listitem>
|
---|
2258 | <para>Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)</para>
|
---|
2259 | </listitem>
|
---|
2260 |
|
---|
2261 | <listitem>
|
---|
2262 | <para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
|
---|
2263 | the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
|
---|
2264 | initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
|
---|
2265 | </listitem>
|
---|
2266 |
|
---|
2267 | <listitem>
|
---|
2268 | <para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
|
---|
2269 | hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
|
---|
2270 | </listitem>
|
---|
2271 |
|
---|
2272 | <listitem>
|
---|
2273 | <para>Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones
|
---|
2274 | (4.3 regression; bug #12271)</para>
|
---|
2275 | </listitem>
|
---|
2276 |
|
---|
2277 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
2278 |
|
---|
2279 | </sect1>
|
---|
2280 |
|
---|
2281 | <sect1>
|
---|
2282 | <title>Version 4.3.4 (2013-11-29)</title>
|
---|
2283 |
|
---|
2284 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
2285 | added:</para>
|
---|
2286 |
|
---|
2287 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
2288 |
|
---|
2289 | <listitem>
|
---|
2290 | <para>VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when
|
---|
2291 | booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)</para>
|
---|
2292 | </listitem>
|
---|
2293 |
|
---|
2294 | <listitem>
|
---|
2295 | <para>VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled
|
---|
2296 | (4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)</para>
|
---|
2297 | </listitem>
|
---|
2298 |
|
---|
2299 | <listitem>
|
---|
2300 | <para>VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain
|
---|
2301 | instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)</para>
|
---|
2302 | </listitem>
|
---|
2303 |
|
---|
2304 | <listitem>
|
---|
2305 | <para>VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting
|
---|
2306 | a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)</para>
|
---|
2307 | </listitem>
|
---|
2308 |
|
---|
2309 | <listitem>
|
---|
2310 | <para>VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when
|
---|
2311 | the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)</para>
|
---|
2312 | </listitem>
|
---|
2313 |
|
---|
2314 | <listitem>
|
---|
2315 | <para>VMM: fixed occasional <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> errors on
|
---|
2316 | hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)</para>
|
---|
2317 | </listitem>
|
---|
2318 |
|
---|
2319 | <listitem>
|
---|
2320 | <para>GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no
|
---|
2321 | Guest Additions are installed</para>
|
---|
2322 | </listitem>
|
---|
2323 |
|
---|
2324 | <listitem>
|
---|
2325 | <para>GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen
|
---|
2326 | resize</para>
|
---|
2327 | </listitem>
|
---|
2328 |
|
---|
2329 | <listitem>
|
---|
2330 | <para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
|
---|
2331 | the exported appliance</para>
|
---|
2332 | </listitem>
|
---|
2333 |
|
---|
2334 | <listitem>
|
---|
2335 | <para>GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)</para>
|
---|
2336 | </listitem>
|
---|
2337 |
|
---|
2338 | <listitem>
|
---|
2339 | <para>GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual
|
---|
2340 | look and feel styles (bug #11743)</para>
|
---|
2341 | </listitem>
|
---|
2342 |
|
---|
2343 | <listitem>
|
---|
2344 | <para>GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after
|
---|
2345 | VM reboot or shutdown</para>
|
---|
2346 | </listitem>
|
---|
2347 |
|
---|
2348 | <listitem>
|
---|
2349 | <para>GUI: fixes for medium enumeration</para>
|
---|
2350 | </listitem>
|
---|
2351 |
|
---|
2352 | <listitem>
|
---|
2353 | <para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
|
---|
2354 | is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
|
---|
2355 | </listitem>
|
---|
2356 |
|
---|
2357 | <listitem>
|
---|
2358 | <para>GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot
|
---|
2359 | if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)</para>
|
---|
2360 | </listitem>
|
---|
2361 |
|
---|
2362 | <listitem>
|
---|
2363 | <para>Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces
|
---|
2364 | (4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)</para>
|
---|
2365 | </listitem>
|
---|
2366 |
|
---|
2367 | <listitem>
|
---|
2368 | <para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
|
---|
2369 | access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
|
---|
2370 | </listitem>
|
---|
2371 |
|
---|
2372 | <listitem>
|
---|
2373 | <para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
|
---|
2374 | and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
|
---|
2375 | </listitem>
|
---|
2376 |
|
---|
2377 | <listitem>
|
---|
2378 | <para>NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting /
|
---|
2379 | terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration
|
---|
2380 | changes</para>
|
---|
2381 | </listitem>
|
---|
2382 |
|
---|
2383 | <listitem>
|
---|
2384 | <para>VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating
|
---|
2385 | (bug #12264)</para>
|
---|
2386 | </listitem>
|
---|
2387 |
|
---|
2388 | <listitem>
|
---|
2389 | <para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
|
---|
2390 | (bug #9194)</para>
|
---|
2391 | </listitem>
|
---|
2392 |
|
---|
2393 | <listitem>
|
---|
2394 | <para>BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI
|
---|
2395 | controller enabled</para>
|
---|
2396 | </listitem>
|
---|
2397 |
|
---|
2398 | <listitem>
|
---|
2399 | <para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
|
---|
2400 | where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
|
---|
2401 | </listitem>
|
---|
2402 |
|
---|
2403 | <listitem>
|
---|
2404 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0
|
---|
2405 | regression)</para>
|
---|
2406 | </listitem>
|
---|
2407 |
|
---|
2408 | <listitem>
|
---|
2409 | <para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization
|
---|
2410 | (bug #12349)</para>
|
---|
2411 | </listitem>
|
---|
2412 |
|
---|
2413 | <listitem>
|
---|
2414 | <para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
|
---|
2415 | VMs</para>
|
---|
2416 | </listitem>
|
---|
2417 |
|
---|
2418 | <listitem>
|
---|
2419 | <para>OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format
|
---|
2420 | during OVF import</para>
|
---|
2421 | </listitem>
|
---|
2422 |
|
---|
2423 | <listitem>
|
---|
2424 | <para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
|
---|
2425 | snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
|
---|
2426 | their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
|
---|
2427 | config corruption</para>
|
---|
2428 | </listitem>
|
---|
2429 |
|
---|
2430 | <listitem>
|
---|
2431 | <para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
|
---|
2432 | as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
|
---|
2433 | </listitem>
|
---|
2434 |
|
---|
2435 | <listitem>
|
---|
2436 | <para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
|
---|
2437 | (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
|
---|
2438 | errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
|
---|
2439 | (bug #12379)</para>
|
---|
2440 | </listitem>
|
---|
2441 |
|
---|
2442 | <listitem>
|
---|
2443 | <para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
|
---|
2444 | </listitem>
|
---|
2445 |
|
---|
2446 | <listitem>
|
---|
2447 | <para>Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help
|
---|
2448 | (bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)</para>
|
---|
2449 | </listitem>
|
---|
2450 |
|
---|
2451 | <listitem>
|
---|
2452 | <para>Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency
|
---|
2453 | (bug #6242)</para>
|
---|
2454 | </listitem>
|
---|
2455 |
|
---|
2456 | <listitem>
|
---|
2457 | <para>Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional,
|
---|
2458 | contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)</para>
|
---|
2459 | </listitem>
|
---|
2460 |
|
---|
2461 | <listitem>
|
---|
2462 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks
|
---|
2463 | hosts (bug #12256)</para>
|
---|
2464 | </listitem>
|
---|
2465 |
|
---|
2466 | <listitem>
|
---|
2467 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
|
---|
2468 | not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
|
---|
2469 | Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)</para>
|
---|
2470 | </listitem>
|
---|
2471 |
|
---|
2472 | <listitem>
|
---|
2473 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)</para>
|
---|
2474 | </listitem>
|
---|
2475 |
|
---|
2476 | <listitem>
|
---|
2477 | <para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)</para>
|
---|
2478 | </listitem>
|
---|
2479 |
|
---|
2480 | <listitem>
|
---|
2481 | <para>Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
|
---|
2482 | OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para>
|
---|
2483 | </listitem>
|
---|
2484 |
|
---|
2485 | <listitem>
|
---|
2486 | <para>Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
|
---|
2487 | (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
|
---|
2488 | </listitem>
|
---|
2489 |
|
---|
2490 | <listitem>
|
---|
2491 | <para>Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)</para>
|
---|
2492 | </listitem>
|
---|
2493 |
|
---|
2494 | <listitem>
|
---|
2495 | <para>Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)</para>
|
---|
2496 | </listitem>
|
---|
2497 |
|
---|
2498 | <listitem>
|
---|
2499 | <para>Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video
|
---|
2500 | modes for each virtual monitor</para>
|
---|
2501 | </listitem>
|
---|
2502 |
|
---|
2503 | <listitem>
|
---|
2504 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows
|
---|
2505 | guests (bug #12332)</para>
|
---|
2506 | </listitem>
|
---|
2507 |
|
---|
2508 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
2509 | </sect1>
|
---|
2510 |
|
---|
2511 | <sect1>
|
---|
2512 | <title>Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)</title>
|
---|
2513 |
|
---|
2514 | <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
|
---|
2515 | added:</para>
|
---|
2516 |
|
---|
2517 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
2518 |
|
---|
2519 | <listitem>
|
---|
2520 | <para>VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host
|
---|
2521 | BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts
|
---|
2522 | (bug #12237)</para>
|
---|
2523 | </listitem>
|
---|
2524 |
|
---|
2525 | <listitem>
|
---|
2526 | <para>VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on
|
---|
2527 | certain hosts</para>
|
---|
2528 | </listitem>
|
---|
2529 |
|
---|
2530 | <listitem>
|
---|
2531 | <para>VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would
|
---|
2532 | not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI</para>
|
---|
2533 | </listitem>
|
---|
2534 |
|
---|
2535 | <listitem>
|
---|
2536 | <para>VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests
|
---|
2537 | that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)</para>
|
---|
2538 | </listitem>
|
---|
2539 |
|
---|
2540 | <listitem>
|
---|
2541 | <para>VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized
|
---|
2542 | VMs (bug #12222)</para>
|
---|
2543 | </listitem>
|
---|
2544 |
|
---|
2545 | <listitem>
|
---|
2546 | <para>VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured
|
---|
2547 | to use software virtualization</para>
|
---|
2548 | </listitem>
|
---|
2549 |
|
---|
2550 | <listitem>
|
---|
2551 | <para>GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change
|
---|
2552 | (when switching from normal to full screen etc)</para>
|
---|
2553 | </listitem>
|
---|
2554 |
|
---|
2555 | <listitem>
|
---|
2556 | <para>GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a
|
---|
2557 | saved state if the host screen size changed</para>
|
---|
2558 | </listitem>
|
---|
2559 |
|
---|
2560 | <listitem>
|
---|
2561 | <para>GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization
|
---|
2562 | (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
|
---|
2563 | </listitem>
|
---|
2564 |
|
---|
2565 | <listitem>
|
---|
2566 | <para>Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see
|
---|
2567 | <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
|
---|
2568 | </listitem>
|
---|
2569 |
|
---|
2570 | <listitem>
|
---|
2571 | <para>Guest Control: implemented more <computeroutput>IGuestSession</computeroutput>
|
---|
2572 | methods</para>
|
---|
2573 | </listitem>
|
---|
2574 |
|
---|
2575 | <listitem>
|
---|
2576 | <para>Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in
|
---|
2577 | VBoxManage</para>
|
---|
2578 | </listitem>
|
---|
2579 |
|
---|
2580 | <listitem>
|
---|
2581 | <para>Guest Control: various bugfixes</para>
|
---|
2582 | </listitem>
|
---|
2583 |
|
---|
2584 | <listitem>
|
---|
2585 | <para>API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting
|
---|
2586 | in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting
|
---|
2587 | re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)</para>
|
---|
2588 | </listitem>
|
---|
2589 |
|
---|
2590 | <listitem>
|
---|
2591 | <para>3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled
|
---|
2592 | (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
|
---|
2593 | </listitem>
|
---|
2594 |
|
---|
2595 | <listitem>
|
---|
2596 | <para>3D support: miscellaneous fixes</para>
|
---|
2597 | </listitem>
|
---|
2598 |
|
---|
2599 | <listitem>
|
---|
2600 | <para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty
|
---|
2601 | to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
|
---|
2602 | </listitem>
|
---|
2603 |
|
---|
2604 | <listitem>
|
---|
2605 | <para>Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain
|
---|
2606 | circumstances</para>
|
---|
2607 | </listitem>
|
---|
2608 |
|
---|
2609 | <listitem>
|
---|
2610 | <para>NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime</para>
|
---|
2611 | </listitem>
|
---|
2612 |
|
---|
2613 | <listitem>
|
---|
2614 | <para>NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent
|
---|
2615 | storage</para>
|
---|
2616 | </listitem>
|
---|
2617 |
|
---|
2618 | <listitem>
|
---|
2619 | <para>Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration</para>
|
---|
2620 | </listitem>
|
---|
2621 |
|
---|
2622 | <listitem>
|
---|
2623 | <para>Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias
|
---|
2624 | from the VM selector</para>
|
---|
2625 | </listitem>
|
---|
2626 |
|
---|
2627 | <listitem>
|
---|
2628 | <para>Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade
|
---|
2629 | (bug #12258)</para>
|
---|
2630 | </listitem>
|
---|
2631 |
|
---|
2632 | <listitem>
|
---|
2633 | <para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
|
---|
2634 | (bug #12166)</para>
|
---|
2635 | </listitem>
|
---|
2636 |
|
---|
2637 | <listitem>
|
---|
2638 | <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503,
|
---|
2639 | thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
|
---|
2640 | </listitem>
|
---|
2641 |
|
---|
2642 | <listitem>
|
---|
2643 | <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)</para>
|
---|
2644 | </listitem>
|
---|
2645 |
|
---|
2646 | <listitem>
|
---|
2647 | <para>X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)</para>
|
---|
2648 | </listitem>
|
---|
2649 |
|
---|
2650 | <listitem>
|
---|
2651 | <para>Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering</para>
|
---|
2652 | </listitem>
|
---|
2653 |
|
---|
2654 | <listitem>
|
---|
2655 | <para>Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes</para>
|
---|
2656 | </listitem>
|
---|
2657 |
|
---|
2658 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
2659 | </sect1>
|
---|
2660 |
|
---|
2661 | <sect1>
|
---|
2662 | <title>Version 4.3.0 (2013-10-15)</title>
|
---|
2663 |
|
---|
2664 | <para>This is a major update. The following major new features
|
---|
2665 | were added:</para>
|
---|
2666 |
|
---|
2667 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
2668 |
|
---|
2669 | <listitem>
|
---|
2670 | <para>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including
|
---|
2671 | many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
|
---|
2672 | </listitem>
|
---|
2673 |
|
---|
2674 | <listitem>
|
---|
2675 | <para>VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for
|
---|
2676 | situations not handled by hardware virtualization</para>
|
---|
2677 | </listitem>
|
---|
2678 |
|
---|
2679 | <listitem>
|
---|
2680 | <para>GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays
|
---|
2681 | used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)</para>
|
---|
2682 | </listitem>
|
---|
2683 |
|
---|
2684 | <listitem>
|
---|
2685 | <para>GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences
|
---|
2686 | extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for
|
---|
2687 | VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)</para>
|
---|
2688 | </listitem>
|
---|
2689 |
|
---|
2690 | <listitem>
|
---|
2691 | <para>GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)</para>
|
---|
2692 | </listitem>
|
---|
2693 |
|
---|
2694 | <listitem>
|
---|
2695 | <para>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
|
---|
2696 | </listitem>
|
---|
2697 |
|
---|
2698 | <listitem>
|
---|
2699 | <para>Added experimental support for webcam passthrough
|
---|
2700 | complementing USB passthrough (see <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
|
---|
2701 | </listitem>
|
---|
2702 |
|
---|
2703 | <listitem>
|
---|
2704 | <para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
|
---|
2705 | </listitem>
|
---|
2706 |
|
---|
2707 | <listitem>
|
---|
2708 | <para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
|
---|
2709 | </listitem>
|
---|
2710 |
|
---|
2711 | <listitem>
|
---|
2712 | <para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
|
---|
2713 | session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
|
---|
2714 | </listitem>
|
---|
2715 |
|
---|
2716 | <listitem>
|
---|
2717 | <para>Guest Control: implemented <computeroutput>IGuestFile</computeroutput>
|
---|
2718 | support</para>
|
---|
2719 | </listitem>
|
---|
2720 |
|
---|
2721 | <listitem>
|
---|
2722 | <para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
|
---|
2723 | attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
|
---|
2724 | service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
|
---|
2725 | </para>
|
---|
2726 | </listitem>
|
---|
2727 |
|
---|
2728 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
2729 |
|
---|
2730 | <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
|
---|
2731 |
|
---|
2732 | <itemizedlist>
|
---|
2733 |
|
---|
2734 | <listitem>
|
---|
2735 | <para>VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x
|
---|
2736 | guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
|
---|
2737 | </listitem>
|
---|
2738 |
|
---|
2739 | <listitem>
|
---|
2740 | <para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
|
---|
2741 | </listitem>
|
---|
2742 |
|
---|
2743 | <listitem>
|
---|
2744 | <para>VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch
|
---|
2745 | (bug #10532)</para>
|
---|
2746 | </listitem>
|
---|
2747 |
|
---|
2748 | <listitem>
|
---|
2749 | <para>VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more
|
---|
2750 | information if that is not possible</para>
|
---|
2751 | </listitem>
|
---|
2752 |
|
---|
2753 | <listitem>
|
---|
2754 | <para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
|
---|
2755 | </listitem>
|
---|
2756 |
|
---|
2757 | <listitem>
|
---|
2758 | <para>GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes</para>
|
---|
2759 | </listitem>
|
---|
2760 |
|
---|
2761 | <listitem>
|
---|
2762 | <para>GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s)
|
---|
2763 | and host (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
|
---|
2764 | </listitem>
|
---|
2765 |
|
---|
2766 | <listitem>
|
---|
2767 | <para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
|
---|
2768 | hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
|
---|
2769 | </listitem>
|
---|
2770 |
|
---|
2771 | <listitem>
|
---|
2772 | <para>GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of
|
---|
2773 | the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned
|
---|
2774 | too many virtual CPUs to the guest</para>
|
---|
2775 | </listitem>
|
---|
2776 |
|
---|
2777 | <listitem>
|
---|
2778 | <para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
|
---|
2779 | </listitem>
|
---|
2780 |
|
---|
2781 | <listitem>
|
---|
2782 | <para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
|
---|
2783 | </listitem>
|
---|
2784 |
|
---|
2785 | <listitem>
|
---|
2786 | <para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
|
---|
2787 | emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
|
---|
2788 | </listitem>
|
---|
2789 |
|
---|
2790 | <listitem>
|
---|
2791 | <para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
|
---|
2792 | transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
|
---|
2793 | </listitem>
|
---|
2794 |
|
---|
2795 | <listitem>
|
---|
2796 | <para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
|
---|
2797 | to change existing media geometry)
|
---|
2798 | </para>
|
---|
2799 | </listitem>
|
---|
2800 |
|
---|
2801 | <listitem>
|
---|
2802 | <para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
|
---|
2803 | useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
|
---|
2804 | </listitem>
|
---|
2805 |
|
---|
2806 | <listitem>
|
---|
2807 | <para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
|
---|
2808 | will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
|
---|
2809 | </listitem>
|
---|
2810 |
|
---|
2811 | <listitem>
|
---|
2812 | <para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
|
---|
2813 | by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
|
---|
2814 | </listitem>
|
---|
2815 |
|
---|
2816 | <listitem>
|
---|
2817 | <para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
|
---|
2818 | native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
|
---|
2819 | </listitem>
|
---|
2820 |
|
---|
2821 | <listitem>
|
---|
2822 | <para>Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes
|
---|
2823 | other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the
|
---|
2824 | consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more
|
---|
2825 | than approximately 100 VMs</para>
|
---|
2826 | </listitem>
|
---|
2827 |
|
---|
2828 | <listitem>
|
---|
2829 | <para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
|
---|
2830 | .VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
|
---|
2831 | </listitem>
|
---|
2832 |
|
---|
2833 | <listitem>
|
---|
2834 | <para>Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM
|
---|
2835 | modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal</para>
|
---|
2836 | </listitem>
|
---|
2837 |
|
---|
2838 | <listitem>
|
---|
2839 | <para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
|
---|
2840 | media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
|
---|
2841 | option to show really all available details</para>
|
---|
2842 | </listitem>
|
---|
2843 |
|
---|
2844 | <listitem>
|
---|
2845 | <para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
|
---|
2846 | the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
|
---|
2847 | </listitem>
|
---|
2848 |
|
---|
2849 | <listitem>
|
---|
2850 | <para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
|
---|
2851 | processes and/or guest files via
|
---|
2852 | <computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all|sessions|processes|files></computeroutput>
|
---|
2853 | </para>
|
---|
2854 | </listitem>
|
---|
2855 |
|
---|
2856 | <listitem>
|
---|
2857 | <para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
|
---|
2858 | <computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>|
|
---|
2859 | --session-name <name or pattern>|--all</computeroutput>
|
---|
2860 | </para>
|
---|
2861 | </listitem>
|
---|
2862 |
|
---|
2863 | <listitem>
|
---|
2864 | <para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
|
---|
2865 | <computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill|close|terminate --session-id <ID>|
|
---|
2866 | --session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
|
---|
2867 | or
|
---|
2868 | <computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>|
|
---|
2869 | --session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
|
---|
2870 | </para>
|
---|
2871 | </listitem>
|
---|
2872 |
|
---|
2873 | <listitem>
|
---|
2874 | <para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
|
---|
2875 | <computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
|
---|
2876 | </para>
|
---|
2877 | </listitem>
|
---|
2878 |
|
---|
2879 | <listitem>
|
---|
2880 | <para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>modifyvm --triplefaultreset</computeroutput>
|
---|
2881 | to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation
|
---|
2882 | (see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvm"/>)</para>
|
---|
2883 | </listitem>
|
---|
2884 |
|
---|
2885 | <listitem>
|
---|
2886 | <para>3D support: several fixes</para>
|
---|
2887 | </listitem>
|
---|
2888 |
|
---|
2889 | <listitem>
|
---|
2890 | <para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
|
---|
2891 | </listitem>
|
---|
2892 |
|
---|
2893 | <listitem>
|
---|
2894 | <para>OVF: several fixes</para>
|
---|
2895 | </listitem>
|
---|
2896 |
|
---|
2897 | <listitem>
|
---|
2898 | <para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
|
---|
2899 | special characters</para>
|
---|
2900 | </listitem>
|
---|
2901 |
|
---|
2902 | <listitem>
|
---|
2903 | <para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
|
---|
2904 | for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
|
---|
2905 | </listitem>
|
---|
2906 |
|
---|
2907 | <listitem>
|
---|
2908 | <para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
|
---|
2909 | by François Revol</para>
|
---|
2910 | </listitem>
|
---|
2911 |
|
---|
2912 | <listitem>
|
---|
2913 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
|
---|
2914 | </listitem>
|
---|
2915 |
|
---|
2916 | <listitem>
|
---|
2917 | <para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
|
---|
2918 | StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
|
---|
2919 | </listitem>
|
---|
2920 |
|
---|
2921 | <listitem>
|
---|
2922 | <para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
|
---|
2923 | hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
|
---|
2924 | </listitem>
|
---|
2925 |
|
---|
2926 | <listitem>
|
---|
2927 | <para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
|
---|
2928 | (bug #11962)</para>
|
---|
2929 | </listitem>
|
---|
2930 |
|
---|
2931 | <listitem>
|
---|
2932 | <para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
|
---|
2933 | when plugged into USB 3.0 ports</para>
|
---|
2934 | </listitem>
|
---|
2935 |
|
---|
2936 | <listitem>
|
---|
2937 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
|
---|
2938 | power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
|
---|
2939 | </listitem>
|
---|
2940 |
|
---|
2941 | <listitem>
|
---|
2942 | <para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation()
|
---|
2943 | on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
|
---|
2944 | </listitem>
|
---|
2945 |
|
---|
2946 | <listitem>
|
---|
2947 | <para>Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through
|
---|
2948 | the newly introduced event <emphasis>IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</emphasis></para>
|
---|
2949 | </listitem>
|
---|
2950 |
|
---|
2951 | <listitem>
|
---|
2952 | <para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
|
---|
2953 | with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
|
---|
2954 | </listitem>
|
---|
2955 |
|
---|
2956 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
2957 |
|
---|
2958 | </sect1>
|
---|
2959 |
|
---|
2960 | </chapter>
|
---|