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| 3 | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.2''' (released 2011-01-18)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 4 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 5 | * GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM settings vanished |
| 6 | * GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875) |
| 7 | * GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be created (bug #8031) |
| 8 | * GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests |
| 9 | * !ExtPack: don’t make the installer helper application suid root (Linux .deb/.rpm packages only) |
| 10 | * !ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing an extension pack |
| 11 | * !ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name during installing an extension pack (bug #7917) |
| 12 | * !ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts |
| 13 | * VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741) |
| 14 | * VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface |
| 15 | * Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots and async I/O (4.0 regression) |
| 16 | * Storage: don’t eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is detached from a VM (bug #5825) |
| 17 | * Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an ATAPI device (bug #6597) |
| 18 | * Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or power off (4.0 regression) |
| 19 | * Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908) |
| 20 | * NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094) |
| 21 | * E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330) |
| 22 | * Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux guests |
| 23 | * ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885) |
| 24 | * VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986) |
| 25 | * Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818) |
| 26 | * Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid logging string (4.0 regression) |
| 27 | * Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing a VM start |
| 28 | * Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024) |
| 29 | * Webservice: now listens to localhost by default as documented (bug #6067) |
| 30 | * Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image) cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another |
| 31 | * Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML |
| 32 | * OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug #7983) |
| 33 | * rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug #7981) |
| 34 | * Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration. |
| 35 | * Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0 regression) |
| 36 | * Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010) |
| 37 | * Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations |