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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
September 11th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.1.0 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.1#v00">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
July 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.20 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v20">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
May 3rd, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.18 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v18">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
April 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.16 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v16">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">Notice</span>
March 21th, 2024<br>Change of login server.</b><br>
Starting today, Oracle Single Sign On will ask for your account credentials at <em>signon.oracle.com</em> and the username and password are now have to be entered on separate pages.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
January 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 7.0.14 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v14">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
January 16th, 2024<br>VirtualBox 6.1.50 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v50">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
October 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.12 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v12">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
October 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.48 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v48">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
July 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.10 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v10">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
July 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.46 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v46">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
April 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.8 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v8">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
April 18th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.44 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v44">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
January 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 7.0.6 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0#v6">Changelog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
January 17th, 2023<br>VirtualBox 6.1.42 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the
<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1#v42">Changelog</a> for details.
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!VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 [wiki:"Virtualization" virtualization] product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is !VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the [wiki:GPLv3 GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3]. See "[wiki:"VirtualBox" About VirtualBox]" for an introduction.

Presently, !VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of [wiki:"Guest_OSes" guest operating systems] including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x), Solaris and !OpenSolaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD.

!VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. !VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

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=== Hot picks: ===
 * Pre-built virtual machines for developers at [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html Oracle Tech Network] 
 * '''Hyperbox''' Open-source Virtual Infrastructure Manager [https://github.com/hyperbox/hyperbox project site]


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