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Release change log structure

Each release has a matching log of changes which were made for that and
earlier releases. Earlier releases means anything with a lower number (e.g.
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upcoming release) for the branch in which it first appears - stable or
development - before the next release. If you back-port it to older branches
please add an entry there too. When a new major release is made, change log
sections for earlier releases are merged in.

Change log sections are split into two groups: major new features (normally
only for dot zero releases) and fixes. In addition, the entries in each group
are ordered as follows:

    VMM-related entries (most important)
    GUI-related entries (most visible for users)
    Device-related entries
    VBoxManage/API/Main-related entries
    Host-related entries
    Guest-related entries
    BIOS/EFI/ACPI-related entries

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            with lots more text not fitting into 80 columns</para>
        </listitem>
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  <sect1>

    <title>Version X.Y.Z (date tbd)</title>

    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
      added:</para>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
       <para>EFI: Include missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting
         from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
       <para>EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
  </sect1>

  <sect1>

    <title>Version 7.1.2 (2024-09-26)</title>

    <para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
      added:</para>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
       <para>GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install
         were not removed cleanly</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS
          and its removal on VM deletion</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
  </sect1>

  <sect1>

    <title>Version 7.1.0 (2024-09-09)</title>

    <para>This is a major update. The following new features were added:</para>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic
          and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>OCI Integration: Clone compute instances</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>OCI Integration: Reset compute instances</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license,
          removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the
          Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with
        self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>NAT: New engine with IPv6 support</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing
          (bug #20808)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on
          Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to
          be installed. See User Guide for known limitations</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding
          pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This
          requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    <para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V
          is being used (bug #17961)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support
          module for full VM encryption</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>GUI: Improved overall accessibility</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>GUI: Update the version of Qt used</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers;
          this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for
          the user and admin / root accounts</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress
          of a VM</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount"
          Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will
          be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
  </sect1>

</chapter>