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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>dummy</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	</itemizedlist>
16
17	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
18
19	<itemizedlist>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>dummy</para>
23	</listitem>
24
25	<listitem>
26	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
27	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
28	option to show really all available details.</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
33	by François Revol.</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	</itemizedlist>
37
38	</sect1>
39
40	<sect1>
41
42	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
43
44	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
45	were added:</para>
46
47	<itemizedlist>
48
49	<listitem>
50	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
51	</listitem>
52
53	<listitem>
54	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
55	</listitem>
56
57	<listitem>
58	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
59	</listitem>
60
61	<listitem>
62	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	<listitem>
66	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
67	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
68	</listitem>
69
70	<listitem>
71	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
72	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
77	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
78	</listitem>
79
80	<listitem>
81	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
82	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
83	planned. (bug #81)</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
92	documentation for more information</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	</itemizedlist>
96
97	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
98
99	<itemizedlist>
100
101	<listitem>
102	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
103	on Mountain Lion</para>
104	</listitem>
105
106	<listitem>
107	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
108	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
109	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
114	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
115	</listitem>
116
117	<listitem>
118	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
119	nested paging</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
124	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
129	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
134	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
143	</listitem>
144
145	<listitem>
146	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
147	</listitem>
148
149	<listitem>
150	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
151	</listitem>
152
153	<listitem>
154	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
171	guests</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
176	used ISO images</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
181	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
186	(bug #9973)</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
191	(bug #9864)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
196	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
197	immediately</para>
198	</listitem>
199
200	<listitem>
201	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
202	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
203	</listitem>
204
205	<listitem>
206	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
207	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
208	any time using the VM menu.</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
217	</listitem>
218
219	<listitem>
220	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
225	</listitem>
226
227	<listitem>
228	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
229	</listitem>
230
231	<listitem>
232	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
241	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
250	support for v2 images)</para>
251	</listitem>
252
253	<listitem>
254	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
255	</listitem>
256
257	<listitem>
258	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
259	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
260	</listitem>
261
262	<listitem>
263	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
264	</listitem>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
272	VirtualBox update</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
277	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
282	</listitem>
283
284	</itemizedlist>
285	</sect1>
286
287	<sect1>
288	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
289
290	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
291	added:</para>
292
293	<itemizedlist>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
297	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
298	and others)</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
303	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
304	</listitem>
305
306	<listitem>
307	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
308	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
313	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
318	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
323	(bug #10631)</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
328	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
329	(bug #10624)</para>
330	</listitem>
331
332	<listitem>
333	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
338	updated (bug #9887)</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	</itemizedlist>
346	</sect1>
347
348	<sect1>
349	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
350
351	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
352	added:</para>
353
354	<itemizedlist>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
358	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	<listitem>
362	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
363	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
368	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
369	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
370	</listitem>
371
372	<listitem>
373	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
374	guests in rare cases</para>
375	</listitem>
376
377	<listitem>
378	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
383	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
388	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
389	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
394	</listitem>
395
396	<listitem>
397	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
402	reason (bug #6189)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
407	</listitem>
408
409	<listitem>
410	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
411	paused</para>
412	</listitem>
413
414	<listitem>
415	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
416	(bug #10267)</para>
417	</listitem>
418
419	<listitem>
420	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
421	</listitem>
422
423	<listitem>
424	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
425	(bug #10418)</para>
426	</listitem>
427
428	<listitem>
429	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
430	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
431	(bug #10581)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
436	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
441	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
442	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
443	</listitem>
444
445	<listitem>
446	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	</itemizedlist>
450
451	</sect1>
452
453	<sect1>
454	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
455
456	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
457	added:</para>
458
459	<itemizedlist>
460
461	<listitem>
462	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
463	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
464	(bug #3783)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
473	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
478	</listitem>
479
480	</itemizedlist>
481
482	</sect1>
483
484	<sect1>
485	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
486
487	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
488	added:</para>
489
490	<itemizedlist>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
494	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
495	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
496	</listitem>
497
498	<listitem>
499	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
500	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
501	</listitem>
502
503	<listitem>
504	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
505	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
510	</listitem>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
518	4.1.10 regression)</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
523	</listitem>
524
525	<listitem>
526	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
527	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
528	</listitem>
529
530	<listitem>
531	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
532	</listitem>
533
534	<listitem>
535	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
536	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
537	</listitem>
538
539	<listitem>
540	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
541	4.1.10 regression)</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
546	closed (bug #6473)</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
551	properly installed</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	</itemizedlist>
559	</sect1>
560
561	<sect1>
562	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
563
564	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
565	added:</para>
566
567	<itemizedlist>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
571	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
576	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
581	fusion</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
586	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
591	and network mask attributes</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
596	(bug #10030)</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
601	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
610	</listitem>
611
612	<listitem>
613	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
614	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
615	</listitem>
616
617	<listitem>
618	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
619	</listitem>
620
621	<listitem>
622	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
623	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
624	</listitem>
625
626	<listitem>
627	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
628	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
633	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
638	</listitem>
639
640	<listitem>
641	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
642	</listitem>
643
644	<listitem>
645	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
646	</listitem>
647
648	<listitem>
649	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
650	</listitem>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
662	in a zone</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
671	(bug #9651)</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
680	#10010)</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
685	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
690	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
699	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
704	(bug #10151)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
709	guests.</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
714	</listitem>
715
716	<listitem>
717	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
718	</listitem>
719
720	<listitem>
721	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
722	</listitem>
723
724	</itemizedlist>
725	</sect1>
726
727	<sect1>
728	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
729
730	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
731	added:</para>
732
733	<itemizedlist>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
737	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
746	(bug #9642)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
751	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
752	</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
761	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
766	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
775	</listitem>
776
777	<listitem>
778	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
779	</listitem>
780
781	<listitem>
782	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
783	circumstances</para>
784	</listitem>
785
786	<listitem>
787	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
788	</listitem>
789
790	<listitem>
791	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
792	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
793	</listitem>
794
795	<listitem>
796	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
797	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
798	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
799	and for 3D support in general</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
804	</listitem>
805
806	<listitem>
807	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
816	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	</itemizedlist>
820	</sect1>
821
822	<sect1>
823	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
824
825	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
826	added:</para>
827
828	<itemizedlist>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
836	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
841	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
846	certain guests</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
851	</listitem>
852
853	<listitem>
854	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
855	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
856	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
861	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
870	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
879	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
884	guests</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
889	folders</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
894	shared folders</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
899	users and stale sessions</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
904	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	</itemizedlist>
908	</sect1>
909
910	<sect1>
911	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
912
913	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
914	added:</para>
915
916	<itemizedlist>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
920	bug #9458)</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
925	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
930	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
935	</listitem>
936
937	<listitem>
938	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
939	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
940	</listitem>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
944	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
949	(bug #9308)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
954	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
959	(bug #9503)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
964	(bug #9242)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
969	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
970	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
971	</listitem>
972
973	<listitem>
974	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
979	images</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
984	(Windows hosts only)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
989	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
994	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
999	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1004	#9387)</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1009	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1014	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1019	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1024	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1037	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1042	(bug #1578)</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1047	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1052	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1057	(bug #9535)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1062	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1067	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1072	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1077	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1082	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1087	</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1092	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1093	</para>
1094	</listitem>
1095
1096	<listitem>
1097	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1098	(bug #6229)
1099	</para>
1100	</listitem>
1101
1102	<listitem>
1103	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1104	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1105	</listitem>
1106
1107	<listitem>
1108	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1109	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1114	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1119	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1120	</listitem>
1121
1122	<listitem>
1123	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1124	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1125	</listitem>
1126
1127	<listitem>
1128	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1129	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1134	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1139	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	</itemizedlist>
1143	</sect1>
1144
1145	<sect1>
1146	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1147
1148	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1149	added:</para>
1150
1151	<itemizedlist>
1152
1153	<listitem>
1154	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1159	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	<listitem>
1163	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1168	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	<listitem>
1172	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1173	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1178	a live snapshot</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1183	due to a library version conflict</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1188	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1193	at a time by default</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1198	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1199	#9368)</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1204	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1205	</listitem>
1206
1207	<listitem>
1208	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1209	VMs</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1214	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1219	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1220	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1221	</listitem>
1222
1223	<listitem>
1224	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1225	(bug #9308)</para>
1226	</listitem>
1227
1228	<listitem>
1229	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1230	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1239	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1240	</listitem>
1241
1242	<listitem>
1243	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1244	(bug #9242)</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1249	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1254	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1259	USB devices</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1264	and warn about it</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1273	</listitem>
1274
1275	<listitem>
1276	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1277	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1282	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1287	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1292	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1297	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1302	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1307	2.6.37 and above</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	</itemizedlist>
1311	</sect1>
1312
1313	<sect1>
1314	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1315
1316	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1317	were added:</para>
1318
1319	<itemizedlist>
1320
1321	<listitem>
1322	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1323	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1324	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1333	</listitem>
1334
1335	<listitem>
1336	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1337	bug #7822)</para>
1338	</listitem>
1339
1340	<listitem>
1341	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	<listitem>
1345	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1346	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1347	</listitem>
1348
1349	<listitem>
1350	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1351	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1352	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1353	anymore)</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1358	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1359	</listitem>
1360
1361	<listitem>
1362	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1363	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1364	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1365	</listitem>
1366
1367	<listitem>
1368	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1369	</para>
1370	</listitem>
1371
1372	<listitem>
1373	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1374	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1375	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1380	with VBoxManage</para>
1381	</listitem>
1382
1383	<listitem>
1384	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1385	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388
1389	</itemizedlist>
1390
1391	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1392
1393	<itemizedlist>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1409	of the current state</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1414	</listitem>
1415
1416	<listitem>
1417	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1418	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1419	</listitem>
1420
1421	<listitem>
1422	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1423	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1424	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1429	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1438	</listitem>
1439
1440	<listitem>
1441	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1442	dialog</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1447	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1448	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1453	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1458	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1463	be a valid UUID</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1468	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1473	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1474	cases</para>
1475	</listitem>
1476
1477	<listitem>
1478	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1479	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1480	improve performance</para>
1481	</listitem>
1482
1483	<listitem>
1484	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1485	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1486	on a temporary basis</para>
1487	</listitem>
1488
1489	<listitem>
1490	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1491	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1492	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1497	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1502	images in VDI format</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1507	VMDK format</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1512	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1529	</listitem>
1530
1531	<listitem>
1532	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	<listitem>
1536	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1537	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1538	</listitem>
1539
1540	<listitem>
1541	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1542	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1543	</listitem>
1544
1545	<listitem>
1546	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1547	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1552	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1557	RDP clients</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1566	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1571	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1576	simultaneously</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1581	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1582	location values in many places</para>
1583	</listitem>
1584
1585	<listitem>
1586	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1591	builds</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1600	window (bug #4491)</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1605	removing a VM</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1610	</listitem>
1611
1612	<listitem>
1613	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1618	166 and above)</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1623	hosts</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1632	from the host</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1637	</listitem>
1638
1639	</itemizedlist>
1640
1641	</sect1>
1642
1643	<sect1>
1644	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1645
1646	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1647	added:</para>
1648
1649	<itemizedlist>
1650
1651	<listitem>
1652	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1657	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1658	</listitem>
1659
1660	<listitem>
1661	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1662	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1667	a live snapshot</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1672	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1681	</listitem>
1682
1683	<listitem>
1684	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1685	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1686	</listitem>
1687
1688	<listitem>
1689	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1690	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1695	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1704	images</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1709	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711	<listitem>
1712	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1713	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1714	</listitem>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1718	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1723	</listitem>
1724
1725	<listitem>
1726	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1727	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1728	</listitem>
1729
1730	<listitem>
1731	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1732	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1741	(bug #9370)</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1746	(bug #9535)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1751	(bug #1578)</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1756	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1761	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1762	</para>
1763	</listitem>
1764
1765	<listitem>
1766	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1767	</para>
1768	</listitem>
1769
1770	<listitem>
1771	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1772	2.6.37 and above</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1777	(bug #6229)</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1782	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	</itemizedlist>
1786	</sect1>
1787
1788	<sect1>
1789	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1790
1791	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1792	added:</para>
1793
1794	<itemizedlist>
1795
1796	<listitem>
1797	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1802	166 and above)</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	<listitem>
1806	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1807	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1808	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1809	</listitem>
1810
1811	<listitem>
1812	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1813	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1814	</listitem>
1815
1816	<listitem>
1817	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1818	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1823	</listitem>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1827	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1828	</listitem>
1829
1830	<listitem>
1831	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1832	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1837	builds</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	</itemizedlist>
1845	</sect1>
1846	<sect1>
1847	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1848
1849	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1850	added:</para>
1851
1852	<itemizedlist>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1856	</listitem>
1857
1858	<listitem>
1859	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1860	</listitem>
1861
1862	<listitem>
1863	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1864	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1865	</listitem>
1866
1867	<listitem>
1868	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1869	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1874	</listitem>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1878	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1887	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1892	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1905	file was not written during export</para>
1906	</listitem>
1907
1908	<listitem>
1909	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1918	</listitem>
1919
1920	<listitem>
1921	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1922	binaries</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1931	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1932	</listitem>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1936	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1941	</listitem>
1942
1943	<listitem>
1944	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1945	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1946	</listitem>
1947
1948	</itemizedlist>
1949	</sect1>
1950
1951	<sect1>
1952	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1953
1954	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1955	added:</para>
1956
1957	<itemizedlist>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1961	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1962	</listitem>
1963
1964	<listitem>
1965	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1966	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1967	</listitem>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1971	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1976	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1981	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1986	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
1991	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
1996	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2005	</listitem>
2006
2007	<listitem>
2008	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2009	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2010	</listitem>
2011
2012	<listitem>
2013	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2014	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2019	</listitem>
2020
2021	<listitem>
2022	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2023	</listitem>
2024
2025	<listitem>
2026	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2027	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2028	</listitem>
2029
2030	<listitem>
2031	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2032	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2037	window</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2042	Fedora 15</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2047	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2052	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2057	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2066	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	</itemizedlist>
2070	</sect1>
2071
2072	<sect1>
2073	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2074
2075	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2076	added:</para>
2077
2078	<itemizedlist>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2082	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	<listitem>
2086	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2087	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2088	</listitem>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2092	(bug #8006)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2097	(bug #8726)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2102	</listitem>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2110	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2115	(bug #8469)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2120	selectors</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2125	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2130	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2135	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2144	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2149	</listitem>
2150
2151	<listitem>
2152	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2153	</listitem>
2154
2155	<listitem>
2156	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2157	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2158	</listitem>
2159
2160	<listitem>
2161	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2162	I/O error occurred</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2167	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2172	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2177	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2178	if no medium is present</para>
2179	</listitem>
2180
2181	<listitem>
2182	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2187	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2192	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2197	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2198	</listitem>
2199
2200	<listitem>
2201	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2206	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2211	library (bug #8063)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2216	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2221	</listitem>
2222
2223	<listitem>
2224	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2225	</listitem>
2226
2227	<listitem>
2228	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2229	</listitem>
2230
2231	<listitem>
2232	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2233	changed on import</para>
2234	</listitem>
2235
2236	<listitem>
2237	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2238	</listitem>
2239
2240	<listitem>
2241	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2242	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2247	(bug #8593)</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2252	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2257	captured</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2262	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2267	</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2272	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2277	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2282	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2283	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	<listitem>
2287	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2288	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2289	</listitem>
2290
2291	<listitem>
2292	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2297	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2298	</listitem>
2299
2300	<listitem>
2301	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2302	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2307	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2312	</listitem>
2313
2314	<listitem>
2315	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2316	</listitem>
2317
2318	<listitem>
2319	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2320	</listitem>
2321
2322	<listitem>
2323	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2324	</listitem>
2325
2326	<listitem>
2327	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2328	(bug #7946)</para>
2329	</listitem>
2330
2331	<listitem>
2332	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	</itemizedlist>
2344
2345	</sect1>
2346
2347	<sect1>
2348	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2349
2350	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2351	added:</para>
2352
2353	<itemizedlist>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2357	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2362	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2367	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2368	</listitem>
2369
2370	<listitem>
2371	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2372	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2377	number of host network interfaces</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2382	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2391	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2396	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2401	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2406	</listitem>
2407
2408	<listitem>
2409	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2410	(bug #6577)</para>
2411	</listitem>
2412
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2415	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2416	(bug #8235)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2421	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2422	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	<listitem>
2426	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2431	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2432	</listitem>
2433
2434	<listitem>
2435	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2436	</listitem>
2437
2438	<listitem>
2439	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2440	(bug #7966)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2445	</listitem>
2446
2447	<listitem>
2448	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2449	</listitem>
2450
2451	<listitem>
2452	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2453	</listitem>
2454
2455	<listitem>
2456	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2457	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2466	</listitem>
2467
2468	<listitem>
2469	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2470	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2471	</listitem>
2472
2473	<listitem>
2474	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2475	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2484	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2489	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2490	(bug #8122)</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2495	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2508	(bug #1548)</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2513	</listitem>
2514
2515	<listitem>
2516	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2517	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2518	</listitem>
2519
2520	<listitem>
2521	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2526	(bug #8231)</para>
2527	</listitem>
2528
2529	<listitem>
2530	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2531	11.04 Alpha</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2536	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2541	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2546	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2551	with VBoxGINA</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	</itemizedlist>
2555
2556	</sect1>
2557
2558	<sect1>
2559	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2560
2561	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2562	added:</para>
2563
2564	<itemizedlist>
2565
2566	<listitem>
2567	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2568	settings vanished</para>
2569	</listitem>
2570
2571	<listitem>
2572	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2573	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2574	</listitem>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2578	created (bug #8031)</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2583	</listitem>
2584
2585	<listitem>
2586	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2587	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2588	</listitem>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2592	an extension pack</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2597	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2606	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2611	host-only interface</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2616	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2621	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2626	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2631	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2636	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2645	</listitem>
2646
2647	<listitem>
2648	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2649	guests</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2658	</listitem>
2659
2660	<listitem>
2661	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2662	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2663	</listitem>
2664
2665	<listitem>
2666	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2667	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2672	a VM start</para>
2673	</listitem>
2674
2675	<listitem>
2676	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2677	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2682	(bug #6067)</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2687	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2692	not saved to machine XML</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2697	#7983)</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2702	#7981)</para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2711	regression)</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2716	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2721	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	</itemizedlist>
2725
2726	</sect1>
2727
2728	<sect1>
2729	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2730
2731	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2732	were added:</para>
2733
2734	<itemizedlist>
2735
2736	<listitem>
2737	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2738	</listitem>
2739
2740	<listitem>
2741	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2746	<itemizedlist>
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2761	</listitem>
2762
2763	<listitem>
2764	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2765	states, and optionally including attached
2766	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2767	can do the same now)</para>
2768	</listitem>
2769
2770	<listitem>
2771	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2772	</listitem>
2773
2774	</itemizedlist>
2775	</para>
2776	</listitem>
2777
2778	<listitem>
2779	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2780	</listitem>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>New virtual hardware:
2784	<itemizedlist>
2785	<listitem>
2786	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2787	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2792	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794	</itemizedlist>
2795	</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2800	<itemizedlist>
2801	<listitem>
2802	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2807	</para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2812	now</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	</itemizedlist>
2820	</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2825	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2830	Parallels images</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2835	</listitem>
2836
2837	<listitem>
2838	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2839	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2840	</listitem>
2841
2842	<listitem>
2843	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2844	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	</itemizedlist>
2848
2849	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2850
2851	<itemizedlist>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2855	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2856	</listitem>
2857
2858	<listitem>
2859	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2864	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	<listitem>
2868	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2869	(bug #1657)</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	<listitem>
2877	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2878	</listitem>
2879
2880	<listitem>
2881	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2882	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2883	</listitem>
2884
2885	<listitem>
2886	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2887	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2888	</listitem>
2889
2890	<listitem>
2891	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2892	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2893	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2898	again (bug #6864)</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2903	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2908	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2921	</listitem>
2922
2923	<listitem>
2924	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2925	</listitem>
2926
2927	<listitem>
2928	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2941	(bug #7058)</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2946	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2951	circumstances</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2956	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2957	#5578)
2958	</para>
2959	</listitem>
2960
2961	<listitem>
2962	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2963	</listitem>
2964
2965	<listitem>
2966	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2967	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2968	</listitem>
2969
2970	<listitem>
2971	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2976	#6760)</para>
2977	</listitem>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2981	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2982	</listitem>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2986	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
2991	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3000	file</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3005	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	</itemizedlist>
3009
3010	</sect1>
3011
3012	<sect1>
3013	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3014
3015	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3016	added:</para>
3017
3018	<itemizedlist>
3019
3020	<listitem>
3021	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3022	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3023	</listitem>
3024
3025	<listitem>
3026	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3027	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3028	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3037	</listitem>
3038
3039	<listitem>
3040	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3045	the VM is running</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3050	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3051	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3052	starting from a saved state</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3061	</listitem>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3077	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3078	</listitem>
3079
3080	<listitem>
3081	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3082	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3087	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3092	</listitem>
3093
3094	<listitem>
3095	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3096	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3097	</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3102	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3103	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3104	</listitem>
3105
3106	<listitem>
3107	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3108	only)</para>
3109	</listitem>
3110
3111	<listitem>
3112	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3113	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3126	</listitem>
3127
3128	<listitem>
3129	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3130	state (bug #4124)</para>
3131	</listitem>
3132
3133	<listitem>
3134	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3135	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3140	</listitem>
3141
3142	<listitem>
3143	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3144	(bug #2996)</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3149	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3158	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3159	</listitem>
3160
3161	<listitem>
3162	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3163	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3168	user accounts for VM information</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	</itemizedlist>
3172
3173	</sect1>
3174
3175	<sect1>
3176	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3177
3178	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3179	added:</para>
3180
3181	<itemizedlist>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3185	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3190	</listitem>
3191
3192	<listitem>
3193	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3194	</listitem>
3195
3196	<listitem>
3197	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	<listitem>
3201	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3202	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3203	</listitem>
3204
3205	<listitem>
3206	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3207	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3212	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3217	(bug #4952)</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3222	bug #6122)</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3227	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3232	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3233	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3242	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3247	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3252	canceled</para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3261	</listitem>
3262
3263	<listitem>
3264	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3269	</listitem>
3270
3271	<listitem>
3272	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3273	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3274	</listitem>
3275
3276	<listitem>
3277	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3278	</listitem>
3279
3280	<listitem>
3281	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3282	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	<listitem>
3286	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3287	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3292	</listitem>
3293
3294	<listitem>
3295	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3296	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3297	</listitem>
3298
3299	<listitem>
3300	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3301	</listitem>
3302
3303	<listitem>
3304	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3305	circumstances</para>
3306	</listitem>
3307
3308	<listitem>
3309	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3310	printers</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3319	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3320	</listitem>
3321
3322	<listitem>
3323	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3324	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3329	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3330	circumstances</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3335	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3340	as supported extension</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3345	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3350	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3359	(bug #7366)</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3364	</listitem>
3365
3366	<listitem>
3367	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3368	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3369	</listitem>
3370
3371	<listitem>
3372	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3373	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3378	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3379	</listitem>
3380
3381	<listitem>
3382	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3383	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3388	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3397	</listitem>
3398
3399	<listitem>
3400	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3401	more than one environment variable</para>
3402	</listitem>
3403
3404	<listitem>
3405	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3406	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3411	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3416	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3421	enumerating logged in users</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3434	</listitem>
3435
3436	<listitem>
3437	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3438	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3439	</listitem>
3440
3441	<listitem>
3442	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3443	</listitem>
3444
3445	<listitem>
3446	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3447	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3448	</listitem>
3449
3450	<listitem>
3451	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3452	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3457	(bug #7448)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3466	</listitem>
3467
3468	<listitem>
3469	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3470	</listitem>
3471
3472	</itemizedlist>
3473
3474	</sect1>
3475
3476	<sect1>
3477	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3478
3479	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3480	added:</para>
3481
3482	<itemizedlist>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3486	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3495	bug #6809)</para>
3496	</listitem>
3497
3498	<listitem>
3499	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3500	</listitem>
3501
3502	<listitem>
3503	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3504	</listitem>
3505
3506	<listitem>
3507	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3508	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3509	</listitem>
3510
3511	<listitem>
3512	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3513	changes</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3518	</listitem>
3519
3520	<listitem>
3521	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3522	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3527	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3544	</listitem>
3545
3546	<listitem>
3547	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3548	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3553	</listitem>
3554
3555	<listitem>
3556	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3557	(bug #6832)</para>
3558	</listitem>
3559
3560	<listitem>
3561	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3562	guests</para>
3563	</listitem>
3564
3565	<listitem>
3566	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3567	</listitem>
3568
3569	<listitem>
3570	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3571	without external tools and tricks</para>
3572	</listitem>
3573
3574	<listitem>
3575	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3576	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3581	</listitem>
3582
3583	<listitem>
3584	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3585	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3586	</listitem>
3587
3588	<listitem>
3589	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3590	shutdown</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3595	fixes</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3600	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3601	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3602	</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	<listitem>
3606	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3607	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3608	</listitem>
3609
3610	<listitem>
3611	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3612	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3617	</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	</itemizedlist>
3633
3634	</sect1>
3635
3636	<sect1>
3637	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3638
3639	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3640	added:</para>
3641
3642	<itemizedlist>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3646	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3651	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3652	</listitem>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3656	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3665	</listitem>
3666
3667	<listitem>
3668	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3669	</listitem>
3670
3671	<listitem>
3672	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3673	</listitem>
3674
3675	<listitem>
3676	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3677	assigned</para>
3678	</listitem>
3679
3680	<listitem>
3681	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3682	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3687	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3696	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3701	again (bug #7022).
3702	</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3707	(bug #6768)</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3712	(bug #6927)</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3717	bug #7031)</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3722	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3727	bug #6987)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3736	</listitem>
3737
3738	<listitem>
3739	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3740	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3745	</listitem>
3746
3747	<listitem>
3748	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3749	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3758	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3759	bug #6872)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3768	(performance tweak)</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3773	is currently paused</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3778	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3787	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3792	not properly saved</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3797	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3802	</listitem>
3803
3804	<listitem>
3805	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3810	</listitem>
3811
3812	<listitem>
3813	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3814	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3815	</listitem>
3816
3817	<listitem>
3818	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3819	</listitem>
3820
3821	<listitem>
3822	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3823	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3824	</listitem>
3825
3826	<listitem>
3827	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3828	(bug #5251)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3833	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	<listitem>
3845	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3846	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3847	</listitem>
3848
3849	<listitem>
3850	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3851	</listitem>
3852
3853	<listitem>
3854	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3855	</listitem>
3856
3857	<listitem>
3858	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3859	</listitem>
3860
3861	</itemizedlist>
3862	</sect1>
3863
3864	<sect1>
3865	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3866
3867	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3868	added:</para>
3869
3870	<itemizedlist>
3871
3872	<listitem>
3873	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3874	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3883	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3888	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3893	</listitem>
3894
3895	<listitem>
3896	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3897	again (bug #6864)</para>
3898	</listitem>
3899
3900	<listitem>
3901	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3902	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3907	</listitem>
3908
3909	<listitem>
3910	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3911	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3916	</listitem>
3917
3918	</itemizedlist>
3919
3920	</sect1>
3921
3922	<sect1>
3923	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3924
3925	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3926	added:</para>
3927
3928	<itemizedlist>
3929
3930	<listitem>
3931	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3936	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3937	</listitem>
3938
3939	<listitem>
3940	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3945	state</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
3990	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
3991	</listitem>
3992
3993	<listitem>
3994	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
3995	(bug #6784)</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4008	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4009	</listitem>
4010
4011	<listitem>
4012	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4013	</listitem>
4014
4015	<listitem>
4016	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4017	</listitem>
4018
4019	<listitem>
4020	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4021	host only</para>
4022	</listitem>
4023
4024	<listitem>
4025	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4026	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4031	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4036	</listitem>
4037
4038	<listitem>
4039	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4040	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4049	</listitem>
4050
4051	<listitem>
4052	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4053	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4058	</listitem>
4059
4060	<listitem>
4061	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4066	</listitem>
4067
4068	<listitem>
4069	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4070	(bug #6714)</para>
4071	</listitem>
4072
4073	<listitem>
4074	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4075	</listitem>
4076
4077	<listitem>
4078	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4079	</listitem>
4080
4081	<listitem>
4082	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	</itemizedlist>
4094
4095	</sect1>
4096
4097	<sect1>
4098	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4099
4100	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4101	were added:</para>
4102
4103	<itemizedlist>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4107	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4108	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4109	</listitem>
4110
4111	<listitem>
4112	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4113	</listitem>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4117	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4118	</listitem>
4119
4120	<listitem>
4121	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4122	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4123	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	<listitem>
4127	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4128	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4129	</listitem>
4130
4131	<listitem>
4132	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4133	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4134	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4135	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4136	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4137	</listitem>
4138
4139	<listitem>
4140	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4141	</listitem>
4142
4143	<listitem>
4144	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4145	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4146	</listitem>
4147
4148	<listitem>
4149	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4150	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	<listitem>
4154	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	<listitem>
4158	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4159	</listitem>
4160
4161	<listitem>
4162	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4163	</listitem>
4164
4165	<listitem>
4166	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4167	</listitem>
4168
4169	<listitem>
4170	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4171	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4172	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4177	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	</itemizedlist>
4181
4182	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4183
4184	<itemizedlist>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4188	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4189	</listitem>
4190
4191	<listitem>
4192	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4197	VM</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	<listitem>
4201	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4202	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4207	#1669)</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4212	#6442)</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4217	combination (bug #684)</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4222	the VM from the GUI</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4227	medium is not accessible</para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4236	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4241	#3106)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4246	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4247	it</para>
4248	</listitem>
4249
4250	<listitem>
4251	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4256	</listitem>
4257
4258	<listitem>
4259	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4260	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4265	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4274	</listitem>
4275
4276	<listitem>
4277	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4278	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4283	</listitem>
4284
4285	<listitem>
4286	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4287	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4296	in VirtualBox</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4301	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4306	VirtualBox</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4315	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	</itemizedlist>
4319	</sect1>
4320
4321	<sect1>
4322	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4323
4324	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4325	added:</para>
4326
4327	<itemizedlist>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4331	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4332	</listitem>
4333
4334	<listitem>
4335	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4344	only) </para>
4345	</listitem>
4346
4347	<listitem>
4348	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4349	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4354	interface version</para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4359	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4360	slot empty</para>
4361	</listitem>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4365	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4366	(bug #4220)</para>
4367	</listitem>
4368
4369	<listitem>
4370	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4375	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4380	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4385	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4390	attached</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4395	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4404	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4409	is bug #6408)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4418	fail to initialize</para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4423	</listitem>
4424
4425	<listitem>
4426	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4427	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4432	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4433	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4442	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4447	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4452	(bug #6435)</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4457	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4462	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4463	(bug #6488)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4468	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4473	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4474	</listitem>
4475
4476	<listitem>
4477	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4478	#5227)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4483	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4492	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	</itemizedlist>
4496	</sect1>
4497
4498	<sect1>
4499	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4500
4501	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4502	added:</para>
4503
4504	<itemizedlist>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4508	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4513	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4514	</listitem>
4515
4516	<listitem>
4517	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4518	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4523	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4524	</listitem>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4528	</listitem>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4532	</listitem>
4533
4534	<listitem>
4535	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4536	</listitem>
4537
4538	<listitem>
4539	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4544	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4549	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4554	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4559	</listitem>
4560
4561	<listitem>
4562	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4563	</listitem>
4564
4565	<listitem>
4566	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4567	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4568	</listitem>
4569
4570	<listitem>
4571	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4572	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4573	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4578	(bug #5297)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4583	(bug #4962)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4588	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4593	(bug #6176)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4598	certain circumstances</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4603	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4612	</listitem>
4613
4614	<listitem>
4615	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4616	(bug #3571)</para>
4617	</listitem>
4618
4619	<listitem>
4620	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4621	devices</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4626	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4627	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4632	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4641	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4646	response</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4663	</listitem>
4664
4665	<listitem>
4666	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4667	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4668	</listitem>
4669
4670	<listitem>
4671	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4672	</listitem>
4673
4674	<listitem>
4675	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4680	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4681	</listitem>
4682
4683	<listitem>
4684	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4693	</listitem>
4694
4695	<listitem>
4696	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	</itemizedlist>
4700	</sect1>
4701
4702	<sect1>
4703	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4704
4705	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4706	added:</para>
4707
4708	<itemizedlist>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4720	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4725	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4730	(bug #3945)</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4735	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4740	and AMD-V only) </para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4749	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4750	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4755	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4760	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4765	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4770	snapshots command</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4779	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4784	</listitem>
4785
4786	<listitem>
4787	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4792	</listitem>
4793
4794	<listitem>
4795	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4796	(KWin bug)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4801	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4806	</listitem>
4807
4808	<listitem>
4809	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4810	</listitem>
4811
4812	<listitem>
4813	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4814	</listitem>
4815
4816	<listitem>
4817	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4818	</listitem>
4819
4820	<listitem>
4821	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4822	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4823	</listitem>
4824
4825	<listitem>
4826	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4827	bug #5787)</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4832	DHCP requests</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4837	(bug #3217)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4842	range (bug #5923)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4851	</listitem>
4852
4853	<listitem>
4854	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4859	</listitem>
4860
4861	<listitem>
4862	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4863	file (bug #5681)</para>
4864	</listitem>
4865
4866	<listitem>
4867	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4868	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4873	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4878	regression)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4887	</listitem>
4888
4889	<listitem>
4890	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4891	</listitem>
4892
4893	<listitem>
4894	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4895	</listitem>
4896
4897	<listitem>
4898	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4899	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4900	</listitem>
4901
4902	<listitem>
4903	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4916	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4917	</listitem>
4918
4919	<listitem>
4920	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4925	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4934	</listitem>
4935
4936	<listitem>
4937	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4938	</listitem>
4939
4940	<listitem>
4941	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4942	(bug #5731)</para>
4943	</listitem>
4944
4945	<listitem>
4946	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4947	again</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	</itemizedlist>
4951
4952	</sect1>
4953
4954	<sect1>
4955	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4956
4957	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4958	added:</para>
4959
4960	<itemizedlist>
4961
4962	<listitem>
4963	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4964	</listitem>
4965
4966	<listitem>
4967	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4976	</listitem>
4977
4978	<listitem>
4979	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4980	</listitem>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4984	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4985	</listitem>
4986
4987	<listitem>
4988	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4989	</listitem>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5001	</listitem>
5002
5003	<listitem>
5004	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5009	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5010	</listitem>
5011
5012	<listitem>
5013	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5014	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5015	</listitem>
5016
5017	<listitem>
5018	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5019	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5020	#1762)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5025	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5030	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5035	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5048	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5049	</listitem>
5050
5051	<listitem>
5052	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5053	</listitem>
5054
5055	<listitem>
5056	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5057	</listitem>
5058
5059	<listitem>
5060	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5061	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5062	</listitem>
5063
5064	<listitem>
5065	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5066	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5071	</listitem>
5072
5073	<listitem>
5074	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5075	guests</para>
5076	</listitem>
5077
5078	<listitem>
5079	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5080	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5085	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5090	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5095	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5108	</listitem>
5109
5110	<listitem>
5111	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5112	</listitem>
5113
5114	<listitem>
5115	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5116	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5117	</listitem>
5118
5119	<listitem>
5120	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5121	</listitem>
5122
5123	</itemizedlist>
5124
5125	</sect1>
5126
5127	<sect1>
5128	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5129
5130	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5131	were added:</para>
5132
5133	<itemizedlist>
5134
5135	<listitem>
5136	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5137	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5138	</listitem>
5139
5140	<listitem>
5141	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5142	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5143	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5148	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5149	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5154	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5155	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5160	running</para>
5161	</listitem>
5162
5163	<listitem>
5164	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5165	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5170	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5171	</listitem>
5172
5173	<listitem>
5174	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5175	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5176	</listitem>
5177
5178	<listitem>
5179	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5180	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5181	</listitem>
5182
5183	</itemizedlist>
5184
5185	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5186
5187	<itemizedlist>
5188
5189	<listitem>
5190	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	<listitem>
5194	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5199	</listitem>
5200
5201	<listitem>
5202	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5203	(bug #5291)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5208	</listitem>
5209
5210	<listitem>
5211	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5212	</listitem>
5213
5214	<listitem>
5215	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5216	</listitem>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5220	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5221	</listitem>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5225	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5230	</listitem>
5231
5232	<listitem>
5233	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5234	</listitem>
5235
5236	<listitem>
5237	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5238	</listitem>
5239
5240	<listitem>
5241	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5250	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5255	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5260	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5265	(bug #2723)</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5274	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5279	optional manifest file on import</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	<listitem>
5287	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5288	(bug #3773)</para>
5289	</listitem>
5290
5291	<listitem>
5292	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5293	</listitem>
5294
5295	<listitem>
5296	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5297	</listitem>
5298
5299	<listitem>
5300	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5301	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5302	</listitem>
5303
5304	<listitem>
5305	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5306	(bug #4866)</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5311	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5316	certain conditions</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5325	</listitem>
5326
5327	<listitem>
5328	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5329	</listitem>
5330
5331	<listitem>
5332	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5333	</listitem>
5334
5335	<listitem>
5336	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5337	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5338	</listitem>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5342	</listitem>
5343
5344	<listitem>
5345	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5346	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5351	</listitem>
5352
5353	<listitem>
5354	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5359	</listitem>
5360
5361	<listitem>
5362	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5363	</listitem>
5364
5365	<listitem>
5366	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5367	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5368	</listitem>
5369
5370	<listitem>
5371	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5372	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5373	(bug #928)</para>
5374	</listitem>
5375
5376	<listitem>
5377	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	</itemizedlist>
5381
5382	</sect1>
5383
5384	<sect1>
5385	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5386
5387	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5388	added:</para>
5389
5390	<itemizedlist>
5391
5392	<listitem>
5393	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5394	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5395	</listitem>
5396
5397	<listitem>
5398	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5399	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5400	</listitem>
5401
5402	<listitem>
5403	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5404	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5405	</listitem>
5406
5407	<listitem>
5408	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5409	enabled</para>
5410	</listitem>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5414	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5419	(bug #2676)</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5424	is connected to a raw file</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5429	(bug #5355)</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5438	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5443	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5444	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5453	</listitem>
5454
5455	<listitem>
5456	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5457	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5458	</listitem>
5459
5460	<listitem>
5461	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5462	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5463	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	</itemizedlist>
5467
5468	</sect1>
5469
5470	<sect1>
5471	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5472
5473	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5474	added:</para>
5475
5476	<itemizedlist>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5480	</listitem>
5481
5482	<listitem>
5483	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	<listitem>
5487	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5488	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5489	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5494	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5495	</listitem>
5496
5497	<listitem>
5498	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5511	</listitem>
5512
5513	<listitem>
5514	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5519	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5520	</listitem>
5521
5522	<listitem>
5523	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5524	</listitem>
5525
5526	<listitem>
5527	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5532	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5537	</listitem>
5538
5539	<listitem>
5540	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5541	exhaustion</para>
5542	</listitem>
5543
5544	<listitem>
5545	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5550	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5551	</listitem>
5552
5553	<listitem>
5554	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5555	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5560	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5565	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5566	(bug #2921)</para>
5567	</listitem>
5568
5569	<listitem>
5570	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5571	hosts only)</para>
5572	</listitem>
5573
5574	<listitem>
5575	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5576	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5585	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5594	image inconsistency </para>
5595	</listitem>
5596
5597	<listitem>
5598	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5599	</listitem>
5600
5601	<listitem>
5602	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5603	</listitem>
5604
5605	<listitem>
5606	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5607	(bug #2025)</para>
5608	</listitem>
5609
5610	<listitem>
5611	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5612	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	</itemizedlist>
5616
5617	</sect1>
5618
5619	<sect1>
5620	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5621
5622	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5623	added:</para>
5624
5625	<itemizedlist>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5629	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5630	</listitem>
5631
5632	<listitem>
5633	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5634	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5635	</listitem>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5639	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5648	software virtualization only) </para>
5649	</listitem>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5653	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5658	with root privileges</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5663	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5668	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5673	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5678	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5679	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5684	available</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5689	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5694	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5699	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5704	(bug #4907)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5709	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5714	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5723	</listitem>
5724
5725	<listitem>
5726	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5727	</listitem>
5728
5729	<listitem>
5730	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5731	</listitem>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5735	are installed</para>
5736	</listitem>
5737
5738	<listitem>
5739	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5740	(bug #4771)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5745	</listitem>
5746
5747	<listitem>
5748	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5749	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5750	</listitem>
5751
5752	<listitem>
5753	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5754	command</para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5767	(bug #5089)</para>
5768	</listitem>
5769
5770	<listitem>
5771	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	</itemizedlist>
5775
5776	</sect1>
5777
5778	<sect1>
5779	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5780
5781	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5782	added:</para>
5783
5784	<itemizedlist>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5788	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5789	</listitem>
5790
5791	<listitem>
5792	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5793	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5798	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5803	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5808	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5809	</listitem>
5810
5811	<listitem>
5812	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5813	</listitem>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5817	</listitem>
5818
5819	<listitem>
5820	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5821	</listitem>
5822
5823	<listitem>
5824	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5825	</listitem>
5826
5827	<listitem>
5828	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	<listitem>
5832	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5833	onlined or offlined</para>
5834	</listitem>
5835
5836	<listitem>
5837	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5842	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5843	</listitem>
5844
5845	<listitem>
5846	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5847	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5852	</listitem>
5853
5854	<listitem>
5855	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5856	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5857	</listitem>
5858
5859	<listitem>
5860	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5861	</listitem>
5862
5863	<listitem>
5864	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5865	</listitem>
5866
5867	<listitem>
5868	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5869	</listitem>
5870
5871	<listitem>
5872	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5873	</listitem>
5874
5875	<listitem>
5876	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5881	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5882	</listitem>
5883
5884	<listitem>
5885	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5890	</listitem>
5891
5892	<listitem>
5893	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5898	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5903	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5908	</listitem>
5909
5910	<listitem>
5911	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5912	</listitem>
5913
5914	<listitem>
5915	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5916	</listitem>
5917
5918	<listitem>
5919	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5920	</listitem>
5921
5922	<listitem>
5923	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5936	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5937	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5938	phase collapse</para>
5939	</listitem>
5940
5941	<listitem>
5942	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5943	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5948	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5949	</listitem>
5950
5951	<listitem>
5952	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5953	</listitem>
5954
5955	<listitem>
5956	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5957	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5958	</listitem>
5959
5960	<listitem>
5961	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5962	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5967	</listitem>
5968
5969	<listitem>
5970	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5971	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5972	#4698, #4790)</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5977	less than the configured range</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5986	</listitem>
5987
5988	<listitem>
5989	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
5990	</listitem>
5991
5992	<listitem>
5993	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
5994	</listitem>
5995
5996	<listitem>
5997	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
5998	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
5999	</listitem>
6000
6001	<listitem>
6002	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6003	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6004	</listitem>
6005
6006	<listitem>
6007	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6008	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6009	</listitem>
6010
6011	<listitem>
6012	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6013	</listitem>
6014
6015	<listitem>
6016	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6017	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6022	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6027	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6032	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6041	</listitem>
6042
6043	</itemizedlist>
6044
6045	</sect1>
6046
6047	<sect1>
6048	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6049
6050	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6051	added:</para>
6052
6053	<itemizedlist>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6065	</listitem>
6066
6067	<listitem>
6068	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6069	</listitem>
6070
6071	<listitem>
6072	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6073	</listitem>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	<listitem>
6084	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6093	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6106	</listitem>
6107
6108	<listitem>
6109	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6110	</listitem>
6111
6112	<listitem>
6113	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6114	</listitem>
6115
6116	<listitem>
6117	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6118	</listitem>
6119
6120	<listitem>
6121	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6122	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6123	</listitem>
6124
6125	<listitem>
6126	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6127	(bug #4654)</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6132	</listitem>
6133
6134	<listitem>
6135	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6136	interfaces</para>
6137	</listitem>
6138
6139	<listitem>
6140	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6141	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6146	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6151	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6156	(bug #1461)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6161	</listitem>
6162
6163	<listitem>
6164	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6165	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6170	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6175	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6180	</listitem>
6181
6182	<listitem>
6183	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6184	</listitem>
6185
6186	<listitem>
6187	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6188	</listitem>
6189
6190	<listitem>
6191	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6192	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6193	</listitem>
6194
6195	<listitem>
6196	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6197	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6198	</listitem>
6199
6200	<listitem>
6201	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6202	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6207	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	</itemizedlist>
6211
6212	</sect1>
6213	<sect1>
6214	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6215
6216	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6217	added:</para>
6218
6219	<itemizedlist>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6231	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6236	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6241	</listitem>
6242
6243	<listitem>
6244	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6245	</listitem>
6246
6247	<listitem>
6248	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6249	</listitem>
6250
6251	<listitem>
6252	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6253	</listitem>
6254
6255	<listitem>
6256	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6257	</listitem>
6258
6259	<listitem>
6260	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6265	</listitem>
6266
6267	<listitem>
6268	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6269	</listitem>
6270
6271	<listitem>
6272	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6273	</listitem>
6274
6275	<listitem>
6276	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6277	</listitem>
6278
6279	<listitem>
6280	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6281	</listitem>
6282
6283	<listitem>
6284	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6285	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6286	</listitem>
6287
6288	<listitem>
6289	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6290	</listitem>
6291
6292	<listitem>
6293	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6298	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6299	</listitem>
6300
6301	<listitem>
6302	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6303	</listitem>
6304
6305	<listitem>
6306	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6307	</listitem>
6308
6309	<listitem>
6310	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6311	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6312	</listitem>
6313
6314	<listitem>
6315	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6320	</listitem>
6321
6322	<listitem>
6323	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6324	</listitem>
6325
6326	<listitem>
6327	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	</itemizedlist>
6339
6340	</sect1>
6341
6342	<sect1>
6343	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6344
6345	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6346	were added:</para>
6347
6348	<itemizedlist>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6356	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6357	</listitem>
6358
6359	<listitem>
6360	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6361	</listitem>
6362
6363	</itemizedlist>
6364
6365	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6366
6367	<itemizedlist>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6375	certain conditions</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	<listitem>
6383	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6384	</listitem>
6385
6386	<listitem>
6387	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6388	</listitem>
6389
6390	<listitem>
6391	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6392	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6393	</listitem>
6394
6395	<listitem>
6396	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6397	</listitem>
6398
6399	<listitem>
6400	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6401	</listitem>
6402
6403	<listitem>
6404	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	<listitem>
6408	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6409	</listitem>
6410
6411	<listitem>
6412	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6421	</listitem>
6422
6423	<listitem>
6424	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6429	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6434	</listitem>
6435
6436	<listitem>
6437	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6438	</listitem>
6439
6440	<listitem>
6441	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6442	</listitem>
6443
6444	<listitem>
6445	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6446	</listitem>
6447
6448	<listitem>
6449	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6458	</listitem>
6459
6460	<listitem>
6461	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6462	</listitem>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6470	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6471	</listitem>
6472
6473	<listitem>
6474	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6475	</listitem>
6476
6477	<listitem>
6478	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6479	</listitem>
6480
6481	<listitem>
6482	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6483	</listitem>
6484
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6503	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6508	</listitem>
6509
6510	<listitem>
6511	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6512	</listitem>
6513
6514	<listitem>
6515	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6516	</listitem>
6517
6518	<listitem>
6519	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6520	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6521	</listitem>
6522
6523	<listitem>
6524	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6525	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6530	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6535	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6540	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6549	</listitem>
6550
6551	<listitem>
6552	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6553	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6554	</listitem>
6555
6556	<listitem>
6557	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6558	guest property lookup</para>
6559	</listitem>
6560
6561	<listitem>
6562	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6563	basic network information)</para>
6564	</listitem>
6565
6566	<listitem>
6567	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6568	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6569	</listitem>
6570
6571	<listitem>
6572	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6573	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6574	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6575	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6576	</listitem>
6577
6578	<listitem>
6579	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6580	</listitem>
6581
6582	<listitem>
6583	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6584	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6585	web service</para>
6586	</listitem>
6587
6588	<listitem>
6589	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6590	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6591	</listitem>
6592
6593	<listitem>
6594	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6595	unavailable</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	</itemizedlist>
6603	</sect1>
6604
6605	<sect1>
6606	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6607
6608	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6609	added:</para>
6610
6611	<itemizedlist>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6615	installation</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6624	later (bug #3981)</para>
6625	</listitem>
6626
6627	<listitem>
6628	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6629	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6634	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6635	(bug #4034)
6636	</para>
6637	</listitem>
6638
6639	<listitem>
6640	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6641	networking</para>
6642	</listitem>
6643
6644	<listitem>
6645	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6646	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6651	clicks</para>
6652	</listitem>
6653
6654	<listitem>
6655	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6656	Windows 7 guests</para>
6657	</listitem>
6658
6659	<listitem>
6660	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6661	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6662	</listitem>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6670	</listitem>
6671
6672	<listitem>
6673	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6674	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6675	</listitem>
6676
6677	<listitem>
6678	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6679	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6680	</listitem>
6681
6682	<listitem>
6683	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6684	</listitem>
6685
6686	<listitem>
6687	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6688	</listitem>
6689
6690	<listitem>
6691	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6692	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6693	(bug #3864)</para>
6694	</listitem>
6695
6696	<listitem>
6697	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6698	now flushes the output stream</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6703	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6712	</listitem>
6713
6714	<listitem>
6715	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6716	</listitem>
6717
6718	<listitem>
6719	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6720	</listitem>
6721
6722	<listitem>
6723	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6724	(bug #3964)</para>
6725	</listitem>
6726
6727	<listitem>
6728	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6729	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6730	</listitem>
6731
6732	<listitem>
6733	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6734	hosts</para>
6735	</listitem>
6736
6737	<listitem>
6738	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6739	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6740	e1000 adapter</para>
6741	</listitem>
6742
6743	<listitem>
6744	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6745	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6746	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6747	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6748	</listitem>
6749
6750	<listitem>
6751	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6752	</listitem>
6753
6754	<listitem>
6755	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6756	</listitem>
6757
6758	<listitem>
6759	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6760	</listitem>
6761
6762	<listitem>
6763	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6764	file (bug #1023)</para>
6765	</listitem>
6766
6767	<listitem>
6768	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6769	</listitem>
6770
6771	<listitem>
6772	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6773	</listitem>
6774
6775	</itemizedlist>
6776	</sect1>
6777
6778	<sect1>
6779	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6780
6781	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6782	added:</para>
6783
6784	<itemizedlist>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6788	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6793	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6794	and later</para>
6795	</listitem>
6796
6797	<listitem>
6798	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6799	running services</para>
6800	</listitem>
6801
6802	<listitem>
6803	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6804	terminates</para>
6805	</listitem>
6806
6807	<listitem>
6808	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6809	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6814	installed on the guest</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6819	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6820	</listitem>
6821
6822	<listitem>
6823	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6824	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6825	</listitem>
6826
6827	<listitem>
6828	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6829	(bug #2628)</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6834	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6835	</listitem>
6836
6837	<listitem>
6838	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6839	(bug #3657)</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6844	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6845	</listitem>
6846
6847	<listitem>
6848	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6849	virtualization only)
6850	</para>
6851	</listitem>
6852
6853	<listitem>
6854	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6855	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6856	</listitem>
6857
6858	<listitem>
6859	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6864	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6869	bug #3689)</para>
6870	</listitem>
6871
6872	<listitem>
6873	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6874	bug #3679)</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	<listitem>
6878	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6879	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6884	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6885	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6886	</listitem>
6887
6888	<listitem>
6889	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6890	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6891	</listitem>
6892
6893	<listitem>
6894	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6895	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6900	(bug #3667)</para>
6901	</listitem>
6902
6903	<listitem>
6904	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6905	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6914	</listitem>
6915
6916	<listitem>
6917	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6918	</listitem>
6919
6920	<listitem>
6921	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6922	</listitem>
6923
6924	<listitem>
6925	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6926	</listitem>
6927
6928	<listitem>
6929	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	</itemizedlist>
6937	</sect1>
6938
6939	<sect1>
6940	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6941
6942	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6943	were added:</para>
6944
6945	<itemizedlist>
6946
6947	<listitem>
6948	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6949	</listitem>
6950
6951	<listitem>
6952	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6953	</listitem>
6954
6955	<listitem>
6956	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6957	</listitem>
6958
6959	<listitem>
6960	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6961	</listitem>
6962
6963	<listitem>
6964	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6965	</listitem>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6981	</listitem>
6982
6983	<listitem>
6984	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	</itemizedlist>
6988
6989	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6990
6991	<itemizedlist>
6992
6993	<listitem>
6994	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
6995	</listitem>
6996
6997	<listitem>
6998	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
6999	</listitem>
7000
7001	<listitem>
7002	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7003	</listitem>
7004
7005	<listitem>
7006	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7007	</listitem>
7008
7009	<listitem>
7010	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7019	</listitem>
7020
7021	<listitem>
7022	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7027	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7028	</listitem>
7029
7030	<listitem>
7031	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7032	</listitem>
7033
7034	<listitem>
7035	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7036	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7037	</listitem>
7038
7039	<listitem>
7040	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7041	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7046	</listitem>
7047
7048	<listitem>
7049	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7050	</listitem>
7051
7052	<listitem>
7053	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7054	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7055	</listitem>
7056
7057	<listitem>
7058	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7059	</listitem>
7060
7061	<listitem>
7062	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7063	ESX server images)</para>
7064	</listitem>
7065
7066	<listitem>
7067	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7068	writable</para>
7069	</listitem>
7070
7071	<listitem>
7072	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7073	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7074	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7075	</listitem>
7076
7077	<listitem>
7078	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7079	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7080	</listitem>
7081
7082	<listitem>
7083	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7092	hosts when creating files</para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7097	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7102	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7103	#2306)</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7108	(bug #3555)</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7113	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7114	</listitem>
7115
7116	<listitem>
7117	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7118	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7119	</listitem>
7120
7121	<listitem>
7122	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7123	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7128	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7129	</listitem>
7130
7131	<listitem>
7132	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7133	(bug #3586)</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7138	from Scratch systems</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7143	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7152	default to compact format</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7157	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7162	</listitem>
7163
7164	<listitem>
7165	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7166	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7167	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7172	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7173	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7174	</listitem>
7175
7176	<listitem>
7177	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7178	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7179	</listitem>
7180
7181	<listitem>
7182	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7183	</listitem>
7184
7185	<listitem>
7186	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7191	</listitem>
7192
7193	<listitem>
7194	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7195	</listitem>
7196
7197	<listitem>
7198	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7207	</listitem>
7208
7209	<listitem>
7210	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7211	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7212	</listitem>
7213
7214	<listitem>
7215	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7216	</listitem>
7217
7218	<listitem>
7219	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7220	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7221	</listitem>
7222
7223	<listitem>
7224	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7225	</listitem>
7226
7227	<listitem>
7228	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7229	</listitem>
7230
7231	<listitem>
7232	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7233	</listitem>
7234
7235	<listitem>
7236	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7237	#2536)</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7242	</listitem>
7243
7244	<listitem>
7245	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7246	(bug #3548)</para>
7247	</listitem>
7248
7249	</itemizedlist>
7250	</sect1>
7251
7252	<sect1>
7253	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7254
7255	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7256	added:</para>
7257
7258	<itemizedlist>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7262	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7263	</listitem>
7264
7265	<listitem>
7266	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7267	</listitem>
7268
7269	<listitem>
7270	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7271	</listitem>
7272
7273	<listitem>
7274	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7275	</listitem>
7276
7277	<listitem>
7278	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7279	(bug #3115)</para>
7280	</listitem>
7281
7282	<listitem>
7283	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7284	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7285	</listitem>
7286
7287	<listitem>
7288	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7289	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7290	(bug #3215)</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7295	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7296	</listitem>
7297
7298	<listitem>
7299	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7300	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7301	</listitem>
7302
7303	<listitem>
7304	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7305	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7306	</listitem>
7307
7308	<listitem>
7309	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7310	in parallel</para>
7311	</listitem>
7312
7313	<listitem>
7314	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7315	</listitem>
7316
7317	<listitem>
7318	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7319	</listitem>
7320
7321	<listitem>
7322	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7323	</listitem>
7324
7325	<listitem>
7326	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7327	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7328	</listitem>
7329
7330	<listitem>
7331	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7332	</listitem>
7333
7334	<listitem>
7335	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7336	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7337	</listitem>
7338
7339	<listitem>
7340	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7341	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7342	</listitem>
7343
7344	<listitem>
7345	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7346	</listitem>
7347
7348	<listitem>
7349	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7350	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7351	</listitem>
7352
7353	<listitem>
7354	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7355	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7360	</listitem>
7361
7362	<listitem>
7363	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7364	</listitem>
7365
7366	<listitem>
7367	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7368	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7369	</listitem>
7370
7371	<listitem>
7372	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7373	</listitem>
7374
7375	<listitem>
7376	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7377	</listitem>
7378
7379	<listitem>
7380	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7381	</listitem>
7382
7383	<listitem>
7384	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7385	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7386	</listitem>
7387
7388	<listitem>
7389	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7390	</listitem>
7391
7392	<listitem>
7393	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7394	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7395	</listitem>
7396
7397	<listitem>
7398	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7399	</listitem>
7400
7401	<listitem>
7402	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7403	</listitem>
7404
7405	<listitem>
7406	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7407	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7412	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7417	</listitem>
7418
7419	<listitem>
7420	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7421	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7422	</listitem>
7423
7424	<listitem>
7425	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7426	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7427	</listitem>
7428
7429	<listitem>
7430	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7431	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7436	(bug #3213)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7441	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7446	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	</itemizedlist>
7450	</sect1>
7451
7452	<sect1>
7453	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7454
7455	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7456	added:</para>
7457
7458	<itemizedlist>
7459
7460	<listitem>
7461	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7462	</listitem>
7463
7464	<listitem>
7465	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7466	</listitem>
7467
7468	<listitem>
7469	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7470	</listitem>
7471
7472	<listitem>
7473	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7474	</listitem>
7475
7476	<listitem>
7477	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7478	</listitem>
7479
7480	<listitem>
7481	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7482	</listitem>
7483
7484	<listitem>
7485	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7486	</listitem>
7487
7488	<listitem>
7489	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7490	</listitem>
7491
7492	<listitem>
7493	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7494	</listitem>
7495
7496	<listitem>
7497	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	<listitem>
7501	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7502	</listitem>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7506	</listitem>
7507
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7526	(bug #3067)</para>
7527	</listitem>
7528
7529	<listitem>
7530	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7531	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7532	</listitem>
7533
7534	<listitem>
7535	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7536	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7537	</listitem>
7538
7539	<listitem>
7540	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7541	</listitem>
7542
7543	<listitem>
7544	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7545	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7546	</listitem>
7547
7548	<listitem>
7549	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7550	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7551	</listitem>
7552
7553	<listitem>
7554	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7555	</listitem>
7556
7557	<listitem>
7558	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7559	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7560	</listitem>
7561
7562	<listitem>
7563	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7564	</listitem>
7565
7566	<listitem>
7567	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7568	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7569	</listitem>
7570
7571	<listitem>
7572	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7573	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7574	</listitem>
7575
7576	<listitem>
7577	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7578	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7579	</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7584	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7585	</para>
7586	</listitem>
7587
7588	<listitem>
7589	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7590	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7591	</para>
7592	</listitem>
7593
7594	<listitem>
7595	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7596	</listitem>
7597
7598	<listitem>
7599	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7600	</listitem>
7601
7602	<listitem>
7603	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7604	</listitem>
7605
7606	<listitem>
7607	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	<listitem>
7611	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7612	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7613	</listitem>
7614
7615	<listitem>
7616	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7617	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7618	</listitem>
7619
7620	<listitem>
7621	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7622	formatting a drive</para>
7623	</listitem>
7624
7625	<listitem>
7626	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7627	</listitem>
7628
7629	<listitem>
7630	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7631	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7632	</listitem>
7633
7634	<listitem>
7635	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7636	</listitem>
7637
7638	<listitem>
7639	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7640	</listitem>
7641
7642	<listitem>
7643	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7644	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7645	</listitem>
7646
7647	<listitem>
7648	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7649	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7650	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7651	</listitem>
7652
7653	<listitem>
7654	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7655	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7656	</listitem>
7657
7658	<listitem>
7659	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7660	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7661	</listitem>
7662
7663	<listitem>
7664	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7665	(bug #2768)</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7670	</listitem>
7671
7672	<listitem>
7673	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7674	</listitem>
7675
7676	<listitem>
7677	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7678	single, unified package</para>
7679	</listitem>
7680
7681	<listitem>
7682	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7683	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7688	</listitem>
7689
7690	<listitem>
7691	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7692	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7693	</listitem>
7694
7695	<listitem>
7696	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7697	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7698	</listitem>
7699
7700	<listitem>
7701	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7702	</listitem>
7703
7704	<listitem>
7705	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7706	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7707	doing 3D</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7716	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7717	</listitem>
7718
7719	<listitem>
7720	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7721	</listitem>
7722
7723	<listitem>
7724	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7725	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7726	</listitem>
7727
7728	<listitem>
7729	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7730	</listitem>
7731
7732	<listitem>
7733	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7734	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7735	</listitem>
7736
7737	<listitem>
7738	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7739	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7740	(bug #2938)</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7745	Linux guests</para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7750	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7751	(bug #1776)</para>
7752	</listitem>
7753
7754	<listitem>
7755	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7756	(bug #1612)</para>
7757	</listitem>
7758
7759	<listitem>
7760	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7761	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7762	</listitem>
7763
7764	<listitem>
7765	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7766	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7767	</listitem>
7768
7769	<listitem>
7770	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7771	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	</itemizedlist>
7775	</sect1>
7776
7777	<sect1>
7778	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7779
7780	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7781	were added:</para>
7782
7783	<itemizedlist>
7784	<listitem>
7785	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7790	</listitem>
7791
7792	<listitem>
7793	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7794	</listitem>
7795
7796	<listitem>
7797	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7798	</listitem>
7799
7800	<listitem>
7801	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7802	</listitem>
7803
7804	<listitem>
7805	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7810	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7811	</listitem>
7812
7813	<listitem>
7814	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7815	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	</itemizedlist>
7819
7820	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7821
7822	<itemizedlist>
7823	<listitem>
7824	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7825	</listitem>
7826
7827	<listitem>
7828	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7833	</listitem>
7834
7835	<listitem>
7836	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7837	</listitem>
7838
7839	<listitem>
7840	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7841	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7842	</listitem>
7843
7844	<listitem>
7845	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7846	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7847	</listitem>
7848
7849	<listitem>
7850	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7851	</listitem>
7852
7853	<listitem>
7854	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7855	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7856	</listitem>
7857
7858	<listitem>
7859	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7860	</listitem>
7861
7862	<listitem>
7863	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7864	</listitem>
7865
7866	<listitem>
7867	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7868	</listitem>
7869
7870	<listitem>
7871	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7872	</listitem>
7873
7874	<listitem>
7875	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7880	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7881	</listitem>
7882
7883	<listitem>
7884	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7885	the compiz window manager</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7890	</listitem>
7891
7892	<listitem>
7893	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7894	</listitem>
7895
7896	<listitem>
7897	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7898	</listitem>
7899
7900	<listitem>
7901	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7902	</listitem>
7903
7904	<listitem>
7905	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7906	</listitem>
7907
7908	<listitem>
7909	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	<listitem>
7917	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7918	</listitem>
7919
7920	<listitem>
7921	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7922	</listitem>
7923
7924	<listitem>
7925	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7926	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7931	for direct device access</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7936	</listitem>
7937
7938	<listitem>
7939	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7940	</listitem>
7941
7942	<listitem>
7943	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7944	</listitem>
7945
7946	<listitem>
7947	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7948	</listitem>
7949
7950	<listitem>
7951	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7952	</listitem>
7953
7954	<listitem>
7955	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7956	</listitem>
7957
7958	<listitem>
7959	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7960	</listitem>
7961
7962	<listitem>
7963	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7964	</listitem>
7965
7966	</itemizedlist>
7967	</sect1>
7968
7969	<sect1>
7970	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7971
7972	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7973	added:</para>
7974
7975	<itemizedlist>
7976
7977	<listitem>
7978	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7979	states/snapshots</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7984	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7985	</listitem>
7986
7987	<listitem>
7988	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7989	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7990	</listitem>
7991
7992	<listitem>
7993	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
7994	collisions</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7999	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8004	</listitem>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8008	reliably</para>
8009	</listitem>
8010
8011	<listitem>
8012	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8013	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8018	a reboot</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8023	</listitem>
8024
8025	<listitem>
8026	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8027	in parallel</para>
8028	</listitem>
8029
8030	<listitem>
8031	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8032	</listitem>
8033
8034	<listitem>
8035	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8036	correctly</para>
8037	</listitem>
8038
8039	<listitem>
8040	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8041	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8042	</listitem>
8043
8044	</itemizedlist>
8045	</sect1>
8046
8047	<sect1>
8048	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8049
8050	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8051	added:</para>
8052
8053	<itemizedlist>
8054
8055	<listitem>
8056	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8057	(bug #2220)</para>
8058	</listitem>
8059
8060	<listitem>
8061	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8062	</listitem>
8063
8064	<listitem>
8065	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8066	</listitem>
8067
8068	<listitem>
8069	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8070	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8071	</listitem>
8072
8073	<listitem>
8074	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8075	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8076	</listitem>
8077
8078	<listitem>
8079	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8080	(bug #2624)</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	<listitem>
8084	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8085	(bug #2024)</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8090	</listitem>
8091
8092	<listitem>
8093	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8094	</listitem>
8095
8096	<listitem>
8097	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8098	</listitem>
8099
8100	<listitem>
8101	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8102	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8103	</listitem>
8104
8105	<listitem>
8106	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8107	applications when updating the installation</para>
8108	</listitem>
8109
8110	<listitem>
8111	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8112	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8113	</listitem>
8114
8115	<listitem>
8116	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8117	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8118	</listitem>
8119
8120	<listitem>
8121	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8122	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8123	</listitem>
8124
8125	<listitem>
8126	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8127	connected to a host device</para>
8128	</listitem>
8129
8130	<listitem>
8131	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8136	</listitem>
8137
8138	<listitem>
8139	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8140	</listitem>
8141
8142	<listitem>
8143	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8144	when using native RDP connections</para>
8145	</listitem>
8146
8147	<listitem>
8148	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8149	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8150	</listitem>
8151
8152	<listitem>
8153	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8154	(bug #2591)</para>
8155	</listitem>
8156
8157	<listitem>
8158	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8159	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8160	</listitem>
8161
8162	<listitem>
8163	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8164	</listitem>
8165
8166	</itemizedlist>
8167	</sect1>
8168
8169	<sect1>
8170	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8171
8172	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8173	added:</para>
8174
8175	<itemizedlist>
8176	<listitem>
8177	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8178	</listitem>
8179
8180	<listitem>
8181	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8182	</listitem>
8183
8184	<listitem>
8185	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8186	</listitem>
8187
8188	<listitem>
8189	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8190	</listitem>
8191
8192	<listitem>
8193	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8194	</listitem>
8195
8196	<listitem>
8197	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8198	</listitem>
8199
8200	<listitem>
8201	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8202	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8203	</listitem>
8204
8205	<listitem>
8206	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8207	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8208	</listitem>
8209
8210	<listitem>
8211	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8212	</listitem>
8213
8214	<listitem>
8215	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8216	equal to the client resolution</para>
8217	</listitem>
8218
8219	<listitem>
8220	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8221	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8226	</listitem>
8227
8228	<listitem>
8229	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8230	</listitem>
8231
8232	<listitem>
8233	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8234	</listitem>
8235
8236	<listitem>
8237	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8238	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8239	</listitem>
8240
8241	<listitem>
8242	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8243	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8244	</listitem>
8245
8246	<listitem>
8247	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8248	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8249	</listitem>
8250
8251	<listitem>
8252	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8253	</listitem>
8254
8255	<listitem>
8256	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8257	</listitem>
8258
8259	<listitem>
8260	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8261	</listitem>
8262
8263	<listitem>
8264	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8265	</listitem>
8266
8267	<listitem>
8268	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8269	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8270	</listitem>
8271
8272	<listitem>
8273	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8274	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8275	</listitem>
8276
8277	<listitem>
8278	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8279	</listitem>
8280
8281	<listitem>
8282	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8283	</listitem>
8284
8285	<listitem>
8286	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8287	</listitem>
8288
8289	</itemizedlist>
8290
8291	</sect1>
8292
8293	<sect1>
8294	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8295
8296	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8297	added:</para>
8298
8299	<itemizedlist>
8300
8301	<listitem>
8302	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8303	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8308	</listitem>
8309
8310	<listitem>
8311	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8312	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8313	</listitem>
8314
8315	<listitem>
8316	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8317	</listitem>
8318
8319	<listitem>
8320	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8321	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8322	</listitem>
8323
8324	<listitem>
8325	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8326	</listitem>
8327
8328	<listitem>
8329	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8330	the virtual disk manager</para>
8331	</listitem>
8332
8333	<listitem>
8334	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8335	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8336	</listitem>
8337
8338	<listitem>
8339	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8340	</listitem>
8341
8342	<listitem>
8343	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8344	</listitem>
8345
8346	<listitem>
8347	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8348	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8349	</listitem>
8350
8351	<listitem>
8352	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8353	bug #2067)</para>
8354	</listitem>
8355
8356	<listitem>
8357	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8358	</listitem>
8359
8360	<listitem>
8361	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8362	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8363	</listitem>
8364
8365	<listitem>
8366	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8367	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8368	(bug #2184)</para>
8369	</listitem>
8370
8371	<listitem>
8372	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8373	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8374	</listitem>
8375
8376	<listitem>
8377	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8378	(Windows guests only)</para>
8379	</listitem>
8380
8381	<listitem>
8382	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8383	</listitem>
8384
8385	<listitem>
8386	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8391	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8392	</listitem>
8393
8394	<listitem>
8395	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8396	</listitem>
8397
8398	<listitem>
8399	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8400	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8401	</para>
8402	</listitem>
8403
8404	<listitem>
8405	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8406	</listitem>
8407
8408	<listitem>
8409	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8410	</listitem>
8411
8412	<listitem>
8413	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8414	a VM reboot</para>
8415	</listitem>
8416
8417	<listitem>
8418	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8419	</listitem>
8420
8421	<listitem>
8422	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8423	buggy X servers</para>
8424	</listitem>
8425
8426	<listitem>
8427	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8428	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8429	</listitem>
8430
8431	<listitem>
8432	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8433	</listitem>
8434
8435	<listitem>
8436	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8437	(bug #2128)</para>
8438	</listitem>
8439
8440	<listitem>
8441	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8442	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8447	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8452	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8457	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8462	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8467	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8468	</listitem>
8469
8470	<listitem>
8471	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8472	installer into a single package</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8477	port to the guest
8478	</para>
8479	</listitem>
8480
8481	</itemizedlist>
8482
8483	</sect1>
8484
8485	<sect1>
8486	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8487
8488	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8489	were added:<itemizedlist>
8490
8491	<listitem>
8492	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8493	</listitem>
8494
8495	<listitem>
8496	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8497	</listitem>
8498
8499	<listitem>
8500	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8501	</listitem>
8502
8503	<listitem>
8504	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8505	</listitem>
8506
8507	<listitem>
8508	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8509	</listitem>
8510
8511	<listitem>
8512	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8513	</listitem>
8514
8515	<listitem>
8516	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8521	</listitem>
8522
8523	<listitem>
8524	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8525	</listitem>
8526
8527	<listitem>
8528	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8529	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8530	</listitem>
8531
8532	<listitem>
8533	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8534	</listitem>
8535
8536	<listitem>
8537	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8538	</listitem>
8539
8540	<listitem>
8541	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8542	</listitem>
8543
8544	</itemizedlist></para>
8545
8546	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8547
8548	<itemizedlist>
8549
8550	<listitem>
8551	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8552	</listitem>
8553
8554	<listitem>
8555	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8556	</listitem>
8557
8558	<listitem>
8559	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8560	</listitem>
8561
8562	<listitem>
8563	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8564	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8565	</listitem>
8566
8567	<listitem>
8568	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8569	restored</para>
8570	</listitem>
8571
8572	<listitem>
8573	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8574	</listitem>
8575
8576	<listitem>
8577	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8578	</listitem>
8579
8580	<listitem>
8581	<para>Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn't simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)</para>
8582	</listitem>
8583
8584	</itemizedlist>
8585
8586	</sect1>
8587

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