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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>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
27	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
28	</listitem>
29
30	<listitem>
31	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
32	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
37	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
38	option to show really all available details</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
43	by François Revol</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	</itemizedlist>
47
48	</sect1>
49
50	<sect1>
51
52	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
53
54	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
55	were added:</para>
56
57	<itemizedlist>
58
59	<listitem>
60	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
61	</listitem>
62
63	<listitem>
64	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
65	</listitem>
66
67	<listitem>
68	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
69	</listitem>
70
71	<listitem>
72	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
73	</listitem>
74
75	<listitem>
76	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
77	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
78	</listitem>
79
80	<listitem>
81	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
82	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
83	</listitem>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
87	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
92	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
93	planned. (bug #81)</para>
94	</listitem>
95
96	<listitem>
97	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
102	documentation for more information</para>
103	</listitem>
104
105	</itemizedlist>
106
107	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
108
109	<itemizedlist>
110
111	<listitem>
112	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
113	on Mountain Lion</para>
114	</listitem>
115
116	<listitem>
117	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
118	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
119	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
124	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
125	</listitem>
126
127	<listitem>
128	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
129	nested paging</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
134	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
139	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
144	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
161	</listitem>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
165	</listitem>
166
167	<listitem>
168	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
169	</listitem>
170
171	<listitem>
172	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
173	</listitem>
174
175	<listitem>
176	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
177	</listitem>
178
179	<listitem>
180	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
181	guests</para>
182	</listitem>
183
184	<listitem>
185	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
186	used ISO images</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
191	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
196	(bug #9973)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
201	(bug #9864)</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
206	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
207	immediately</para>
208	</listitem>
209
210	<listitem>
211	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
212	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
213	</listitem>
214
215	<listitem>
216	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
217	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
218	any time using the VM menu</para>
219	</listitem>
220
221	<listitem>
222	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
231	</listitem>
232
233	<listitem>
234	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
235	</listitem>
236
237	<listitem>
238	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
239	</listitem>
240
241	<listitem>
242	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
251	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	<listitem>
255	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
256	</listitem>
257
258	<listitem>
259	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
260	support for v2 images)</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
265	</listitem>
266
267	<listitem>
268	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
269	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
274	</listitem>
275
276	<listitem>
277	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
278	</listitem>
279
280	<listitem>
281	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
282	VirtualBox update</para>
283	</listitem>
284
285	<listitem>
286	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
287	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	</itemizedlist>
295	</sect1>
296
297	<sect1>
298	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
299
300	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
301	added:</para>
302
303	<itemizedlist>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
307	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
308	and others)</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	<listitem>
312	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
313	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
314	</listitem>
315
316	<listitem>
317	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
318	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
323	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
328	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
333	(bug #10631)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
338	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
339	(bug #10624)</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
348	updated (bug #9887)</para>
349	</listitem>
350
351	<listitem>
352	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	</itemizedlist>
356	</sect1>
357
358	<sect1>
359	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
360
361	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
362	added:</para>
363
364	<itemizedlist>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
368	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
369	</listitem>
370
371	<listitem>
372	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
373	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
374	</listitem>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
378	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
379	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
380	</listitem>
381
382	<listitem>
383	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
384	guests in rare cases</para>
385	</listitem>
386
387	<listitem>
388	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
389	</listitem>
390
391	<listitem>
392	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
393	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
394	</listitem>
395
396	<listitem>
397	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
398	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
399	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
400	</listitem>
401
402	<listitem>
403	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
412	reason (bug #6189)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
417	</listitem>
418
419	<listitem>
420	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
421	paused</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
426	(bug #10267)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
431	</listitem>
432
433	<listitem>
434	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
435	(bug #10418)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
440	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
441	(bug #10581)</para>
442	</listitem>
443
444	<listitem>
445	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
446	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
447	</listitem>
448
449	<listitem>
450	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
451	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
452	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
453	</listitem>
454
455	<listitem>
456	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	</itemizedlist>
460
461	</sect1>
462
463	<sect1>
464	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
465
466	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
467	added:</para>
468
469	<itemizedlist>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
473	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
474	(bug #3783)</para>
475	</listitem>
476
477	<listitem>
478	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
483	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
484	</listitem>
485
486	<listitem>
487	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	</itemizedlist>
491
492	</sect1>
493
494	<sect1>
495	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
496
497	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
498	added:</para>
499
500	<itemizedlist>
501
502	<listitem>
503	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
504	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
505	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
506	</listitem>
507
508	<listitem>
509	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
510	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
515	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
528	4.1.10 regression)</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
533	</listitem>
534
535	<listitem>
536	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
537	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
542	</listitem>
543
544	<listitem>
545	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
546	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
551	4.1.10 regression)</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
556	closed (bug #6473)</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
561	properly installed</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	</itemizedlist>
569	</sect1>
570
571	<sect1>
572	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
573
574	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
575	added:</para>
576
577	<itemizedlist>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
581	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
586	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
591	fusion</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
596	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
601	and network mask attributes</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
606	(bug #10030)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
611	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
620	</listitem>
621
622	<listitem>
623	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
624	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
633	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
638	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
643	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
652	</listitem>
653
654	<listitem>
655	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
660	</listitem>
661
662	<listitem>
663	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
672	in a zone</para>
673	</listitem>
674
675	<listitem>
676	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
677	</listitem>
678
679	<listitem>
680	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
681	(bug #9651)</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
690	#10010)</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
695	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
700	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
709	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
714	(bug #10151)</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
719	guests</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
728	</listitem>
729
730	<listitem>
731	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
732	</listitem>
733
734	</itemizedlist>
735	</sect1>
736
737	<sect1>
738	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
739
740	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
741	added:</para>
742
743	<itemizedlist>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
747	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
748	</listitem>
749
750	<listitem>
751	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
752	</listitem>
753
754	<listitem>
755	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
756	(bug #9642)</para>
757	</listitem>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
761	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
762	</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
771	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
772	</listitem>
773
774	<listitem>
775	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
776	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	<listitem>
792	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
793	circumstances</para>
794	</listitem>
795
796	<listitem>
797	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
798	</listitem>
799
800	<listitem>
801	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
802	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
807	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
808	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
809	and for 3D support in general</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
818	</listitem>
819
820	<listitem>
821	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
826	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
827	</listitem>
828
829	</itemizedlist>
830	</sect1>
831
832	<sect1>
833	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
834
835	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
836	added:</para>
837
838	<itemizedlist>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
846	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
851	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
856	certain guests</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
865	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
866	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
871	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
872	</listitem>
873
874	<listitem>
875	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
880	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
885	</listitem>
886
887	<listitem>
888	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
889	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
894	guests</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
899	folders</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
904	shared folders</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
909	users and stale sessions</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
914	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	</itemizedlist>
918	</sect1>
919
920	<sect1>
921	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
922
923	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
924	added:</para>
925
926	<itemizedlist>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
930	bug #9458)</para>
931	</listitem>
932
933	<listitem>
934	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
935	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
936	</listitem>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
940	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
949	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
954	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
959	(bug #9308)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
964	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
969	(bug #9503)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
974	(bug #9242)</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
979	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
980	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
981	</listitem>
982
983	<listitem>
984	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
989	images</para>
990	</listitem>
991
992	<listitem>
993	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
994	(Windows hosts only)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
999	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1004	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1009	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1014	#9387)</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1019	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1024	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1029	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1034	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1047	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1052	(bug #1578)</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1057	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1062	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1067	(bug #9535)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1072	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1077	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1082	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1087	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1092	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1097	</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1102	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1103	</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1108	(bug #6229)
1109	</para>
1110	</listitem>
1111
1112	<listitem>
1113	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1114	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1115	</listitem>
1116
1117	<listitem>
1118	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1119	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1120	</listitem>
1121
1122	<listitem>
1123	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1124	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1125	</listitem>
1126
1127	<listitem>
1128	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1129	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1134	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1139	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1144	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1149	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	</itemizedlist>
1153	</sect1>
1154
1155	<sect1>
1156	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1157
1158	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1159	added:</para>
1160
1161	<itemizedlist>
1162
1163	<listitem>
1164	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1165	</listitem>
1166
1167	<listitem>
1168	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1169	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1170	</listitem>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1178	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1183	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1188	a live snapshot</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1193	due to a library version conflict</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1198	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1203	at a time by default</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1208	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1209	#9368)</para>
1210	</listitem>
1211
1212	<listitem>
1213	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1214	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1215	</listitem>
1216
1217	<listitem>
1218	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1219	VMs</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1224	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1225	</listitem>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1229	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1230	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1231	</listitem>
1232
1233	<listitem>
1234	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1235	(bug #9308)</para>
1236	</listitem>
1237
1238	<listitem>
1239	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1240	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1249	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1254	(bug #9242)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1259	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1264	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1269	USB devices</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1274	and warn about it</para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1287	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1288	</listitem>
1289
1290	<listitem>
1291	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1292	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1297	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1302	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1307	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1312	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1317	2.6.37 and above</para>
1318	</listitem>
1319
1320	</itemizedlist>
1321	</sect1>
1322
1323	<sect1>
1324	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1325
1326	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1327	were added:</para>
1328
1329	<itemizedlist>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1333	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1334	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1335	</listitem>
1336
1337	<listitem>
1338	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1339	</listitem>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1343	</listitem>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1347	bug #7822)</para>
1348	</listitem>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1352	</listitem>
1353
1354	<listitem>
1355	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1356	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1361	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1362	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1363	anymore)</para>
1364	</listitem>
1365
1366	<listitem>
1367	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1368	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1369	</listitem>
1370
1371	<listitem>
1372	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1373	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1374	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1375	</listitem>
1376
1377	<listitem>
1378	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1379	</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1384	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1385	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1386	</listitem>
1387
1388	<listitem>
1389	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1390	with VBoxManage</para>
1391	</listitem>
1392
1393	<listitem>
1394	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1395	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1396	</listitem>
1397
1398
1399	</itemizedlist>
1400
1401	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1402
1403	<itemizedlist>
1404
1405	<listitem>
1406	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1407	</listitem>
1408
1409	<listitem>
1410	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1419	of the current state</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	<listitem>
1423	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1424	</listitem>
1425
1426	<listitem>
1427	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1428	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1433	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1434	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1439	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1444	</listitem>
1445
1446	<listitem>
1447	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1452	dialog</para>
1453	</listitem>
1454
1455	<listitem>
1456	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1457	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1458	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1463	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1464	</listitem>
1465
1466	<listitem>
1467	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1468	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1473	be a valid UUID</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1478	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1483	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1484	cases</para>
1485	</listitem>
1486
1487	<listitem>
1488	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1489	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1490	improve performance</para>
1491	</listitem>
1492
1493	<listitem>
1494	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1495	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1496	on a temporary basis</para>
1497	</listitem>
1498
1499	<listitem>
1500	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1501	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1502	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1507	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1512	images in VDI format</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1517	VMDK format</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1522	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1543	</listitem>
1544
1545	<listitem>
1546	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1547	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1548	</listitem>
1549
1550	<listitem>
1551	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1552	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1557	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1562	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1567	RDP clients</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1576	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1581	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1586	simultaneously</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1591	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1592	location values in many places</para>
1593	</listitem>
1594
1595	<listitem>
1596	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1601	builds</para>
1602	</listitem>
1603
1604	<listitem>
1605	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1610	window (bug #4491)</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1615	removing a VM</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1628	166 and above)</para>
1629	</listitem>
1630
1631	<listitem>
1632	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1633	hosts</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1642	from the host</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	</itemizedlist>
1650
1651	</sect1>
1652
1653	<sect1>
1654	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1655
1656	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1657	added:</para>
1658
1659	<itemizedlist>
1660
1661	<listitem>
1662	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1663	</listitem>
1664
1665	<listitem>
1666	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1667	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1668	</listitem>
1669
1670	<listitem>
1671	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1672	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1677	a live snapshot</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1682	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1691	</listitem>
1692
1693	<listitem>
1694	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1695	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1696	</listitem>
1697
1698	<listitem>
1699	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1700	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1705	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1714	images</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1719	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1723	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1728	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1733	</listitem>
1734
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1737	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1742	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1751	(bug #9370)</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1756	(bug #9535)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1761	(bug #1578)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1766	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1771	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1772	</para>
1773	</listitem>
1774
1775	<listitem>
1776	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1777	</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1782	2.6.37 and above</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1787	(bug #6229)</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1792	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	</itemizedlist>
1796	</sect1>
1797
1798	<sect1>
1799	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1800
1801	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1802	added:</para>
1803
1804	<itemizedlist>
1805
1806	<listitem>
1807	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1808	</listitem>
1809
1810	<listitem>
1811	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1812	166 and above)</para>
1813	</listitem>
1814
1815	<listitem>
1816	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1817	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1818	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1819	</listitem>
1820
1821	<listitem>
1822	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1823	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1824	</listitem>
1825
1826	<listitem>
1827	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1828	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1837	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1842	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1847	builds</para>
1848	</listitem>
1849
1850	<listitem>
1851	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	</itemizedlist>
1855	</sect1>
1856	<sect1>
1857	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1858
1859	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1860	added:</para>
1861
1862	<itemizedlist>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	<listitem>
1869	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1874	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1875	</listitem>
1876
1877	<listitem>
1878	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1879	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1888	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1897	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1902	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1911	</listitem>
1912
1913	<listitem>
1914	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1915	file was not written during export</para>
1916	</listitem>
1917
1918	<listitem>
1919	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1920	</listitem>
1921
1922	<listitem>
1923	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1924	</listitem>
1925
1926	<listitem>
1927	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1928	</listitem>
1929
1930	<listitem>
1931	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1932	binaries</para>
1933	</listitem>
1934
1935	<listitem>
1936	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1941	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1946	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1955	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	</itemizedlist>
1959	</sect1>
1960
1961	<sect1>
1962	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1963
1964	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1965	added:</para>
1966
1967	<itemizedlist>
1968
1969	<listitem>
1970	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1971	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1972	</listitem>
1973
1974	<listitem>
1975	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1976	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1977	</listitem>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1981	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1986	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
1991	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
1996	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2001	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2006	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2015	</listitem>
2016
2017	<listitem>
2018	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2019	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2020	</listitem>
2021
2022	<listitem>
2023	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2024	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2037	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2042	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2047	window</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2052	Fedora 15</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2057	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2062	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2067	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2076	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	</itemizedlist>
2080	</sect1>
2081
2082	<sect1>
2083	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2084
2085	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2086	added:</para>
2087
2088	<itemizedlist>
2089
2090	<listitem>
2091	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2092	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2097	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2098	</listitem>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2102	(bug #8006)</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2107	(bug #8726)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2120	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2125	(bug #8469)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2130	selectors</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2135	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2140	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2145	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2154	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2167	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2172	I/O error occurred</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2177	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2182	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2187	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2188	if no medium is present</para>
2189	</listitem>
2190
2191	<listitem>
2192	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2197	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2198	</listitem>
2199
2200	<listitem>
2201	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2202	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2203	</listitem>
2204
2205	<listitem>
2206	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2207	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2216	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2221	library (bug #8063)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2226	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2239	</listitem>
2240
2241	<listitem>
2242	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2243	changed on import</para>
2244	</listitem>
2245
2246	<listitem>
2247	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2248	</listitem>
2249
2250	<listitem>
2251	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2252	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2257	(bug #8593)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2262	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2267	captured</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2272	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2277	</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2282	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2287	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2292	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2293	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2294	</listitem>
2295
2296	<listitem>
2297	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2298	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2303	</listitem>
2304
2305	<listitem>
2306	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2307	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2312	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2317	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2326	</listitem>
2327
2328	<listitem>
2329	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2330	</listitem>
2331
2332	<listitem>
2333	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2334	</listitem>
2335
2336	<listitem>
2337	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2338	(bug #7946)</para>
2339	</listitem>
2340
2341	<listitem>
2342	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2343	</listitem>
2344
2345	<listitem>
2346	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2347	</listitem>
2348
2349	<listitem>
2350	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2351	</listitem>
2352
2353	</itemizedlist>
2354
2355	</sect1>
2356
2357	<sect1>
2358	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2359
2360	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2361	added:</para>
2362
2363	<itemizedlist>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2367	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2368	</listitem>
2369
2370	<listitem>
2371	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2372	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2373	</listitem>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2377	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2382	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2387	number of host network interfaces</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2392	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2401	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2406	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2411	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2420	(bug #6577)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2425	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2426	(bug #8235)</para>
2427	</listitem>
2428
2429	<listitem>
2430	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2431	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2432	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2441	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2442	</listitem>
2443
2444	<listitem>
2445	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2450	(bug #7966)</para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2455	</listitem>
2456
2457	<listitem>
2458	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2459	</listitem>
2460
2461	<listitem>
2462	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2467	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2480	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2485	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2494	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	<listitem>
2498	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2499	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2500	(bug #8122)</para>
2501	</listitem>
2502
2503	<listitem>
2504	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2505	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2506	</listitem>
2507
2508	<listitem>
2509	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2510	</listitem>
2511
2512	<listitem>
2513	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2518	(bug #1548)</para>
2519	</listitem>
2520
2521	<listitem>
2522	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2523	</listitem>
2524
2525	<listitem>
2526	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2527	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2528	</listitem>
2529
2530	<listitem>
2531	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2532	</listitem>
2533
2534	<listitem>
2535	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2536	(bug #8231)</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2541	11.04 Alpha</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2546	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2551	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2556	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2561	with VBoxGINA</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	</itemizedlist>
2565
2566	</sect1>
2567
2568	<sect1>
2569	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2570
2571	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2572	added:</para>
2573
2574	<itemizedlist>
2575
2576	<listitem>
2577	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2578	settings vanished</para>
2579	</listitem>
2580
2581	<listitem>
2582	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2583	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2588	created (bug #8031)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2597	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2602	an extension pack</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2607	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2616	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2621	host-only interface</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2626	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2631	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2636	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2641	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2646	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2655	</listitem>
2656
2657	<listitem>
2658	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2659	guests</para>
2660	</listitem>
2661
2662	<listitem>
2663	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2664	</listitem>
2665
2666	<listitem>
2667	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2668	</listitem>
2669
2670	<listitem>
2671	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2672	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2673	</listitem>
2674
2675	<listitem>
2676	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2677	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2682	a VM start</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2687	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2692	(bug #6067)</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2697	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2702	not saved to machine XML</para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2707	#7983)</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2712	#7981)</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2721	regression)</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2726	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2731	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	</itemizedlist>
2735
2736	</sect1>
2737
2738	<sect1>
2739	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2740
2741	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2742	were added:</para>
2743
2744	<itemizedlist>
2745
2746	<listitem>
2747	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2748	</listitem>
2749
2750	<listitem>
2751	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2752	</listitem>
2753
2754	<listitem>
2755	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2756	<itemizedlist>
2757	<listitem>
2758	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2759	</listitem>
2760
2761	<listitem>
2762	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2763	</listitem>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2775	states, and optionally including attached
2776	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2777	can do the same now)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2782	</listitem>
2783
2784	</itemizedlist>
2785	</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>New virtual hardware:
2794	<itemizedlist>
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2797	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2802	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804	</itemizedlist>
2805	</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2810	<itemizedlist>
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814
2815	<listitem>
2816	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2817	</para>
2818	</listitem>
2819
2820	<listitem>
2821	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2822	now</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	</itemizedlist>
2830	</para>
2831	</listitem>
2832
2833	<listitem>
2834	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2835	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2836	</listitem>
2837
2838	<listitem>
2839	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2840	Parallels images</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	<listitem>
2848	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2849	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2854	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	</itemizedlist>
2858
2859	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2860
2861	<itemizedlist>
2862
2863	<listitem>
2864	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2865	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2870	</listitem>
2871
2872	<listitem>
2873	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2874	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2875	</listitem>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2879	(bug #1657)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2888	</listitem>
2889
2890	<listitem>
2891	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2892	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2893	</listitem>
2894
2895	<listitem>
2896	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2897	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2902	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2903	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2908	again (bug #6864)</para>
2909	</listitem>
2910
2911	<listitem>
2912	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2913	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2918	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2931	</listitem>
2932
2933	<listitem>
2934	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2935	</listitem>
2936
2937	<listitem>
2938	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2939	</listitem>
2940
2941	<listitem>
2942	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2943	</listitem>
2944
2945	<listitem>
2946	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2951	(bug #7058)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2956	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2961	circumstances</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2966	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2967	#5578)
2968	</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2977	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2978	</listitem>
2979
2980	<listitem>
2981	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2982	</listitem>
2983
2984	<listitem>
2985	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2986	#6760)</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
2991	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
2996	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3001	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3010	file</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3015	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	</itemizedlist>
3019
3020	</sect1>
3021
3022	<sect1>
3023	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3024
3025	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3026	added:</para>
3027
3028	<itemizedlist>
3029
3030	<listitem>
3031	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3032	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3033	</listitem>
3034
3035	<listitem>
3036	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3037	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3038	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3051	</listitem>
3052
3053	<listitem>
3054	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3055	the VM is running</para>
3056	</listitem>
3057
3058	<listitem>
3059	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3060	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3061	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3062	starting from a saved state</para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3083	</listitem>
3084
3085	<listitem>
3086	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3087	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3088	</listitem>
3089
3090	<listitem>
3091	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3092	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3097	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3106	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3107	</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3112	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3113	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3114	</listitem>
3115
3116	<listitem>
3117	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3118	only)</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3123	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3140	state (bug #4124)</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3145	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3154	(bug #2996)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3159	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3168	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3173	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3178	user accounts for VM information</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	</itemizedlist>
3182
3183	</sect1>
3184
3185	<sect1>
3186	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3187
3188	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3189	added:</para>
3190
3191	<itemizedlist>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3195	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3196	</listitem>
3197
3198	<listitem>
3199	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3204	</listitem>
3205
3206	<listitem>
3207	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3208	</listitem>
3209
3210	<listitem>
3211	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3212	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3213	</listitem>
3214
3215	<listitem>
3216	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3217	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3222	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3227	(bug #4952)</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3232	bug #6122)</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3237	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3242	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3243	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3252	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3253	</listitem>
3254
3255	<listitem>
3256	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3257	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3262	canceled</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3271	</listitem>
3272
3273	<listitem>
3274	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3283	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3284	</listitem>
3285
3286	<listitem>
3287	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3288	</listitem>
3289
3290	<listitem>
3291	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3292	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3297	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3306	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3315	circumstances</para>
3316	</listitem>
3317
3318	<listitem>
3319	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3320	printers</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3329	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3334	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3339	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3340	circumstances</para>
3341	</listitem>
3342
3343	<listitem>
3344	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3345	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3346	</listitem>
3347
3348	<listitem>
3349	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3350	as supported extension</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3355	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3360	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3369	(bug #7366)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3378	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3379	</listitem>
3380
3381	<listitem>
3382	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3383	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3388	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3393	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3398	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3407	</listitem>
3408
3409	<listitem>
3410	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3411	more than one environment variable</para>
3412	</listitem>
3413
3414	<listitem>
3415	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3416	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3421	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3426	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3431	enumerating logged in users</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3444	</listitem>
3445
3446	<listitem>
3447	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3448	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3449	</listitem>
3450
3451	<listitem>
3452	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3453	</listitem>
3454
3455	<listitem>
3456	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3457	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3462	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3467	(bug #7448)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3476	</listitem>
3477
3478	<listitem>
3479	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3480	</listitem>
3481
3482	</itemizedlist>
3483
3484	</sect1>
3485
3486	<sect1>
3487	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3488
3489	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3490	added:</para>
3491
3492	<itemizedlist>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3496	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3501	</listitem>
3502
3503	<listitem>
3504	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3505	bug #6809)</para>
3506	</listitem>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3510	</listitem>
3511
3512	<listitem>
3513	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3514	</listitem>
3515
3516	<listitem>
3517	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3518	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3519	</listitem>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3523	changes</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3532	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3537	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3546	</listitem>
3547
3548	<listitem>
3549	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3558	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3559	</listitem>
3560
3561	<listitem>
3562	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3563	</listitem>
3564
3565	<listitem>
3566	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3567	(bug #6832)</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3572	guests</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3581	without external tools and tricks</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3586	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3595	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3600	shutdown</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3605	fixes</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3610	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3611	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3612	</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3617	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3622	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3627	</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3636	</listitem>
3637
3638	<listitem>
3639	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3640	</listitem>
3641
3642	</itemizedlist>
3643
3644	</sect1>
3645
3646	<sect1>
3647	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3648
3649	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3650	added:</para>
3651
3652	<itemizedlist>
3653
3654	<listitem>
3655	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3656	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3657	</listitem>
3658
3659	<listitem>
3660	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3661	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3662	</listitem>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3666	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3675	</listitem>
3676
3677	<listitem>
3678	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3679	</listitem>
3680
3681	<listitem>
3682	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3683	</listitem>
3684
3685	<listitem>
3686	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3687	assigned</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3692	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3697	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3706	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3711	again (bug #7022).
3712	</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3717	(bug #6768)</para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3722	(bug #6927)</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3727	bug #7031)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3732	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3737	bug #6987)</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3750	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3751	</listitem>
3752
3753	<listitem>
3754	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3755	</listitem>
3756
3757	<listitem>
3758	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3759	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3764	</listitem>
3765
3766	<listitem>
3767	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3768	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3769	bug #6872)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3778	(performance tweak)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3783	is currently paused</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3788	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3797	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3802	not properly saved</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3807	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3824	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3833	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3838	(bug #5251)</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3843	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3856	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3861	</listitem>
3862
3863	<listitem>
3864	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3865	</listitem>
3866
3867	<listitem>
3868	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3869	</listitem>
3870
3871	</itemizedlist>
3872	</sect1>
3873
3874	<sect1>
3875	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3876
3877	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3878	added:</para>
3879
3880	<itemizedlist>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3884	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3885	</listitem>
3886
3887	<listitem>
3888	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3893	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3898	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3907	again (bug #6864)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3912	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3921	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	</itemizedlist>
3929
3930	</sect1>
3931
3932	<sect1>
3933	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3934
3935	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3936	added:</para>
3937
3938	<itemizedlist>
3939
3940	<listitem>
3941	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3942	</listitem>
3943
3944	<listitem>
3945	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3946	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3947	</listitem>
3948
3949	<listitem>
3950	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3955	state</para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3960	</listitem>
3961
3962	<listitem>
3963	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3964	</listitem>
3965
3966	<listitem>
3967	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3976	</listitem>
3977
3978	<listitem>
3979	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3984	</listitem>
3985
3986	<listitem>
3987	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3988	</listitem>
3989
3990	<listitem>
3991	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
3992	</listitem>
3993
3994	<listitem>
3995	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
3996	</listitem>
3997
3998	<listitem>
3999	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4000	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4001	</listitem>
4002
4003	<listitem>
4004	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4005	(bug #6784)</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4010	</listitem>
4011
4012	<listitem>
4013	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4014	</listitem>
4015
4016	<listitem>
4017	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4018	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4019	</listitem>
4020
4021	<listitem>
4022	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4023	</listitem>
4024
4025	<listitem>
4026	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4027	</listitem>
4028
4029	<listitem>
4030	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4031	host only</para>
4032	</listitem>
4033
4034	<listitem>
4035	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4036	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4041	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4050	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4055	</listitem>
4056
4057	<listitem>
4058	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4063	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4068	</listitem>
4069
4070	<listitem>
4071	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4076	</listitem>
4077
4078	<listitem>
4079	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4080	(bug #6714)</para>
4081	</listitem>
4082
4083	<listitem>
4084	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4085	</listitem>
4086
4087	<listitem>
4088	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4089	</listitem>
4090
4091	<listitem>
4092	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	</itemizedlist>
4104
4105	</sect1>
4106
4107	<sect1>
4108	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4109
4110	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4111	were added:</para>
4112
4113	<itemizedlist>
4114
4115	<listitem>
4116	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4117	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4118	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4119	</listitem>
4120
4121	<listitem>
4122	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4123	</listitem>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4127	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4132	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4133	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4134	</listitem>
4135
4136	<listitem>
4137	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4138	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4139	</listitem>
4140
4141	<listitem>
4142	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4143	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4144	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4145	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4146	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4151	</listitem>
4152
4153	<listitem>
4154	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4155	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4160	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4169	</listitem>
4170
4171	<listitem>
4172	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4177	</listitem>
4178
4179	<listitem>
4180	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4181	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4182	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4187	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	</itemizedlist>
4191
4192	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4193
4194	<itemizedlist>
4195
4196	<listitem>
4197	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4198	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4207	VM</para>
4208	</listitem>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4212	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4217	#1669)</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4222	#6442)</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4227	combination (bug #684)</para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4232	the VM from the GUI</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4237	medium is not accessible</para>
4238	</listitem>
4239
4240	<listitem>
4241	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4246	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4251	#3106)</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4256	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4257	it</para>
4258	</listitem>
4259
4260	<listitem>
4261	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4270	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4275	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4284	</listitem>
4285
4286	<listitem>
4287	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4288	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4289	</listitem>
4290
4291	<listitem>
4292	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4293	</listitem>
4294
4295	<listitem>
4296	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4297	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4302	</listitem>
4303
4304	<listitem>
4305	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4306	in VirtualBox</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4311	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4316	VirtualBox</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4325	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	</itemizedlist>
4329	</sect1>
4330
4331	<sect1>
4332	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4333
4334	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4335	added:</para>
4336
4337	<itemizedlist>
4338
4339	<listitem>
4340	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4341	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4342	</listitem>
4343
4344	<listitem>
4345	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4350	</listitem>
4351
4352	<listitem>
4353	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4354	only) </para>
4355	</listitem>
4356
4357	<listitem>
4358	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4359	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4364	interface version</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4369	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4370	slot empty</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4375	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4376	(bug #4220)</para>
4377	</listitem>
4378
4379	<listitem>
4380	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4385	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4390	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4395	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4400	attached</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4405	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4414	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4419	is bug #6408)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4428	fail to initialize</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4437	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4442	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4443	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4444	</listitem>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4452	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4453	</listitem>
4454
4455	<listitem>
4456	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4457	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4462	(bug #6435)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4467	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4472	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4473	(bug #6488)</para>
4474	</listitem>
4475
4476	<listitem>
4477	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4478	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4483	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4488	#5227)</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	<listitem>
4492	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4493	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4502	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	</itemizedlist>
4506	</sect1>
4507
4508	<sect1>
4509	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4510
4511	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4512	added:</para>
4513
4514	<itemizedlist>
4515
4516	<listitem>
4517	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4518	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4519	</listitem>
4520
4521	<listitem>
4522	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4523	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4524	</listitem>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4528	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4529	</listitem>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4533	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4534	</listitem>
4535
4536	<listitem>
4537	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4542	</listitem>
4543
4544	<listitem>
4545	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4546	</listitem>
4547
4548	<listitem>
4549	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4550	</listitem>
4551
4552	<listitem>
4553	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4554	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4555	</listitem>
4556
4557	<listitem>
4558	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4559	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4564	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4573	</listitem>
4574
4575	<listitem>
4576	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4577	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4578	</listitem>
4579
4580	<listitem>
4581	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4582	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4583	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4588	(bug #5297)</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4593	(bug #4962)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4598	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4603	(bug #6176)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4608	certain circumstances</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4613	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4622	</listitem>
4623
4624	<listitem>
4625	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4626	(bug #3571)</para>
4627	</listitem>
4628
4629	<listitem>
4630	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4631	devices</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4636	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4637	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4638	</listitem>
4639
4640	<listitem>
4641	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4642	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4643	</listitem>
4644
4645	<listitem>
4646	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4647	</listitem>
4648
4649	<listitem>
4650	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4651	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4656	response</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4665	</listitem>
4666
4667	<listitem>
4668	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4673	</listitem>
4674
4675	<listitem>
4676	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4677	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4678	</listitem>
4679
4680	<listitem>
4681	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4682	</listitem>
4683
4684	<listitem>
4685	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4686	</listitem>
4687
4688	<listitem>
4689	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4690	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4691	</listitem>
4692
4693	<listitem>
4694	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4695	</listitem>
4696
4697	<listitem>
4698	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4703	</listitem>
4704
4705	<listitem>
4706	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4707	</listitem>
4708
4709	</itemizedlist>
4710	</sect1>
4711
4712	<sect1>
4713	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4714
4715	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4716	added:</para>
4717
4718	<itemizedlist>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	<listitem>
4729	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4730	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4731	</listitem>
4732
4733	<listitem>
4734	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4735	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4740	(bug #3945)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4745	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4750	and AMD-V only) </para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4759	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4760	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4765	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4766	</listitem>
4767
4768	<listitem>
4769	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4770	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4775	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4780	snapshots command</para>
4781	</listitem>
4782
4783	<listitem>
4784	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4789	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4794	</listitem>
4795
4796	<listitem>
4797	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4798	</listitem>
4799
4800	<listitem>
4801	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4806	(KWin bug)</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4811	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4820	</listitem>
4821
4822	<listitem>
4823	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4824	</listitem>
4825
4826	<listitem>
4827	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4832	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4833	</listitem>
4834
4835	<listitem>
4836	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4837	bug #5787)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4842	DHCP requests</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4847	(bug #3217)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4852	range (bug #5923)</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4861	</listitem>
4862
4863	<listitem>
4864	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4873	file (bug #5681)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4878	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4883	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4888	regression)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4897	</listitem>
4898
4899	<listitem>
4900	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4901	</listitem>
4902
4903	<listitem>
4904	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4905	</listitem>
4906
4907	<listitem>
4908	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4909	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4910	</listitem>
4911
4912	<listitem>
4913	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4914	</listitem>
4915
4916	<listitem>
4917	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4918	</listitem>
4919
4920	<listitem>
4921	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4922	</listitem>
4923
4924	<listitem>
4925	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4926	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4927	</listitem>
4928
4929	<listitem>
4930	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4931	</listitem>
4932
4933	<listitem>
4934	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4935	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4948	</listitem>
4949
4950	<listitem>
4951	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4952	(bug #5731)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4957	again</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	</itemizedlist>
4961
4962	</sect1>
4963
4964	<sect1>
4965	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4966
4967	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4968	added:</para>
4969
4970	<itemizedlist>
4971
4972	<listitem>
4973	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4974	</listitem>
4975
4976	<listitem>
4977	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4982	</listitem>
4983
4984	<listitem>
4985	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4986	</listitem>
4987
4988	<listitem>
4989	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
4990	</listitem>
4991
4992	<listitem>
4993	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
4994	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
4995	</listitem>
4996
4997	<listitem>
4998	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
4999	</listitem>
5000
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5003	</listitem>
5004
5005	<listitem>
5006	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5007	</listitem>
5008
5009	<listitem>
5010	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5011	</listitem>
5012
5013	<listitem>
5014	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5015	</listitem>
5016
5017	<listitem>
5018	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5019	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5020	</listitem>
5021
5022	<listitem>
5023	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5024	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5029	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5030	#1762)</para>
5031	</listitem>
5032
5033	<listitem>
5034	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5035	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5040	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5045	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5054	</listitem>
5055
5056	<listitem>
5057	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5058	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5059	</listitem>
5060
5061	<listitem>
5062	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5063	</listitem>
5064
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5071	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5072	</listitem>
5073
5074	<listitem>
5075	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5076	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5085	guests</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5090	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5095	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5100	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5105	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5122	</listitem>
5123
5124	<listitem>
5125	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5126	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5127	</listitem>
5128
5129	<listitem>
5130	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5131	</listitem>
5132
5133	</itemizedlist>
5134
5135	</sect1>
5136
5137	<sect1>
5138	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5139
5140	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5141	were added:</para>
5142
5143	<itemizedlist>
5144
5145	<listitem>
5146	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5147	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5152	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5153	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5154	</listitem>
5155
5156	<listitem>
5157	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5158	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5159	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5164	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5165	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5166	</listitem>
5167
5168	<listitem>
5169	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5170	running</para>
5171	</listitem>
5172
5173	<listitem>
5174	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5175	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5176	</listitem>
5177
5178	<listitem>
5179	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5180	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5181	</listitem>
5182
5183	<listitem>
5184	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5185	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5190	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	</itemizedlist>
5194
5195	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5196
5197	<itemizedlist>
5198
5199	<listitem>
5200	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5201	</listitem>
5202
5203	<listitem>
5204	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5209	</listitem>
5210
5211	<listitem>
5212	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5213	(bug #5291)</para>
5214	</listitem>
5215
5216	<listitem>
5217	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5218	</listitem>
5219
5220	<listitem>
5221	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5226	</listitem>
5227
5228	<listitem>
5229	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5230	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5231	</listitem>
5232
5233	<listitem>
5234	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5235	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5252	</listitem>
5253
5254	<listitem>
5255	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5260	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5265	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5270	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5275	(bug #2723)</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5284	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5289	optional manifest file on import</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5298	(bug #3773)</para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5303	</listitem>
5304
5305	<listitem>
5306	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5307	</listitem>
5308
5309	<listitem>
5310	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5311	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5312	</listitem>
5313
5314	<listitem>
5315	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5316	(bug #4866)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5321	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5326	certain conditions</para>
5327	</listitem>
5328
5329	<listitem>
5330	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5335	</listitem>
5336
5337	<listitem>
5338	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5339	</listitem>
5340
5341	<listitem>
5342	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5347	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5348	</listitem>
5349
5350	<listitem>
5351	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5356	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5369	</listitem>
5370
5371	<listitem>
5372	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5373	</listitem>
5374
5375	<listitem>
5376	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5377	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	<listitem>
5381	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5382	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5383	(bug #928)</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	</itemizedlist>
5391
5392	</sect1>
5393
5394	<sect1>
5395	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5396
5397	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5398	added:</para>
5399
5400	<itemizedlist>
5401
5402	<listitem>
5403	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5404	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5405	</listitem>
5406
5407	<listitem>
5408	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5409	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5410	</listitem>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5414	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5419	enabled</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5424	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5429	(bug #2676)</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5434	is connected to a raw file</para>
5435	</listitem>
5436
5437	<listitem>
5438	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5439	(bug #5355)</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5448	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5453	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5454	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5467	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5472	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5473	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	</itemizedlist>
5477
5478	</sect1>
5479
5480	<sect1>
5481	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5482
5483	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5484	added:</para>
5485
5486	<itemizedlist>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5490	</listitem>
5491
5492	<listitem>
5493	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5494	</listitem>
5495
5496	<listitem>
5497	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5498	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5499	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5504	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5505	</listitem>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5525	</listitem>
5526
5527	<listitem>
5528	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5529	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5530	</listitem>
5531
5532	<listitem>
5533	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5534	</listitem>
5535
5536	<listitem>
5537	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5538	</listitem>
5539
5540	<listitem>
5541	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5542	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5543	</listitem>
5544
5545	<listitem>
5546	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5547	</listitem>
5548
5549	<listitem>
5550	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5551	exhaustion</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5560	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5565	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5570	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5575	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5576	(bug #2921)</para>
5577	</listitem>
5578
5579	<listitem>
5580	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5581	hosts only)</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5586	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5595	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5604	image inconsistency </para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5617	(bug #2025)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5622	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	</itemizedlist>
5626
5627	</sect1>
5628
5629	<sect1>
5630	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5631
5632	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5633	added:</para>
5634
5635	<itemizedlist>
5636
5637	<listitem>
5638	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5639	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5640	</listitem>
5641
5642	<listitem>
5643	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5644	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5645	</listitem>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5649	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5658	software virtualization only) </para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5663	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5668	with root privileges</para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5673	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5678	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5683	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5688	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5689	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5694	available</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5699	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5704	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5709	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5714	(bug #4907)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5719	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5724	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5733	</listitem>
5734
5735	<listitem>
5736	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5737	</listitem>
5738
5739	<listitem>
5740	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5741	</listitem>
5742
5743	<listitem>
5744	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5745	are installed</para>
5746	</listitem>
5747
5748	<listitem>
5749	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5750	(bug #4771)</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5759	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5764	command</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5769	</listitem>
5770
5771	<listitem>
5772	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5773	</listitem>
5774
5775	<listitem>
5776	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5777	(bug #5089)</para>
5778	</listitem>
5779
5780	<listitem>
5781	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5782	</listitem>
5783
5784	</itemizedlist>
5785
5786	</sect1>
5787
5788	<sect1>
5789	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5790
5791	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5792	added:</para>
5793
5794	<itemizedlist>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5798	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5799	</listitem>
5800
5801	<listitem>
5802	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5803	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5804	</listitem>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5808	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5809	</listitem>
5810
5811	<listitem>
5812	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5813	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5814	</listitem>
5815
5816	<listitem>
5817	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5818	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5827	</listitem>
5828
5829	<listitem>
5830	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5831	</listitem>
5832
5833	<listitem>
5834	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5835	</listitem>
5836
5837	<listitem>
5838	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5839	</listitem>
5840
5841	<listitem>
5842	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5843	onlined or offlined</para>
5844	</listitem>
5845
5846	<listitem>
5847	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5848	</listitem>
5849
5850	<listitem>
5851	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5852	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5857	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5866	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5875	</listitem>
5876
5877	<listitem>
5878	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5879	</listitem>
5880
5881	<listitem>
5882	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5883	</listitem>
5884
5885	<listitem>
5886	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5887	</listitem>
5888
5889	<listitem>
5890	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5891	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5892	</listitem>
5893
5894	<listitem>
5895	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5896	</listitem>
5897
5898	<listitem>
5899	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5900	</listitem>
5901
5902	<listitem>
5903	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5908	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5913	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5914	</listitem>
5915
5916	<listitem>
5917	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5922	</listitem>
5923
5924	<listitem>
5925	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5926	</listitem>
5927
5928	<listitem>
5929	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5930	</listitem>
5931
5932	<listitem>
5933	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5934	</listitem>
5935
5936	<listitem>
5937	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5938	</listitem>
5939
5940	<listitem>
5941	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5942	</listitem>
5943
5944	<listitem>
5945	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5946	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5947	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5948	phase collapse</para>
5949	</listitem>
5950
5951	<listitem>
5952	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5953	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5954	</listitem>
5955
5956	<listitem>
5957	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5958	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5967	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5972	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5977	</listitem>
5978
5979	<listitem>
5980	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5981	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5982	#4698, #4790)</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5987	less than the configured range</para>
5988	</listitem>
5989
5990	<listitem>
5991	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
5992	</listitem>
5993
5994	<listitem>
5995	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6000	</listitem>
6001
6002	<listitem>
6003	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6004	</listitem>
6005
6006	<listitem>
6007	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6008	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6009	</listitem>
6010
6011	<listitem>
6012	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6013	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6018	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6027	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6032	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6037	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6042	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6051	</listitem>
6052
6053	</itemizedlist>
6054
6055	</sect1>
6056
6057	<sect1>
6058	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6059
6060	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6061	added:</para>
6062
6063	<itemizedlist>
6064
6065	<listitem>
6066	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6067	</listitem>
6068
6069	<listitem>
6070	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6071	</listitem>
6072
6073	<listitem>
6074	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6075	</listitem>
6076
6077	<listitem>
6078	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6079	</listitem>
6080
6081	<listitem>
6082	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6083	</listitem>
6084
6085	<listitem>
6086	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6087	</listitem>
6088
6089	<listitem>
6090	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6091	</listitem>
6092
6093	<listitem>
6094	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6095	</listitem>
6096
6097	<listitem>
6098	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6099	</listitem>
6100
6101	<listitem>
6102	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6103	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6104	</listitem>
6105
6106	<listitem>
6107	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6108	</listitem>
6109
6110	<listitem>
6111	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6112	</listitem>
6113
6114	<listitem>
6115	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6116	</listitem>
6117
6118	<listitem>
6119	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6120	</listitem>
6121
6122	<listitem>
6123	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6124	</listitem>
6125
6126	<listitem>
6127	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6128	</listitem>
6129
6130	<listitem>
6131	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6132	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6133	</listitem>
6134
6135	<listitem>
6136	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6137	(bug #4654)</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6146	interfaces</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6151	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6156	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6161	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6166	(bug #1461)</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6175	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6180	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6185	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6194	</listitem>
6195
6196	<listitem>
6197	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6198	</listitem>
6199
6200	<listitem>
6201	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6202	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6203	</listitem>
6204
6205	<listitem>
6206	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6207	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6212	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6213	</listitem>
6214
6215	<listitem>
6216	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6217	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	</itemizedlist>
6221
6222	</sect1>
6223	<sect1>
6224	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6225
6226	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6227	added:</para>
6228
6229	<itemizedlist>
6230
6231	<listitem>
6232	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6233	</listitem>
6234
6235	<listitem>
6236	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6241	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6242	</listitem>
6243
6244	<listitem>
6245	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6246	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	<listitem>
6250	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6251	</listitem>
6252
6253	<listitem>
6254	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6255	</listitem>
6256
6257	<listitem>
6258	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6259	</listitem>
6260
6261	<listitem>
6262	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6263	</listitem>
6264
6265	<listitem>
6266	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6267	</listitem>
6268
6269	<listitem>
6270	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6271	</listitem>
6272
6273	<listitem>
6274	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6279	</listitem>
6280
6281	<listitem>
6282	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6283	</listitem>
6284
6285	<listitem>
6286	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6287	</listitem>
6288
6289	<listitem>
6290	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6291	</listitem>
6292
6293	<listitem>
6294	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6295	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6296	</listitem>
6297
6298	<listitem>
6299	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6300	</listitem>
6301
6302	<listitem>
6303	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6304	</listitem>
6305
6306	<listitem>
6307	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6308	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6309	</listitem>
6310
6311	<listitem>
6312	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6313	</listitem>
6314
6315	<listitem>
6316	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6317	</listitem>
6318
6319	<listitem>
6320	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6321	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6322	</listitem>
6323
6324	<listitem>
6325	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6326	</listitem>
6327
6328	<listitem>
6329	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6330	</listitem>
6331
6332	<listitem>
6333	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6334	</listitem>
6335
6336	<listitem>
6337	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6338	</listitem>
6339
6340	<listitem>
6341	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6342	</listitem>
6343
6344	<listitem>
6345	<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>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	</itemizedlist>
6349
6350	</sect1>
6351
6352	<sect1>
6353	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6354
6355	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6356	were added:</para>
6357
6358	<itemizedlist>
6359
6360	<listitem>
6361	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6362	</listitem>
6363
6364	<listitem>
6365	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6366	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6367	</listitem>
6368
6369	<listitem>
6370	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	</itemizedlist>
6374
6375	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6376
6377	<itemizedlist>
6378
6379	<listitem>
6380	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6381	</listitem>
6382
6383	<listitem>
6384	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6385	certain conditions</para>
6386	</listitem>
6387
6388	<listitem>
6389	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	<listitem>
6393	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6394	</listitem>
6395
6396	<listitem>
6397	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6398	</listitem>
6399
6400	<listitem>
6401	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6402	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	<listitem>
6406	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6407	</listitem>
6408
6409	<listitem>
6410	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6411	</listitem>
6412
6413	<listitem>
6414	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6415	</listitem>
6416
6417	<listitem>
6418	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6419	</listitem>
6420
6421	<listitem>
6422	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6423	</listitem>
6424
6425	<listitem>
6426	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6427	</listitem>
6428
6429	<listitem>
6430	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6431	</listitem>
6432
6433	<listitem>
6434	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6435	</listitem>
6436
6437	<listitem>
6438	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6439	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6440	</listitem>
6441
6442	<listitem>
6443	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6444	</listitem>
6445
6446	<listitem>
6447	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6448	</listitem>
6449
6450	<listitem>
6451	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6452	</listitem>
6453
6454	<listitem>
6455	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6456	</listitem>
6457
6458	<listitem>
6459	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6460	</listitem>
6461
6462	<listitem>
6463	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6464	</listitem>
6465
6466	<listitem>
6467	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6468	</listitem>
6469
6470	<listitem>
6471	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6472	</listitem>
6473
6474	<listitem>
6475	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6476	</listitem>
6477
6478	<listitem>
6479	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6480	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6481	</listitem>
6482
6483	<listitem>
6484	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6485	</listitem>
6486
6487	<listitem>
6488	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6489	</listitem>
6490
6491	<listitem>
6492	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6493	</listitem>
6494
6495	<listitem>
6496	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6497	</listitem>
6498
6499	<listitem>
6500	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6501	</listitem>
6502
6503	<listitem>
6504	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6505	</listitem>
6506
6507	<listitem>
6508	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6513	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6518	</listitem>
6519
6520	<listitem>
6521	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6522	</listitem>
6523
6524	<listitem>
6525	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6526	</listitem>
6527
6528	<listitem>
6529	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6530	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6531	</listitem>
6532
6533	<listitem>
6534	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6535	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6540	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6545	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6550	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6551	</listitem>
6552
6553	<listitem>
6554	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6559	</listitem>
6560
6561	<listitem>
6562	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6563	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6564	</listitem>
6565
6566	<listitem>
6567	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6568	guest property lookup</para>
6569	</listitem>
6570
6571	<listitem>
6572	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6573	basic network information)</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6578	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6583	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6584	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6585	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6586	</listitem>
6587
6588	<listitem>
6589	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6590	</listitem>
6591
6592	<listitem>
6593	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6594	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6595	web service</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6600	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6601	</listitem>
6602
6603	<listitem>
6604	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6605	unavailable</para>
6606	</listitem>
6607
6608	<listitem>
6609	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6610	</listitem>
6611
6612	</itemizedlist>
6613	</sect1>
6614
6615	<sect1>
6616	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6617
6618	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6619	added:</para>
6620
6621	<itemizedlist>
6622
6623	<listitem>
6624	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6625	installation</para>
6626	</listitem>
6627
6628	<listitem>
6629	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6630	</listitem>
6631
6632	<listitem>
6633	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6634	later (bug #3981)</para>
6635	</listitem>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6639	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6640	</listitem>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6644	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6645	(bug #4034)
6646	</para>
6647	</listitem>
6648
6649	<listitem>
6650	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6651	networking</para>
6652	</listitem>
6653
6654	<listitem>
6655	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6656	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6657	</listitem>
6658
6659	<listitem>
6660	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6661	clicks</para>
6662	</listitem>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6666	Windows 7 guests</para>
6667	</listitem>
6668
6669	<listitem>
6670	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6671	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6672	</listitem>
6673
6674	<listitem>
6675	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6680	</listitem>
6681
6682	<listitem>
6683	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6684	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6685	</listitem>
6686
6687	<listitem>
6688	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6689	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6694	</listitem>
6695
6696	<listitem>
6697	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6698	</listitem>
6699
6700	<listitem>
6701	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6702	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6703	(bug #3864)</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6708	now flushes the output stream</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6713	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6718	</listitem>
6719
6720	<listitem>
6721	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6722	</listitem>
6723
6724	<listitem>
6725	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6726	</listitem>
6727
6728	<listitem>
6729	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6730	</listitem>
6731
6732	<listitem>
6733	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6734	(bug #3964)</para>
6735	</listitem>
6736
6737	<listitem>
6738	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6739	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6740	</listitem>
6741
6742	<listitem>
6743	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6744	hosts</para>
6745	</listitem>
6746
6747	<listitem>
6748	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6749	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6750	e1000 adapter</para>
6751	</listitem>
6752
6753	<listitem>
6754	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6755	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6756	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6757	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6758	</listitem>
6759
6760	<listitem>
6761	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6762	</listitem>
6763
6764	<listitem>
6765	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6766	</listitem>
6767
6768	<listitem>
6769	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6770	</listitem>
6771
6772	<listitem>
6773	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6774	file (bug #1023)</para>
6775	</listitem>
6776
6777	<listitem>
6778	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	<listitem>
6782	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6783	</listitem>
6784
6785	</itemizedlist>
6786	</sect1>
6787
6788	<sect1>
6789	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6790
6791	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6792	added:</para>
6793
6794	<itemizedlist>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6798	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6799	</listitem>
6800
6801	<listitem>
6802	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6803	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6804	and later</para>
6805	</listitem>
6806
6807	<listitem>
6808	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6809	running services</para>
6810	</listitem>
6811
6812	<listitem>
6813	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6814	terminates</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6819	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6820	</listitem>
6821
6822	<listitem>
6823	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6824	installed on the guest</para>
6825	</listitem>
6826
6827	<listitem>
6828	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6829	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6834	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6835	</listitem>
6836
6837	<listitem>
6838	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6839	(bug #2628)</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6844	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6845	</listitem>
6846
6847	<listitem>
6848	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6849	(bug #3657)</para>
6850	</listitem>
6851
6852	<listitem>
6853	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6854	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6855	</listitem>
6856
6857	<listitem>
6858	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6859	virtualization only)
6860	</para>
6861	</listitem>
6862
6863	<listitem>
6864	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6865	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6866	</listitem>
6867
6868	<listitem>
6869	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6870	</listitem>
6871
6872	<listitem>
6873	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6874	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	<listitem>
6878	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6879	bug #3689)</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6884	bug #3679)</para>
6885	</listitem>
6886
6887	<listitem>
6888	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6889	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6890	</listitem>
6891
6892	<listitem>
6893	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6894	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6895	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6896	</listitem>
6897
6898	<listitem>
6899	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6900	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6901	</listitem>
6902
6903	<listitem>
6904	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6905	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6910	(bug #3667)</para>
6911	</listitem>
6912
6913	<listitem>
6914	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6915	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6916	</listitem>
6917
6918	<listitem>
6919	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6920	</listitem>
6921
6922	<listitem>
6923	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6924	</listitem>
6925
6926	<listitem>
6927	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6928	</listitem>
6929
6930	<listitem>
6931	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6932	</listitem>
6933
6934	<listitem>
6935	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6936	</listitem>
6937
6938	<listitem>
6939	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6940	</listitem>
6941
6942	<listitem>
6943	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6944	</listitem>
6945
6946	</itemizedlist>
6947	</sect1>
6948
6949	<sect1>
6950	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6951
6952	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6953	were added:</para>
6954
6955	<itemizedlist>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6959	</listitem>
6960
6961	<listitem>
6962	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6963	</listitem>
6964
6965	<listitem>
6966	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6967	</listitem>
6968
6969	<listitem>
6970	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6971	</listitem>
6972
6973	<listitem>
6974	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6979	</listitem>
6980
6981	<listitem>
6982	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6983	</listitem>
6984
6985	<listitem>
6986	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6987	</listitem>
6988
6989	<listitem>
6990	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6991	</listitem>
6992
6993	<listitem>
6994	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
6995	</listitem>
6996
6997	</itemizedlist>
6998
6999	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7000
7001	<itemizedlist>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	<listitem>
7008	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7009	</listitem>
7010
7011	<listitem>
7012	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7013	</listitem>
7014
7015	<listitem>
7016	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7017	</listitem>
7018
7019	<listitem>
7020	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7021	</listitem>
7022
7023	<listitem>
7024	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7025	</listitem>
7026
7027	<listitem>
7028	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7029	</listitem>
7030
7031	<listitem>
7032	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7033	</listitem>
7034
7035	<listitem>
7036	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7037	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7038	</listitem>
7039
7040	<listitem>
7041	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7046	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7051	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7056	</listitem>
7057
7058	<listitem>
7059	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7060	</listitem>
7061
7062	<listitem>
7063	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7064	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7065	</listitem>
7066
7067	<listitem>
7068	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7069	</listitem>
7070
7071	<listitem>
7072	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7073	ESX server images)</para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7078	writable</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7083	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7084	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7085	</listitem>
7086
7087	<listitem>
7088	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7089	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7090	</listitem>
7091
7092	<listitem>
7093	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7094	</listitem>
7095
7096	<listitem>
7097	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7102	hosts when creating files</para>
7103	</listitem>
7104
7105	<listitem>
7106	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7107	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7108	</listitem>
7109
7110	<listitem>
7111	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7112	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7113	#2306)</para>
7114	</listitem>
7115
7116	<listitem>
7117	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7118	(bug #3555)</para>
7119	</listitem>
7120
7121	<listitem>
7122	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7123	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7128	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7129	</listitem>
7130
7131	<listitem>
7132	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7133	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7138	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7143	(bug #3586)</para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7148	from Scratch systems</para>
7149	</listitem>
7150
7151	<listitem>
7152	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7153	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7154	</listitem>
7155
7156	<listitem>
7157	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7162	default to compact format</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7167	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7172	</listitem>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7176	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7177	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7182	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7183	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7184	</listitem>
7185
7186	<listitem>
7187	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7188	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7189	</listitem>
7190
7191	<listitem>
7192	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7193	</listitem>
7194
7195	<listitem>
7196	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7197	</listitem>
7198
7199	<listitem>
7200	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7201	</listitem>
7202
7203	<listitem>
7204	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7205	</listitem>
7206
7207	<listitem>
7208	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7209	</listitem>
7210
7211	<listitem>
7212	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7217	</listitem>
7218
7219	<listitem>
7220	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7221	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7222	</listitem>
7223
7224	<listitem>
7225	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7226	</listitem>
7227
7228	<listitem>
7229	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7230	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7231	</listitem>
7232
7233	<listitem>
7234	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7235	</listitem>
7236
7237	<listitem>
7238	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7239	</listitem>
7240
7241	<listitem>
7242	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7243	</listitem>
7244
7245	<listitem>
7246	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7247	#2536)</para>
7248	</listitem>
7249
7250	<listitem>
7251	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7252	</listitem>
7253
7254	<listitem>
7255	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7256	(bug #3548)</para>
7257	</listitem>
7258
7259	</itemizedlist>
7260	</sect1>
7261
7262	<sect1>
7263	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7264
7265	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7266	added:</para>
7267
7268	<itemizedlist>
7269
7270	<listitem>
7271	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7272	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7273	</listitem>
7274
7275	<listitem>
7276	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7277	</listitem>
7278
7279	<listitem>
7280	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7281	</listitem>
7282
7283	<listitem>
7284	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7285	</listitem>
7286
7287	<listitem>
7288	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7289	(bug #3115)</para>
7290	</listitem>
7291
7292	<listitem>
7293	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7294	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	<listitem>
7298	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7299	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7300	(bug #3215)</para>
7301	</listitem>
7302
7303	<listitem>
7304	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7305	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7306	</listitem>
7307
7308	<listitem>
7309	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7310	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7311	</listitem>
7312
7313	<listitem>
7314	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7315	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7316	</listitem>
7317
7318	<listitem>
7319	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7320	in parallel</para>
7321	</listitem>
7322
7323	<listitem>
7324	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7325	</listitem>
7326
7327	<listitem>
7328	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7329	</listitem>
7330
7331	<listitem>
7332	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7333	</listitem>
7334
7335	<listitem>
7336	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7337	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7338	</listitem>
7339
7340	<listitem>
7341	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7342	</listitem>
7343
7344	<listitem>
7345	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7346	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7347	</listitem>
7348
7349	<listitem>
7350	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7351	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7352	</listitem>
7353
7354	<listitem>
7355	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7360	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7361	</listitem>
7362
7363	<listitem>
7364	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7365	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7374	</listitem>
7375
7376	<listitem>
7377	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7378	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7379	</listitem>
7380
7381	<listitem>
7382	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7383	</listitem>
7384
7385	<listitem>
7386	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7387	</listitem>
7388
7389	<listitem>
7390	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7391	</listitem>
7392
7393	<listitem>
7394	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7395	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7396	</listitem>
7397
7398	<listitem>
7399	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7400	</listitem>
7401
7402	<listitem>
7403	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7404	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7405	</listitem>
7406
7407	<listitem>
7408	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7409	</listitem>
7410
7411	<listitem>
7412	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7417	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7418	</listitem>
7419
7420	<listitem>
7421	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7422	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7423	</listitem>
7424
7425	<listitem>
7426	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7427	</listitem>
7428
7429	<listitem>
7430	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7431	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7436	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7441	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7446	(bug #3213)</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7451	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7452	</listitem>
7453
7454	<listitem>
7455	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7456	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7457	</listitem>
7458
7459	</itemizedlist>
7460	</sect1>
7461
7462	<sect1>
7463	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7464
7465	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7466	added:</para>
7467
7468	<itemizedlist>
7469
7470	<listitem>
7471	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7472	</listitem>
7473
7474	<listitem>
7475	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	<listitem>
7479	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7480	</listitem>
7481
7482	<listitem>
7483	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7484	</listitem>
7485
7486	<listitem>
7487	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7488	</listitem>
7489
7490	<listitem>
7491	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7492	</listitem>
7493
7494	<listitem>
7495	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7496	</listitem>
7497
7498	<listitem>
7499	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7500	</listitem>
7501
7502	<listitem>
7503	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7504	</listitem>
7505
7506	<listitem>
7507	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7508	</listitem>
7509
7510	<listitem>
7511	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7512	</listitem>
7513
7514	<listitem>
7515	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7516	</listitem>
7517
7518	<listitem>
7519	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7520	</listitem>
7521
7522	<listitem>
7523	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7524	</listitem>
7525
7526	<listitem>
7527	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7528	</listitem>
7529
7530	<listitem>
7531	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7532	</listitem>
7533
7534	<listitem>
7535	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7536	(bug #3067)</para>
7537	</listitem>
7538
7539	<listitem>
7540	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7541	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7542	</listitem>
7543
7544	<listitem>
7545	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7546	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7547	</listitem>
7548
7549	<listitem>
7550	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7551	</listitem>
7552
7553	<listitem>
7554	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7555	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7560	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7565	</listitem>
7566
7567	<listitem>
7568	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7569	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7570	</listitem>
7571
7572	<listitem>
7573	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7574	</listitem>
7575
7576	<listitem>
7577	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7578	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7579	</listitem>
7580
7581	<listitem>
7582	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7583	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7588	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7589	</para>
7590	</listitem>
7591
7592	<listitem>
7593	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7594	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7595	</para>
7596	</listitem>
7597
7598	<listitem>
7599	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7600	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7601	</para>
7602	</listitem>
7603
7604	<listitem>
7605	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	<listitem>
7609	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7610	</listitem>
7611
7612	<listitem>
7613	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7614	</listitem>
7615
7616	<listitem>
7617	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7618	</listitem>
7619
7620	<listitem>
7621	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7622	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7623	</listitem>
7624
7625	<listitem>
7626	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7627	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7628	</listitem>
7629
7630	<listitem>
7631	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7632	formatting a drive</para>
7633	</listitem>
7634
7635	<listitem>
7636	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7641	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7646	</listitem>
7647
7648	<listitem>
7649	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7650	</listitem>
7651
7652	<listitem>
7653	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7654	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7655	</listitem>
7656
7657	<listitem>
7658	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7659	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7660	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7661	</listitem>
7662
7663	<listitem>
7664	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7665	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7666	</listitem>
7667
7668	<listitem>
7669	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7670	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7675	(bug #2768)</para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7684	</listitem>
7685
7686	<listitem>
7687	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7688	single, unified package</para>
7689	</listitem>
7690
7691	<listitem>
7692	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7693	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7694	</listitem>
7695
7696	<listitem>
7697	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7698	</listitem>
7699
7700	<listitem>
7701	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7702	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7703	</listitem>
7704
7705	<listitem>
7706	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7707	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7716	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7717	doing 3D</para>
7718	</listitem>
7719
7720	<listitem>
7721	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7722	</listitem>
7723
7724	<listitem>
7725	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7726	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7727	</listitem>
7728
7729	<listitem>
7730	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7731	</listitem>
7732
7733	<listitem>
7734	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7735	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7736	</listitem>
7737
7738	<listitem>
7739	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7740	</listitem>
7741
7742	<listitem>
7743	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7744	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7745	</listitem>
7746
7747	<listitem>
7748	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7749	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7750	(bug #2938)</para>
7751	</listitem>
7752
7753	<listitem>
7754	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7755	Linux guests</para>
7756	</listitem>
7757
7758	<listitem>
7759	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7760	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7761	(bug #1776)</para>
7762	</listitem>
7763
7764	<listitem>
7765	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7766	(bug #1612)</para>
7767	</listitem>
7768
7769	<listitem>
7770	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7771	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	<listitem>
7775	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7776	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7777	</listitem>
7778
7779	<listitem>
7780	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7781	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7782	</listitem>
7783
7784	</itemizedlist>
7785	</sect1>
7786
7787	<sect1>
7788	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7789
7790	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7791	were added:</para>
7792
7793	<itemizedlist>
7794	<listitem>
7795	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7800	</listitem>
7801
7802	<listitem>
7803	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7804	</listitem>
7805
7806	<listitem>
7807	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7808	</listitem>
7809
7810	<listitem>
7811	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7812	</listitem>
7813
7814	<listitem>
7815	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	<listitem>
7819	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7820	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7821	</listitem>
7822
7823	<listitem>
7824	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7825	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	</itemizedlist>
7829
7830	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7831
7832	<itemizedlist>
7833	<listitem>
7834	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7835	</listitem>
7836
7837	<listitem>
7838	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7839	</listitem>
7840
7841	<listitem>
7842	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7843	</listitem>
7844
7845	<listitem>
7846	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7847	</listitem>
7848
7849	<listitem>
7850	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7851	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7852	</listitem>
7853
7854	<listitem>
7855	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7856	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7857	</listitem>
7858
7859	<listitem>
7860	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7861	</listitem>
7862
7863	<listitem>
7864	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7865	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7870	</listitem>
7871
7872	<listitem>
7873	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7874	</listitem>
7875
7876	<listitem>
7877	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7878	</listitem>
7879
7880	<listitem>
7881	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7882	</listitem>
7883
7884	<listitem>
7885	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7886	</listitem>
7887
7888	<listitem>
7889	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7890	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7891	</listitem>
7892
7893	<listitem>
7894	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7895	the compiz window manager</para>
7896	</listitem>
7897
7898	<listitem>
7899	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7900	</listitem>
7901
7902	<listitem>
7903	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7904	</listitem>
7905
7906	<listitem>
7907	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7908	</listitem>
7909
7910	<listitem>
7911	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7912	</listitem>
7913
7914	<listitem>
7915	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7916	</listitem>
7917
7918	<listitem>
7919	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7920	</listitem>
7921
7922	<listitem>
7923	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7924	</listitem>
7925
7926	<listitem>
7927	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7928	</listitem>
7929
7930	<listitem>
7931	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7936	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7937	</listitem>
7938
7939	<listitem>
7940	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7941	for direct device access</para>
7942	</listitem>
7943
7944	<listitem>
7945	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7946	</listitem>
7947
7948	<listitem>
7949	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7950	</listitem>
7951
7952	<listitem>
7953	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7954	</listitem>
7955
7956	<listitem>
7957	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7958	</listitem>
7959
7960	<listitem>
7961	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7962	</listitem>
7963
7964	<listitem>
7965	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7966	</listitem>
7967
7968	<listitem>
7969	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7970	</listitem>
7971
7972	<listitem>
7973	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7974	</listitem>
7975
7976	</itemizedlist>
7977	</sect1>
7978
7979	<sect1>
7980	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7981
7982	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7983	added:</para>
7984
7985	<itemizedlist>
7986
7987	<listitem>
7988	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7989	states/snapshots</para>
7990	</listitem>
7991
7992	<listitem>
7993	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
7994	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
7995	</listitem>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7999	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8004	collisions</para>
8005	</listitem>
8006
8007	<listitem>
8008	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8009	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8010	</listitem>
8011
8012	<listitem>
8013	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8018	reliably</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8023	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8028	a reboot</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8033	</listitem>
8034
8035	<listitem>
8036	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8037	in parallel</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	<listitem>
8041	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8042	</listitem>
8043
8044	<listitem>
8045	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8046	correctly</para>
8047	</listitem>
8048
8049	<listitem>
8050	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8051	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8052	</listitem>
8053
8054	</itemizedlist>
8055	</sect1>
8056
8057	<sect1>
8058	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8059
8060	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8061	added:</para>
8062
8063	<itemizedlist>
8064
8065	<listitem>
8066	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8067	(bug #2220)</para>
8068	</listitem>
8069
8070	<listitem>
8071	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8072	</listitem>
8073
8074	<listitem>
8075	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8076	</listitem>
8077
8078	<listitem>
8079	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8080	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8081	</listitem>
8082
8083	<listitem>
8084	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8085	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8090	(bug #2624)</para>
8091	</listitem>
8092
8093	<listitem>
8094	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8095	(bug #2024)</para>
8096	</listitem>
8097
8098	<listitem>
8099	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8104	</listitem>
8105
8106	<listitem>
8107	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8108	</listitem>
8109
8110	<listitem>
8111	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8112	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8113	</listitem>
8114
8115	<listitem>
8116	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8117	applications when updating the installation</para>
8118	</listitem>
8119
8120	<listitem>
8121	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8122	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8123	</listitem>
8124
8125	<listitem>
8126	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8127	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8128	</listitem>
8129
8130	<listitem>
8131	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8132	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8133	</listitem>
8134
8135	<listitem>
8136	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8137	connected to a host device</para>
8138	</listitem>
8139
8140	<listitem>
8141	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8142	</listitem>
8143
8144	<listitem>
8145	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8146	</listitem>
8147
8148	<listitem>
8149	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8150	</listitem>
8151
8152	<listitem>
8153	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8154	when using native RDP connections</para>
8155	</listitem>
8156
8157	<listitem>
8158	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8159	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8160	</listitem>
8161
8162	<listitem>
8163	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8164	(bug #2591)</para>
8165	</listitem>
8166
8167	<listitem>
8168	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8169	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8170	</listitem>
8171
8172	<listitem>
8173	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8174	</listitem>
8175
8176	</itemizedlist>
8177	</sect1>
8178
8179	<sect1>
8180	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8181
8182	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8183	added:</para>
8184
8185	<itemizedlist>
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8188	</listitem>
8189
8190	<listitem>
8191	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8192	</listitem>
8193
8194	<listitem>
8195	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8196	</listitem>
8197
8198	<listitem>
8199	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8200	</listitem>
8201
8202	<listitem>
8203	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8204	</listitem>
8205
8206	<listitem>
8207	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8208	</listitem>
8209
8210	<listitem>
8211	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8212	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8213	</listitem>
8214
8215	<listitem>
8216	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8217	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8226	equal to the client resolution</para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8231	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8236	</listitem>
8237
8238	<listitem>
8239	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8240	</listitem>
8241
8242	<listitem>
8243	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8244	</listitem>
8245
8246	<listitem>
8247	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8248	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8249	</listitem>
8250
8251	<listitem>
8252	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8253	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8258	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8259	</listitem>
8260
8261	<listitem>
8262	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8263	</listitem>
8264
8265	<listitem>
8266	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8267	</listitem>
8268
8269	<listitem>
8270	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8271	</listitem>
8272
8273	<listitem>
8274	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8275	</listitem>
8276
8277	<listitem>
8278	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8279	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8280	</listitem>
8281
8282	<listitem>
8283	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8284	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8285	</listitem>
8286
8287	<listitem>
8288	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8289	</listitem>
8290
8291	<listitem>
8292	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8293	</listitem>
8294
8295	<listitem>
8296	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8297	</listitem>
8298
8299	</itemizedlist>
8300
8301	</sect1>
8302
8303	<sect1>
8304	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8305
8306	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8307	added:</para>
8308
8309	<itemizedlist>
8310
8311	<listitem>
8312	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8313	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8314	</listitem>
8315
8316	<listitem>
8317	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8318	</listitem>
8319
8320	<listitem>
8321	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8322	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8323	</listitem>
8324
8325	<listitem>
8326	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8327	</listitem>
8328
8329	<listitem>
8330	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8331	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8332	</listitem>
8333
8334	<listitem>
8335	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8336	</listitem>
8337
8338	<listitem>
8339	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8340	the virtual disk manager</para>
8341	</listitem>
8342
8343	<listitem>
8344	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8345	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8346	</listitem>
8347
8348	<listitem>
8349	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8350	</listitem>
8351
8352	<listitem>
8353	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8354	</listitem>
8355
8356	<listitem>
8357	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8358	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8359	</listitem>
8360
8361	<listitem>
8362	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8363	bug #2067)</para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8368	</listitem>
8369
8370	<listitem>
8371	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8372	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8377	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8378	(bug #2184)</para>
8379	</listitem>
8380
8381	<listitem>
8382	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8383	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8384	</listitem>
8385
8386	<listitem>
8387	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8388	(Windows guests only)</para>
8389	</listitem>
8390
8391	<listitem>
8392	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8393	</listitem>
8394
8395	<listitem>
8396	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8397	</listitem>
8398
8399	<listitem>
8400	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8401	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8402	</listitem>
8403
8404	<listitem>
8405	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8406	</listitem>
8407
8408	<listitem>
8409	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8410	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8411	</para>
8412	</listitem>
8413
8414	<listitem>
8415	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8416	</listitem>
8417
8418	<listitem>
8419	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8420	</listitem>
8421
8422	<listitem>
8423	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8424	a VM reboot</para>
8425	</listitem>
8426
8427	<listitem>
8428	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8429	</listitem>
8430
8431	<listitem>
8432	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8433	buggy X servers</para>
8434	</listitem>
8435
8436	<listitem>
8437	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8438	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8439	</listitem>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8447	(bug #2128)</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8452	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8457	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8462	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8467	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8468	</listitem>
8469
8470	<listitem>
8471	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8472	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8477	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8478	</listitem>
8479
8480	<listitem>
8481	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8482	installer into a single package</para>
8483	</listitem>
8484
8485	<listitem>
8486	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8487	port to the guest
8488	</para>
8489	</listitem>
8490
8491	</itemizedlist>
8492
8493	</sect1>
8494
8495	<sect1>
8496	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8497
8498	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8499	were added:<itemizedlist>
8500
8501	<listitem>
8502	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8503	</listitem>
8504
8505	<listitem>
8506	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8507	</listitem>
8508
8509	<listitem>
8510	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8511	</listitem>
8512
8513	<listitem>
8514	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8515	</listitem>
8516
8517	<listitem>
8518	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8519	</listitem>
8520
8521	<listitem>
8522	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8523	</listitem>
8524
8525	<listitem>
8526	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8527	</listitem>
8528
8529	<listitem>
8530	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8531	</listitem>
8532
8533	<listitem>
8534	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8535	</listitem>
8536
8537	<listitem>
8538	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8539	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8540	</listitem>
8541
8542	<listitem>
8543	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8544	</listitem>
8545
8546	<listitem>
8547	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8548	</listitem>
8549
8550	<listitem>
8551	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8552	</listitem>
8553
8554	</itemizedlist></para>
8555
8556	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8557
8558	<itemizedlist>
8559
8560	<listitem>
8561	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8562	</listitem>
8563
8564	<listitem>
8565	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8566	</listitem>
8567
8568	<listitem>
8569	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8570	</listitem>
8571
8572	<listitem>
8573	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8574	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8575	</listitem>
8576
8577	<listitem>
8578	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8579	restored</para>
8580	</listitem>
8581
8582	<listitem>
8583	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8584	</listitem>
8585
8586	<listitem>
8587	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8588	</listitem>
8589
8590	<listitem>
8591	<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>
8592	</listitem>
8593
8594	</itemizedlist>
8595
8596	</sect1>
8597

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