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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.4.0 (yyyy-mm-dd)</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>GUI: Support hotplugging for SATA disks</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>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
23	of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
24	import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
25	several times</para>
26	</listitem>
27
28	<listitem>
29	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
30	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
31	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
32	config corruption</para>
33	</listitem>
34
35	<listitem>
36	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
37	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
38	</listitem>
39
40	<listitem>
41	<para>API: fix information for some automatically generated events
42	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
43	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
44	(bug #12379)</para>
45	</listitem>
46
47	<listitem>
48	<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
49	happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	</itemizedlist>
53
54	</sect1>
55
56	<sect1>
57	<title>Version 4.3.8 (2014-02-25)</title>
58
59	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
60	added:</para>
61
62	<itemizedlist>
63
64	<listitem>
65	<para>VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers
66	(e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)</para>
67	</listitem>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_INVALID_RPL</emphasis> Guru Meditation
71	when booting certain guests (bug #11350)</para>
72	</listitem>
73
74	<listitem>
75	<para>VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see
76	the user manual how to enable it (bug #8651)</para>
77	</listitem>
78
79	<listitem>
80	<para>VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization</para>
81	</listitem>
82
83	<listitem>
84	<para>GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see
85	the user manual</para>
86	</listitem>
87
88	<listitem>
89	<para>GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and
90	the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)</para>
91	</listitem>
92
93	<listitem>
94	<para>GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in
95	full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)</para>
96	</listitem>
97
98	<listitem>
99	<para>GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box
100	replaced with corresponding button</para>
101	</listitem>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through
105	the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar
106	indicator</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts
111	by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types
112	(bug #12533)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>GUI: better error message if appliance import fails
117	(bug #12657)</para>
118	</listitem>
119
120	<listitem>
121	<para>GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings
122	/ Input page (bug #12730)</para>
123	</listitem>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot
127	merge (4.3 regression)</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression
132	of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on
133	import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported
134	several times</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain
143	circumstances</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
148	SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
153	</listitem>
154
155	<listitem>
156	<para>AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions</para>
157	</listitem>
158
159	<listitem>
160	<para>AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes</para>
161	</listitem>
162
163	<listitem>
164	<para>NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration
165	changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used
166	(bug #12441)</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with
171	ICMP packets having TTL=1</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>NAT Network: ping proxy implemented</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element
184	(4.3 regression; bug #12345)</para>
185	</listitem>
186
187	<listitem>
188	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
189	</listitem>
190
191	<listitem>
192	<para>3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)</para>
193	</listitem>
194
195	<listitem>
196	<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest
205	Additions are active (bug #6649)</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare
210	circumstances</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives</para>
215	</listitem>
216
217	<listitem>
218	<para>API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding,
219	happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)</para>
220	</listitem>
221
222	<listitem>
223	<para>VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events
224	(see <xref linkend="hostpowertweaks" xreflabel="here"/>) and
225	added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low
226	event (bug #9925)</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot
231	was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups
232	(bug #12569)</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in <emphasis>/bin</emphasis>
237	(bug #12713)</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders
242	when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)</para>
243	</listitem>
244
245	<listitem>
246	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in
247	the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network
248	(bug #12241)</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining
253	the number of physical CPU cores</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation
258	fails (bug #11171)</para>
259	</listitem>
260
261	<listitem>
262	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)</para>
263	</listitem>
264
265	<listitem>
266	<para>Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar
267	environment contents (bug #12596)</para>
268	</listitem>
269
270	<listitem>
271	<para>Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
272	environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)</para>
273	</listitem>
274
275	<listitem>
276	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)</para>
277	</listitem>
278
279	<listitem>
280	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users</para>
281	</listitem>
282
283	<listitem>
284	<para>Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on
285	XPDM -> WDDM upgrade</para>
286	</listitem>
287
288	<listitem>
289	<para>Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process
290	environment variables</para>
291	</listitem>
292
293	<listitem>
294	<para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
295	(bug #12505)</para>
296	</listitem>
297
298	<listitem>
299	<para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
300	</listitem>
301
302	<listitem>
303	<para>Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already
304	mounted</para>
305	</listitem>
306
307	<listitem>
308	<para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)</para>
309	</listitem>
310
311	</itemizedlist>
312
313	</sect1>
314
315	<sect1>
316	<title>Version 4.3.6 (2013-12-18)</title>
317
318	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
319	added:</para>
320
321	<itemizedlist>
322
323	<listitem>
324	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis>
325	caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)</para>
326	</listitem>
327
328	<listitem>
329	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE</emphasis>
330	while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)</para>
331	</listitem>
332
333	<listitem>
334	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT</emphasis>
335	while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)</para>
336	</listitem>
337
338	<listitem>
339	<para>VMM: fixed a <emphasis>VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC</emphasis> error when trying
340	to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately,
341	VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard
342	these states (bug #12414)</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests
347	(bug #12245)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug
352	#12205)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors
357	(bug #12480)</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if
362	VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
367	(bug #12017)</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change
372	(bug #7063)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling
377	<emphasis>IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()</emphasis> (bug #12498)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes
382	due to GUI unavailability</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
387	rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
396	the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
397	initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
398	</listitem>
399
400	<listitem>
401	<para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
402	hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones
407	(4.3 regression, bug #12271)</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	</itemizedlist>
411
412	</sect1>
413
414	<sect1>
415	<title>Version 4.3.4 (2013-11-29)</title>
416
417	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
418	added:</para>
419
420	<itemizedlist>
421
422	<listitem>
423	<para>VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when
424	booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)</para>
425	</listitem>
426
427	<listitem>
428	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled
429	(4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)</para>
430	</listitem>
431
432	<listitem>
433	<para>VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain
434	instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)</para>
435	</listitem>
436
437	<listitem>
438	<para>VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting
439	a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when
444	the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>VMM: fixed occasional <emphasis>VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT</emphasis> errors on
449	hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no
454	Guest Additions are installed</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen
459	resize</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
464	the exported appliance</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)</para>
469	</listitem>
470
471	<listitem>
472	<para>GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual
473	look and feel styles (bug #11743)</para>
474	</listitem>
475
476	<listitem>
477	<para>GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after
478	VM reboot or shutdown</para>
479	</listitem>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>GUI: fixes for medium enumeration</para>
483	</listitem>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
487	is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
488	</listitem>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot
492	if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces
497	(4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
502	access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
507	and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
508	</listitem>
509
510	<listitem>
511	<para>NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting /
512	terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration
513	changes</para>
514	</listitem>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating
518	(bug #12264)</para>
519	</listitem>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
523	(bug #9194)</para>
524	</listitem>
525
526	<listitem>
527	<para>BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI
528	controller enabled</para>
529	</listitem>
530
531	<listitem>
532	<para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
533	where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0
538	regression)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization
543	(bug #12349)</para>
544	</listitem>
545
546	<listitem>
547	<para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
548	VMs</para>
549	</listitem>
550
551	<listitem>
552	<para>OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format
553	during OVF import</para>
554	</listitem>
555
556	<listitem>
557	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
558	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
559	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
560	config corruption</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
565	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	<listitem>
569	<para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
570	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
571	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
572	(bug #12379)</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
577	</listitem>
578
579	<listitem>
580	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes and improved VBoxManage help
581	(bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)</para>
582	</listitem>
583
584	<listitem>
585	<para>Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency
586	(bug #6242)</para>
587	</listitem>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional,
591	contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks
596	hosts (bug #12256)</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
601	not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
602	Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)</para>
603	</listitem>
604
605	<listitem>
606	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
615	OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
620	(bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)</para>
625	</listitem>
626
627	<listitem>
628	<para>Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)</para>
629	</listitem>
630
631	<listitem>
632	<para>Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video
633	modes for each virtual monitor</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows
638	guests (bug #12332)</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	</itemizedlist>
642	</sect1>
643
644	<sect1>
645	<title>Version 4.3.2 (2013-11-01)</title>
646
647	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
648	added:</para>
649
650	<itemizedlist>
651
652	<listitem>
653	<para>VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host
654	BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts
655	(bug #12237)</para>
656	</listitem>
657
658	<listitem>
659	<para>VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on
660	certain hosts</para>
661	</listitem>
662
663	<listitem>
664	<para>VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would
665	not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests
670	that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized
675	VMs (bug #12222)</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured
680	to use software virtualization</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change
685	(when switching from normal to full screen etc)</para>
686	</listitem>
687
688	<listitem>
689	<para>GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a
690	saved state if the host screen size changed</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization
695	(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see
700	<xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Guest Control: implemented more <computeroutput>IGuestSession</computeroutput>
705	methods</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in
710	VBoxManage</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>Guest Control: various bugfixes</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting
719	in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting
720	re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)</para>
721	</listitem>
722
723	<listitem>
724	<para>3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled
725	(Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
726	</listitem>
727
728	<listitem>
729	<para>3D support: miscellaneous fixes</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty
734	to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
735	</listitem>
736
737	<listitem>
738	<para>Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain
739	circumstances</para>
740	</listitem>
741
742	<listitem>
743	<para>NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime</para>
744	</listitem>
745
746	<listitem>
747	<para>NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent
748	storage</para>
749	</listitem>
750
751	<listitem>
752	<para>Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration</para>
753	</listitem>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias
757	from the VM selector</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade
762	(bug #12258)</para>
763	</listitem>
764
765	<listitem>
766	<para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
767	(bug #12166)</para>
768	</listitem>
769
770	<listitem>
771	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503,
772	thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	<listitem>
776	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering</para>
785	</listitem>
786
787	<listitem>
788	<para>Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes</para>
789	</listitem>
790
791	</itemizedlist>
792	</sect1>
793
794	<sect1>
795	<title>Version 4.3.0 (2013-10-15)</title>
796
797	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
798	were added:</para>
799
800	<itemizedlist>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code and the AMD-V code including
804	many bug fixes and performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>VMM: introduced a lightweight instruction interpreter for
809	situations not handled by hardware virtualization</para>
810	</listitem>
811
812	<listitem>
813	<para>GUI: extended messaging mechanism (new non-modal popup overlays
814	used to show non-critical warnings and provide user with additional information)</para>
815	</listitem>
816
817	<listitem>
818	<para>GUI: keyboard shortcuts management (input page of global preferences
819	extended with possibility to edit general keyboard shortcuts for
820	VirtualBox Manager and Virtual Machine)</para>
821	</listitem>
822
823	<listitem>
824	<para>GUI: video capturing support (bug #4766)</para>
825	</listitem>
826
827	<listitem>
828	<para>Added USB touch device emulation</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>Added experimental support for webcam passthrough
833	complementing USB passthrough (see <xref linkend="webcam-passthrough" />)</para>
834	</listitem>
835
836	<listitem>
837	<para>Added SCSI CD-ROM emulation, including boot support</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
842	</listitem>
843
844	<listitem>
845	<para>Guest Control: guest sessions now are running in dedicated, impersonated
846	session processes (needs at least Guest Additions 4.3 installed)</para>
847	</listitem>
848
849	<listitem>
850	<para>Guest Control: implemented <computeroutput>IGuestFile</computeroutput>
851	support</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>NAT: experimental virtual router mode: several VMs are
856	attached to the same internal network and share one NAT
857	service (see <xref linkend="network_nat_service" />)
858	</para>
859	</listitem>
860
861	</itemizedlist>
862
863	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
864
865	<itemizedlist>
866
867	<listitem>
868	<para>VMM: significantly improved performance of NetWare 5.x/6.x
869	guests on host systems without nested paging support</para>
870	</listitem>
871
872	<listitem>
873	<para>VMM: fixed losing host NMIs while in VT-x guest-context</para>
874	</listitem>
875
876	<listitem>
877	<para>VMM: changed order of actions in emulated task switch
878	(bug #10532)</para>
879	</listitem>
880
881	<listitem>
882	<para>VMM: allow to activate VT-x while in SMX mode and provide more
883	information if that is not possible</para>
884	</listitem>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>GUI: update check uses https</para>
888	</listitem>
889
890	<listitem>
891	<para>GUI: numerous minor internal cleanups and bug fixes</para>
892	</listitem>
893
894	<listitem>
895	<para>GUI: HID LEDs synchronization when switching between guest window(s)
896	and host (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
897	</listitem>
898
899	<listitem>
900	<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
901	hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
902	</listitem>
903
904	<listitem>
905	<para>GUI: use the number of physical presented processor cores instead of
906	the number of logical processor cores to check if the users assigned
907	too many virtual CPUs to the guest</para>
908	</listitem>
909
910	<listitem>
911	<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
912	</listitem>
913
914	<listitem>
915	<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
916	</listitem>
917
918	<listitem>
919	<para>Storage: implemented AHA-154x compatibility mode in the
920	emulated BusLogic SCSI HBA</para>
921	</listitem>
922
923	<listitem>
924	<para>Storage: significantly improved performance of large ATAPI PIO
925	transfers (BeOS, Minix 3 guests affected)</para>
926	</listitem>
927
928	<listitem>
929	<para>Storage: added floppy formatting emulation (NB: cannot be used
930	to change existing media geometry)
931	</para>
932	</listitem>
933
934	<listitem>
935	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
936	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
937	</listitem>
938
939	<listitem>
940	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
941	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
942	</listitem>
943
944	<listitem>
945	<para>Settings: the per-VM hwvirtextexcl setting has been replaced
946	by a global hwvirtexclusive property</para>
947	</listitem>
948
949	<listitem>
950	<para>Main: new event queue implementation which does not use the host's
951	native event queue for processing VirtualBox events anymore</para>
952	</listitem>
953
954	<listitem>
955	<para>Main: eliminate the use of SysV semaphores on all host OSes
956	other than Windows, namely Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, with the
957	consequence that no system reconfiguration is needed to run more
958	than approximately 100 VMs</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
963	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>Main: extension pack framework can now support loading HGCM
968	modules, contributed by Jeff Westphal</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
973	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
974	option to show really all available details</para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>VBoxManage: added support for optional command line parameters for
979	the automatic Guest Additions update</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>VBoxManage: added support for listing active guest sessions, guest
984	processes and/or guest files via
985	<computeroutput>guestcontrol list <all\|sessions\|processes\|files></computeroutput>
986	</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>VBoxManage: added support for closing active guest sessions via
991	<computeroutput>guestcontrol session close --session-id <ID>\|
992	--session-name <name or pattern>\|--all</computeroutput>
993	</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>VBoxManage: added support for terminating active guest processes via
998	<computeroutput>guestcontrol process kill\|close\|terminate --session-id <ID>\|
999	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
1000	or
1001	<computeroutput>guestcontrol [p[s]]kill --session-id <ID>\|
1002	--session-name <name or pattern> <PID> ... <PID n></computeroutput>
1003	</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>VBoxManage: added support for watching guest sessions via
1008	<computeroutput>guestcontrol watch</computeroutput>
1009	</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>modifyvm --triplefaultreset</computeroutput>
1014	to make the VM reset on triple fault instead of triggering a Guru Meditation
1015	(see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvm"/>)</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>OVF: several fixes</para>
1028	</listitem>
1029
1030	<listitem>
1031	<para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
1032	special characters</para>
1033	</listitem>
1034
1035	<listitem>
1036	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
1037	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
1038	</listitem>
1039
1040	<listitem>
1041	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
1042	by François Revol</para>
1043	</listitem>
1044
1045	<listitem>
1046	<para>Mac OS X hosts: limited support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
1047	</listitem>
1048
1049	<listitem>
1050	<para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
1051	StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
1052	</listitem>
1053
1054	<listitem>
1055	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (only on certain
1056	hosts; still needs improving; bug #6242)</para>
1057	</listitem>
1058
1059	<listitem>
1060	<para>Windows hosts: consider symlinks when retrieving volume information
1061	(bug #11962)</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
1066	when plugged into USB 3.0 ports</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
1071	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation()
1076	on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Windows Additions: ability to track guest user idle times through
1081	the newly introduced event <emphasis>IGuestUserStateChangedEvent</emphasis></para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
1086	with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	</itemizedlist>
1090
1091	</sect1>
1092
1093	<sect1>
1094	<title>Version 4.2.22 (2014-01-10)</title>
1095
1096	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1097	added:</para>
1098
1099	<itemizedlist>
1100
1101	<listitem>
1102	<para>GUI: Mac OS X host: introduced extradata option "GUI/HidLedsSync" aimed to enable
1103	HID LEDs synchronization (feature disabled by default)</para>
1104	</listitem>
1105
1106	<listitem>
1107	<para>GUI: Mac OS X host: fixed issue on MacBook Air/Pro hosts when GUI
1108	might freeze in attempt to synchronize HID LEDs</para>
1109	</listitem>
1110
1111	<listitem>
1112	<para>Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests
1113	(bug #12017)</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>HGCM: fixed crashes under certain conditions</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>Storage: fix for <emphasis>BLKCACHE_IOERR</emphasis> runtime errors under
1122	rare circumstances (bug #11030)</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a
1127	SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)</para>
1128	</listitem>
1129
1130	<listitem>
1131	<para>AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions</para>
1132	</listitem>
1133
1134	<listitem>
1135	<para>E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized
1136	the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the
1137	initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection</para>
1138	</listitem>
1139
1140	<listitem>
1141	<para>3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina
1142	hosts only; bug #11021)</para>
1143	</listitem>
1144
1145	<listitem>
1146	<para>3D support: many fixes</para>
1147	</listitem>
1148
1149	<listitem>
1150	<para>Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels
1151	(bug #12505)</para>
1152	</listitem>
1153
1154	<listitem>
1155	<para>Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels</para>
1156	</listitem>
1157
1158	<listitem>
1159	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest crashes in in Shared Folders
1160	service under certain conditions</para>
1161	</listitem>
1162
1163	</itemizedlist>
1164
1165	</sect1>
1166
1167	<sect1>
1168	<title>Version 4.2.20 (2013-11-28)</title>
1169
1170	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1171	added:</para>
1172
1173	<itemizedlist>
1174
1175	<listitem>
1176	<para>GUI: always report recommended resolutions for all monitors
1177	(not always done since 4.2.12)</para>
1178	</listitem>
1179
1180	<listitem>
1181	<para>GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to
1182	the exported appliance</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM
1187	is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot
1192	access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes
1197	and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>Main: properly save the <emphasis>passthrough</emphasis> flag for DVD
1202	drives without an attached medium</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state
1207	where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches
1212	(bug #9194)</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>Storage: fixed errors with snapshots when using QCOW or QED disk images
1217	(bug #12144)</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>Storage: fix for newer Linux kernels not detecting a hard disk as SSD
1222	when using the IDE or SATA controller (bug #12025)</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty
1227	to a host drive with passthrough enabled</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could result in lost medium attachments
1232	(4.2.18 regression, bug #11750)</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Shared Clipboard: fixed potential SEGFAULT when
1237	working with UTF8 and UTF16 content (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple
1242	VMs</para>
1243	</listitem>
1244
1245	<listitem>
1246	<para>Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with
1247	special characters</para>
1248	</listitem>
1249
1250	<listitem>
1251	<para>SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings</para>
1252	</listitem>
1253
1254	<listitem>
1255	<para>API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child
1256	snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks,
1257	their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM
1258	config corruption</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot
1263	as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>API: fixed information for some automatically generated events
1268	(only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused
1269	errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice
1270	(bug #12379)</para>
1271	</listitem>
1272
1273	<listitem>
1274	<para>Mac OS X hosts: support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)</para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for
1279	Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)</para>
1280	</listitem>
1281
1282	<listitem>
1283	<para>Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated
1284	StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)</para>
1285	</listitem>
1286
1287	<listitem>
1288	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was
1289	not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing
1290	Mavericks hosts from shutting (bug #12241)</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.13 compile fix (bug #12358)</para>
1295	</listitem>
1296
1297	<listitem>
1298	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.12 compile fix (bug #12083)</para>
1299	</listitem>
1300
1301	<listitem>
1302	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.11 fix for shared folders (bugs #11946, #12128)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>Linux Additions: compile fix for SLES11 SP3</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
1311	(bug #12166)</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Linux Additions: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on
1316	OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1
1321	(bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by
1326	<emphasis>WTSQuerySessionInformation()</emphasis>
1327	on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	<listitem>
1331	<para>Windows Additions: multimonitor resize fixes</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503,
1336	thank you Sam Spilsbury)</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	<listitem>
1340	<para>Guest additions/3D: fix an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)
1341	</para>
1342	</listitem>
1343
1344	</itemizedlist>
1345	</sect1>
1346
1347	<sect1>
1348	<title>Version 4.2.18 (2013-09-06)</title>
1349
1350	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1351	added:</para>
1352
1353	<itemizedlist>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>VMM: properly handle NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC
1357	enabled</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>VMM: fixed potential crashes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
1362	(bug #11979)</para>
1363	</listitem>
1364
1365	<listitem>
1366	<para>GUI / seamless: properly handle mouse wheel scroll events</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>GUI, VBoxManage: when unregistering a VM, also unregister the
1371	hard disk images which are used exclusively (bug #10311)</para>
1372	</listitem>
1373
1374	<listitem>
1375	<para>GUI: prevent crashes under certain conditions on X11 hosts</para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>3D support: multiscreen fixes (incorrect mouse position, flickets)</para>
1380	</listitem>
1381
1382	<listitem>
1383	<para>3D support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver
1384	(multiscreen, seamless)</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Snapshots: made live snapshots work again (bug #9255)</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>Teleportation: made it work again (bug #9455)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>VBoxManage: on <emphasis>snapshot take</emphasis>, <emphasis>
1397	--pause</emphasis> is default and <emphasis>--live</emphasis>
1398	is for doing live snapshots</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>VBoxSVC: don't crash on systems with many VLAN interfaces
1403	(Solaris hosts only)</para>
1404	</listitem>
1405
1406	<listitem>
1407	<para>Network: after the host resumes from suspend, disconnect and
1408	reconnect the virtual network cables to force renewing the DHCP
1409	leases for the guests. So far only Mac OS X hosts and Windows hosts
1410	(bug #10063)</para>
1411	</listitem>
1412
1413	<listitem>
1414	<para>NAT: on name server changes force a reconnect of the virtual network
1415	cable to notify the guest (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
1416	</listitem>
1417
1418	<listitem>
1419	<para>Mac OS X installer: keep previously installed Extension Packs on
1420	VirtualBox upgrade</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.11 fixes (bug #12001)</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential kernel panic caused due to
1429	unexpected preemption due to logging</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>Windows hosts: fixed an issue with USB2 devices being inaccessible
1434	when plugged into USB3 ports</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>Linux Additions: added PCI device identifier to vboxvideo.ko fixing
1439	DRI initialization under certain conditions (bug #11957)</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>Linux Additions: fixed udev detection in the init script
1444	with Linux 3.x kernels</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	</itemizedlist>
1448	</sect1>
1449
1450	<sect1>
1451	<title>Version 4.2.16 (2013-07-04)</title>
1452
1453	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1454	added:</para>
1455
1456	<itemizedlist>
1457
1458	<listitem>
1459	<para>OVF/OVA: don't crash on import if no manifest is used (4.2.14 regression;
1460	bug #11895)</para>
1461	</listitem>
1462
1463	<listitem>
1464	<para>GUI: do not restore the current snapshot if we power-off
1465	after a Guru Mediation</para>
1466	</listitem>
1467
1468	<listitem>
1469	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when hotplugging an empty DVD drive to
1470	the VM</para>
1471	</listitem>
1472
1473	<listitem>
1474	<para>Storage: fixed a crash when a guest read from a DVD drive
1475	attached to the SATA controller under certain circumstances</para>
1476	</listitem>
1477
1478	<listitem>
1479	<para>EFI: don't fail with 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #11456)</para>
1480	</listitem>
1481
1482	<listitem>
1483	<para>Autostart: fixed VM startup on OS X</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Windows hosts: native Windows 8 controls</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>Windows hosts: restore native style on Vista 32</para>
1492	</listitem>
1493
1494	<listitem>
1495	<para>Windows hosts / guests: Windows 8.1 adaptions (bug #11899)</para>
1496	</listitem>
1497
1498	<listitem>
1499	<para>Mac OS X hosts: after removing VirtualBox with
1500	<emphasis>VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool</emphasis>, remove it from the
1501	<emphasis>pkgutil --pkgs</emphasis> list as well</para>
1502	</listitem>
1503
1504	</itemizedlist>
1505	</sect1>
1506
1507	<sect1>
1508	<title>Version 4.2.14 (2013-06-21)</title>
1509
1510	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1511	added:</para>
1512
1513	<itemizedlist>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression;
1521	bug #11674)</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>GUI: fixed a crash on shutdown</para>
1526	</listitem>
1527
1528	<listitem>
1529	<para>GUI: prevent stuck keys under certain conditions on Windows
1530	hosts (bugs #2613, #6171)</para>
1531	</listitem>
1532
1533	<listitem>
1534	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash on the guest screen resize</para>
1535	</listitem>
1536
1537	<listitem>
1538	<para>VRDP: allow to change VRDP parameters (including enabling/disabling the
1539	server) if the VM is paused</para>
1540	</listitem>
1541
1542	<listitem>
1543	<para>USB: fixed passing through devices on Mac OS X host to a VM
1544	with 2 or more virtual CPUs (bug #7462)</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>USB: fixed hang during isochronous transfer with certain
1549	devices (4.1 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #11839)</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>USB: properly handle orphaned URBs (bug #11207)</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>BIOS: fixed function for returning the PCI interrupt routing table
1558	(fixes NetWare 6.x guests)</para>
1559	</listitem>
1560
1561	<listitem>
1562	<para>BIOS: don't use the <emphasis>ENTER</emphasis> / <emphasis>LEAVE</emphasis>
1563	instructions in the BIOS as these don't work in the real mode as set up by
1564	certain guests (e.g. Plan 9 and QNX 4)</para>
1565	</listitem>
1566
1567	<listitem>
1568	<para>DMI: allow to configure <emphasis>DmiChassisType</emphasis>
1569	(bug #11832)</para>
1570	</listitem>
1571
1572	<listitem>
1573	<para>Storage: fixed lost writes if iSCSI is used with snapshots and
1574	asynchronous I/O (bug #11479)</para>
1575	</listitem>
1576
1577	<listitem>
1578	<para>Storage: fixed accessing certain VHDX images created by
1579	Windows 8 (bug #11502)</para>
1580	</listitem>
1581
1582	<listitem>
1583	<para>Storage: fixed hang when creating a snapshot using Parallels
1584	disk images (bug #9617)</para>
1585	</listitem>
1586
1587	<listitem>
1588	<para>3D support: seamless + 3D fixes (bug #11723)</para>
1589	</listitem>
1590
1591	<listitem>
1592	<para>3D support: version 4.2.12 was not able to read saved states of older
1593	versions under certain conditions (bug #11718)</para>
1594	</listitem>
1595
1596	<listitem>
1597	<para>Main/Properties: don't create a guest property for non-running
1598	VMs if the property does not exist and is about to be removed
1599	(bug #11765)</para>
1600	</listitem>
1601
1602	<listitem>
1603	<para>Main/Properties: don't forget to make new guest properties
1604	persistent after the VM was terminated (bug #11719)</para>
1605	</listitem>
1606
1607	<listitem>
1608	<para>Main/Display: don't lose seamless regions during screen resize</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>Main/OVF: don't crash during import if the client forgot to call
1613	<emphasis>Appliance::interpret()</emphasis> (bug #10845)</para>
1614	</listitem>
1615
1616	<listitem>
1617	<para>Main/OVF: don't create invalid appliances by stripping the file
1618	name if the VM name is very long (bug #11814)</para>
1619	</listitem>
1620
1621	<listitem>
1622	<para>Main/OVF: don't fail if the appliance contains multiple file references
1623	(bug #10689)</para>
1624	</listitem>
1625
1626	<listitem>
1627	<para>Main/Metrics: fixed Solaris file descriptor leak</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Settings: limit depth of snapshot tree to 250 levels, as more
1632	will lead to decreased performance and may trigger crashes</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting the parent UUID on diff images using
1637	<emphasis>sethdparentuuid</emphasis></para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>Linux hosts: work around for not crashing as a result of
1642	automatic NUMA balancing which was introduced in Linux 3.8
1643	(bug #11610)</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>Windows installer: force the installation of the public certificate
1648	in background (i.e. completely prevent user interaction) if the
1649	<emphasis>--silent</emphasis> command line option is specified</para>
1650	</listitem>
1651
1652	<listitem>
1653	<para>Windows Additions: fixed problems with partial install in the
1654	unattended case</para>
1655	</listitem>
1656
1657	<listitem>
1658	<para>Windows Additions: fixed display glitch with the Start button
1659	in seamless mode for some themes</para>
1660	</listitem>
1661
1662	<listitem>
1663	<para>Windows Additions: Seamless mode and auto-resize fixes</para>
1664	</listitem>
1665
1666	<listitem>
1667	<para>Windows Additions: fixed trying to to retrieve new auto-logon
1668	credentials if current ones were not processed yet</para>
1669	</listitem>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>Windows Additions installer: added the <emphasis>/with_wddm</emphasis>
1673	switch to select the experimental WDDM driver by default</para>
1674	</listitem>
1675
1676	<listitem>
1677	<para>Linux Additions: fixed setting own timed out and aborted texts in
1678	information label of the lightdm greeter</para>
1679	</listitem>
1680
1681	<listitem>
1682	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation against Linux 3.2.0 Ubuntu
1683	kernels (4.2.12 regression as a side effect of the Debian kernel
1684	build fix; bug #11709)</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>X11 Additions: reduced the CPU load of VBoxClient in
1689	drag'and'drop mode</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>OS/2 Additions: made the mouse wheel work (bug #6793)</para>
1694	</listitem>
1695
1696	<listitem>
1697	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems copying and pasting between two
1698	guests on an X11 host (bug #11792)</para>
1699	</listitem>
1700
1701	<listitem>
1702	<para>Guest Additions: fixed guest process timeout / kill handling</para>
1703	</listitem>
1704
1705	</itemizedlist>
1706	</sect1>
1707
1708	<sect1>
1709	<title>Version 4.2.12 (2013-04-12)</title>
1710
1711	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1712	added:</para>
1713
1714	<itemizedlist>
1715
1716	<listitem>
1717	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if
1718	nested paging is disabled</para>
1719	</listitem>
1720
1721	<listitem>
1722	<para>VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages</para>
1723	</listitem>
1724
1725	<listitem>
1726	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change</para>
1727	</listitem>
1728
1729	<listitem>
1730	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain
1731	disabled on visual-mode change</para>
1732	</listitem>
1733
1734	<listitem>
1735	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging
1736	in different visual-modes</para>
1737	</listitem>
1738
1739	<listitem>
1740	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless
1741	screens were represented by full screen windows</para>
1742	</listitem>
1743
1744	<listitem>
1745	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen
1746	configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should
1751	have correct content in seamless / full screen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on
1756	content/window resize</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	<listitem>
1764	<para>GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration
1765	if the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle
1770	partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size
1775	changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts
1780	due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate
1785	after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4):
1790	corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles</para>
1791	</listitem>
1792
1793	<listitem>
1794	<para>Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect
1795	time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back
1796	to Jan 1 1970</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software
1801	RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created
1806	and the VM was running before</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>controlvm nicpromisc</emphasis>
1811	(bug #11423)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	<listitem>
1815	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash on <emphasis>controlvm
1816	guestmemoryballoon</emphasis> of the VM isn't running (bug #11639)</para>
1817	</listitem>
1818
1819	<listitem>
1820	<para>VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would
1821	affect all clients (bug #11644)</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated
1826	by guest commands and do NLS conversion</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer
1831	kernels if the <emphasis>CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS</emphasis>
1832	config option is enabled (bug #11664)</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based
1837	guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)</para>
1842	</listitem>
1843
1844	<listitem>
1845	<para>Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile
1846	fix (bug #11634)</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using
1851	LightDM as the display manager</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable
1856	of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
1857	(bug #6118)</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	</itemizedlist>
1865
1866	</sect1>
1867
1868	<sect1>
1869	<title>Version 4.2.10 (2013-03-05)</title>
1870
1871	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1872	added:</para>
1873
1874	<itemizedlist>
1875
1876	<listitem>
1877	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server (bug #10664)</para>
1878	</listitem>
1879
1880	<listitem>
1881	<para>Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain
1882	conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
1883	</listitem>
1884
1885	<listitem>
1886	<para>Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for
1887	example after wakeup from host hibernate (bug #11444)</para>
1888	</listitem>
1889
1890	<listitem>
1891	<para>Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not
1892	currently active</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with
1897	Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified
1902	with <emphasis>export --eulafile (bug #11528)</emphasis></para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders
1911	guest kernel module (bug #11390)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is
1916	not available (bug #8638)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	</itemizedlist>
1924	</sect1>
1925
1926	<sect1>
1927	<title>Version 4.2.8 (2013-02-20)</title>
1928
1929	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1930	added:</para>
1931
1932	<itemizedlist>
1933
1934	<listitem>
1935	<para>VMM: fixed a guest crash with a huge amount of guest RAM on
1936	VT-x hosts (bug #11306)</para>
1937	</listitem>
1938
1939	<listitem>
1940	<para>GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog
1941	(bug #10982)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account
1946	during the language switch (bug #11342)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>GUI: the <emphasis>take guest screenshot</emphasis> dialog sometimes
1951	had no keyboard input available on Windows host</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>Main/Machine: fix the generation of a spurious event for inaccessible
1956	VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation
1957	with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression; bug
1958	#11323)</para>
1959	</listitem>
1960
1961	<listitem>
1962	<para>Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain
1963	conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)</para>
1964	</listitem>
1965
1966	<listitem>
1967	<para>Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for
1968	active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated
1969	when the associated metric is enabled via <emphasis>setupMetrics</emphasis></para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under
1974	certain conditions</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	<listitem>
1978	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under
1979	certain circumstances (bug #11344)</para>
1980	</listitem>
1981
1982	<listitem>
1983	<para>Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots
1984	(4.2.6 regression, bug #11359)</para>
1985	</listitem>
1986
1987	<listitem>
1988	<para>Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI
1989	targets</para>
1990	</listitem>
1991
1992	<listitem>
1993	<para>Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with
1994	Hyper-V (bug #5990)</para>
1995	</listitem>
1996
1997	<listitem>
1998	<para>Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation
1999	for IPv6 (bug #9380)</para>
2000	</listitem>
2001
2002	<listitem>
2003	<para>3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)</para>
2004	</listitem>
2005
2006	<listitem>
2007	<para>Settings: really sanitise the name of VM folders and settings
2008	file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)</para>
2009	</listitem>
2010
2011	<listitem>
2012	<para>Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash during <emphasis>screenshotpng</emphasis>
2017	if there is no display (bug #11363)</para>
2018	</listitem>
2019
2020	<listitem>
2021	<para>Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong
2022	kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux
2023	host kernel (bug #11035)</para>
2024	</listitem>
2025
2026	<listitem>
2027	<para>Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module
2028	load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards</para>
2033	</listitem>
2034
2035	<listitem>
2036	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox
2037	kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)</para>
2038	</listitem>
2039
2040	<listitem>
2041	<para>Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100%
2042	when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from
2047	a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.
2048	</para>
2049	</listitem>
2050
2051	<listitem>
2052	<para>Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed
2053	via guest control</para>
2054	</listitem>
2055
2056	<listitem>
2057	<para>Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService
2058	(bug #10970)</para>
2059	</listitem>
2060
2061	<listitem>
2062	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with
2063	large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)</para>
2064	</listitem>
2065
2066	<listitem>
2067	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions
2072	(bug #10987)</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv
2077	for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with
2082	X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)</para>
2083	</listitem>
2084
2085	</itemizedlist>
2086
2087	</sect1>
2088
2089	<sect1>
2090	<title>Version 4.2.6 (2012-12-19)</title>
2091
2092	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2093	added:</para>
2094
2095	<itemizedlist>
2096
2097	<listitem>
2098	<para>VMM: don't inject stale VT-x events to prevent crashes after VM reset
2099	(bug #11256)</para>
2100	</listitem>
2101
2102	<listitem>
2103	<para>VMM: workaround for buggy BIOSes which enable <emphasis>MONITOR</emphasis>
2104	only for certain CPUs (bug #9460)</para>
2105	</listitem>
2106
2107	<listitem>
2108	<para>GUI: fixed trimming of anti-aliased text in details-view element headers
2109	(4.2.0 regression)</para>
2110	</listitem>
2111
2112	<listitem>
2113	<para>GUI: fixed create-settings-file-alias functionality on Mac hosts
2114	(4.2.0 regression)</para>
2115	</listitem>
2116
2117	<listitem>
2118	<para>GUI: fixed take-guest-screenshot functionality on Windows hosts
2119	(bug #11095)</para>
2120	</listitem>
2121
2122	<listitem>
2123	<para>GUI: several minor fixes, including palette fixes (bug #11191)</para>
2124	</listitem>
2125
2126	<listitem>
2127	<para>GUI: fixed Windows 2012 OS type (bug #11206)</para>
2128	</listitem>
2129
2130	<listitem>
2131	<para>GUI: allow to terminate the VM even if VBoxSVC crashed</para>
2132	</listitem>
2133
2134	<listitem>
2135	<para>API: fixed cancelling of snapshots, previously this could lead
2136	to inconsistent VM configs (bug #6877)</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>API: fixed identifying disk images by UUID (bug #11209)</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>3D support: several fixes</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash with external authentication
2149	(bug #11156)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>VGA: fix for double scan text modes</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service
2158	of <emphasis>DEVICE POWER</emphasis> requests (Windows hosts only;
2159	bugs #10021, #11056)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>USB keyboard: Korean keyboard workaround (bug #11150)</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>Storage: fixed hang with QCOW images and asynchronous I/O enabled</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images (bug #11279)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>Storage: actually write the non-rotational flag to the VM
2176	settings (4.2.0 regression)</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters
2181	in Session Information dialog (GUI)</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>network rate</emphasis> and
2186	<emphasis>disk usage</emphasis> metrics</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Metrics: fixed a crash under certain conditions on Solaris hosts</para>
2191	</listitem>
2192
2193	<listitem>
2194	<para>BIOS: fix for El Torito</para>
2195	</listitem>
2196
2197	<listitem>
2198	<para>Shared Folders: if the host folder of a shared folder mapping does
2199	not exist, keep it active but mark it as invalid to prevent
2200	inconsitent saved states (bug #11147)</para>
2201	</listitem>
2202
2203	<listitem>
2204	<para>VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images</para>
2205	</listitem>
2206
2207	<listitem>
2208	<para>VBoxManage: show snapshot description in the VM or snapshot
2209	information</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>VBoxManage: make implicit opening of media consistent in all
2214	places dealing with media</para>
2215	</listitem>
2216
2217	<listitem>
2218	<para>VBoxManage: the iSCSI initiator name was not stored in the settings
2219	file when doing <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> (bug #11212)</para>
2220	</listitem>
2221
2222	<listitem>
2223	<para>VBoxManage: <emphasis>metrics collect</emphasis> now properly handles
2224	<computeroutput>'CPU/MHz'</computeroutput> and
2225	<computeroutput>'Net/*/LinkSpeed'</computeroutput> metrics</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>VBoxManage: changing the image UUID or parent UUID as part of
2230	<emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> works now in all safe cases</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>VBoxManage: introduced <emphasis>storageattach --medium additions</emphasis>
2235	as a shortcut to mount the additions image (bug #11165)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware
2240	products (bug #10905)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with leaking
2245	connections in conntrack (bug #11178)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>Linux Additions: added support for ConsoleKit sessions in the
2250	vminfo service of VBoxService</para>
2251	</listitem>
2252
2253	<listitem>
2254	<para>Linux Additions: don't crash during remount under certain
2255	conditions (bug #11291)</para>
2256	</listitem>
2257
2258	<listitem>
2259	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed guest memory metrics collection</para>
2260	</listitem>
2261
2262	<listitem>
2263	<para>Solaris hosts: added a dependency to ensure that the user directories
2264	are reachable when starting VBox services</para>
2265	</listitem>
2266
2267	<listitem>
2268	<para>Windows host installer: integrated user-contributed translations,
2269	thanks to all contributors!</para>
2270	</listitem>
2271
2272	<listitem>
2273	<para>Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8</para>
2274	</listitem>
2275
2276	<listitem>
2277	<para>Windows Additions: don't fail if the shared folders host service is not
2278	available</para>
2279	</listitem>
2280
2281	<listitem>
2282	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000
2283	guests (bug #11253)</para>
2284	</listitem>
2285
2286	<listitem>
2287	<para>Windows Additions: auto-resize fixes for Windows 8 guests</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289	</itemizedlist>
2290
2291	</sect1>
2292
2293	<sect1>
2294	<title>Version 4.2.4 (2012-10-26)</title>
2295
2296	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2297	added:</para>
2298
2299	<itemizedlist>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page
2303	(4.2.2 regression, bug #11089)</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain
2308	conditions (OS X hosts only)</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: fixed command line argument handling of
2313	ballooning module</para>
2314	</listitem>
2315
2316	<listitem>
2317	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the
2318	guest (bug #11082)</para>
2319	</listitem>
2320
2321	<listitem>
2322	<para>BIOS: fixed broken DMI information (4.2 regression)</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>BIOS: workaround for booting from Windows 2000 floppy disks</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>EFI: fixed video mode selection loss on VM reboot (#10983)</para>
2331	</listitem>
2332
2333	<listitem>
2334	<para>Parallel: fixed parallel port printing failure/ paper queue empty
2335	error (Windows hosts only)</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>NAT: fixed crash on alias-less DNS responses when host-resolver is used</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	</itemizedlist>
2347	</sect1>
2348
2349	<sect1>
2350	<title>Version 4.2.2 (2012-10-18)</title>
2351
2352	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2353	added:</para>
2354
2355	<itemizedlist>
2356
2357	<listitem>
2358	<para>VMM: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2 (bug #10965)</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>GUI: restored VM item tool-tip functionality (4.2 regression)</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	<listitem>
2366	<para>GUI: added group item tool-tip functionality</para>
2367	</listitem>
2368
2369	<listitem>
2370	<para>GUI: fixed handling of the .ova/.ovf file name association
2371	(4.2 regression)</para>
2372	</listitem>
2373
2374	<listitem>
2375	<para>GUI: it was not possible to change any setting before the
2376	first VM was created (bug #10928)</para>
2377	</listitem>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>GUI: disable grouping action if all the selected items are
2381	full children list of the same group already</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>GUI: added menu for runtime drag-and-drop option change</para>
2386	</listitem>
2387
2388	<listitem>
2389	<para>GUI: cleanup shared-clipboard menu on visual-mode change</para>
2390	</listitem>
2391
2392	<listitem>
2393	<para>GUI: make sure VM receives keyboard focus on entering full screen mode
2394	on Win host (bug #11051)</para>
2395	</listitem>
2396
2397	<listitem>
2398	<para>GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons</para>
2399	</listitem>
2400
2401	<listitem>
2402	<para>3D support: <emphasis>DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP</emphasis> implementation
2403	fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver (bug #10929) </para>
2404	</listitem>
2405
2406	<listitem>
2407	<para>Storage: fixed a release assertion in the AHCI emulation when requests
2408	where cancelled with asynchronous I/O disabled</para>
2409	</listitem>
2410
2411	<listitem>
2412	<para>Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
2413	(bug #10898)</para>
2414	</listitem>
2415
2416	<listitem>
2417	<para>NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2418	bug #10128)</para>
2419	</listitem>
2420
2421	<listitem>
2422	<para>NAT: automatically use the host resolver if the host name server is
2423	set to some unusual loopback value (bug #10864)</para>
2424	</listitem>
2425
2426	<listitem>
2427	<para>E1000: fixed a VirtualBox crash during intensive network transfers
2428	(4.2 regression; bugs #10936, #10969, #10980)</para>
2429	</listitem>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>ICH9: fixed PCI bridge initialization</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>USB mouse: ensure that the last mouse event doesn't get lost if no URBs
2437	are available</para>
2438	</listitem>
2439
2440	<listitem>
2441	<para>BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn't find the boot
2442	device after a warm reboot</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>BIOS: don't trash the palette in text modes when setting the border
2447	color</para>
2448	</listitem>
2449
2450	<listitem>
2451	<para>EFI: fixed OS X guest autoboot (4.2 regression)</para>
2452	</listitem>
2453
2454	<listitem>
2455	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of <emphasis>showvminfo --machinereadable</emphasis>
2456	(bug #10973)</para>
2457	</listitem>
2458
2459	<listitem>
2460	<para>VBoxManage: fixed parsing of <emphasis>storageattach --discard</emphasis>
2461	(bug #11023)</para>
2462	</listitem>
2463
2464	<listitem>
2465	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of the HPET setting in <emphasis>showvminfo</emphasis>
2466	(bug #11065)</para>
2467	</listitem>
2468
2469	<listitem>
2470	<para>VBoxManage: fixed closing the guest session after executing a
2471	guest process via guest control</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>VBoxShell: adaptions to interface name changes</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>Guest Additions device: fixed a Guest Additions hang when a
2480	machine was reset after a crash</para>
2481	</listitem>
2482
2483	<listitem>
2484	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes</para>
2485	</listitem>
2486
2487	<listitem>
2488	<para>Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13</para>
2489	</listitem>
2490
2491	<listitem>
2492	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with
2493	old guest kernels</para>
2494	</listitem>
2495
2496	<listitem>
2497	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
2498	(bug #10964)</para>
2499	</listitem>
2500
2501	<listitem>
2502	<para>Windows Additions: fixed automatic screen resize
2503	issue for NT4 guests</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed shutdown hang</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse driver panic</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed autostart service going into maintenance mode after
2516	all VMs started</para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed linking the host driver with the dtrace module</para>
2521	</listitem>
2522
2523	</itemizedlist>
2524
2525	</sect1>
2526
2527	<sect1>
2528
2529	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
2530
2531	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
2532	were added:</para>
2533
2534	<itemizedlist>
2535
2536	<listitem>
2537	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	<listitem>
2541	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
2550	</listitem>
2551
2552	<listitem>
2553	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
2554	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
2555	</listitem>
2556
2557	<listitem>
2558	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
2559	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
2560	</listitem>
2561
2562	<listitem>
2563	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
2564	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
2565	</listitem>
2566
2567	<listitem>
2568	<para>Added experimental support for drag'n'drop from the host to
2569	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
2570	planned. (bug #81)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
2579	documentation for more information</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	</itemizedlist>
2583
2584	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2585
2586	<itemizedlist>
2587
2588	<listitem>
2589	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
2590	on Mountain Lion</para>
2591	</listitem>
2592
2593	<listitem>
2594	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
2595	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
2596	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
2601	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
2602	</listitem>
2603
2604	<listitem>
2605	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
2606	nested paging</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
2611	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
2616	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
2621	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	<listitem>
2629	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
2630	</listitem>
2631
2632	<listitem>
2633	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
2634	</listitem>
2635
2636	<listitem>
2637	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
2638	</listitem>
2639
2640	<listitem>
2641	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
2650	</listitem>
2651
2652	<listitem>
2653	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
2654	</listitem>
2655
2656	<listitem>
2657	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
2658	guests</para>
2659	</listitem>
2660
2661	<listitem>
2662	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
2663	used ISO images</para>
2664	</listitem>
2665
2666	<listitem>
2667	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
2668	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
2669	</listitem>
2670
2671	<listitem>
2672	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
2673	(bug #9973)</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
2678	(bug #9864)</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
2683	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
2684	immediately</para>
2685	</listitem>
2686
2687	<listitem>
2688	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
2689	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
2690	</listitem>
2691
2692	<listitem>
2693	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
2694	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
2695	any time using the VM menu</para>
2696	</listitem>
2697
2698	<listitem>
2699	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
2704	</listitem>
2705
2706	<listitem>
2707	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
2716	</listitem>
2717
2718	<listitem>
2719	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
2720	</listitem>
2721
2722	<listitem>
2723	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
2724	</listitem>
2725
2726	<listitem>
2727	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
2728	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
2729	</listitem>
2730
2731	<listitem>
2732	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
2733	</listitem>
2734
2735	<listitem>
2736	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
2737	support for v2 images)</para>
2738	</listitem>
2739
2740	<listitem>
2741	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	<listitem>
2745	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
2746	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
2747	</listitem>
2748
2749	<listitem>
2750	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	<listitem>
2754	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
2755	</listitem>
2756
2757	<listitem>
2758	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
2759	VirtualBox update</para>
2760	</listitem>
2761
2762	<listitem>
2763	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
2764	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
2765	</listitem>
2766
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	</itemizedlist>
2772	</sect1>
2773
2774	<sect1>
2775	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
2776
2777	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2778	added:</para>
2779
2780	<itemizedlist>
2781
2782	<listitem>
2783	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
2784	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
2785	and others)</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
2790	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
2791	</listitem>
2792
2793	<listitem>
2794	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
2795	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
2800	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	<listitem>
2804	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
2805	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
2806	</listitem>
2807
2808	<listitem>
2809	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
2810	(bug #10631)</para>
2811	</listitem>
2812
2813	<listitem>
2814	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
2815	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
2816	(bug #10624)</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
2821	</listitem>
2822
2823	<listitem>
2824	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
2825	updated (bug #9887)</para>
2826	</listitem>
2827
2828	<listitem>
2829	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
2830	</listitem>
2831
2832	</itemizedlist>
2833	</sect1>
2834
2835	<sect1>
2836	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
2837
2838	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2839	added:</para>
2840
2841	<itemizedlist>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
2845	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
2850	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
2855	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
2856	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
2857	</listitem>
2858
2859	<listitem>
2860	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
2861	guests in rare cases</para>
2862	</listitem>
2863
2864	<listitem>
2865	<para>3D support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
2866	</listitem>
2867
2868	<listitem>
2869	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
2870	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
2871	</listitem>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
2875	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
2876	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
2881	</listitem>
2882
2883	<listitem>
2884	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
2889	reason (bug #6189)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
2898	paused</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
2903	(bug #10267)</para>
2904	</listitem>
2905
2906	<listitem>
2907	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
2912	(bug #10418)</para>
2913	</listitem>
2914
2915	<listitem>
2916	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
2917	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
2918	(bug #10581)</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
2923	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
2928	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
2929	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
2930	</listitem>
2931
2932	<listitem>
2933	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
2934	</listitem>
2935
2936	</itemizedlist>
2937
2938	</sect1>
2939
2940	<sect1>
2941	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
2942
2943	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2944	added:</para>
2945
2946	<itemizedlist>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
2950	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
2951	(bug #3783)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
2956	</listitem>
2957
2958	<listitem>
2959	<para>3D support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
2960	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>Windows Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	</itemizedlist>
2968
2969	</sect1>
2970
2971	<sect1>
2972	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
2973
2974	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2975	added:</para>
2976
2977	<itemizedlist>
2978
2979	<listitem>
2980	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
2981	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
2982	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
2987	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
2988	</listitem>
2989
2990	<listitem>
2991	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
2992	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
2993	</listitem>
2994
2995	<listitem>
2996	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
3005	4.1.10 regression)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
3014	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
3015	</listitem>
3016
3017	<listitem>
3018	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
3019	</listitem>
3020
3021	<listitem>
3022	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
3023	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
3024	</listitem>
3025
3026	<listitem>
3027	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
3028	4.1.10 regression)</para>
3029	</listitem>
3030
3031	<listitem>
3032	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
3033	closed (bug #6473)</para>
3034	</listitem>
3035
3036	<listitem>
3037	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
3038	properly installed</para>
3039	</listitem>
3040
3041	<listitem>
3042	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	</itemizedlist>
3046	</sect1>
3047
3048	<sect1>
3049	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
3050
3051	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3052	added:</para>
3053
3054	<itemizedlist>
3055
3056	<listitem>
3057	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
3058	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
3063	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
3064	</listitem>
3065
3066	<listitem>
3067	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
3068	fusion</para>
3069	</listitem>
3070
3071	<listitem>
3072	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
3073	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
3074	</listitem>
3075
3076	<listitem>
3077	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
3078	and network mask attributes</para>
3079	</listitem>
3080
3081	<listitem>
3082	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
3083	(bug #10030)</para>
3084	</listitem>
3085
3086	<listitem>
3087	<para>3D support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
3088	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>3D support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>3D support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>3D support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
3101	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
3106	</listitem>
3107
3108	<listitem>
3109	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
3110	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
3115	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
3120	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
3125	</listitem>
3126
3127	<listitem>
3128	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
3137	</listitem>
3138
3139	<listitem>
3140	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
3145	</listitem>
3146
3147	<listitem>
3148	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
3149	in a zone</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
3158	(bug #9651)</para>
3159	</listitem>
3160
3161	<listitem>
3162	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
3163	</listitem>
3164
3165	<listitem>
3166	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
3167	#10010)</para>
3168	</listitem>
3169
3170	<listitem>
3171	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
3172	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
3173	</listitem>
3174
3175	<listitem>
3176	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
3177	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
3182	</listitem>
3183
3184	<listitem>
3185	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
3186	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
3187	</listitem>
3188
3189	<listitem>
3190	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
3191	(bug #10151)</para>
3192	</listitem>
3193
3194	<listitem>
3195	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
3196	guests</para>
3197	</listitem>
3198
3199	<listitem>
3200	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
3201	</listitem>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	</itemizedlist>
3212	</sect1>
3213
3214	<sect1>
3215	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
3216
3217	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3218	added:</para>
3219
3220	<itemizedlist>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
3224	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
3225	</listitem>
3226
3227	<listitem>
3228	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
3229	</listitem>
3230
3231	<listitem>
3232	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
3233	(bug #9642)</para>
3234	</listitem>
3235
3236	<listitem>
3237	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
3238	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
3239	</para>
3240	</listitem>
3241
3242	<listitem>
3243	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
3244	</listitem>
3245
3246	<listitem>
3247	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
3248	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
3249	</listitem>
3250
3251	<listitem>
3252	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
3253	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
3266	</listitem>
3267
3268	<listitem>
3269	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
3270	circumstances</para>
3271	</listitem>
3272
3273	<listitem>
3274	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
3279	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
3280	</listitem>
3281
3282	<listitem>
3283	<para>3D support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
3284	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug #8341).
3285	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
3286	and for 3D support in general</para>
3287	</listitem>
3288
3289	<listitem>
3290	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
3291	</listitem>
3292
3293	<listitem>
3294	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
3295	</listitem>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
3303	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
3304	</listitem>
3305
3306	</itemizedlist>
3307	</sect1>
3308
3309	<sect1>
3310	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
3311
3312	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3313	added:</para>
3314
3315	<itemizedlist>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
3323	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
3324	</listitem>
3325
3326	<listitem>
3327	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
3328	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
3329	</listitem>
3330
3331	<listitem>
3332	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
3333	certain guests</para>
3334	</listitem>
3335
3336	<listitem>
3337	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
3338	</listitem>
3339
3340	<listitem>
3341	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
3342	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
3343	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
3348	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
3353	</listitem>
3354
3355	<listitem>
3356	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
3357	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
3358	</listitem>
3359
3360	<listitem>
3361	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
3362	</listitem>
3363
3364	<listitem>
3365	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
3366	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
3367	</listitem>
3368
3369	<listitem>
3370	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
3371	guests</para>
3372	</listitem>
3373
3374	<listitem>
3375	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
3376	folders</para>
3377	</listitem>
3378
3379	<listitem>
3380	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
3381	shared folders</para>
3382	</listitem>
3383
3384	<listitem>
3385	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
3386	users and stale sessions</para>
3387	</listitem>
3388
3389	<listitem>
3390	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
3391	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
3392	</listitem>
3393
3394	</itemizedlist>
3395	</sect1>
3396
3397	<sect1>
3398	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
3399
3400	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3401	added:</para>
3402
3403	<itemizedlist>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
3407	bug #9458)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
3412	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
3417	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
3426	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
3431	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
3436	(bug #9308)</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
3441	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
3446	(bug #9503)</para>
3447	</listitem>
3448
3449	<listitem>
3450	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
3451	(bug #9242)</para>
3452	</listitem>
3453
3454	<listitem>
3455	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
3456	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
3457	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
3462	</listitem>
3463
3464	<listitem>
3465	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
3466	images</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
3471	(Windows hosts only)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
3476	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
3481	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
3486	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
3491	#9387)</para>
3492	</listitem>
3493
3494	<listitem>
3495	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
3496	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
3497	</listitem>
3498
3499	<listitem>
3500	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
3501	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
3502	</listitem>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
3506	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
3511	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
3512	</listitem>
3513
3514	<listitem>
3515	<para>3D support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
3516	</listitem>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
3524	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
3529	(bug #1578)</para>
3530	</listitem>
3531
3532	<listitem>
3533	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
3534	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
3535	</listitem>
3536
3537	<listitem>
3538	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
3539	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
3540	</listitem>
3541
3542	<listitem>
3543	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
3544	(bug #9535)</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
3549	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
3550	</listitem>
3551
3552	<listitem>
3553	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
3554	help file (bug #9646)</para>
3555	</listitem>
3556
3557	<listitem>
3558	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
3559	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
3564	console window (bug #3549)</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
3569	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
3574	</para>
3575	</listitem>
3576
3577	<listitem>
3578	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
3579	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
3580	</para>
3581	</listitem>
3582
3583	<listitem>
3584	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
3585	(bug #6229)
3586	</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
3591	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
3596	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
3601	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
3602	</listitem>
3603
3604	<listitem>
3605	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
3606	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
3607	</listitem>
3608
3609	<listitem>
3610	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
3611	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
3612	</listitem>
3613
3614	<listitem>
3615	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
3616	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
3617	</listitem>
3618
3619	<listitem>
3620	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
3621	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
3626	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	</itemizedlist>
3630	</sect1>
3631
3632	<sect1>
3633	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
3634
3635	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3636	added:</para>
3637
3638	<itemizedlist>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
3646	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
3655	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
3656	</listitem>
3657
3658	<listitem>
3659	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
3660	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
3661	</listitem>
3662
3663	<listitem>
3664	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
3665	a live snapshot</para>
3666	</listitem>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
3670	due to a library version conflict</para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
3675	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
3680	at a time by default</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
3685	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
3686	#9368)</para>
3687	</listitem>
3688
3689	<listitem>
3690	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
3691	registered (bug #9303)</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
3696	VMs</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
3701	creation (bug #9379)</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
3706	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
3707	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
3712	(bug #9308)</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
3717	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
3718	</listitem>
3719
3720	<listitem>
3721	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
3722	</listitem>
3723
3724	<listitem>
3725	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
3726	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
3731	(bug #9242)</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
3736	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
3741	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
3746	USB devices</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
3751	and warn about it</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
3764	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
3769	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
3774	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
3775	</listitem>
3776
3777	<listitem>
3778	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
3779	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
3784	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
3785	</listitem>
3786
3787	<listitem>
3788	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
3789	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
3790	</listitem>
3791
3792	<listitem>
3793	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
3794	2.6.37 and above</para>
3795	</listitem>
3796
3797	</itemizedlist>
3798	</sect1>
3799
3800	<sect1>
3801	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
3802
3803	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3804	were added:</para>
3805
3806	<itemizedlist>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
3810	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
3811	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
3816	</listitem>
3817
3818	<listitem>
3819	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
3820	</listitem>
3821
3822	<listitem>
3823	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
3824	bug #7822)</para>
3825	</listitem>
3826
3827	<listitem>
3828	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
3829	</listitem>
3830
3831	<listitem>
3832	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
3833	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
3838	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
3839	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
3840	anymore)</para>
3841	</listitem>
3842
3843	<listitem>
3844	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
3845	queried separately by the frontends</para>
3846	</listitem>
3847
3848	<listitem>
3849	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
3850	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
3851	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
3852	</listitem>
3853
3854	<listitem>
3855	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
3856	</para>
3857	</listitem>
3858
3859	<listitem>
3860	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
3861	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
3862	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
3867	with VBoxManage</para>
3868	</listitem>
3869
3870	<listitem>
3871	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
3872	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
3873	</listitem>
3874
3875
3876	</itemizedlist>
3877
3878	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3879
3880	<itemizedlist>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
3888	</listitem>
3889
3890	<listitem>
3891	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
3892	</listitem>
3893
3894	<listitem>
3895	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
3896	of the current state</para>
3897	</listitem>
3898
3899	<listitem>
3900	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
3901	</listitem>
3902
3903	<listitem>
3904	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
3905	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
3906	</listitem>
3907
3908	<listitem>
3909	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
3910	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
3911	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
3916	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
3921	</listitem>
3922
3923	<listitem>
3924	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
3925	</listitem>
3926
3927	<listitem>
3928	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
3929	dialog</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
3934	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
3935	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
3940	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
3945	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
3950	be a valid UUID</para>
3951	</listitem>
3952
3953	<listitem>
3954	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
3955	twice in a VM configuration</para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
3960	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
3961	cases</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
3966	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
3967	improve performance</para>
3968	</listitem>
3969
3970	<listitem>
3971	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
3972	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
3973	on a temporary basis</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
3978	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
3979	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
3980	</listitem>
3981
3982	<listitem>
3983	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
3984	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
3985	</listitem>
3986
3987	<listitem>
3988	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
3989	images in VDI format</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
3994	VMDK format</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
3999	controller (bug #8592)</para>
4000	</listitem>
4001
4002	<listitem>
4003	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
4004	</listitem>
4005
4006	<listitem>
4007	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
4008	</listitem>
4009
4010	<listitem>
4011	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
4012	</listitem>
4013
4014	<listitem>
4015	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
4024	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
4029	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
4030	</listitem>
4031
4032	<listitem>
4033	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
4034	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
4035	</listitem>
4036
4037	<listitem>
4038	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
4039	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
4040	</listitem>
4041
4042	<listitem>
4043	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
4044	RDP clients</para>
4045	</listitem>
4046
4047	<listitem>
4048	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
4049	</listitem>
4050
4051	<listitem>
4052	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
4053	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
4054	</listitem>
4055
4056	<listitem>
4057	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
4058	be more robust when connections fail</para>
4059	</listitem>
4060
4061	<listitem>
4062	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
4063	simultaneously</para>
4064	</listitem>
4065
4066	<listitem>
4067	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
4068	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
4069	location values in many places</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
4074	</listitem>
4075
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
4078	builds</para>
4079	</listitem>
4080
4081	<listitem>
4082	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
4087	window (bug #4491)</para>
4088	</listitem>
4089
4090	<listitem>
4091	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
4092	removing a VM</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
4097	</listitem>
4098
4099	<listitem>
4100	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
4101	</listitem>
4102
4103	<listitem>
4104	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
4105	166 and above)</para>
4106	</listitem>
4107
4108	<listitem>
4109	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
4110	hosts</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	<listitem>
4118	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
4119	from the host</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	<listitem>
4123	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
4124	</listitem>
4125
4126	</itemizedlist>
4127
4128	</sect1>
4129
4130	<sect1>
4131	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
4132
4133	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4134	added:</para>
4135
4136	<itemizedlist>
4137
4138	<listitem>
4139	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
4140	</listitem>
4141
4142	<listitem>
4143	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
4144	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
4145	</listitem>
4146
4147	<listitem>
4148	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
4149	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
4150	</listitem>
4151
4152	<listitem>
4153	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
4154	a live snapshot</para>
4155	</listitem>
4156
4157	<listitem>
4158	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
4159	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
4172	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
4173	</listitem>
4174
4175	<listitem>
4176	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
4177	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
4178	</listitem>
4179
4180	<listitem>
4181	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
4182	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
4191	images</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
4196	(Windows hosts only)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
4200	registered (bug #9303)</para>
4201	</listitem>
4202
4203	<listitem>
4204	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
4205	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
4206	</listitem>
4207
4208	<listitem>
4209	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
4210	</listitem>
4211
4212	<listitem>
4213	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
4214	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
4219	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
4220	</listitem>
4221
4222	<listitem>
4223	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
4224	</listitem>
4225
4226	<listitem>
4227	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
4228	(bug #9370)</para>
4229	</listitem>
4230
4231	<listitem>
4232	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
4233	(bug #9535)</para>
4234	</listitem>
4235
4236	<listitem>
4237	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
4238	(bug #1578)</para>
4239	</listitem>
4240
4241	<listitem>
4242	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
4243	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
4244	</listitem>
4245
4246	<listitem>
4247	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
4248	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
4249	</para>
4250	</listitem>
4251
4252	<listitem>
4253	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
4254	</para>
4255	</listitem>
4256
4257	<listitem>
4258	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
4259	2.6.37 and above</para>
4260	</listitem>
4261
4262	<listitem>
4263	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
4264	(bug #6229)</para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
4269	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	</itemizedlist>
4273	</sect1>
4274
4275	<sect1>
4276	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
4277
4278	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4279	added:</para>
4280
4281	<itemizedlist>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
4289	166 and above)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
4294	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
4295	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
4296	</listitem>
4297
4298	<listitem>
4299	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
4300	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
4305	controller (bug #8592)</para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
4310	</listitem>
4311
4312	<listitem>
4313	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
4314	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
4315	</listitem>
4316
4317	<listitem>
4318	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
4319	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
4320	</listitem>
4321
4322	<listitem>
4323	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
4324	builds</para>
4325	</listitem>
4326
4327	<listitem>
4328	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
4329	</listitem>
4330
4331	</itemizedlist>
4332	</sect1>
4333	<sect1>
4334	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
4335
4336	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4337	added:</para>
4338
4339	<itemizedlist>
4340
4341	<listitem>
4342	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
4343	</listitem>
4344
4345	<listitem>
4346	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
4347	</listitem>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
4351	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
4356	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
4357	</listitem>
4358
4359	<listitem>
4360	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
4361	</listitem>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
4365	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
4374	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
4379	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
4380	</listitem>
4381
4382	<listitem>
4383	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
4388	</listitem>
4389
4390	<listitem>
4391	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
4392	file was not written during export</para>
4393	</listitem>
4394
4395	<listitem>
4396	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
4397	</listitem>
4398
4399	<listitem>
4400	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
4409	binaries</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
4414	</listitem>
4415
4416	<listitem>
4417	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
4418	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
4419	</listitem>
4420
4421	<listitem>
4422	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
4423	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
4428	</listitem>
4429
4430	<listitem>
4431	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
4432	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	</itemizedlist>
4436	</sect1>
4437
4438	<sect1>
4439	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
4440
4441	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4442	added:</para>
4443
4444	<itemizedlist>
4445
4446	<listitem>
4447	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
4448	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
4453	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
4458	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
4459	</listitem>
4460
4461	<listitem>
4462	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
4463	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
4464	</listitem>
4465
4466	<listitem>
4467	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
4468	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
4469	</listitem>
4470
4471	<listitem>
4472	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
4473	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
4474	</listitem>
4475
4476	<listitem>
4477	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
4478	(Windows hosts only)</para>
4479	</listitem>
4480
4481	<listitem>
4482	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
4483	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
4492	</listitem>
4493
4494	<listitem>
4495	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
4496	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
4497	</listitem>
4498
4499	<listitem>
4500	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
4501	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
4502	</listitem>
4503
4504	<listitem>
4505	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
4506	</listitem>
4507
4508	<listitem>
4509	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
4510	</listitem>
4511
4512	<listitem>
4513	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
4514	(Linux hosts only)</para>
4515	</listitem>
4516
4517	<listitem>
4518	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
4519	(Windows hosts only)</para>
4520	</listitem>
4521
4522	<listitem>
4523	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
4524	window</para>
4525	</listitem>
4526
4527	<listitem>
4528	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
4529	Fedora 15</para>
4530	</listitem>
4531
4532	<listitem>
4533	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
4534	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
4535	</listitem>
4536
4537	<listitem>
4538	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
4539	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
4540	</listitem>
4541
4542	<listitem>
4543	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
4544	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
4545	</listitem>
4546
4547	<listitem>
4548	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
4549	</listitem>
4550
4551	<listitem>
4552	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
4553	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
4554	</listitem>
4555
4556	</itemizedlist>
4557	</sect1>
4558
4559	<sect1>
4560	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
4561
4562	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4563	added:</para>
4564
4565	<itemizedlist>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
4569	a VMM from a saved state</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
4574	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
4579	(bug #8006)</para>
4580	</listitem>
4581
4582	<listitem>
4583	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
4584	(bug #8726)</para>
4585	</listitem>
4586
4587	<listitem>
4588	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
4589	</listitem>
4590
4591	<listitem>
4592	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
4597	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
4602	(bug #8469)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
4607	selectors</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
4612	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
4617	folder (bug #8673)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
4622	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
4627	</listitem>
4628
4629	<listitem>
4630	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
4631	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
4640	</listitem>
4641
4642	<listitem>
4643	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
4644	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
4645	</listitem>
4646
4647	<listitem>
4648	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
4649	I/O error occurred</para>
4650	</listitem>
4651
4652	<listitem>
4653	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
4654	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
4659	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
4660	</listitem>
4661
4662	<listitem>
4663	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
4664	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
4665	if no medium is present</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
4670	</listitem>
4671
4672	<listitem>
4673	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
4674	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
4679	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
4684	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
4685	</listitem>
4686
4687	<listitem>
4688	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	<listitem>
4692	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
4693	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
4694	</listitem>
4695
4696	<listitem>
4697	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
4698	library (bug #8063)</para>
4699	</listitem>
4700
4701	<listitem>
4702	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
4703	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
4720	changed on import</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	<listitem>
4724	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
4725	</listitem>
4726
4727	<listitem>
4728	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
4729	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
4730	</listitem>
4731
4732	<listitem>
4733	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
4734	(bug #8593)</para>
4735	</listitem>
4736
4737	<listitem>
4738	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
4739	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
4744	captured</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
4749	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
4754	</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
4759	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
4764	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
4769	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
4770	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
4775	to unkillable VM processes</para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
4784	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
4789	on legacy Windows versions</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
4794	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
4803	</listitem>
4804
4805	<listitem>
4806	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
4807	</listitem>
4808
4809	<listitem>
4810	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
4811	</listitem>
4812
4813	<listitem>
4814	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
4815	(bug #7946)</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
4820	</listitem>
4821
4822	<listitem>
4823	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
4824	</listitem>
4825
4826	<listitem>
4827	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	</itemizedlist>
4831
4832	</sect1>
4833
4834	<sect1>
4835	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
4836
4837	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4838	added:</para>
4839
4840	<itemizedlist>
4841
4842	<listitem>
4843	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
4844	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
4845	</listitem>
4846
4847	<listitem>
4848	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
4849	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
4854	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
4859	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
4864	number of host network interfaces</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
4869	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
4870	</listitem>
4871
4872	<listitem>
4873	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
4878	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
4883	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
4888	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
4897	(bug #6577)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
4902	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
4903	(bug #8235)</para>
4904	</listitem>
4905
4906	<listitem>
4907	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
4908	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
4909	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
4910	</listitem>
4911
4912	<listitem>
4913	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
4914	</listitem>
4915
4916	<listitem>
4917	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
4918	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
4923	</listitem>
4924
4925	<listitem>
4926	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
4927	(bug #7966)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
4944	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
4949	</listitem>
4950
4951	<listitem>
4952	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
4953	</listitem>
4954
4955	<listitem>
4956	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
4957	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
4962	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
4971	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
4976	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
4977	(bug #8122)</para>
4978	</listitem>
4979
4980	<listitem>
4981	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
4982	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
4987	</listitem>
4988
4989	<listitem>
4990	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
4991	</listitem>
4992
4993	<listitem>
4994	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
4995	(bug #1548)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
5004	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
5013	(bug #8231)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
5018	11.04 Alpha</para>
5019	</listitem>
5020
5021	<listitem>
5022	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
5023	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
5024	</listitem>
5025
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
5028	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
5033	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
5038	with VBoxGINA</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	</itemizedlist>
5042
5043	</sect1>
5044
5045	<sect1>
5046	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
5047
5048	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5049	added:</para>
5050
5051	<itemizedlist>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
5055	settings vanished</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
5060	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
5061	</listitem>
5062
5063	<listitem>
5064	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
5065	created (bug #8031)</para>
5066	</listitem>
5067
5068	<listitem>
5069	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
5070	</listitem>
5071
5072	<listitem>
5073	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
5074	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
5079	an extension pack</para>
5080	</listitem>
5081
5082	<listitem>
5083	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
5084	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
5085	</listitem>
5086
5087	<listitem>
5088	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
5093	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
5094	</listitem>
5095
5096	<listitem>
5097	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
5098	host-only interface</para>
5099	</listitem>
5100
5101	<listitem>
5102	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
5103	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
5104	</listitem>
5105
5106	<listitem>
5107	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
5108	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
5109	</listitem>
5110
5111	<listitem>
5112	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
5113	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
5118	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
5119	</listitem>
5120
5121	<listitem>
5122	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
5123	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
5136	guests</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	<listitem>
5148	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
5149	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	<listitem>
5153	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
5154	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
5155	</listitem>
5156
5157	<listitem>
5158	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
5159	a VM start</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
5164	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
5165	</listitem>
5166
5167	<listitem>
5168	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
5169	(bug #6067)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
5174	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
5175	</listitem>
5176
5177	<listitem>
5178	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
5179	not saved to machine XML</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
5184	#7983)</para>
5185	</listitem>
5186
5187	<listitem>
5188	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
5189	#7981)</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
5198	regression)</para>
5199	</listitem>
5200
5201	<listitem>
5202	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
5203	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
5204	</listitem>
5205
5206	<listitem>
5207	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
5208	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
5209	</listitem>
5210
5211	</itemizedlist>
5212
5213	</sect1>
5214
5215	<sect1>
5216	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
5217
5218	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5219	were added:</para>
5220
5221	<itemizedlist>
5222
5223	<listitem>
5224	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
5225	</listitem>
5226
5227	<listitem>
5228	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
5229	</listitem>
5230
5231	<listitem>
5232	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
5233	<itemizedlist>
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
5244	</listitem>
5245
5246	<listitem>
5247	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
5248	</listitem>
5249
5250	<listitem>
5251	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
5252	states, and optionally including attached
5253	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
5254	can do the same now)</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	</itemizedlist>
5262	</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>New virtual hardware:
5271	<itemizedlist>
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
5274	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
5279	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281	</itemizedlist>
5282	</para>
5283	</listitem>
5284
5285	<listitem>
5286	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
5287	<itemizedlist>
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
5294	</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
5299	now</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	</itemizedlist>
5307	</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
5312	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
5317	Parallels images</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
5326	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
5327	</listitem>
5328
5329	<listitem>
5330	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
5331	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	</itemizedlist>
5335
5336	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5337
5338	<itemizedlist>
5339
5340	<listitem>
5341	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
5342	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
5343	</listitem>
5344
5345	<listitem>
5346	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
5347	</listitem>
5348
5349	<listitem>
5350	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
5351	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
5352	</listitem>
5353
5354	<listitem>
5355	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
5356	(bug #1657)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
5361	</listitem>
5362
5363	<listitem>
5364	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
5369	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
5370	</listitem>
5371
5372	<listitem>
5373	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
5374	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
5379	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
5380	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
5381	</listitem>
5382
5383	<listitem>
5384	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
5385	again (bug #6864)</para>
5386	</listitem>
5387
5388	<listitem>
5389	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
5390	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
5391	</listitem>
5392
5393	<listitem>
5394	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
5395	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
5396	</listitem>
5397
5398	<listitem>
5399	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
5400	</listitem>
5401
5402	<listitem>
5403	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
5404	</listitem>
5405
5406	<listitem>
5407	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
5408	</listitem>
5409
5410	<listitem>
5411	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
5412	</listitem>
5413
5414	<listitem>
5415	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
5416	</listitem>
5417
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
5424	</listitem>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
5428	(bug #7058)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
5433	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
5438	circumstances</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
5443	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
5444	#5578)
5445	</para>
5446	</listitem>
5447
5448	<listitem>
5449	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
5454	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
5455	</listitem>
5456
5457	<listitem>
5458	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
5463	#6760)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
5468	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
5473	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
5478	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
5479	</listitem>
5480
5481	<listitem>
5482	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
5483	</listitem>
5484
5485	<listitem>
5486	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
5487	file</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	<listitem>
5491	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
5492	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	</itemizedlist>
5496
5497	</sect1>
5498
5499	<sect1>
5500	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
5501
5502	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5503	added:</para>
5504
5505	<itemizedlist>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
5509	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
5514	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
5515	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
5516	</listitem>
5517
5518	<listitem>
5519	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
5520	</listitem>
5521
5522	<listitem>
5523	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
5524	</listitem>
5525
5526	<listitem>
5527	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
5532	the VM is running</para>
5533	</listitem>
5534
5535	<listitem>
5536	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
5537	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
5538	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
5539	starting from a saved state</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
5556	</listitem>
5557
5558	<listitem>
5559	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
5560	</listitem>
5561
5562	<listitem>
5563	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
5564	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
5565	</listitem>
5566
5567	<listitem>
5568	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
5569	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
5574	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
5579	</listitem>
5580
5581	<listitem>
5582	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
5583	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
5584	</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
5589	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
5590	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
5595	only)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
5600	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
5609	</listitem>
5610
5611	<listitem>
5612	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
5613	</listitem>
5614
5615	<listitem>
5616	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
5617	state (bug #4124)</para>
5618	</listitem>
5619
5620	<listitem>
5621	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
5622	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
5631	(bug #2996)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
5636	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
5641	</listitem>
5642
5643	<listitem>
5644	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
5645	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
5646	</listitem>
5647
5648	<listitem>
5649	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
5650	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
5651	</listitem>
5652
5653	<listitem>
5654	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
5655	user accounts for VM information</para>
5656	</listitem>
5657
5658	</itemizedlist>
5659
5660	</sect1>
5661
5662	<sect1>
5663	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
5664
5665	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5666	added:</para>
5667
5668	<itemizedlist>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
5672	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
5677	</listitem>
5678
5679	<listitem>
5680	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
5681	</listitem>
5682
5683	<listitem>
5684	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
5689	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
5694	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
5699	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
5704	(bug #4952)</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
5709	bug #6122)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
5714	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
5719	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
5720	(Linux hosts only)</para>
5721	</listitem>
5722
5723	<listitem>
5724	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
5729	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
5730	</listitem>
5731
5732	<listitem>
5733	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
5734	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
5739	canceled</para>
5740	</listitem>
5741
5742	<listitem>
5743	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
5760	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>VGA: several small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
5769	(Linux hosts only)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
5774	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
5783	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
5788	</listitem>
5789
5790	<listitem>
5791	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
5792	circumstances</para>
5793	</listitem>
5794
5795	<listitem>
5796	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
5797	printers</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
5806	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
5811	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
5816	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
5817	circumstances</para>
5818	</listitem>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
5822	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
5827	as supported extension</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
5832	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
5837	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
5846	(bug #7366)</para>
5847	</listitem>
5848
5849	<listitem>
5850	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
5851	</listitem>
5852
5853	<listitem>
5854	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
5855	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
5856	</listitem>
5857
5858	<listitem>
5859	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
5860	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
5861	</listitem>
5862
5863	<listitem>
5864	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
5865	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
5866	</listitem>
5867
5868	<listitem>
5869	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
5870	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
5871	</listitem>
5872
5873	<listitem>
5874	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
5875	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
5880	</listitem>
5881
5882	<listitem>
5883	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
5884	</listitem>
5885
5886	<listitem>
5887	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
5888	more than one environment variable</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
5893	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
5898	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
5899	</listitem>
5900
5901	<listitem>
5902	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
5903	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
5904	</listitem>
5905
5906	<listitem>
5907	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
5908	enumerating logged in users</para>
5909	</listitem>
5910
5911	<listitem>
5912	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
5913	</listitem>
5914
5915	<listitem>
5916	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
5917	</listitem>
5918
5919	<listitem>
5920	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
5921	</listitem>
5922
5923	<listitem>
5924	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
5925	in the event of a VM crash</para>
5926	</listitem>
5927
5928	<listitem>
5929	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
5930	</listitem>
5931
5932	<listitem>
5933	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
5934	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
5935	</listitem>
5936
5937	<listitem>
5938	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
5939	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
5944	(bug #7448)</para>
5945	</listitem>
5946
5947	<listitem>
5948	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
5949	</listitem>
5950
5951	<listitem>
5952	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
5953	</listitem>
5954
5955	<listitem>
5956	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	</itemizedlist>
5960
5961	</sect1>
5962
5963	<sect1>
5964	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
5965
5966	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5967	added:</para>
5968
5969	<itemizedlist>
5970
5971	<listitem>
5972	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
5973	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
5974	</listitem>
5975
5976	<listitem>
5977	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
5982	bug #6809)</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
5995	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
6000	changes</para>
6001	</listitem>
6002
6003	<listitem>
6004	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
6005	</listitem>
6006
6007	<listitem>
6008	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
6009	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
6010	</listitem>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
6014	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
6027	</listitem>
6028
6029	<listitem>
6030	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
6031	</listitem>
6032
6033	<listitem>
6034	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
6035	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
6036	</listitem>
6037
6038	<listitem>
6039	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
6040	</listitem>
6041
6042	<listitem>
6043	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
6044	(bug #6832)</para>
6045	</listitem>
6046
6047	<listitem>
6048	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
6049	guests</para>
6050	</listitem>
6051
6052	<listitem>
6053	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
6054	</listitem>
6055
6056	<listitem>
6057	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
6058	without external tools and tricks</para>
6059	</listitem>
6060
6061	<listitem>
6062	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
6063	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
6064	</listitem>
6065
6066	<listitem>
6067	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
6068	</listitem>
6069
6070	<listitem>
6071	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
6072	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
6073	</listitem>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
6077	shutdown</para>
6078	</listitem>
6079
6080	<listitem>
6081	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
6082	fixes</para>
6083	</listitem>
6084
6085	<listitem>
6086	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
6087	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
6088	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
6089	</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
6094	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
6095	</listitem>
6096
6097	<listitem>
6098	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
6099	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
6100	</listitem>
6101
6102	<listitem>
6103	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
6104	</para>
6105	</listitem>
6106
6107	<listitem>
6108	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
6109	</listitem>
6110
6111	<listitem>
6112	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
6113	</listitem>
6114
6115	<listitem>
6116	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
6117	</listitem>
6118
6119	</itemizedlist>
6120
6121	</sect1>
6122
6123	<sect1>
6124	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
6125
6126	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6127	added:</para>
6128
6129	<itemizedlist>
6130
6131	<listitem>
6132	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
6133	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
6138	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
6139	</listitem>
6140
6141	<listitem>
6142	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
6143	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
6144	</listitem>
6145
6146	<listitem>
6147	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
6148	</listitem>
6149
6150	<listitem>
6151	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
6156	</listitem>
6157
6158	<listitem>
6159	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
6160	</listitem>
6161
6162	<listitem>
6163	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
6164	assigned</para>
6165	</listitem>
6166
6167	<listitem>
6168	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
6169	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
6170	</listitem>
6171
6172	<listitem>
6173	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
6174	multiple screens are enabled</para>
6175	</listitem>
6176
6177	<listitem>
6178	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
6179	</listitem>
6180
6181	<listitem>
6182	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
6183	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
6184	</listitem>
6185
6186	<listitem>
6187	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
6188	again (bug #7022).
6189	</para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
6194	(bug #6768)</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
6199	(bug #6927)</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
6204	bug #7031)</para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
6209	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
6210	</listitem>
6211
6212	<listitem>
6213	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
6214	bug #6987)</para>
6215	</listitem>
6216
6217	<listitem>
6218	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
6219	</listitem>
6220
6221	<listitem>
6222	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
6227	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
6228	</listitem>
6229
6230	<listitem>
6231	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
6236	installation (bug #5101)</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	<listitem>
6240	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
6241	</listitem>
6242
6243	<listitem>
6244	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
6245	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
6246	bug #6872)</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	<listitem>
6250	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
6251	</listitem>
6252
6253	<listitem>
6254	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
6255	(performance tweak)</para>
6256	</listitem>
6257
6258	<listitem>
6259	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
6260	is currently paused</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
6265	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
6270	</listitem>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
6274	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
6275	</listitem>
6276
6277	<listitem>
6278	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
6279	not properly saved</para>
6280	</listitem>
6281
6282	<listitem>
6283	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
6284	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	<listitem>
6300	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
6301	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
6302	</listitem>
6303
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
6310	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
6311	</listitem>
6312
6313	<listitem>
6314	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
6315	(bug #5251)</para>
6316	</listitem>
6317
6318	<listitem>
6319	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
6320	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
6321	</listitem>
6322
6323	<listitem>
6324	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
6325	</listitem>
6326
6327	<listitem>
6328	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
6329	</listitem>
6330
6331	<listitem>
6332	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
6333	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
6334	</listitem>
6335
6336	<listitem>
6337	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
6338	</listitem>
6339
6340	<listitem>
6341	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
6342	</listitem>
6343
6344	<listitem>
6345	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
6346	</listitem>
6347
6348	</itemizedlist>
6349	</sect1>
6350
6351	<sect1>
6352	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
6353
6354	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6355	added:</para>
6356
6357	<itemizedlist>
6358
6359	<listitem>
6360	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
6361	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
6362	</listitem>
6363
6364	<listitem>
6365	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
6366	</listitem>
6367
6368	<listitem>
6369	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
6370	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
6371	</listitem>
6372
6373	<listitem>
6374	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
6375	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
6380	</listitem>
6381
6382	<listitem>
6383	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
6384	again (bug #6864)</para>
6385	</listitem>
6386
6387	<listitem>
6388	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
6389	applications (bug #5236)</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	<listitem>
6393	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
6394	</listitem>
6395
6396	<listitem>
6397	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
6398	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
6399	</listitem>
6400
6401	<listitem>
6402	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
6403	</listitem>
6404
6405	</itemizedlist>
6406
6407	</sect1>
6408
6409	<sect1>
6410	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
6411
6412	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6413	added:</para>
6414
6415	<itemizedlist>
6416
6417	<listitem>
6418	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
6419	</listitem>
6420
6421	<listitem>
6422	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
6423	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
6424	</listitem>
6425
6426	<listitem>
6427	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
6428	</listitem>
6429
6430	<listitem>
6431	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
6432	state</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
6449	</listitem>
6450
6451	<listitem>
6452	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
6453	</listitem>
6454
6455	<listitem>
6456	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
6457	</listitem>
6458
6459	<listitem>
6460	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
6461	</listitem>
6462
6463	<listitem>
6464	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
6465	</listitem>
6466
6467	<listitem>
6468	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
6469	</listitem>
6470
6471	<listitem>
6472	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
6473	</listitem>
6474
6475	<listitem>
6476	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
6477	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
6482	(bug #6784)</para>
6483	</listitem>
6484
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
6495	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
6496	</listitem>
6497
6498	<listitem>
6499	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
6508	host only</para>
6509	</listitem>
6510
6511	<listitem>
6512	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
6513	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
6514	</listitem>
6515
6516	<listitem>
6517	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
6518	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	<listitem>
6526	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
6527	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
6532	</listitem>
6533
6534	<listitem>
6535	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
6540	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
6549	</listitem>
6550
6551	<listitem>
6552	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
6553	</listitem>
6554
6555	<listitem>
6556	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
6557	(bug #6714)</para>
6558	</listitem>
6559
6560	<listitem>
6561	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
6562	</listitem>
6563
6564	<listitem>
6565	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
6566	</listitem>
6567
6568	<listitem>
6569	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
6578	</listitem>
6579
6580	</itemizedlist>
6581
6582	</sect1>
6583
6584	<sect1>
6585	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
6586
6587	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6588	were added:</para>
6589
6590	<itemizedlist>
6591
6592	<listitem>
6593	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
6594	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
6595	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
6604	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
6605	</listitem>
6606
6607	<listitem>
6608	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
6609	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
6610	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
6611	</listitem>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
6615	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
6620	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
6621	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
6622	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
6623	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
6624	</listitem>
6625
6626	<listitem>
6627	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
6628	</listitem>
6629
6630	<listitem>
6631	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
6632	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
6633	</listitem>
6634
6635	<listitem>
6636	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
6637	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
6638	</listitem>
6639
6640	<listitem>
6641	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
6642	</listitem>
6643
6644	<listitem>
6645	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
6646	</listitem>
6647
6648	<listitem>
6649	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
6650	</listitem>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
6654	</listitem>
6655
6656	<listitem>
6657	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
6658	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
6659	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
6660	</listitem>
6661
6662	<listitem>
6663	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
6664	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
6665	</listitem>
6666
6667	</itemizedlist>
6668
6669	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6670
6671	<itemizedlist>
6672
6673	<listitem>
6674	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
6675	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
6680	</listitem>
6681
6682	<listitem>
6683	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
6684	VM</para>
6685	</listitem>
6686
6687	<listitem>
6688	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
6689	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
6694	#1669)</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
6699	#6442)</para>
6700	</listitem>
6701
6702	<listitem>
6703	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
6704	combination (bug #684)</para>
6705	</listitem>
6706
6707	<listitem>
6708	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
6709	the VM from the GUI</para>
6710	</listitem>
6711
6712	<listitem>
6713	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
6714	medium is not accessible</para>
6715	</listitem>
6716
6717	<listitem>
6718	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
6723	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
6724	</listitem>
6725
6726	<listitem>
6727	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
6728	#3106)</para>
6729	</listitem>
6730
6731	<listitem>
6732	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
6733	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
6734	it</para>
6735	</listitem>
6736
6737	<listitem>
6738	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
6739	</listitem>
6740
6741	<listitem>
6742	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
6743	</listitem>
6744
6745	<listitem>
6746	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
6747	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
6748	</listitem>
6749
6750	<listitem>
6751	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
6752	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
6753	</listitem>
6754
6755	<listitem>
6756	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
6757	</listitem>
6758
6759	<listitem>
6760	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
6761	</listitem>
6762
6763	<listitem>
6764	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
6765	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
6766	</listitem>
6767
6768	<listitem>
6769	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
6770	</listitem>
6771
6772	<listitem>
6773	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
6774	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
6775	</listitem>
6776
6777	<listitem>
6778	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
6779	</listitem>
6780
6781	<listitem>
6782	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
6783	in VirtualBox</para>
6784	</listitem>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
6788	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
6793	VirtualBox</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
6798	</listitem>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
6802	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
6803	</listitem>
6804
6805	</itemizedlist>
6806	</sect1>
6807
6808	<sect1>
6809	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
6810
6811	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6812	added:</para>
6813
6814	<itemizedlist>
6815
6816	<listitem>
6817	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
6818	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
6819	</listitem>
6820
6821	<listitem>
6822	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
6823	</listitem>
6824
6825	<listitem>
6826	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
6827	</listitem>
6828
6829	<listitem>
6830	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
6831	only) </para>
6832	</listitem>
6833
6834	<listitem>
6835	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
6836	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
6837	</listitem>
6838
6839	<listitem>
6840	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
6841	interface version</para>
6842	</listitem>
6843
6844	<listitem>
6845	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
6846	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
6847	slot empty</para>
6848	</listitem>
6849
6850	<listitem>
6851	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
6852	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
6853	(bug #4220)</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
6858	</listitem>
6859
6860	<listitem>
6861	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
6862	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
6863	</listitem>
6864
6865	<listitem>
6866	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
6867	using the drivers from LSI</para>
6868	</listitem>
6869
6870	<listitem>
6871	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
6872	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
6873	</listitem>
6874
6875	<listitem>
6876	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
6877	attached</para>
6878	</listitem>
6879
6880	<listitem>
6881	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
6882	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
6883	</listitem>
6884
6885	<listitem>
6886	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
6887	</listitem>
6888
6889	<listitem>
6890	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
6891	booting from SCSI devices</para>
6892	</listitem>
6893
6894	<listitem>
6895	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
6896	is bug #6408)</para>
6897	</listitem>
6898
6899	<listitem>
6900	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
6901	</listitem>
6902
6903	<listitem>
6904	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
6905	fail to initialize</para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
6914	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
6915	</listitem>
6916
6917	<listitem>
6918	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
6919	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
6920	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
6921	</listitem>
6922
6923	<listitem>
6924	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
6929	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
6934	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
6939	(bug #6435)</para>
6940	</listitem>
6941
6942	<listitem>
6943	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
6944	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
6945	</listitem>
6946
6947	<listitem>
6948	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
6949	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
6950	(bug #6488)</para>
6951	</listitem>
6952
6953	<listitem>
6954	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
6955	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
6956	</listitem>
6957
6958	<listitem>
6959	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
6960	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
6961	</listitem>
6962
6963	<listitem>
6964	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
6965	#5227)</para>
6966	</listitem>
6967
6968	<listitem>
6969	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
6970	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
6971	</listitem>
6972
6973	<listitem>
6974	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
6975	</listitem>
6976
6977	<listitem>
6978	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
6979	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
6980	</listitem>
6981
6982	</itemizedlist>
6983	</sect1>
6984
6985	<sect1>
6986	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
6987
6988	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6989	added:</para>
6990
6991	<itemizedlist>
6992
6993	<listitem>
6994	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
6995	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
6996	</listitem>
6997
6998	<listitem>
6999	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
7000	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
7005	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
7010	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
7011	</listitem>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
7019	</listitem>
7020
7021	<listitem>
7022	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
7031	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
7032	</listitem>
7033
7034	<listitem>
7035	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
7036	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
7037	</listitem>
7038
7039	<listitem>
7040	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
7041	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
7042	</listitem>
7043
7044	<listitem>
7045	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
7046	</listitem>
7047
7048	<listitem>
7049	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
7050	</listitem>
7051
7052	<listitem>
7053	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
7054	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
7055	</listitem>
7056
7057	<listitem>
7058	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
7059	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
7060	calls (bug #6165)</para>
7061	</listitem>
7062
7063	<listitem>
7064	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
7065	(bug #5297)</para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
7070	(bug #4962)</para>
7071	</listitem>
7072
7073	<listitem>
7074	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
7075	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
7076	</listitem>
7077
7078	<listitem>
7079	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
7080	(bug #6176)</para>
7081	</listitem>
7082
7083	<listitem>
7084	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
7085	certain circumstances</para>
7086	</listitem>
7087
7088	<listitem>
7089	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
7090	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
7091	</listitem>
7092
7093	<listitem>
7094	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
7095	</listitem>
7096
7097	<listitem>
7098	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
7099	</listitem>
7100
7101	<listitem>
7102	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
7103	(bug #3571)</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
7108	devices</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
7113	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
7114	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
7115	</listitem>
7116
7117	<listitem>
7118	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
7119	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
7120	</listitem>
7121
7122	<listitem>
7123	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
7128	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
7129	</listitem>
7130
7131	<listitem>
7132	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
7133	response</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
7142	</listitem>
7143
7144	<listitem>
7145	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
7146	</listitem>
7147
7148	<listitem>
7149	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
7150	</listitem>
7151
7152	<listitem>
7153	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
7154	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
7155	</listitem>
7156
7157	<listitem>
7158	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
7159	</listitem>
7160
7161	<listitem>
7162	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
7167	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
7172	</listitem>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
7176	</listitem>
7177
7178	<listitem>
7179	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
7180	</listitem>
7181
7182	<listitem>
7183	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
7184	</listitem>
7185
7186	</itemizedlist>
7187	</sect1>
7188
7189	<sect1>
7190	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
7191
7192	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7193	added:</para>
7194
7195	<itemizedlist>
7196
7197	<listitem>
7198	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
7207	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
7212	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
7213	</listitem>
7214
7215	<listitem>
7216	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
7217	(bug #3945)</para>
7218	</listitem>
7219
7220	<listitem>
7221	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
7222	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
7227	and AMD-V only) </para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
7232	</listitem>
7233
7234	<listitem>
7235	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
7236	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
7237	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
7238	</listitem>
7239
7240	<listitem>
7241	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
7242	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
7243	</listitem>
7244
7245	<listitem>
7246	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
7247	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
7248	</listitem>
7249
7250	<listitem>
7251	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
7252	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
7253	</listitem>
7254
7255	<listitem>
7256	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
7257	snapshots command</para>
7258	</listitem>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
7262	</listitem>
7263
7264	<listitem>
7265	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
7266	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
7267	</listitem>
7268
7269	<listitem>
7270	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
7271	</listitem>
7272
7273	<listitem>
7274	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
7275	</listitem>
7276
7277	<listitem>
7278	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
7279	</listitem>
7280
7281	<listitem>
7282	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
7283	(KWin bug)</para>
7284	</listitem>
7285
7286	<listitem>
7287	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
7288	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
7289	</listitem>
7290
7291	<listitem>
7292	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
7293	</listitem>
7294
7295	<listitem>
7296	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
7297	</listitem>
7298
7299	<listitem>
7300	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
7301	</listitem>
7302
7303	<listitem>
7304	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
7305	</listitem>
7306
7307	<listitem>
7308	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
7309	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
7310	</listitem>
7311
7312	<listitem>
7313	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
7314	bug #5787)</para>
7315	</listitem>
7316
7317	<listitem>
7318	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
7319	DHCP requests</para>
7320	</listitem>
7321
7322	<listitem>
7323	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
7324	(bug #3217)</para>
7325	</listitem>
7326
7327	<listitem>
7328	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
7329	range (bug #5923)</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
7334	</listitem>
7335
7336	<listitem>
7337	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
7338	</listitem>
7339
7340	<listitem>
7341	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
7342	</listitem>
7343
7344	<listitem>
7345	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
7346	</listitem>
7347
7348	<listitem>
7349	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
7350	file (bug #5681)</para>
7351	</listitem>
7352
7353	<listitem>
7354	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
7355	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
7360	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
7361	</listitem>
7362
7363	<listitem>
7364	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
7365	regression)</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
7374	</listitem>
7375
7376	<listitem>
7377	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
7378	</listitem>
7379
7380	<listitem>
7381	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
7382	</listitem>
7383
7384	<listitem>
7385	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
7386	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
7387	</listitem>
7388
7389	<listitem>
7390	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
7391	</listitem>
7392
7393	<listitem>
7394	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
7395	</listitem>
7396
7397	<listitem>
7398	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
7399	</listitem>
7400
7401	<listitem>
7402	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
7403	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
7404	</listitem>
7405
7406	<listitem>
7407	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
7408	</listitem>
7409
7410	<listitem>
7411	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
7412	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
7413	</listitem>
7414
7415	<listitem>
7416	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
7417	</listitem>
7418
7419	<listitem>
7420	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
7421	</listitem>
7422
7423	<listitem>
7424	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
7425	</listitem>
7426
7427	<listitem>
7428	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
7429	(bug #5731)</para>
7430	</listitem>
7431
7432	<listitem>
7433	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
7434	again</para>
7435	</listitem>
7436
7437	</itemizedlist>
7438
7439	</sect1>
7440
7441	<sect1>
7442	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
7443
7444	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7445	added:</para>
7446
7447	<itemizedlist>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
7455	</listitem>
7456
7457	<listitem>
7458	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
7459	</listitem>
7460
7461	<listitem>
7462	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
7463	</listitem>
7464
7465	<listitem>
7466	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
7467	</listitem>
7468
7469	<listitem>
7470	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
7471	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
7472	</listitem>
7473
7474	<listitem>
7475	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	<listitem>
7479	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
7480	</listitem>
7481
7482	<listitem>
7483	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
7484	</listitem>
7485
7486	<listitem>
7487	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
7488	</listitem>
7489
7490	<listitem>
7491	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
7492	</listitem>
7493
7494	<listitem>
7495	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
7496	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
7497	</listitem>
7498
7499	<listitem>
7500	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
7501	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
7502	</listitem>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
7506	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
7507	#1762)</para>
7508	</listitem>
7509
7510	<listitem>
7511	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
7512	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
7513	</listitem>
7514
7515	<listitem>
7516	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
7517	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
7522	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
7523	</listitem>
7524
7525	<listitem>
7526	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
7527	</listitem>
7528
7529	<listitem>
7530	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
7531	</listitem>
7532
7533	<listitem>
7534	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
7535	several virtual CPU cores</para>
7536	</listitem>
7537
7538	<listitem>
7539	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
7540	</listitem>
7541
7542	<listitem>
7543	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
7544	</listitem>
7545
7546	<listitem>
7547	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
7548	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
7549	</listitem>
7550
7551	<listitem>
7552	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
7553	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
7554	</listitem>
7555
7556	<listitem>
7557	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
7558	</listitem>
7559
7560	<listitem>
7561	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
7562	guests</para>
7563	</listitem>
7564
7565	<listitem>
7566	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
7567	and on some 64bit guests</para>
7568	</listitem>
7569
7570	<listitem>
7571	<para>Linux Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
7572	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
7573	</listitem>
7574
7575	<listitem>
7576	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
7577	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
7578	</listitem>
7579
7580	<listitem>
7581	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
7582	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
7583	</listitem>
7584
7585	<listitem>
7586	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
7587	</listitem>
7588
7589	<listitem>
7590	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
7591	</listitem>
7592
7593	<listitem>
7594	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
7595	</listitem>
7596
7597	<listitem>
7598	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
7599	</listitem>
7600
7601	<listitem>
7602	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
7603	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
7604	</listitem>
7605
7606	<listitem>
7607	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
7608	</listitem>
7609
7610	</itemizedlist>
7611
7612	</sect1>
7613
7614	<sect1>
7615	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
7616
7617	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7618	were added:</para>
7619
7620	<itemizedlist>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
7624	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
7625	</listitem>
7626
7627	<listitem>
7628	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
7629	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
7630	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
7631	</listitem>
7632
7633	<listitem>
7634	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
7635	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
7636	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
7641	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
7642	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
7643	</listitem>
7644
7645	<listitem>
7646	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
7647	running</para>
7648	</listitem>
7649
7650	<listitem>
7651	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
7652	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
7653	</listitem>
7654
7655	<listitem>
7656	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
7657	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
7658	</listitem>
7659
7660	<listitem>
7661	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
7662	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
7663	</listitem>
7664
7665	<listitem>
7666	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
7667	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
7668	</listitem>
7669
7670	</itemizedlist>
7671
7672	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7673
7674	<itemizedlist>
7675
7676	<listitem>
7677	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
7678	</listitem>
7679
7680	<listitem>
7681	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
7682	</listitem>
7683
7684	<listitem>
7685	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
7686	</listitem>
7687
7688	<listitem>
7689	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
7690	(bug #5291)</para>
7691	</listitem>
7692
7693	<listitem>
7694	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
7699	</listitem>
7700
7701	<listitem>
7702	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
7703	</listitem>
7704
7705	<listitem>
7706	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
7707	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
7712	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
7713	</listitem>
7714
7715	<listitem>
7716	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
7717	</listitem>
7718
7719	<listitem>
7720	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
7721	</listitem>
7722
7723	<listitem>
7724	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
7725	</listitem>
7726
7727	<listitem>
7728	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
7729	</listitem>
7730
7731	<listitem>
7732	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
7733	</listitem>
7734
7735	<listitem>
7736	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
7737	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
7738	</listitem>
7739
7740	<listitem>
7741	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
7742	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
7743	</listitem>
7744
7745	<listitem>
7746	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
7747	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
7748	</listitem>
7749
7750	<listitem>
7751	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
7752	(bug #2723)</para>
7753	</listitem>
7754
7755	<listitem>
7756	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
7757	</listitem>
7758
7759	<listitem>
7760	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
7761	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
7762	</listitem>
7763
7764	<listitem>
7765	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
7766	optional manifest file on import</para>
7767	</listitem>
7768
7769	<listitem>
7770	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
7771	</listitem>
7772
7773	<listitem>
7774	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
7775	(bug #3773)</para>
7776	</listitem>
7777
7778	<listitem>
7779	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
7780	</listitem>
7781
7782	<listitem>
7783	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
7784	</listitem>
7785
7786	<listitem>
7787	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
7788	layout (bug #2302)</para>
7789	</listitem>
7790
7791	<listitem>
7792	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
7793	(bug #4866)</para>
7794	</listitem>
7795
7796	<listitem>
7797	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
7798	left click (bug #5049)</para>
7799	</listitem>
7800
7801	<listitem>
7802	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
7803	certain conditions</para>
7804	</listitem>
7805
7806	<listitem>
7807	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
7808	</listitem>
7809
7810	<listitem>
7811	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
7812	</listitem>
7813
7814	<listitem>
7815	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
7816	</listitem>
7817
7818	<listitem>
7819	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
7820	</listitem>
7821
7822	<listitem>
7823	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
7824	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
7825	</listitem>
7826
7827	<listitem>
7828	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
7829	</listitem>
7830
7831	<listitem>
7832	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
7833	properties (bug #5337)</para>
7834	</listitem>
7835
7836	<listitem>
7837	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
7838	</listitem>
7839
7840	<listitem>
7841	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
7842	</listitem>
7843
7844	<listitem>
7845	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
7846	</listitem>
7847
7848	<listitem>
7849	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
7850	</listitem>
7851
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
7854	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
7855	</listitem>
7856
7857	<listitem>
7858	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
7859	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
7860	(bug #928)</para>
7861	</listitem>
7862
7863	<listitem>
7864	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
7865	</listitem>
7866
7867	</itemizedlist>
7868
7869	</sect1>
7870
7871	<sect1>
7872	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
7873
7874	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7875	added:</para>
7876
7877	<itemizedlist>
7878
7879	<listitem>
7880	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
7881	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
7882	</listitem>
7883
7884	<listitem>
7885	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
7886	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
7887	</listitem>
7888
7889	<listitem>
7890	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
7891	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
7892	</listitem>
7893
7894	<listitem>
7895	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
7896	enabled</para>
7897	</listitem>
7898
7899	<listitem>
7900	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
7901	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
7902	</listitem>
7903
7904	<listitem>
7905	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
7906	(bug #2676)</para>
7907	</listitem>
7908
7909	<listitem>
7910	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
7911	is connected to a raw file</para>
7912	</listitem>
7913
7914	<listitem>
7915	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
7916	(bug #5355)</para>
7917	</listitem>
7918
7919	<listitem>
7920	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
7921	</listitem>
7922
7923	<listitem>
7924	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
7925	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
7926	</listitem>
7927
7928	<listitem>
7929	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
7930	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
7931	guest (bug #4496)</para>
7932	</listitem>
7933
7934	<listitem>
7935	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
7936	</listitem>
7937
7938	<listitem>
7939	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
7940	</listitem>
7941
7942	<listitem>
7943	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
7944	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
7945	</listitem>
7946
7947	<listitem>
7948	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
7949	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
7950	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
7951	</listitem>
7952
7953	</itemizedlist>
7954
7955	</sect1>
7956
7957	<sect1>
7958	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
7959
7960	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7961	added:</para>
7962
7963	<itemizedlist>
7964
7965	<listitem>
7966	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
7967	</listitem>
7968
7969	<listitem>
7970	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
7971	</listitem>
7972
7973	<listitem>
7974	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
7975	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
7976	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
7977	</listitem>
7978
7979	<listitem>
7980	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
7981	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
7982	</listitem>
7983
7984	<listitem>
7985	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
7986	</listitem>
7987
7988	<listitem>
7989	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
7990	</listitem>
7991
7992	<listitem>
7993	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
7994	</listitem>
7995
7996	<listitem>
7997	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
7998	</listitem>
7999
8000	<listitem>
8001	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
8002	</listitem>
8003
8004	<listitem>
8005	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
8006	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
8007	</listitem>
8008
8009	<listitem>
8010	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
8011	</listitem>
8012
8013	<listitem>
8014	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
8015	</listitem>
8016
8017	<listitem>
8018	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
8019	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
8020	</listitem>
8021
8022	<listitem>
8023	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
8028	exhaustion</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
8033	</listitem>
8034
8035	<listitem>
8036	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
8037	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	<listitem>
8041	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
8042	folders (bug #4106)</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
8047	folders (bug #4299)</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
8052	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
8053	(bug #2921)</para>
8054	</listitem>
8055
8056	<listitem>
8057	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
8058	hosts only)</para>
8059	</listitem>
8060
8061	<listitem>
8062	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
8063	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
8064	</listitem>
8065
8066	<listitem>
8067	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
8068	</listitem>
8069
8070	<listitem>
8071	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
8072	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
8073	</listitem>
8074
8075	<listitem>
8076	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
8077	</listitem>
8078
8079	<listitem>
8080	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
8081	image inconsistency </para>
8082	</listitem>
8083
8084	<listitem>
8085	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
8090	</listitem>
8091
8092	<listitem>
8093	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
8094	(bug #2025)</para>
8095	</listitem>
8096
8097	<listitem>
8098	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
8099	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	</itemizedlist>
8103
8104	</sect1>
8105
8106	<sect1>
8107	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
8108
8109	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8110	added:</para>
8111
8112	<itemizedlist>
8113
8114	<listitem>
8115	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
8116	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
8117	</listitem>
8118
8119	<listitem>
8120	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
8121	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
8122	</listitem>
8123
8124	<listitem>
8125	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
8126	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
8127	</listitem>
8128
8129	<listitem>
8130	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
8131	</listitem>
8132
8133	<listitem>
8134	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
8135	software virtualization only) </para>
8136	</listitem>
8137
8138	<listitem>
8139	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
8140	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
8141	</listitem>
8142
8143	<listitem>
8144	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
8145	with root privileges</para>
8146	</listitem>
8147
8148	<listitem>
8149	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
8150	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
8151	</listitem>
8152
8153	<listitem>
8154	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
8155	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
8156	</listitem>
8157
8158	<listitem>
8159	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
8160	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
8161	</listitem>
8162
8163	<listitem>
8164	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
8165	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
8166	selector (bug #5063)</para>
8167	</listitem>
8168
8169	<listitem>
8170	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
8171	available</para>
8172	</listitem>
8173
8174	<listitem>
8175	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
8176	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
8177	</listitem>
8178
8179	<listitem>
8180	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
8181	networking (bug #4775)</para>
8182	</listitem>
8183
8184	<listitem>
8185	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
8186	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
8187	</listitem>
8188
8189	<listitem>
8190	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
8191	(bug #4907)</para>
8192	</listitem>
8193
8194	<listitem>
8195	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
8196	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
8197	</listitem>
8198
8199	<listitem>
8200	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
8201	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
8202	</listitem>
8203
8204	<listitem>
8205	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
8206	</listitem>
8207
8208	<listitem>
8209	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
8210	</listitem>
8211
8212	<listitem>
8213	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
8214	</listitem>
8215
8216	<listitem>
8217	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
8222	are installed</para>
8223	</listitem>
8224
8225	<listitem>
8226	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
8227	(bug #4771)</para>
8228	</listitem>
8229
8230	<listitem>
8231	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
8236	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
8241	command</para>
8242	</listitem>
8243
8244	<listitem>
8245	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
8246	</listitem>
8247
8248	<listitem>
8249	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
8250	</listitem>
8251
8252	<listitem>
8253	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
8254	(bug #5089)</para>
8255	</listitem>
8256
8257	<listitem>
8258	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
8259	</listitem>
8260
8261	</itemizedlist>
8262
8263	</sect1>
8264
8265	<sect1>
8266	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
8267
8268	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8269	added:</para>
8270
8271	<itemizedlist>
8272
8273	<listitem>
8274	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
8275	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
8276	</listitem>
8277
8278	<listitem>
8279	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
8280	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
8281	</listitem>
8282
8283	<listitem>
8284	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
8285	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
8286	</listitem>
8287
8288	<listitem>
8289	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
8290	guests (bug #2258)</para>
8291	</listitem>
8292
8293	<listitem>
8294	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
8295	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
8296	</listitem>
8297
8298	<listitem>
8299	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
8300	</listitem>
8301
8302	<listitem>
8303	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
8308	</listitem>
8309
8310	<listitem>
8311	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
8316	</listitem>
8317
8318	<listitem>
8319	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
8320	onlined or offlined</para>
8321	</listitem>
8322
8323	<listitem>
8324	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
8325	</listitem>
8326
8327	<listitem>
8328	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
8329	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
8330	</listitem>
8331
8332	<listitem>
8333	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
8334	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
8335	</listitem>
8336
8337	<listitem>
8338	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
8339	</listitem>
8340
8341	<listitem>
8342	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
8343	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
8344	</listitem>
8345
8346	<listitem>
8347	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
8348	</listitem>
8349
8350	<listitem>
8351	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
8352	</listitem>
8353
8354	<listitem>
8355	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
8356	</listitem>
8357
8358	<listitem>
8359	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
8360	</listitem>
8361
8362	<listitem>
8363	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
8368	filters in machine settings XML</para>
8369	</listitem>
8370
8371	<listitem>
8372	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
8377	</listitem>
8378
8379	<listitem>
8380	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
8381	</listitem>
8382
8383	<listitem>
8384	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
8385	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
8386	</listitem>
8387
8388	<listitem>
8389	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
8390	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
8391	</listitem>
8392
8393	<listitem>
8394	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
8395	</listitem>
8396
8397	<listitem>
8398	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
8399	</listitem>
8400
8401	<listitem>
8402	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
8403	</listitem>
8404
8405	<listitem>
8406	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
8407	</listitem>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
8411	</listitem>
8412
8413	<listitem>
8414	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
8415	</listitem>
8416
8417	<listitem>
8418	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
8419	</listitem>
8420
8421	<listitem>
8422	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
8423	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
8424	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
8425	phase collapse</para>
8426	</listitem>
8427
8428	<listitem>
8429	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
8430	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
8431	</listitem>
8432
8433	<listitem>
8434	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
8435	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
8436	</listitem>
8437
8438	<listitem>
8439	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
8440	</listitem>
8441
8442	<listitem>
8443	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
8444	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
8445	</listitem>
8446
8447	<listitem>
8448	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
8449	interface bringup on Linux</para>
8450	</listitem>
8451
8452	<listitem>
8453	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
8454	</listitem>
8455
8456	<listitem>
8457	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
8458	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
8459	#4698, #4790)</para>
8460	</listitem>
8461
8462	<listitem>
8463	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
8464	less than the configured range</para>
8465	</listitem>
8466
8467	<listitem>
8468	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
8469	</listitem>
8470
8471	<listitem>
8472	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
8481	</listitem>
8482
8483	<listitem>
8484	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
8485	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
8486	</listitem>
8487
8488	<listitem>
8489	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
8490	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
8491	</listitem>
8492
8493	<listitem>
8494	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
8495	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
8496	</listitem>
8497
8498	<listitem>
8499	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
8500	</listitem>
8501
8502	<listitem>
8503	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
8504	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
8505	</listitem>
8506
8507	<listitem>
8508	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
8509	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
8510	</listitem>
8511
8512	<listitem>
8513	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
8514	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
8515	</listitem>
8516
8517	<listitem>
8518	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
8519	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
8520	</listitem>
8521
8522	<listitem>
8523	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
8524	</listitem>
8525
8526	<listitem>
8527	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
8528	</listitem>
8529
8530	</itemizedlist>
8531
8532	</sect1>
8533
8534	<sect1>
8535	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
8536
8537	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8538	added:</para>
8539
8540	<itemizedlist>
8541
8542	<listitem>
8543	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
8544	</listitem>
8545
8546	<listitem>
8547	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
8548	</listitem>
8549
8550	<listitem>
8551	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
8552	</listitem>
8553
8554	<listitem>
8555	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
8556	</listitem>
8557
8558	<listitem>
8559	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
8560	</listitem>
8561
8562	<listitem>
8563	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
8564	</listitem>
8565
8566	<listitem>
8567	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
8568	</listitem>
8569
8570	<listitem>
8571	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
8572	</listitem>
8573
8574	<listitem>
8575	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	<listitem>
8579	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
8580	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
8581	</listitem>
8582
8583	<listitem>
8584	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
8585	</listitem>
8586
8587	<listitem>
8588	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
8589	</listitem>
8590
8591	<listitem>
8592	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
8593	</listitem>
8594
8595	<listitem>
8596	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
8597	</listitem>
8598
8599	<listitem>
8600	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
8601	</listitem>
8602
8603	<listitem>
8604	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
8605	</listitem>
8606
8607	<listitem>
8608	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
8609	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
8610	</listitem>
8611
8612	<listitem>
8613	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
8614	(bug #4654)</para>
8615	</listitem>
8616
8617	<listitem>
8618	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
8619	</listitem>
8620
8621	<listitem>
8622	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
8623	interfaces</para>
8624	</listitem>
8625
8626	<listitem>
8627	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
8628	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
8629	</listitem>
8630
8631	<listitem>
8632	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
8633	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
8634	</listitem>
8635
8636	<listitem>
8637	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
8638	properties (bug #3415)</para>
8639	</listitem>
8640
8641	<listitem>
8642	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
8643	(bug #1461)</para>
8644	</listitem>
8645
8646	<listitem>
8647	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
8648	</listitem>
8649
8650	<listitem>
8651	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
8652	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
8653	</listitem>
8654
8655	<listitem>
8656	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
8657	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
8658	</listitem>
8659
8660	<listitem>
8661	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
8662	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
8663	</listitem>
8664
8665	<listitem>
8666	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
8667	</listitem>
8668
8669	<listitem>
8670	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
8671	</listitem>
8672
8673	<listitem>
8674	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
8675	</listitem>
8676
8677	<listitem>
8678	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
8679	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
8680	</listitem>
8681
8682	<listitem>
8683	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
8684	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
8685	</listitem>
8686
8687	<listitem>
8688	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
8689	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
8690	</listitem>
8691
8692	<listitem>
8693	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
8694	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
8695	</listitem>
8696
8697	</itemizedlist>
8698
8699	</sect1>
8700	<sect1>
8701	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
8702
8703	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8704	added:</para>
8705
8706	<itemizedlist>
8707
8708	<listitem>
8709	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
8710	</listitem>
8711
8712	<listitem>
8713	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
8714	</listitem>
8715
8716	<listitem>
8717	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
8718	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
8719	</listitem>
8720
8721	<listitem>
8722	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
8723	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
8724	</listitem>
8725
8726	<listitem>
8727	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
8728	</listitem>
8729
8730	<listitem>
8731	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
8732	</listitem>
8733
8734	<listitem>
8735	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
8736	</listitem>
8737
8738	<listitem>
8739	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
8740	</listitem>
8741
8742	<listitem>
8743	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
8744	</listitem>
8745
8746	<listitem>
8747	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
8748	</listitem>
8749
8750	<listitem>
8751	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
8752	</listitem>
8753
8754	<listitem>
8755	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
8756	</listitem>
8757
8758	<listitem>
8759	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
8760	</listitem>
8761
8762	<listitem>
8763	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
8764	</listitem>
8765
8766	<listitem>
8767	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
8768	</listitem>
8769
8770	<listitem>
8771	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
8772	guest (bug #4381)</para>
8773	</listitem>
8774
8775	<listitem>
8776	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
8777	</listitem>
8778
8779	<listitem>
8780	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
8781	</listitem>
8782
8783	<listitem>
8784	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
8785	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
8786	</listitem>
8787
8788	<listitem>
8789	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
8790	</listitem>
8791
8792	<listitem>
8793	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
8794	</listitem>
8795
8796	<listitem>
8797	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
8798	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
8799	</listitem>
8800
8801	<listitem>
8802	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
8803	</listitem>
8804
8805	<listitem>
8806	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
8807	</listitem>
8808
8809	<listitem>
8810	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
8811	</listitem>
8812
8813	<listitem>
8814	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
8815	</listitem>
8816
8817	<listitem>
8818	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
8819	</listitem>
8820
8821	<listitem>
8822	<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>
8823	</listitem>
8824
8825	</itemizedlist>
8826
8827	</sect1>
8828
8829	<sect1>
8830	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
8831
8832	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8833	were added:</para>
8834
8835	<itemizedlist>
8836
8837	<listitem>
8838	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
8839	</listitem>
8840
8841	<listitem>
8842	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
8843	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
8844	</listitem>
8845
8846	<listitem>
8847	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
8848	</listitem>
8849
8850	</itemizedlist>
8851
8852	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8853
8854	<itemizedlist>
8855
8856	<listitem>
8857	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
8858	</listitem>
8859
8860	<listitem>
8861	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
8862	certain conditions</para>
8863	</listitem>
8864
8865	<listitem>
8866	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
8867	</listitem>
8868
8869	<listitem>
8870	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
8871	</listitem>
8872
8873	<listitem>
8874	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
8875	</listitem>
8876
8877	<listitem>
8878	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
8879	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
8880	</listitem>
8881
8882	<listitem>
8883	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
8884	</listitem>
8885
8886	<listitem>
8887	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
8888	</listitem>
8889
8890	<listitem>
8891	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
8892	</listitem>
8893
8894	<listitem>
8895	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
8896	</listitem>
8897
8898	<listitem>
8899	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
8900	</listitem>
8901
8902	<listitem>
8903	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
8904	</listitem>
8905
8906	<listitem>
8907	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
8908	</listitem>
8909
8910	<listitem>
8911	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
8912	</listitem>
8913
8914	<listitem>
8915	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
8916	(non Windows hosts)</para>
8917	</listitem>
8918
8919	<listitem>
8920	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
8921	</listitem>
8922
8923	<listitem>
8924	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
8925	</listitem>
8926
8927	<listitem>
8928	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
8929	</listitem>
8930
8931	<listitem>
8932	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
8933	</listitem>
8934
8935	<listitem>
8936	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
8937	</listitem>
8938
8939	<listitem>
8940	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
8941	</listitem>
8942
8943	<listitem>
8944	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
8945	</listitem>
8946
8947	<listitem>
8948	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
8949	</listitem>
8950
8951	<listitem>
8952	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
8953	</listitem>
8954
8955	<listitem>
8956	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
8957	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
8958	</listitem>
8959
8960	<listitem>
8961	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
8962	</listitem>
8963
8964	<listitem>
8965	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
8966	</listitem>
8967
8968	<listitem>
8969	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
8970	</listitem>
8971
8972	<listitem>
8973	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
8974	</listitem>
8975
8976	<listitem>
8977	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
8978	</listitem>
8979
8980	<listitem>
8981	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
8982	</listitem>
8983
8984	<listitem>
8985	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
8986	</listitem>
8987
8988	<listitem>
8989	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
8990	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
8991	</listitem>
8992
8993	<listitem>
8994	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
8995	</listitem>
8996
8997	<listitem>
8998	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
8999	</listitem>
9000
9001	<listitem>
9002	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
9003	</listitem>
9004
9005	<listitem>
9006	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
9007	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
9008	</listitem>
9009
9010	<listitem>
9011	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
9012	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
9013	</listitem>
9014
9015	<listitem>
9016	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
9017	correct file mode when creating files</para>
9018	</listitem>
9019
9020	<listitem>
9021	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
9022	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
9023	</listitem>
9024
9025	<listitem>
9026	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
9027	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
9028	</listitem>
9029
9030	<listitem>
9031	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
9032	</listitem>
9033
9034	<listitem>
9035	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
9036	</listitem>
9037
9038	<listitem>
9039	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
9040	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
9041	</listitem>
9042
9043	<listitem>
9044	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
9045	guest property lookup</para>
9046	</listitem>
9047
9048	<listitem>
9049	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
9050	basic network information)</para>
9051	</listitem>
9052
9053	<listitem>
9054	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
9055	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
9056	</listitem>
9057
9058	<listitem>
9059	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
9060	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
9061	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
9062	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
9063	</listitem>
9064
9065	<listitem>
9066	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
9067	</listitem>
9068
9069	<listitem>
9070	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
9071	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
9072	web service</para>
9073	</listitem>
9074
9075	<listitem>
9076	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
9077	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
9078	</listitem>
9079
9080	<listitem>
9081	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
9082	unavailable</para>
9083	</listitem>
9084
9085	<listitem>
9086	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
9087	</listitem>
9088
9089	</itemizedlist>
9090	</sect1>
9091
9092	<sect1>
9093	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
9094
9095	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9096	added:</para>
9097
9098	<itemizedlist>
9099
9100	<listitem>
9101	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
9102	installation</para>
9103	</listitem>
9104
9105	<listitem>
9106	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
9107	</listitem>
9108
9109	<listitem>
9110	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
9111	later (bug #3981)</para>
9112	</listitem>
9113
9114	<listitem>
9115	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
9116	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
9117	</listitem>
9118
9119	<listitem>
9120	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
9121	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
9122	(bug #4034)
9123	</para>
9124	</listitem>
9125
9126	<listitem>
9127	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
9128	networking</para>
9129	</listitem>
9130
9131	<listitem>
9132	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
9133	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
9134	</listitem>
9135
9136	<listitem>
9137	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
9138	clicks</para>
9139	</listitem>
9140
9141	<listitem>
9142	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
9143	Windows 7 guests</para>
9144	</listitem>
9145
9146	<listitem>
9147	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
9148	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
9149	</listitem>
9150
9151	<listitem>
9152	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
9153	</listitem>
9154
9155	<listitem>
9156	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
9157	</listitem>
9158
9159	<listitem>
9160	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
9161	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
9162	</listitem>
9163
9164	<listitem>
9165	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
9166	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
9167	</listitem>
9168
9169	<listitem>
9170	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
9171	</listitem>
9172
9173	<listitem>
9174	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
9175	</listitem>
9176
9177	<listitem>
9178	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
9179	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
9180	(bug #3864)</para>
9181	</listitem>
9182
9183	<listitem>
9184	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
9185	now flushes the output stream</para>
9186	</listitem>
9187
9188	<listitem>
9189	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
9190	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
9191	</listitem>
9192
9193	<listitem>
9194	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
9195	</listitem>
9196
9197	<listitem>
9198	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
9199	</listitem>
9200
9201	<listitem>
9202	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
9203	</listitem>
9204
9205	<listitem>
9206	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
9207	</listitem>
9208
9209	<listitem>
9210	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
9211	(bug #3964)</para>
9212	</listitem>
9213
9214	<listitem>
9215	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
9216	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
9217	</listitem>
9218
9219	<listitem>
9220	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
9221	hosts</para>
9222	</listitem>
9223
9224	<listitem>
9225	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
9226	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
9227	e1000 adapter</para>
9228	</listitem>
9229
9230	<listitem>
9231	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
9232	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
9233	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
9234	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
9235	</listitem>
9236
9237	<listitem>
9238	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
9239	</listitem>
9240
9241	<listitem>
9242	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
9243	</listitem>
9244
9245	<listitem>
9246	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
9247	</listitem>
9248
9249	<listitem>
9250	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
9251	file (bug #1023)</para>
9252	</listitem>
9253
9254	<listitem>
9255	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
9256	</listitem>
9257
9258	<listitem>
9259	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
9260	</listitem>
9261
9262	</itemizedlist>
9263	</sect1>
9264
9265	<sect1>
9266	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
9267
9268	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9269	added:</para>
9270
9271	<itemizedlist>
9272
9273	<listitem>
9274	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
9275	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
9276	</listitem>
9277
9278	<listitem>
9279	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
9280	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
9281	and later</para>
9282	</listitem>
9283
9284	<listitem>
9285	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
9286	running services</para>
9287	</listitem>
9288
9289	<listitem>
9290	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
9291	terminates</para>
9292	</listitem>
9293
9294	<listitem>
9295	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
9296	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
9297	</listitem>
9298
9299	<listitem>
9300	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
9301	installed on the guest</para>
9302	</listitem>
9303
9304	<listitem>
9305	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
9306	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
9307	</listitem>
9308
9309	<listitem>
9310	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
9311	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
9312	</listitem>
9313
9314	<listitem>
9315	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
9316	(bug #2628)</para>
9317	</listitem>
9318
9319	<listitem>
9320	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
9321	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
9322	</listitem>
9323
9324	<listitem>
9325	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
9326	(bug #3657)</para>
9327	</listitem>
9328
9329	<listitem>
9330	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
9331	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
9332	</listitem>
9333
9334	<listitem>
9335	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
9336	virtualization only)
9337	</para>
9338	</listitem>
9339
9340	<listitem>
9341	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
9342	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
9343	</listitem>
9344
9345	<listitem>
9346	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
9347	</listitem>
9348
9349	<listitem>
9350	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
9351	networks (bug #3702)</para>
9352	</listitem>
9353
9354	<listitem>
9355	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
9356	bug #3689)</para>
9357	</listitem>
9358
9359	<listitem>
9360	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
9361	bug #3679)</para>
9362	</listitem>
9363
9364	<listitem>
9365	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
9366	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
9367	</listitem>
9368
9369	<listitem>
9370	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
9371	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
9372	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
9373	</listitem>
9374
9375	<listitem>
9376	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
9377	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
9378	</listitem>
9379
9380	<listitem>
9381	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
9382	lease (bug #3655)</para>
9383	</listitem>
9384
9385	<listitem>
9386	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
9387	(bug #3667)</para>
9388	</listitem>
9389
9390	<listitem>
9391	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
9392	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
9393	</listitem>
9394
9395	<listitem>
9396	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
9397	</listitem>
9398
9399	<listitem>
9400	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
9401	</listitem>
9402
9403	<listitem>
9404	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
9405	</listitem>
9406
9407	<listitem>
9408	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
9409	</listitem>
9410
9411	<listitem>
9412	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
9413	</listitem>
9414
9415	<listitem>
9416	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
9417	</listitem>
9418
9419	<listitem>
9420	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
9421	</listitem>
9422
9423	</itemizedlist>
9424	</sect1>
9425
9426	<sect1>
9427	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
9428
9429	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
9430	were added:</para>
9431
9432	<itemizedlist>
9433
9434	<listitem>
9435	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
9436	</listitem>
9437
9438	<listitem>
9439	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
9440	</listitem>
9441
9442	<listitem>
9443	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
9444	</listitem>
9445
9446	<listitem>
9447	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
9448	</listitem>
9449
9450	<listitem>
9451	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
9452	</listitem>
9453
9454	<listitem>
9455	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
9456	</listitem>
9457
9458	<listitem>
9459	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
9460	</listitem>
9461
9462	<listitem>
9463	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
9464	</listitem>
9465
9466	<listitem>
9467	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
9468	</listitem>
9469
9470	<listitem>
9471	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
9472	</listitem>
9473
9474	</itemizedlist>
9475
9476	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
9477
9478	<itemizedlist>
9479
9480	<listitem>
9481	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
9482	</listitem>
9483
9484	<listitem>
9485	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
9486	</listitem>
9487
9488	<listitem>
9489	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
9490	</listitem>
9491
9492	<listitem>
9493	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
9494	</listitem>
9495
9496	<listitem>
9497	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
9498	</listitem>
9499
9500	<listitem>
9501	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
9502	</listitem>
9503
9504	<listitem>
9505	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
9506	</listitem>
9507
9508	<listitem>
9509	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
9510	</listitem>
9511
9512	<listitem>
9513	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
9514	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
9515	</listitem>
9516
9517	<listitem>
9518	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
9519	</listitem>
9520
9521	<listitem>
9522	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
9523	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
9524	</listitem>
9525
9526	<listitem>
9527	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
9528	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
9529	</listitem>
9530
9531	<listitem>
9532	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
9533	</listitem>
9534
9535	<listitem>
9536	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
9537	</listitem>
9538
9539	<listitem>
9540	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
9541	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
9542	</listitem>
9543
9544	<listitem>
9545	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
9546	</listitem>
9547
9548	<listitem>
9549	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
9550	ESX server images)</para>
9551	</listitem>
9552
9553	<listitem>
9554	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
9555	writable</para>
9556	</listitem>
9557
9558	<listitem>
9559	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
9560	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
9561	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
9562	</listitem>
9563
9564	<listitem>
9565	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
9566	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
9567	</listitem>
9568
9569	<listitem>
9570	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
9571	</listitem>
9572
9573	<listitem>
9574	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
9575	</listitem>
9576
9577	<listitem>
9578	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
9579	hosts when creating files</para>
9580	</listitem>
9581
9582	<listitem>
9583	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
9584	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
9585	</listitem>
9586
9587	<listitem>
9588	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
9589	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
9590	#2306)</para>
9591	</listitem>
9592
9593	<listitem>
9594	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
9595	(bug #3555)</para>
9596	</listitem>
9597
9598	<listitem>
9599	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
9600	installer (bug #3524)</para>
9601	</listitem>
9602
9603	<listitem>
9604	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
9605	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
9606	</listitem>
9607
9608	<listitem>
9609	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
9610	interface (bug #3414)</para>
9611	</listitem>
9612
9613	<listitem>
9614	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
9615	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
9616	</listitem>
9617
9618	<listitem>
9619	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
9620	(bug #3586)</para>
9621	</listitem>
9622
9623	<listitem>
9624	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
9625	from Scratch systems</para>
9626	</listitem>
9627
9628	<listitem>
9629	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
9630	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
9631	</listitem>
9632
9633	<listitem>
9634	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
9635	</listitem>
9636
9637	<listitem>
9638	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
9639	default to compact format</para>
9640	</listitem>
9641
9642	<listitem>
9643	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
9644	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
9645	</listitem>
9646
9647	<listitem>
9648	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
9649	</listitem>
9650
9651	<listitem>
9652	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
9653	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
9654	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
9655	</listitem>
9656
9657	<listitem>
9658	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
9659	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
9660	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
9661	</listitem>
9662
9663	<listitem>
9664	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
9665	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
9666	</listitem>
9667
9668	<listitem>
9669	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
9670	</listitem>
9671
9672	<listitem>
9673	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
9674	</listitem>
9675
9676	<listitem>
9677	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
9678	</listitem>
9679
9680	<listitem>
9681	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
9682	</listitem>
9683
9684	<listitem>
9685	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
9686	</listitem>
9687
9688	<listitem>
9689	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
9690	</listitem>
9691
9692	<listitem>
9693	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
9694	</listitem>
9695
9696	<listitem>
9697	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
9698	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
9699	</listitem>
9700
9701	<listitem>
9702	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
9703	</listitem>
9704
9705	<listitem>
9706	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
9707	regression; bug #2065)</para>
9708	</listitem>
9709
9710	<listitem>
9711	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
9712	</listitem>
9713
9714	<listitem>
9715	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
9716	</listitem>
9717
9718	<listitem>
9719	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
9720	</listitem>
9721
9722	<listitem>
9723	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
9724	#2536)</para>
9725	</listitem>
9726
9727	<listitem>
9728	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
9729	</listitem>
9730
9731	<listitem>
9732	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
9733	(bug #3548)</para>
9734	</listitem>
9735
9736	</itemizedlist>
9737	</sect1>
9738
9739	<sect1>
9740	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
9741
9742	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9743	added:</para>
9744
9745	<itemizedlist>
9746
9747	<listitem>
9748	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
9749	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
9750	</listitem>
9751
9752	<listitem>
9753	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
9754	</listitem>
9755
9756	<listitem>
9757	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
9758	</listitem>
9759
9760	<listitem>
9761	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
9762	</listitem>
9763
9764	<listitem>
9765	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
9766	(bug #3115)</para>
9767	</listitem>
9768
9769	<listitem>
9770	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
9771	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
9772	</listitem>
9773
9774	<listitem>
9775	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
9776	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
9777	(bug #3215)</para>
9778	</listitem>
9779
9780	<listitem>
9781	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
9782	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
9783	</listitem>
9784
9785	<listitem>
9786	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
9787	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
9788	</listitem>
9789
9790	<listitem>
9791	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
9792	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
9793	</listitem>
9794
9795	<listitem>
9796	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
9797	in parallel</para>
9798	</listitem>
9799
9800	<listitem>
9801	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
9802	</listitem>
9803
9804	<listitem>
9805	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
9806	</listitem>
9807
9808	<listitem>
9809	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
9810	</listitem>
9811
9812	<listitem>
9813	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
9814	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
9815	</listitem>
9816
9817	<listitem>
9818	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
9819	</listitem>
9820
9821	<listitem>
9822	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
9823	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
9824	</listitem>
9825
9826	<listitem>
9827	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
9828	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
9829	</listitem>
9830
9831	<listitem>
9832	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
9833	</listitem>
9834
9835	<listitem>
9836	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
9837	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
9838	</listitem>
9839
9840	<listitem>
9841	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
9842	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
9843	</listitem>
9844
9845	<listitem>
9846	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
9847	</listitem>
9848
9849	<listitem>
9850	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
9851	</listitem>
9852
9853	<listitem>
9854	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
9855	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
9856	</listitem>
9857
9858	<listitem>
9859	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
9860	</listitem>
9861
9862	<listitem>
9863	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
9864	</listitem>
9865
9866	<listitem>
9867	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
9868	</listitem>
9869
9870	<listitem>
9871	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
9872	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
9873	</listitem>
9874
9875	<listitem>
9876	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
9877	</listitem>
9878
9879	<listitem>
9880	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
9881	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
9882	</listitem>
9883
9884	<listitem>
9885	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
9886	</listitem>
9887
9888	<listitem>
9889	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
9890	</listitem>
9891
9892	<listitem>
9893	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
9894	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
9895	</listitem>
9896
9897	<listitem>
9898	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
9899	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
9900	</listitem>
9901
9902	<listitem>
9903	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
9904	</listitem>
9905
9906	<listitem>
9907	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
9908	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
9909	</listitem>
9910
9911	<listitem>
9912	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
9913	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
9914	</listitem>
9915
9916	<listitem>
9917	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
9918	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
9919	</listitem>
9920
9921	<listitem>
9922	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
9923	(bug #3213)</para>
9924	</listitem>
9925
9926	<listitem>
9927	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
9928	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
9929	</listitem>
9930
9931	<listitem>
9932	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
9933	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
9934	</listitem>
9935
9936	</itemizedlist>
9937	</sect1>
9938
9939	<sect1>
9940	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
9941
9942	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
9943	added:</para>
9944
9945	<itemizedlist>
9946
9947	<listitem>
9948	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
9949	</listitem>
9950
9951	<listitem>
9952	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
9953	</listitem>
9954
9955	<listitem>
9956	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
9957	</listitem>
9958
9959	<listitem>
9960	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
9961	</listitem>
9962
9963	<listitem>
9964	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
9965	</listitem>
9966
9967	<listitem>
9968	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
9969	</listitem>
9970
9971	<listitem>
9972	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell NetWare 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
9973	</listitem>
9974
9975	<listitem>
9976	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
9977	</listitem>
9978
9979	<listitem>
9980	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
9981	</listitem>
9982
9983	<listitem>
9984	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
9985	</listitem>
9986
9987	<listitem>
9988	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
9989	</listitem>
9990
9991	<listitem>
9992	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
9993	</listitem>
9994
9995	<listitem>
9996	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
9997	</listitem>
9998
9999	<listitem>
10000	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
10001	</listitem>
10002
10003	<listitem>
10004	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
10005	</listitem>
10006
10007	<listitem>
10008	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
10009	</listitem>
10010
10011	<listitem>
10012	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
10013	(bug #3067)</para>
10014	</listitem>
10015
10016	<listitem>
10017	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
10018	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
10019	</listitem>
10020
10021	<listitem>
10022	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
10023	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
10024	</listitem>
10025
10026	<listitem>
10027	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
10028	</listitem>
10029
10030	<listitem>
10031	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
10032	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
10033	</listitem>
10034
10035	<listitem>
10036	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
10037	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
10038	</listitem>
10039
10040	<listitem>
10041	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
10042	</listitem>
10043
10044	<listitem>
10045	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
10046	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
10047	</listitem>
10048
10049	<listitem>
10050	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
10051	</listitem>
10052
10053	<listitem>
10054	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
10055	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
10056	</listitem>
10057
10058	<listitem>
10059	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
10060	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
10061	</listitem>
10062
10063	<listitem>
10064	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
10065	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
10066	</para>
10067	</listitem>
10068
10069	<listitem>
10070	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
10071	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
10072	</para>
10073	</listitem>
10074
10075	<listitem>
10076	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
10077	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
10078	</para>
10079	</listitem>
10080
10081	<listitem>
10082	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
10083	</listitem>
10084
10085	<listitem>
10086	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
10087	</listitem>
10088
10089	<listitem>
10090	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
10091	</listitem>
10092
10093	<listitem>
10094	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
10095	</listitem>
10096
10097	<listitem>
10098	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
10099	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
10100	</listitem>
10101
10102	<listitem>
10103	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
10104	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
10105	</listitem>
10106
10107	<listitem>
10108	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
10109	formatting a drive</para>
10110	</listitem>
10111
10112	<listitem>
10113	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
10114	</listitem>
10115
10116	<listitem>
10117	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
10118	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
10119	</listitem>
10120
10121	<listitem>
10122	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
10123	</listitem>
10124
10125	<listitem>
10126	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
10127	</listitem>
10128
10129	<listitem>
10130	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
10131	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
10132	</listitem>
10133
10134	<listitem>
10135	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
10136	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
10137	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
10138	</listitem>
10139
10140	<listitem>
10141	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
10142	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
10143	</listitem>
10144
10145	<listitem>
10146	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
10147	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
10148	</listitem>
10149
10150	<listitem>
10151	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
10152	(bug #2768)</para>
10153	</listitem>
10154
10155	<listitem>
10156	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
10157	</listitem>
10158
10159	<listitem>
10160	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
10161	</listitem>
10162
10163	<listitem>
10164	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
10165	single, unified package</para>
10166	</listitem>
10167
10168	<listitem>
10169	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
10170	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
10171	</listitem>
10172
10173	<listitem>
10174	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
10175	</listitem>
10176
10177	<listitem>
10178	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
10179	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
10180	</listitem>
10181
10182	<listitem>
10183	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
10184	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
10185	</listitem>
10186
10187	<listitem>
10188	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
10189	</listitem>
10190
10191	<listitem>
10192	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
10193	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
10194	doing 3D</para>
10195	</listitem>
10196
10197	<listitem>
10198	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
10199	</listitem>
10200
10201	<listitem>
10202	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
10203	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
10204	</listitem>
10205
10206	<listitem>
10207	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
10208	</listitem>
10209
10210	<listitem>
10211	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
10212	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
10213	</listitem>
10214
10215	<listitem>
10216	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
10217	</listitem>
10218
10219	<listitem>
10220	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
10221	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
10222	</listitem>
10223
10224	<listitem>
10225	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
10226	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
10227	(bug #2938)</para>
10228	</listitem>
10229
10230	<listitem>
10231	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
10232	Linux guests</para>
10233	</listitem>
10234
10235	<listitem>
10236	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
10237	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
10238	(bug #1776)</para>
10239	</listitem>
10240
10241	<listitem>
10242	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
10243	(bug #1612)</para>
10244	</listitem>
10245
10246	<listitem>
10247	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
10248	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
10249	</listitem>
10250
10251	<listitem>
10252	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
10253	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
10254	</listitem>
10255
10256	<listitem>
10257	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
10258	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
10259	</listitem>
10260
10261	</itemizedlist>
10262	</sect1>
10263
10264	<sect1>
10265	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
10266
10267	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
10268	were added:</para>
10269
10270	<itemizedlist>
10271	<listitem>
10272	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
10273	</listitem>
10274
10275	<listitem>
10276	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
10277	</listitem>
10278
10279	<listitem>
10280	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
10281	</listitem>
10282
10283	<listitem>
10284	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
10285	</listitem>
10286
10287	<listitem>
10288	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
10289	</listitem>
10290
10291	<listitem>
10292	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
10293	</listitem>
10294
10295	<listitem>
10296	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
10297	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
10298	</listitem>
10299
10300	<listitem>
10301	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
10302	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
10303	</listitem>
10304
10305	</itemizedlist>
10306
10307	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
10308
10309	<itemizedlist>
10310	<listitem>
10311	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
10312	</listitem>
10313
10314	<listitem>
10315	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
10316	</listitem>
10317
10318	<listitem>
10319	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
10320	</listitem>
10321
10322	<listitem>
10323	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
10324	</listitem>
10325
10326	<listitem>
10327	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
10328	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
10329	</listitem>
10330
10331	<listitem>
10332	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
10333	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
10334	</listitem>
10335
10336	<listitem>
10337	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
10338	</listitem>
10339
10340	<listitem>
10341	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
10342	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
10343	</listitem>
10344
10345	<listitem>
10346	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
10347	</listitem>
10348
10349	<listitem>
10350	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
10351	</listitem>
10352
10353	<listitem>
10354	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
10355	</listitem>
10356
10357	<listitem>
10358	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
10359	</listitem>
10360
10361	<listitem>
10362	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
10363	</listitem>
10364
10365	<listitem>
10366	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
10367	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
10368	</listitem>
10369
10370	<listitem>
10371	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
10372	the compiz window manager</para>
10373	</listitem>
10374
10375	<listitem>
10376	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
10377	</listitem>
10378
10379	<listitem>
10380	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
10381	</listitem>
10382
10383	<listitem>
10384	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
10385	</listitem>
10386
10387	<listitem>
10388	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
10389	</listitem>
10390
10391	<listitem>
10392	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
10393	</listitem>
10394
10395	<listitem>
10396	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
10397	</listitem>
10398
10399	<listitem>
10400	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
10401	</listitem>
10402
10403	<listitem>
10404	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
10405	</listitem>
10406
10407	<listitem>
10408	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
10409	</listitem>
10410
10411	<listitem>
10412	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
10413	of two (bug #2724)</para>
10414	</listitem>
10415
10416	<listitem>
10417	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
10418	for direct device access</para>
10419	</listitem>
10420
10421	<listitem>
10422	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
10423	</listitem>
10424
10425	<listitem>
10426	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
10427	</listitem>
10428
10429	<listitem>
10430	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
10431	</listitem>
10432
10433	<listitem>
10434	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
10435	</listitem>
10436
10437	<listitem>
10438	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
10439	</listitem>
10440
10441	<listitem>
10442	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
10443	</listitem>
10444
10445	<listitem>
10446	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
10447	</listitem>
10448
10449	<listitem>
10450	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
10451	</listitem>
10452
10453	</itemizedlist>
10454	</sect1>
10455
10456	<sect1>
10457	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
10458
10459	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
10460	added:</para>
10461
10462	<itemizedlist>
10463
10464	<listitem>
10465	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
10466	states/snapshots</para>
10467	</listitem>
10468
10469	<listitem>
10470	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
10471	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
10472	</listitem>
10473
10474	<listitem>
10475	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
10476	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
10477	</listitem>
10478
10479	<listitem>
10480	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
10481	collisions</para>
10482	</listitem>
10483
10484	<listitem>
10485	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
10486	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
10487	</listitem>
10488
10489	<listitem>
10490	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
10491	</listitem>
10492
10493	<listitem>
10494	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
10495	reliably</para>
10496	</listitem>
10497
10498	<listitem>
10499	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
10500	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
10501	</listitem>
10502
10503	<listitem>
10504	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
10505	a reboot</para>
10506	</listitem>
10507
10508	<listitem>
10509	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
10510	</listitem>
10511
10512	<listitem>
10513	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
10514	in parallel</para>
10515	</listitem>
10516
10517	<listitem>
10518	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
10519	</listitem>
10520
10521	<listitem>
10522	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
10523	correctly</para>
10524	</listitem>
10525
10526	<listitem>
10527	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
10528	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
10529	</listitem>
10530
10531	</itemizedlist>
10532	</sect1>
10533
10534	<sect1>
10535	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
10536
10537	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
10538	added:</para>
10539
10540	<itemizedlist>
10541
10542	<listitem>
10543	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
10544	(bug #2220)</para>
10545	</listitem>
10546
10547	<listitem>
10548	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
10549	</listitem>
10550
10551	<listitem>
10552	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
10553	</listitem>
10554
10555	<listitem>
10556	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
10557	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
10558	</listitem>
10559
10560	<listitem>
10561	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
10562	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
10563	</listitem>
10564
10565	<listitem>
10566	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
10567	(bug #2624)</para>
10568	</listitem>
10569
10570	<listitem>
10571	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
10572	(bug #2024)</para>
10573	</listitem>
10574
10575	<listitem>
10576	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
10577	</listitem>
10578
10579	<listitem>
10580	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
10581	</listitem>
10582
10583	<listitem>
10584	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
10585	</listitem>
10586
10587	<listitem>
10588	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
10589	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
10590	</listitem>
10591
10592	<listitem>
10593	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
10594	applications when updating the installation</para>
10595	</listitem>
10596
10597	<listitem>
10598	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
10599	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
10600	</listitem>
10601
10602	<listitem>
10603	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
10604	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
10605	</listitem>
10606
10607	<listitem>
10608	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
10609	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
10610	</listitem>
10611
10612	<listitem>
10613	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
10614	connected to a host device</para>
10615	</listitem>
10616
10617	<listitem>
10618	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
10619	</listitem>
10620
10621	<listitem>
10622	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
10623	</listitem>
10624
10625	<listitem>
10626	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
10627	</listitem>
10628
10629	<listitem>
10630	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
10631	when using native RDP connections</para>
10632	</listitem>
10633
10634	<listitem>
10635	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
10636	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
10637	</listitem>
10638
10639	<listitem>
10640	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
10641	(bug #2591)</para>
10642	</listitem>
10643
10644	<listitem>
10645	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
10646	guests (bug #2550)</para>
10647	</listitem>
10648
10649	<listitem>
10650	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
10651	</listitem>
10652
10653	</itemizedlist>
10654	</sect1>
10655
10656	<sect1>
10657	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
10658
10659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
10660	added:</para>
10661
10662	<itemizedlist>
10663	<listitem>
10664	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
10665	</listitem>
10666
10667	<listitem>
10668	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
10669	</listitem>
10670
10671	<listitem>
10672	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
10673	</listitem>
10674
10675	<listitem>
10676	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
10677	</listitem>
10678
10679	<listitem>
10680	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
10681	</listitem>
10682
10683	<listitem>
10684	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
10685	</listitem>
10686
10687	<listitem>
10688	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
10689	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
10690	</listitem>
10691
10692	<listitem>
10693	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
10694	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
10695	</listitem>
10696
10697	<listitem>
10698	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
10699	</listitem>
10700
10701	<listitem>
10702	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
10703	equal to the client resolution</para>
10704	</listitem>
10705
10706	<listitem>
10707	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
10708	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
10709	</listitem>
10710
10711	<listitem>
10712	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
10713	</listitem>
10714
10715	<listitem>
10716	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
10717	</listitem>
10718
10719	<listitem>
10720	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
10721	</listitem>
10722
10723	<listitem>
10724	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
10725	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
10726	</listitem>
10727
10728	<listitem>
10729	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
10730	networking (bug #2474)</para>
10731	</listitem>
10732
10733	<listitem>
10734	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
10735	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
10736	</listitem>
10737
10738	<listitem>
10739	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
10740	</listitem>
10741
10742	<listitem>
10743	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
10744	</listitem>
10745
10746	<listitem>
10747	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
10748	</listitem>
10749
10750	<listitem>
10751	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
10752	</listitem>
10753
10754	<listitem>
10755	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
10756	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
10757	</listitem>
10758
10759	<listitem>
10760	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
10761	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
10762	</listitem>
10763
10764	<listitem>
10765	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
10766	</listitem>
10767
10768	<listitem>
10769	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
10770	</listitem>
10771
10772	<listitem>
10773	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
10774	</listitem>
10775
10776	</itemizedlist>
10777
10778	</sect1>
10779
10780	<sect1>
10781	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
10782
10783	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
10784	added:</para>
10785
10786	<itemizedlist>
10787
10788	<listitem>
10789	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
10790	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
10791	</listitem>
10792
10793	<listitem>
10794	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
10795	</listitem>
10796
10797	<listitem>
10798	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
10799	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
10800	</listitem>
10801
10802	<listitem>
10803	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
10804	</listitem>
10805
10806	<listitem>
10807	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
10808	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
10809	</listitem>
10810
10811	<listitem>
10812	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
10813	</listitem>
10814
10815	<listitem>
10816	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
10817	the virtual disk manager</para>
10818	</listitem>
10819
10820	<listitem>
10821	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
10822	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
10823	</listitem>
10824
10825	<listitem>
10826	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
10827	</listitem>
10828
10829	<listitem>
10830	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
10831	</listitem>
10832
10833	<listitem>
10834	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
10835	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
10836	</listitem>
10837
10838	<listitem>
10839	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
10840	bug #2067)</para>
10841	</listitem>
10842
10843	<listitem>
10844	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
10845	</listitem>
10846
10847	<listitem>
10848	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
10849	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
10850	</listitem>
10851
10852	<listitem>
10853	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
10854	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
10855	(bug #2184)</para>
10856	</listitem>
10857
10858	<listitem>
10859	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
10860	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
10861	</listitem>
10862
10863	<listitem>
10864	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
10865	(Windows guests only)</para>
10866	</listitem>
10867
10868	<listitem>
10869	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
10870	</listitem>
10871
10872	<listitem>
10873	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
10874	</listitem>
10875
10876	<listitem>
10877	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
10878	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
10879	</listitem>
10880
10881	<listitem>
10882	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
10883	</listitem>
10884
10885	<listitem>
10886	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
10887	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
10888	</para>
10889	</listitem>
10890
10891	<listitem>
10892	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
10893	</listitem>
10894
10895	<listitem>
10896	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
10897	</listitem>
10898
10899	<listitem>
10900	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
10901	a VM reboot</para>
10902	</listitem>
10903
10904	<listitem>
10905	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
10906	</listitem>
10907
10908	<listitem>
10909	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
10910	buggy X servers</para>
10911	</listitem>
10912
10913	<listitem>
10914	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
10915	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
10916	</listitem>
10917
10918	<listitem>
10919	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
10920	</listitem>
10921
10922	<listitem>
10923	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
10924	(bug #2128)</para>
10925	</listitem>
10926
10927	<listitem>
10928	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
10929	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
10930	</listitem>
10931
10932	<listitem>
10933	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
10934	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
10935	</listitem>
10936
10937	<listitem>
10938	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
10939	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
10940	</listitem>
10941
10942	<listitem>
10943	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
10944	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
10945	</listitem>
10946
10947	<listitem>
10948	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
10949	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
10950	</listitem>
10951
10952	<listitem>
10953	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
10954	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
10955	</listitem>
10956
10957	<listitem>
10958	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
10959	installer into a single package</para>
10960	</listitem>
10961
10962	<listitem>
10963	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
10964	port to the guest
10965	</para>
10966	</listitem>
10967
10968	</itemizedlist>
10969
10970	</sect1>
10971
10972	<sect1>
10973	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
10974
10975	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
10976	were added:<itemizedlist>
10977
10978	<listitem>
10979	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
10980	</listitem>
10981
10982	<listitem>
10983	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
10984	</listitem>
10985
10986	<listitem>
10987	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
10988	</listitem>
10989
10990	<listitem>
10991	<para>New-version notifier</para>
10992	</listitem>
10993
10994	<listitem>
10995	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
10996	</listitem>
10997
10998	<listitem>
10999	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
11000	</listitem>
11001
11002	<listitem>
11003	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
11004	</listitem>
11005
11006	<listitem>
11007	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
11008	</listitem>
11009
11010	<listitem>
11011	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
11012	</listitem>
11013
11014	<listitem>
11015	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
11016	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
11017	</listitem>
11018
11019	<listitem>
11020	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
11021	</listitem>
11022
11023	<listitem>
11024	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
11025	</listitem>
11026
11027	<listitem>
11028	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
11029	</listitem>
11030
11031	</itemizedlist></para>
11032
11033	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
11034
11035	<itemizedlist>
11036
11037	<listitem>
11038	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
11039	</listitem>
11040
11041	<listitem>
11042	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
11043	</listitem>
11044
11045	<listitem>
11046	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
11047	</listitem>
11048
11049	<listitem>
11050	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
11051	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
11052	</listitem>
11053
11054	<listitem>
11055	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
11056	restored</para>
11057	</listitem>
11058
11059	<listitem>
11060	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
11061	</listitem>
11062
11063	<listitem>
11064	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
11065	</listitem>
11066
11067	<listitem>
11068	<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>
11069	</listitem>
11070
11071	</itemizedlist>
11072
11073	</sect1>
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