| | 6 | [=#v8] |
| | 7 | '''!VirtualBox 5.2.8''' (released 2018-02-27)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 8 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 9 | * VMM: added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests |
| | 10 | * VMM: fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base (bug #10022) |
| | 11 | * Front end: Linux: prevent VM window from jumping and auto-resizing to tiny size after resizing it on HiDPI screen |
| | 12 | * Front end: Linux: fixed seamless regression caused by wm_class functionality (bugs #12534, #17304) |
| | 13 | * Front end: switched to https downloads |
| | 14 | * Front end: fixed crash while opening New machine wizard (s.a. forums topic 86592) |
| | 15 | * Audio: added support for distinguishing recording sources in the PulseAudio mixer on the host when multiple VMs are running |
| | 16 | * Audio: various fixes for the DirectSound backend |
| | 17 | * Video recording: added better file seeking support and fixed playback of recorded files with certain players (e.g. Firefox) |
| | 18 | * Audio: various fixes for Windows guest surround setups |
| | 19 | * Audio: various fixes for HDA emulation |
| | 20 | * Serial: fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port got out of sync (bug #17116) |
| | 21 | * Storage: fixed overwriting certain INQUIRY data for the DVD/CD drive attached to a AHCI controller |
| | 22 | * Storage: fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export |
| | 23 | * Network: fixed PXE boot regression in e1000 |
| | 24 | * Network: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device |
| | 25 | * 3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread (see bug #13653) |
| | 26 | * Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE malfunction (bugs #16407, #17489) |
| | 27 | * Windows guests: fixed incorrect function error when using shared folders in certain applications (bug #14118) |
| | 28 | * Linux guests: Linux 4.15 support (bugs #17311, #17320, #17282) |
| | 29 | * Linux guests: fixed black screen when 3D enabled in guests (bug #17463, 5.2.6 regression) |
| | 30 | * Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders |
| | 31 | |
