| 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 | | |
| 32 | | [=#v6] |
| 33 | | '''!VirtualBox 5.2.6''' (released 2018-01-15)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 34 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 35 | | * GUI: fixed occasional screen corruption when host screen resolutio n is changed |
| 36 | | * User interface: increase proposed disk size when creating new VMs for Windows 7 and newer |
| 37 | | * User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens |
| 38 | | * VMM: Fixed problems using 256MB VRAM in raw-mode VMs |
| 39 | | * Audio: implemented support for audio playback and recording for macOS guests |
| 40 | | * Audio: further timing improvements for Windows 10 guests |
| 41 | | * Linux hosts: fixed problem accessing mini-toolbar under XFCE (bug #17280, contributed by Dusan Gallo) |
| 42 | | |
| 43 | | [=#v4] |
| 44 | | '''!VirtualBox 5.2.4''' (released 2017-12-19)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 45 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 46 | | * User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers (bug #17312) |
| 47 | | * User interface: various high resolution display adjustments |
| 48 | | * Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling (5.2 regression) |
| 49 | | * Audio: various fixes |
| 50 | | * USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers |
| 51 | | * Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized |
| 52 | | * X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled (5.2 regression, bugs #17189 and #17190) |
| 53 | | |
| 54 | | [=#v2] |
| 55 | | '''!VirtualBox 5.2.2''' (released 2017-11-24)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 56 | | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 57 | | * User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens |
| 58 | | * User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images |
| 59 | | * User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager |
| 60 | | * VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression) |
| 61 | | * Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196) |
| 62 | | * Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku) |
| 63 | | * Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227) |
| 64 | | * Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts |
| 65 | | * USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start |
| 66 | | * EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume |
| 67 | | * Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782) |
| 68 | | * Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267) |
| 69 | | * X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534) |
| 70 | | * Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534) |
| 71 | | * Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 |
| 72 | | * Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163) |
| 73 | | * Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277) |
| 74 | | |
| 75 | | [=#v0] |
| 76 | | '''!VirtualBox 5.2.0''' (released 2017-10-18)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 77 | | This is a major update. The following major new features were added: |
| 78 | | * VM export to Oracle Cloud (OPC) |
| 79 | | * Unattended guest installation (bug #5810; see the manual for more information) |
| 80 | | * Overhauled VM selector GUI (improved tools VM / global tools handling, new icons) |
| 81 | | * Added experimental audio support for video recording |
| 82 | | In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 83 | | * VMM: fixed reason for recent Linux kernels on also recent CPU models warning about "XSAVE consistency problem" |
| 84 | | * GUI: Virtual Media Manager rework allowing to manage media attributes, like size, location, type and description |
| 85 | | * GUI: Host-only Network Manager implemented to simplify managing corresponding networks and their attributes |
| 86 | | * GUI: Snapshot Pane rework allowing to manage snapshot attributes, like name and description; reworked snapshot details which looks more clear, corresponds to VM Details pane and reflects current VM state difference according to last snapshot taken |
| 87 | | * GUI: Audio settings extended with possibility to enable/disable audio input/output; corresponding changed were done to Audio and Video Capture settings pages; VM Devices menu and status-bar extended with corresponding actions and indicator as well |
| 88 | | * GUI: improvements with accessibility support |
| 89 | | * GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610) |
| 90 | | * Audio: implemented (optional) device enumeration support for audio backends |
| 91 | | * Audio: implemented support for host device callbacks (e.g. when adding or removing an audio device) |
| 92 | | * Audio: HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads |
| 93 | | * Audio: implemented ability to enable or disable audio input / output on-the-fly |
| 94 | | * Storage: implemented support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks |
| 95 | | * Storage: implemented support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe |
| 96 | | * Storage: first milestone of the I/O stack redesign landed |
| 97 | | * E1000: Fix for Windows XP freeze when booting with unplugged cable |
| 98 | | * NAT network: do not skip some port forwarding setup when multiple VMs are active (Windows hosts only; bug #17041) |
| 99 | | * Serial: fixed extremely rare misbehavior on VM poweroff |
| 100 | | * EFI: better video mode handling, supporting custom video modes and easier configuration (bug #6783) |
| 101 | | * BIOS: properly report floppy logical sectors per track for unusual formats |
| 102 | | * BIOS: update ATA disk parameter table vectors only if there is actually a corresponding ATA disk attached |
| 103 | | * PXE: speed up booting by better handling pending packets when the link is not up yet |
| 104 | | * VBoxManage: handle CPUID sub-leaf overrides better |
| 105 | | * Windows Additions: fix several 3D related crashes |
| 106 | | * Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames |
| 107 | | * Linux Additions: on systems using systemd, make sure that only the Guest Additions timesync service is active |
| 108 | | * many unlisted fixes and improvements |
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