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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>dummy</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	</itemizedlist>
16
17	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
18
19	<itemizedlist>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
23	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
24	</listitem>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
28	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
33	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
34	option to show really all available details</para>
35	</listitem>
36
37	<listitem>
38	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
43	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
48	by François Revol</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
53	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	</itemizedlist>
57
58	</sect1>
59
60	<sect1>
61
62	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
63
64	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
65	were added:</para>
66
67	<itemizedlist>
68
69	<listitem>
70	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
71	</listitem>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
83	</listitem>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
87	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
92	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
93	</listitem>
94
95	<listitem>
96	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
97	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
98	</listitem>
99
100	<listitem>
101	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
102	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
103	planned. (bug #81)</para>
104	</listitem>
105
106	<listitem>
107	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
112	documentation for more information</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	</itemizedlist>
116
117	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
118
119	<itemizedlist>
120
121	<listitem>
122	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
123	on Mountain Lion</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
128	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
129	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
130	</listitem>
131
132	<listitem>
133	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
134	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
135	</listitem>
136
137	<listitem>
138	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
139	nested paging</para>
140	</listitem>
141
142	<listitem>
143	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
144	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
145	</listitem>
146
147	<listitem>
148	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
149	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
150	</listitem>
151
152	<listitem>
153	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
154	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
155	</listitem>
156
157	<listitem>
158	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
191	guests</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
196	used ISO images</para>
197	</listitem>
198
199	<listitem>
200	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
201	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
202	</listitem>
203
204	<listitem>
205	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
206	(bug #9973)</para>
207	</listitem>
208
209	<listitem>
210	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
211	(bug #9864)</para>
212	</listitem>
213
214	<listitem>
215	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
216	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
217	immediately</para>
218	</listitem>
219
220	<listitem>
221	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
222	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
227	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
228	any time using the VM menu</para>
229	</listitem>
230
231	<listitem>
232	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
261	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
270	support for v2 images)</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
279	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
292	VirtualBox update</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
297	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
298	</listitem>
299
300	<listitem>
301	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	</itemizedlist>
305	</sect1>
306
307	<sect1>
308	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
309
310	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
311	added:</para>
312
313	<itemizedlist>
314
315	<listitem>
316	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
317	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
318	and others)</para>
319	</listitem>
320
321	<listitem>
322	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
323	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
324	</listitem>
325
326	<listitem>
327	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
328	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
329	</listitem>
330
331	<listitem>
332	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
333	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
338	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
339	</listitem>
340
341	<listitem>
342	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
343	(bug #10631)</para>
344	</listitem>
345
346	<listitem>
347	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
348	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
349	(bug #10624)</para>
350	</listitem>
351
352	<listitem>
353	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
358	updated (bug #9887)</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	<listitem>
362	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	</itemizedlist>
366	</sect1>
367
368	<sect1>
369	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
370
371	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
372	added:</para>
373
374	<itemizedlist>
375
376	<listitem>
377	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
378	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
379	</listitem>
380
381	<listitem>
382	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
383	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
384	</listitem>
385
386	<listitem>
387	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
388	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
389	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
390	</listitem>
391
392	<listitem>
393	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
394	guests in rare cases</para>
395	</listitem>
396
397	<listitem>
398	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
399	</listitem>
400
401	<listitem>
402	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
403	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
408	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
409	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
410	</listitem>
411
412	<listitem>
413	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
422	reason (bug #6189)</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
431	paused</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
436	(bug #10267)</para>
437	</listitem>
438
439	<listitem>
440	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
445	(bug #10418)</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
450	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
451	(bug #10581)</para>
452	</listitem>
453
454	<listitem>
455	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
456	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
457	</listitem>
458
459	<listitem>
460	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
461	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
462	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
463	</listitem>
464
465	<listitem>
466	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	</itemizedlist>
470
471	</sect1>
472
473	<sect1>
474	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
475
476	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
477	added:</para>
478
479	<itemizedlist>
480
481	<listitem>
482	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
483	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
484	(bug #3783)</para>
485	</listitem>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
493	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	</itemizedlist>
501
502	</sect1>
503
504	<sect1>
505	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
506
507	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
508	added:</para>
509
510	<itemizedlist>
511
512	<listitem>
513	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
514	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
515	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
520	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
521	</listitem>
522
523	<listitem>
524	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
525	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
526	</listitem>
527
528	<listitem>
529	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
538	4.1.10 regression)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
547	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
556	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
561	4.1.10 regression)</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
566	closed (bug #6473)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
571	properly installed</para>
572	</listitem>
573
574	<listitem>
575	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	</itemizedlist>
579	</sect1>
580
581	<sect1>
582	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
583
584	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
585	added:</para>
586
587	<itemizedlist>
588
589	<listitem>
590	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
591	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
592	</listitem>
593
594	<listitem>
595	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
596	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
601	fusion</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
606	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
607	</listitem>
608
609	<listitem>
610	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
611	and network mask attributes</para>
612	</listitem>
613
614	<listitem>
615	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
616	(bug #10030)</para>
617	</listitem>
618
619	<listitem>
620	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
621	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
622	</listitem>
623
624	<listitem>
625	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
634	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
643	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
648	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
653	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
662	</listitem>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
682	in a zone</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
691	(bug #9651)</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
700	#10010)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
705	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
706	</listitem>
707
708	<listitem>
709	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
710	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
711	</listitem>
712
713	<listitem>
714	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
719	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
724	(bug #10151)</para>
725	</listitem>
726
727	<listitem>
728	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
729	guests</para>
730	</listitem>
731
732	<listitem>
733	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	</itemizedlist>
745	</sect1>
746
747	<sect1>
748	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
749
750	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
751	added:</para>
752
753	<itemizedlist>
754
755	<listitem>
756	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
757	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
758	</listitem>
759
760	<listitem>
761	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
766	(bug #9642)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
771	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
772	</para>
773	</listitem>
774
775	<listitem>
776	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
781	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
786	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
787	</listitem>
788
789	<listitem>
790	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
795	</listitem>
796
797	<listitem>
798	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
799	</listitem>
800
801	<listitem>
802	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
803	circumstances</para>
804	</listitem>
805
806	<listitem>
807	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
812	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
817	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
818	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
819	and for 3D support in general</para>
820	</listitem>
821
822	<listitem>
823	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
836	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	</itemizedlist>
840	</sect1>
841
842	<sect1>
843	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
844
845	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
846	added:</para>
847
848	<itemizedlist>
849
850	<listitem>
851	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
852	</listitem>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
856	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
857	</listitem>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
861	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
862	</listitem>
863
864	<listitem>
865	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
866	certain guests</para>
867	</listitem>
868
869	<listitem>
870	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
875	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
876	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
877	</listitem>
878
879	<listitem>
880	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
881	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
882	</listitem>
883
884	<listitem>
885	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
890	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
899	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
904	guests</para>
905	</listitem>
906
907	<listitem>
908	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
909	folders</para>
910	</listitem>
911
912	<listitem>
913	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
914	shared folders</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
919	users and stale sessions</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
924	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	</itemizedlist>
928	</sect1>
929
930	<sect1>
931	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
932
933	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
934	added:</para>
935
936	<itemizedlist>
937
938	<listitem>
939	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
940	bug #9458)</para>
941	</listitem>
942
943	<listitem>
944	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
945	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
946	</listitem>
947
948	<listitem>
949	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
950	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
951	</listitem>
952
953	<listitem>
954	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
959	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
964	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
969	(bug #9308)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
974	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
975	</listitem>
976
977	<listitem>
978	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
979	(bug #9503)</para>
980	</listitem>
981
982	<listitem>
983	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
984	(bug #9242)</para>
985	</listitem>
986
987	<listitem>
988	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
989	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
990	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
991	</listitem>
992
993	<listitem>
994	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
999	images</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1004	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1005	</listitem>
1006
1007	<listitem>
1008	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1009	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1010	</listitem>
1011
1012	<listitem>
1013	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1014	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1015	</listitem>
1016
1017	<listitem>
1018	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1019	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1020	</listitem>
1021
1022	<listitem>
1023	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1024	#9387)</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1029	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1034	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1039	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1040	</listitem>
1041
1042	<listitem>
1043	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1044	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1045	</listitem>
1046
1047	<listitem>
1048	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1057	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1062	(bug #1578)</para>
1063	</listitem>
1064
1065	<listitem>
1066	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1067	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1068	</listitem>
1069
1070	<listitem>
1071	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1072	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1073	</listitem>
1074
1075	<listitem>
1076	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1077	(bug #9535)</para>
1078	</listitem>
1079
1080	<listitem>
1081	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1082	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1083	</listitem>
1084
1085	<listitem>
1086	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1087	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1088	</listitem>
1089
1090	<listitem>
1091	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1092	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1097	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1098	</listitem>
1099
1100	<listitem>
1101	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1102	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1103	</listitem>
1104
1105	<listitem>
1106	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1107	</para>
1108	</listitem>
1109
1110	<listitem>
1111	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1112	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1113	</para>
1114	</listitem>
1115
1116	<listitem>
1117	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1118	(bug #6229)
1119	</para>
1120	</listitem>
1121
1122	<listitem>
1123	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1124	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1125	</listitem>
1126
1127	<listitem>
1128	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1129	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1130	</listitem>
1131
1132	<listitem>
1133	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1134	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1139	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1144	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1149	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1150	</listitem>
1151
1152	<listitem>
1153	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1154	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1155	</listitem>
1156
1157	<listitem>
1158	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1159	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1160	</listitem>
1161
1162	</itemizedlist>
1163	</sect1>
1164
1165	<sect1>
1166	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1167
1168	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1169	added:</para>
1170
1171	<itemizedlist>
1172
1173	<listitem>
1174	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1175	</listitem>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1179	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1180	</listitem>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1188	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1193	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1194	</listitem>
1195
1196	<listitem>
1197	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1198	a live snapshot</para>
1199	</listitem>
1200
1201	<listitem>
1202	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1203	due to a library version conflict</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1208	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1209	</listitem>
1210
1211	<listitem>
1212	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1213	at a time by default</para>
1214	</listitem>
1215
1216	<listitem>
1217	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1218	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1219	#9368)</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1224	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1225	</listitem>
1226
1227	<listitem>
1228	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1229	VMs</para>
1230	</listitem>
1231
1232	<listitem>
1233	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1234	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1235	</listitem>
1236
1237	<listitem>
1238	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1239	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1240	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1241	</listitem>
1242
1243	<listitem>
1244	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1245	(bug #9308)</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1250	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1259	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1264	(bug #9242)</para>
1265	</listitem>
1266
1267	<listitem>
1268	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1269	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1270	</listitem>
1271
1272	<listitem>
1273	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1274	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1275	</listitem>
1276
1277	<listitem>
1278	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1279	USB devices</para>
1280	</listitem>
1281
1282	<listitem>
1283	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1284	and warn about it</para>
1285	</listitem>
1286
1287	<listitem>
1288	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1297	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1302	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1303	</listitem>
1304
1305	<listitem>
1306	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1307	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1312	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1317	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1318	</listitem>
1319
1320	<listitem>
1321	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1322	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1323	</listitem>
1324
1325	<listitem>
1326	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1327	2.6.37 and above</para>
1328	</listitem>
1329
1330	</itemizedlist>
1331	</sect1>
1332
1333	<sect1>
1334	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1335
1336	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1337	were added:</para>
1338
1339	<itemizedlist>
1340
1341	<listitem>
1342	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1343	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1344	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1345	</listitem>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1349	</listitem>
1350
1351	<listitem>
1352	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1357	bug #7822)</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1366	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1371	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1372	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1373	anymore)</para>
1374	</listitem>
1375
1376	<listitem>
1377	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1378	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1383	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1384	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1385	</listitem>
1386
1387	<listitem>
1388	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1389	</para>
1390	</listitem>
1391
1392	<listitem>
1393	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1394	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1395	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1396	</listitem>
1397
1398	<listitem>
1399	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1400	with VBoxManage</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1405	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1406	</listitem>
1407
1408
1409	</itemizedlist>
1410
1411	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1412
1413	<itemizedlist>
1414
1415	<listitem>
1416	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1417	</listitem>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1429	of the current state</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1438	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1443	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1444	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1449	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1450	</listitem>
1451
1452	<listitem>
1453	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1462	dialog</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1467	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1468	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1469	</listitem>
1470
1471	<listitem>
1472	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1473	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1478	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1483	be a valid UUID</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1488	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1489	</listitem>
1490
1491	<listitem>
1492	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1493	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1494	cases</para>
1495	</listitem>
1496
1497	<listitem>
1498	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1499	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1500	improve performance</para>
1501	</listitem>
1502
1503	<listitem>
1504	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1505	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1506	on a temporary basis</para>
1507	</listitem>
1508
1509	<listitem>
1510	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1511	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1512	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1513	</listitem>
1514
1515	<listitem>
1516	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1517	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1518	</listitem>
1519
1520	<listitem>
1521	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1522	images in VDI format</para>
1523	</listitem>
1524
1525	<listitem>
1526	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1527	VMDK format</para>
1528	</listitem>
1529
1530	<listitem>
1531	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1532	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1533	</listitem>
1534
1535	<listitem>
1536	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1557	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1562	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1563	</listitem>
1564
1565	<listitem>
1566	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1567	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1568	</listitem>
1569
1570	<listitem>
1571	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1572	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1573	</listitem>
1574
1575	<listitem>
1576	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1577	RDP clients</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1586	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1591	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1596	simultaneously</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1601	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1602	location values in many places</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1611	builds</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1620	window (bug #4491)</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1625	removing a VM</para>
1626	</listitem>
1627
1628	<listitem>
1629	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1638	166 and above)</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1643	hosts</para>
1644	</listitem>
1645
1646	<listitem>
1647	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1652	from the host</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	</itemizedlist>
1660
1661	</sect1>
1662
1663	<sect1>
1664	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1665
1666	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1667	added:</para>
1668
1669	<itemizedlist>
1670
1671	<listitem>
1672	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1673	</listitem>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1677	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1678	</listitem>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1682	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1683	</listitem>
1684
1685	<listitem>
1686	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1687	a live snapshot</para>
1688	</listitem>
1689
1690	<listitem>
1691	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1692	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1693	</listitem>
1694
1695	<listitem>
1696	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1705	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1710	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1715	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1724	images</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1729	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1733	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1738	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740
1741	<listitem>
1742	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1747	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1752	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1753	</listitem>
1754
1755	<listitem>
1756	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1761	(bug #9370)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1766	(bug #9535)</para>
1767	</listitem>
1768
1769	<listitem>
1770	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1771	(bug #1578)</para>
1772	</listitem>
1773
1774	<listitem>
1775	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1776	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1777	</listitem>
1778
1779	<listitem>
1780	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1781	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1782	</para>
1783	</listitem>
1784
1785	<listitem>
1786	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1787	</para>
1788	</listitem>
1789
1790	<listitem>
1791	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1792	2.6.37 and above</para>
1793	</listitem>
1794
1795	<listitem>
1796	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1797	(bug #6229)</para>
1798	</listitem>
1799
1800	<listitem>
1801	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1802	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1803	</listitem>
1804
1805	</itemizedlist>
1806	</sect1>
1807
1808	<sect1>
1809	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1810
1811	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1812	added:</para>
1813
1814	<itemizedlist>
1815
1816	<listitem>
1817	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1818	</listitem>
1819
1820	<listitem>
1821	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1822	166 and above)</para>
1823	</listitem>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1827	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1828	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1829	</listitem>
1830
1831	<listitem>
1832	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1833	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1834	</listitem>
1835
1836	<listitem>
1837	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1838	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1839	</listitem>
1840
1841	<listitem>
1842	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1847	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1848	</listitem>
1849
1850	<listitem>
1851	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1852	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1853	</listitem>
1854
1855	<listitem>
1856	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1857	builds</para>
1858	</listitem>
1859
1860	<listitem>
1861	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	</itemizedlist>
1865	</sect1>
1866	<sect1>
1867	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1868
1869	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1870	added:</para>
1871
1872	<itemizedlist>
1873
1874	<listitem>
1875	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1876	</listitem>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1884	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1889	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1890	</listitem>
1891
1892	<listitem>
1893	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1898	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1907	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1912	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1913	</listitem>
1914
1915	<listitem>
1916	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1925	file was not written during export</para>
1926	</listitem>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1942	binaries</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1951	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1956	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1957	</listitem>
1958
1959	<listitem>
1960	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1965	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	</itemizedlist>
1969	</sect1>
1970
1971	<sect1>
1972	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1973
1974	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1975	added:</para>
1976
1977	<itemizedlist>
1978
1979	<listitem>
1980	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1981	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1982	</listitem>
1983
1984	<listitem>
1985	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1986	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1991	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1992	</listitem>
1993
1994	<listitem>
1995	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
1996	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
1997	</listitem>
1998
1999	<listitem>
2000	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2001	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2002	</listitem>
2003
2004	<listitem>
2005	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2006	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2007	</listitem>
2008
2009	<listitem>
2010	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2011	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2012	</listitem>
2013
2014	<listitem>
2015	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2016	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2029	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2034	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2035	</listitem>
2036
2037	<listitem>
2038	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2047	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2052	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2053	</listitem>
2054
2055	<listitem>
2056	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2057	window</para>
2058	</listitem>
2059
2060	<listitem>
2061	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2062	Fedora 15</para>
2063	</listitem>
2064
2065	<listitem>
2066	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2067	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2068	</listitem>
2069
2070	<listitem>
2071	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2072	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2073	</listitem>
2074
2075	<listitem>
2076	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2077	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2078	</listitem>
2079
2080	<listitem>
2081	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2086	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	</itemizedlist>
2090	</sect1>
2091
2092	<sect1>
2093	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2094
2095	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2096	added:</para>
2097
2098	<itemizedlist>
2099
2100	<listitem>
2101	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2102	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2103	</listitem>
2104
2105	<listitem>
2106	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2107	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2108	</listitem>
2109
2110	<listitem>
2111	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2112	(bug #8006)</para>
2113	</listitem>
2114
2115	<listitem>
2116	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2117	(bug #8726)</para>
2118	</listitem>
2119
2120	<listitem>
2121	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2130	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2135	(bug #8469)</para>
2136	</listitem>
2137
2138	<listitem>
2139	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2140	selectors</para>
2141	</listitem>
2142
2143	<listitem>
2144	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2145	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2150	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2151	</listitem>
2152
2153	<listitem>
2154	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2155	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2156	</listitem>
2157
2158	<listitem>
2159	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2164	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2177	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2182	I/O error occurred</para>
2183	</listitem>
2184
2185	<listitem>
2186	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2187	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2188	</listitem>
2189
2190	<listitem>
2191	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2192	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2193	</listitem>
2194
2195	<listitem>
2196	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2197	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2198	if no medium is present</para>
2199	</listitem>
2200
2201	<listitem>
2202	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2203	</listitem>
2204
2205	<listitem>
2206	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2207	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2212	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2213	</listitem>
2214
2215	<listitem>
2216	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2217	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2226	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2231	library (bug #8063)</para>
2232	</listitem>
2233
2234	<listitem>
2235	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2236	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2237	</listitem>
2238
2239	<listitem>
2240	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2253	changed on import</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2262	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2267	(bug #8593)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2272	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2277	captured</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2282	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2283	</listitem>
2284
2285	<listitem>
2286	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2287	</para>
2288	</listitem>
2289
2290	<listitem>
2291	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2292	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2293	</listitem>
2294
2295	<listitem>
2296	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2297	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2298	</listitem>
2299
2300	<listitem>
2301	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2302	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2303	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2308	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2317	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2322	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2327	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2348	(bug #7946)</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	</itemizedlist>
2364
2365	</sect1>
2366
2367	<sect1>
2368	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2369
2370	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2371	added:</para>
2372
2373	<itemizedlist>
2374
2375	<listitem>
2376	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2377	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2378	</listitem>
2379
2380	<listitem>
2381	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2382	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2383	</listitem>
2384
2385	<listitem>
2386	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2387	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2388	</listitem>
2389
2390	<listitem>
2391	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2392	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2393	</listitem>
2394
2395	<listitem>
2396	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2397	number of host network interfaces</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	<listitem>
2401	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2402	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2403	</listitem>
2404
2405	<listitem>
2406	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2411	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2416	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2417	</listitem>
2418
2419	<listitem>
2420	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2421	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2422	</listitem>
2423
2424	<listitem>
2425	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2430	(bug #6577)</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2435	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2436	(bug #8235)</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2441	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2442	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2443	</listitem>
2444
2445	<listitem>
2446	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2451	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2452	</listitem>
2453
2454	<listitem>
2455	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2460	(bug #7966)</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2469	</listitem>
2470
2471	<listitem>
2472	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2473	</listitem>
2474
2475	<listitem>
2476	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2477	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2490	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2495	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2496	</listitem>
2497
2498	<listitem>
2499	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2504	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2509	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2510	(bug #8122)</para>
2511	</listitem>
2512
2513	<listitem>
2514	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2515	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2516	</listitem>
2517
2518	<listitem>
2519	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2524	</listitem>
2525
2526	<listitem>
2527	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2528	(bug #1548)</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2537	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	<listitem>
2541	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2546	(bug #8231)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2551	11.04 Alpha</para>
2552	</listitem>
2553
2554	<listitem>
2555	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2556	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2557	</listitem>
2558
2559	<listitem>
2560	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2561	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2562	</listitem>
2563
2564	<listitem>
2565	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2566	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2567	</listitem>
2568
2569	<listitem>
2570	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2571	with VBoxGINA</para>
2572	</listitem>
2573
2574	</itemizedlist>
2575
2576	</sect1>
2577
2578	<sect1>
2579	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2580
2581	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2582	added:</para>
2583
2584	<itemizedlist>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2588	settings vanished</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2593	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2594	</listitem>
2595
2596	<listitem>
2597	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2598	created (bug #8031)</para>
2599	</listitem>
2600
2601	<listitem>
2602	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2607	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2612	an extension pack</para>
2613	</listitem>
2614
2615	<listitem>
2616	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2617	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2618	</listitem>
2619
2620	<listitem>
2621	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2626	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2631	host-only interface</para>
2632	</listitem>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2636	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2641	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2646	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2651	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2656	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2669	guests</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2682	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2687	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2688	</listitem>
2689
2690	<listitem>
2691	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2692	a VM start</para>
2693	</listitem>
2694
2695	<listitem>
2696	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2697	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2698	</listitem>
2699
2700	<listitem>
2701	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2702	(bug #6067)</para>
2703	</listitem>
2704
2705	<listitem>
2706	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2707	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2708	</listitem>
2709
2710	<listitem>
2711	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2712	not saved to machine XML</para>
2713	</listitem>
2714
2715	<listitem>
2716	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2717	#7983)</para>
2718	</listitem>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2722	#7981)</para>
2723	</listitem>
2724
2725	<listitem>
2726	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2731	regression)</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2736	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2741	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2742	</listitem>
2743
2744	</itemizedlist>
2745
2746	</sect1>
2747
2748	<sect1>
2749	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2750
2751	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2752	were added:</para>
2753
2754	<itemizedlist>
2755
2756	<listitem>
2757	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2758	</listitem>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2766	<itemizedlist>
2767	<listitem>
2768	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2769	</listitem>
2770
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2785	states, and optionally including attached
2786	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2787	can do the same now)</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	</itemizedlist>
2795	</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	<listitem>
2799	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>New virtual hardware:
2804	<itemizedlist>
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2807	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2808	</listitem>
2809
2810	<listitem>
2811	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2812	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2813	</listitem>
2814	</itemizedlist>
2815	</para>
2816	</listitem>
2817
2818	<listitem>
2819	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2820	<itemizedlist>
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2827	</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2832	now</para>
2833	</listitem>
2834
2835	<listitem>
2836	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	</itemizedlist>
2840	</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2845	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	<listitem>
2849	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2850	Parallels images</para>
2851	</listitem>
2852
2853	<listitem>
2854	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2859	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2864	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2865	</listitem>
2866
2867	</itemizedlist>
2868
2869	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2870
2871	<itemizedlist>
2872
2873	<listitem>
2874	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2875	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2876	</listitem>
2877
2878	<listitem>
2879	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2884	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2889	(bug #1657)</para>
2890	</listitem>
2891
2892	<listitem>
2893	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2902	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2907	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2908	</listitem>
2909
2910	<listitem>
2911	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2912	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2913	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2914	</listitem>
2915
2916	<listitem>
2917	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2918	again (bug #6864)</para>
2919	</listitem>
2920
2921	<listitem>
2922	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2923	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2924	</listitem>
2925
2926	<listitem>
2927	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2928	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2929	</listitem>
2930
2931	<listitem>
2932	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2949	</listitem>
2950
2951	<listitem>
2952	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2961	(bug #7058)</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2966	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2967	</listitem>
2968
2969	<listitem>
2970	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2971	circumstances</para>
2972	</listitem>
2973
2974	<listitem>
2975	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2976	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2977	#5578)
2978	</para>
2979	</listitem>
2980
2981	<listitem>
2982	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2987	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2988	</listitem>
2989
2990	<listitem>
2991	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
2996	#6760)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3001	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3002	</listitem>
3003
3004	<listitem>
3005	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3006	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3007	</listitem>
3008
3009	<listitem>
3010	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3011	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3012	</listitem>
3013
3014	<listitem>
3015	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3020	file</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3025	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3026	</listitem>
3027
3028	</itemizedlist>
3029
3030	</sect1>
3031
3032	<sect1>
3033	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3034
3035	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3036	added:</para>
3037
3038	<itemizedlist>
3039
3040	<listitem>
3041	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3042	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3043	</listitem>
3044
3045	<listitem>
3046	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3047	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3048	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3049	</listitem>
3050
3051	<listitem>
3052	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3061	</listitem>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3065	the VM is running</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3070	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3071	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3072	starting from a saved state</para>
3073	</listitem>
3074
3075	<listitem>
3076	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3081	</listitem>
3082
3083	<listitem>
3084	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3097	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3102	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3107	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3108	</listitem>
3109
3110	<listitem>
3111	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3116	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3117	</para>
3118	</listitem>
3119
3120	<listitem>
3121	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3122	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3123	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3128	only)</para>
3129	</listitem>
3130
3131	<listitem>
3132	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3133	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3134	</listitem>
3135
3136	<listitem>
3137	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3150	state (bug #4124)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3155	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3156	</listitem>
3157
3158	<listitem>
3159	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3164	(bug #2996)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3169	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3178	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3183	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3184	</listitem>
3185
3186	<listitem>
3187	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3188	user accounts for VM information</para>
3189	</listitem>
3190
3191	</itemizedlist>
3192
3193	</sect1>
3194
3195	<sect1>
3196	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3197
3198	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3199	added:</para>
3200
3201	<itemizedlist>
3202
3203	<listitem>
3204	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3205	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3206	</listitem>
3207
3208	<listitem>
3209	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3222	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3227	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3232	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3233	</listitem>
3234
3235	<listitem>
3236	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3237	(bug #4952)</para>
3238	</listitem>
3239
3240	<listitem>
3241	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3242	bug #6122)</para>
3243	</listitem>
3244
3245	<listitem>
3246	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3247	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3248	</listitem>
3249
3250	<listitem>
3251	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3252	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3253	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3254	</listitem>
3255
3256	<listitem>
3257	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3262	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3267	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3268	</listitem>
3269
3270	<listitem>
3271	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3272	canceled</para>
3273	</listitem>
3274
3275	<listitem>
3276	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3293	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3302	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3307	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3308	</listitem>
3309
3310	<listitem>
3311	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3316	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3325	circumstances</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3330	printers</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3339	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3344	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3345	</listitem>
3346
3347	<listitem>
3348	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3349	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3350	circumstances</para>
3351	</listitem>
3352
3353	<listitem>
3354	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3355	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3360	as supported extension</para>
3361	</listitem>
3362
3363	<listitem>
3364	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3365	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3366	</listitem>
3367
3368	<listitem>
3369	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3370	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3371	</listitem>
3372
3373	<listitem>
3374	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3379	(bug #7366)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3388	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3393	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3398	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3403	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3404	</listitem>
3405
3406	<listitem>
3407	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3408	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3409	</listitem>
3410
3411	<listitem>
3412	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3421	more than one environment variable</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3426	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3427	</listitem>
3428
3429	<listitem>
3430	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3431	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3432	</listitem>
3433
3434	<listitem>
3435	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3436	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3437	</listitem>
3438
3439	<listitem>
3440	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3441	enumerating logged in users</para>
3442	</listitem>
3443
3444	<listitem>
3445	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3458	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3467	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3472	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3473	</listitem>
3474
3475	<listitem>
3476	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3477	(bug #7448)</para>
3478	</listitem>
3479
3480	<listitem>
3481	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	</itemizedlist>
3493
3494	</sect1>
3495
3496	<sect1>
3497	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3498
3499	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3500	added:</para>
3501
3502	<itemizedlist>
3503
3504	<listitem>
3505	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3506	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3515	bug #6809)</para>
3516	</listitem>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3528	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3529	</listitem>
3530
3531	<listitem>
3532	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3533	changes</para>
3534	</listitem>
3535
3536	<listitem>
3537	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3542	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3547	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3548	</listitem>
3549
3550	<listitem>
3551	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3568	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3577	(bug #6832)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3582	guests</para>
3583	</listitem>
3584
3585	<listitem>
3586	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3591	without external tools and tricks</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3596	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3597	</listitem>
3598
3599	<listitem>
3600	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3605	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3610	shutdown</para>
3611	</listitem>
3612
3613	<listitem>
3614	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3615	fixes</para>
3616	</listitem>
3617
3618	<listitem>
3619	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3620	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3621	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3622	</para>
3623	</listitem>
3624
3625	<listitem>
3626	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3627	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3628	</listitem>
3629
3630	<listitem>
3631	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3632	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3633	</listitem>
3634
3635	<listitem>
3636	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3637	</para>
3638	</listitem>
3639
3640	<listitem>
3641	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	</itemizedlist>
3653
3654	</sect1>
3655
3656	<sect1>
3657	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3658
3659	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3660	added:</para>
3661
3662	<itemizedlist>
3663
3664	<listitem>
3665	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3666	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3671	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3676	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3677	</listitem>
3678
3679	<listitem>
3680	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3697	assigned</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3702	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3703	</listitem>
3704
3705	<listitem>
3706	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3707	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3716	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3721	again (bug #7022).
3722	</para>
3723	</listitem>
3724
3725	<listitem>
3726	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3727	(bug #6768)</para>
3728	</listitem>
3729
3730	<listitem>
3731	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3732	(bug #6927)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3737	bug #7031)</para>
3738	</listitem>
3739
3740	<listitem>
3741	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3742	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3743	</listitem>
3744
3745	<listitem>
3746	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3747	bug #6987)</para>
3748	</listitem>
3749
3750	<listitem>
3751	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3760	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3769	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3778	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3779	bug #6872)</para>
3780	</listitem>
3781
3782	<listitem>
3783	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3788	(performance tweak)</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3793	is currently paused</para>
3794	</listitem>
3795
3796	<listitem>
3797	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3798	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3799	</listitem>
3800
3801	<listitem>
3802	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3807	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3812	not properly saved</para>
3813	</listitem>
3814
3815	<listitem>
3816	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3817	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3834	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3843	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3848	(bug #5251)</para>
3849	</listitem>
3850
3851	<listitem>
3852	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3853	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3854	</listitem>
3855
3856	<listitem>
3857	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3866	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3867	</listitem>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3871	</listitem>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	</itemizedlist>
3882	</sect1>
3883
3884	<sect1>
3885	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3886
3887	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3888	added:</para>
3889
3890	<itemizedlist>
3891
3892	<listitem>
3893	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3894	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3895	</listitem>
3896
3897	<listitem>
3898	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3903	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3908	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3909	</listitem>
3910
3911	<listitem>
3912	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3917	again (bug #6864)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3922	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3923	</listitem>
3924
3925	<listitem>
3926	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3931	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	</itemizedlist>
3939
3940	</sect1>
3941
3942	<sect1>
3943	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3944
3945	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3946	added:</para>
3947
3948	<itemizedlist>
3949
3950	<listitem>
3951	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3952	</listitem>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3956	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3957	</listitem>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3961	</listitem>
3962
3963	<listitem>
3964	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3965	state</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4010	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4015	(bug #6784)</para>
4016	</listitem>
4017
4018	<listitem>
4019	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4028	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4041	host only</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4046	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4051	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4060	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4073	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4074	</listitem>
4075
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4090	(bug #6714)</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4099	</listitem>
4100
4101	<listitem>
4102	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	</itemizedlist>
4114
4115	</sect1>
4116
4117	<sect1>
4118	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4119
4120	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4121	were added:</para>
4122
4123	<itemizedlist>
4124
4125	<listitem>
4126	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4127	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4128	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4129	</listitem>
4130
4131	<listitem>
4132	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4137	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4142	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4143	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4144	</listitem>
4145
4146	<listitem>
4147	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4148	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4149	</listitem>
4150
4151	<listitem>
4152	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4153	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4154	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4155	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4156	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4157	</listitem>
4158
4159	<listitem>
4160	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4165	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4170	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4171	</listitem>
4172
4173	<listitem>
4174	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4191	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4192	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4193	</listitem>
4194
4195	<listitem>
4196	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4197	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4198	</listitem>
4199
4200	</itemizedlist>
4201
4202	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4203
4204	<itemizedlist>
4205
4206	<listitem>
4207	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4208	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4209	</listitem>
4210
4211	<listitem>
4212	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4217	VM</para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4222	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4227	#1669)</para>
4228	</listitem>
4229
4230	<listitem>
4231	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4232	#6442)</para>
4233	</listitem>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4237	combination (bug #684)</para>
4238	</listitem>
4239
4240	<listitem>
4241	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4242	the VM from the GUI</para>
4243	</listitem>
4244
4245	<listitem>
4246	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4247	medium is not accessible</para>
4248	</listitem>
4249
4250	<listitem>
4251	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4256	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4261	#3106)</para>
4262	</listitem>
4263
4264	<listitem>
4265	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4266	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4267	it</para>
4268	</listitem>
4269
4270	<listitem>
4271	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4280	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4285	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4286	</listitem>
4287
4288	<listitem>
4289	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4298	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4307	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4316	in VirtualBox</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4321	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4326	VirtualBox</para>
4327	</listitem>
4328
4329	<listitem>
4330	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4335	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	</itemizedlist>
4339	</sect1>
4340
4341	<sect1>
4342	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4343
4344	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4345	added:</para>
4346
4347	<itemizedlist>
4348
4349	<listitem>
4350	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4351	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4352	</listitem>
4353
4354	<listitem>
4355	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4364	only) </para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4369	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4370	</listitem>
4371
4372	<listitem>
4373	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4374	interface version</para>
4375	</listitem>
4376
4377	<listitem>
4378	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4379	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4380	slot empty</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4385	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4386	(bug #4220)</para>
4387	</listitem>
4388
4389	<listitem>
4390	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4395	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4400	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4401	</listitem>
4402
4403	<listitem>
4404	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4405	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4406	</listitem>
4407
4408	<listitem>
4409	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4410	attached</para>
4411	</listitem>
4412
4413	<listitem>
4414	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4415	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4424	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4429	is bug #6408)</para>
4430	</listitem>
4431
4432	<listitem>
4433	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4438	fail to initialize</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4447	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4452	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4453	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4462	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4467	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4468	</listitem>
4469
4470	<listitem>
4471	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4472	(bug #6435)</para>
4473	</listitem>
4474
4475	<listitem>
4476	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4477	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4478	</listitem>
4479
4480	<listitem>
4481	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4482	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4483	(bug #6488)</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4488	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	<listitem>
4492	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4493	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4494	</listitem>
4495
4496	<listitem>
4497	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4498	#5227)</para>
4499	</listitem>
4500
4501	<listitem>
4502	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4503	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4504	</listitem>
4505
4506	<listitem>
4507	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4512	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	</itemizedlist>
4516	</sect1>
4517
4518	<sect1>
4519	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4520
4521	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4522	added:</para>
4523
4524	<itemizedlist>
4525
4526	<listitem>
4527	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4528	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4529	</listitem>
4530
4531	<listitem>
4532	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4533	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4534	</listitem>
4535
4536	<listitem>
4537	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4538	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4539	</listitem>
4540
4541	<listitem>
4542	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4543	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4544	</listitem>
4545
4546	<listitem>
4547	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4552	</listitem>
4553
4554	<listitem>
4555	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4564	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4569	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4574	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4575	</listitem>
4576
4577	<listitem>
4578	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4587	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4592	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4593	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4594	</listitem>
4595
4596	<listitem>
4597	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4598	(bug #5297)</para>
4599	</listitem>
4600
4601	<listitem>
4602	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4603	(bug #4962)</para>
4604	</listitem>
4605
4606	<listitem>
4607	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4608	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4609	</listitem>
4610
4611	<listitem>
4612	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4613	(bug #6176)</para>
4614	</listitem>
4615
4616	<listitem>
4617	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4618	certain circumstances</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4623	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4624	</listitem>
4625
4626	<listitem>
4627	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4636	(bug #3571)</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4641	devices</para>
4642	</listitem>
4643
4644	<listitem>
4645	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4646	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4647	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4648	</listitem>
4649
4650	<listitem>
4651	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4652	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4653	</listitem>
4654
4655	<listitem>
4656	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4661	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4666	response</para>
4667	</listitem>
4668
4669	<listitem>
4670	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4687	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4696	</listitem>
4697
4698	<listitem>
4699	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4700	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4701	</listitem>
4702
4703	<listitem>
4704	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	</itemizedlist>
4720	</sect1>
4721
4722	<sect1>
4723	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4724
4725	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4726	added:</para>
4727
4728	<itemizedlist>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4740	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4745	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4746	</listitem>
4747
4748	<listitem>
4749	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4750	(bug #3945)</para>
4751	</listitem>
4752
4753	<listitem>
4754	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4755	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4760	and AMD-V only) </para>
4761	</listitem>
4762
4763	<listitem>
4764	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4769	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4770	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4771	</listitem>
4772
4773	<listitem>
4774	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4775	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4776	</listitem>
4777
4778	<listitem>
4779	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4780	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4781	</listitem>
4782
4783	<listitem>
4784	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4785	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4786	</listitem>
4787
4788	<listitem>
4789	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4790	snapshots command</para>
4791	</listitem>
4792
4793	<listitem>
4794	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4799	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	<listitem>
4807	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4808	</listitem>
4809
4810	<listitem>
4811	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4816	(KWin bug)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4821	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4842	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4847	bug #5787)</para>
4848	</listitem>
4849
4850	<listitem>
4851	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4852	DHCP requests</para>
4853	</listitem>
4854
4855	<listitem>
4856	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4857	(bug #3217)</para>
4858	</listitem>
4859
4860	<listitem>
4861	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4862	range (bug #5923)</para>
4863	</listitem>
4864
4865	<listitem>
4866	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4883	file (bug #5681)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4888	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4889	</listitem>
4890
4891	<listitem>
4892	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4893	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4894	</listitem>
4895
4896	<listitem>
4897	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4898	regression)</para>
4899	</listitem>
4900
4901	<listitem>
4902	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4919	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4920	</listitem>
4921
4922	<listitem>
4923	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4936	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4945	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4962	(bug #5731)</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4967	again</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	</itemizedlist>
4971
4972	</sect1>
4973
4974	<sect1>
4975	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4976
4977	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4978	added:</para>
4979
4980	<itemizedlist>
4981
4982	<listitem>
4983	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4984	</listitem>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4988	</listitem>
4989
4990	<listitem>
4991	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	<listitem>
4995	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5004	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5029	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5034	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5035	</listitem>
5036
5037	<listitem>
5038	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5039	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5040	#1762)</para>
5041	</listitem>
5042
5043	<listitem>
5044	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5045	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5046	</listitem>
5047
5048	<listitem>
5049	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5050	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5051	</listitem>
5052
5053	<listitem>
5054	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5055	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5056	</listitem>
5057
5058	<listitem>
5059	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5068	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5081	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5086	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5087	</listitem>
5088
5089	<listitem>
5090	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5095	guests</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5100	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5101	</listitem>
5102
5103	<listitem>
5104	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5105	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5110	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5111	</listitem>
5112
5113	<listitem>
5114	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5115	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5116	</listitem>
5117
5118	<listitem>
5119	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5136	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	</itemizedlist>
5144
5145	</sect1>
5146
5147	<sect1>
5148	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5149
5150	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5151	were added:</para>
5152
5153	<itemizedlist>
5154
5155	<listitem>
5156	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5157	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5158	</listitem>
5159
5160	<listitem>
5161	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5162	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5163	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5168	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5169	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5170	</listitem>
5171
5172	<listitem>
5173	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5174	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5175	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5176	</listitem>
5177
5178	<listitem>
5179	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5180	running</para>
5181	</listitem>
5182
5183	<listitem>
5184	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5185	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5190	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5191	</listitem>
5192
5193	<listitem>
5194	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5195	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5196	</listitem>
5197
5198	<listitem>
5199	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5200	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5201	</listitem>
5202
5203	</itemizedlist>
5204
5205	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5206
5207	<itemizedlist>
5208
5209	<listitem>
5210	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5211	</listitem>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5219	</listitem>
5220
5221	<listitem>
5222	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5223	(bug #5291)</para>
5224	</listitem>
5225
5226	<listitem>
5227	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5228	</listitem>
5229
5230	<listitem>
5231	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5240	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5241	</listitem>
5242
5243	<listitem>
5244	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5245	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5262	</listitem>
5263
5264	<listitem>
5265	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5270	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5275	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5276	</listitem>
5277
5278	<listitem>
5279	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5280	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5281	</listitem>
5282
5283	<listitem>
5284	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5285	(bug #2723)</para>
5286	</listitem>
5287
5288	<listitem>
5289	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5294	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5299	optional manifest file on import</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5308	(bug #3773)</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5321	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5326	(bug #4866)</para>
5327	</listitem>
5328
5329	<listitem>
5330	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5331	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5336	certain conditions</para>
5337	</listitem>
5338
5339	<listitem>
5340	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5357	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5366	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5387	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5392	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5393	(bug #928)</para>
5394	</listitem>
5395
5396	<listitem>
5397	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	</itemizedlist>
5401
5402	</sect1>
5403
5404	<sect1>
5405	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5406
5407	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5408	added:</para>
5409
5410	<itemizedlist>
5411
5412	<listitem>
5413	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5414	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5415	</listitem>
5416
5417	<listitem>
5418	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5419	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5424	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5425	</listitem>
5426
5427	<listitem>
5428	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5429	enabled</para>
5430	</listitem>
5431
5432	<listitem>
5433	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5434	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5435	</listitem>
5436
5437	<listitem>
5438	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5439	(bug #2676)</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5444	is connected to a raw file</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5449	(bug #5355)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5458	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5463	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5464	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5465	</listitem>
5466
5467	<listitem>
5468	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5477	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5482	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5483	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5484	</listitem>
5485
5486	</itemizedlist>
5487
5488	</sect1>
5489
5490	<sect1>
5491	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5492
5493	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5494	added:</para>
5495
5496	<itemizedlist>
5497
5498	<listitem>
5499	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5500	</listitem>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5508	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5509	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5510	</listitem>
5511
5512	<listitem>
5513	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5514	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5515	</listitem>
5516
5517	<listitem>
5518	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5539	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5552	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5561	exhaustion</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5570	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5575	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5576	</listitem>
5577
5578	<listitem>
5579	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5580	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5581	</listitem>
5582
5583	<listitem>
5584	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5585	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5586	(bug #2921)</para>
5587	</listitem>
5588
5589	<listitem>
5590	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5591	hosts only)</para>
5592	</listitem>
5593
5594	<listitem>
5595	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5596	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5597	</listitem>
5598
5599	<listitem>
5600	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5605	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5614	image inconsistency </para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5627	(bug #2025)</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5632	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5633	</listitem>
5634
5635	</itemizedlist>
5636
5637	</sect1>
5638
5639	<sect1>
5640	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5641
5642	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5643	added:</para>
5644
5645	<itemizedlist>
5646
5647	<listitem>
5648	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5649	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5650	</listitem>
5651
5652	<listitem>
5653	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5654	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5655	</listitem>
5656
5657	<listitem>
5658	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5659	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5660	</listitem>
5661
5662	<listitem>
5663	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5668	software virtualization only) </para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5673	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5674	</listitem>
5675
5676	<listitem>
5677	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5678	with root privileges</para>
5679	</listitem>
5680
5681	<listitem>
5682	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5683	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5684	</listitem>
5685
5686	<listitem>
5687	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5688	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5689	</listitem>
5690
5691	<listitem>
5692	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5693	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5694	</listitem>
5695
5696	<listitem>
5697	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5698	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5699	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5704	available</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5709	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5714	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5719	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5720	</listitem>
5721
5722	<listitem>
5723	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5724	(bug #4907)</para>
5725	</listitem>
5726
5727	<listitem>
5728	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5729	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5730	</listitem>
5731
5732	<listitem>
5733	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5734	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5755	are installed</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5760	(bug #4771)</para>
5761	</listitem>
5762
5763	<listitem>
5764	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5769	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5774	command</para>
5775	</listitem>
5776
5777	<listitem>
5778	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5787	(bug #5089)</para>
5788	</listitem>
5789
5790	<listitem>
5791	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5792	</listitem>
5793
5794	</itemizedlist>
5795
5796	</sect1>
5797
5798	<sect1>
5799	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5800
5801	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5802	added:</para>
5803
5804	<itemizedlist>
5805
5806	<listitem>
5807	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5808	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5809	</listitem>
5810
5811	<listitem>
5812	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5813	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5814	</listitem>
5815
5816	<listitem>
5817	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5818	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5819	</listitem>
5820
5821	<listitem>
5822	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5823	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5824	</listitem>
5825
5826	<listitem>
5827	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5828	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5829	</listitem>
5830
5831	<listitem>
5832	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5853	onlined or offlined</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5862	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5867	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5868	</listitem>
5869
5870	<listitem>
5871	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5876	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5897	</listitem>
5898
5899	<listitem>
5900	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5901	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5902	</listitem>
5903
5904	<listitem>
5905	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5910	</listitem>
5911
5912	<listitem>
5913	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5914	</listitem>
5915
5916	<listitem>
5917	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5918	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5919	</listitem>
5920
5921	<listitem>
5922	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5923	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5924	</listitem>
5925
5926	<listitem>
5927	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5936	</listitem>
5937
5938	<listitem>
5939	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5956	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5957	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5958	phase collapse</para>
5959	</listitem>
5960
5961	<listitem>
5962	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5963	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5964	</listitem>
5965
5966	<listitem>
5967	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5968	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5969	</listitem>
5970
5971	<listitem>
5972	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5977	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5982	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5983	</listitem>
5984
5985	<listitem>
5986	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5991	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5992	#4698, #4790)</para>
5993	</listitem>
5994
5995	<listitem>
5996	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
5997	less than the configured range</para>
5998	</listitem>
5999
6000	<listitem>
6001	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6010	</listitem>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6018	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6023	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6024	</listitem>
6025
6026	<listitem>
6027	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6028	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6029	</listitem>
6030
6031	<listitem>
6032	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6037	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6042	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6043	</listitem>
6044
6045	<listitem>
6046	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6047	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6048	</listitem>
6049
6050	<listitem>
6051	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6052	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6053	</listitem>
6054
6055	<listitem>
6056	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	</itemizedlist>
6064
6065	</sect1>
6066
6067	<sect1>
6068	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6069
6070	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6071	added:</para>
6072
6073	<itemizedlist>
6074
6075	<listitem>
6076	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6077	</listitem>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	<listitem>
6084	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6093	</listitem>
6094
6095	<listitem>
6096	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6101	</listitem>
6102
6103	<listitem>
6104	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6105	</listitem>
6106
6107	<listitem>
6108	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6109	</listitem>
6110
6111	<listitem>
6112	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6113	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6114	</listitem>
6115
6116	<listitem>
6117	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6118	</listitem>
6119
6120	<listitem>
6121	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6122	</listitem>
6123
6124	<listitem>
6125	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	<listitem>
6129	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6130	</listitem>
6131
6132	<listitem>
6133	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6142	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6143	</listitem>
6144
6145	<listitem>
6146	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6147	(bug #4654)</para>
6148	</listitem>
6149
6150	<listitem>
6151	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6156	interfaces</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6161	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6162	</listitem>
6163
6164	<listitem>
6165	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6166	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6167	</listitem>
6168
6169	<listitem>
6170	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6171	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6172	</listitem>
6173
6174	<listitem>
6175	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6176	(bug #1461)</para>
6177	</listitem>
6178
6179	<listitem>
6180	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6185	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6190	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6191	</listitem>
6192
6193	<listitem>
6194	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6195	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6196	</listitem>
6197
6198	<listitem>
6199	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6212	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6213	</listitem>
6214
6215	<listitem>
6216	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6217	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6218	</listitem>
6219
6220	<listitem>
6221	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6222	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6223	</listitem>
6224
6225	<listitem>
6226	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6227	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6228	</listitem>
6229
6230	</itemizedlist>
6231
6232	</sect1>
6233	<sect1>
6234	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6235
6236	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6237	added:</para>
6238
6239	<itemizedlist>
6240
6241	<listitem>
6242	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6243	</listitem>
6244
6245	<listitem>
6246	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	<listitem>
6250	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6251	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6252	</listitem>
6253
6254	<listitem>
6255	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6256	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6257	</listitem>
6258
6259	<listitem>
6260	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6265	</listitem>
6266
6267	<listitem>
6268	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6269	</listitem>
6270
6271	<listitem>
6272	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6273	</listitem>
6274
6275	<listitem>
6276	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6277	</listitem>
6278
6279	<listitem>
6280	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6281	</listitem>
6282
6283	<listitem>
6284	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	<listitem>
6300	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6305	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6310	</listitem>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6318	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6331	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6340	</listitem>
6341
6342	<listitem>
6343	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<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>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	</itemizedlist>
6359
6360	</sect1>
6361
6362	<sect1>
6363	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6364
6365	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6366	were added:</para>
6367
6368	<itemizedlist>
6369
6370	<listitem>
6371	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6372	</listitem>
6373
6374	<listitem>
6375	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6376	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6377	</listitem>
6378
6379	<listitem>
6380	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6381	</listitem>
6382
6383	</itemizedlist>
6384
6385	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6386
6387	<itemizedlist>
6388
6389	<listitem>
6390	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6391	</listitem>
6392
6393	<listitem>
6394	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6395	certain conditions</para>
6396	</listitem>
6397
6398	<listitem>
6399	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6400	</listitem>
6401
6402	<listitem>
6403	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6404	</listitem>
6405
6406	<listitem>
6407	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6412	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6421	</listitem>
6422
6423	<listitem>
6424	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6429	</listitem>
6430
6431	<listitem>
6432	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6449	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6458	</listitem>
6459
6460	<listitem>
6461	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6462	</listitem>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6470	</listitem>
6471
6472	<listitem>
6473	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6474	</listitem>
6475
6476	<listitem>
6477	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6486	</listitem>
6487
6488	<listitem>
6489	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6490	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6503	</listitem>
6504
6505	<listitem>
6506	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6511	</listitem>
6512
6513	<listitem>
6514	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6515	</listitem>
6516
6517	<listitem>
6518	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6523	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	<listitem>
6527	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6532	</listitem>
6533
6534	<listitem>
6535	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6540	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6545	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6546	</listitem>
6547
6548	<listitem>
6549	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6550	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6551	</listitem>
6552
6553	<listitem>
6554	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6555	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6556	</listitem>
6557
6558	<listitem>
6559	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6560	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6561	</listitem>
6562
6563	<listitem>
6564	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6569	</listitem>
6570
6571	<listitem>
6572	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6573	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6578	guest property lookup</para>
6579	</listitem>
6580
6581	<listitem>
6582	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6583	basic network information)</para>
6584	</listitem>
6585
6586	<listitem>
6587	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6588	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6589	</listitem>
6590
6591	<listitem>
6592	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6593	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6594	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6595	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6596	</listitem>
6597
6598	<listitem>
6599	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6604	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6605	web service</para>
6606	</listitem>
6607
6608	<listitem>
6609	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6610	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6611	</listitem>
6612
6613	<listitem>
6614	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6615	unavailable</para>
6616	</listitem>
6617
6618	<listitem>
6619	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	</itemizedlist>
6623	</sect1>
6624
6625	<sect1>
6626	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6627
6628	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6629	added:</para>
6630
6631	<itemizedlist>
6632
6633	<listitem>
6634	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6635	installation</para>
6636	</listitem>
6637
6638	<listitem>
6639	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6640	</listitem>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6644	later (bug #3981)</para>
6645	</listitem>
6646
6647	<listitem>
6648	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6649	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6650	</listitem>
6651
6652	<listitem>
6653	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6654	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6655	(bug #4034)
6656	</para>
6657	</listitem>
6658
6659	<listitem>
6660	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6661	networking</para>
6662	</listitem>
6663
6664	<listitem>
6665	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6666	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6667	</listitem>
6668
6669	<listitem>
6670	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6671	clicks</para>
6672	</listitem>
6673
6674	<listitem>
6675	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6676	Windows 7 guests</para>
6677	</listitem>
6678
6679	<listitem>
6680	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6681	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6682	</listitem>
6683
6684	<listitem>
6685	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6694	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6699	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6700	</listitem>
6701
6702	<listitem>
6703	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6712	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6713	(bug #3864)</para>
6714	</listitem>
6715
6716	<listitem>
6717	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6718	now flushes the output stream</para>
6719	</listitem>
6720
6721	<listitem>
6722	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6723	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6724	</listitem>
6725
6726	<listitem>
6727	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6736	</listitem>
6737
6738	<listitem>
6739	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6740	</listitem>
6741
6742	<listitem>
6743	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6744	(bug #3964)</para>
6745	</listitem>
6746
6747	<listitem>
6748	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6749	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6750	</listitem>
6751
6752	<listitem>
6753	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6754	hosts</para>
6755	</listitem>
6756
6757	<listitem>
6758	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6759	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6760	e1000 adapter</para>
6761	</listitem>
6762
6763	<listitem>
6764	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6765	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6766	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6767	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6768	</listitem>
6769
6770	<listitem>
6771	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6772	</listitem>
6773
6774	<listitem>
6775	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6776	</listitem>
6777
6778	<listitem>
6779	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6780	</listitem>
6781
6782	<listitem>
6783	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6784	file (bug #1023)</para>
6785	</listitem>
6786
6787	<listitem>
6788	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6793	</listitem>
6794
6795	</itemizedlist>
6796	</sect1>
6797
6798	<sect1>
6799	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6800
6801	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6802	added:</para>
6803
6804	<itemizedlist>
6805
6806	<listitem>
6807	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6808	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6809	</listitem>
6810
6811	<listitem>
6812	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6813	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6814	and later</para>
6815	</listitem>
6816
6817	<listitem>
6818	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6819	running services</para>
6820	</listitem>
6821
6822	<listitem>
6823	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6824	terminates</para>
6825	</listitem>
6826
6827	<listitem>
6828	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6829	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6830	</listitem>
6831
6832	<listitem>
6833	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6834	installed on the guest</para>
6835	</listitem>
6836
6837	<listitem>
6838	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6839	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6840	</listitem>
6841
6842	<listitem>
6843	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6844	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6845	</listitem>
6846
6847	<listitem>
6848	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6849	(bug #2628)</para>
6850	</listitem>
6851
6852	<listitem>
6853	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6854	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6855	</listitem>
6856
6857	<listitem>
6858	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6859	(bug #3657)</para>
6860	</listitem>
6861
6862	<listitem>
6863	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6864	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6865	</listitem>
6866
6867	<listitem>
6868	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6869	virtualization only)
6870	</para>
6871	</listitem>
6872
6873	<listitem>
6874	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6875	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6876	</listitem>
6877
6878	<listitem>
6879	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6884	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6885	</listitem>
6886
6887	<listitem>
6888	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6889	bug #3689)</para>
6890	</listitem>
6891
6892	<listitem>
6893	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6894	bug #3679)</para>
6895	</listitem>
6896
6897	<listitem>
6898	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6899	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6900	</listitem>
6901
6902	<listitem>
6903	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6904	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6905	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6906	</listitem>
6907
6908	<listitem>
6909	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6910	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6911	</listitem>
6912
6913	<listitem>
6914	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6915	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6916	</listitem>
6917
6918	<listitem>
6919	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6920	(bug #3667)</para>
6921	</listitem>
6922
6923	<listitem>
6924	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6925	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6926	</listitem>
6927
6928	<listitem>
6929	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6938	</listitem>
6939
6940	<listitem>
6941	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6954	</listitem>
6955
6956	</itemizedlist>
6957	</sect1>
6958
6959	<sect1>
6960	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6961
6962	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6963	were added:</para>
6964
6965	<itemizedlist>
6966
6967	<listitem>
6968	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6969	</listitem>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6981	</listitem>
6982
6983	<listitem>
6984	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	<listitem>
6988	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6989	</listitem>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
6997	</listitem>
6998
6999	<listitem>
7000	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	</itemizedlist>
7008
7009	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7010
7011	<itemizedlist>
7012
7013	<listitem>
7014	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7015	</listitem>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7019	</listitem>
7020
7021	<listitem>
7022	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7047	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7048	</listitem>
7049
7050	<listitem>
7051	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7056	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7061	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7062	</listitem>
7063
7064	<listitem>
7065	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7070	</listitem>
7071
7072	<listitem>
7073	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7074	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7075	</listitem>
7076
7077	<listitem>
7078	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7083	ESX server images)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7088	writable</para>
7089	</listitem>
7090
7091	<listitem>
7092	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7093	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7094	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7095	</listitem>
7096
7097	<listitem>
7098	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7099	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7100	</listitem>
7101
7102	<listitem>
7103	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7108	</listitem>
7109
7110	<listitem>
7111	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7112	hosts when creating files</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7117	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7118	</listitem>
7119
7120	<listitem>
7121	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7122	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7123	#2306)</para>
7124	</listitem>
7125
7126	<listitem>
7127	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7128	(bug #3555)</para>
7129	</listitem>
7130
7131	<listitem>
7132	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7133	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7134	</listitem>
7135
7136	<listitem>
7137	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7138	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7139	</listitem>
7140
7141	<listitem>
7142	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7143	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7144	</listitem>
7145
7146	<listitem>
7147	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7148	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7149	</listitem>
7150
7151	<listitem>
7152	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7153	(bug #3586)</para>
7154	</listitem>
7155
7156	<listitem>
7157	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7158	from Scratch systems</para>
7159	</listitem>
7160
7161	<listitem>
7162	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7163	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7164	</listitem>
7165
7166	<listitem>
7167	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7172	default to compact format</para>
7173	</listitem>
7174
7175	<listitem>
7176	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7177	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7178	</listitem>
7179
7180	<listitem>
7181	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7182	</listitem>
7183
7184	<listitem>
7185	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7186	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7187	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7188	</listitem>
7189
7190	<listitem>
7191	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7192	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7193	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7194	</listitem>
7195
7196	<listitem>
7197	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7198	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7199	</listitem>
7200
7201	<listitem>
7202	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7207	</listitem>
7208
7209	<listitem>
7210	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7211	</listitem>
7212
7213	<listitem>
7214	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7215	</listitem>
7216
7217	<listitem>
7218	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7227	</listitem>
7228
7229	<listitem>
7230	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7231	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7232	</listitem>
7233
7234	<listitem>
7235	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7236	</listitem>
7237
7238	<listitem>
7239	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7240	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7241	</listitem>
7242
7243	<listitem>
7244	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7245	</listitem>
7246
7247	<listitem>
7248	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7249	</listitem>
7250
7251	<listitem>
7252	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7253	</listitem>
7254
7255	<listitem>
7256	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7257	#2536)</para>
7258	</listitem>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7262	</listitem>
7263
7264	<listitem>
7265	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7266	(bug #3548)</para>
7267	</listitem>
7268
7269	</itemizedlist>
7270	</sect1>
7271
7272	<sect1>
7273	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7274
7275	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7276	added:</para>
7277
7278	<itemizedlist>
7279
7280	<listitem>
7281	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7282	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7283	</listitem>
7284
7285	<listitem>
7286	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7287	</listitem>
7288
7289	<listitem>
7290	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	<listitem>
7298	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7299	(bug #3115)</para>
7300	</listitem>
7301
7302	<listitem>
7303	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7304	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7305	</listitem>
7306
7307	<listitem>
7308	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7309	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7310	(bug #3215)</para>
7311	</listitem>
7312
7313	<listitem>
7314	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7315	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7316	</listitem>
7317
7318	<listitem>
7319	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7320	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7321	</listitem>
7322
7323	<listitem>
7324	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7325	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7326	</listitem>
7327
7328	<listitem>
7329	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7330	in parallel</para>
7331	</listitem>
7332
7333	<listitem>
7334	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7339	</listitem>
7340
7341	<listitem>
7342	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7343	</listitem>
7344
7345	<listitem>
7346	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7347	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7348	</listitem>
7349
7350	<listitem>
7351	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7352	</listitem>
7353
7354	<listitem>
7355	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7356	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7357	</listitem>
7358
7359	<listitem>
7360	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7361	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7362	</listitem>
7363
7364	<listitem>
7365	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7370	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7371	</listitem>
7372
7373	<listitem>
7374	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7375	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7376	</listitem>
7377
7378	<listitem>
7379	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7384	</listitem>
7385
7386	<listitem>
7387	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7388	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7389	</listitem>
7390
7391	<listitem>
7392	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7397	</listitem>
7398
7399	<listitem>
7400	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7401	</listitem>
7402
7403	<listitem>
7404	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7405	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7406	</listitem>
7407
7408	<listitem>
7409	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7410	</listitem>
7411
7412	<listitem>
7413	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7414	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7415	</listitem>
7416
7417	<listitem>
7418	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7419	</listitem>
7420
7421	<listitem>
7422	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7423	</listitem>
7424
7425	<listitem>
7426	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7427	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7432	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7433	</listitem>
7434
7435	<listitem>
7436	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7441	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7446	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7447	</listitem>
7448
7449	<listitem>
7450	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7451	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7452	</listitem>
7453
7454	<listitem>
7455	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7456	(bug #3213)</para>
7457	</listitem>
7458
7459	<listitem>
7460	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7461	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7462	</listitem>
7463
7464	<listitem>
7465	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7466	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7467	</listitem>
7468
7469	</itemizedlist>
7470	</sect1>
7471
7472	<sect1>
7473	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7474
7475	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7476	added:</para>
7477
7478	<itemizedlist>
7479
7480	<listitem>
7481	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7482	</listitem>
7483
7484	<listitem>
7485	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7486	</listitem>
7487
7488	<listitem>
7489	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7490	</listitem>
7491
7492	<listitem>
7493	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7494	</listitem>
7495
7496	<listitem>
7497	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	<listitem>
7501	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7502	</listitem>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7506	</listitem>
7507
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7530	</listitem>
7531
7532	<listitem>
7533	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7534	</listitem>
7535
7536	<listitem>
7537	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7538	</listitem>
7539
7540	<listitem>
7541	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7542	</listitem>
7543
7544	<listitem>
7545	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7546	(bug #3067)</para>
7547	</listitem>
7548
7549	<listitem>
7550	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7551	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7552	</listitem>
7553
7554	<listitem>
7555	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7556	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7557	</listitem>
7558
7559	<listitem>
7560	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7565	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7570	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7571	</listitem>
7572
7573	<listitem>
7574	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7579	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7588	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7589	</listitem>
7590
7591	<listitem>
7592	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7593	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7594	</listitem>
7595
7596	<listitem>
7597	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7598	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7599	</para>
7600	</listitem>
7601
7602	<listitem>
7603	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7604	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7605	</para>
7606	</listitem>
7607
7608	<listitem>
7609	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7610	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7611	</para>
7612	</listitem>
7613
7614	<listitem>
7615	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7616	</listitem>
7617
7618	<listitem>
7619	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7624	</listitem>
7625
7626	<listitem>
7627	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7628	</listitem>
7629
7630	<listitem>
7631	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7632	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7633	</listitem>
7634
7635	<listitem>
7636	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7637	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7638	</listitem>
7639
7640	<listitem>
7641	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7642	formatting a drive</para>
7643	</listitem>
7644
7645	<listitem>
7646	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7651	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7656	</listitem>
7657
7658	<listitem>
7659	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7660	</listitem>
7661
7662	<listitem>
7663	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7664	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7665	</listitem>
7666
7667	<listitem>
7668	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7669	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7670	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7671	</listitem>
7672
7673	<listitem>
7674	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7675	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7676	</listitem>
7677
7678	<listitem>
7679	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7680	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7681	</listitem>
7682
7683	<listitem>
7684	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7685	(bug #2768)</para>
7686	</listitem>
7687
7688	<listitem>
7689	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7694	</listitem>
7695
7696	<listitem>
7697	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7698	single, unified package</para>
7699	</listitem>
7700
7701	<listitem>
7702	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7703	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7704	</listitem>
7705
7706	<listitem>
7707	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7712	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7713	</listitem>
7714
7715	<listitem>
7716	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7717	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7718	</listitem>
7719
7720	<listitem>
7721	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7722	</listitem>
7723
7724	<listitem>
7725	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7726	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7727	doing 3D</para>
7728	</listitem>
7729
7730	<listitem>
7731	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7732	</listitem>
7733
7734	<listitem>
7735	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7736	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7737	</listitem>
7738
7739	<listitem>
7740	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7745	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7750	</listitem>
7751
7752	<listitem>
7753	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7754	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7755	</listitem>
7756
7757	<listitem>
7758	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7759	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7760	(bug #2938)</para>
7761	</listitem>
7762
7763	<listitem>
7764	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7765	Linux guests</para>
7766	</listitem>
7767
7768	<listitem>
7769	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7770	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7771	(bug #1776)</para>
7772	</listitem>
7773
7774	<listitem>
7775	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7776	(bug #1612)</para>
7777	</listitem>
7778
7779	<listitem>
7780	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7781	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7782	</listitem>
7783
7784	<listitem>
7785	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7786	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7787	</listitem>
7788
7789	<listitem>
7790	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7791	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7792	</listitem>
7793
7794	</itemizedlist>
7795	</sect1>
7796
7797	<sect1>
7798	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7799
7800	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7801	were added:</para>
7802
7803	<itemizedlist>
7804	<listitem>
7805	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7806	</listitem>
7807
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7810	</listitem>
7811
7812	<listitem>
7813	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7814	</listitem>
7815
7816	<listitem>
7817	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7818	</listitem>
7819
7820	<listitem>
7821	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7822	</listitem>
7823
7824	<listitem>
7825	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	<listitem>
7829	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7830	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7831	</listitem>
7832
7833	<listitem>
7834	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7835	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7836	</listitem>
7837
7838	</itemizedlist>
7839
7840	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7841
7842	<itemizedlist>
7843	<listitem>
7844	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7849	</listitem>
7850
7851	<listitem>
7852	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7853	</listitem>
7854
7855	<listitem>
7856	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7857	</listitem>
7858
7859	<listitem>
7860	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7861	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7866	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7867	</listitem>
7868
7869	<listitem>
7870	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7871	</listitem>
7872
7873	<listitem>
7874	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7875	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7880	</listitem>
7881
7882	<listitem>
7883	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7884	</listitem>
7885
7886	<listitem>
7887	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7888	</listitem>
7889
7890	<listitem>
7891	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7892	</listitem>
7893
7894	<listitem>
7895	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7896	</listitem>
7897
7898	<listitem>
7899	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7900	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7901	</listitem>
7902
7903	<listitem>
7904	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7905	the compiz window manager</para>
7906	</listitem>
7907
7908	<listitem>
7909	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	<listitem>
7917	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7918	</listitem>
7919
7920	<listitem>
7921	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7922	</listitem>
7923
7924	<listitem>
7925	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7926	</listitem>
7927
7928	<listitem>
7929	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7930	</listitem>
7931
7932	<listitem>
7933	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7934	</listitem>
7935
7936	<listitem>
7937	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7938	</listitem>
7939
7940	<listitem>
7941	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7942	</listitem>
7943
7944	<listitem>
7945	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7946	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7947	</listitem>
7948
7949	<listitem>
7950	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7951	for direct device access</para>
7952	</listitem>
7953
7954	<listitem>
7955	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7956	</listitem>
7957
7958	<listitem>
7959	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7960	</listitem>
7961
7962	<listitem>
7963	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7964	</listitem>
7965
7966	<listitem>
7967	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7968	</listitem>
7969
7970	<listitem>
7971	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7972	</listitem>
7973
7974	<listitem>
7975	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7976	</listitem>
7977
7978	<listitem>
7979	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7984	</listitem>
7985
7986	</itemizedlist>
7987	</sect1>
7988
7989	<sect1>
7990	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7991
7992	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7993	added:</para>
7994
7995	<itemizedlist>
7996
7997	<listitem>
7998	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
7999	states/snapshots</para>
8000	</listitem>
8001
8002	<listitem>
8003	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8004	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8005	</listitem>
8006
8007	<listitem>
8008	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8009	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8010	</listitem>
8011
8012	<listitem>
8013	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8014	collisions</para>
8015	</listitem>
8016
8017	<listitem>
8018	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8019	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8020	</listitem>
8021
8022	<listitem>
8023	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8028	reliably</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8033	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8034	</listitem>
8035
8036	<listitem>
8037	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8038	a reboot</para>
8039	</listitem>
8040
8041	<listitem>
8042	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8047	in parallel</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8052	</listitem>
8053
8054	<listitem>
8055	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8056	correctly</para>
8057	</listitem>
8058
8059	<listitem>
8060	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8061	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8062	</listitem>
8063
8064	</itemizedlist>
8065	</sect1>
8066
8067	<sect1>
8068	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8069
8070	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8071	added:</para>
8072
8073	<itemizedlist>
8074
8075	<listitem>
8076	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8077	(bug #2220)</para>
8078	</listitem>
8079
8080	<listitem>
8081	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8082	</listitem>
8083
8084	<listitem>
8085	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8090	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8091	</listitem>
8092
8093	<listitem>
8094	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8095	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8096	</listitem>
8097
8098	<listitem>
8099	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8100	(bug #2624)</para>
8101	</listitem>
8102
8103	<listitem>
8104	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8105	(bug #2024)</para>
8106	</listitem>
8107
8108	<listitem>
8109	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8114	</listitem>
8115
8116	<listitem>
8117	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8118	</listitem>
8119
8120	<listitem>
8121	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8122	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8123	</listitem>
8124
8125	<listitem>
8126	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8127	applications when updating the installation</para>
8128	</listitem>
8129
8130	<listitem>
8131	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8132	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8133	</listitem>
8134
8135	<listitem>
8136	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8137	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8138	</listitem>
8139
8140	<listitem>
8141	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8142	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8143	</listitem>
8144
8145	<listitem>
8146	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8147	connected to a host device</para>
8148	</listitem>
8149
8150	<listitem>
8151	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8156	</listitem>
8157
8158	<listitem>
8159	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8160	</listitem>
8161
8162	<listitem>
8163	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8164	when using native RDP connections</para>
8165	</listitem>
8166
8167	<listitem>
8168	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8169	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8170	</listitem>
8171
8172	<listitem>
8173	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8174	(bug #2591)</para>
8175	</listitem>
8176
8177	<listitem>
8178	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8179	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8180	</listitem>
8181
8182	<listitem>
8183	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	</itemizedlist>
8187	</sect1>
8188
8189	<sect1>
8190	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8191
8192	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8193	added:</para>
8194
8195	<itemizedlist>
8196	<listitem>
8197	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8198	</listitem>
8199
8200	<listitem>
8201	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8202	</listitem>
8203
8204	<listitem>
8205	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8206	</listitem>
8207
8208	<listitem>
8209	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8210	</listitem>
8211
8212	<listitem>
8213	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8214	</listitem>
8215
8216	<listitem>
8217	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8222	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8223	</listitem>
8224
8225	<listitem>
8226	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8227	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8228	</listitem>
8229
8230	<listitem>
8231	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8236	equal to the client resolution</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8241	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8242	</listitem>
8243
8244	<listitem>
8245	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8246	</listitem>
8247
8248	<listitem>
8249	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8250	</listitem>
8251
8252	<listitem>
8253	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8258	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8259	</listitem>
8260
8261	<listitem>
8262	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8263	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8264	</listitem>
8265
8266	<listitem>
8267	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8268	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8269	</listitem>
8270
8271	<listitem>
8272	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8277	</listitem>
8278
8279	<listitem>
8280	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8281	</listitem>
8282
8283	<listitem>
8284	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8285	</listitem>
8286
8287	<listitem>
8288	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8289	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8290	</listitem>
8291
8292	<listitem>
8293	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8294	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8295	</listitem>
8296
8297	<listitem>
8298	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8299	</listitem>
8300
8301	<listitem>
8302	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8303	</listitem>
8304
8305	<listitem>
8306	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8307	</listitem>
8308
8309	</itemizedlist>
8310
8311	</sect1>
8312
8313	<sect1>
8314	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8315
8316	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8317	added:</para>
8318
8319	<itemizedlist>
8320
8321	<listitem>
8322	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8323	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8324	</listitem>
8325
8326	<listitem>
8327	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8328	</listitem>
8329
8330	<listitem>
8331	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8332	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8333	</listitem>
8334
8335	<listitem>
8336	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8337	</listitem>
8338
8339	<listitem>
8340	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8341	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8342	</listitem>
8343
8344	<listitem>
8345	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8346	</listitem>
8347
8348	<listitem>
8349	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8350	the virtual disk manager</para>
8351	</listitem>
8352
8353	<listitem>
8354	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8355	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8356	</listitem>
8357
8358	<listitem>
8359	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8360	</listitem>
8361
8362	<listitem>
8363	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8368	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8369	</listitem>
8370
8371	<listitem>
8372	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8373	bug #2067)</para>
8374	</listitem>
8375
8376	<listitem>
8377	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8378	</listitem>
8379
8380	<listitem>
8381	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8382	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8383	</listitem>
8384
8385	<listitem>
8386	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8387	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8388	(bug #2184)</para>
8389	</listitem>
8390
8391	<listitem>
8392	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8393	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8394	</listitem>
8395
8396	<listitem>
8397	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8398	(Windows guests only)</para>
8399	</listitem>
8400
8401	<listitem>
8402	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8403	</listitem>
8404
8405	<listitem>
8406	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8407	</listitem>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8411	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8412	</listitem>
8413
8414	<listitem>
8415	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8416	</listitem>
8417
8418	<listitem>
8419	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8420	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8421	</para>
8422	</listitem>
8423
8424	<listitem>
8425	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8426	</listitem>
8427
8428	<listitem>
8429	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8430	</listitem>
8431
8432	<listitem>
8433	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8434	a VM reboot</para>
8435	</listitem>
8436
8437	<listitem>
8438	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8439	</listitem>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8443	buggy X servers</para>
8444	</listitem>
8445
8446	<listitem>
8447	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8448	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8449	</listitem>
8450
8451	<listitem>
8452	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8457	(bug #2128)</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8462	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8463	</listitem>
8464
8465	<listitem>
8466	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8467	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8468	</listitem>
8469
8470	<listitem>
8471	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8472	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8473	</listitem>
8474
8475	<listitem>
8476	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8477	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8478	</listitem>
8479
8480	<listitem>
8481	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8482	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8483	</listitem>
8484
8485	<listitem>
8486	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8487	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8488	</listitem>
8489
8490	<listitem>
8491	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8492	installer into a single package</para>
8493	</listitem>
8494
8495	<listitem>
8496	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8497	port to the guest
8498	</para>
8499	</listitem>
8500
8501	</itemizedlist>
8502
8503	</sect1>
8504
8505	<sect1>
8506	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8507
8508	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8509	were added:<itemizedlist>
8510
8511	<listitem>
8512	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8513	</listitem>
8514
8515	<listitem>
8516	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8521	</listitem>
8522
8523	<listitem>
8524	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8525	</listitem>
8526
8527	<listitem>
8528	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8529	</listitem>
8530
8531	<listitem>
8532	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8533	</listitem>
8534
8535	<listitem>
8536	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8537	</listitem>
8538
8539	<listitem>
8540	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8541	</listitem>
8542
8543	<listitem>
8544	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8545	</listitem>
8546
8547	<listitem>
8548	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8549	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8550	</listitem>
8551
8552	<listitem>
8553	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8554	</listitem>
8555
8556	<listitem>
8557	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8558	</listitem>
8559
8560	<listitem>
8561	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8562	</listitem>
8563
8564	</itemizedlist></para>
8565
8566	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8567
8568	<itemizedlist>
8569
8570	<listitem>
8571	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8572	</listitem>
8573
8574	<listitem>
8575	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	<listitem>
8579	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8580	</listitem>
8581
8582	<listitem>
8583	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8584	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8585	</listitem>
8586
8587	<listitem>
8588	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8589	restored</para>
8590	</listitem>
8591
8592	<listitem>
8593	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8594	</listitem>
8595
8596	<listitem>
8597	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8598	</listitem>
8599
8600	<listitem>
8601	<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>
8602	</listitem>
8603
8604	</itemizedlist>
8605
8606	</sect1>
8607

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