This is a major update. The following major new features were added: GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality OCI: Performance dashboard shows resource usage like for local VMs OCI: Function to clone compute instances OCI: Function to reset compute instances Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Ajustments to the PUEL license, removing the duplicated evaluation option. For limited time evaluation use please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires NAT: New engine with IPv6 support macOS/ARM host: ARM virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808) Recording: Bigger general performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added: VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961) virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201) EFI: Added new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption GUI: Improved overall accessibility GUI: Migration to recent Qt version Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3 VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility