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