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

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