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

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