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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version xx.xx.0 (xxxx-xx-xx)</title>
5
6	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>dummy</para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	</itemizedlist>
16
17	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
18
19	<itemizedlist>
20
21	<listitem>
22	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
23	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
24	</listitem>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
28	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
33	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
34	option to show really all available details</para>
35	</listitem>
36
37	<listitem>
38	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
39	</listitem>
40
41	<listitem>
42	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
43	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
48	by François Revol</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)</para>
53	</listitem>
54
55	<listitem>
56	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
57	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	</itemizedlist>
61
62	</sect1>
63
64	<sect1>
65
66	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
67
68	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
69	were added:</para>
70
71	<itemizedlist>
72
73	<listitem>
74	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
83	</listitem>
84
85	<listitem>
86	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
87	</listitem>
88
89	<listitem>
90	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
91	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
92	</listitem>
93
94	<listitem>
95	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
96	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
101	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
106	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
107	planned. (bug #81)</para>
108	</listitem>
109
110	<listitem>
111	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
112	</listitem>
113
114	<listitem>
115	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
116	documentation for more information</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	</itemizedlist>
120
121	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
122
123	<itemizedlist>
124
125	<listitem>
126	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
127	on Mountain Lion</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
132	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
133	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
134	</listitem>
135
136	<listitem>
137	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
138	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
143	nested paging</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
148	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
153	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
158	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
163	</listitem>
164
165	<listitem>
166	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
167	</listitem>
168
169	<listitem>
170	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
171	</listitem>
172
173	<listitem>
174	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
175	</listitem>
176
177	<listitem>
178	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
179	</listitem>
180
181	<listitem>
182	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
187	</listitem>
188
189	<listitem>
190	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
191	</listitem>
192
193	<listitem>
194	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
195	guests</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
200	used ISO images</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
205	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
210	(bug #9973)</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
215	(bug #9864)</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
220	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
221	immediately</para>
222	</listitem>
223
224	<listitem>
225	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
226	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
231	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
232	any time using the VM menu</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
237	</listitem>
238
239	<listitem>
240	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
241	</listitem>
242
243	<listitem>
244	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
245	</listitem>
246
247	<listitem>
248	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
249	</listitem>
250
251	<listitem>
252	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
253	</listitem>
254
255	<listitem>
256	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
257	</listitem>
258
259	<listitem>
260	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
261	</listitem>
262
263	<listitem>
264	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
265	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
270	</listitem>
271
272	<listitem>
273	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
274	support for v2 images)</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
279	</listitem>
280
281	<listitem>
282	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
283	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
288	</listitem>
289
290	<listitem>
291	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
296	VirtualBox update</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
301	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
306	</listitem>
307
308	</itemizedlist>
309	</sect1>
310
311	<sect1>
312	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
313
314	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
315	added:</para>
316
317	<itemizedlist>
318
319	<listitem>
320	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
321	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
322	and others)</para>
323	</listitem>
324
325	<listitem>
326	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
327	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
332	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
337	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
342	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
347	(bug #10631)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
352	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
353	(bug #10624)</para>
354	</listitem>
355
356	<listitem>
357	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
358	</listitem>
359
360	<listitem>
361	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
362	updated (bug #9887)</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
367	</listitem>
368
369	</itemizedlist>
370	</sect1>
371
372	<sect1>
373	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
374
375	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
376	added:</para>
377
378	<itemizedlist>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
382	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
383	</listitem>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
387	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
392	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
393	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
394	</listitem>
395
396	<listitem>
397	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
398	guests in rare cases</para>
399	</listitem>
400
401	<listitem>
402	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
403	</listitem>
404
405	<listitem>
406	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
407	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
412	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
413	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
414	</listitem>
415
416	<listitem>
417	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
418	</listitem>
419
420	<listitem>
421	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
422	</listitem>
423
424	<listitem>
425	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
426	reason (bug #6189)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
431	</listitem>
432
433	<listitem>
434	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
435	paused</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
440	(bug #10267)</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
449	(bug #10418)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
454	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
455	(bug #10581)</para>
456	</listitem>
457
458	<listitem>
459	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
460	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
465	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
466	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
467	</listitem>
468
469	<listitem>
470	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
471	</listitem>
472
473	</itemizedlist>
474
475	</sect1>
476
477	<sect1>
478	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
479
480	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
481	added:</para>
482
483	<itemizedlist>
484
485	<listitem>
486	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
487	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
488	(bug #3783)</para>
489	</listitem>
490
491	<listitem>
492	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
493	</listitem>
494
495	<listitem>
496	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
497	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
502	</listitem>
503
504	</itemizedlist>
505
506	</sect1>
507
508	<sect1>
509	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
510
511	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
512	added:</para>
513
514	<itemizedlist>
515
516	<listitem>
517	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
518	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
519	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
524	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
529	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
538	</listitem>
539
540	<listitem>
541	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
542	4.1.10 regression)</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
547	</listitem>
548
549	<listitem>
550	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
551	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
556	</listitem>
557
558	<listitem>
559	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
560	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
565	4.1.10 regression)</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	<listitem>
569	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
570	closed (bug #6473)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
575	properly installed</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
580	</listitem>
581
582	</itemizedlist>
583	</sect1>
584
585	<sect1>
586	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
587
588	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
589	added:</para>
590
591	<itemizedlist>
592
593	<listitem>
594	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
595	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
596	</listitem>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
600	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
605	fusion</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
610	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
615	and network mask attributes</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
620	(bug #10030)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
625	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
630	</listitem>
631
632	<listitem>
633	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
634	</listitem>
635
636	<listitem>
637	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
638	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
643	</listitem>
644
645	<listitem>
646	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
647	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
652	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
657	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
662	</listitem>
663
664	<listitem>
665	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
666	</listitem>
667
668	<listitem>
669	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
670	</listitem>
671
672	<listitem>
673	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
674	</listitem>
675
676	<listitem>
677	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
678	</listitem>
679
680	<listitem>
681	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
682	</listitem>
683
684	<listitem>
685	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
686	in a zone</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
691	</listitem>
692
693	<listitem>
694	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
695	(bug #9651)</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
704	#10010)</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
709	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
714	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
719	</listitem>
720
721	<listitem>
722	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
723	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
728	(bug #10151)</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
733	guests</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	</itemizedlist>
749	</sect1>
750
751	<sect1>
752	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
753
754	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
755	added:</para>
756
757	<itemizedlist>
758
759	<listitem>
760	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
761	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
762	</listitem>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
766	</listitem>
767
768	<listitem>
769	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
770	(bug #9642)</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
775	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
776	</para>
777	</listitem>
778
779	<listitem>
780	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
781	</listitem>
782
783	<listitem>
784	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
785	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
790	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
795	</listitem>
796
797	<listitem>
798	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
799	</listitem>
800
801	<listitem>
802	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
803	</listitem>
804
805	<listitem>
806	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
807	circumstances</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
812	</listitem>
813
814	<listitem>
815	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
816	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	<listitem>
820	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
821	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
822	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
823	and for 3D support in general</para>
824	</listitem>
825
826	<listitem>
827	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
832	</listitem>
833
834	<listitem>
835	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
836	</listitem>
837
838	<listitem>
839	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
840	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
841	</listitem>
842
843	</itemizedlist>
844	</sect1>
845
846	<sect1>
847	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
848
849	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
850	added:</para>
851
852	<itemizedlist>
853
854	<listitem>
855	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
856	</listitem>
857
858	<listitem>
859	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
860	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
865	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
870	certain guests</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
875	</listitem>
876
877	<listitem>
878	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
879	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
880	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
881	</listitem>
882
883	<listitem>
884	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
885	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
890	</listitem>
891
892	<listitem>
893	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
894	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
899	</listitem>
900
901	<listitem>
902	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
903	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
908	guests</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
913	folders</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
918	shared folders</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
923	users and stale sessions</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
928	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	</itemizedlist>
932	</sect1>
933
934	<sect1>
935	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
936
937	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
938	added:</para>
939
940	<itemizedlist>
941
942	<listitem>
943	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
944	bug #9458)</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
949	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
954	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
959	</listitem>
960
961	<listitem>
962	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
963	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
968	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
973	(bug #9308)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
978	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
983	(bug #9503)</para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
988	(bug #9242)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
993	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
994	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
995	</listitem>
996
997	<listitem>
998	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
999	</listitem>
1000
1001	<listitem>
1002	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1003	images</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1008	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1013	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1018	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1023	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1028	#9387)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1033	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1038	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1043	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1048	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1053	</listitem>
1054
1055	<listitem>
1056	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1057	</listitem>
1058
1059	<listitem>
1060	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1061	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1066	(bug #1578)</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1071	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1076	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1081	(bug #9535)</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1086	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1091	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1096	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1101	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1106	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1111	</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1116	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1117	</para>
1118	</listitem>
1119
1120	<listitem>
1121	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1122	(bug #6229)
1123	</para>
1124	</listitem>
1125
1126	<listitem>
1127	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1128	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1133	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1138	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1143	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1148	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1153	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1158	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1163	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	</itemizedlist>
1167	</sect1>
1168
1169	<sect1>
1170	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1171
1172	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1173	added:</para>
1174
1175	<itemizedlist>
1176
1177	<listitem>
1178	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1183	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1192	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1197	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1202	a live snapshot</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1207	due to a library version conflict</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1212	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1217	at a time by default</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1222	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1223	#9368)</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1228	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1233	VMs</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1238	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1243	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1244	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1245	</listitem>
1246
1247	<listitem>
1248	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1249	(bug #9308)</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1254	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1263	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1268	(bug #9242)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1273	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1278	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1283	USB devices</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1288	and warn about it</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1293	</listitem>
1294
1295	<listitem>
1296	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1297	</listitem>
1298
1299	<listitem>
1300	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1301	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1306	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1311	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1316	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1321	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1326	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1331	2.6.37 and above</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	</itemizedlist>
1335	</sect1>
1336
1337	<sect1>
1338	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1339
1340	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1341	were added:</para>
1342
1343	<itemizedlist>
1344
1345	<listitem>
1346	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1347	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1348	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1349	</listitem>
1350
1351	<listitem>
1352	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1353	</listitem>
1354
1355	<listitem>
1356	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1357	</listitem>
1358
1359	<listitem>
1360	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1361	bug #7822)</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1370	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1375	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1376	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1377	anymore)</para>
1378	</listitem>
1379
1380	<listitem>
1381	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1382	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1387	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1388	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1389	</listitem>
1390
1391	<listitem>
1392	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1393	</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1398	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1399	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1400	</listitem>
1401
1402	<listitem>
1403	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1404	with VBoxManage</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1409	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412
1413	</itemizedlist>
1414
1415	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1416
1417	<itemizedlist>
1418
1419	<listitem>
1420	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1421	</listitem>
1422
1423	<listitem>
1424	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1425	</listitem>
1426
1427	<listitem>
1428	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1429	</listitem>
1430
1431	<listitem>
1432	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1433	of the current state</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1438	</listitem>
1439
1440	<listitem>
1441	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1442	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1447	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1448	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1449	</listitem>
1450
1451	<listitem>
1452	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1453	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1458	</listitem>
1459
1460	<listitem>
1461	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1462	</listitem>
1463
1464	<listitem>
1465	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1466	dialog</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1471	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1472	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1473	</listitem>
1474
1475	<listitem>
1476	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1477	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1482	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1487	be a valid UUID</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1492	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1497	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1498	cases</para>
1499	</listitem>
1500
1501	<listitem>
1502	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1503	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1504	improve performance</para>
1505	</listitem>
1506
1507	<listitem>
1508	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1509	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1510	on a temporary basis</para>
1511	</listitem>
1512
1513	<listitem>
1514	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1515	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1516	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1517	</listitem>
1518
1519	<listitem>
1520	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1521	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1526	images in VDI format</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1531	VMDK format</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1536	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1541	</listitem>
1542
1543	<listitem>
1544	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1545	</listitem>
1546
1547	<listitem>
1548	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1557	</listitem>
1558
1559	<listitem>
1560	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1561	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1566	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1571	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1576	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1581	RDP clients</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1586	</listitem>
1587
1588	<listitem>
1589	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1590	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1595	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1600	simultaneously</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1605	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1606	location values in many places</para>
1607	</listitem>
1608
1609	<listitem>
1610	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1611	</listitem>
1612
1613	<listitem>
1614	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1615	builds</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1620	</listitem>
1621
1622	<listitem>
1623	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1624	window (bug #4491)</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1629	removing a VM</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1634	</listitem>
1635
1636	<listitem>
1637	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1642	166 and above)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1647	hosts</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1652	</listitem>
1653
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1656	from the host</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	<listitem>
1660	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	</itemizedlist>
1664
1665	</sect1>
1666
1667	<sect1>
1668	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1669
1670	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1671	added:</para>
1672
1673	<itemizedlist>
1674
1675	<listitem>
1676	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1677	</listitem>
1678
1679	<listitem>
1680	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1681	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1686	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1691	a live snapshot</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1696	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1701	</listitem>
1702
1703	<listitem>
1704	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1705	</listitem>
1706
1707	<listitem>
1708	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1709	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1714	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1719	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1724	</listitem>
1725
1726	<listitem>
1727	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1728	images</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1733	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735	<listitem>
1736	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1737	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1738	</listitem>
1739
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1742	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1747	</listitem>
1748
1749	<listitem>
1750	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1751	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1756	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	<listitem>
1764	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1765	(bug #9370)</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1770	(bug #9535)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1775	(bug #1578)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1780	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1785	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1786	</para>
1787	</listitem>
1788
1789	<listitem>
1790	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1791	</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1796	2.6.37 and above</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1801	(bug #6229)</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1806	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	</itemizedlist>
1810	</sect1>
1811
1812	<sect1>
1813	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1814
1815	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1816	added:</para>
1817
1818	<itemizedlist>
1819
1820	<listitem>
1821	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1822	</listitem>
1823
1824	<listitem>
1825	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1826	166 and above)</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1831	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1832	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1833	</listitem>
1834
1835	<listitem>
1836	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1837	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1842	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1847	</listitem>
1848
1849	<listitem>
1850	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1851	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1856	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1861	builds</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1866	</listitem>
1867
1868	</itemizedlist>
1869	</sect1>
1870	<sect1>
1871	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1872
1873	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1874	added:</para>
1875
1876	<itemizedlist>
1877
1878	<listitem>
1879	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1880	</listitem>
1881
1882	<listitem>
1883	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1888	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1893	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1898	</listitem>
1899
1900	<listitem>
1901	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1902	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1907	</listitem>
1908
1909	<listitem>
1910	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1911	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1916	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1921	</listitem>
1922
1923	<listitem>
1924	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1925	</listitem>
1926
1927	<listitem>
1928	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1929	file was not written during export</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1934	</listitem>
1935
1936	<listitem>
1937	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1938	</listitem>
1939
1940	<listitem>
1941	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1942	</listitem>
1943
1944	<listitem>
1945	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1946	binaries</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1951	</listitem>
1952
1953	<listitem>
1954	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1955	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1960	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1965	</listitem>
1966
1967	<listitem>
1968	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1969	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	</itemizedlist>
1973	</sect1>
1974
1975	<sect1>
1976	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1977
1978	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1979	added:</para>
1980
1981	<itemizedlist>
1982
1983	<listitem>
1984	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1985	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1986	</listitem>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1990	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
1995	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2000	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2005	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2010	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2015	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2020	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2025	</listitem>
2026
2027	<listitem>
2028	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2029	</listitem>
2030
2031	<listitem>
2032	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2033	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2038	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2043	</listitem>
2044
2045	<listitem>
2046	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2047	</listitem>
2048
2049	<listitem>
2050	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2051	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2052	</listitem>
2053
2054	<listitem>
2055	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2056	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2057	</listitem>
2058
2059	<listitem>
2060	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2061	window</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2066	Fedora 15</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2071	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2076	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2081	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2086	</listitem>
2087
2088	<listitem>
2089	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2090	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	</itemizedlist>
2094	</sect1>
2095
2096	<sect1>
2097	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2098
2099	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2100	added:</para>
2101
2102	<itemizedlist>
2103
2104	<listitem>
2105	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2106	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2107	</listitem>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2111	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2116	(bug #8006)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2121	(bug #8726)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2126	</listitem>
2127
2128	<listitem>
2129	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2130	</listitem>
2131
2132	<listitem>
2133	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2134	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2139	(bug #8469)</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2144	selectors</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2149	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2154	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2159	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2164	</listitem>
2165
2166	<listitem>
2167	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2168	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2173	</listitem>
2174
2175	<listitem>
2176	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2177	</listitem>
2178
2179	<listitem>
2180	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2181	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2186	I/O error occurred</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2191	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2196	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2201	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2202	if no medium is present</para>
2203	</listitem>
2204
2205	<listitem>
2206	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2207	</listitem>
2208
2209	<listitem>
2210	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2211	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2216	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2221	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2226	</listitem>
2227
2228	<listitem>
2229	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2230	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2235	library (bug #8063)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2240	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2245	</listitem>
2246
2247	<listitem>
2248	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2249	</listitem>
2250
2251	<listitem>
2252	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2253	</listitem>
2254
2255	<listitem>
2256	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2257	changed on import</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2262	</listitem>
2263
2264	<listitem>
2265	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2266	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2271	(bug #8593)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2276	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2281	captured</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2286	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2291	</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2296	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2301	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2306	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2307	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2308	</listitem>
2309
2310	<listitem>
2311	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2312	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2317	</listitem>
2318
2319	<listitem>
2320	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2321	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2326	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2331	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2336	</listitem>
2337
2338	<listitem>
2339	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2340	</listitem>
2341
2342	<listitem>
2343	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2344	</listitem>
2345
2346	<listitem>
2347	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2348	</listitem>
2349
2350	<listitem>
2351	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2352	(bug #7946)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2357	</listitem>
2358
2359	<listitem>
2360	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2361	</listitem>
2362
2363	<listitem>
2364	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2365	</listitem>
2366
2367	</itemizedlist>
2368
2369	</sect1>
2370
2371	<sect1>
2372	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2373
2374	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2375	added:</para>
2376
2377	<itemizedlist>
2378
2379	<listitem>
2380	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2381	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2382	</listitem>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2386	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2391	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2396	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2401	number of host network interfaces</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2406	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2411	</listitem>
2412
2413	<listitem>
2414	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2415	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2420	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2425	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2430	</listitem>
2431
2432	<listitem>
2433	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2434	(bug #6577)</para>
2435	</listitem>
2436
2437	<listitem>
2438	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2439	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2440	(bug #8235)</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2445	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2446	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2447	</listitem>
2448
2449	<listitem>
2450	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2451	</listitem>
2452
2453	<listitem>
2454	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2455	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2460	</listitem>
2461
2462	<listitem>
2463	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2464	(bug #7966)</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2469	</listitem>
2470
2471	<listitem>
2472	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2473	</listitem>
2474
2475	<listitem>
2476	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2477	</listitem>
2478
2479	<listitem>
2480	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2481	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2486	</listitem>
2487
2488	<listitem>
2489	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2490	</listitem>
2491
2492	<listitem>
2493	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2494	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	<listitem>
2498	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2499	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2504	</listitem>
2505
2506	<listitem>
2507	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2508	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2513	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2514	(bug #8122)</para>
2515	</listitem>
2516
2517	<listitem>
2518	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2519	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2524	</listitem>
2525
2526	<listitem>
2527	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2528	</listitem>
2529
2530	<listitem>
2531	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2532	(bug #1548)</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2537	</listitem>
2538
2539	<listitem>
2540	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2541	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2546	</listitem>
2547
2548	<listitem>
2549	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2550	(bug #8231)</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2555	11.04 Alpha</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2560	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2565	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2570	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2575	with VBoxGINA</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	</itemizedlist>
2579
2580	</sect1>
2581
2582	<sect1>
2583	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2584
2585	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2586	added:</para>
2587
2588	<itemizedlist>
2589
2590	<listitem>
2591	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2592	settings vanished</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2597	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2602	created (bug #8031)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2607	</listitem>
2608
2609	<listitem>
2610	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2611	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2616	an extension pack</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2621	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2626	</listitem>
2627
2628	<listitem>
2629	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2630	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2635	host-only interface</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2640	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2645	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2650	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2655	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2660	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2665	</listitem>
2666
2667	<listitem>
2668	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2669	</listitem>
2670
2671	<listitem>
2672	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2673	guests</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2678	</listitem>
2679
2680	<listitem>
2681	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2682	</listitem>
2683
2684	<listitem>
2685	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2686	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2691	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2696	a VM start</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2701	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2706	(bug #6067)</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2711	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2716	not saved to machine XML</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2721	#7983)</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2726	#7981)</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2731	</listitem>
2732
2733	<listitem>
2734	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2735	regression)</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	<listitem>
2739	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2740	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2745	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	</itemizedlist>
2749
2750	</sect1>
2751
2752	<sect1>
2753	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2754
2755	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2756	were added:</para>
2757
2758	<itemizedlist>
2759
2760	<listitem>
2761	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	<listitem>
2769	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2770	<itemizedlist>
2771	<listitem>
2772	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2773	</listitem>
2774
2775	<listitem>
2776	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2777	</listitem>
2778
2779	<listitem>
2780	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2781	</listitem>
2782
2783	<listitem>
2784	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2785	</listitem>
2786
2787	<listitem>
2788	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2789	states, and optionally including attached
2790	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2791	can do the same now)</para>
2792	</listitem>
2793
2794	<listitem>
2795	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2796	</listitem>
2797
2798	</itemizedlist>
2799	</para>
2800	</listitem>
2801
2802	<listitem>
2803	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2804	</listitem>
2805
2806	<listitem>
2807	<para>New virtual hardware:
2808	<itemizedlist>
2809	<listitem>
2810	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2811	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2812	</listitem>
2813
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2816	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2817	</listitem>
2818	</itemizedlist>
2819	</para>
2820	</listitem>
2821
2822	<listitem>
2823	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2824	<itemizedlist>
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2827	</listitem>
2828
2829	<listitem>
2830	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2831	</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2836	now</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	</itemizedlist>
2844	</para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	<listitem>
2848	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2849	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2854	Parallels images</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2859	</listitem>
2860
2861	<listitem>
2862	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2863	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2868	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2869	</listitem>
2870
2871	</itemizedlist>
2872
2873	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2874
2875	<itemizedlist>
2876
2877	<listitem>
2878	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2879	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2880	</listitem>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2884	</listitem>
2885
2886	<listitem>
2887	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2888	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2893	(bug #1657)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2898	</listitem>
2899
2900	<listitem>
2901	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2902	</listitem>
2903
2904	<listitem>
2905	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2906	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2911	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2916	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2917	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2918	</listitem>
2919
2920	<listitem>
2921	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2922	again (bug #6864)</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2927	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2932	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2941	</listitem>
2942
2943	<listitem>
2944	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2945	</listitem>
2946
2947	<listitem>
2948	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2949	</listitem>
2950
2951	<listitem>
2952	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2953	</listitem>
2954
2955	<listitem>
2956	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2965	(bug #7058)</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2970	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2975	circumstances</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2980	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2981	#5578)
2982	</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2991	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
2996	</listitem>
2997
2998	<listitem>
2999	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3000	#6760)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3005	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3010	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3015	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3020	</listitem>
3021
3022	<listitem>
3023	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3024	file</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3029	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	</itemizedlist>
3033
3034	</sect1>
3035
3036	<sect1>
3037	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3038
3039	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3040	added:</para>
3041
3042	<itemizedlist>
3043
3044	<listitem>
3045	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3046	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3047	</listitem>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3051	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3052	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3053	</listitem>
3054
3055	<listitem>
3056	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3057	</listitem>
3058
3059	<listitem>
3060	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3061	</listitem>
3062
3063	<listitem>
3064	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3065	</listitem>
3066
3067	<listitem>
3068	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3069	the VM is running</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3074	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3075	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3076	starting from a saved state</para>
3077	</listitem>
3078
3079	<listitem>
3080	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3081	</listitem>
3082
3083	<listitem>
3084	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3089	</listitem>
3090
3091	<listitem>
3092	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3093	</listitem>
3094
3095	<listitem>
3096	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3097	</listitem>
3098
3099	<listitem>
3100	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3101	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3106	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3111	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3116	</listitem>
3117
3118	<listitem>
3119	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3120	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3121	</para>
3122	</listitem>
3123
3124	<listitem>
3125	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3126	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3127	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3132	only)</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3137	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3142	</listitem>
3143
3144	<listitem>
3145	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3154	state (bug #4124)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3159	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3164	</listitem>
3165
3166	<listitem>
3167	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3168	(bug #2996)</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3173	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3178	</listitem>
3179
3180	<listitem>
3181	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3182	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3187	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3192	user accounts for VM information</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	</itemizedlist>
3196
3197	</sect1>
3198
3199	<sect1>
3200	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3201
3202	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3203	added:</para>
3204
3205	<itemizedlist>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3209	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3210	</listitem>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3214	</listitem>
3215
3216	<listitem>
3217	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3218	</listitem>
3219
3220	<listitem>
3221	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3222	</listitem>
3223
3224	<listitem>
3225	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3226	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3231	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3236	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3241	(bug #4952)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3246	bug #6122)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3251	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3256	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3257	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3258	</listitem>
3259
3260	<listitem>
3261	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3262	</listitem>
3263
3264	<listitem>
3265	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3266	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3271	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3276	canceled</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3281	</listitem>
3282
3283	<listitem>
3284	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3285	</listitem>
3286
3287	<listitem>
3288	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3289	</listitem>
3290
3291	<listitem>
3292	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3293	</listitem>
3294
3295	<listitem>
3296	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3297	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3302	</listitem>
3303
3304	<listitem>
3305	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3306	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3311	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3316	</listitem>
3317
3318	<listitem>
3319	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3320	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3325	</listitem>
3326
3327	<listitem>
3328	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3329	circumstances</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3334	printers</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3339	</listitem>
3340
3341	<listitem>
3342	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3343	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3348	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3353	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3354	circumstances</para>
3355	</listitem>
3356
3357	<listitem>
3358	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3359	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3364	as supported extension</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3369	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3374	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3379	</listitem>
3380
3381	<listitem>
3382	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3383	(bug #7366)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3388	</listitem>
3389
3390	<listitem>
3391	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3392	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3397	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3402	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3407	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3412	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3417	</listitem>
3418
3419	<listitem>
3420	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3421	</listitem>
3422
3423	<listitem>
3424	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3425	more than one environment variable</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3430	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3435	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3440	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3445	enumerating logged in users</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	<listitem>
3453	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3454	</listitem>
3455
3456	<listitem>
3457	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3458	</listitem>
3459
3460	<listitem>
3461	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3462	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3467	</listitem>
3468
3469	<listitem>
3470	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3471	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3476	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3481	(bug #7448)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3486	</listitem>
3487
3488	<listitem>
3489	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3490	</listitem>
3491
3492	<listitem>
3493	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3494	</listitem>
3495
3496	</itemizedlist>
3497
3498	</sect1>
3499
3500	<sect1>
3501	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3502
3503	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3504	added:</para>
3505
3506	<itemizedlist>
3507
3508	<listitem>
3509	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3510	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3519	bug #6809)</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3524	</listitem>
3525
3526	<listitem>
3527	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3532	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3537	changes</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3542	</listitem>
3543
3544	<listitem>
3545	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3546	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3551	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3556	</listitem>
3557
3558	<listitem>
3559	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3560	</listitem>
3561
3562	<listitem>
3563	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3564	</listitem>
3565
3566	<listitem>
3567	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3568	</listitem>
3569
3570	<listitem>
3571	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3572	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3577	</listitem>
3578
3579	<listitem>
3580	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3581	(bug #6832)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3586	guests</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3591	</listitem>
3592
3593	<listitem>
3594	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3595	without external tools and tricks</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3600	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3605	</listitem>
3606
3607	<listitem>
3608	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3609	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3614	shutdown</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3619	fixes</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3624	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3625	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3626	</para>
3627	</listitem>
3628
3629	<listitem>
3630	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3631	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3636	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3641	</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3646	</listitem>
3647
3648	<listitem>
3649	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3650	</listitem>
3651
3652	<listitem>
3653	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3654	</listitem>
3655
3656	</itemizedlist>
3657
3658	</sect1>
3659
3660	<sect1>
3661	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3662
3663	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3664	added:</para>
3665
3666	<itemizedlist>
3667
3668	<listitem>
3669	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3670	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3671	</listitem>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3675	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3680	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3685	</listitem>
3686
3687	<listitem>
3688	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3689	</listitem>
3690
3691	<listitem>
3692	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3693	</listitem>
3694
3695	<listitem>
3696	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3697	</listitem>
3698
3699	<listitem>
3700	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3701	assigned</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3706	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3711	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3716	</listitem>
3717
3718	<listitem>
3719	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3720	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3725	again (bug #7022).
3726	</para>
3727	</listitem>
3728
3729	<listitem>
3730	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3731	(bug #6768)</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3736	(bug #6927)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3741	bug #7031)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3746	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3751	bug #6987)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3756	</listitem>
3757
3758	<listitem>
3759	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3760	</listitem>
3761
3762	<listitem>
3763	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3764	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3769	</listitem>
3770
3771	<listitem>
3772	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3773	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3782	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3783	bug #6872)</para>
3784	</listitem>
3785
3786	<listitem>
3787	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3788	</listitem>
3789
3790	<listitem>
3791	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3792	(performance tweak)</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3797	is currently paused</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3802	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3807	</listitem>
3808
3809	<listitem>
3810	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3811	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3816	not properly saved</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3821	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3826	</listitem>
3827
3828	<listitem>
3829	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3830	</listitem>
3831
3832	<listitem>
3833	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3834	</listitem>
3835
3836	<listitem>
3837	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3838	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3843	</listitem>
3844
3845	<listitem>
3846	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3847	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3852	(bug #5251)</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3857	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3866	</listitem>
3867
3868	<listitem>
3869	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3870	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3871	</listitem>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3875	</listitem>
3876
3877	<listitem>
3878	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3883	</listitem>
3884
3885	</itemizedlist>
3886	</sect1>
3887
3888	<sect1>
3889	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3890
3891	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3892	added:</para>
3893
3894	<itemizedlist>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3898	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3903	</listitem>
3904
3905	<listitem>
3906	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3907	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3912	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3921	again (bug #6864)</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3926	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3931	</listitem>
3932
3933	<listitem>
3934	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3935	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3940	</listitem>
3941
3942	</itemizedlist>
3943
3944	</sect1>
3945
3946	<sect1>
3947	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3948
3949	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3950	added:</para>
3951
3952	<itemizedlist>
3953
3954	<listitem>
3955	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3956	</listitem>
3957
3958	<listitem>
3959	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3960	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3961	</listitem>
3962
3963	<listitem>
3964	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3965	</listitem>
3966
3967	<listitem>
3968	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3969	state</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3974	</listitem>
3975
3976	<listitem>
3977	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3978	</listitem>
3979
3980	<listitem>
3981	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3982	</listitem>
3983
3984	<listitem>
3985	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3986	</listitem>
3987
3988	<listitem>
3989	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4006	</listitem>
4007
4008	<listitem>
4009	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4010	</listitem>
4011
4012	<listitem>
4013	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4014	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4019	(bug #6784)</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4024	</listitem>
4025
4026	<listitem>
4027	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4028	</listitem>
4029
4030	<listitem>
4031	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4032	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4041	</listitem>
4042
4043	<listitem>
4044	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4045	host only</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4050	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4055	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4060	</listitem>
4061
4062	<listitem>
4063	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4064	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4069	</listitem>
4070
4071	<listitem>
4072	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4073	</listitem>
4074
4075	<listitem>
4076	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4077	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4086	</listitem>
4087
4088	<listitem>
4089	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4090	</listitem>
4091
4092	<listitem>
4093	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4094	(bug #6714)</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4099	</listitem>
4100
4101	<listitem>
4102	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4103	</listitem>
4104
4105	<listitem>
4106	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4111	</listitem>
4112
4113	<listitem>
4114	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4115	</listitem>
4116
4117	</itemizedlist>
4118
4119	</sect1>
4120
4121	<sect1>
4122	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4123
4124	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4125	were added:</para>
4126
4127	<itemizedlist>
4128
4129	<listitem>
4130	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4131	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4132	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4137	</listitem>
4138
4139	<listitem>
4140	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4141	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4146	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4147	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4152	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4157	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4158	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4159	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4160	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4161	</listitem>
4162
4163	<listitem>
4164	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4165	</listitem>
4166
4167	<listitem>
4168	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4169	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4174	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4179	</listitem>
4180
4181	<listitem>
4182	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4183	</listitem>
4184
4185	<listitem>
4186	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4187	</listitem>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4195	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4196	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4197	</listitem>
4198
4199	<listitem>
4200	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4201	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	</itemizedlist>
4205
4206	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4207
4208	<itemizedlist>
4209
4210	<listitem>
4211	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4212	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4213	</listitem>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4217	</listitem>
4218
4219	<listitem>
4220	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4221	VM</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4226	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4231	#1669)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4236	#6442)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4241	combination (bug #684)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4246	the VM from the GUI</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4251	medium is not accessible</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4256	</listitem>
4257
4258	<listitem>
4259	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4260	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4265	#3106)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4270	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4271	it</para>
4272	</listitem>
4273
4274	<listitem>
4275	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4276	</listitem>
4277
4278	<listitem>
4279	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4280	</listitem>
4281
4282	<listitem>
4283	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4284	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4289	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4294	</listitem>
4295
4296	<listitem>
4297	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4298	</listitem>
4299
4300	<listitem>
4301	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4302	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4307	</listitem>
4308
4309	<listitem>
4310	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4311	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4316	</listitem>
4317
4318	<listitem>
4319	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4320	in VirtualBox</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4325	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4330	VirtualBox</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4339	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	</itemizedlist>
4343	</sect1>
4344
4345	<sect1>
4346	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4347
4348	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4349	added:</para>
4350
4351	<itemizedlist>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4355	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4360	</listitem>
4361
4362	<listitem>
4363	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4364	</listitem>
4365
4366	<listitem>
4367	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4368	only) </para>
4369	</listitem>
4370
4371	<listitem>
4372	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4373	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4378	interface version</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4383	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4384	slot empty</para>
4385	</listitem>
4386
4387	<listitem>
4388	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4389	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4390	(bug #4220)</para>
4391	</listitem>
4392
4393	<listitem>
4394	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4395	</listitem>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4399	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4404	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4409	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4414	attached</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4419	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4424	</listitem>
4425
4426	<listitem>
4427	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4428	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4433	is bug #6408)</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4438	</listitem>
4439
4440	<listitem>
4441	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4442	fail to initialize</para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4447	</listitem>
4448
4449	<listitem>
4450	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4451	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4456	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4457	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4462	</listitem>
4463
4464	<listitem>
4465	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4466	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4471	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4476	(bug #6435)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4481	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4486	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4487	(bug #6488)</para>
4488	</listitem>
4489
4490	<listitem>
4491	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4492	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4497	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4502	#5227)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4507	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4512	</listitem>
4513
4514	<listitem>
4515	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4516	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	</itemizedlist>
4520	</sect1>
4521
4522	<sect1>
4523	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4524
4525	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4526	added:</para>
4527
4528	<itemizedlist>
4529
4530	<listitem>
4531	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4532	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4537	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4542	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4547	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4552	</listitem>
4553
4554	<listitem>
4555	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4556	</listitem>
4557
4558	<listitem>
4559	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4560	</listitem>
4561
4562	<listitem>
4563	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4564	</listitem>
4565
4566	<listitem>
4567	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4568	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4573	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4578	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4583	</listitem>
4584
4585	<listitem>
4586	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4587	</listitem>
4588
4589	<listitem>
4590	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4591	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4592	</listitem>
4593
4594	<listitem>
4595	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4596	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4597	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4602	(bug #5297)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4607	(bug #4962)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4612	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4617	(bug #6176)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4622	certain circumstances</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4627	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4636	</listitem>
4637
4638	<listitem>
4639	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4640	(bug #3571)</para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4645	devices</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4650	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4651	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4652	</listitem>
4653
4654	<listitem>
4655	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4656	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4661	</listitem>
4662
4663	<listitem>
4664	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4665	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4670	response</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4675	</listitem>
4676
4677	<listitem>
4678	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4683	</listitem>
4684
4685	<listitem>
4686	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4687	</listitem>
4688
4689	<listitem>
4690	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4691	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4696	</listitem>
4697
4698	<listitem>
4699	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4700	</listitem>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4704	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4709	</listitem>
4710
4711	<listitem>
4712	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4713	</listitem>
4714
4715	<listitem>
4716	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4717	</listitem>
4718
4719	<listitem>
4720	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4721	</listitem>
4722
4723	</itemizedlist>
4724	</sect1>
4725
4726	<sect1>
4727	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4728
4729	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4730	added:</para>
4731
4732	<itemizedlist>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4744	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4749	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4754	(bug #3945)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4759	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4764	and AMD-V only) </para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4769	</listitem>
4770
4771	<listitem>
4772	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4773	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4774	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4775	</listitem>
4776
4777	<listitem>
4778	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4779	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4784	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4789	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4794	snapshots command</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4799	</listitem>
4800
4801	<listitem>
4802	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4803	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	<listitem>
4807	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4808	</listitem>
4809
4810	<listitem>
4811	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4812	</listitem>
4813
4814	<listitem>
4815	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4820	(KWin bug)</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4825	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4830	</listitem>
4831
4832	<listitem>
4833	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4846	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4851	bug #5787)</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4856	DHCP requests</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4861	(bug #3217)</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4866	range (bug #5923)</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4871	</listitem>
4872
4873	<listitem>
4874	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4875	</listitem>
4876
4877	<listitem>
4878	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4879	</listitem>
4880
4881	<listitem>
4882	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4883	</listitem>
4884
4885	<listitem>
4886	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4887	file (bug #5681)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4892	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4897	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4902	regression)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4907	</listitem>
4908
4909	<listitem>
4910	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4911	</listitem>
4912
4913	<listitem>
4914	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4915	</listitem>
4916
4917	<listitem>
4918	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4919	</listitem>
4920
4921	<listitem>
4922	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4923	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4928	</listitem>
4929
4930	<listitem>
4931	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4932	</listitem>
4933
4934	<listitem>
4935	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4936	</listitem>
4937
4938	<listitem>
4939	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4940	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4945	</listitem>
4946
4947	<listitem>
4948	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4949	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4958	</listitem>
4959
4960	<listitem>
4961	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4962	</listitem>
4963
4964	<listitem>
4965	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4966	(bug #5731)</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4971	again</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	</itemizedlist>
4975
4976	</sect1>
4977
4978	<sect1>
4979	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4980
4981	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4982	added:</para>
4983
4984	<itemizedlist>
4985
4986	<listitem>
4987	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4988	</listitem>
4989
4990	<listitem>
4991	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4992	</listitem>
4993
4994	<listitem>
4995	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
4996	</listitem>
4997
4998	<listitem>
4999	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5000	</listitem>
5001
5002	<listitem>
5003	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5008	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5013	</listitem>
5014
5015	<listitem>
5016	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5017	</listitem>
5018
5019	<listitem>
5020	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5021	</listitem>
5022
5023	<listitem>
5024	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5025	</listitem>
5026
5027	<listitem>
5028	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5029	</listitem>
5030
5031	<listitem>
5032	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5033	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5038	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5043	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5044	#1762)</para>
5045	</listitem>
5046
5047	<listitem>
5048	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5049	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5054	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5059	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5064	</listitem>
5065
5066	<listitem>
5067	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5068	</listitem>
5069
5070	<listitem>
5071	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5072	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5077	</listitem>
5078
5079	<listitem>
5080	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5081	</listitem>
5082
5083	<listitem>
5084	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5085	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5090	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5095	</listitem>
5096
5097	<listitem>
5098	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5099	guests</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5104	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5105	</listitem>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5109	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5114	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5119	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5124	</listitem>
5125
5126	<listitem>
5127	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5136	</listitem>
5137
5138	<listitem>
5139	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5140	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5145	</listitem>
5146
5147	</itemizedlist>
5148
5149	</sect1>
5150
5151	<sect1>
5152	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5153
5154	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5155	were added:</para>
5156
5157	<itemizedlist>
5158
5159	<listitem>
5160	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5161	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5162	</listitem>
5163
5164	<listitem>
5165	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5166	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5167	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5168	</listitem>
5169
5170	<listitem>
5171	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5172	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5173	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5178	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5179	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5180	</listitem>
5181
5182	<listitem>
5183	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5184	running</para>
5185	</listitem>
5186
5187	<listitem>
5188	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5189	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5194	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5199	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5204	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	</itemizedlist>
5208
5209	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5210
5211	<itemizedlist>
5212
5213	<listitem>
5214	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5215	</listitem>
5216
5217	<listitem>
5218	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5219	</listitem>
5220
5221	<listitem>
5222	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5223	</listitem>
5224
5225	<listitem>
5226	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5227	(bug #5291)</para>
5228	</listitem>
5229
5230	<listitem>
5231	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5236	</listitem>
5237
5238	<listitem>
5239	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5240	</listitem>
5241
5242	<listitem>
5243	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5244	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5249	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5254	</listitem>
5255
5256	<listitem>
5257	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5258	</listitem>
5259
5260	<listitem>
5261	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5262	</listitem>
5263
5264	<listitem>
5265	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5266	</listitem>
5267
5268	<listitem>
5269	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5274	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5279	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5284	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5289	(bug #2723)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5294	</listitem>
5295
5296	<listitem>
5297	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5298	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5303	optional manifest file on import</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5312	(bug #3773)</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5317	</listitem>
5318
5319	<listitem>
5320	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5321	</listitem>
5322
5323	<listitem>
5324	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5325	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5330	(bug #4866)</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5335	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5340	certain conditions</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5349	</listitem>
5350
5351	<listitem>
5352	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5353	</listitem>
5354
5355	<listitem>
5356	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5357	</listitem>
5358
5359	<listitem>
5360	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5361	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5366	</listitem>
5367
5368	<listitem>
5369	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5370	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5375	</listitem>
5376
5377	<listitem>
5378	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5379	</listitem>
5380
5381	<listitem>
5382	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5383	</listitem>
5384
5385	<listitem>
5386	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5387	</listitem>
5388
5389	<listitem>
5390	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5391	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5396	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5397	(bug #928)</para>
5398	</listitem>
5399
5400	<listitem>
5401	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	</itemizedlist>
5405
5406	</sect1>
5407
5408	<sect1>
5409	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5410
5411	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5412	added:</para>
5413
5414	<itemizedlist>
5415
5416	<listitem>
5417	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5418	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5419	</listitem>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5423	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5424	</listitem>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5428	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5433	enabled</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5438	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5443	(bug #2676)</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5448	is connected to a raw file</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5453	(bug #5355)</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5458	</listitem>
5459
5460	<listitem>
5461	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5462	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5467	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5468	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5469	</listitem>
5470
5471	<listitem>
5472	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5473	</listitem>
5474
5475	<listitem>
5476	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5477	</listitem>
5478
5479	<listitem>
5480	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5481	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5486	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5487	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5488	</listitem>
5489
5490	</itemizedlist>
5491
5492	</sect1>
5493
5494	<sect1>
5495	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5496
5497	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5498	added:</para>
5499
5500	<itemizedlist>
5501
5502	<listitem>
5503	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5504	</listitem>
5505
5506	<listitem>
5507	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5508	</listitem>
5509
5510	<listitem>
5511	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5512	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5513	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5514	</listitem>
5515
5516	<listitem>
5517	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5518	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5523	</listitem>
5524
5525	<listitem>
5526	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5527	</listitem>
5528
5529	<listitem>
5530	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5531	</listitem>
5532
5533	<listitem>
5534	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5535	</listitem>
5536
5537	<listitem>
5538	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5539	</listitem>
5540
5541	<listitem>
5542	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5543	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5548	</listitem>
5549
5550	<listitem>
5551	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5552	</listitem>
5553
5554	<listitem>
5555	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5556	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5561	</listitem>
5562
5563	<listitem>
5564	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5565	exhaustion</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5570	</listitem>
5571
5572	<listitem>
5573	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5574	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5579	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5580	</listitem>
5581
5582	<listitem>
5583	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5584	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5589	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5590	(bug #2921)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5595	hosts only)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5600	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5609	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5614	</listitem>
5615
5616	<listitem>
5617	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5618	image inconsistency </para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5623	</listitem>
5624
5625	<listitem>
5626	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5627	</listitem>
5628
5629	<listitem>
5630	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5631	(bug #2025)</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5636	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	</itemizedlist>
5640
5641	</sect1>
5642
5643	<sect1>
5644	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5645
5646	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5647	added:</para>
5648
5649	<itemizedlist>
5650
5651	<listitem>
5652	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5653	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5654	</listitem>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5658	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5663	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5668	</listitem>
5669
5670	<listitem>
5671	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5672	software virtualization only) </para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5677	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5682	with root privileges</para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5687	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5692	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5697	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5702	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5703	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5704	</listitem>
5705
5706	<listitem>
5707	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5708	available</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5713	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5718	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5723	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5728	(bug #4907)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5733	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5738	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5759	are installed</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5764	(bug #4771)</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5769	</listitem>
5770
5771	<listitem>
5772	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5773	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5774	</listitem>
5775
5776	<listitem>
5777	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5778	command</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5783	</listitem>
5784
5785	<listitem>
5786	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5787	</listitem>
5788
5789	<listitem>
5790	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5791	(bug #5089)</para>
5792	</listitem>
5793
5794	<listitem>
5795	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5796	</listitem>
5797
5798	</itemizedlist>
5799
5800	</sect1>
5801
5802	<sect1>
5803	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5804
5805	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5806	added:</para>
5807
5808	<itemizedlist>
5809
5810	<listitem>
5811	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5812	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5813	</listitem>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5817	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5818	</listitem>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5822	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5827	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5832	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5837	</listitem>
5838
5839	<listitem>
5840	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5841	</listitem>
5842
5843	<listitem>
5844	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5845	</listitem>
5846
5847	<listitem>
5848	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5849	</listitem>
5850
5851	<listitem>
5852	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5853	</listitem>
5854
5855	<listitem>
5856	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5857	onlined or offlined</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5862	</listitem>
5863
5864	<listitem>
5865	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5866	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5871	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5876	</listitem>
5877
5878	<listitem>
5879	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5880	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5885	</listitem>
5886
5887	<listitem>
5888	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5889	</listitem>
5890
5891	<listitem>
5892	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5893	</listitem>
5894
5895	<listitem>
5896	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5897	</listitem>
5898
5899	<listitem>
5900	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5901	</listitem>
5902
5903	<listitem>
5904	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5905	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5910	</listitem>
5911
5912	<listitem>
5913	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5914	</listitem>
5915
5916	<listitem>
5917	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5918	</listitem>
5919
5920	<listitem>
5921	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5922	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5923	</listitem>
5924
5925	<listitem>
5926	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5927	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5932	</listitem>
5933
5934	<listitem>
5935	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5936	</listitem>
5937
5938	<listitem>
5939	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5940	</listitem>
5941
5942	<listitem>
5943	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5944	</listitem>
5945
5946	<listitem>
5947	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5948	</listitem>
5949
5950	<listitem>
5951	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5952	</listitem>
5953
5954	<listitem>
5955	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5956	</listitem>
5957
5958	<listitem>
5959	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5960	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5961	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5962	phase collapse</para>
5963	</listitem>
5964
5965	<listitem>
5966	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5967	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5972	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5977	</listitem>
5978
5979	<listitem>
5980	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5981	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5986	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5991	</listitem>
5992
5993	<listitem>
5994	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
5995	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
5996	#4698, #4790)</para>
5997	</listitem>
5998
5999	<listitem>
6000	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6001	less than the configured range</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6006	</listitem>
6007
6008	<listitem>
6009	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6010	</listitem>
6011
6012	<listitem>
6013	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6014	</listitem>
6015
6016	<listitem>
6017	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6018	</listitem>
6019
6020	<listitem>
6021	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6022	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6027	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6032	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6037	</listitem>
6038
6039	<listitem>
6040	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6041	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6042	</listitem>
6043
6044	<listitem>
6045	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6046	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6051	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6056	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6061	</listitem>
6062
6063	<listitem>
6064	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6065	</listitem>
6066
6067	</itemizedlist>
6068
6069	</sect1>
6070
6071	<sect1>
6072	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6073
6074	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6075	added:</para>
6076
6077	<itemizedlist>
6078
6079	<listitem>
6080	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6081	</listitem>
6082
6083	<listitem>
6084	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6085	</listitem>
6086
6087	<listitem>
6088	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6089	</listitem>
6090
6091	<listitem>
6092	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6093	</listitem>
6094
6095	<listitem>
6096	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6097	</listitem>
6098
6099	<listitem>
6100	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6101	</listitem>
6102
6103	<listitem>
6104	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6105	</listitem>
6106
6107	<listitem>
6108	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6109	</listitem>
6110
6111	<listitem>
6112	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6113	</listitem>
6114
6115	<listitem>
6116	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6117	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6118	</listitem>
6119
6120	<listitem>
6121	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6122	</listitem>
6123
6124	<listitem>
6125	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6126	</listitem>
6127
6128	<listitem>
6129	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6130	</listitem>
6131
6132	<listitem>
6133	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6134	</listitem>
6135
6136	<listitem>
6137	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6138	</listitem>
6139
6140	<listitem>
6141	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6142	</listitem>
6143
6144	<listitem>
6145	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6146	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6151	(bug #4654)</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6156	</listitem>
6157
6158	<listitem>
6159	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6160	interfaces</para>
6161	</listitem>
6162
6163	<listitem>
6164	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6165	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6170	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6175	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6180	(bug #1461)</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6185	</listitem>
6186
6187	<listitem>
6188	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6189	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6194	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6199	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6204	</listitem>
6205
6206	<listitem>
6207	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6208	</listitem>
6209
6210	<listitem>
6211	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6212	</listitem>
6213
6214	<listitem>
6215	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6216	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6217	</listitem>
6218
6219	<listitem>
6220	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6221	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6222	</listitem>
6223
6224	<listitem>
6225	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6226	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6231	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	</itemizedlist>
6235
6236	</sect1>
6237	<sect1>
6238	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6239
6240	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6241	added:</para>
6242
6243	<itemizedlist>
6244
6245	<listitem>
6246	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6247	</listitem>
6248
6249	<listitem>
6250	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6251	</listitem>
6252
6253	<listitem>
6254	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6255	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6256	</listitem>
6257
6258	<listitem>
6259	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6260	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6265	</listitem>
6266
6267	<listitem>
6268	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6269	</listitem>
6270
6271	<listitem>
6272	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6273	</listitem>
6274
6275	<listitem>
6276	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6277	</listitem>
6278
6279	<listitem>
6280	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6281	</listitem>
6282
6283	<listitem>
6284	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6285	</listitem>
6286
6287	<listitem>
6288	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6289	</listitem>
6290
6291	<listitem>
6292	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6293	</listitem>
6294
6295	<listitem>
6296	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6297	</listitem>
6298
6299	<listitem>
6300	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6301	</listitem>
6302
6303	<listitem>
6304	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6305	</listitem>
6306
6307	<listitem>
6308	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6309	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6310	</listitem>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6314	</listitem>
6315
6316	<listitem>
6317	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6318	</listitem>
6319
6320	<listitem>
6321	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6322	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6327	</listitem>
6328
6329	<listitem>
6330	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6331	</listitem>
6332
6333	<listitem>
6334	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6335	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6340	</listitem>
6341
6342	<listitem>
6343	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6344	</listitem>
6345
6346	<listitem>
6347	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6348	</listitem>
6349
6350	<listitem>
6351	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6352	</listitem>
6353
6354	<listitem>
6355	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6356	</listitem>
6357
6358	<listitem>
6359	<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>
6360	</listitem>
6361
6362	</itemizedlist>
6363
6364	</sect1>
6365
6366	<sect1>
6367	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6368
6369	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6370	were added:</para>
6371
6372	<itemizedlist>
6373
6374	<listitem>
6375	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6376	</listitem>
6377
6378	<listitem>
6379	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6380	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6381	</listitem>
6382
6383	<listitem>
6384	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6385	</listitem>
6386
6387	</itemizedlist>
6388
6389	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6390
6391	<itemizedlist>
6392
6393	<listitem>
6394	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6395	</listitem>
6396
6397	<listitem>
6398	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6399	certain conditions</para>
6400	</listitem>
6401
6402	<listitem>
6403	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6404	</listitem>
6405
6406	<listitem>
6407	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6408	</listitem>
6409
6410	<listitem>
6411	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6412	</listitem>
6413
6414	<listitem>
6415	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6416	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6421	</listitem>
6422
6423	<listitem>
6424	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6425	</listitem>
6426
6427	<listitem>
6428	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6429	</listitem>
6430
6431	<listitem>
6432	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6433	</listitem>
6434
6435	<listitem>
6436	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6437	</listitem>
6438
6439	<listitem>
6440	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6441	</listitem>
6442
6443	<listitem>
6444	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6445	</listitem>
6446
6447	<listitem>
6448	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6449	</listitem>
6450
6451	<listitem>
6452	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6453	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6458	</listitem>
6459
6460	<listitem>
6461	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6462	</listitem>
6463
6464	<listitem>
6465	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6466	</listitem>
6467
6468	<listitem>
6469	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6470	</listitem>
6471
6472	<listitem>
6473	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6474	</listitem>
6475
6476	<listitem>
6477	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6478	</listitem>
6479
6480	<listitem>
6481	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6482	</listitem>
6483
6484	<listitem>
6485	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6486	</listitem>
6487
6488	<listitem>
6489	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6490	</listitem>
6491
6492	<listitem>
6493	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6494	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6499	</listitem>
6500
6501	<listitem>
6502	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6503	</listitem>
6504
6505	<listitem>
6506	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6507	</listitem>
6508
6509	<listitem>
6510	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6511	</listitem>
6512
6513	<listitem>
6514	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6515	</listitem>
6516
6517	<listitem>
6518	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6519	</listitem>
6520
6521	<listitem>
6522	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6523	</listitem>
6524
6525	<listitem>
6526	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6527	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6532	</listitem>
6533
6534	<listitem>
6535	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6536	</listitem>
6537
6538	<listitem>
6539	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6540	</listitem>
6541
6542	<listitem>
6543	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6544	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6549	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6554	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6559	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6564	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6569	</listitem>
6570
6571	<listitem>
6572	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6573	</listitem>
6574
6575	<listitem>
6576	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6577	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6578	</listitem>
6579
6580	<listitem>
6581	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6582	guest property lookup</para>
6583	</listitem>
6584
6585	<listitem>
6586	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6587	basic network information)</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6592	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6597	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6598	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6599	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6600	</listitem>
6601
6602	<listitem>
6603	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6604	</listitem>
6605
6606	<listitem>
6607	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6608	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6609	web service</para>
6610	</listitem>
6611
6612	<listitem>
6613	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6614	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6619	unavailable</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6624	</listitem>
6625
6626	</itemizedlist>
6627	</sect1>
6628
6629	<sect1>
6630	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6631
6632	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6633	added:</para>
6634
6635	<itemizedlist>
6636
6637	<listitem>
6638	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6639	installation</para>
6640	</listitem>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6644	</listitem>
6645
6646	<listitem>
6647	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6648	later (bug #3981)</para>
6649	</listitem>
6650
6651	<listitem>
6652	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6653	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6654	</listitem>
6655
6656	<listitem>
6657	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6658	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6659	(bug #4034)
6660	</para>
6661	</listitem>
6662
6663	<listitem>
6664	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6665	networking</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6670	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6671	</listitem>
6672
6673	<listitem>
6674	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6675	clicks</para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6680	Windows 7 guests</para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6685	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6690	</listitem>
6691
6692	<listitem>
6693	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6694	</listitem>
6695
6696	<listitem>
6697	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6698	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6703	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6708	</listitem>
6709
6710	<listitem>
6711	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6712	</listitem>
6713
6714	<listitem>
6715	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6716	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6717	(bug #3864)</para>
6718	</listitem>
6719
6720	<listitem>
6721	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6722	now flushes the output stream</para>
6723	</listitem>
6724
6725	<listitem>
6726	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6727	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6732	</listitem>
6733
6734	<listitem>
6735	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6736	</listitem>
6737
6738	<listitem>
6739	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6740	</listitem>
6741
6742	<listitem>
6743	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6744	</listitem>
6745
6746	<listitem>
6747	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6748	(bug #3964)</para>
6749	</listitem>
6750
6751	<listitem>
6752	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6753	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6758	hosts</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6763	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6764	e1000 adapter</para>
6765	</listitem>
6766
6767	<listitem>
6768	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6769	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6770	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6771	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6772	</listitem>
6773
6774	<listitem>
6775	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6776	</listitem>
6777
6778	<listitem>
6779	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6780	</listitem>
6781
6782	<listitem>
6783	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6784	</listitem>
6785
6786	<listitem>
6787	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6788	file (bug #1023)</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6793	</listitem>
6794
6795	<listitem>
6796	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6797	</listitem>
6798
6799	</itemizedlist>
6800	</sect1>
6801
6802	<sect1>
6803	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6804
6805	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6806	added:</para>
6807
6808	<itemizedlist>
6809
6810	<listitem>
6811	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6812	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6813	</listitem>
6814
6815	<listitem>
6816	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6817	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6818	and later</para>
6819	</listitem>
6820
6821	<listitem>
6822	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6823	running services</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	<listitem>
6827	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6828	terminates</para>
6829	</listitem>
6830
6831	<listitem>
6832	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6833	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6838	installed on the guest</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6843	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6848	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6853	(bug #2628)</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6858	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6859	</listitem>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6863	(bug #3657)</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6868	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6873	virtualization only)
6874	</para>
6875	</listitem>
6876
6877	<listitem>
6878	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6879	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6884	</listitem>
6885
6886	<listitem>
6887	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6888	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6889	</listitem>
6890
6891	<listitem>
6892	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6893	bug #3689)</para>
6894	</listitem>
6895
6896	<listitem>
6897	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6898	bug #3679)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6903	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6908	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6909	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6910	</listitem>
6911
6912	<listitem>
6913	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6914	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6915	</listitem>
6916
6917	<listitem>
6918	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6919	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6920	</listitem>
6921
6922	<listitem>
6923	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6924	(bug #3667)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6929	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6934	</listitem>
6935
6936	<listitem>
6937	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6938	</listitem>
6939
6940	<listitem>
6941	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6942	</listitem>
6943
6944	<listitem>
6945	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6946	</listitem>
6947
6948	<listitem>
6949	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6950	</listitem>
6951
6952	<listitem>
6953	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6954	</listitem>
6955
6956	<listitem>
6957	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6958	</listitem>
6959
6960	</itemizedlist>
6961	</sect1>
6962
6963	<sect1>
6964	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6965
6966	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6967	were added:</para>
6968
6969	<itemizedlist>
6970
6971	<listitem>
6972	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6973	</listitem>
6974
6975	<listitem>
6976	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6977	</listitem>
6978
6979	<listitem>
6980	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6981	</listitem>
6982
6983	<listitem>
6984	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6985	</listitem>
6986
6987	<listitem>
6988	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6989	</listitem>
6990
6991	<listitem>
6992	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6993	</listitem>
6994
6995	<listitem>
6996	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
6997	</listitem>
6998
6999	<listitem>
7000	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7001	</listitem>
7002
7003	<listitem>
7004	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7005	</listitem>
7006
7007	<listitem>
7008	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7009	</listitem>
7010
7011	</itemizedlist>
7012
7013	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7014
7015	<itemizedlist>
7016
7017	<listitem>
7018	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7019	</listitem>
7020
7021	<listitem>
7022	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7023	</listitem>
7024
7025	<listitem>
7026	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7027	</listitem>
7028
7029	<listitem>
7030	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7031	</listitem>
7032
7033	<listitem>
7034	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7035	</listitem>
7036
7037	<listitem>
7038	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7039	</listitem>
7040
7041	<listitem>
7042	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7043	</listitem>
7044
7045	<listitem>
7046	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7047	</listitem>
7048
7049	<listitem>
7050	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7051	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7056	</listitem>
7057
7058	<listitem>
7059	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7060	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7061	</listitem>
7062
7063	<listitem>
7064	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7065	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7070	</listitem>
7071
7072	<listitem>
7073	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7074	</listitem>
7075
7076	<listitem>
7077	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7078	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7083	</listitem>
7084
7085	<listitem>
7086	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7087	ESX server images)</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7092	writable</para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7097	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7098	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7099	</listitem>
7100
7101	<listitem>
7102	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7103	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7108	</listitem>
7109
7110	<listitem>
7111	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7112	</listitem>
7113
7114	<listitem>
7115	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7116	hosts when creating files</para>
7117	</listitem>
7118
7119	<listitem>
7120	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7121	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7126	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7127	#2306)</para>
7128	</listitem>
7129
7130	<listitem>
7131	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7132	(bug #3555)</para>
7133	</listitem>
7134
7135	<listitem>
7136	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7137	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7142	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7147	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7152	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7157	(bug #3586)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7162	from Scratch systems</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7167	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7172	</listitem>
7173
7174	<listitem>
7175	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7176	default to compact format</para>
7177	</listitem>
7178
7179	<listitem>
7180	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7181	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7182	</listitem>
7183
7184	<listitem>
7185	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7186	</listitem>
7187
7188	<listitem>
7189	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7190	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7191	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7192	</listitem>
7193
7194	<listitem>
7195	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7196	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7197	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7198	</listitem>
7199
7200	<listitem>
7201	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7202	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7207	</listitem>
7208
7209	<listitem>
7210	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7211	</listitem>
7212
7213	<listitem>
7214	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7215	</listitem>
7216
7217	<listitem>
7218	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7219	</listitem>
7220
7221	<listitem>
7222	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7223	</listitem>
7224
7225	<listitem>
7226	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7227	</listitem>
7228
7229	<listitem>
7230	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7231	</listitem>
7232
7233	<listitem>
7234	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7235	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7236	</listitem>
7237
7238	<listitem>
7239	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7240	</listitem>
7241
7242	<listitem>
7243	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7244	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7245	</listitem>
7246
7247	<listitem>
7248	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7249	</listitem>
7250
7251	<listitem>
7252	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7253	</listitem>
7254
7255	<listitem>
7256	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7257	</listitem>
7258
7259	<listitem>
7260	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7261	#2536)</para>
7262	</listitem>
7263
7264	<listitem>
7265	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7266	</listitem>
7267
7268	<listitem>
7269	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7270	(bug #3548)</para>
7271	</listitem>
7272
7273	</itemizedlist>
7274	</sect1>
7275
7276	<sect1>
7277	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7278
7279	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7280	added:</para>
7281
7282	<itemizedlist>
7283
7284	<listitem>
7285	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7286	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7287	</listitem>
7288
7289	<listitem>
7290	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7291	</listitem>
7292
7293	<listitem>
7294	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7295	</listitem>
7296
7297	<listitem>
7298	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7299	</listitem>
7300
7301	<listitem>
7302	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7303	(bug #3115)</para>
7304	</listitem>
7305
7306	<listitem>
7307	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7308	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7309	</listitem>
7310
7311	<listitem>
7312	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7313	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7314	(bug #3215)</para>
7315	</listitem>
7316
7317	<listitem>
7318	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7319	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7320	</listitem>
7321
7322	<listitem>
7323	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7324	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7325	</listitem>
7326
7327	<listitem>
7328	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7329	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7334	in parallel</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7339	</listitem>
7340
7341	<listitem>
7342	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7343	</listitem>
7344
7345	<listitem>
7346	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7347	</listitem>
7348
7349	<listitem>
7350	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7351	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7352	</listitem>
7353
7354	<listitem>
7355	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7356	</listitem>
7357
7358	<listitem>
7359	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7360	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7361	</listitem>
7362
7363	<listitem>
7364	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7365	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7370	</listitem>
7371
7372	<listitem>
7373	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7374	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7375	</listitem>
7376
7377	<listitem>
7378	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7379	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7384	</listitem>
7385
7386	<listitem>
7387	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7388	</listitem>
7389
7390	<listitem>
7391	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7392	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7397	</listitem>
7398
7399	<listitem>
7400	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7401	</listitem>
7402
7403	<listitem>
7404	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7405	</listitem>
7406
7407	<listitem>
7408	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7409	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7410	</listitem>
7411
7412	<listitem>
7413	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7414	</listitem>
7415
7416	<listitem>
7417	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7418	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7419	</listitem>
7420
7421	<listitem>
7422	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7423	</listitem>
7424
7425	<listitem>
7426	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7427	</listitem>
7428
7429	<listitem>
7430	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7431	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7436	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7441	</listitem>
7442
7443	<listitem>
7444	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7445	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7450	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7455	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7456	</listitem>
7457
7458	<listitem>
7459	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7460	(bug #3213)</para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7465	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7466	</listitem>
7467
7468	<listitem>
7469	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7470	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7471	</listitem>
7472
7473	</itemizedlist>
7474	</sect1>
7475
7476	<sect1>
7477	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7478
7479	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7480	added:</para>
7481
7482	<itemizedlist>
7483
7484	<listitem>
7485	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7486	</listitem>
7487
7488	<listitem>
7489	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7490	</listitem>
7491
7492	<listitem>
7493	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7494	</listitem>
7495
7496	<listitem>
7497	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7498	</listitem>
7499
7500	<listitem>
7501	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7502	</listitem>
7503
7504	<listitem>
7505	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7506	</listitem>
7507
7508	<listitem>
7509	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7510	</listitem>
7511
7512	<listitem>
7513	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7514	</listitem>
7515
7516	<listitem>
7517	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7518	</listitem>
7519
7520	<listitem>
7521	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7522	</listitem>
7523
7524	<listitem>
7525	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7526	</listitem>
7527
7528	<listitem>
7529	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7530	</listitem>
7531
7532	<listitem>
7533	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7534	</listitem>
7535
7536	<listitem>
7537	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7538	</listitem>
7539
7540	<listitem>
7541	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7542	</listitem>
7543
7544	<listitem>
7545	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7546	</listitem>
7547
7548	<listitem>
7549	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7550	(bug #3067)</para>
7551	</listitem>
7552
7553	<listitem>
7554	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7555	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7560	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7565	</listitem>
7566
7567	<listitem>
7568	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7569	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7570	</listitem>
7571
7572	<listitem>
7573	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7574	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7579	</listitem>
7580
7581	<listitem>
7582	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7583	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7588	</listitem>
7589
7590	<listitem>
7591	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7592	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7593	</listitem>
7594
7595	<listitem>
7596	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7597	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7598	</listitem>
7599
7600	<listitem>
7601	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7602	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7603	</para>
7604	</listitem>
7605
7606	<listitem>
7607	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7608	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7609	</para>
7610	</listitem>
7611
7612	<listitem>
7613	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7614	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7615	</para>
7616	</listitem>
7617
7618	<listitem>
7619	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7620	</listitem>
7621
7622	<listitem>
7623	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7624	</listitem>
7625
7626	<listitem>
7627	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7628	</listitem>
7629
7630	<listitem>
7631	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7632	</listitem>
7633
7634	<listitem>
7635	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7636	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7641	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7646	formatting a drive</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7651	</listitem>
7652
7653	<listitem>
7654	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7655	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7656	</listitem>
7657
7658	<listitem>
7659	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7660	</listitem>
7661
7662	<listitem>
7663	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7664	</listitem>
7665
7666	<listitem>
7667	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7668	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7669	</listitem>
7670
7671	<listitem>
7672	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7673	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7674	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7675	</listitem>
7676
7677	<listitem>
7678	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7679	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7684	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7685	</listitem>
7686
7687	<listitem>
7688	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7689	(bug #2768)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7694	</listitem>
7695
7696	<listitem>
7697	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7698	</listitem>
7699
7700	<listitem>
7701	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7702	single, unified package</para>
7703	</listitem>
7704
7705	<listitem>
7706	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7707	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7712	</listitem>
7713
7714	<listitem>
7715	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7716	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7717	</listitem>
7718
7719	<listitem>
7720	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7721	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7722	</listitem>
7723
7724	<listitem>
7725	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7726	</listitem>
7727
7728	<listitem>
7729	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7730	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7731	doing 3D</para>
7732	</listitem>
7733
7734	<listitem>
7735	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7736	</listitem>
7737
7738	<listitem>
7739	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7740	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7745	</listitem>
7746
7747	<listitem>
7748	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7749	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7750	</listitem>
7751
7752	<listitem>
7753	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7754	</listitem>
7755
7756	<listitem>
7757	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7758	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7759	</listitem>
7760
7761	<listitem>
7762	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7763	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7764	(bug #2938)</para>
7765	</listitem>
7766
7767	<listitem>
7768	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7769	Linux guests</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7774	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7775	(bug #1776)</para>
7776	</listitem>
7777
7778	<listitem>
7779	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7780	(bug #1612)</para>
7781	</listitem>
7782
7783	<listitem>
7784	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7785	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7790	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7795	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	</itemizedlist>
7799	</sect1>
7800
7801	<sect1>
7802	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7803
7804	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7805	were added:</para>
7806
7807	<itemizedlist>
7808	<listitem>
7809	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7810	</listitem>
7811
7812	<listitem>
7813	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7814	</listitem>
7815
7816	<listitem>
7817	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7818	</listitem>
7819
7820	<listitem>
7821	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7822	</listitem>
7823
7824	<listitem>
7825	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7826	</listitem>
7827
7828	<listitem>
7829	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7830	</listitem>
7831
7832	<listitem>
7833	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7834	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7835	</listitem>
7836
7837	<listitem>
7838	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7839	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	</itemizedlist>
7843
7844	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7845
7846	<itemizedlist>
7847	<listitem>
7848	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7849	</listitem>
7850
7851	<listitem>
7852	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7853	</listitem>
7854
7855	<listitem>
7856	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7857	</listitem>
7858
7859	<listitem>
7860	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7861	</listitem>
7862
7863	<listitem>
7864	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7865	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7870	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7871	</listitem>
7872
7873	<listitem>
7874	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7875	</listitem>
7876
7877	<listitem>
7878	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7879	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7880	</listitem>
7881
7882	<listitem>
7883	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7884	</listitem>
7885
7886	<listitem>
7887	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7888	</listitem>
7889
7890	<listitem>
7891	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7892	</listitem>
7893
7894	<listitem>
7895	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7896	</listitem>
7897
7898	<listitem>
7899	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7900	</listitem>
7901
7902	<listitem>
7903	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7904	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7905	</listitem>
7906
7907	<listitem>
7908	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7909	the compiz window manager</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7914	</listitem>
7915
7916	<listitem>
7917	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7918	</listitem>
7919
7920	<listitem>
7921	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7922	</listitem>
7923
7924	<listitem>
7925	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7926	</listitem>
7927
7928	<listitem>
7929	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7930	</listitem>
7931
7932	<listitem>
7933	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7934	</listitem>
7935
7936	<listitem>
7937	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7938	</listitem>
7939
7940	<listitem>
7941	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7942	</listitem>
7943
7944	<listitem>
7945	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7946	</listitem>
7947
7948	<listitem>
7949	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7950	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7951	</listitem>
7952
7953	<listitem>
7954	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7955	for direct device access</para>
7956	</listitem>
7957
7958	<listitem>
7959	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7960	</listitem>
7961
7962	<listitem>
7963	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7964	</listitem>
7965
7966	<listitem>
7967	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7968	</listitem>
7969
7970	<listitem>
7971	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7972	</listitem>
7973
7974	<listitem>
7975	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7976	</listitem>
7977
7978	<listitem>
7979	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7980	</listitem>
7981
7982	<listitem>
7983	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7984	</listitem>
7985
7986	<listitem>
7987	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7988	</listitem>
7989
7990	</itemizedlist>
7991	</sect1>
7992
7993	<sect1>
7994	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
7995
7996	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7997	added:</para>
7998
7999	<itemizedlist>
8000
8001	<listitem>
8002	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8003	states/snapshots</para>
8004	</listitem>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8008	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8009	</listitem>
8010
8011	<listitem>
8012	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8013	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8018	collisions</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8023	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8028	</listitem>
8029
8030	<listitem>
8031	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8032	reliably</para>
8033	</listitem>
8034
8035	<listitem>
8036	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8037	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	<listitem>
8041	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8042	a reboot</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8047	</listitem>
8048
8049	<listitem>
8050	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8051	in parallel</para>
8052	</listitem>
8053
8054	<listitem>
8055	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8056	</listitem>
8057
8058	<listitem>
8059	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8060	correctly</para>
8061	</listitem>
8062
8063	<listitem>
8064	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8065	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8066	</listitem>
8067
8068	</itemizedlist>
8069	</sect1>
8070
8071	<sect1>
8072	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8073
8074	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8075	added:</para>
8076
8077	<itemizedlist>
8078
8079	<listitem>
8080	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8081	(bug #2220)</para>
8082	</listitem>
8083
8084	<listitem>
8085	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8086	</listitem>
8087
8088	<listitem>
8089	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8090	</listitem>
8091
8092	<listitem>
8093	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8094	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8095	</listitem>
8096
8097	<listitem>
8098	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8099	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8104	(bug #2624)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8109	(bug #2024)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8114	</listitem>
8115
8116	<listitem>
8117	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8118	</listitem>
8119
8120	<listitem>
8121	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8122	</listitem>
8123
8124	<listitem>
8125	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8126	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8127	</listitem>
8128
8129	<listitem>
8130	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8131	applications when updating the installation</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8136	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8141	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8142	</listitem>
8143
8144	<listitem>
8145	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8146	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8147	</listitem>
8148
8149	<listitem>
8150	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8151	connected to a host device</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8156	</listitem>
8157
8158	<listitem>
8159	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8160	</listitem>
8161
8162	<listitem>
8163	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8164	</listitem>
8165
8166	<listitem>
8167	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8168	when using native RDP connections</para>
8169	</listitem>
8170
8171	<listitem>
8172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8173	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8174	</listitem>
8175
8176	<listitem>
8177	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8178	(bug #2591)</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8183	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8188	</listitem>
8189
8190	</itemizedlist>
8191	</sect1>
8192
8193	<sect1>
8194	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8195
8196	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8197	added:</para>
8198
8199	<itemizedlist>
8200	<listitem>
8201	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8202	</listitem>
8203
8204	<listitem>
8205	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8206	</listitem>
8207
8208	<listitem>
8209	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8210	</listitem>
8211
8212	<listitem>
8213	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8214	</listitem>
8215
8216	<listitem>
8217	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8218	</listitem>
8219
8220	<listitem>
8221	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8222	</listitem>
8223
8224	<listitem>
8225	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8226	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8231	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8236	</listitem>
8237
8238	<listitem>
8239	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8240	equal to the client resolution</para>
8241	</listitem>
8242
8243	<listitem>
8244	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8245	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8246	</listitem>
8247
8248	<listitem>
8249	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8250	</listitem>
8251
8252	<listitem>
8253	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8254	</listitem>
8255
8256	<listitem>
8257	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8258	</listitem>
8259
8260	<listitem>
8261	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8262	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8263	</listitem>
8264
8265	<listitem>
8266	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8267	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8268	</listitem>
8269
8270	<listitem>
8271	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8272	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8277	</listitem>
8278
8279	<listitem>
8280	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8281	</listitem>
8282
8283	<listitem>
8284	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8285	</listitem>
8286
8287	<listitem>
8288	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8289	</listitem>
8290
8291	<listitem>
8292	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8293	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8294	</listitem>
8295
8296	<listitem>
8297	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8298	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8299	</listitem>
8300
8301	<listitem>
8302	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8303	</listitem>
8304
8305	<listitem>
8306	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8307	</listitem>
8308
8309	<listitem>
8310	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8311	</listitem>
8312
8313	</itemizedlist>
8314
8315	</sect1>
8316
8317	<sect1>
8318	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8319
8320	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8321	added:</para>
8322
8323	<itemizedlist>
8324
8325	<listitem>
8326	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8327	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8328	</listitem>
8329
8330	<listitem>
8331	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8332	</listitem>
8333
8334	<listitem>
8335	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8336	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8337	</listitem>
8338
8339	<listitem>
8340	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8341	</listitem>
8342
8343	<listitem>
8344	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8345	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8346	</listitem>
8347
8348	<listitem>
8349	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8350	</listitem>
8351
8352	<listitem>
8353	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8354	the virtual disk manager</para>
8355	</listitem>
8356
8357	<listitem>
8358	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8359	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8360	</listitem>
8361
8362	<listitem>
8363	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8364	</listitem>
8365
8366	<listitem>
8367	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8368	</listitem>
8369
8370	<listitem>
8371	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8372	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8377	bug #2067)</para>
8378	</listitem>
8379
8380	<listitem>
8381	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8382	</listitem>
8383
8384	<listitem>
8385	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8386	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8391	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8392	(bug #2184)</para>
8393	</listitem>
8394
8395	<listitem>
8396	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8397	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8398	</listitem>
8399
8400	<listitem>
8401	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8402	(Windows guests only)</para>
8403	</listitem>
8404
8405	<listitem>
8406	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8407	</listitem>
8408
8409	<listitem>
8410	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8411	</listitem>
8412
8413	<listitem>
8414	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8415	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8416	</listitem>
8417
8418	<listitem>
8419	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8420	</listitem>
8421
8422	<listitem>
8423	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8424	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8425	</para>
8426	</listitem>
8427
8428	<listitem>
8429	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8430	</listitem>
8431
8432	<listitem>
8433	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8434	</listitem>
8435
8436	<listitem>
8437	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8438	a VM reboot</para>
8439	</listitem>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8443	</listitem>
8444
8445	<listitem>
8446	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8447	buggy X servers</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8452	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8457	</listitem>
8458
8459	<listitem>
8460	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8461	(bug #2128)</para>
8462	</listitem>
8463
8464	<listitem>
8465	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8466	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8467	</listitem>
8468
8469	<listitem>
8470	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8471	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8472	</listitem>
8473
8474	<listitem>
8475	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8476	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8481	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8486	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8487	</listitem>
8488
8489	<listitem>
8490	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8491	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8496	installer into a single package</para>
8497	</listitem>
8498
8499	<listitem>
8500	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8501	port to the guest
8502	</para>
8503	</listitem>
8504
8505	</itemizedlist>
8506
8507	</sect1>
8508
8509	<sect1>
8510	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8511
8512	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8513	were added:<itemizedlist>
8514
8515	<listitem>
8516	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8517	</listitem>
8518
8519	<listitem>
8520	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8521	</listitem>
8522
8523	<listitem>
8524	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8525	</listitem>
8526
8527	<listitem>
8528	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8529	</listitem>
8530
8531	<listitem>
8532	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8533	</listitem>
8534
8535	<listitem>
8536	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8537	</listitem>
8538
8539	<listitem>
8540	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8541	</listitem>
8542
8543	<listitem>
8544	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8545	</listitem>
8546
8547	<listitem>
8548	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8549	</listitem>
8550
8551	<listitem>
8552	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8553	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8554	</listitem>
8555
8556	<listitem>
8557	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8558	</listitem>
8559
8560	<listitem>
8561	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8562	</listitem>
8563
8564	<listitem>
8565	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8566	</listitem>
8567
8568	</itemizedlist></para>
8569
8570	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8571
8572	<itemizedlist>
8573
8574	<listitem>
8575	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8576	</listitem>
8577
8578	<listitem>
8579	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8580	</listitem>
8581
8582	<listitem>
8583	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8584	</listitem>
8585
8586	<listitem>
8587	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8588	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8589	</listitem>
8590
8591	<listitem>
8592	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8593	restored</para>
8594	</listitem>
8595
8596	<listitem>
8597	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8598	</listitem>
8599
8600	<listitem>
8601	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8602	</listitem>
8603
8604	<listitem>
8605	<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>
8606	</listitem>
8607
8608	</itemizedlist>
8609
8610	</sect1>
8611

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