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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>VMM: major rewrite of the VT-x code including many bug fixes and
13	performance improvements (for example bug #9659)</para>
14	</listitem>
15
16	<listitem>
17	<para>VRDP: support for IPv6</para>
18	</listitem>
19
20	</itemizedlist>
21
22	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
23
24	<itemizedlist>
25
26	<listitem>
27	<para>Settings: global and per-VM default frontend configuration,
28	useful to select the use of alternative VM frontends</para>
29	</listitem>
30
31	<listitem>
32	<para>Main: use the XDG standard configuration folder instead of
33	.VirtualBox on systems where it is appropriate (bug #5099)</para>
34	</listitem>
35
36	<listitem>
37	<para>VBoxManage: list more information about hard disk/DVD/floppy
38	media, and support the <computeroutput>--long</computeroutput>
39	option to show really all available details</para>
40	</listitem>
41
42	<listitem>
43	<para>3D support: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts</para>
44	</listitem>
45
46	<listitem>
47	<para>Keyboard: fix for reporting key sequences like Ctrl+Alt+Del
48	for the USB keyboard emulation</para>
49	</listitem>
50
51	<listitem>
52	<para>Shared Clipboard/X11: support for BMP-format images, contributed
53	by François Revol</para>
54	</listitem>
55
56	<listitem>
57	<para>Windows hosts: don't cause massive DPC latency (bug #6242)</para>
58	</listitem>
59
60	<listitem>
61	<para>Windows Additions: fixed misbehavior with guest display
62	power management (WDDM driver only; bug #11170)</para>
63	</listitem>
64
65	</itemizedlist>
66
67	</sect1>
68
69	<sect1>
70
71	<title>Version 4.2.0 (2012-09-13)</title>
72
73	<para>This is a major update. The following major new features
74	were added:</para>
75
76	<itemizedlist>
77
78	<listitem>
79	<para>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</para>
80	</listitem>
81
82	<listitem>
83	<para>GUI: VM groups (bug #288)</para>
84	</listitem>
85
86	<listitem>
87	<para>GUI: expert mode for wizards</para>
88	</listitem>
89
90	<listitem>
91	<para>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</para>
92	</listitem>
93
94	<listitem>
95	<para>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an
96	ICH9 chipset configuration (bug #8805)</para>
97	</listitem>
98
99	<listitem>
100	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO
101	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="network_bandwidth_limit" /> (bug #3653)</para>
102	</listitem>
103
104	<listitem>
105	<para>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux,
106	OS X and Solaris; see <xref linkend="autostart" /> (bug #950)</para>
107	</listitem>
108
109	<listitem>
110	<para>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to
111	Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is
112	planned. (bug #81)</para>
113	</listitem>
114
115	<listitem>
116	<para>Added support for parallel port passthrough on Windows hosts</para>
117	</listitem>
118
119	<listitem>
120	<para>Enhanced API for controlling the guest; please see the SDK reference and API
121	documentation for more information</para>
122	</listitem>
123
124	</itemizedlist>
125
126	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
127
128	<itemizedlist>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>Mac OS X hosts: sign application and installer to avoid warnings
132	on Mountain Lion</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM
137	when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts,
138	4.1 regression, bug #9897)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure
143	(seen with Windows 8 guests)</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>VMM: improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using
148	nested paging</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>VMM: added support for <emphasis>FlushByASID</emphasis> features of
153	AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>VMM: fixed unreal mode handling on older CPUs with VT-x
158	(gPXE, Solaris 7/8/9; bug #9941)</para>
159	</listitem>
160
161	<listitem>
162	<para>VMM: fixed MP tables fixes for I/O APIC interrupt routing relevant
163	for ancient SMP guests (e.g. old OS/2 releases)</para>
164	</listitem>
165
166	<listitem>
167	<para>VMM: support recent VIA CPUs (bug #10005)</para>
168	</listitem>
169
170	<listitem>
171	<para>VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled</para>
172	</listitem>
173
174	<listitem>
175	<para>VMM: page fusion fixes</para>
176	</listitem>
177
178	<listitem>
179	<para>GUI: network operations manager</para>
180	</listitem>
181
182	<listitem>
183	<para>GUI: allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content (bug #5561)</para>
184	</listitem>
185
186	<listitem>
187	<para>GUI: allow automatically sorting of the VM list</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>GUI: allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</para>
192	</listitem>
193
194	<listitem>
195	<para>GUI: allow reset, shutdown and poweroff from the Manager window</para>
196	</listitem>
197
198	<listitem>
199	<para>GUI: allow to globally limit the maximum screen resolution for
200	guests</para>
201	</listitem>
202
203	<listitem>
204	<para>GUI: show the full medium part on hovering the list of recently
205	used ISO images</para>
206	</listitem>
207
208	<listitem>
209	<para>GUI: do not create additional folders when a new machine has a
210	separator character in its name (bug #6541)</para>
211	</listitem>
212
213	<listitem>
214	<para>GUI: don't crash on terminate if the settings dialog is still open
215	(bug #9973)</para>
216	</listitem>
217
218	<listitem>
219	<para>GUI: consider scaled DPI values when display fonts on Windows hosts
220	(bug #9864)</para>
221	</listitem>
222
223	<listitem>
224	<para>GUI: if a bridged network interface cannot be found, don't
225	refuse to start the VM but allow the user to change the setting
226	immediately</para>
227	</listitem>
228
229	<listitem>
230	<para>Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old
231	snapshot when powering off a VM (bugs #9364, #9604, #10491)</para>
232	</listitem>
233
234	<listitem>
235	<para>Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
236	(see <xref linkend="security_clipboard" />). It can be enabled at
237	any time using the VM menu</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>Settings: sanitise the name of VM folders and settings file (bug #10549)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Settings: allow to store the iSCSI initiator secret encrypted</para>
246	</listitem>
247
248	<listitem>
249	<para>NAT: improvements for the built-in TFTP server (bugs #7385, #10286)</para>
250	</listitem>
251
252	<listitem>
253	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak when disabling the NAT engine (bug #10801)</para>
254	</listitem>
255
256	<listitem>
257	<para>E1000: 802.1q VLAN support (bug #10429)</para>
258	</listitem>
259
260	<listitem>
261	<para>Storage: implemented burning of audio CDs in passthrough mode</para>
262	</listitem>
263
264	<listitem>
265	<para>Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players</para>
266	</listitem>
267
268	<listitem>
269	<para>Storage: implemented support for discarding unused image blocks
270	through TRIM for SATA and IDE and UNMAP for SCSI when using VDI images</para>
271	</listitem>
272
273	<listitem>
274	<para>Storage: added support for QED images</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>Storage: added support for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly
279	support for v2 images)</para>
280	</listitem>
281
282	<listitem>
283	<para>Storage: added readonly support for VHDX images</para>
284	</listitem>
285
286	<listitem>
287	<para>USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when
288	saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)</para>
289	</listitem>
290
291	<listitem>
292	<para>Solaris additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
293	</listitem>
294
295	<listitem>
296	<para>Solaris additions: switched to using an in-kernel mouse driver</para>
297	</listitem>
298
299	<listitem>
300	<para>Windows hosts: no need to recreate host-only adapters after a
301	VirtualBox update</para>
302	</listitem>
303
304	<listitem>
305	<para>Windows hosts: updated toolchain; make the source code compatible
306	to VC 2010 and enable some security-related compiler options</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray (bug #10808)</para>
311	</listitem>
312
313	</itemizedlist>
314	</sect1>
315
316	<sect1>
317	<title>Version 4.1.18 (2012-06-06)</title>
318
319	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
320	added:</para>
321
322	<itemizedlist>
323
324	<listitem>
325	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_REM_VIRTUAL_CPU_ERROR</emphasis>
326	under rare conditions after the guest has been reset (bug #5164
327	and others)</para>
328	</listitem>
329
330	<listitem>
331	<para>VMM: fixed host freezes with 64-bit guests on 32-bit Linux
332	hosts (bug #10528)</para>
333	</listitem>
334
335	<listitem>
336	<para>VRDP: added a workaround for rdesktop clients not properly
337	updating the screen size when minimized</para>
338	</listitem>
339
340	<listitem>
341	<para>AHCI: fixed a rare bug which can cause a guest memory corruption
342	after the guest storage controler has been reset</para>
343	</listitem>
344
345	<listitem>
346	<para>NAT: another attempt to fix crashes under rare conditions
347	(Windows hosts only; bug #10513)</para>
348	</listitem>
349
350	<listitem>
351	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running Leopard / Snow Leopard
352	(bug #10631)</para>
353	</listitem>
354
355	<listitem>
356	<para>Linux hosts / Bridged Networking: fixed the problem with device driver
357	unloading on kernels 3.2.18 and newer due to an invalid reference counter
358	(bug #10624)</para>
359	</listitem>
360
361	<listitem>
362	<para>Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.5-rc1 fixes</para>
363	</listitem>
364
365	<listitem>
366	<para>Linux Additions: the guest content was sometimes not properly
367	updated (bug #9887)</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>Solaris Additions: installer fix for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
372	</listitem>
373
374	</itemizedlist>
375	</sect1>
376
377	<sect1>
378	<title>Version 4.1.16 (2012-05-22)</title>
379
380	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
381	added:</para>
382
383	<itemizedlist>
384
385	<listitem>
386	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_ACCESS_DENIED</emphasis>
387	with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)</para>
388	</listitem>
389
390	<listitem>
391	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation <emphasis>VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT</emphasis>
392	with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)</para>
393	</listitem>
394
395	<listitem>
396	<para>VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode
397	required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest
398	execution only; bug #9941)</para>
399	</listitem>
400
401	<listitem>
402	<para>VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP
403	guests in rare cases</para>
404	</listitem>
405
406	<listitem>
407	<para>3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash</para>
408	</listitem>
409
410	<listitem>
411	<para>NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some
412	circumstances (bug #10527)</para>
413	</listitem>
414
415	<listitem>
416	<para>Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to
417	128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for
418	Solaris and Windows hosts)</para>
419	</listitem>
420
421	<listitem>
422	<para>EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)</para>
423	</listitem>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)</para>
427	</listitem>
428
429	<listitem>
430	<para>Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some
431	reason (bug #6189)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> if the VM is already
440	paused</para>
441	</listitem>
442
443	<listitem>
444	<para>Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3
445	(bug #10267)</para>
446	</listitem>
447
448	<listitem>
449	<para>Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages
454	(bug #10418)</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables
459	during <computeroutput>VBoxManage guestcontrol execute</computeroutput>
460	(bug #10581)</para>
461	</listitem>
462
463	<listitem>
464	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain
465	cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)</para>
466	</listitem>
467
468	<listitem>
469	<para>Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available
470	for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better
471	to miss some features than providing a blank screen)</para>
472	</listitem>
473
474	<listitem>
475	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12</para>
476	</listitem>
477
478	</itemizedlist>
479
480	</sect1>
481
482	<sect1>
483	<title>Version 4.1.14 (2012-04-13)</title>
484
485	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
486	added:</para>
487
488	<itemizedlist>
489
490	<listitem>
491	<para>Network: fixed the problem with packets larger than MTU-4 when
492	PCnet or PRO/1000 was bridged to certain types of adapters on OS X hosts
493	(bug #3783)</para>
494	</listitem>
495
496	<listitem>
497	<para>NAT: fixed a segfault under rare circumstances</para>
498	</listitem>
499
500	<listitem>
501	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows WDDM video driver crash for SMP guests
502	(bugs #10200, #10331)</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>Windows Guest Additions, VRDP: fixed occasional corruption of vertical text</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	</itemizedlist>
510
511	</sect1>
512
513	<sect1>
514	<title>Version 4.1.12 (2012-04-03)</title>
515
516	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
517	added:</para>
518
519	<itemizedlist>
520
521	<listitem>
522	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED</emphasis> and
523	<emphasis>VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP</emphasis> guru meditation
524	due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode (bug #10370)</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PDMCritSectLeave</emphasis> guru meditation
529	under rare circumstances with SMP guests</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>VMM: proper <emphasis>Math Fault</emphasis> handling with certain
534	legacy guests (bug #9042)</para>
535	</listitem>
536
537	<listitem>
538	<para>NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (bug #10374;
547	4.1.10 regression)</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances</para>
552	</listitem>
553
554	<listitem>
555	<para>Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host
556	RAM/VMM metrics are enabled</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>VBoxSVC: several locking fixes</para>
561	</listitem>
562
563	<listitem>
564	<para>VBoxManage: return the correct error code if
565	<emphasis>controlvm savestate</emphasis> failed (bug #10134)</para>
566	</listitem>
567
568	<listitem>
569	<para>Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (bug #10326;
570	4.1.10 regression)</para>
571	</listitem>
572
573	<listitem>
574	<para>Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is
575	closed (bug #6473)</para>
576	</listitem>
577
578	<listitem>
579	<para>Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not
580	properly installed</para>
581	</listitem>
582
583	<listitem>
584	<para>Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes</para>
585	</listitem>
586
587	</itemizedlist>
588	</sect1>
589
590	<sect1>
591	<title>Version 4.1.10 (2012-03-13)</title>
592
593	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
594	added:</para>
595
596	<itemizedlist>
597
598	<listitem>
599	<para>GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason,
600	do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox</para>
601	</listitem>
602
603	<listitem>
604	<para>VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during
605	<emphasis>SYSEXIT</emphasis> right after <emphasis>STI</emphasis></para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page
610	fusion</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a
615	little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address
620	and network mask attributes</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations
625	(bug #10030)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression;
630	bugs #10071 and #10088</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167),
643	make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients</para>
648	</listitem>
649
650	<listitem>
651	<para>Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD
652	images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)</para>
653	</listitem>
654
655	<listitem>
656	<para>iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials
657	when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)</para>
658	</listitem>
659
660	<listitem>
661	<para>Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions
662	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
663	</listitem>
664
665	<listitem>
666	<para>SDK: actually ship current C bindings</para>
667	</listitem>
668
669	<listitem>
670	<para>SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)</para>
671	</listitem>
672
673	<listitem>
674	<para>SDK: added Python example</para>
675	</listitem>
676
677	<listitem>
678	<para>Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs</para>
679	</listitem>
680
681	<listitem>
682	<para>Web service: added SSL/TLS support</para>
683	</listitem>
684
685	<listitem>
686	<para>VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup</para>
687	</listitem>
688
689	<listitem>
690	<para>Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox
691	in a zone</para>
692	</listitem>
693
694	<listitem>
695	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes</para>
696	</listitem>
697
698	<listitem>
699	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data
700	(bug #9651)</para>
701	</listitem>
702
703	<listitem>
704	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion</para>
705	</listitem>
706
707	<listitem>
708	<para>Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug
709	#10010)</para>
710	</listitem>
711
712	<listitem>
713	<para>Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared
714	folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)</para>
715	</listitem>
716
717	<listitem>
718	<para>Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a
719	memory mapped file on a shared folder</para>
720	</listitem>
721
722	<listitem>
723	<para>Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12</para>
724	</listitem>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly
728	on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so
733	(bug #10151)</para>
734	</listitem>
735
736	<listitem>
737	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11
738	guests</para>
739	</listitem>
740
741	<listitem>
742	<para>Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions</para>
743	</listitem>
744
745	<listitem>
746	<para>Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)</para>
747	</listitem>
748
749	<listitem>
750	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	</itemizedlist>
754	</sect1>
755
756	<sect1>
757	<title>Version 4.1.8 (2011-12-19)</title>
758
759	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
760	added:</para>
761
762	<itemizedlist>
763
764	<listitem>
765	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>VERR_MAP_FAILED</emphasis> during savestate
766	under certain circumstances (bug #7929)</para>
767	</listitem>
768
769	<listitem>
770	<para>GUI: stop updating the VM status icons when the VM is paused (bug #8368)</para>
771	</listitem>
772
773	<listitem>
774	<para>VBoxManage: fixed wrong return code after <emphasis>startvm</emphasis>
775	(bug #9642)</para>
776	</listitem>
777
778	<listitem>
779	<para>BIOS: fixed hang at launch of DOS applications generated by
780	Clipper 5.3 (note that hardware virtualization may be required)
781	</para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>USB: fixed OS/2 boot hang when using recent USB drivers</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>NAT: increase maximum number of parallel connections making
790	connections with port forwarding more robust (#8471)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest
795	metrics collection upon VM destruction</para>
796	</listitem>
797
798	<listitem>
799	<para>Main: don't crash if a medium is ejected twice (bug #9922)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)</para>
804	</listitem>
805
806	<listitem>
807	<para>VRDP: fixed screen freeze (bug #9620)</para>
808	</listitem>
809
810	<listitem>
811	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare
812	circumstances</para>
813	</listitem>
814
815	<listitem>
816	<para>OVF/OVA: better error message when importing corrupted appliances</para>
817	</listitem>
818
819	<listitem>
820	<para>VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled
821	when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)</para>
822	</listitem>
823
824	<listitem>
825	<para>3D Support: fixed full screen mode issues for ATI graphics (bug #9775),
826	Windows Media Player rendering for XPDM-based Direct3D support (bug# 8341).
827	Multiple fixes to XPDM and WDDM - based 3D support for Windows Guests
828	and for 3D support in general</para>
829	</listitem>
830
831	<listitem>
832	<para>Linux hosts: fixes for Fedoras Linux 2.6.41 (bug #9948)</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>Linux hosts/guests: fixes for Linux 3.2 (bug #9743)</para>
837	</listitem>
838
839	<listitem>
840	<para>Solaris Additions: various shared folder fixes (bugs #9856, #9862, #9917)</para>
841	</listitem>
842
843	<listitem>
844	<para>Windows Additions: various fixes for Direct3D support (un)installation, added
845	detection of missing or wrong Direct3D system files</para>
846	</listitem>
847
848	</itemizedlist>
849	</sect1>
850
851	<sect1>
852	<title>Version 4.1.6 (2011-11-04)</title>
853
854	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
855	added:</para>
856
857	<itemizedlist>
858
859	<listitem>
860	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption</para>
861	</listitem>
862
863	<listitem>
864	<para>NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed
865	ICMP requests (bug #9371)</para>
866	</listitem>
867
868	<listitem>
869	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
870	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
871	</listitem>
872
873	<listitem>
874	<para>ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with
875	certain guests</para>
876	</listitem>
877
878	<listitem>
879	<para>ATA: improved compatibility with ancient Linux kernels</para>
880	</listitem>
881
882	<listitem>
883	<para>Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving
884	the full screen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled
885	preview window in the GUI for example</para>
886	</listitem>
887
888	<listitem>
889	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when
890	bridged to a wireless interface (bug #9648)</para>
891	</listitem>
892
893	<listitem>
894	<para>Linux hosts: fix for 3D support on Fedora 15 (bug #9799)</para>
895	</listitem>
896
897	<listitem>
898	<para>Linux hosts: don't call <emphasis>del_timer_sync</emphasis>
899	from an interrupt context (Fedora bug report 746331)</para>
900	</listitem>
901
902	<listitem>
903	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: more WDDM fixes</para>
904	</listitem>
905
906	<listitem>
907	<para>Linux Additions: fixed kernel module compilation failure on Redhat
908	Enterprise Linux 4 (bug #9709)</para>
909	</listitem>
910
911	<listitem>
912	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver correctly on Ubuntu 11.10
913	guests</para>
914	</listitem>
915
916	<listitem>
917	<para>Solaris Additions: added read-only mmap support for shared
918	folders</para>
919	</listitem>
920
921	<listitem>
922	<para>Solaris Additions: added directory, file mode and mask options for
923	shared folders</para>
924	</listitem>
925
926	<listitem>
927	<para>Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest
928	users and stale sessions</para>
929	</listitem>
930
931	<listitem>
932	<para>X.Org Additions: fixed graphical corruption when switching to a
933	virtual terminal (bug #9490)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	</itemizedlist>
937	</sect1>
938
939	<sect1>
940	<title>Version 4.1.4 (2011-10-03)</title>
941
942	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
943	added:</para>
944
945	<itemizedlist>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>VMM: fixed PAE guests running on 32-bit hosts (4.0 regression;
949	bug #9458)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>INVALID_PARAMETER</emphasis> guru meditation
954	caused by insufficient memory conditions (4.1.0 regression; bug #9240)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VMM: fixed clobbered CPU registers during <emphasis>stos/lods/ins/outs</emphasis>
959	emulation under rare circumstances</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>VMM: another fix for 64-bit guests on recent AMD CPUs</para>
964	</listitem>
965
966	<listitem>
967	<para>GUI: warn the user if he uses an outdated extension pack and allow
968	to download and upgrade in that case (bug #8025)</para>
969	</listitem>
970
971	<listitem>
972	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
973	(4.0.6 regression; bug #373)</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>VBoxManage: another fix for <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
978	(bug #9308)</para>
979	</listitem>
980
981	<listitem>
982	<para>VBoxManage: allow to specify the UUID of the target image in
983	<emphasis>convertfromraw</emphasis></para>
984	</listitem>
985
986	<listitem>
987	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare crash when two or more clients connect to the server
988	(bug #9503)</para>
989	</listitem>
990
991	<listitem>
992	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when a client was not resized correctly
993	(bug #9242)</para>
994	</listitem>
995
996	<listitem>
997	<para>USB: make device capturing work on Windows hosts with
998	usbhub class filter drivers installed (bug #9298);
999	bugfixes for Windows host USB support</para>
1000	</listitem>
1001
1002	<listitem>
1003	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1004	</listitem>
1005
1006	<listitem>
1007	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1008	images</para>
1009	</listitem>
1010
1011	<listitem>
1012	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1013	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1014	</listitem>
1015
1016	<listitem>
1017	<para>Main: fixed VM initialization if a shared folder does
1018	not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1019	</listitem>
1020
1021	<listitem>
1022	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1023	resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1024	</listitem>
1025
1026	<listitem>
1027	<para>Main: fixed not detaching of virtual storage after a snapshot
1028	restore operation (bug #8296)</para>
1029	</listitem>
1030
1031	<listitem>
1032	<para>Main: always reset modified state after restoring a snapshot (bug
1033	#9387)</para>
1034	</listitem>
1035
1036	<listitem>
1037	<para>Main: fixed writing of changed VM settings to disk when using
1038	snapshots (bug #8932)</para>
1039	</listitem>
1040
1041	<listitem>
1042	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1043	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding
1048	MTU (bug #9370)</para>
1049	</listitem>
1050
1051	<listitem>
1052	<para>3D Support: fixed incorrect rendering and possible crashes when switching
1053	to/from full screen with enabled 2D acceleration</para>
1054	</listitem>
1055
1056	<listitem>
1057	<para>3D Support: fixed compiz under ubuntu 9.10</para>
1058	</listitem>
1059
1060	<listitem>
1061	<para>Guest control: miscellaneous small bugfixes</para>
1062	</listitem>
1063
1064	<listitem>
1065	<para>Linux / Solaris hosts: don't use hard links in packages
1066	(4.1.2 regression; bug #9441)</para>
1067	</listitem>
1068
1069	<listitem>
1070	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1071	(bug #1578)</para>
1072	</listitem>
1073
1074	<listitem>
1075	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed packet capture issues with vboxnetX host-only
1076	interfaces (bug #8076)</para>
1077	</listitem>
1078
1079	<listitem>
1080	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incoming multicast packets for Crossbow based
1081	bridged networking (bug #9532)</para>
1082	</listitem>
1083
1084	<listitem>
1085	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1086	(bug #9535)</para>
1087	</listitem>
1088
1089	<listitem>
1090	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed <emphasis>ADDLOCAL</emphasis> usage
1091	on command line (4.1.0 regression; bug #9488)</para>
1092	</listitem>
1093
1094	<listitem>
1095	<para>Windows hosts installer: fixed dangling shortcut to the .chm
1096	help file (bug #9646)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>Windows hosts installer: try to fix installation error 2869 which
1101	appeared under certain circumstances (bug #9664)</para>
1102	</listitem>
1103
1104	<listitem>
1105	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxHeadless should never open a separate
1106	console window (bug #3549)</para>
1107	</listitem>
1108
1109	<listitem>
1110	<para>Guest Additions: fixed hang while waiting for guest execution
1111	output (4.1.2 regression; bug #9446)</para>
1112	</listitem>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1116	</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1121	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1122	</para>
1123	</listitem>
1124
1125	<listitem>
1126	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1127	(bug #6229)
1128	</para>
1129	</listitem>
1130
1131	<listitem>
1132	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1133	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1134	</listitem>
1135
1136	<listitem>
1137	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting
1138	(from console) and unmounting shared folders</para>
1139	</listitem>
1140
1141	<listitem>
1142	<para>Windows Additions: fixed swapped mouse cursor hotspot coordinates
1143	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9447)</para>
1144	</listitem>
1145
1146	<listitem>
1147	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA</emphasis>
1148	BSOD in VBoxDisp.dll when running SnippingTool (bug #9508)</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>Windows Additions: make image viewer work correctly
1153	with Aero enabled (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect window border blurs under Aero
1158	with ATI cards (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1159	</listitem>
1160
1161	<listitem>
1162	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect rendering when moving 3D applications
1163	outside guest desktop and back under Aero (Vista and Windows 7)</para>
1164	</listitem>
1165
1166	<listitem>
1167	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest hangs when switching back from full screen
1168	text mode applications (bug #9636)</para>
1169	</listitem>
1170
1171	</itemizedlist>
1172	</sect1>
1173
1174	<sect1>
1175	<title>Version 4.1.2 (2011-08-15)</title>
1176
1177	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1178	added:</para>
1179
1180	<itemizedlist>
1181
1182	<listitem>
1183	<para>VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1184	</listitem>
1185
1186	<listitem>
1187	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1188	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1189	</listitem>
1190
1191	<listitem>
1192	<para>GUI: added linked clone support</para>
1193	</listitem>
1194
1195	<listitem>
1196	<para>GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings
1197	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9246)</para>
1198	</listitem>
1199
1200	<listitem>
1201	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1202	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1203	</listitem>
1204
1205	<listitem>
1206	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1207	a live snapshot</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments
1212	due to a library version conflict</para>
1213	</listitem>
1214
1215	<listitem>
1216	<para>Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from
1217	guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)</para>
1218	</listitem>
1219
1220	<listitem>
1221	<para>Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes
1222	at a time by default</para>
1223	</listitem>
1224
1225	<listitem>
1226	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1227	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug
1228	#9368)</para>
1229	</listitem>
1230
1231	<listitem>
1232	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1233	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1234	</listitem>
1235
1236	<listitem>
1237	<para>VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of
1238	VMs</para>
1239	</listitem>
1240
1241	<listitem>
1242	<para>Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot
1243	creation (bug #9379)</para>
1244	</listitem>
1245
1246	<listitem>
1247	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <emphasis>copyfrom</emphasis> and
1248	<emphasis>stat</emphasis> guest control tools to copy files from guest
1249	to host and to check for existence of files on the guest</para>
1250	</listitem>
1251
1252	<listitem>
1253	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis>
1254	(bug #9308)</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with
1259	<emphasis>startvm</emphasis></para>
1260	</listitem>
1261
1262	<listitem>
1263	<para>VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1268	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
1273	(bug #9242)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1278	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1279	</listitem>
1280
1281	<listitem>
1282	<para>USB: fixed device recognition issues (bugs #9299) and
1283	fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts; bug #9299)</para>
1284	</listitem>
1285
1286	<listitem>
1287	<para>USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local
1288	USB devices</para>
1289	</listitem>
1290
1291	<listitem>
1292	<para>Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations
1293	and warn about it</para>
1294	</listitem>
1295
1296	<listitem>
1297	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1298	</listitem>
1299
1300	<listitem>
1301	<para>Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files (bug #9393)</para>
1302	</listitem>
1303
1304	<listitem>
1305	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs
1306	with Crossbow based bridged networking</para>
1307	</listitem>
1308
1309	<listitem>
1310	<para>Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown
1311	(4.1.0 regression; bug #9305)</para>
1312	</listitem>
1313
1314	<listitem>
1315	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs
1316	module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression; bug #9264)</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1321	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1322	</listitem>
1323
1324	<listitem>
1325	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software
1326	and 64 bit Windows guests (bug #9318)</para>
1327	</listitem>
1328
1329	<listitem>
1330	<para>Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements,
1331	fixed WinSAT crashes (#9267)</para>
1332	</listitem>
1333
1334	<listitem>
1335	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1336	2.6.37 and above</para>
1337	</listitem>
1338
1339	</itemizedlist>
1340	</sect1>
1341
1342	<sect1>
1343	<title>Version 4.1.0 (2011-07-19)</title>
1344
1345	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1346	were added:</para>
1347
1348	<itemizedlist>
1349
1350	<listitem>
1351	<para>Support for cloning of VMs (bug #5853, see
1352	<xref linkend="clone"/>): full clones can be created through the GUI
1353	and VBoxManage, linked clones only through VBoxManage</para>
1354	</listitem>
1355
1356	<listitem>
1357	<para>GUI: enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks</para>
1358	</listitem>
1359
1360	<listitem>
1361	<para>GUI: new wizard for copying virtual disks</para>
1362	</listitem>
1363
1364	<listitem>
1365	<para>GUI: keep the aspect ratio in scale mode (Windows and OSX hosts only;
1366	bug #7822)</para>
1367	</listitem>
1368
1369	<listitem>
1370	<para>VMM: raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB</para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts, see
1375	<xref linkend="pcipassthrough"/></para>
1376	</listitem>
1377
1378	<listitem>
1379	<para>Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting
1380	Windows Aero (bug #4607) and providing Direct3D support using a
1381	cleaner approach (no need to install the guest drivers in Safe Mode
1382	anymore)</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>Guest Additions: status of modules and features can now be
1387	queried separately by the frontends</para>
1388	</listitem>
1389
1390	<listitem>
1391	<para>Networking: new network attachment mode "Generic Driver", which
1392	offers an open plugin architecture for arbitrary and separately
1393	distributable virtual network implementations</para>
1394	</listitem>
1395
1396	<listitem>
1397	<para>Host-only Networking: fixed host crash in kernels prior to 2.6.29
1398	</para>
1399	</listitem>
1400
1401	<listitem>
1402	<para>New Networking Mode <emphasis>UDP Tunnel</emphasis>: allows to
1403	interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently,
1404	see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" /></para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available
1409	with VBoxManage</para>
1410	</listitem>
1411
1412	<listitem>
1413	<para>Solaris hosts: New Crossbow based bridged networking driver for
1414	Solaris 11 build 159 and above</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417
1418	</itemizedlist>
1419
1420	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1421
1422	<itemizedlist>
1423
1424	<listitem>
1425	<para>VMM: more SMP timer fixes</para>
1426	</listitem>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>VMM: fixed sporadic recompiler crashes with SMP guests</para>
1430	</listitem>
1431
1432	<listitem>
1433	<para>VMM: many small fixes</para>
1434	</listitem>
1435
1436	<listitem>
1437	<para>GUI: when restoring a snapshot, ask for taking a snapshot
1438	of the current state</para>
1439	</listitem>
1440
1441	<listitem>
1442	<para>GUI: added a <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu</para>
1443	</listitem>
1444
1445	<listitem>
1446	<para>GUI: added a setting for the promiscuous mode policy for
1447	internal networks, bridged networks and host-only networks</para>
1448	</listitem>
1449
1450	<listitem>
1451	<para>GUI: added slider for setting the CPU execution cap allowing to
1452	limit the amount of CPU time spent for the execution of the guest,
1453	see <xref linkend="settings-processor"/></para>
1454	</listitem>
1455
1456	<listitem>
1457	<para>GUI: the VM description is editable during the runtime of
1458	a VM (bug #1551)</para>
1459	</listitem>
1460
1461	<listitem>
1462	<para>GUI: added proxy settings (bug #2870)</para>
1463	</listitem>
1464
1465	<listitem>
1466	<para>GUI: made the number of SATA ports configurable</para>
1467	</listitem>
1468
1469	<listitem>
1470	<para>GUI: decrease time before showing the VM configuration
1471	dialog</para>
1472	</listitem>
1473
1474	<listitem>
1475	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1476	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1477	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port</para>
1478	</listitem>
1479
1480	<listitem>
1481	<para>VBoxManage: changed syntax of the <emphasis>guestcontrol</emphasis>
1482	command group, fixed various bugs, removed obsolete options</para>
1483	</listitem>
1484
1485	<listitem>
1486	<para>VBoxBalloonCtrl: new service for automatic dynamic adjustment
1487	of the balloon size for running VMs</para>
1488	</listitem>
1489
1490	<listitem>
1491	<para>Settings: machine names and snapshot names are not allowed to
1492	be a valid UUID</para>
1493	</listitem>
1494
1495	<listitem>
1496	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics if a single medium is used
1497	twice in a VM configuration</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>Settings: provide better diagnostics for errors in medium
1502	create/merge/clone operations, and fix memory leaks in error
1503	cases</para>
1504	</listitem>
1505
1506	<listitem>
1507	<para>Storage: ATA/SATA drives can be marked as non-rotational, i.e.
1508	the guest OS will detect them as a SSD if supported, which can
1509	improve performance</para>
1510	</listitem>
1511
1512	<listitem>
1513	<para>Storage: virtual CD/DVD images will be detached if the guest
1514	ejects the medium, unless the drive is marked to handle ejects only
1515	on a temporary basis</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>Storage: the medium UUID can be changed again when attaching
1520	a medium for the first time, which allows using images which are
1521	exact duplicates including the UUID</para>
1522	</listitem>
1523
1524	<listitem>
1525	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1526	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1527	</listitem>
1528
1529	<listitem>
1530	<para>Storage: fixed unnecessary expansion when cloning differential
1531	images in VDI format</para>
1532	</listitem>
1533
1534	<listitem>
1535	<para>Storage: fixed detection code to handle empty files for VDI and
1536	VMDK format</para>
1537	</listitem>
1538
1539	<listitem>
1540	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1541	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1542	</listitem>
1543
1544	<listitem>
1545	<para>Floppy: several bugs have been fixed</para>
1546	</listitem>
1547
1548	<listitem>
1549	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1550	</listitem>
1551
1552	<listitem>
1553	<para>BIOS: disk-related structures are now checksummed correctly (bug #8739)</para>
1554	</listitem>
1555
1556	<listitem>
1557	<para>USB: many fixes for the Windows USB host driver</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	<listitem>
1561	<para>NAT: reduced memory footprint</para>
1562	</listitem>
1563
1564	<listitem>
1565	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1566	when several VMs are transmitting in parallel</para>
1567	</listitem>
1568
1569	<listitem>
1570	<para>Networking: workaround for a bug in wireshark when operating
1571	directly on a capture file created by VirtualBox</para>
1572	</listitem>
1573
1574	<listitem>
1575	<para>Serial: announce the serial devices in the ACPI tables to make
1576	Windows guests find the virtual hardware (bug #7411)</para>
1577	</listitem>
1578
1579	<listitem>
1580	<para>VRDP: support for TLS connections (see
1581	<xref linkend="vrde-crypt"/>)</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>VRDP: support for multimonitor client configurations with MS
1586	RDP clients</para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1591	</listitem>
1592
1593	<listitem>
1594	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1595	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1596	</listitem>
1597
1598	<listitem>
1599	<para>Web service: fixed timeout handling with HTTP 1.1 keepalive, and
1600	be more robust when connections fail</para>
1601	</listitem>
1602
1603	<listitem>
1604	<para>VBoxSVC: fixed regression when several clients trigger autostart
1605	simultaneously</para>
1606	</listitem>
1607
1608	<listitem>
1609	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of the medium location for media
1610	which are not file based (e.g. iSCSI), which resulted in confusing
1611	location values in many places</para>
1612	</listitem>
1613
1614	<listitem>
1615	<para>JAX-WS client bindings: fixed resource leak</para>
1616	</listitem>
1617
1618	<listitem>
1619	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1620	builds</para>
1621	</listitem>
1622
1623	<listitem>
1624	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed non-VT-x mode on Lion hosts</para>
1625	</listitem>
1626
1627	<listitem>
1628	<para>Windows hosts: fixed copy'n'paste in the GUI and for the VM
1629	window (bug #4491)</para>
1630	</listitem>
1631
1632	<listitem>
1633	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled removing of all mediums when
1634	removing a VM</para>
1635	</listitem>
1636
1637	<listitem>
1638	<para>Windows hosts (64-bit only): enabled live snapshot deletion</para>
1639	</listitem>
1640
1641	<listitem>
1642	<para>Windows hosts: use native controls in the installer (bug #5520)</para>
1643	</listitem>
1644
1645	<listitem>
1646	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1647	166 and above)</para>
1648	</listitem>
1649
1650	<listitem>
1651	<para>Solaris hosts: better control of USB device access on Solaris 11
1652	hosts</para>
1653	</listitem>
1654
1655	<listitem>
1656	<para>Guest Additions: improved driver installation on Windows guests</para>
1657	</listitem>
1658
1659	<listitem>
1660	<para>Guest Additions: fixed high CPU usage while executing guest programs
1661	from the host</para>
1662	</listitem>
1663
1664	<listitem>
1665	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1666	</listitem>
1667
1668	</itemizedlist>
1669
1670	</sect1>
1671
1672	<sect1>
1673	<title>Version 4.0.14 (2011-10-13)</title>
1674
1675	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1676	added:</para>
1677
1678	<itemizedlist>
1679
1680	<listitem>
1681	<para>VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)</para>
1682	</listitem>
1683
1684	<listitem>
1685	<para>VMM: fixed handling of the <emphasis>sysenter/sysexit</emphasis>
1686	machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts</para>
1687	</listitem>
1688
1689	<listitem>
1690	<para>GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license,
1691	vendor, ...) on OVF export</para>
1692	</listitem>
1693
1694	<listitem>
1695	<para>GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do
1696	a live snapshot</para>
1697	</listitem>
1698
1699	<listitem>
1700	<para>GUI: fixed spurious LCtrl key events on some Windows hosts
1701	(4.0.6 regression; bug #5908)</para>
1702	</listitem>
1703
1704	<listitem>
1705	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>extpack install --replace</emphasis></para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare screen corruption</para>
1710	</listitem>
1711
1712	<listitem>
1713	<para>E1000: fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time
1714	or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups (bug #6223)</para>
1715	</listitem>
1716
1717	<listitem>
1718	<para>Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error
1719	affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)</para>
1720	</listitem>
1721
1722	<listitem>
1723	<para>NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API
1724	requirements (Windows hosts only; bug #8919)</para>
1725	</listitem>
1726
1727	<listitem>
1728	<para>VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)</para>
1729	</listitem>
1730
1731	<listitem>
1732	<para>VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK
1733	images</para>
1734	</listitem>
1735
1736	<listitem>
1737	<para>Floppy: fixed medium size detection for physical mediums
1738	(Windows hosts only)</para>
1739	</listitem>
1740	<listitem>
1741	<para>VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are
1742	registered (bug #9303)</para>
1743	</listitem>
1744
1745	<listitem>
1746	<para>Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings
1747	warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime (bug #9368)</para>
1748	</listitem>
1749
1750	<listitem>
1751	<para>Main: fix VM initialization if a shared folder does not exist (bug #7941)</para>
1752	</listitem>
1753
1754	<listitem>
1755	<para>Main: fixed taking screen shots (e.g. the preview window) for
1756	headless VMs if the Guest Additions are active</para>
1757	</listitem>
1758
1759	<listitem>
1760	<para>Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and
1761	the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)</para>
1762	</listitem>
1763
1764	<listitem>
1765	<para>OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files (bug #9033)</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the problem with UDP packets exceeding MTU
1770	(bug #9370)</para>
1771	</listitem>
1772
1773	<listitem>
1774	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed starting EFI guests due to missing EFI ROM files
1775	(bug #9535)</para>
1776	</listitem>
1777
1778	<listitem>
1779	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix installation issues when installed as root
1780	(bug #1578)</para>
1781	</listitem>
1782
1783	<listitem>
1784	<para>Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with
1785	some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)</para>
1786	</listitem>
1787
1788	<listitem>
1789	<para>Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow
1790	a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
1791	</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>Linux Additions: add support for X.Org Server 1.11 (bug #9519)
1796	</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <emphasis>llseek</emphasis> for Linux kernels
1801	2.6.37 and above</para>
1802	</listitem>
1803
1804	<listitem>
1805	<para>Linux Additions: start VBoxService correctly on openSUSE 12.1
1806	(bug #6229)</para>
1807	</listitem>
1808
1809	<listitem>
1810	<para>Linux Additions: properly finish the installation even if the
1811	compilation of the DRM module fails (which is not fatal)</para>
1812	</listitem>
1813
1814	</itemizedlist>
1815	</sect1>
1816
1817	<sect1>
1818	<title>Version 4.0.12 (2011-07-15)</title>
1819
1820	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1821	added:</para>
1822
1823	<itemizedlist>
1824
1825	<listitem>
1826	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1827	</listitem>
1828
1829	<listitem>
1830	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds
1831	166 and above)</para>
1832	</listitem>
1833
1834	<listitem>
1835	<para>VBoxManage: more convenient configuration of storage controller
1836	attachments by automatically determining the port or device parameter
1837	when a storage controller has only one port or device per port (bug #9188)</para>
1838	</listitem>
1839
1840	<listitem>
1841	<para>Storage: fixed possible data corruption under certain circumstances
1842	with VHD and Parallels images (bug #9150)</para>
1843	</listitem>
1844
1845	<listitem>
1846	<para>Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA
1847	controller (bug #8592)</para>
1848	</listitem>
1849
1850	<listitem>
1851	<para>Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)</para>
1852	</listitem>
1853
1854	<listitem>
1855	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading
1856	when several VMs were transmitting at once</para>
1857	</listitem>
1858
1859	<listitem>
1860	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_VERSION</emphasis> string for
1861	different locales (bug #8916)</para>
1862	</listitem>
1863
1864	<listitem>
1865	<para>Sources: fixed USB 2.0 support using extension packs for non-official
1866	builds</para>
1867	</listitem>
1868
1869	<listitem>
1870	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed automounting of shared folders (bug #8014)</para>
1871	</listitem>
1872
1873	</itemizedlist>
1874	</sect1>
1875	<sect1>
1876	<title>Version 4.0.10 (2011-06-22)</title>
1877
1878	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1879	added:</para>
1880
1881	<itemizedlist>
1882
1883	<listitem>
1884	<para>GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)</para>
1885	</listitem>
1886
1887	<listitem>
1888	<para>Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances with flat VMDK images</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>Storage: a saved VM could not be restored under certain circumstances
1893	after the host kernel was updated (bug #8983)</para>
1894	</listitem>
1895
1896	<listitem>
1897	<para>Storage: refuse to create a medium with an invalid variant
1898	(for example Split2G with VDI; bug #7227)</para>
1899	</listitem>
1900
1901	<listitem>
1902	<para>iSCSI: pause the VM if a request times out</para>
1903	</listitem>
1904
1905	<listitem>
1906	<para>Snapshots: none of the hard disk attachments must be attached to
1907	another VM in normal mode when creating a snapshot</para>
1908	</listitem>
1909
1910	<listitem>
1911	<para>USB: fixed occasional VM hangs with SMP guests (bug #4580)</para>
1912	</listitem>
1913
1914	<listitem>
1915	<para>USB: proper device detection on RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5 guests
1916	(partial fix for bug #8978)</para>
1917	</listitem>
1918
1919	<listitem>
1920	<para>ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior
1921	with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)</para>
1922	</listitem>
1923
1924	<listitem>
1925	<para>VRDP: fixed screen corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8977)</para>
1926	</listitem>
1927
1928	<listitem>
1929	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0</para>
1930	</listitem>
1931
1932	<listitem>
1933	<para>OVF: under rare circumstances some data at the end of a VMDK
1934	file was not written during export</para>
1935	</listitem>
1936
1937	<listitem>
1938	<para>Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	<listitem>
1942	<para>Mac OS X hosts: GNOME 3 fix</para>
1943	</listitem>
1944
1945	<listitem>
1946	<para>Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)</para>
1947	</listitem>
1948
1949	<listitem>
1950	<para>Linux hosts: fixed Python 2.7 bindings in the universal Linux
1951	binaries</para>
1952	</listitem>
1953
1954	<listitem>
1955	<para>Windows hosts: fixed leak of thread and process handles</para>
1956	</listitem>
1957
1958	<listitem>
1959	<para>Windows Additions: fixed bug when determining the extended version
1960	of the Guest Additions (4.0.8 regression; bug #8948)</para>
1961	</listitem>
1962
1963	<listitem>
1964	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to 64-bit Solaris 10u9 guests
1965	(4.0.8 regression)</para>
1966	</listitem>
1967
1968	<listitem>
1969	<para>Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix</para>
1970	</listitem>
1971
1972	<listitem>
1973	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak during <computeroutput>VBoxManage
1974	guestcontrol execute</computeroutput> (bug #9068)</para>
1975	</listitem>
1976
1977	</itemizedlist>
1978	</sect1>
1979
1980	<sect1>
1981	<title>Version 4.0.8 (2011-05-16)</title>
1982
1983	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1984	added:</para>
1985
1986	<itemizedlist>
1987
1988	<listitem>
1989	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X
1990	versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)</para>
1991	</listitem>
1992
1993	<listitem>
1994	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more
1995	than 16 cores (bug #8389)</para>
1996	</listitem>
1997
1998	<listitem>
1999	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in
2000	64-bit mode (bug #7606)</para>
2001	</listitem>
2002
2003	<listitem>
2004	<para>GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any
2005	host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793)</para>
2006	</listitem>
2007
2008	<listitem>
2009	<para>GUI: more expressive error messages for USB proxy permission
2010	problems (mainly Linux hosts; bug #8823)</para>
2011	</listitem>
2012
2013	<listitem>
2014	<para>VBoxManage: added <computeroutput>controlvm screenshotpng</computeroutput>
2015	subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format</para>
2016	</listitem>
2017
2018	<listitem>
2019	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown
2020	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2021	</listitem>
2022
2023	<listitem>
2024	<para>NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in
2025	Ethernet header and in ARP requests</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances
2038	(only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with
2043	asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>Floppy: several improvement</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707)</para>
2052	</listitem>
2053
2054	<listitem>
2055	<para>USB: use correct permissions when creating /dev/vboxusb
2056	(Linux hosts only)</para>
2057	</listitem>
2058
2059	<listitem>
2060	<para>USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated
2061	(Windows hosts only)</para>
2062	</listitem>
2063
2064	<listitem>
2065	<para>3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest
2066	window</para>
2067	</listitem>
2068
2069	<listitem>
2070	<para>3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and
2071	Fedora 15</para>
2072	</listitem>
2073
2074	<listitem>
2075	<para>Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media
2076	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2077	</listitem>
2078
2079	<listitem>
2080	<para>Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one
2081	host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression)</para>
2082	</listitem>
2083
2084	<listitem>
2085	<para>Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before
2086	building kernel modules (bug #8795)</para>
2087	</listitem>
2088
2089	<listitem>
2090	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10</para>
2091	</listitem>
2092
2093	<listitem>
2094	<para>Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update
2095	notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844)</para>
2096	</listitem>
2097
2098	</itemizedlist>
2099	</sect1>
2100
2101	<sect1>
2102	<title>Version 4.0.6 (2011-04-21)</title>
2103
2104	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2105	added:</para>
2106
2107	<itemizedlist>
2108
2109	<listitem>
2110	<para>VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages when restoring
2111	a VMM from a saved state</para>
2112	</listitem>
2113
2114	<listitem>
2115	<para>VMM: don't crash on hosts with more than 64 cores / hyperthreads;
2116	implemented support for up to 256 host cores (except Windows hosts; bug #8489)</para>
2117	</listitem>
2118
2119	<listitem>
2120	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests running on hosts without PAE
2121	(bug #8006)</para>
2122	</listitem>
2123
2124	<listitem>
2125	<para>VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels
2126	(bug #8726)</para>
2127	</listitem>
2128
2129	<listitem>
2130	<para>GUI: support host key combinations (bug #979)</para>
2131	</listitem>
2132
2133	<listitem>
2134	<para>GUI: fixed progress indicator (bug #7814)</para>
2135	</listitem>
2136
2137	<listitem>
2138	<para>GUI: show the mouse pointer while the VM is paused if the USB
2139	tablet mouse emulation is used (bug #6799)</para>
2140	</listitem>
2141
2142	<listitem>
2143	<para>GUI: adapt the snapshot folder as well when renaming a VM
2144	(bug #8469)</para>
2145	</listitem>
2146
2147	<listitem>
2148	<para>GUI: persistently remember the last folders of the disk/DVD/floppy
2149	selectors</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>GUI: never allow to start a VM with USB-2.0 activated if the
2154	proper extension pack is missing (bug #8182)</para>
2155	</listitem>
2156
2157	<listitem>
2158	<para>GUI: fixed hang/crash when opening a file dialog in an non-existing
2159	folder (bug #8673)</para>
2160	</listitem>
2161
2162	<listitem>
2163	<para>Snapshots: fixed a bug which could lose entries in the media
2164	registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363)</para>
2165	</listitem>
2166
2167	<listitem>
2168	<para>Snapshots: allow snapshots to be stored in the VM directory</para>
2169	</listitem>
2170
2171	<listitem>
2172	<para>3D support: fixed a crash if a VM was forced to terminate
2173	(Windows hosts only; bug #7133)</para>
2174	</listitem>
2175
2176	<listitem>
2177	<para>Storage: fixed memory leak (4.0 regression; bug #7966)</para>
2178	</listitem>
2179
2180	<listitem>
2181	<para>Storage: fixed access to iSCSI targets over internal network</para>
2182	</listitem>
2183
2184	<listitem>
2185	<para>Storage: fixed reading from disks with more than one snapshot for
2186	VHD and VMDK images with disabled host cache (bug #8408)</para>
2187	</listitem>
2188
2189	<listitem>
2190	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend after an
2191	I/O error occurred</para>
2192	</listitem>
2193
2194	<listitem>
2195	<para>Storage: fixed a possible hang during VM suspend / reset
2196	(bug #8276, #8294)</para>
2197	</listitem>
2198
2199	<listitem>
2200	<para>Storage: automatically create a diff image when attaching a
2201	streamOptimized VMDK image to a VM</para>
2202	</listitem>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent
2206	Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as 'none'
2207	if no medium is present</para>
2208	</listitem>
2209
2210	<listitem>
2211	<para>Buslogic: fixed emulation for certain guests (e.g. jRockit VE)</para>
2212	</listitem>
2213
2214	<listitem>
2215	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed interface creation failure on Windows
2216	hosts (4.0.4 regression; bug #8362)</para>
2217	</listitem>
2218
2219	<listitem>
2220	<para>Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing
2221	promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behaviour</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the
2226	host from sleep (bug #3625)</para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>Bridged Networking: support for interface bonding on Mac OS X hosts (bug #8731)</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>NAT: fixed processing of ARP announcements for guests with static
2235	assigned IPs (bug #8609)</para>
2236	</listitem>
2237
2238	<listitem>
2239	<para>VRDP: backward compatibility with VRDPAuth external authentication
2240	library (bug #8063)</para>
2241	</listitem>
2242
2243	<listitem>
2244	<para>Shared Folders: don't fail to start a VM if a path is not absolute,
2245	for example when importing an OVF from a different host (bug #7941)</para>
2246	</listitem>
2247
2248	<listitem>
2249	<para>Audio: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #8527)</para>
2250	</listitem>
2251
2252	<listitem>
2253	<para>USB: fixed a crash when plugging certain USB devices (bug #8699)</para>
2254	</listitem>
2255
2256	<listitem>
2257	<para>HPET: fixed time jumps when reading the counter (bug #8707)</para>
2258	</listitem>
2259
2260	<listitem>
2261	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically adjust disk paths if the VM name is
2262	changed on import</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>OVF/OVA: fix export to slow medias</para>
2267	</listitem>
2268
2269	<listitem>
2270	<para>OVF/OVA: automatically repair inconsistent appliances with
2271	multiple disks (bug #8253)</para>
2272	</listitem>
2273
2274	<listitem>
2275	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fixed an assertion triggered under certain conditions
2276	(bug #8593)</para>
2277	</listitem>
2278
2279	<listitem>
2280	<para>Windows hosts: fixed occasional hangs during VM shutdown because
2281	sometimes COM was not properly uninitialized</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent the mouse from leaving the VM window while
2286	captured</para>
2287	</listitem>
2288
2289	<listitem>
2290	<para>Mac OS X hosts: keep aspect ratio while resizing in scale mode
2291	(shift for old behaviour) (part of bug #7822)</para>
2292	</listitem>
2293
2294	<listitem>
2295	<para>X11 hosts: fixed Yen key support (bug #8438)
2296	</para>
2297	</listitem>
2298
2299	<listitem>
2300	<para>X11 hosts: fixed a regression which caused Host+F1 to pop up
2301	help instead of sending Ctrl+Alt+F1</para>
2302	</listitem>
2303
2304	<listitem>
2305	<para>Linux hosts / Linux Additions: mangle IPRT symbols to allow installing
2306	VirtualBox inside a VM while the Guest Additions are active (bug #5686)</para>
2307	</listitem>
2308
2309	<listitem>
2310	<para>Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than
2311	version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned
2312	problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a deadlock in event semaphores that could lead
2317	to unkillable VM processes</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Sysprep parameter handling</para>
2322	</listitem>
2323
2324	<listitem>
2325	<para>Windows Additions: fixed spontaneous guest reboots under certain
2326	circumstances (4.0.2 regression; bugs #8406, #8429)</para>
2327	</listitem>
2328
2329	<listitem>
2330	<para>Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations
2331	on legacy Windows versions</para>
2332	</listitem>
2333
2334	<listitem>
2335	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver bugcheck error when handling PnP
2336	messages (4.0 regression; bug #8367)</para>
2337	</listitem>
2338
2339	<listitem>
2340	<para>Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo</para>
2341	</listitem>
2342
2343	<listitem>
2344	<para>X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 final</para>
2345	</listitem>
2346
2347	<listitem>
2348	<para>Linux Additions: Linux kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes</para>
2349	</listitem>
2350
2351	<listitem>
2352	<para>Linux Additions: improved auto-run support (bug #5509)</para>
2353	</listitem>
2354
2355	<listitem>
2356	<para>Linux Additions: fix mouse support on SUSE 11 SP 1 guests
2357	(bug #7946)</para>
2358	</listitem>
2359
2360	<listitem>
2361	<para>Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.9</para>
2362	</listitem>
2363
2364	<listitem>
2365	<para>Guest Additions: various bugfixes for guest control execution</para>
2366	</listitem>
2367
2368	<listitem>
2369	<para>Web service: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size</para>
2370	</listitem>
2371
2372	</itemizedlist>
2373
2374	</sect1>
2375
2376	<sect1>
2377	<title>Version 4.0.4 (2011-02-17)</title>
2378
2379	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2380	added:</para>
2381
2382	<itemizedlist>
2383
2384	<listitem>
2385	<para>VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions
2386	(bugs #8255, #8319 and further)</para>
2387	</listitem>
2388
2389	<listitem>
2390	<para>VMM: fixed running 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with nested paging
2391	enabled on AMD CPUs (4.0 regression; bug #7938)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>VMM: fixed timing issues / hangs for certain guests using the
2396	programmable interval timer (bugs #8033 and #8062)</para>
2397	</listitem>
2398
2399	<listitem>
2400	<para>VMM: large page and monitoring fixes for live snapshots
2401	(bugs #7910, #8059, #8125)</para>
2402	</listitem>
2403
2404	<listitem>
2405	<para>GUI: fixed error message when trying to exceed the maximum
2406	number of host network interfaces</para>
2407	</listitem>
2408
2409	<listitem>
2410	<para>GUI: fixed saving of changes to the metadata of an existing
2411	snapshot (bug #8145)</para>
2412	</listitem>
2413
2414	<listitem>
2415	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash on X11 hosts (bug #8131)</para>
2416	</listitem>
2417
2418	<listitem>
2419	<para>GUI: when selecting a shared folder, start the file dialog in
2420	the users home directory (bug #8017)</para>
2421	</listitem>
2422
2423	<listitem>
2424	<para>ExtPack: enforce the correct permissions which might be restricted
2425	by umask when creating directories (non-Windows hosts only; bug #7878)</para>
2426	</listitem>
2427
2428	<listitem>
2429	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash when starting by specifying the VM UUID
2430	(4.0 regression; bug #8342)</para>
2431	</listitem>
2432
2433	<listitem>
2434	<para>VBoxManage: allow savestate even if the VM is already paused</para>
2435	</listitem>
2436
2437	<listitem>
2438	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --synthcpu</emphasis>
2439	(bug #6577)</para>
2440	</listitem>
2441
2442	<listitem>
2443	<para>VBoxManage: fixed hang when doing <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2444	--wait-for exit</emphasis> and displaying process status on exit
2445	(bug #8235)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>VBoxManage: decreased CPU load during <emphasis>guestcontrol execute
2450	--wait-for exit/stdout</emphasis> while waiting for the guest process
2451	to terminate (bug #7872)</para>
2452	</listitem>
2453
2454	<listitem>
2455	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>list hostdvds/hostfloppies</emphasis></para>
2456	</listitem>
2457
2458	<listitem>
2459	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> for host
2460	DVD drives and host floppy drives</para>
2461	</listitem>
2462
2463	<listitem>
2464	<para>Metrics: introduced <emphasis>RAM/VMM</emphasis> base metric</para>
2465	</listitem>
2466
2467	<listitem>
2468	<para>Main: improved sanity check when taking a VM screen shot
2469	(bug #7966)</para>
2470	</listitem>
2471
2472	<listitem>
2473	<para>Main: fixed a crash under rare circumstances if a VM failed to start</para>
2474	</listitem>
2475
2476	<listitem>
2477	<para>Main: fixed attaching of immutable disk images (bug #8105)</para>
2478	</listitem>
2479
2480	<listitem>
2481	<para>Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)</para>
2482	</listitem>
2483
2484	<listitem>
2485	<para>Main: fixed incorrect handling of cross-referenced medium
2486	attachments (bug #8129)</para>
2487	</listitem>
2488
2489	<listitem>
2490	<para>Settings: fixed truncating of big integer values (4.0 regression)</para>
2491	</listitem>
2492
2493	<listitem>
2494	<para>Settings: properly store the ICH9 chipset type (bug #8123)</para>
2495	</listitem>
2496
2497	<listitem>
2498	<para>Host-Only & Bridged Networking: fixed VBox DHCP server startup issue
2499	for Windows hosts (4.0 regression; bug #7905)</para>
2500	</listitem>
2501
2502	<listitem>
2503	<para>Host-Only Networking: re-create vboxnetX interfaces after
2504	vboxnetadp.ko module reload on Linux and Darwin (bugs #5934, #6341)</para>
2505	</listitem>
2506
2507	<listitem>
2508	<para>NAT: fixed an mbuf leak under rare circumstances (bug #7459)</para>
2509	</listitem>
2510
2511	<listitem>
2512	<para>ACPI: don't allow the guest to enter S4 by default and don't
2513	announce S1 and S4 in the ACPI tables if disabled (bug #8008)</para>
2514	</listitem>
2515
2516	<listitem>
2517	<para>Graphics card: made re-enabling disabled screens work correctly
2518	to prevent problems when X11 guests enter screen saving mode
2519	(bug #8122)</para>
2520	</listitem>
2521
2522	<listitem>
2523	<para>Storage: fixed write errors with snapshots if the host cache is
2524	disabled (4.0 regression; bug #8221)</para>
2525	</listitem>
2526
2527	<listitem>
2528	<para>ATA/SATA: fixed reset handling after ACPI suspend/resume</para>
2529	</listitem>
2530
2531	<listitem>
2532	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang with SMP VMs</para>
2533	</listitem>
2534
2535	<listitem>
2536	<para>Serial: another attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission
2537	(bug #1548)</para>
2538	</listitem>
2539
2540	<listitem>
2541	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes</para>
2542	</listitem>
2543
2544	<listitem>
2545	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces
2546	without default gateway (64-bit hosts only; bug #7955)</para>
2547	</listitem>
2548
2549	<listitem>
2550	<para>Solaris/Darwin hosts: fixed VM CPU execution cap</para>
2551	</listitem>
2552
2553	<listitem>
2554	<para>X.Org guests: fixed a crash on X server restart
2555	(bug #8231)</para>
2556	</listitem>
2557
2558	<listitem>
2559	<para>X.Org guests: support X.Org Server 1.10 pre-release and Ubuntu
2560	11.04 Alpha</para>
2561	</listitem>
2562
2563	<listitem>
2564	<para>X.Org guests: Add EDID emulation in the graphics driver to
2565	prevent GNOME settings daemon changing the mode on login</para>
2566	</listitem>
2567
2568	<listitem>
2569	<para>X.Org guests: never send graphics modes to the host that older
2570	VirtualBox versions can't handle</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak in the shared folders code if
2575	a host link is not readable (bug #8185)</para>
2576	</listitem>
2577
2578	<listitem>
2579	<para>Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS)
2580	with VBoxGINA</para>
2581	</listitem>
2582
2583	</itemizedlist>
2584
2585	</sect1>
2586
2587	<sect1>
2588	<title>Version 4.0.2 (2011-01-18)</title>
2589
2590	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2591	added:</para>
2592
2593	<itemizedlist>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>GUI: don't crash if a removable host drive referenced from the VM
2597	settings vanished</para>
2598	</listitem>
2599
2600	<listitem>
2601	<para>GUI: fixed a crash when using the KDE4 Oxygen theme and clicked
2602	on the settings button (4.0 regression; bug #7875)</para>
2603	</listitem>
2604
2605	<listitem>
2606	<para>GUI: properly warn if the machine folder cannot be
2607	created (bug #8031)</para>
2608	</listitem>
2609
2610	<listitem>
2611	<para>GUI: several fixes for multimonitor X11 guests</para>
2612	</listitem>
2613
2614	<listitem>
2615	<para>ExtPack: don't make the installer helper application suid root
2616	(Linux .deb/.rpm packages only)</para>
2617	</listitem>
2618
2619	<listitem>
2620	<para>ExtPack: improved user experience on Vista / Windows 7 when installing
2621	an extension pack</para>
2622	</listitem>
2623
2624	<listitem>
2625	<para>ExtPack: fixed issue with non-ascii characters in the path name
2626	during installing an extension pack (bug #9717)</para>
2627	</listitem>
2628
2629	<listitem>
2630	<para>ExtPack: fixed SELinux issues on 32-bit Linux hosts</para>
2631	</listitem>
2632
2633	<listitem>
2634	<para>VBoxManage: Host-only interface creation and removal is now
2635	supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)</para>
2636	</listitem>
2637
2638	<listitem>
2639	<para>VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent
2640	host-only interface</para>
2641	</listitem>
2642
2643	<listitem>
2644	<para>Storage: fixed possible crashes with VMDK/VHD images with snapshots
2645	and asynchronous I/O (4.0 regression)</para>
2646	</listitem>
2647
2648	<listitem>
2649	<para>Storage: don't eject the physical medium if a DVD/CDROM/floppy drive is
2650	detached from a VM (bug #5825)</para>
2651	</listitem>
2652
2653	<listitem>
2654	<para>Storage: be more robust when a faulty guest sends ATA commands to an
2655	ATAPI device (bug #6597)</para>
2656	</listitem>
2657
2658	<listitem>
2659	<para>Parallels: fixed deletion of the image during suspend, pause or
2660	power off (4.0 regression)</para>
2661	</listitem>
2662
2663	<listitem>
2664	<para>Bridged networking: fixed host kernel panic when bridging
2665	to devices with no TX queue (4.0 regression; Linux hosts only; bug #7908)</para>
2666	</listitem>
2667
2668	<listitem>
2669	<para>NAT: port-forwarding rule registration respects protocol parameter (bug #8094)</para>
2670	</listitem>
2671
2672	<listitem>
2673	<para>E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS (bug #6330)</para>
2674	</listitem>
2675
2676	<listitem>
2677	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with TX performance in some Linux
2678	guests</para>
2679	</listitem>
2680
2681	<listitem>
2682	<para>ICH9: fixed VM crash (software virtualization only; bug #7885)</para>
2683	</listitem>
2684
2685	<listitem>
2686	<para>VGA: fixed VESA screen issue (4.0 regression; bug #7986)</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>Shared Folders: fixed parameter parsing when creating symbolic
2691	links, fixes 32-bit/64-bit bitness issue (bug #818)</para>
2692	</listitem>
2693
2694	<listitem>
2695	<para>Main: fixed crash under rare circumstances due to an invalid
2696	logging string (4.0 regression)</para>
2697	</listitem>
2698
2699	<listitem>
2700	<para>Main: improve error information propagation for errors preventing
2701	a VM start</para>
2702	</listitem>
2703
2704	<listitem>
2705	<para>Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in
2706	machine paths (bug #8024)</para>
2707	</listitem>
2708
2709	<listitem>
2710	<para>Web service: now listens to localhost by default as documented
2711	(bug #6067)</para>
2712	</listitem>
2713
2714	<listitem>
2715	<para>Settings: do not fail loading machine settings if removeable drive attachment (host drive or image)
2716	cannot be found; with 4.0 this is much more likely when machines are moved from one host to another</para>
2717	</listitem>
2718
2719	<listitem>
2720	<para>Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was
2721	not saved to machine XML</para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed import of files created by other OVF tools (bug
2726	#7983)</para>
2727	</listitem>
2728
2729	<listitem>
2730	<para>rdesktop-vrdp: fix a crash during USB device enumeration (bug
2731	#7981)</para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>Linux hosts: fixed a crash during USB device enumeration</para>
2736	</listitem>
2737
2738	<listitem>
2739	<para>Linux hosts: try a bit harder to allocate memory (bug #8035; 4.0
2740	regression)</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>Guest Additions: fixed parsing of parameters for guest control in
2745	VBoxService (4.0 regression; bug #8010)</para>
2746	</listitem>
2747
2748	<listitem>
2749	<para>Windows Guest Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports
2750	unlocking previously locked workstations</para>
2751	</listitem>
2752
2753	</itemizedlist>
2754
2755	</sect1>
2756
2757	<sect1>
2758	<title>Version 4.0.0 (2010-12-22)</title>
2759
2760	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2761	were added:</para>
2762
2763	<itemizedlist>
2764
2765	<listitem>
2766	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
2767	</listitem>
2768
2769	<listitem>
2770	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
2771	</listitem>
2772
2773	<listitem>
2774	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
2775	<itemizedlist>
2776	<listitem>
2777	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
2778	</listitem>
2779
2780	<listitem>
2781	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
2782	</listitem>
2783
2784	<listitem>
2785	<para>Support for creating and starting <computeroutput>.vbox</computeroutput> desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
2786	</listitem>
2787
2788	<listitem>
2789	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
2790	</listitem>
2791
2792	<listitem>
2793	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
2794	states, and optionally including attached
2795	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
2796	can do the same now)</para>
2797	</listitem>
2798
2799	<listitem>
2800	<para>Built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on double click (bug #2322)</para>
2801	</listitem>
2802
2803	</itemizedlist>
2804	</para>
2805	</listitem>
2806
2807	<listitem>
2808	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
2809	</listitem>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>New virtual hardware:
2813	<itemizedlist>
2814	<listitem>
2815	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
2816	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
2817	</listitem>
2818
2819	<listitem>
2820	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
2821	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
2822	</listitem>
2823	</itemizedlist>
2824	</para>
2825	</listitem>
2826
2827	<listitem>
2828	<para>Improvements to OVF support (see <xref linkend="ovf" />):
2829	<itemizedlist>
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>Significant performance improvements during export and import
2836	</para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>Creation of the manifest file on export is optional
2841	now</para>
2842	</listitem>
2843
2844	<listitem>
2845	<para>Imported disks can have formats other than VMDK</para>
2846	</listitem>
2847
2848	</itemizedlist>
2849	</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
2854	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	<listitem>
2858	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
2859	Parallels images</para>
2860	</listitem>
2861
2862	<listitem>
2863	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images; see <xref linkend="vboxmanage-modifyvdi" /></para>
2864	</listitem>
2865
2866	<listitem>
2867	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
2868	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
2869	</listitem>
2870
2871	<listitem>
2872	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
2873	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
2874	</listitem>
2875
2876	</itemizedlist>
2877
2878	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2879
2880	<itemizedlist>
2881
2882	<listitem>
2883	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
2884	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
2885	</listitem>
2886
2887	<listitem>
2888	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
2889	</listitem>
2890
2891	<listitem>
2892	<para>VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only,
2893	non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bugs #4529 and #7819)</para>
2894	</listitem>
2895
2896	<listitem>
2897	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
2898	(bug #1657)</para>
2899	</listitem>
2900
2901	<listitem>
2902	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
2903	</listitem>
2904
2905	<listitem>
2906	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
2907	</listitem>
2908
2909	<listitem>
2910	<para>GUI: fixed black full screen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
2911	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
2912	</listitem>
2913
2914	<listitem>
2915	<para>BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading to speed up booting of certain
2916	guests (e.g. Solaris)</para>
2917	</listitem>
2918
2919	<listitem>
2920	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
2921	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
2922	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
2923	</listitem>
2924
2925	<listitem>
2926	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
2927	again (bug #6864)</para>
2928	</listitem>
2929
2930	<listitem>
2931	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
2932	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
2933	</listitem>
2934
2935	<listitem>
2936	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
2937	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
2938	</listitem>
2939
2940	<listitem>
2941	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>3D support: fixed Unity/Compiz crashes on natty</para>
2946	</listitem>
2947
2948	<listitem>
2949	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
2950	</listitem>
2951
2952	<listitem>
2953	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
2954	</listitem>
2955
2956	<listitem>
2957	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
2958	</listitem>
2959
2960	<listitem>
2961	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
2962	</listitem>
2963
2964	<listitem>
2965	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
2966	</listitem>
2967
2968	<listitem>
2969	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
2970	(bug #7058)</para>
2971	</listitem>
2972
2973	<listitem>
2974	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
2975	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
2976	</listitem>
2977
2978	<listitem>
2979	<para>Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare
2980	circumstances</para>
2981	</listitem>
2982
2983	<listitem>
2984	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
2985	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
2986	#5578)
2987	</para>
2988	</listitem>
2989
2990	<listitem>
2991	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
2996	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
3005	#6760)</para>
3006	</listitem>
3007
3008	<listitem>
3009	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
3010	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
3011	</listitem>
3012
3013	<listitem>
3014	<para>Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with
3015	<emphasis>CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX</emphasis> set</para>
3016	</listitem>
3017
3018	<listitem>
3019	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
3020	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3021	</listitem>
3022
3023	<listitem>
3024	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
3025	</listitem>
3026
3027	<listitem>
3028	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
3029	file</para>
3030	</listitem>
3031
3032	<listitem>
3033	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3034	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3035	</listitem>
3036
3037	</itemizedlist>
3038
3039	</sect1>
3040
3041	<sect1>
3042	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
3043
3044	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3045	added:</para>
3046
3047	<itemizedlist>
3048
3049	<listitem>
3050	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3051	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
3052	</listitem>
3053
3054	<listitem>
3055	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
3056	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
3057	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
3058	</listitem>
3059
3060	<listitem>
3061	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
3062	</listitem>
3063
3064	<listitem>
3065	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
3066	</listitem>
3067
3068	<listitem>
3069	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
3070	</listitem>
3071
3072	<listitem>
3073	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
3074	the VM is running</para>
3075	</listitem>
3076
3077	<listitem>
3078	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
3079	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
3080	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
3081	starting from a saved state</para>
3082	</listitem>
3083
3084	<listitem>
3085	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
3086	</listitem>
3087
3088	<listitem>
3089	<para>NAT: fixed Linux NFS root issue (bugs #7299)</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
3098	</listitem>
3099
3100	<listitem>
3101	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
3102	</listitem>
3103
3104	<listitem>
3105	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
3106	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
3111	fixes for Korean keyboards</para>
3112	</listitem>
3113
3114	<listitem>
3115	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
3116	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
3117	</listitem>
3118
3119	<listitem>
3120	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
3121	</listitem>
3122
3123	<listitem>
3124	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
3125	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
3126	</para>
3127	</listitem>
3128
3129	<listitem>
3130	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3131	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
3132	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
3133	</listitem>
3134
3135	<listitem>
3136	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
3137	only)</para>
3138	</listitem>
3139
3140	<listitem>
3141	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
3142	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
3143	</listitem>
3144
3145	<listitem>
3146	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
3147	</listitem>
3148
3149	<listitem>
3150	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
3151	</listitem>
3152
3153	<listitem>
3154	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
3155	</listitem>
3156
3157	<listitem>
3158	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
3159	state (bug #4124)</para>
3160	</listitem>
3161
3162	<listitem>
3163	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
3164	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
3165	</listitem>
3166
3167	<listitem>
3168	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
3169	</listitem>
3170
3171	<listitem>
3172	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
3173	(bug #2996)</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
3178	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
3179	</listitem>
3180
3181	<listitem>
3182	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
3183	</listitem>
3184
3185	<listitem>
3186	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
3187	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
3188	</listitem>
3189
3190	<listitem>
3191	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
3192	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
3193	</listitem>
3194
3195	<listitem>
3196	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
3197	user accounts for VM information</para>
3198	</listitem>
3199
3200	</itemizedlist>
3201
3202	</sect1>
3203
3204	<sect1>
3205	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
3206
3207	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3208	added:</para>
3209
3210	<itemizedlist>
3211
3212	<listitem>
3213	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
3214	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
3219	</listitem>
3220
3221	<listitem>
3222	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
3223	</listitem>
3224
3225	<listitem>
3226	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
3227	</listitem>
3228
3229	<listitem>
3230	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
3231	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
3236	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
3237	</listitem>
3238
3239	<listitem>
3240	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
3241	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
3242	</listitem>
3243
3244	<listitem>
3245	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
3246	(bug #4952)</para>
3247	</listitem>
3248
3249	<listitem>
3250	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3251	bug #6122)</para>
3252	</listitem>
3253
3254	<listitem>
3255	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
3256	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
3257	</listitem>
3258
3259	<listitem>
3260	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
3261	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
3262	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3263	</listitem>
3264
3265	<listitem>
3266	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
3267	</listitem>
3268
3269	<listitem>
3270	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
3271	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
3272	</listitem>
3273
3274	<listitem>
3275	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
3276	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
3277	</listitem>
3278
3279	<listitem>
3280	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
3281	canceled</para>
3282	</listitem>
3283
3284	<listitem>
3285	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
3286	</listitem>
3287
3288	<listitem>
3289	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
3290	</listitem>
3291
3292	<listitem>
3293	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
3294	</listitem>
3295
3296	<listitem>
3297	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
3298	</listitem>
3299
3300	<listitem>
3301	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
3302	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
3311	(Linux hosts only)</para>
3312	</listitem>
3313
3314	<listitem>
3315	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
3316	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
3317	</listitem>
3318
3319	<listitem>
3320	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
3321	</listitem>
3322
3323	<listitem>
3324	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
3325	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
3326	</listitem>
3327
3328	<listitem>
3329	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
3330	</listitem>
3331
3332	<listitem>
3333	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
3334	circumstances</para>
3335	</listitem>
3336
3337	<listitem>
3338	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
3339	printers</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
3348	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
3349	</listitem>
3350
3351	<listitem>
3352	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
3353	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
3354	</listitem>
3355
3356	<listitem>
3357	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
3358	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
3359	circumstances</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
3364	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
3369	as supported extension</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
3374	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
3375	</listitem>
3376
3377	<listitem>
3378	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
3379	full screen / seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
3380	</listitem>
3381
3382	<listitem>
3383	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
3388	(bug #7366)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
3393	</listitem>
3394
3395	<listitem>
3396	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
3397	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
3398	</listitem>
3399
3400	<listitem>
3401	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
3402	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
3407	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
3412	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
3417	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
3430	more than one environment variable</para>
3431	</listitem>
3432
3433	<listitem>
3434	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
3435	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
3436	</listitem>
3437
3438	<listitem>
3439	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
3440	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
3441	</listitem>
3442
3443	<listitem>
3444	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
3445	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
3446	</listitem>
3447
3448	<listitem>
3449	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
3450	enumerating logged in users</para>
3451	</listitem>
3452
3453	<listitem>
3454	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
3455	</listitem>
3456
3457	<listitem>
3458	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
3459	</listitem>
3460
3461	<listitem>
3462	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
3463	</listitem>
3464
3465	<listitem>
3466	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
3467	in the event of a VM crash</para>
3468	</listitem>
3469
3470	<listitem>
3471	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
3472	</listitem>
3473
3474	<listitem>
3475	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
3476	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
3477	</listitem>
3478
3479	<listitem>
3480	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
3481	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
3482	</listitem>
3483
3484	<listitem>
3485	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
3486	(bug #7448)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	</itemizedlist>
3502
3503	</sect1>
3504
3505	<sect1>
3506	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
3507
3508	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3509	added:</para>
3510
3511	<itemizedlist>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
3515	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
3516	</listitem>
3517
3518	<listitem>
3519	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)</para>
3520	</listitem>
3521
3522	<listitem>
3523	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
3524	bug #6809)</para>
3525	</listitem>
3526
3527	<listitem>
3528	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
3529	</listitem>
3530
3531	<listitem>
3532	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
3533	</listitem>
3534
3535	<listitem>
3536	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
3537	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
3538	</listitem>
3539
3540	<listitem>
3541	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
3542	changes</para>
3543	</listitem>
3544
3545	<listitem>
3546	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
3547	</listitem>
3548
3549	<listitem>
3550	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
3551	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
3552	</listitem>
3553
3554	<listitem>
3555	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
3556	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
3557	</listitem>
3558
3559	<listitem>
3560	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
3561	</listitem>
3562
3563	<listitem>
3564	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
3565	</listitem>
3566
3567	<listitem>
3568	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
3569	</listitem>
3570
3571	<listitem>
3572	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
3573	</listitem>
3574
3575	<listitem>
3576	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
3577	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	<listitem>
3581	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
3582	</listitem>
3583
3584	<listitem>
3585	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
3586	(bug #6832)</para>
3587	</listitem>
3588
3589	<listitem>
3590	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
3591	guests</para>
3592	</listitem>
3593
3594	<listitem>
3595	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
3596	</listitem>
3597
3598	<listitem>
3599	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
3600	without external tools and tricks</para>
3601	</listitem>
3602
3603	<listitem>
3604	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
3605	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
3606	</listitem>
3607
3608	<listitem>
3609	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
3610	</listitem>
3611
3612	<listitem>
3613	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
3614	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
3615	</listitem>
3616
3617	<listitem>
3618	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
3619	shutdown</para>
3620	</listitem>
3621
3622	<listitem>
3623	<para>VRDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
3624	fixes</para>
3625	</listitem>
3626
3627	<listitem>
3628	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
3629	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
3630	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
3631	</para>
3632	</listitem>
3633
3634	<listitem>
3635	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
3636	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
3637	</listitem>
3638
3639	<listitem>
3640	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
3641	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
3642	</listitem>
3643
3644	<listitem>
3645	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
3646	</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	</itemizedlist>
3662
3663	</sect1>
3664
3665	<sect1>
3666	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
3667
3668	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3669	added:</para>
3670
3671	<itemizedlist>
3672
3673	<listitem>
3674	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
3675	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
3680	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
3681	</listitem>
3682
3683	<listitem>
3684	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
3685	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
3686	</listitem>
3687
3688	<listitem>
3689	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
3690	</listitem>
3691
3692	<listitem>
3693	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
3694	</listitem>
3695
3696	<listitem>
3697	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
3698	</listitem>
3699
3700	<listitem>
3701	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
3702	</listitem>
3703
3704	<listitem>
3705	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
3706	assigned</para>
3707	</listitem>
3708
3709	<listitem>
3710	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
3711	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
3712	</listitem>
3713
3714	<listitem>
3715	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
3716	multiple screens are enabled</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or full screen mode
3725	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
3726	</listitem>
3727
3728	<listitem>
3729	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
3730	again (bug #7022).
3731	</para>
3732	</listitem>
3733
3734	<listitem>
3735	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the full screen mode
3736	(bug #6768)</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
3741	(bug #6927)</para>
3742	</listitem>
3743
3744	<listitem>
3745	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
3746	bug #7031)</para>
3747	</listitem>
3748
3749	<listitem>
3750	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
3751	don't support asynchronous I/O (bug #6905)</para>
3752	</listitem>
3753
3754	<listitem>
3755	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
3756	bug #6987)</para>
3757	</listitem>
3758
3759	<listitem>
3760	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
3761	</listitem>
3762
3763	<listitem>
3764	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
3765	</listitem>
3766
3767	<listitem>
3768	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
3769	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
3770	</listitem>
3771
3772	<listitem>
3773	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
3774	</listitem>
3775
3776	<listitem>
3777	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
3778	installation (bug #5101)</para>
3779	</listitem>
3780
3781	<listitem>
3782	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
3787	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
3788	bug #6872)</para>
3789	</listitem>
3790
3791	<listitem>
3792	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
3793	</listitem>
3794
3795	<listitem>
3796	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
3797	(performance tweak)</para>
3798	</listitem>
3799
3800	<listitem>
3801	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
3802	is currently paused</para>
3803	</listitem>
3804
3805	<listitem>
3806	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
3807	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
3808	</listitem>
3809
3810	<listitem>
3811	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
3812	</listitem>
3813
3814	<listitem>
3815	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
3816	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
3817	</listitem>
3818
3819	<listitem>
3820	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
3821	not properly saved</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
3826	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
3827	</listitem>
3828
3829	<listitem>
3830	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
3831	</listitem>
3832
3833	<listitem>
3834	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
3835	</listitem>
3836
3837	<listitem>
3838	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3839	</listitem>
3840
3841	<listitem>
3842	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
3843	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
3844	</listitem>
3845
3846	<listitem>
3847	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
3848	</listitem>
3849
3850	<listitem>
3851	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
3852	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
3853	</listitem>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
3857	(bug #5251)</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
3862	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
3863	</listitem>
3864
3865	<listitem>
3866	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
3867	</listitem>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
3871	</listitem>
3872
3873	<listitem>
3874	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
3875	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
3876	</listitem>
3877
3878	<listitem>
3879	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
3880	</listitem>
3881
3882	<listitem>
3883	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
3888	</listitem>
3889
3890	</itemizedlist>
3891	</sect1>
3892
3893	<sect1>
3894	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
3895
3896	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3897	added:</para>
3898
3899	<itemizedlist>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
3903	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
3912	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
3913	</listitem>
3914
3915	<listitem>
3916	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
3917	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
3918	</listitem>
3919
3920	<listitem>
3921	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
3926	again (bug #6864)</para>
3927	</listitem>
3928
3929	<listitem>
3930	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
3931	applications (bug #5236)</para>
3932	</listitem>
3933
3934	<listitem>
3935	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
3940	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
3945	</listitem>
3946
3947	</itemizedlist>
3948
3949	</sect1>
3950
3951	<sect1>
3952	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
3953
3954	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3955	added:</para>
3956
3957	<itemizedlist>
3958
3959	<listitem>
3960	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
3961	</listitem>
3962
3963	<listitem>
3964	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
3965	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
3966	</listitem>
3967
3968	<listitem>
3969	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
3970	</listitem>
3971
3972	<listitem>
3973	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
3974	state</para>
3975	</listitem>
3976
3977	<listitem>
3978	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
3979	</listitem>
3980
3981	<listitem>
3982	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
3987	</listitem>
3988
3989	<listitem>
3990	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
3991	</listitem>
3992
3993	<listitem>
3994	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
3995	</listitem>
3996
3997	<listitem>
3998	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
3999	</listitem>
4000
4001	<listitem>
4002	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
4003	</listitem>
4004
4005	<listitem>
4006	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
4007	</listitem>
4008
4009	<listitem>
4010	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	<listitem>
4018	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
4019	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
4020	</listitem>
4021
4022	<listitem>
4023	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
4024	(bug #6784)</para>
4025	</listitem>
4026
4027	<listitem>
4028	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
4029	</listitem>
4030
4031	<listitem>
4032	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
4033	</listitem>
4034
4035	<listitem>
4036	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
4037	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
4038	</listitem>
4039
4040	<listitem>
4041	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
4046	</listitem>
4047
4048	<listitem>
4049	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
4050	host only</para>
4051	</listitem>
4052
4053	<listitem>
4054	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
4055	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
4056	</listitem>
4057
4058	<listitem>
4059	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
4060	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
4061	</listitem>
4062
4063	<listitem>
4064	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
4065	</listitem>
4066
4067	<listitem>
4068	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
4069	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
4070	</listitem>
4071
4072	<listitem>
4073	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
4074	</listitem>
4075
4076	<listitem>
4077	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
4078	</listitem>
4079
4080	<listitem>
4081	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
4082	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
4083	</listitem>
4084
4085	<listitem>
4086	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
4091	</listitem>
4092
4093	<listitem>
4094	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
4095	</listitem>
4096
4097	<listitem>
4098	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
4099	(bug #6714)</para>
4100	</listitem>
4101
4102	<listitem>
4103	<para>Web service: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the web service</para>
4104	</listitem>
4105
4106	<listitem>
4107	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
4108	</listitem>
4109
4110	<listitem>
4111	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
4116	</listitem>
4117
4118	<listitem>
4119	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
4120	</listitem>
4121
4122	</itemizedlist>
4123
4124	</sect1>
4125
4126	<sect1>
4127	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
4128
4129	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4130	were added:</para>
4131
4132	<itemizedlist>
4133
4134	<listitem>
4135	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
4136	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
4137	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
4142	</listitem>
4143
4144	<listitem>
4145	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
4146	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
4147	</listitem>
4148
4149	<listitem>
4150	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
4151	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
4152	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
4153	</listitem>
4154
4155	<listitem>
4156	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
4157	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
4158	</listitem>
4159
4160	<listitem>
4161	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
4162	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
4163	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
4164	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
4165	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
4166	</listitem>
4167
4168	<listitem>
4169	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
4170	</listitem>
4171
4172	<listitem>
4173	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
4174	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
4175	</listitem>
4176
4177	<listitem>
4178	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
4179	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
4180	</listitem>
4181
4182	<listitem>
4183	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
4184	</listitem>
4185
4186	<listitem>
4187	<para>VRDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrde-videochannel"/>)</para>
4188	</listitem>
4189
4190	<listitem>
4191	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
4192	</listitem>
4193
4194	<listitem>
4195	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
4196	</listitem>
4197
4198	<listitem>
4199	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
4200	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
4201	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
4202	</listitem>
4203
4204	<listitem>
4205	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
4206	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	</itemizedlist>
4210
4211	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4212
4213	<itemizedlist>
4214
4215	<listitem>
4216	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
4217	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
4218	</listitem>
4219
4220	<listitem>
4221	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
4222	</listitem>
4223
4224	<listitem>
4225	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
4226	VM</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	<listitem>
4230	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
4231	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
4232	</listitem>
4233
4234	<listitem>
4235	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
4236	#1669)</para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
4241	#6442)</para>
4242	</listitem>
4243
4244	<listitem>
4245	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
4246	combination (bug #684)</para>
4247	</listitem>
4248
4249	<listitem>
4250	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
4251	the VM from the GUI</para>
4252	</listitem>
4253
4254	<listitem>
4255	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
4256	medium is not accessible</para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
4265	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
4266	</listitem>
4267
4268	<listitem>
4269	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
4270	#3106)</para>
4271	</listitem>
4272
4273	<listitem>
4274	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
4275	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
4276	it</para>
4277	</listitem>
4278
4279	<listitem>
4280	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
4281	</listitem>
4282
4283	<listitem>
4284	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4285	</listitem>
4286
4287	<listitem>
4288	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
4289	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
4290	</listitem>
4291
4292	<listitem>
4293	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
4294	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4295	</listitem>
4296
4297	<listitem>
4298	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
4299	</listitem>
4300
4301	<listitem>
4302	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
4303	</listitem>
4304
4305	<listitem>
4306	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4307	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4308	</listitem>
4309
4310	<listitem>
4311	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
4312	</listitem>
4313
4314	<listitem>
4315	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
4316	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
4321	</listitem>
4322
4323	<listitem>
4324	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
4325	in VirtualBox</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
4330	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
4331	</listitem>
4332
4333	<listitem>
4334	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
4335	VirtualBox</para>
4336	</listitem>
4337
4338	<listitem>
4339	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
4344	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
4345	</listitem>
4346
4347	</itemizedlist>
4348	</sect1>
4349
4350	<sect1>
4351	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
4352
4353	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4354	added:</para>
4355
4356	<itemizedlist>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
4360	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
4361	</listitem>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
4365	</listitem>
4366
4367	<listitem>
4368	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
4369	</listitem>
4370
4371	<listitem>
4372	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
4373	only) </para>
4374	</listitem>
4375
4376	<listitem>
4377	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
4378	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
4379	</listitem>
4380
4381	<listitem>
4382	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
4383	interface version</para>
4384	</listitem>
4385
4386	<listitem>
4387	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
4388	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
4389	slot empty</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
4394	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
4395	(bug #4220)</para>
4396	</listitem>
4397
4398	<listitem>
4399	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
4404	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
4405	</listitem>
4406
4407	<listitem>
4408	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
4409	using the drivers from LSI</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
4414	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
4415	</listitem>
4416
4417	<listitem>
4418	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
4419	attached</para>
4420	</listitem>
4421
4422	<listitem>
4423	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
4424	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
4433	booting from SCSI devices</para>
4434	</listitem>
4435
4436	<listitem>
4437	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
4438	is bug #6408)</para>
4439	</listitem>
4440
4441	<listitem>
4442	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
4443	</listitem>
4444
4445	<listitem>
4446	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
4447	fail to initialize</para>
4448	</listitem>
4449
4450	<listitem>
4451	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
4452	</listitem>
4453
4454	<listitem>
4455	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
4456	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
4457	</listitem>
4458
4459	<listitem>
4460	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
4461	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
4462	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
4471	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
4472	</listitem>
4473
4474	<listitem>
4475	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
4476	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
4477	</listitem>
4478
4479	<listitem>
4480	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
4481	(bug #6435)</para>
4482	</listitem>
4483
4484	<listitem>
4485	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
4486	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
4487	</listitem>
4488
4489	<listitem>
4490	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
4491	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
4492	(bug #6488)</para>
4493	</listitem>
4494
4495	<listitem>
4496	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
4497	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
4498	</listitem>
4499
4500	<listitem>
4501	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
4502	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
4503	</listitem>
4504
4505	<listitem>
4506	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
4507	#5227)</para>
4508	</listitem>
4509
4510	<listitem>
4511	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
4512	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Web service: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
4521	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	</itemizedlist>
4525	</sect1>
4526
4527	<sect1>
4528	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
4529
4530	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4531	added:</para>
4532
4533	<itemizedlist>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
4537	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
4542	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
4547	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
4552	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
4569	</listitem>
4570
4571	<listitem>
4572	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
4573	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
4578	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
4583	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
4592	</listitem>
4593
4594	<listitem>
4595	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
4596	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
4597	</listitem>
4598
4599	<listitem>
4600	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
4601	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
4602	calls (bug #6165)</para>
4603	</listitem>
4604
4605	<listitem>
4606	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
4607	(bug #5297)</para>
4608	</listitem>
4609
4610	<listitem>
4611	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
4612	(bug #4962)</para>
4613	</listitem>
4614
4615	<listitem>
4616	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
4617	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
4618	</listitem>
4619
4620	<listitem>
4621	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
4622	(bug #6176)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
4627	certain circumstances</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
4632	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
4633	</listitem>
4634
4635	<listitem>
4636	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
4645	(bug #3571)</para>
4646	</listitem>
4647
4648	<listitem>
4649	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
4650	devices</para>
4651	</listitem>
4652
4653	<listitem>
4654	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
4655	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
4656	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
4657	</listitem>
4658
4659	<listitem>
4660	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
4661	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
4662	</listitem>
4663
4664	<listitem>
4665	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
4666	</listitem>
4667
4668	<listitem>
4669	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
4670	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
4671	</listitem>
4672
4673	<listitem>
4674	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
4675	response</para>
4676	</listitem>
4677
4678	<listitem>
4679	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
4680	</listitem>
4681
4682	<listitem>
4683	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>Web service: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
4688	</listitem>
4689
4690	<listitem>
4691	<para>Web service: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
4692	</listitem>
4693
4694	<listitem>
4695	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
4696	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
4697	</listitem>
4698
4699	<listitem>
4700	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
4701	</listitem>
4702
4703	<listitem>
4704	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
4705	</listitem>
4706
4707	<listitem>
4708	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
4709	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
4710	</listitem>
4711
4712	<listitem>
4713	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
4714	</listitem>
4715
4716	<listitem>
4717	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
4718	</listitem>
4719
4720	<listitem>
4721	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
4722	</listitem>
4723
4724	<listitem>
4725	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
4726	</listitem>
4727
4728	</itemizedlist>
4729	</sect1>
4730
4731	<sect1>
4732	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
4733
4734	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4735	added:</para>
4736
4737	<itemizedlist>
4738
4739	<listitem>
4740	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
4741	</listitem>
4742
4743	<listitem>
4744	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
4745	</listitem>
4746
4747	<listitem>
4748	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
4749	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
4750	</listitem>
4751
4752	<listitem>
4753	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
4754	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
4755	</listitem>
4756
4757	<listitem>
4758	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
4759	(bug #3945)</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
4764	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
4765	</listitem>
4766
4767	<listitem>
4768	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
4769	and AMD-V only) </para>
4770	</listitem>
4771
4772	<listitem>
4773	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
4778	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
4779	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
4780	</listitem>
4781
4782	<listitem>
4783	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
4784	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
4785	</listitem>
4786
4787	<listitem>
4788	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
4789	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
4790	</listitem>
4791
4792	<listitem>
4793	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
4794	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
4795	</listitem>
4796
4797	<listitem>
4798	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
4799	snapshots command</para>
4800	</listitem>
4801
4802	<listitem>
4803	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
4804	</listitem>
4805
4806	<listitem>
4807	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
4808	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
4809	</listitem>
4810
4811	<listitem>
4812	<para>GUI: fixed guest full screen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
4813	</listitem>
4814
4815	<listitem>
4816	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
4817	</listitem>
4818
4819	<listitem>
4820	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
4821	</listitem>
4822
4823	<listitem>
4824	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
4825	(KWin bug)</para>
4826	</listitem>
4827
4828	<listitem>
4829	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
4830	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
4831	</listitem>
4832
4833	<listitem>
4834	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
4835	</listitem>
4836
4837	<listitem>
4838	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
4839	</listitem>
4840
4841	<listitem>
4842	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
4843	</listitem>
4844
4845	<listitem>
4846	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
4847	</listitem>
4848
4849	<listitem>
4850	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
4851	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
4852	</listitem>
4853
4854	<listitem>
4855	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
4856	bug #5787)</para>
4857	</listitem>
4858
4859	<listitem>
4860	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
4861	DHCP requests</para>
4862	</listitem>
4863
4864	<listitem>
4865	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
4866	(bug #3217)</para>
4867	</listitem>
4868
4869	<listitem>
4870	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
4871	range (bug #5923)</para>
4872	</listitem>
4873
4874	<listitem>
4875	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
4876	</listitem>
4877
4878	<listitem>
4879	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
4880	</listitem>
4881
4882	<listitem>
4883	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
4884	</listitem>
4885
4886	<listitem>
4887	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
4888	</listitem>
4889
4890	<listitem>
4891	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
4892	file (bug #5681)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
4897	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
4902	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
4907	regression)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
4916	</listitem>
4917
4918	<listitem>
4919	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
4920	</listitem>
4921
4922	<listitem>
4923	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
4924	</listitem>
4925
4926	<listitem>
4927	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
4928	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
4929	</listitem>
4930
4931	<listitem>
4932	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
4933	</listitem>
4934
4935	<listitem>
4936	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
4937	</listitem>
4938
4939	<listitem>
4940	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
4941	</listitem>
4942
4943	<listitem>
4944	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
4945	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
4946	</listitem>
4947
4948	<listitem>
4949	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
4954	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
4955	</listitem>
4956
4957	<listitem>
4958	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
4967	</listitem>
4968
4969	<listitem>
4970	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
4971	(bug #5731)</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
4976	again</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	</itemizedlist>
4980
4981	</sect1>
4982
4983	<sect1>
4984	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
4985
4986	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4987	added:</para>
4988
4989	<itemizedlist>
4990
4991	<listitem>
4992	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
4993	</listitem>
4994
4995	<listitem>
4996	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
4997	</listitem>
4998
4999	<listitem>
5000	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
5001	</listitem>
5002
5003	<listitem>
5004	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
5005	</listitem>
5006
5007	<listitem>
5008	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
5013	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	<listitem>
5017	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
5018	</listitem>
5019
5020	<listitem>
5021	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
5022	</listitem>
5023
5024	<listitem>
5025	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
5026	</listitem>
5027
5028	<listitem>
5029	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
5030	</listitem>
5031
5032	<listitem>
5033	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
5034	</listitem>
5035
5036	<listitem>
5037	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
5038	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
5039	</listitem>
5040
5041	<listitem>
5042	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
5043	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
5048	full screen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
5049	#1762)</para>
5050	</listitem>
5051
5052	<listitem>
5053	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
5054	Menubar in full screen" (bug #5636)</para>
5055	</listitem>
5056
5057	<listitem>
5058	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
5059	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
5060	</listitem>
5061
5062	<listitem>
5063	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
5064	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
5065	</listitem>
5066
5067	<listitem>
5068	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
5069	</listitem>
5070
5071	<listitem>
5072	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
5073	</listitem>
5074
5075	<listitem>
5076	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
5077	several virtual CPU cores</para>
5078	</listitem>
5079
5080	<listitem>
5081	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
5082	</listitem>
5083
5084	<listitem>
5085	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
5086	</listitem>
5087
5088	<listitem>
5089	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
5090	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
5091	</listitem>
5092
5093	<listitem>
5094	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
5095	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
5096	</listitem>
5097
5098	<listitem>
5099	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
5100	</listitem>
5101
5102	<listitem>
5103	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
5104	guests</para>
5105	</listitem>
5106
5107	<listitem>
5108	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
5109	and on some 64bit guests</para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
5114	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
5115	</listitem>
5116
5117	<listitem>
5118	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
5119	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
5120	</listitem>
5121
5122	<listitem>
5123	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
5124	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
5125	</listitem>
5126
5127	<listitem>
5128	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
5129	</listitem>
5130
5131	<listitem>
5132	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
5133	</listitem>
5134
5135	<listitem>
5136	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
5137	</listitem>
5138
5139	<listitem>
5140	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
5141	</listitem>
5142
5143	<listitem>
5144	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
5145	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
5146	</listitem>
5147
5148	<listitem>
5149	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
5150	</listitem>
5151
5152	</itemizedlist>
5153
5154	</sect1>
5155
5156	<sect1>
5157	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
5158
5159	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5160	were added:</para>
5161
5162	<itemizedlist>
5163
5164	<listitem>
5165	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
5166	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
5167	</listitem>
5168
5169	<listitem>
5170	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
5171	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
5172	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
5173	</listitem>
5174
5175	<listitem>
5176	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
5177	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
5178	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
5179	</listitem>
5180
5181	<listitem>
5182	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
5183	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
5184	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
5185	</listitem>
5186
5187	<listitem>
5188	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
5189	running</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
5194	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
5195	</listitem>
5196
5197	<listitem>
5198	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
5199	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
5200	</listitem>
5201
5202	<listitem>
5203	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
5204	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
5205	</listitem>
5206
5207	<listitem>
5208	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
5209	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
5210	</listitem>
5211
5212	</itemizedlist>
5213
5214	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5215
5216	<itemizedlist>
5217
5218	<listitem>
5219	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
5220	</listitem>
5221
5222	<listitem>
5223	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
5224	</listitem>
5225
5226	<listitem>
5227	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
5228	</listitem>
5229
5230	<listitem>
5231	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
5232	(bug #5291)</para>
5233	</listitem>
5234
5235	<listitem>
5236	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
5237	</listitem>
5238
5239	<listitem>
5240	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
5241	</listitem>
5242
5243	<listitem>
5244	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
5245	</listitem>
5246
5247	<listitem>
5248	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
5249	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
5250	</listitem>
5251
5252	<listitem>
5253	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
5254	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
5255	</listitem>
5256
5257	<listitem>
5258	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
5259	</listitem>
5260
5261	<listitem>
5262	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
5263	</listitem>
5264
5265	<listitem>
5266	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
5267	</listitem>
5268
5269	<listitem>
5270	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
5271	</listitem>
5272
5273	<listitem>
5274	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
5275	</listitem>
5276
5277	<listitem>
5278	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
5279	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5280	</listitem>
5281
5282	<listitem>
5283	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
5284	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
5285	</listitem>
5286
5287	<listitem>
5288	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
5289	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
5290	</listitem>
5291
5292	<listitem>
5293	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
5294	(bug #2723)</para>
5295	</listitem>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
5299	</listitem>
5300
5301	<listitem>
5302	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
5303	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
5308	optional manifest file on import</para>
5309	</listitem>
5310
5311	<listitem>
5312	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
5317	(bug #3773)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
5322	</listitem>
5323
5324	<listitem>
5325	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
5326	</listitem>
5327
5328	<listitem>
5329	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
5330	layout (bug #2302)</para>
5331	</listitem>
5332
5333	<listitem>
5334	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in full screen
5335	(bug #4866)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
5340	left click (bug #5049)</para>
5341	</listitem>
5342
5343	<listitem>
5344	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
5345	certain conditions</para>
5346	</listitem>
5347
5348	<listitem>
5349	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
5354	</listitem>
5355
5356	<listitem>
5357	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
5358	</listitem>
5359
5360	<listitem>
5361	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
5362	</listitem>
5363
5364	<listitem>
5365	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
5366	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
5367	</listitem>
5368
5369	<listitem>
5370	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
5371	</listitem>
5372
5373	<listitem>
5374	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
5375	properties (bug #5337)</para>
5376	</listitem>
5377
5378	<listitem>
5379	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
5380	</listitem>
5381
5382	<listitem>
5383	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
5384	</listitem>
5385
5386	<listitem>
5387	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
5388	</listitem>
5389
5390	<listitem>
5391	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
5396	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
5401	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
5402	(bug #928)</para>
5403	</listitem>
5404
5405	<listitem>
5406	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
5407	</listitem>
5408
5409	</itemizedlist>
5410
5411	</sect1>
5412
5413	<sect1>
5414	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
5415
5416	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5417	added:</para>
5418
5419	<itemizedlist>
5420
5421	<listitem>
5422	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
5423	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
5424	</listitem>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
5428	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
5429	</listitem>
5430
5431	<listitem>
5432	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
5433	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
5434	</listitem>
5435
5436	<listitem>
5437	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
5438	enabled</para>
5439	</listitem>
5440
5441	<listitem>
5442	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
5443	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
5444	</listitem>
5445
5446	<listitem>
5447	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
5448	(bug #2676)</para>
5449	</listitem>
5450
5451	<listitem>
5452	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
5453	is connected to a raw file</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
5458	(bug #5355)</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
5463	</listitem>
5464
5465	<listitem>
5466	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
5467	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
5472	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
5473	guest (bug #4496)</para>
5474	</listitem>
5475
5476	<listitem>
5477	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
5478	</listitem>
5479
5480	<listitem>
5481	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
5482	</listitem>
5483
5484	<listitem>
5485	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
5486	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
5487	</listitem>
5488
5489	<listitem>
5490	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
5491	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
5492	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
5493	</listitem>
5494
5495	</itemizedlist>
5496
5497	</sect1>
5498
5499	<sect1>
5500	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
5501
5502	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5503	added:</para>
5504
5505	<itemizedlist>
5506
5507	<listitem>
5508	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
5509	</listitem>
5510
5511	<listitem>
5512	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
5513	</listitem>
5514
5515	<listitem>
5516	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
5517	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
5518	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
5519	</listitem>
5520
5521	<listitem>
5522	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
5523	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
5524	</listitem>
5525
5526	<listitem>
5527	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
5528	</listitem>
5529
5530	<listitem>
5531	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
5532	</listitem>
5533
5534	<listitem>
5535	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
5536	</listitem>
5537
5538	<listitem>
5539	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
5540	</listitem>
5541
5542	<listitem>
5543	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
5544	</listitem>
5545
5546	<listitem>
5547	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
5548	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
5549	</listitem>
5550
5551	<listitem>
5552	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
5553	</listitem>
5554
5555	<listitem>
5556	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
5557	</listitem>
5558
5559	<listitem>
5560	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
5561	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
5562	</listitem>
5563
5564	<listitem>
5565	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
5566	</listitem>
5567
5568	<listitem>
5569	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
5570	exhaustion</para>
5571	</listitem>
5572
5573	<listitem>
5574	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
5575	</listitem>
5576
5577	<listitem>
5578	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
5579	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
5580	</listitem>
5581
5582	<listitem>
5583	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
5584	folders (bug #4106)</para>
5585	</listitem>
5586
5587	<listitem>
5588	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
5589	folders (bug #4299)</para>
5590	</listitem>
5591
5592	<listitem>
5593	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
5594	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
5595	(bug #2921)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
5600	hosts only)</para>
5601	</listitem>
5602
5603	<listitem>
5604	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
5605	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
5606	</listitem>
5607
5608	<listitem>
5609	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
5610	</listitem>
5611
5612	<listitem>
5613	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
5614	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
5615	</listitem>
5616
5617	<listitem>
5618	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
5619	</listitem>
5620
5621	<listitem>
5622	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
5623	image inconsistency </para>
5624	</listitem>
5625
5626	<listitem>
5627	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
5628	</listitem>
5629
5630	<listitem>
5631	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
5632	</listitem>
5633
5634	<listitem>
5635	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
5636	(bug #2025)</para>
5637	</listitem>
5638
5639	<listitem>
5640	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
5641	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
5642	</listitem>
5643
5644	</itemizedlist>
5645
5646	</sect1>
5647
5648	<sect1>
5649	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
5650
5651	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5652	added:</para>
5653
5654	<itemizedlist>
5655
5656	<listitem>
5657	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
5658	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
5659	</listitem>
5660
5661	<listitem>
5662	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
5663	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
5664	</listitem>
5665
5666	<listitem>
5667	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
5668	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
5669	</listitem>
5670
5671	<listitem>
5672	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
5673	</listitem>
5674
5675	<listitem>
5676	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
5677	software virtualization only) </para>
5678	</listitem>
5679
5680	<listitem>
5681	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
5682	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
5683	</listitem>
5684
5685	<listitem>
5686	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
5687	with root privileges</para>
5688	</listitem>
5689
5690	<listitem>
5691	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
5692	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
5693	</listitem>
5694
5695	<listitem>
5696	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
5697	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
5698	</listitem>
5699
5700	<listitem>
5701	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
5702	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
5703	</listitem>
5704
5705	<listitem>
5706	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
5707	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
5708	selector (bug #5063)</para>
5709	</listitem>
5710
5711	<listitem>
5712	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
5713	available</para>
5714	</listitem>
5715
5716	<listitem>
5717	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
5718	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
5719	</listitem>
5720
5721	<listitem>
5722	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
5723	networking (bug #4775)</para>
5724	</listitem>
5725
5726	<listitem>
5727	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
5728	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
5729	</listitem>
5730
5731	<listitem>
5732	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
5733	(bug #4907)</para>
5734	</listitem>
5735
5736	<listitem>
5737	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
5738	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
5743	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
5744	</listitem>
5745
5746	<listitem>
5747	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
5748	</listitem>
5749
5750	<listitem>
5751	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
5752	</listitem>
5753
5754	<listitem>
5755	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
5756	</listitem>
5757
5758	<listitem>
5759	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
5760	</listitem>
5761
5762	<listitem>
5763	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
5764	are installed</para>
5765	</listitem>
5766
5767	<listitem>
5768	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
5769	(bug #4771)</para>
5770	</listitem>
5771
5772	<listitem>
5773	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
5774	</listitem>
5775
5776	<listitem>
5777	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
5778	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
5779	</listitem>
5780
5781	<listitem>
5782	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
5783	command</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	<listitem>
5787	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
5788	</listitem>
5789
5790	<listitem>
5791	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
5792	</listitem>
5793
5794	<listitem>
5795	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
5796	(bug #5089)</para>
5797	</listitem>
5798
5799	<listitem>
5800	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
5801	</listitem>
5802
5803	</itemizedlist>
5804
5805	</sect1>
5806
5807	<sect1>
5808	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
5809
5810	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5811	added:</para>
5812
5813	<itemizedlist>
5814
5815	<listitem>
5816	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
5817	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
5818	</listitem>
5819
5820	<listitem>
5821	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
5822	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
5823	</listitem>
5824
5825	<listitem>
5826	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
5827	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
5828	</listitem>
5829
5830	<listitem>
5831	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
5832	guests (bug #2258)</para>
5833	</listitem>
5834
5835	<listitem>
5836	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
5837	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
5838	</listitem>
5839
5840	<listitem>
5841	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
5842	</listitem>
5843
5844	<listitem>
5845	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
5846	</listitem>
5847
5848	<listitem>
5849	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
5850	</listitem>
5851
5852	<listitem>
5853	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
5854	</listitem>
5855
5856	<listitem>
5857	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
5858	</listitem>
5859
5860	<listitem>
5861	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
5862	onlined or offlined</para>
5863	</listitem>
5864
5865	<listitem>
5866	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
5867	</listitem>
5868
5869	<listitem>
5870	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
5871	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
5872	</listitem>
5873
5874	<listitem>
5875	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
5876	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
5877	</listitem>
5878
5879	<listitem>
5880	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
5881	</listitem>
5882
5883	<listitem>
5884	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
5885	wrong values in Python web services bindings</para>
5886	</listitem>
5887
5888	<listitem>
5889	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
5890	</listitem>
5891
5892	<listitem>
5893	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
5894	</listitem>
5895
5896	<listitem>
5897	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
5898	</listitem>
5899
5900	<listitem>
5901	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
5902	</listitem>
5903
5904	<listitem>
5905	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
5906	</listitem>
5907
5908	<listitem>
5909	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
5910	filters in machine settings XML</para>
5911	</listitem>
5912
5913	<listitem>
5914	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
5915	</listitem>
5916
5917	<listitem>
5918	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
5919	</listitem>
5920
5921	<listitem>
5922	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
5923	</listitem>
5924
5925	<listitem>
5926	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
5927	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
5928	</listitem>
5929
5930	<listitem>
5931	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
5932	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
5933	</listitem>
5934
5935	<listitem>
5936	<para>Web service: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
5937	</listitem>
5938
5939	<listitem>
5940	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
5941	</listitem>
5942
5943	<listitem>
5944	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
5945	</listitem>
5946
5947	<listitem>
5948	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
5949	</listitem>
5950
5951	<listitem>
5952	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
5953	</listitem>
5954
5955	<listitem>
5956	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
5957	</listitem>
5958
5959	<listitem>
5960	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
5961	</listitem>
5962
5963	<listitem>
5964	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
5965	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
5966	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
5967	phase collapse</para>
5968	</listitem>
5969
5970	<listitem>
5971	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
5972	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
5973	</listitem>
5974
5975	<listitem>
5976	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
5977	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
5978	</listitem>
5979
5980	<listitem>
5981	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
5982	</listitem>
5983
5984	<listitem>
5985	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
5986	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
5987	</listitem>
5988
5989	<listitem>
5990	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
5991	interface bringup on Linux</para>
5992	</listitem>
5993
5994	<listitem>
5995	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
5996	</listitem>
5997
5998	<listitem>
5999	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
6000	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
6001	#4698, #4790)</para>
6002	</listitem>
6003
6004	<listitem>
6005	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
6006	less than the configured range</para>
6007	</listitem>
6008
6009	<listitem>
6010	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
6011	</listitem>
6012
6013	<listitem>
6014	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
6015	</listitem>
6016
6017	<listitem>
6018	<para>NAT: fixed Ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
6019	</listitem>
6020
6021	<listitem>
6022	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
6023	</listitem>
6024
6025	<listitem>
6026	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
6027	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
6028	</listitem>
6029
6030	<listitem>
6031	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
6032	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
6033	</listitem>
6034
6035	<listitem>
6036	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
6037	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
6038	</listitem>
6039
6040	<listitem>
6041	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
6042	</listitem>
6043
6044	<listitem>
6045	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
6046	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
6047	</listitem>
6048
6049	<listitem>
6050	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
6051	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
6052	</listitem>
6053
6054	<listitem>
6055	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
6056	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
6057	</listitem>
6058
6059	<listitem>
6060	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
6061	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
6062	</listitem>
6063
6064	<listitem>
6065	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
6066	</listitem>
6067
6068	<listitem>
6069	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
6070	</listitem>
6071
6072	</itemizedlist>
6073
6074	</sect1>
6075
6076	<sect1>
6077	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
6078
6079	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6080	added:</para>
6081
6082	<itemizedlist>
6083
6084	<listitem>
6085	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
6086	</listitem>
6087
6088	<listitem>
6089	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
6090	</listitem>
6091
6092	<listitem>
6093	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
6094	</listitem>
6095
6096	<listitem>
6097	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
6098	</listitem>
6099
6100	<listitem>
6101	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
6102	</listitem>
6103
6104	<listitem>
6105	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
6106	</listitem>
6107
6108	<listitem>
6109	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
6110	</listitem>
6111
6112	<listitem>
6113	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
6114	</listitem>
6115
6116	<listitem>
6117	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
6118	</listitem>
6119
6120	<listitem>
6121	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
6122	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
6123	</listitem>
6124
6125	<listitem>
6126	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
6127	</listitem>
6128
6129	<listitem>
6130	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
6131	</listitem>
6132
6133	<listitem>
6134	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
6135	</listitem>
6136
6137	<listitem>
6138	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
6139	</listitem>
6140
6141	<listitem>
6142	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
6143	</listitem>
6144
6145	<listitem>
6146	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
6147	</listitem>
6148
6149	<listitem>
6150	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
6151	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
6152	</listitem>
6153
6154	<listitem>
6155	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
6156	(bug #4654)</para>
6157	</listitem>
6158
6159	<listitem>
6160	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
6161	</listitem>
6162
6163	<listitem>
6164	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
6165	interfaces</para>
6166	</listitem>
6167
6168	<listitem>
6169	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
6170	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
6171	</listitem>
6172
6173	<listitem>
6174	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
6175	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
6176	</listitem>
6177
6178	<listitem>
6179	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
6180	properties (bug #3415)</para>
6181	</listitem>
6182
6183	<listitem>
6184	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
6185	(bug #1461)</para>
6186	</listitem>
6187
6188	<listitem>
6189	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
6190	</listitem>
6191
6192	<listitem>
6193	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
6194	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
6195	</listitem>
6196
6197	<listitem>
6198	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
6199	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
6200	</listitem>
6201
6202	<listitem>
6203	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
6204	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
6205	</listitem>
6206
6207	<listitem>
6208	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
6209	</listitem>
6210
6211	<listitem>
6212	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
6213	</listitem>
6214
6215	<listitem>
6216	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
6217	</listitem>
6218
6219	<listitem>
6220	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
6221	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
6222	</listitem>
6223
6224	<listitem>
6225	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
6226	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
6227	</listitem>
6228
6229	<listitem>
6230	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
6231	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
6232	</listitem>
6233
6234	<listitem>
6235	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
6236	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
6237	</listitem>
6238
6239	</itemizedlist>
6240
6241	</sect1>
6242	<sect1>
6243	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
6244
6245	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6246	added:</para>
6247
6248	<itemizedlist>
6249
6250	<listitem>
6251	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
6252	</listitem>
6253
6254	<listitem>
6255	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
6256	</listitem>
6257
6258	<listitem>
6259	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
6260	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
6261	</listitem>
6262
6263	<listitem>
6264	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
6265	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
6266	</listitem>
6267
6268	<listitem>
6269	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
6270	</listitem>
6271
6272	<listitem>
6273	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
6274	</listitem>
6275
6276	<listitem>
6277	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
6278	</listitem>
6279
6280	<listitem>
6281	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
6282	</listitem>
6283
6284	<listitem>
6285	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
6286	</listitem>
6287
6288	<listitem>
6289	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
6290	</listitem>
6291
6292	<listitem>
6293	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
6294	</listitem>
6295
6296	<listitem>
6297	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
6298	</listitem>
6299
6300	<listitem>
6301	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
6302	</listitem>
6303
6304	<listitem>
6305	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
6306	</listitem>
6307
6308	<listitem>
6309	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
6310	</listitem>
6311
6312	<listitem>
6313	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
6314	guest (bug #4381)</para>
6315	</listitem>
6316
6317	<listitem>
6318	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
6319	</listitem>
6320
6321	<listitem>
6322	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
6323	</listitem>
6324
6325	<listitem>
6326	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
6327	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
6328	</listitem>
6329
6330	<listitem>
6331	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
6332	</listitem>
6333
6334	<listitem>
6335	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
6336	</listitem>
6337
6338	<listitem>
6339	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
6340	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
6341	</listitem>
6342
6343	<listitem>
6344	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
6345	</listitem>
6346
6347	<listitem>
6348	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
6349	</listitem>
6350
6351	<listitem>
6352	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
6353	</listitem>
6354
6355	<listitem>
6356	<para>Solaris guests: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
6357	</listitem>
6358
6359	<listitem>
6360	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
6361	</listitem>
6362
6363	<listitem>
6364	<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>
6365	</listitem>
6366
6367	</itemizedlist>
6368
6369	</sect1>
6370
6371	<sect1>
6372	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
6373
6374	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6375	were added:</para>
6376
6377	<itemizedlist>
6378
6379	<listitem>
6380	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
6381	</listitem>
6382
6383	<listitem>
6384	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
6385	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
6386	</listitem>
6387
6388	<listitem>
6389	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
6390	</listitem>
6391
6392	</itemizedlist>
6393
6394	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
6395
6396	<itemizedlist>
6397
6398	<listitem>
6399	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
6400	</listitem>
6401
6402	<listitem>
6403	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
6404	certain conditions</para>
6405	</listitem>
6406
6407	<listitem>
6408	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
6409	</listitem>
6410
6411	<listitem>
6412	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
6413	</listitem>
6414
6415	<listitem>
6416	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
6417	</listitem>
6418
6419	<listitem>
6420	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
6421	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
6422	</listitem>
6423
6424	<listitem>
6425	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
6426	</listitem>
6427
6428	<listitem>
6429	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
6430	</listitem>
6431
6432	<listitem>
6433	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
6434	</listitem>
6435
6436	<listitem>
6437	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
6438	</listitem>
6439
6440	<listitem>
6441	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
6442	</listitem>
6443
6444	<listitem>
6445	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6446	</listitem>
6447
6448	<listitem>
6449	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for full screen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
6450	</listitem>
6451
6452	<listitem>
6453	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
6454	</listitem>
6455
6456	<listitem>
6457	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
6458	(non Windows hosts)</para>
6459	</listitem>
6460
6461	<listitem>
6462	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
6463	</listitem>
6464
6465	<listitem>
6466	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
6467	</listitem>
6468
6469	<listitem>
6470	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
6471	</listitem>
6472
6473	<listitem>
6474	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
6475	</listitem>
6476
6477	<listitem>
6478	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
6479	</listitem>
6480
6481	<listitem>
6482	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
6483	</listitem>
6484
6485	<listitem>
6486	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
6487	</listitem>
6488
6489	<listitem>
6490	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
6491	</listitem>
6492
6493	<listitem>
6494	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
6495	</listitem>
6496
6497	<listitem>
6498	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
6499	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
6500	</listitem>
6501
6502	<listitem>
6503	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
6504	</listitem>
6505
6506	<listitem>
6507	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
6508	</listitem>
6509
6510	<listitem>
6511	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
6512	</listitem>
6513
6514	<listitem>
6515	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
6516	</listitem>
6517
6518	<listitem>
6519	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
6520	</listitem>
6521
6522	<listitem>
6523	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
6524	</listitem>
6525
6526	<listitem>
6527	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
6528	</listitem>
6529
6530	<listitem>
6531	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
6532	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
6533	</listitem>
6534
6535	<listitem>
6536	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
6537	</listitem>
6538
6539	<listitem>
6540	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
6541	</listitem>
6542
6543	<listitem>
6544	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
6545	</listitem>
6546
6547	<listitem>
6548	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
6549	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
6550	</listitem>
6551
6552	<listitem>
6553	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
6554	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
6555	</listitem>
6556
6557	<listitem>
6558	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
6559	correct file mode when creating files</para>
6560	</listitem>
6561
6562	<listitem>
6563	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
6564	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
6565	</listitem>
6566
6567	<listitem>
6568	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
6569	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
6570	</listitem>
6571
6572	<listitem>
6573	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
6574	</listitem>
6575
6576	<listitem>
6577	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
6578	</listitem>
6579
6580	<listitem>
6581	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
6582	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
6583	</listitem>
6584
6585	<listitem>
6586	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
6587	guest property lookup</para>
6588	</listitem>
6589
6590	<listitem>
6591	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
6592	basic network information)</para>
6593	</listitem>
6594
6595	<listitem>
6596	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
6597	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
6598	</listitem>
6599
6600	<listitem>
6601	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
6602	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
6603	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
6604	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
6605	</listitem>
6606
6607	<listitem>
6608	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
6609	</listitem>
6610
6611	<listitem>
6612	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
6613	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
6614	web service</para>
6615	</listitem>
6616
6617	<listitem>
6618	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
6619	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
6620	</listitem>
6621
6622	<listitem>
6623	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
6624	unavailable</para>
6625	</listitem>
6626
6627	<listitem>
6628	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
6629	</listitem>
6630
6631	</itemizedlist>
6632	</sect1>
6633
6634	<sect1>
6635	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
6636
6637	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6638	added:</para>
6639
6640	<itemizedlist>
6641
6642	<listitem>
6643	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
6644	installation</para>
6645	</listitem>
6646
6647	<listitem>
6648	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
6649	</listitem>
6650
6651	<listitem>
6652	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
6653	later (bug #3981)</para>
6654	</listitem>
6655
6656	<listitem>
6657	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
6658	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
6659	</listitem>
6660
6661	<listitem>
6662	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
6663	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
6664	(bug #4034)
6665	</para>
6666	</listitem>
6667
6668	<listitem>
6669	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
6670	networking</para>
6671	</listitem>
6672
6673	<listitem>
6674	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
6675	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
6676	</listitem>
6677
6678	<listitem>
6679	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
6680	clicks</para>
6681	</listitem>
6682
6683	<listitem>
6684	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
6685	Windows 7 guests</para>
6686	</listitem>
6687
6688	<listitem>
6689	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
6690	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
6691	</listitem>
6692
6693	<listitem>
6694	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
6695	</listitem>
6696
6697	<listitem>
6698	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
6699	</listitem>
6700
6701	<listitem>
6702	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
6703	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
6704	</listitem>
6705
6706	<listitem>
6707	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
6708	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
6709	</listitem>
6710
6711	<listitem>
6712	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
6713	</listitem>
6714
6715	<listitem>
6716	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
6717	</listitem>
6718
6719	<listitem>
6720	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6721	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
6722	(bug #3864)</para>
6723	</listitem>
6724
6725	<listitem>
6726	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
6727	now flushes the output stream</para>
6728	</listitem>
6729
6730	<listitem>
6731	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
6732	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
6733	</listitem>
6734
6735	<listitem>
6736	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
6737	</listitem>
6738
6739	<listitem>
6740	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
6741	</listitem>
6742
6743	<listitem>
6744	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
6745	</listitem>
6746
6747	<listitem>
6748	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
6749	</listitem>
6750
6751	<listitem>
6752	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
6753	(bug #3964)</para>
6754	</listitem>
6755
6756	<listitem>
6757	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
6758	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
6759	</listitem>
6760
6761	<listitem>
6762	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
6763	hosts</para>
6764	</listitem>
6765
6766	<listitem>
6767	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
6768	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
6769	e1000 adapter</para>
6770	</listitem>
6771
6772	<listitem>
6773	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
6774	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
6775	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
6776	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
6777	</listitem>
6778
6779	<listitem>
6780	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
6781	</listitem>
6782
6783	<listitem>
6784	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
6785	</listitem>
6786
6787	<listitem>
6788	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
6789	</listitem>
6790
6791	<listitem>
6792	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
6793	file (bug #1023)</para>
6794	</listitem>
6795
6796	<listitem>
6797	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
6798	</listitem>
6799
6800	<listitem>
6801	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
6802	</listitem>
6803
6804	</itemizedlist>
6805	</sect1>
6806
6807	<sect1>
6808	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
6809
6810	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
6811	added:</para>
6812
6813	<itemizedlist>
6814
6815	<listitem>
6816	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
6817	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
6818	</listitem>
6819
6820	<listitem>
6821	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
6822	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
6823	and later</para>
6824	</listitem>
6825
6826	<listitem>
6827	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
6828	running services</para>
6829	</listitem>
6830
6831	<listitem>
6832	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
6833	terminates</para>
6834	</listitem>
6835
6836	<listitem>
6837	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
6838	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
6839	</listitem>
6840
6841	<listitem>
6842	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
6843	installed on the guest</para>
6844	</listitem>
6845
6846	<listitem>
6847	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
6848	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
6849	</listitem>
6850
6851	<listitem>
6852	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
6853	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
6854	</listitem>
6855
6856	<listitem>
6857	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
6858	(bug #2628)</para>
6859	</listitem>
6860
6861	<listitem>
6862	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
6863	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
6864	</listitem>
6865
6866	<listitem>
6867	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
6868	(bug #3657)</para>
6869	</listitem>
6870
6871	<listitem>
6872	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
6873	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
6874	</listitem>
6875
6876	<listitem>
6877	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
6878	virtualization only)
6879	</para>
6880	</listitem>
6881
6882	<listitem>
6883	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
6884	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
6885	</listitem>
6886
6887	<listitem>
6888	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
6889	</listitem>
6890
6891	<listitem>
6892	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
6893	networks (bug #3702)</para>
6894	</listitem>
6895
6896	<listitem>
6897	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
6898	bug #3689)</para>
6899	</listitem>
6900
6901	<listitem>
6902	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
6903	bug #3679)</para>
6904	</listitem>
6905
6906	<listitem>
6907	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
6908	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
6909	</listitem>
6910
6911	<listitem>
6912	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
6913	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
6914	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
6915	</listitem>
6916
6917	<listitem>
6918	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
6919	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
6920	</listitem>
6921
6922	<listitem>
6923	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
6924	lease (bug #3655)</para>
6925	</listitem>
6926
6927	<listitem>
6928	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
6929	(bug #3667)</para>
6930	</listitem>
6931
6932	<listitem>
6933	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
6934	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
6935	</listitem>
6936
6937	<listitem>
6938	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
6939	</listitem>
6940
6941	<listitem>
6942	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
6943	</listitem>
6944
6945	<listitem>
6946	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
6947	</listitem>
6948
6949	<listitem>
6950	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
6951	</listitem>
6952
6953	<listitem>
6954	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
6955	</listitem>
6956
6957	<listitem>
6958	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
6959	</listitem>
6960
6961	<listitem>
6962	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
6963	</listitem>
6964
6965	</itemizedlist>
6966	</sect1>
6967
6968	<sect1>
6969	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
6970
6971	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
6972	were added:</para>
6973
6974	<itemizedlist>
6975
6976	<listitem>
6977	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
6978	</listitem>
6979
6980	<listitem>
6981	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
6982	</listitem>
6983
6984	<listitem>
6985	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
6986	</listitem>
6987
6988	<listitem>
6989	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
6990	</listitem>
6991
6992	<listitem>
6993	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
6994	</listitem>
6995
6996	<listitem>
6997	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
6998	</listitem>
6999
7000	<listitem>
7001	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
7002	</listitem>
7003
7004	<listitem>
7005	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
7006	</listitem>
7007
7008	<listitem>
7009	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7010	</listitem>
7011
7012	<listitem>
7013	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
7014	</listitem>
7015
7016	</itemizedlist>
7017
7018	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7019
7020	<itemizedlist>
7021
7022	<listitem>
7023	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
7024	</listitem>
7025
7026	<listitem>
7027	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
7028	</listitem>
7029
7030	<listitem>
7031	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
7032	</listitem>
7033
7034	<listitem>
7035	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
7036	</listitem>
7037
7038	<listitem>
7039	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
7040	</listitem>
7041
7042	<listitem>
7043	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7044	</listitem>
7045
7046	<listitem>
7047	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
7048	</listitem>
7049
7050	<listitem>
7051	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
7052	</listitem>
7053
7054	<listitem>
7055	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
7056	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
7057	</listitem>
7058
7059	<listitem>
7060	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
7061	</listitem>
7062
7063	<listitem>
7064	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
7065	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
7066	</listitem>
7067
7068	<listitem>
7069	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
7070	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
7071	</listitem>
7072
7073	<listitem>
7074	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
7075	</listitem>
7076
7077	<listitem>
7078	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
7079	</listitem>
7080
7081	<listitem>
7082	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
7083	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
7084	</listitem>
7085
7086	<listitem>
7087	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
7088	</listitem>
7089
7090	<listitem>
7091	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
7092	ESX server images)</para>
7093	</listitem>
7094
7095	<listitem>
7096	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
7097	writable</para>
7098	</listitem>
7099
7100	<listitem>
7101	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
7102	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
7103	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
7104	</listitem>
7105
7106	<listitem>
7107	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
7108	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
7109	</listitem>
7110
7111	<listitem>
7112	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
7113	</listitem>
7114
7115	<listitem>
7116	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
7117	</listitem>
7118
7119	<listitem>
7120	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
7121	hosts when creating files</para>
7122	</listitem>
7123
7124	<listitem>
7125	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
7126	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
7127	</listitem>
7128
7129	<listitem>
7130	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
7131	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
7132	#2306)</para>
7133	</listitem>
7134
7135	<listitem>
7136	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
7137	(bug #3555)</para>
7138	</listitem>
7139
7140	<listitem>
7141	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
7142	installer (bug #3524)</para>
7143	</listitem>
7144
7145	<listitem>
7146	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
7147	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
7148	</listitem>
7149
7150	<listitem>
7151	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
7152	interface (bug #3414)</para>
7153	</listitem>
7154
7155	<listitem>
7156	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
7157	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
7158	</listitem>
7159
7160	<listitem>
7161	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
7162	(bug #3586)</para>
7163	</listitem>
7164
7165	<listitem>
7166	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
7167	from Scratch systems</para>
7168	</listitem>
7169
7170	<listitem>
7171	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
7172	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
7173	</listitem>
7174
7175	<listitem>
7176	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
7177	</listitem>
7178
7179	<listitem>
7180	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
7181	default to compact format</para>
7182	</listitem>
7183
7184	<listitem>
7185	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
7186	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
7187	</listitem>
7188
7189	<listitem>
7190	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
7191	</listitem>
7192
7193	<listitem>
7194	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7195	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
7196	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
7197	</listitem>
7198
7199	<listitem>
7200	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
7201	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
7202	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
7203	</listitem>
7204
7205	<listitem>
7206	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
7207	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
7208	</listitem>
7209
7210	<listitem>
7211	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
7212	</listitem>
7213
7214	<listitem>
7215	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
7216	</listitem>
7217
7218	<listitem>
7219	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
7220	</listitem>
7221
7222	<listitem>
7223	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
7224	</listitem>
7225
7226	<listitem>
7227	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
7228	</listitem>
7229
7230	<listitem>
7231	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
7232	</listitem>
7233
7234	<listitem>
7235	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
7236	</listitem>
7237
7238	<listitem>
7239	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
7240	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
7241	</listitem>
7242
7243	<listitem>
7244	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
7245	</listitem>
7246
7247	<listitem>
7248	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
7249	regression; bug #2065)</para>
7250	</listitem>
7251
7252	<listitem>
7253	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
7254	</listitem>
7255
7256	<listitem>
7257	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
7258	</listitem>
7259
7260	<listitem>
7261	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
7262	</listitem>
7263
7264	<listitem>
7265	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
7266	#2536)</para>
7267	</listitem>
7268
7269	<listitem>
7270	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
7271	</listitem>
7272
7273	<listitem>
7274	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
7275	(bug #3548)</para>
7276	</listitem>
7277
7278	</itemizedlist>
7279	</sect1>
7280
7281	<sect1>
7282	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
7283
7284	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7285	added:</para>
7286
7287	<itemizedlist>
7288
7289	<listitem>
7290	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
7291	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
7292	</listitem>
7293
7294	<listitem>
7295	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
7296	</listitem>
7297
7298	<listitem>
7299	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
7300	</listitem>
7301
7302	<listitem>
7303	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
7304	</listitem>
7305
7306	<listitem>
7307	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
7308	(bug #3115)</para>
7309	</listitem>
7310
7311	<listitem>
7312	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
7313	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
7314	</listitem>
7315
7316	<listitem>
7317	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
7318	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
7319	(bug #3215)</para>
7320	</listitem>
7321
7322	<listitem>
7323	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
7324	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
7325	</listitem>
7326
7327	<listitem>
7328	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
7329	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
7330	</listitem>
7331
7332	<listitem>
7333	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
7334	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
7335	</listitem>
7336
7337	<listitem>
7338	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
7339	in parallel</para>
7340	</listitem>
7341
7342	<listitem>
7343	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
7344	</listitem>
7345
7346	<listitem>
7347	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
7348	</listitem>
7349
7350	<listitem>
7351	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
7352	</listitem>
7353
7354	<listitem>
7355	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
7356	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
7357	</listitem>
7358
7359	<listitem>
7360	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
7361	</listitem>
7362
7363	<listitem>
7364	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
7365	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
7366	</listitem>
7367
7368	<listitem>
7369	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
7370	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
7371	</listitem>
7372
7373	<listitem>
7374	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
7375	</listitem>
7376
7377	<listitem>
7378	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
7379	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
7380	</listitem>
7381
7382	<listitem>
7383	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
7384	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
7385	</listitem>
7386
7387	<listitem>
7388	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
7389	</listitem>
7390
7391	<listitem>
7392	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
7393	</listitem>
7394
7395	<listitem>
7396	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
7397	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
7398	</listitem>
7399
7400	<listitem>
7401	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
7402	</listitem>
7403
7404	<listitem>
7405	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
7406	</listitem>
7407
7408	<listitem>
7409	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
7410	</listitem>
7411
7412	<listitem>
7413	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
7414	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
7415	</listitem>
7416
7417	<listitem>
7418	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
7419	</listitem>
7420
7421	<listitem>
7422	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
7423	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
7424	</listitem>
7425
7426	<listitem>
7427	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
7428	</listitem>
7429
7430	<listitem>
7431	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
7432	</listitem>
7433
7434	<listitem>
7435	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
7436	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
7437	</listitem>
7438
7439	<listitem>
7440	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
7441	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
7442	</listitem>
7443
7444	<listitem>
7445	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
7446	</listitem>
7447
7448	<listitem>
7449	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
7450	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
7451	</listitem>
7452
7453	<listitem>
7454	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
7455	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
7456	</listitem>
7457
7458	<listitem>
7459	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
7460	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
7461	</listitem>
7462
7463	<listitem>
7464	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
7465	(bug #3213)</para>
7466	</listitem>
7467
7468	<listitem>
7469	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
7470	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
7471	</listitem>
7472
7473	<listitem>
7474	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
7475	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
7476	</listitem>
7477
7478	</itemizedlist>
7479	</sect1>
7480
7481	<sect1>
7482	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
7483
7484	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
7485	added:</para>
7486
7487	<itemizedlist>
7488
7489	<listitem>
7490	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
7491	</listitem>
7492
7493	<listitem>
7494	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
7495	</listitem>
7496
7497	<listitem>
7498	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
7499	</listitem>
7500
7501	<listitem>
7502	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
7503	</listitem>
7504
7505	<listitem>
7506	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
7507	</listitem>
7508
7509	<listitem>
7510	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
7511	</listitem>
7512
7513	<listitem>
7514	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
7515	</listitem>
7516
7517	<listitem>
7518	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
7519	</listitem>
7520
7521	<listitem>
7522	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
7523	</listitem>
7524
7525	<listitem>
7526	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
7527	</listitem>
7528
7529	<listitem>
7530	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
7531	</listitem>
7532
7533	<listitem>
7534	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
7535	</listitem>
7536
7537	<listitem>
7538	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
7539	</listitem>
7540
7541	<listitem>
7542	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
7543	</listitem>
7544
7545	<listitem>
7546	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
7547	</listitem>
7548
7549	<listitem>
7550	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
7551	</listitem>
7552
7553	<listitem>
7554	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
7555	(bug #3067)</para>
7556	</listitem>
7557
7558	<listitem>
7559	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
7560	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
7561	</listitem>
7562
7563	<listitem>
7564	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
7565	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
7566	</listitem>
7567
7568	<listitem>
7569	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
7570	</listitem>
7571
7572	<listitem>
7573	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
7574	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
7575	</listitem>
7576
7577	<listitem>
7578	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
7579	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7580	</listitem>
7581
7582	<listitem>
7583	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
7584	</listitem>
7585
7586	<listitem>
7587	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
7588	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
7589	</listitem>
7590
7591	<listitem>
7592	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
7593	</listitem>
7594
7595	<listitem>
7596	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
7597	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
7598	</listitem>
7599
7600	<listitem>
7601	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
7602	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
7603	</listitem>
7604
7605	<listitem>
7606	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
7607	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
7608	</para>
7609	</listitem>
7610
7611	<listitem>
7612	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
7613	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
7614	</para>
7615	</listitem>
7616
7617	<listitem>
7618	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
7619	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
7620	</para>
7621	</listitem>
7622
7623	<listitem>
7624	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
7625	</listitem>
7626
7627	<listitem>
7628	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
7629	</listitem>
7630
7631	<listitem>
7632	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
7633	</listitem>
7634
7635	<listitem>
7636	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
7637	</listitem>
7638
7639	<listitem>
7640	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
7641	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
7642	</listitem>
7643
7644	<listitem>
7645	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
7646	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
7647	</listitem>
7648
7649	<listitem>
7650	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
7651	formatting a drive</para>
7652	</listitem>
7653
7654	<listitem>
7655	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
7656	</listitem>
7657
7658	<listitem>
7659	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
7660	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
7661	</listitem>
7662
7663	<listitem>
7664	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
7665	</listitem>
7666
7667	<listitem>
7668	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
7669	</listitem>
7670
7671	<listitem>
7672	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
7673	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
7674	</listitem>
7675
7676	<listitem>
7677	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
7678	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
7679	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
7680	</listitem>
7681
7682	<listitem>
7683	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
7684	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
7685	</listitem>
7686
7687	<listitem>
7688	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
7689	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
7690	</listitem>
7691
7692	<listitem>
7693	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
7694	(bug #2768)</para>
7695	</listitem>
7696
7697	<listitem>
7698	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
7699	</listitem>
7700
7701	<listitem>
7702	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
7703	</listitem>
7704
7705	<listitem>
7706	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
7707	single, unified package</para>
7708	</listitem>
7709
7710	<listitem>
7711	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
7712	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
7713	</listitem>
7714
7715	<listitem>
7716	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
7717	</listitem>
7718
7719	<listitem>
7720	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
7721	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
7722	</listitem>
7723
7724	<listitem>
7725	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
7726	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
7727	</listitem>
7728
7729	<listitem>
7730	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
7731	</listitem>
7732
7733	<listitem>
7734	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
7735	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
7736	doing 3D</para>
7737	</listitem>
7738
7739	<listitem>
7740	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
7741	</listitem>
7742
7743	<listitem>
7744	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
7745	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
7746	</listitem>
7747
7748	<listitem>
7749	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
7750	</listitem>
7751
7752	<listitem>
7753	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
7754	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
7755	</listitem>
7756
7757	<listitem>
7758	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
7759	</listitem>
7760
7761	<listitem>
7762	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
7763	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
7764	</listitem>
7765
7766	<listitem>
7767	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
7768	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
7769	(bug #2938)</para>
7770	</listitem>
7771
7772	<listitem>
7773	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
7774	Linux guests</para>
7775	</listitem>
7776
7777	<listitem>
7778	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
7779	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
7780	(bug #1776)</para>
7781	</listitem>
7782
7783	<listitem>
7784	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
7785	(bug #1612)</para>
7786	</listitem>
7787
7788	<listitem>
7789	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
7790	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
7791	</listitem>
7792
7793	<listitem>
7794	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
7795	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
7796	</listitem>
7797
7798	<listitem>
7799	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
7800	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
7801	</listitem>
7802
7803	</itemizedlist>
7804	</sect1>
7805
7806	<sect1>
7807	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
7808
7809	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7810	were added:</para>
7811
7812	<itemizedlist>
7813	<listitem>
7814	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
7815	</listitem>
7816
7817	<listitem>
7818	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
7819	</listitem>
7820
7821	<listitem>
7822	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
7823	</listitem>
7824
7825	<listitem>
7826	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
7827	</listitem>
7828
7829	<listitem>
7830	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
7831	</listitem>
7832
7833	<listitem>
7834	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
7835	</listitem>
7836
7837	<listitem>
7838	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
7839	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
7840	</listitem>
7841
7842	<listitem>
7843	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
7844	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
7845	</listitem>
7846
7847	</itemizedlist>
7848
7849	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
7850
7851	<itemizedlist>
7852	<listitem>
7853	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
7854	</listitem>
7855
7856	<listitem>
7857	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
7858	</listitem>
7859
7860	<listitem>
7861	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
7862	</listitem>
7863
7864	<listitem>
7865	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
7866	</listitem>
7867
7868	<listitem>
7869	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
7870	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
7871	</listitem>
7872
7873	<listitem>
7874	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
7875	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
7876	</listitem>
7877
7878	<listitem>
7879	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
7880	</listitem>
7881
7882	<listitem>
7883	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
7884	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
7885	</listitem>
7886
7887	<listitem>
7888	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
7889	</listitem>
7890
7891	<listitem>
7892	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
7893	</listitem>
7894
7895	<listitem>
7896	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
7897	</listitem>
7898
7899	<listitem>
7900	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7901	</listitem>
7902
7903	<listitem>
7904	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
7905	</listitem>
7906
7907	<listitem>
7908	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
7909	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
7910	</listitem>
7911
7912	<listitem>
7913	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
7914	the compiz window manager</para>
7915	</listitem>
7916
7917	<listitem>
7918	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
7919	</listitem>
7920
7921	<listitem>
7922	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
7923	</listitem>
7924
7925	<listitem>
7926	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
7927	</listitem>
7928
7929	<listitem>
7930	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
7931	</listitem>
7932
7933	<listitem>
7934	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
7935	</listitem>
7936
7937	<listitem>
7938	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
7939	</listitem>
7940
7941	<listitem>
7942	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
7943	</listitem>
7944
7945	<listitem>
7946	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
7947	</listitem>
7948
7949	<listitem>
7950	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
7951	</listitem>
7952
7953	<listitem>
7954	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
7955	of two (bug #2724)</para>
7956	</listitem>
7957
7958	<listitem>
7959	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
7960	for direct device access</para>
7961	</listitem>
7962
7963	<listitem>
7964	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
7965	</listitem>
7966
7967	<listitem>
7968	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
7969	</listitem>
7970
7971	<listitem>
7972	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
7973	</listitem>
7974
7975	<listitem>
7976	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
7977	</listitem>
7978
7979	<listitem>
7980	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
7981	</listitem>
7982
7983	<listitem>
7984	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
7985	</listitem>
7986
7987	<listitem>
7988	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
7989	</listitem>
7990
7991	<listitem>
7992	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
7993	</listitem>
7994
7995	</itemizedlist>
7996	</sect1>
7997
7998	<sect1>
7999	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
8000
8001	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8002	added:</para>
8003
8004	<itemizedlist>
8005
8006	<listitem>
8007	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
8008	states/snapshots</para>
8009	</listitem>
8010
8011	<listitem>
8012	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
8013	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
8014	</listitem>
8015
8016	<listitem>
8017	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
8018	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
8019	</listitem>
8020
8021	<listitem>
8022	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
8023	collisions</para>
8024	</listitem>
8025
8026	<listitem>
8027	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
8028	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
8029	</listitem>
8030
8031	<listitem>
8032	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
8033	</listitem>
8034
8035	<listitem>
8036	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
8037	reliably</para>
8038	</listitem>
8039
8040	<listitem>
8041	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
8042	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
8043	</listitem>
8044
8045	<listitem>
8046	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
8047	a reboot</para>
8048	</listitem>
8049
8050	<listitem>
8051	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
8052	</listitem>
8053
8054	<listitem>
8055	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
8056	in parallel</para>
8057	</listitem>
8058
8059	<listitem>
8060	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
8061	</listitem>
8062
8063	<listitem>
8064	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
8065	correctly</para>
8066	</listitem>
8067
8068	<listitem>
8069	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
8070	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
8071	</listitem>
8072
8073	</itemizedlist>
8074	</sect1>
8075
8076	<sect1>
8077	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
8078
8079	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8080	added:</para>
8081
8082	<itemizedlist>
8083
8084	<listitem>
8085	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
8086	(bug #2220)</para>
8087	</listitem>
8088
8089	<listitem>
8090	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
8091	</listitem>
8092
8093	<listitem>
8094	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
8095	</listitem>
8096
8097	<listitem>
8098	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
8099	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
8100	</listitem>
8101
8102	<listitem>
8103	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
8104	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
8105	</listitem>
8106
8107	<listitem>
8108	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
8109	(bug #2624)</para>
8110	</listitem>
8111
8112	<listitem>
8113	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
8114	(bug #2024)</para>
8115	</listitem>
8116
8117	<listitem>
8118	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
8119	</listitem>
8120
8121	<listitem>
8122	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
8123	</listitem>
8124
8125	<listitem>
8126	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
8127	</listitem>
8128
8129	<listitem>
8130	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
8131	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
8132	</listitem>
8133
8134	<listitem>
8135	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
8136	applications when updating the installation</para>
8137	</listitem>
8138
8139	<listitem>
8140	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
8141	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
8142	</listitem>
8143
8144	<listitem>
8145	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
8146	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
8147	</listitem>
8148
8149	<listitem>
8150	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
8151	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
8152	</listitem>
8153
8154	<listitem>
8155	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
8156	connected to a host device</para>
8157	</listitem>
8158
8159	<listitem>
8160	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
8161	</listitem>
8162
8163	<listitem>
8164	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
8165	</listitem>
8166
8167	<listitem>
8168	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
8169	</listitem>
8170
8171	<listitem>
8172	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
8173	when using native RDP connections</para>
8174	</listitem>
8175
8176	<listitem>
8177	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
8178	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
8179	</listitem>
8180
8181	<listitem>
8182	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
8183	(bug #2591)</para>
8184	</listitem>
8185
8186	<listitem>
8187	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
8188	guests (bug #2550)</para>
8189	</listitem>
8190
8191	<listitem>
8192	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
8193	</listitem>
8194
8195	</itemizedlist>
8196	</sect1>
8197
8198	<sect1>
8199	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
8200
8201	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8202	added:</para>
8203
8204	<itemizedlist>
8205	<listitem>
8206	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
8207	</listitem>
8208
8209	<listitem>
8210	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
8211	</listitem>
8212
8213	<listitem>
8214	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
8215	</listitem>
8216
8217	<listitem>
8218	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
8219	</listitem>
8220
8221	<listitem>
8222	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
8223	</listitem>
8224
8225	<listitem>
8226	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
8227	</listitem>
8228
8229	<listitem>
8230	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
8231	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
8232	</listitem>
8233
8234	<listitem>
8235	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
8236	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
8237	</listitem>
8238
8239	<listitem>
8240	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
8241	</listitem>
8242
8243	<listitem>
8244	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
8245	equal to the client resolution</para>
8246	</listitem>
8247
8248	<listitem>
8249	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
8250	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
8251	</listitem>
8252
8253	<listitem>
8254	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
8255	</listitem>
8256
8257	<listitem>
8258	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
8259	</listitem>
8260
8261	<listitem>
8262	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
8263	</listitem>
8264
8265	<listitem>
8266	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
8267	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
8268	</listitem>
8269
8270	<listitem>
8271	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
8272	networking (bug #2474)</para>
8273	</listitem>
8274
8275	<listitem>
8276	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
8277	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
8278	</listitem>
8279
8280	<listitem>
8281	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
8282	</listitem>
8283
8284	<listitem>
8285	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
8286	</listitem>
8287
8288	<listitem>
8289	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
8290	</listitem>
8291
8292	<listitem>
8293	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
8294	</listitem>
8295
8296	<listitem>
8297	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
8298	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
8299	</listitem>
8300
8301	<listitem>
8302	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
8303	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
8304	</listitem>
8305
8306	<listitem>
8307	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
8308	</listitem>
8309
8310	<listitem>
8311	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
8312	</listitem>
8313
8314	<listitem>
8315	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
8316	</listitem>
8317
8318	</itemizedlist>
8319
8320	</sect1>
8321
8322	<sect1>
8323	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
8324
8325	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
8326	added:</para>
8327
8328	<itemizedlist>
8329
8330	<listitem>
8331	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
8332	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
8333	</listitem>
8334
8335	<listitem>
8336	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
8337	</listitem>
8338
8339	<listitem>
8340	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
8341	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
8342	</listitem>
8343
8344	<listitem>
8345	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
8346	</listitem>
8347
8348	<listitem>
8349	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
8350	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
8351	</listitem>
8352
8353	<listitem>
8354	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
8355	</listitem>
8356
8357	<listitem>
8358	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
8359	the virtual disk manager</para>
8360	</listitem>
8361
8362	<listitem>
8363	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
8364	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
8365	</listitem>
8366
8367	<listitem>
8368	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
8369	</listitem>
8370
8371	<listitem>
8372	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
8373	</listitem>
8374
8375	<listitem>
8376	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
8377	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
8378	</listitem>
8379
8380	<listitem>
8381	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
8382	bug #2067)</para>
8383	</listitem>
8384
8385	<listitem>
8386	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
8387	</listitem>
8388
8389	<listitem>
8390	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
8391	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
8392	</listitem>
8393
8394	<listitem>
8395	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
8396	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
8397	(bug #2184)</para>
8398	</listitem>
8399
8400	<listitem>
8401	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
8402	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
8403	</listitem>
8404
8405	<listitem>
8406	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
8407	(Windows guests only)</para>
8408	</listitem>
8409
8410	<listitem>
8411	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
8412	</listitem>
8413
8414	<listitem>
8415	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
8416	</listitem>
8417
8418	<listitem>
8419	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
8420	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
8421	</listitem>
8422
8423	<listitem>
8424	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
8425	</listitem>
8426
8427	<listitem>
8428	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
8429	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
8430	</para>
8431	</listitem>
8432
8433	<listitem>
8434	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
8435	</listitem>
8436
8437	<listitem>
8438	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
8439	</listitem>
8440
8441	<listitem>
8442	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
8443	a VM reboot</para>
8444	</listitem>
8445
8446	<listitem>
8447	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
8448	</listitem>
8449
8450	<listitem>
8451	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
8452	buggy X servers</para>
8453	</listitem>
8454
8455	<listitem>
8456	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
8457	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
8458	</listitem>
8459
8460	<listitem>
8461	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
8462	</listitem>
8463
8464	<listitem>
8465	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
8466	(bug #2128)</para>
8467	</listitem>
8468
8469	<listitem>
8470	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
8471	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
8472	</listitem>
8473
8474	<listitem>
8475	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
8476	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
8477	</listitem>
8478
8479	<listitem>
8480	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
8481	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
8482	</listitem>
8483
8484	<listitem>
8485	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
8486	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
8487	</listitem>
8488
8489	<listitem>
8490	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
8491	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
8492	</listitem>
8493
8494	<listitem>
8495	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
8496	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
8497	</listitem>
8498
8499	<listitem>
8500	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
8501	installer into a single package</para>
8502	</listitem>
8503
8504	<listitem>
8505	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
8506	port to the guest
8507	</para>
8508	</listitem>
8509
8510	</itemizedlist>
8511
8512	</sect1>
8513
8514	<sect1>
8515	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
8516
8517	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
8518	were added:<itemizedlist>
8519
8520	<listitem>
8521	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
8522	</listitem>
8523
8524	<listitem>
8525	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8526	</listitem>
8527
8528	<listitem>
8529	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
8530	</listitem>
8531
8532	<listitem>
8533	<para>New-version notifier</para>
8534	</listitem>
8535
8536	<listitem>
8537	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
8538	</listitem>
8539
8540	<listitem>
8541	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
8542	</listitem>
8543
8544	<listitem>
8545	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
8546	</listitem>
8547
8548	<listitem>
8549	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
8550	</listitem>
8551
8552	<listitem>
8553	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
8554	</listitem>
8555
8556	<listitem>
8557	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
8558	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
8559	</listitem>
8560
8561	<listitem>
8562	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
8563	</listitem>
8564
8565	<listitem>
8566	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
8567	</listitem>
8568
8569	<listitem>
8570	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
8571	</listitem>
8572
8573	</itemizedlist></para>
8574
8575	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
8576
8577	<itemizedlist>
8578
8579	<listitem>
8580	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
8581	</listitem>
8582
8583	<listitem>
8584	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
8585	</listitem>
8586
8587	<listitem>
8588	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
8589	</listitem>
8590
8591	<listitem>
8592	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
8593	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
8594	</listitem>
8595
8596	<listitem>
8597	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
8598	restored</para>
8599	</listitem>
8600
8601	<listitem>
8602	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
8603	</listitem>
8604
8605	<listitem>
8606	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
8607	</listitem>
8608
8609	<listitem>
8610	<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>
8611	</listitem>
8612
8613	</itemizedlist>
8614
8615	</sect1>
8616

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